Re: top-posting

2009-03-06 Thread karun
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:04:47 -0800, Wendell Cochran wrote: >> Date: Fri Mar  6 11:06:29 2009 >> From: Joe McDonagh >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >>> Hey Steve, I love that just by typing up here above e-mails I can >>> make smug users like you go postal. I feel powerful. > > > Top-post

Re: Location of icons

2009-03-06 Thread Michael M. Moore
mond wrote: On Mar 6, 3:30 pm, Frank wrote: On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 21:57 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On 6 March 2009 21:52:23 Frank McCormick wrote: Looking at my transparent panel in Debian Squeeze I noticed there are a few icons which are not really suitable...that is they are surrounded

Configuring fallback font.

2009-03-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
How does one configure the fallback font for the OS to use when the currently-selected font does not have a particular character glyph? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك

Re: Re: mrxvt doesn't display ncurses applications correctly

2009-03-06 Thread nanok
though this is extremely old, i have been struggling with this myself, so maybe it will help somebody else searching in the future to "close" the issue: there seem to be two issues: 1. mrxvt does not (yet) support utf8. if using a utf8 locale, mrxvt will "choke" on it, especially with ncurses apps

Re: Re: mrxvt doesn't display ncurses applications correctly

2009-03-06 Thread nanok
though this is extremely old, i have been struggling with this myself, so maybe it will help somebody else searching in the future to "close" the issue: there seem to be two issues: 1. mrxvt does not (yet) support utf8. if using a utf8 locale, mrxvt will "choke" on it, especially with ncurses apps

Re: top-posting

2009-03-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 6, 2009, at 8:48 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: Top posting in response to a top post is etiquette. Gloating over the fact that fellow human being is put-off by your behavior is not. Top posting because your email software is incapable of doing otherwise is somewhat like being a child with 'sp

Re: i cannot able to delete file from the USB pendrive..

2009-03-06 Thread Daryl Styrk
* AZAD NIKARTHIL [2009-03-07 07:45:00 +0530]: > > > --- On Sat, 7/3/09, Daryl Styrk wrote: > > From: Daryl Styrk > Subject: Re: i cannot able to delete file from the USB pendrive.. > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Saturday, 7 March, 2009, 12:25 PM > > AZAD NIKARTHIL wrote: > > I a

Re: etch -> lenny, update-initramfs interrupts dpkg

2009-03-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 05:30:47PM -0600, Mark Copper wrote: > Hi, > > Updating from etch to lenny following release notes. > > "aptitude upgrade" ends with > > Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18 > /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: line 164: m

Re: etch -> lenny, update-initramfs interrupts dpkg

2009-03-06 Thread Graham
On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 02:57:48 + Graham wrote: > > aptitude show mktemp > > > > says, no, it's not installed. But if I do try to install it: > > > > deneb:~# apt-get install mktemp > > E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' > > to correct the problem. > > > > So

Re: etch -> lenny, update-initramfs interrupts dpkg

2009-03-06 Thread Graham
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 17:30:47 -0600 Mark Copper wrote: > Hi, > > Updating from etch to lenny following release notes. > > "aptitude upgrade" ends with > > Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18 > /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: line 164: mktemp:

Re: trouble prestarting the etch->lenny upgrade.

2009-03-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:52:00 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 07:15:03PM +, Hendrik Boom > was heard to say: >> I have now upgraded aptitude. Issuing the same command I used before >> gives me lists of lackages to install/remove/upgrade, as usual, and >> then a bunch of

Re: top-posting

2009-03-06 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul E Condon wrote: > Top posting in response to a top post is etiquette. Gloating over the > fact that fellow human being is put-off by your behavior is not. Top > posting because your email software is incapable of doing otherwise is > somewhat like

Re: top-posting

2009-03-06 Thread Daryl Styrk
I myself don't care for top posting. It just tosses a wrench in a nicely flowing thread. I have started playing around with mutt the last week or so, and I now appreciate how netiquette has come to be. Specifically to mailing lists. Top posting, HTML, 2-3 pages of quoted text to see "Thanks th

Re: i cannot able to delete file from the USB pendrive..

2009-03-06 Thread Daryl Styrk
AZAD NIKARTHIL wrote: I am using debian - etch After deleting the file it shows that file is removed from the pendrive.. but when we open pendrive after that we can see all the file in that with out any change... wht is the reason.. can any one solve that... i am using 4 gb pendrive of Tran

Re: top-posting

2009-03-06 Thread Paul E Condon
Top posting in response to a top post is etiquette. Gloating over the fact that fellow human being is put-off by your behavior is not. Top posting because your email software is incapable of doing otherwise is somewhat like being a child with 'special needs'. The rest of us should be grown up enoug

i cannot able to delete file from the USB pendrive..

2009-03-06 Thread AZAD NIKARTHIL
I am using debian - etch After deleting the file it shows that file is removed from the pendrive.. but when we open pendrive after that we can see all the file in that with out any change... wht is the reason.. can any one solve that... i am using 4 gb pendrive of Transcend.. and if we try t

[OT] Re: top-posting and iTouch

2009-03-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 06:14:35PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > And it's next to impossible not to with the lame email client on this > iTouch... > It even top posts your signature? Wow, that's pretty bad. No one's bothered to port any good e-mail clients to the touch yet? --

Re: top-posting

2009-03-06 Thread Glenn English
And it's next to impossible not to with the lame email client on this iTouch... -- Glenn English g...@slsware.com On Mar 6, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-03-07_00:39:18, Terence wrote: Date: Fri Mar ?6 11:06:29 2009 From: Joe McDonagh To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: how to setup ftp server on debian sid?

2009-03-06 Thread Star Liu
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Javier Payno Pallarés wrote: > On Friday 06 March 2009 10:34:29 Deng Xiyue wrote: >> Star Liu writes: >> > i cannot install proftpd on sid, and wzdftpd doesn't work correctly. >> > does anyone has experience in setting up a ftp server on debian sid? I >> > need the

Re: how to setup ftp server on debian sid?

2009-03-06 Thread Star Liu
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Deng Xiyue wrote: > Star Liu writes: > >> i cannot install proftpd on sid, and wzdftpd doesn't work correctly. >> does anyone has experience in setting up a ftp server on debian sid? I >> need the function of uploading files and folders. thanks > > Vsftpd works fin

Re: top-posting

2009-03-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-07_00:39:18, Terence wrote: > >> Date: Fri Mar ?6 11:06:29 2009 > >> From: Joe McDonagh > >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > >>> Hey Steve, I love that just by typing up here above e-mails I can > >>> make smug users like you go postal. I feel powerful. > > > > If being the sort

Re: xemacs flickers

2009-03-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Peter Robinson wrote, on 2009-02-20 08:47: Hi all, I have xemacs21 installed on a the following system (PC) deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib deb-src http:/

Re: top-posting

2009-03-06 Thread Terence
>> Date: Fri Mar  6 11:06:29 2009 >> From: Joe McDonagh >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >>> Hey Steve, I love that just by typing up here above e-mails I can >>> make smug users like you go postal. I feel powerful. > If being the sort of irritating sad little tit you apparently are makes you

Re: how to setup ftp server on debian sid?

2009-03-06 Thread Star Liu
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: > Dnia 2009-03-06, o godz. 17:10:22 > Star Liu napisał(a): > >> i cannot install proftpd on sid, and wzdftpd doesn't work correctly. >> does anyone has experience in setting up a ftp server on debian sid? I >> need the function of uploading

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etch -> lenny, update-initramfs interrupts dpkg

2009-03-06 Thread Mark Copper
Hi, Updating from etch to lenny following release notes. "aptitude upgrade" ends with Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18 /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: line 164: mktemp: command not found update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18 d

Re: MailScanner package in Lenny

2009-03-06 Thread Jason Voorhees
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Bob Cox wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:54:27 -0500, Jason Voorhees (jvoorhe...@gmail.com) > wrote: > >> Hi people: >> >> I can't find mailscanner package in Lenny. I'm using main, contrib and >> non-free repositories. Does anybody know why this package have b

Re: Location of icons

2009-03-06 Thread mond
On Mar 6, 3:30 pm, Frank wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 21:57 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > On 6 March 2009 21:52:23 Frank McCormick wrote: > > > Looking at my transparent panel in Debian Squeeze I noticed there are a > > > few icons which are not really suitable...that is they are surrounded

Re: both bootable in raid1

2009-03-06 Thread Sam Leon
Francesco Pietra wrote: Hi: I am looking for a debian thread instructing how to make bootable both disks in a mdadm raid1. I followed successfully the recipe time ago, don't remember how, and unfortunately i did not take notice of. Unable now to find the thread on the web. But I am sure there is

Re: New installation can only boot to command line as root

2009-03-06 Thread Ray Lozano
Thanks for everyone's suggestions. I installed Ubuntu right on top and it worked immediately. Issue closed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

top-posting

2009-03-06 Thread Wendell Cochran
> Date: Fri Mar  6 11:06:29 2009 > From: Joe McDonagh > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Hey Steve, I love that just by typing up here above e-mails I can >> make smug users like you go postal. I feel powerful. Top-posting inconveniences almost everyone -- not only Steve Lamb. Wendell Cochr

Re: both bootable in raid1

2009-03-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 08:14:21PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: > I am looking for a debian thread instructing how to make bootable both > disks in a mdadm raid1. I followed successfully the recipe time ago, > don't remember how, and unfortunately i did not take notice of. Unable > now to find th

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread thveillon.debian
>Michael Pobega wrote : > > I am not sure if Debian has anything like Kickstart, but to be fair I > can't think of one time I would have needed it. Debootstrap/dd works > fine whenever I needed to quickly setup a system. Kickstart would just > be a superfluous app I'd never use. > Hi, I just re

Re: Location of icons

2009-03-06 Thread Frank
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 21:57 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On 6 March 2009 21:52:23 Frank McCormick wrote: > > Looking at my transparent panel in Debian Squeeze I noticed there are a > > few icons which are not really suitable...that is they are surrounded by > > white backgrounds. I'd like to mo

Re: [opensuse] How big should a file system journal be

2009-03-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 06 March 2009 11:52:06 Anton Aylward wrote: > I want to try out external journals for Reiser and ext3 file systems and > I'm wondering how large a journal device I need to allocate. I think reiserfs (not reiser4) has a 32MB journal. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-.

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Stephan
Bill Thompson wrote: On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:33:16 -0800 Stephan wrote: It may be true that RH is too big to disappear entirely, but what about the inconsistency of their company focus? Many companies (mine included) have already been burnt because of the way RH redefined

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Stephan
Joe McDonagh wrote: 2. The disarray of configuration files vs centralized system config dir In RH you have /etc/sysconfig. Almost every single system configuration file is under here. In Debian, anything goes. And I think this is where preference comes in; generally, if I've installed prog

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Bill Thompson
On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:33:16 -0800 Stephan wrote: > > Bill Thompson wrote:On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:06:56 -0500 >> Joe McDonagh wrote: >>> >>> And to the people who give a schpiel about what if RH shuts down >>> tomorrow, not going to happen. Someone will buy RH before they get >>> shut down. The

Re: Location of icons

2009-03-06 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 6 March 2009 21:52:23 Frank McCormick wrote: > Looking at my transparent panel in Debian Squeeze I noticed there are a > few icons which are not really suitable...that is they are surrounded by > white backgrounds. I'd like to modify them.especially the one > representing "show the desktop".

Location of icons

2009-03-06 Thread Frank McCormick
Looking at my transparent panel in Debian Squeeze I noticed there are a few icons which are not really suitable...that is they are surrounded by white backgrounds. I'd like to modify them.especially the one representing "show the desktop". Can anyone tell me where in the directory structure the

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:06:29PM -0500, Joe McDonagh wrote: [snip] > I will comment in-line because I don't want to risk causing your brain > to asplode from the rage associated with people who top-post. > > Steve Lamb wrote: >> Joe McDonagh wrote: >> >>> At the risk of starting a huge rel

Re: how to switch language of gnome to Bulgarian

2009-03-06 Thread Michael Wagner
* Angelin Lalev 06.03.2009 > locale -a > > > bg_BG > bg_BG.cp1251 > bg_BG.utf8 > C > en_US.utf8 > POSIX > > But after I switch session language in gdm to Bulgarian and start > gnome or kde I get error, > saying something about language bg_BG.utf8 is non-existent. Hello Angelin, write

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:48:27AM -0500, Joe McDonagh wrote: > At the risk of starting a huge religious war: > > 1. Preseed vs. kickstart > > If you're only running at home or only a few machines at work, you're > not going to run into this. Once you're done a RH install a .ks file is > droppe

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:06:29PM -0500, Joe McDonagh wrote: > Hey Steve, I love that just by typing up here above e-mails I can make > smug users like you go postal. I feel powerful. > Actually, bottom posting is common in e-mail etiquette. A: Because it's easier to read Q: Why should I botto

Re: to kill a process ?

2009-03-06 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe the output of lsof | grep updatedb.mlocate can give a hint which disk device this process is trying to access. -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: how to switch language of gnome to Bulgarian

2009-03-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 06 March 2009 12:23:39 Angelin Lalev wrote: > locale -a > > > bg_BG > bg_BG.cp1251 > bg_BG.utf8 > C > en_US.utf8 > POSIX > > > But after I switch session language in gdm to Bulgarian and start > gnome or kde I get error, > saying something about language bg_BG.utf8 is non-existen

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Joe McDonagh wrote: > know better. Also, I was under the (right) impression that dpkg-query -S > (dpkg -S) is a string search, which is a different operation than rpm > -qf, though they can yield the same results. Not that it makes a practical difference. > Unless the debian-list rules state

both bootable in raid1

2009-03-06 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi: I am looking for a debian thread instructing how to make bootable both disks in a mdadm raid1. I followed successfully the recipe time ago, don't remember how, and unfortunately i did not take notice of. Unable now to find the thread on the web. But I am sure there is and I need to reapply the

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Michael Wagner
* Steve Lamb 06.03.2009 > Joe McDonagh wrote: > > dpkg-query just doesn't do it for me. And I also don't like how > > there are a bunch of dpkg-* files that split up various functions of the > > dpkg system. > > You know, I never even heard of dpkg-query until you just brought it up. > I've

Re: No sound on HP dv4

2009-03-06 Thread s. keeling
Nigel Henry : > Repost of info posted on the /dev/sndstat thread by s. keeling. > > s. keeling : > > > >I'm just adding my similar situation. It's an HP dv4 AMD Turion dual > >core. I've not heard a peep of sound from it yet. Linux newmil > >2.6.28-0.slh.11-sidux-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jan 1

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Joe McDonagh
Hey Steve, I love that just by typing up here above e-mails I can make smug users like you go postal. I feel powerful. That being said, I like learning things on lists. I joined the list to learn mostly. I used dpkg-query before thinking that was the query subsystem. I believe I got that out o

tweak pm-utils to re-enable second cpu on intel t7250

2009-03-06 Thread PierPaolo
I finally managed to resolve my troubles with kde/pm-utils/hibernate&suspend... i'm wondering... it is in anyway dangerous this hand made script to tweak pm-utils on suspend? here you are: piccolino:/etc/pm# cat sleep.d/95cpus #!/bin/bash . "${PM_FUNCTIONS}" case "$1" in suspend)

Re: New installation can only boot to command line as root

2009-03-06 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Didn't the installer offer to create user accounts right after it did root? I use netinst exclusively, and it always does for me. OTOH, it also always installs only the CL interface. So I log in as root, run aptitude, and install "xserver-xorg" and "

how to switch language of gnome to Bulgarian

2009-03-06 Thread Angelin Lalev
locale -a bg_BG bg_BG.cp1251 bg_BG.utf8 C en_US.utf8 POSIX But after I switch session language in gdm to Bulgarian and start gnome or kde I get error, saying something about language bg_BG.utf8 is non-existent. language -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Joe McDonagh wrote: > At the risk of starting a huge religious war: About top posting vs. actually formatting your messages intelligently? > 1. Preseed vs. kickstart > If you're only running at home or only a few machines at work, you're > not going to run into this. Once you're done a RH in

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Joe McDonagh wrote: > Most claims about RH are the "in the beginning" type and it's like do > people *really* still hold that against them? They still use RPM? Of course I really still hold it against them. BTW, don't top post. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: anyone have /etc/gmrunrc ?

2009-03-06 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 08:35:07 -0800, Michael M. Moore (mich...@writemoore.net) wrote: > I recently installed gmrun, which is working fine. However, there are > certain changes users can make to its behavior via ~/.gmrunrc or > /etc/gmrunrc. From /usr/share/doc/gmrun/README.Debian: > > P

Re: New installation can only boot to command line as root

2009-03-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 11:12:11AM -0600, Ray Lozano wrote: > Thanks, Umarzuki, but I still got the same result: no X windows. In root, why not run "depmod -a" to generate modules.dep and map files. I hit similar bug. I do not know where it came from but this fixed it. What system are you runn

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 06:48, Joe McDonagh wrote: > At the risk of starting a huge religious war: > 2. The disarray of configuration files vs centralized system config dir > > In RH you have /etc/sysconfig. Almost every single system configuration file > is under here. In Debian, anything goes.

Re: New installation can only boot to command line as root

2009-03-06 Thread Ray Lozano
Thanks, Juha, I ran the commands you suggested and this is what /root/xorg.conf.new contains. I don't see any error messages, but I do see my graphics card. Still no X windows. Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice"Mouse0"

Re: New installation can only boot to command line as root

2009-03-06 Thread Ray Lozano
Thanks, Umarzuki, but I still got the same result: no X windows. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Steve Lamb wrote: Raleigh Guevarra wrote: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS to host dozens of websites? When I chose Debian, CentOS didn't exist. Steve, I agree. I use Debian long time, I use desktop Linux, only sever I use is file and printer, I used to Debian, Debian fast, Debian

anyone have /etc/gmrunrc ?

2009-03-06 Thread Michael M. Moore
I recently installed gmrun, which is working fine. However, there are certain changes users can make to its behavior via ~/.gmrunrc or /etc/gmrunrc. From /usr/share/doc/gmrun/README.Debian: Please see /etc/gmrunrc for an example configuration file. Place it in ~/.gmrunrc if you wish to custom

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Joe McDonagh
The FHS doesn't have much to do with what I am talking about. IIRC both distros follow the standard, but it doesn't actually mandate much beneath /etc. 2. The disarray of configuration files vs centralized system config dir In RH you have /etc/sysconfig. Almost every single system configuration

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> 2. The disarray of configuration files vs centralized system config dir > > In RH you have /etc/sysconfig. Almost every single system configuration file > is under here. In Debian, anything goes. I thought Debian[2] was supposed to be FHS[2]-compliant, although i'd expect a webserver to have its

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Joe McDonagh
At the risk of starting a huge religious war: 1. Preseed vs. kickstart If you're only running at home or only a few machines at work, you're not going to run into this. Once you're done a RH install a .ks file is dropped under /root. You can now use this file to kickstart identical machines i

Re: Aptitude problem when upgrade to lenny

2009-03-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:46:15AM +, "B. Liu" was heard to say: > I download the aptitude_0.4.11.11-1~lenny1_amd64.deb package, using dpkg to > install, it hangs as well. My machines is dell poweredge 1950 64-bit Quad > core. What's the output if you run "strace dpkg --install (deb file

Re: That New Loving Warning from Modprobe

2009-03-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-06_09:07:21, David Baron wrote: > Very nice. Screen flooded with them. NO notification from change logs. Nada. > Just a init screen full of ."... requires .conf, will be ignored in future > release." > > Does one simply append .conf to all the files in modprob.d? If so, anyone > have

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Joe McDonagh
"First it was free" is analogous to saying "In the beginning..." They still have a 'desktop' OS for the enterprise, and I wouldn't say they're re-focusing their direction on virtualization at all. Virtualization is a reality for all OSs, so that's like if you would have said "MS is refocusing

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-06 Thread Thorny
>[Lisi] The reason that there is currently a little bit of confusion on >websites > is that the shunt Squeeze -> testing, Lenny -> stable, Etch -> old > stable and Sarge -> somewhere-off-the-cliff only happened less than 3 > weeks ago on 14th February. The websites are being updated in roughly > o

Re: New installation can only boot to command line as root

2009-03-06 Thread Juha Tuuna
Ray Lozano wrote: > ... > I discovered after booting into the "single user" mode, that I can log > in to the command line as root. After I exit root, the machine then > hangs just like it did upon reboot as described above with a blank monitor. > ... In single user mode try to let Xorg to do the

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Re: how to setup ftp server on debian sid?

2009-03-06 Thread Javier Payno Pallarés
On Friday 06 March 2009 10:34:29 Deng Xiyue wrote: > Star Liu writes: > > i cannot install proftpd on sid, and wzdftpd doesn't work correctly. > > does anyone has experience in setting up a ftp server on debian sid? I > > need the function of uploading files and folders. thanks > > Vsftpd works fi

Re: all config files need .conf

2009-03-06 Thread Javier Payno Pallarés
On Friday 06 March 2009 00:12:25 Owen Townend wrote: > This is an upstream change in the handling of modprobe.d file > pattern matching. They are going to be altering it to only match > files with a .conf suffix. > There is a recent discussion on the devel list[0] which, if I understand > correctly

Re: Re: New installation can only boot to command line as root

2009-03-06 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/3/6 Ray Lozano > Thanks for the suggestion, Robert. > > I downloaded the complete CD 1 and re-installed but I got the exact same > result. Even after "dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg"? I don't know if this will solve the drive stopping problem but give it a shot anyway. > > > Ray > >

Re: how to solve the problem "Could not bind sock on port 21: Address already in use"?

2009-03-06 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Star Liu wrote: > thank you, I have stopped inetd using 21 port by commenting out that > line about ftp, but unfortunitely, I have not setup my ftp server, it > seems the best ftp server is proftpd, but sid doesn't support > it(why?), then how could i setup a ftp server on sid? I have tried > more

Aptitude problem when upgrade to lenny

2009-03-06 Thread B. Liu
Dear All, I am in the middle of upgraing from etch to lenny. I run apt-get update. This complained about an unknown key. Then run: apt-get install debian-keyring debian-archive-keyring and run: apt-key update then run: aptitude update then run: aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude However when un

Re: 2.6.28 + nvidia closed source

2009-03-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Mar 2009, Mark Allums wrote: > thveillon.debian wrote: >>> When can we expect either a proper kernel kbuild, or a decoupling of >>> dependencies that will allow building out-of-tree kernel modules without >>> needing kbuild? > >> This was posted not long ago in a similar thread : >> >> Gill

function keys not recognized on amd64 - apple usb keyboard

2009-03-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
system: apple model a1243 usb keyboard (only 1/4-inch thick) asus motherboard m3a78-t amd athalon 64x2 3800+ dual-core processor debian amd64 (both stable/lenny and testing/squeeze) problem: (1) unable to move between X and a virtual console with the key combination [control

Re: how to setup ftp server on debian sid?

2009-03-06 Thread Deng Xiyue
Star Liu writes: > i cannot install proftpd on sid, and wzdftpd doesn't work correctly. > does anyone has experience in setting up a ftp server on debian sid? I > need the function of uploading files and folders. thanks Vsftpd works fine. Check /usr/share/doc/vsftpd/* for docs after installing.

Re: OpenOffice.org hangs on start up

2009-03-06 Thread Mr. Wang Long
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 17:11, Mr. Wang Long wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 16:45, Rene Engelhard wrote: >> Do you use some input method? >> >> Can it be you ran into the known X bug? >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511178 + the ones merged >> with it >> http://bugs.debian

Re: how to setup ftp server on debian sid?

2009-03-06 Thread Marcin Kłapkowski
Dnia 2009-03-06, o godz. 17:10:22 Star Liu napisał(a): > i cannot install proftpd on sid, and wzdftpd doesn't work correctly. > does anyone has experience in setting up a ftp server on debian sid? I > need the function of uploading files and folders. thanks > > proftpd is 1.3.1, and have no ne

Re: OpenOffice.org hangs on start up

2009-03-06 Thread Mr. Wang Long
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 16:45, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Hi, > > Mr. Wang Long wrote: >> After a recently upgrade, OOo in sid (amd64, version 1:3.0.1-4+b1, >> with Gnome) no longer works anymore. It just stops while showing OOo's >> splash screen, with CPU usage 0% and no output at all on command lin

how to setup ftp server on debian sid?

2009-03-06 Thread Star Liu
i cannot install proftpd on sid, and wzdftpd doesn't work correctly. does anyone has experience in setting up a ftp server on debian sid? I need the function of uploading files and folders. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Raleigh Guevarra wrote: > Why did you chose Debian over CentOS to host dozens of websites? When I chose Debian, CentOS didn't exist. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who can decide what they dream PGP Key: 1FC01004 | and dream I do ---+---

Re: OpenOffice.org hangs on start up

2009-03-06 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Mr. Wang Long wrote: > After a recently upgrade, OOo in sid (amd64, version 1:3.0.1-4+b1, > with Gnome) no longer works anymore. It just stops while showing OOo's > splash screen, with CPU usage 0% and no output at all on command line. Did it work before with other 3.0.x? > Any ideas? Thanks

erratum, was: Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 06 March 2009 08:24:10 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 06 March 2009 04:17:09 Alan Hutchinson wrote: > > I am trying to install DEBIAN LENNY beta 2 > > Why use a beta? Why not use the > s/just-released newly released/newly released > stable, Debian 5 aka Lenny? :-( Lisi -- To UNSU

compiling sybtcl at Lenny ?

2009-03-06 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello Anyone get success in compiling sybtcl-3 at Lenny release and latest gcc ? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 06 March 2009 04:17:09 Alan Hutchinson wrote: > I am trying to install DEBIAN LENNY beta 2 Why use a beta? Why not use the just-released newly released stable, Debian 5 aka Lenny? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: OpenOffice.org hangs on start up

2009-03-06 Thread Russ Cook
Mr. Wang Long wrote: Dear all, After a recently upgrade, OOo in sid (amd64, version 1:3.0.1-4+b1, with Gnome) no longer works anymore. It just stops while showing OOo's splash screen, with CPU usage 0% and no output at all on command line. Indeed it is difficult to locate the problem, because I