Re: Perl upgrade dilemma.

2009-03-08 Thread David L. Anselmi
David L. Anselmi wrote: I'm getting set to attempt recovery by using the Debian Live rescue CD. I'll use its tools to finish installing packages (dpkg --root or Dir::RootDir for aptitude). So dpkg and aptitude don't work so well from a rescue disk for this. They chroot before running the post-

Re: how to setup ftp server on debian sid?

2009-03-08 Thread Deng Xiyue
Star Liu writes: > 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.

Re: how to setup ftp server on debian sid?

2009-03-08 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: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 11:15:43PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Journaling uses significantly more disk space and does not allow for deleted > > file recovery. > > Neither is true. I believe you're confusing log-structured file systems > and journalled file systems. > > > ext2 - for backup,

Re: how to produce cross-platform exe file?

2009-03-08 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 06:06, Star Liu wrote: > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI > wrote: >> Star Liu wrote: >>> My target is to make cross-platform desktop application by gecko, now >>> I have prepared a sample program, all the files are in a folder named >>> myapp. >>> In li

Re: serial port program

2009-03-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 04:47:50PM +0900, J.H.Kim wrote: > Hi, everyone > > Is there serial program like windows hypertermal in debian other than > minicom? > When I use minicom, it is killed after being received non-ascii characters. That's a surprise to me. Is there a bug open for that? -- Tz

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-08 Thread Steven Demetrius
Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-03-08_23:25:53, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:15:43 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: ... ext2 is problematic for removable drives because if you remove the drive without cleanly unmounting it you risk losing your data. So I would recommend ext3 for such uses.

Re: Bash - Readline in nested whiles?

2009-03-08 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta wrote: Mike Bird wrote: On Sat March 7 2009 19:48:30 Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta wrote: cat list.txt a b while read r; do echo $r; done < list.txt; a b x=0; while read r; do while [ $x -lt 3 ]; do let x=$x+1; echo $r; done; done < lista.txt ; a a Why not the outp

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-08 Thread Steven Demetrius
Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-03-09_09:20:06, Steven Demetrius wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-03-08_13:41:53, Lists wrote: Steven Demetrius wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: I'd like some confirmation, or refutation, of some reasoning: I have a USB external hard drive. It came with vfat fs, b

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-08_23:25:53, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:15:43 -0400 > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > ... > > > ext2 is problematic for removable drives because if you remove the drive > > without cleanly unmounting it you risk losing your data. So I would > > recommend ext3 for such uses. P

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-08_23:15:43, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Journaling uses significantly more disk space and does not allow for deleted > > file recovery. > > Neither is true. I believe you're confusing log-structured file systems > and journalled file systems. > > > ext2 - for backup, removable, partiti

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-08 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:15:43 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: ... > ext2 is problematic for removable drives because if you remove the drive > without cleanly unmounting it you risk losing your data. So I would > recommend ext3 for such uses. Performance is rarely an issue, actually. I use ext3 fo

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Journaling uses significantly more disk space and does not allow for deleted > file recovery. Neither is true. I believe you're confusing log-structured file systems and journalled file systems. > ext2 - for backup, removable, partitions rarely used, etc. ext2 is problematic for removable dri

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-09_09:20:06, Steven Demetrius wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: >> On 2009-03-08_13:41:53, Lists wrote: >>> Steven Demetrius wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: > I'd like some confirmation, or refutation, of some reasoning: > > I have a USB external hard drive. It came with vfat fs

RAID controller data loss

2009-03-08 Thread Mag Gam
Hello Debian Users: Have there been any instances where a RAID controller wiped out data in particular the logical drives it creates are no longer able to use. The only solution is to recreate the logical drive? Just curious. TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: mounting DVD's

2009-03-08 Thread Steven Demetrius
Bernd Kloss wrote: Lenny Kaffeine KDE 3.5.10 member in groups cdrom, plugdev and powerdev Hello, I am recording TV-broadcastings with a conventional DVD-recorder and I want to edit the VOB-files. I have problems copying the files from DVD to PC. On my computer the DVD-drive is on /dev/hdb,

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-08 Thread Steven Demetrius
Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-03-08_13:41:53, Lists wrote: Steven Demetrius wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: I'd like some confirmation, or refutation, of some reasoning: I have a USB external hard drive. It came with vfat fs, but I want to write an ext2/3 fs on it. All my internal HD are ext3, but

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-08 Thread Steven Demetrius
Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-03-08_12:58:14, Steven Demetrius wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: I'd like some confirmation, or refutation, of some reasoning: I have a USB external hard drive. It came with vfat fs, but I want to write an ext2/3 fs on it. All my internal HD are ext3, but should this o

Re: serial port program

2009-03-08 Thread Sudev Barar
2009/3/9 mike : > Dirk Vervoort wrote: >> Martin Kraus wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 04:47:50PM +0900, J.H.Kim wrote: Is there serial program like windows hypertermal in debian other than minicom? >>> >>> you may use screen like this: >>> >>> screen /dev/ttyS0 115200 >>> >>

Re: .Xmodmap has no effect

2009-03-08 Thread edju
On Sunday 08 March 2009 20:37:09 Daniel Dickinson wrote: > On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:49:55 -0400 > > Frank wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 17:30 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > > Below is my ~/.Xmodmap. It's an attempt to make the key > > > assignments permanent rather than running xmodmap each login.

Re: Perl upgrade dilemma.

2009-03-08 Thread David L. Anselmi
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 01:21:07AM -0700, David L. Anselmi wrote: Here is the output from aptitude around the first failure: Preparing to replace perl 5.10.0-18 (using .../perl_5.10.0-19_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement perl ... Preparing to replace perl-base 5.10.0-18

Re: sid postgresql 8.3 install status?

2009-03-08 Thread Star Liu
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Is postgresql 8.3 still uninstallable on sid?  Last time I tried > installation failed since postgresql 8.3 had a forward dependency on an > obsoleted package. > I installed pgl 8.3 very long before on debian sid, i don't know there is a forw

sid postgresql 8.3 install status?

2009-03-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
Is postgresql 8.3 still uninstallable on sid? Last time I tried installation failed since postgresql 8.3 had a forward dependency on an obsoleted package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Signing mail using DKIM

2009-03-08 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. What is the preferred way to implement DKIM on a Debian SMTP server using Postfix? As I can see no packages (dk-filter or dkim-filter) are build for Etch. What solutions have you (admins on SMTP servers running Postfix) implemented? Best regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: serial port program

2009-03-08 Thread mike
Dirk Vervoort wrote: Martin Kraus wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 04:47:50PM +0900, J.H.Kim wrote: Hi, everyone Is there serial program like windows hypertermal in debian other than minicom? When I use minicom, it is killed after being received non-ascii characters. I want to serial program

Re: .Xmodmap has no effect

2009-03-08 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:49:55 -0400 Frank wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 17:30 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > Below is my ~/.Xmodmap. It's an attempt to make the key > > assignments permanent rather than running xmodmap each login. > > It's not working. Syntax wrong? > > > > keycode 162 = XF86Aud

Re: why clicking the web links in pidgin cannot launch the web browser anymore?

2009-03-08 Thread Star Liu
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Frank Lanitz wrote: > On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 22:02:02 +0800 > Star Liu wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Frank Lanitz >> wrote: >> > On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 21:24:03 +0800 >> > Star Liu wrote: >> > >> >> i remember that i can launch the web browser to display a

Re: Window Borders, Title Bars, etc. Missing in Lenny w/ KDE

2009-03-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 8, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Mar 7, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Sounds to me you are missing the package "kwin" the KDE window manager. That's what I thought, but it's there and reconfiguring it didn't help. Since it's a new sys

Re: top-posting

2009-03-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 06:01:34PM -0700, 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 > > > > > >>> Hey Steve, I love that just by typing up here above e-mails I can > > >>> mak

Kernel Image reported incorrectly?

2009-03-08 Thread Stephan
Hi folks, Something odd, and I'm not sure if it's a bug I should report or not. I was trying to update my kernel on Lenny, when I saw that the kernel image is listed as being 2.6.18-6-powerpc (using a MacG4.) At install, I remembered installing 2.6.26; in fact, I don't know how 2.6.18 could

Re: USplash

2009-03-08 Thread thveillon.debian
Dean Chester wrote : > Hi > I recently installed Usplash for a boot splash screen for my debian > system. I have now removed usplash i think its called and the > splashscreen still exists. Anyideas on how i can fix this? > Dean > > Hi, I don't recall how usplash is working exactly, but I thing

Re: .Xmodmap has no effect

2009-03-08 Thread Frank
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 17:30 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > Below is my ~/.Xmodmap. It's an attempt to make the key assignments > permanent > rather than running xmodmap each login. It's not working. Syntax wrong? > > keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay > keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop > keycode 144 = XF86A

Re: Matrox G450 DualHead and mga_hal module

2009-03-08 Thread Alexander Shen
had the same problem - tried several things, but it seems that after copying files mga_drv.so and mga_hal_drv.so from matrox site to /usr/ lib/xorg/modules/drivers (the first one replaces the existing file with the same name in this directory) and adding Section "ServerFlags" Option "Ign

Re: Window Borders, Title Bars, etc. Missing in Lenny w/ KDE

2009-03-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Mar 7, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Sounds to me you are missing the package "kwin" the KDE window manager. That's what I thought, but it's there and reconfiguring it didn't help. Since it's a new system I stopped and realized if I re-installed, I coul

.Xmodmap has no effect

2009-03-08 Thread Ed Jabbour
Below is my ~/.Xmodmap. It's an attempt to make the key assignments permanent rather than running xmodmap each login. It's not working. Syntax wrong? keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext keycode 174 = XF86AudioLowerVol

Re: need help on shell programming

2009-03-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 08:50:25PM +0100, Michael Wagner wrote: > -+ > #! /bin/bash | > | > if [ $(pgrep -x script.sh) ]; then

Re: need help on shell programming

2009-03-08 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 08:50:25PM +0100, Michael Wagner wrote: > * Michael Pobega 08.03.2009 > > > #! /bin/sh > > > > if [ $(ps aux | grep script.sh | grep -v grep) ]; then > > > > Hello Michael, > > what about "pgrep"? > > -+ > #! /bin/

Re: Icedove & Gmail

2009-03-08 Thread Sjors Gielen
josep schreef: Hi I use Gmail with Icedove, so "I'm getting my mail with IMAPS and SSMTP". But.: When I reply to someone's email, then I go to "View-Headers-All" in Icedove, I can see my IP address at the "Received from"! How can I configure Icedove, to not to send my IP address in the email

Icedove & Gmail

2009-03-08 Thread josep
Hi I use Gmail with Icedove, so "I'm getting my mail with IMAPS and SSMTP". But.: When I reply to someone's email, then I go to "View-Headers-All" in Icedove, I can see my IP address at the "Received from"! How can I configure Icedove, to not to send my IP address in the email? Thanks :\

Re: logging writes to disk (keeping disk from spinning down)

2009-03-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach green [2009.03.07.2137 +0100]: > > Having members of a RAID set go to sleep independently of control by md > > seems kinda scary. > > Um, can mdadm spin down the drives? No, not as long as I'm alive at least. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debi

Re: serial port program

2009-03-08 Thread Dirk Vervoort
Martin Kraus wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 04:47:50PM +0900, J.H.Kim wrote: Hi, everyone Is there serial program like windows hypertermal in debian other than minicom? When I use minicom, it is killed after being received non-ascii characters. I want to serial program to minitor rs-232 whic

Re: need help on shell programming

2009-03-08 Thread Michael Wagner
* Michael Pobega 08.03.2009 > #! /bin/sh > > if [ $(ps aux | grep script.sh | grep -v grep) ]; then > Hello Michael, what about "pgrep"? -+ #! /bin/bash |

USplash

2009-03-08 Thread Dean Chester
Hi I recently installed Usplash for a boot splash screen for my debian system. I have now removed usplash i think its called and the splashscreen still exists. Anyideas on how i can fix this? Dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: .Xmodmap and gdm

2009-03-08 Thread Csanyi Pal
Tzafrir Cohen writes: > On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:44:16AM +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I use GNOME and gdm. >> >> I try to use ~/.Xmodmap to load my settings for the XKeyboard. >> >> In the file: >> /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default >> >> I have this line: >> >> /usr/bin/xmodmap $HOME/.Xm

mounting DVD's

2009-03-08 Thread Bernd Kloss
Lenny Kaffeine KDE 3.5.10 member in groups cdrom, plugdev and powerdev Hello,  I am recording TV-broadcastings with a conventional DVD-recorder and I want to edit the VOB-files. I have problems copying the files from DVD to PC. On my computer the DVD-drive is on /dev/hdb, from where the automou

Re: Old PHP on new Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Pet
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Adrian Levi: > >> 2009/3/8 Florian Weimer : >>> * Pet: >>> /etc/apt/sources.list >>> >>> This looks fine.  How did you figure out that you had installed PHP >>> 5.1.6? >> >> He doesn't have it installed, he wants it installed. > > Ah,

Re: .Xmodmap and gdm

2009-03-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:44:16AM +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > I use GNOME and gdm. > > I try to use ~/.Xmodmap to load my settings for the XKeyboard. > > In the file: > /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default > > I have this line: > > /usr/bin/xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap > > but this has no effect. >

Re: Perl upgrade dilemma.

2009-03-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 01:21:07AM -0700, David L. Anselmi wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade a testing machine but the upgrade failed around > perl-base. Now any dpkg commands I try seem to fail because > /usr/bin/perl segfaults. > > How can I fix perl if I can't use dpkg? > > Here is the output

Re: Window Borders, Title Bars, etc. Missing in Lenny w/ KDE

2009-03-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 7, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: I installed Lenny on one system, then did "apt-get install kdebase kdm" and everything went fine. I had to take that system down (it was more for testing anyway) and just set up a new one and did the same thing, but now, in

Re: mkfs.vfat missing

2009-03-08 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
Yeah. mkfs.vfat is now at work! On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Teemu Likonen wrote: > On 2009-03-08 20:18 (+0330), Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > > > When I tried to make a FAT file system on a USB storage it turned out > > that mkfs.vfat is not on my system. I also tried to use GParted but it > >

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Graham
On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 19:30:29 -0500 Michael Pobega wrote: > Not to bring up an old thread (I'm bored here on the train, reading > through my archives of d-u), but why do people feel the need to tell > everyone when they are leaving? It's probably likely that they never arrived in the first place.

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Sjors Gielen
John Hasler schreef: I think that's a positive feature of the Debian BTS. People who are unable or unwilling to figure out how to use either Reportbug or the pointy-clicky Reportbug-ng are unlikely to file useful bug reports. I disagree with you there. If somebody sees a random application cra

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 03:52:54PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Probably because they want to let us know what in their opinion is wrong. > > They probably want to hear "Oh, thanks for that bug report, I just fixed > > that for you, now you can return!" We should take these messages and put the >

Re: why clicking the web links in pidgin cannot launch the web browser anymore?

2009-03-08 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 22:02:02 +0800 Star Liu wrote: > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Frank Lanitz > wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 21:24:03 +0800 > > Star Liu wrote: > > > >> i remember that i can launch the web browser to display a link in > >> pidgin by a single click, but now i cannot by singl

Re: mkfs.vfat missing

2009-03-08 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-03-08 20:18 (+0330), Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > When I tried to make a FAT file system on a USB storage it turned out > that mkfs.vfat is not on my system. I also tried to use GParted but it > did not have support for FAT file system either. How can I restore the > file system support? Ins

Re: mkfs.vfat missing

2009-03-08 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 20:18:58 +0330 Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > When I tried to make a FAT file system on a USB storage it turned out > that mkfs.vfat is not on my system. I also tried to use GParted but > it did not have support for FAT file system either. How can I > restore the file system suppo

mkfs.vfat missing

2009-03-08 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
Hi all, When I tried to make a FAT file system on a USB storage it turned out that mkfs.vfat is not on my system. I also tried to use GParted but it did not have support for FAT file system either. How can I restore the file system support? I do not remember clearly if I have used my new instal

Re: Which pakage for font tscu-comic?

2009-03-08 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On 8 March 2009 12:25:12 Thierry Chatelet wrote: >> Hi list, >> On my PC I have a font called tscu-comic. A friend of mine would like to >> put it in is box, but I dont know which pakage installed it. Any way to >> know? Thanks > > I answer myself > By ttial and error, ie

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-03-08 Thread John Hasler
Dotan Cohen writes: > So, have those items been added to this hyppothetical TODO list? Where is > this list on the intercords? In the Debian Bug Tracking System. > Some people just don't know how to file a bug report. And to be honest, > on Debian with no WWW bug reporting interface I just don't

Debian Lenny cannot find 3.5" NetInstall CD when try findCD-Drive!

2009-03-08 Thread info
Debian Lenny cannot find 3.5" NetInstall CD when try find CD-Drive (AFTER first step-loading)! (Lense drugging on this step some time and after type messaging "Cant find DVD/CD any drive" I'am dont try install lenny from 5.25" CD. Etch - installing normal Please solve this problem - for me is act

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-08_13:41:53, Lists wrote: > Steven Demetrius wrote: >> Paul E Condon wrote: >>> I'd like some confirmation, or refutation, of some reasoning: >>> >>> I have a USB external hard drive. It came with vfat fs, but I want to >>> write an ext2/3 fs on it. All my internal HD are ext3, but shoul

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-08_12:58:14, Steven Demetrius wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: >> I'd like some confirmation, or refutation, of some reasoning: >> >> I have a USB external hard drive. It came with vfat fs, but I want to >> write an ext2/3 fs on it. All my internal HD are ext3, but should this >> one be ext

Re: Which pakage for font tscu-comic?

2009-03-08 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 8 March 2009 12:25:12 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Hi list, > On my PC I have a font called tscu-comic. A friend of mine would like to > put it in is box, but I dont know which pakage installed it. Any way to > know? Thanks I answer myself By ttial and error, ie removing fonts-pakages until tscu-c

Re: Mozilla suite missing from Debian 5

2009-03-08 Thread Thorny
On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:57:42 +0900, Bret Busby wrote: > Well, after having been advised on the list, to upgrade to Debian 5, > from Debian 4, I have done it, on my laptop, to trial Debian 5. > > As Lisi pointed out, I too didn't find an overwhelming number of suggestions to do as you have chose

Re: disabling GDM beep?

2009-03-08 Thread Pal Trendweaver
Op zondag 08-03-2009 om 09:59 uur [tijdzone +0530], schreef Girish Kulkarni: > Hi, > > I use Lenny on my Dell Inspiron 640m laptop. The beep that GDM throws > with the login screen has been a source of embarrasment in classrooms > many times. How do I disable it? > > Thanks, > Girish. > > > -

Re: smart

2009-03-08 Thread randall
Adrian Levi wrote: Your disc has been steadily failing for the last ~1800 hours. Buy a replacement and swap it out asap. Adrian Already had a spare lying around so i took the advice, the new disk is actually syncing with the array at this moment. http://www.songshu.org/index.php/replacing

Re: why clicking the web links in pidgin cannot launch the web browser anymore?

2009-03-08 Thread Star Liu
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Frank Lanitz wrote: > On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 21:24:03 +0800 > Star Liu wrote: > >> i remember that i can launch the web browser to display a link in >> pidgin by a single click, but now i cannot by single or double click >> or right click then choose "open this link",

Re: Mozilla suite missing from Debian 5

2009-03-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 08 March 2009 13:39:16 Lisi Reisz wrote: > Perhaps part of your difficulty here is that you do read carefully the > advice you are given.^^ do NOT read carefully Ouch! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Probably because they want to let us know what in their opinion is wrong. > They probably want to hear "Oh, thanks for that bug report, I just fixed > that for you, now you can return!" We should take these messages and put the > individual pieces like "ATI and WiFi don't seem to work on Lenny AM

Re: why clicking the web links in pidgin cannot launch the web browser anymore?

2009-03-08 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 21:24:03 +0800 Star Liu wrote: > i remember that i can launch the web browser to display a link in > pidgin by a single click, but now i cannot by single or double click > or right click then choose "open this link", is it a bug of pidgin or > my debian box? thanks Check your

Re: Mozilla suite missing from Debian 5

2009-03-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 07 March 2009 23:57:42 Bret Busby wrote: > Well, after having been advised on the list, to upgrade to Debian 5, > from Debian 4 Having no memory of anyone's having advised you to upgrade to Lenny, I have just reread the entire lengthy previous thread. I could not find a single perso

php5 and apache2

2009-03-08 Thread Paul Cartwright
I am running Lenny, and I am working on this HOW-TO: http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-domains-postfix-courier-mysql-squirrelmail-debian-lenny my problem is php5 is not working, so I can't run phpmyadmin. logs show nothing. I had already setup php5 once, but now it doesn't seem to work. I h

why clicking the web links in pidgin cannot launch the web browser anymore?

2009-03-08 Thread Star Liu
i remember that i can launch the web browser to display a link in pidgin by a single click, but now i cannot by single or double click or right click then choose "open this link", is it a bug of pidgin or my debian box? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: how to produce cross-platform exe file?

2009-03-08 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/3/8 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI > Star Liu wrote: > > My target is to make cross-platform desktop application by gecko, now > > I have prepared a sample program, all the files are in a folder named > > myapp. > > In linux system, I can launch the app by this commmand: xulrunner-1.9 > > /root/MyLife

Re: does these warning messages important?

2009-03-08 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 20:49:42 +0800 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > 2009/3/8 Star Liu > > > Following are the warning messages when startup my debian sid amd64 > > > > Mar 8 20:11:10 Desktop modprobe: WARNING: All config files need > > .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, it will be ignored in a future >

Re: how to produce cross-platform exe file?

2009-03-08 Thread Star Liu
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Star Liu wrote: >> My target is to make cross-platform desktop application by gecko, now >> I have prepared a sample program, all the files are in a folder named >> myapp. >> In linux system, I can launch the app by this commmand: xulru

Re: how to produce cross-platform exe file?

2009-03-08 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Star Liu wrote: > My target is to make cross-platform desktop application by gecko, now > I have prepared a sample program, all the files are in a folder named > myapp. > In linux system, I can launch the app by this commmand: xulrunner-1.9 > /root/MyLife/Mozilla/myapp/application.ini > In windows

Re: does these warning messages important?

2009-03-08 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/3/8 Star Liu > Following are the warning messages when startup my debian sid amd64 > > Mar 8 20:11:10 Desktop modprobe: WARNING: All config files need > .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, it will be ignored in a future > release. > Mar 8 20:11:10 Desktop modprobe: WARNING: All config files

does these warning messages important?

2009-03-08 Thread Star Liu
Following are the warning messages when startup my debian sid amd64 Mar 8 20:11:10 Desktop modprobe: WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, it will be ignored in a future release. Mar 8 20:11:10 Desktop modprobe: WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/no-

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Michael Pobega wrote: > Not to bring up an old thread (I'm bored here on the train, reading > through my archives of d-u), but why do people feel the need to tell > everyone when they are leaving? I mean, if it was someone who's names I > recognize from seeing often (Joey Hess and Celejar come to m

Re: Old PHP on new Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Adrian Levi: > 2009/3/8 Florian Weimer : >> * Pet: >> >>> /etc/apt/sources.list >> >> This looks fine.  How did you figure out that you had installed PHP >> 5.1.6? > > He doesn't have it installed, he wants it installed. Ah, stupid me. Pet, PHP 5.1.6 is out of security support by upstream. Yo

Re: how to compile gtk+ programs?

2009-03-08 Thread Star Liu
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Star Liu wrote: > I'm trying to build a sample gtk+ program on debian sid amd64, by > following the tutorial from gtk.org, but get this error: > > Desktop:~/eclipseworkspace/DebianCPlus/src# gcc -o Gtk Gtk.c > `pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+2.0` > Package gtk+2.0 w

Re: Cyrus migration

2009-03-08 Thread oneman
On 8 mrt 2009, at 09:29, Rod James Bio wrote: Does someone know how to migrate cyrus setting? I've been trying to migrate my old cyrus settings to my new mail server. What I did was use rsync to copy the contents of /var/lib/cyrus and /var/spool/ cyrus to my new server. After that I logged

changing headers/footers in sections in oowriter

2009-03-08 Thread Micha Feigin
How do I change the headers footers between sections in oowriter? Tried to google but only found hints. I remember that in word you just insert->section break and then right click on the header footer to tell it not to link to the previous one. Couldn't find anything similar on oowriter. Thanks

Which pakage for font tscu-comic?

2009-03-08 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Hi list, On my PC I have a font called tscu-comic. A friend of mine would like to put it in is box, but I dont know which pakage installed it. Any way to know? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: top-posting

2009-03-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
> > Just like I had seen only your post, and not Steve's. Know that that > > is likely to happen before you decide to be violent or troll. > >The irony here is that the reason this is so is because Dotan's got me > killfilled for my messages over on KU-U, a forum on which I am far, far, more >

Re: smart

2009-03-08 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/8 randall : > hi all, G'Day. > smartctl --all /dev/sde > gives me the following, i've been trying to google this but some sources say > replace the disk at once or don't wory, its harmless. Anybody can shed some > light? >  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  A

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Sjors Gielen
Michael Pobega schreef: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:22:08AM -0400, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: Well, a fun time (one week), sweating it up to make my ATI and Wifi work in Lenny AMD64 but nothing. With old fedora wifi works from the live cd and ATI with the update. No need even to try it with

Re: Old PHP on new Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Pet
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Adrian Levi wrote: > 2009/3/8 Florian Weimer : >> * Pet: >> >>> /etc/apt/sources.list >> >> This looks fine.  How did you figure out that you had installed PHP >> 5.1.6? :~$ php -v PHP 5.1.6 (cgi) (built: Mar 5 2009 18:02:04) Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Grou

smart

2009-03-08 Thread randall
hi all, my first mail to this list so apologies if this has been discussed recently. i have a raid 10 array and 1 of the disks is acting up according to SMART and i'm not sure how to interpret the logs and if i should ignore, repair or replace. smartd has been sending me several mails like t

Matrox G450 DualHead and mga_hal module

2009-03-08 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I have a 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400/G450 (rev 82) and Xinerama/TwinView is working, but for some functions, I need the HAL module. Unfortunately I am not able to compile this pig under Lenny. Has someone compiled the module successfuly? If yes, ca

how to compile gtk+ programs?

2009-03-08 Thread Star Liu
I'm trying to build a sample gtk+ program on debian sid amd64, by following the tutorial from gtk.org, but get this error: Desktop:~/eclipseworkspace/DebianCPlus/src# gcc -o Gtk Gtk.c `pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+2.0` Package gtk+2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you shou

Perl upgrade dilemma.

2009-03-08 Thread David L. Anselmi
I'm trying to upgrade a testing machine but the upgrade failed around perl-base. Now any dpkg commands I try seem to fail because /usr/bin/perl segfaults. How can I fix perl if I can't use dpkg? Here is the output from aptitude around the first failure: Preparing to replace perl 5.10.0-18 (

Re: Cyrus migration

2009-03-08 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 16:29:28 +0800, Rod James Bio (rju...@gmail.com) wrote: > Does someone know how to migrate cyrus setting? I've been trying to > migrate my old cyrus settings to my new mail server. What I did was use > rsync to copy the contents of /var/lib/cyrus and /var/spool/cyrus t

.Xmodmap and gdm

2009-03-08 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, I use GNOME and gdm. I try to use ~/.Xmodmap to load my settings for the XKeyboard. In the file: /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default I have this line: /usr/bin/xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap but this has no effect. How can I use .Xmodmap with gdm to change my XKeyboard? -- Regards, Paul Csanyi http://w

Re: openvpn restart - bridge loses tap0 interface

2009-03-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:18:53AM +0100, Bernd Aufrecht wrote: > >> mine always turn up on the right tap devices >> dev tap0 >> proto tcp-client >> >> I explicitly set the dev name > > The problem is that openvpn brings up a new tap0 device but > does not add it to the bridge. sorry I must of mi

Cyrus migration

2009-03-08 Thread Rod James Bio
Does someone know how to migrate cyrus setting? I've been trying to migrate my old cyrus settings to my new mail server. What I did was use rsync to copy the contents of /var/lib/cyrus and /var/spool/cyrus to my new server. After that I logged in onto cyradm and executed lm and there was no out

Re: openvpn restart - bridge loses tap0 interface

2009-03-08 Thread Bernd Aufrecht
mine always turn up on the right tap devices dev tap0 proto tcp-client I explicitly set the dev name The problem is that openvpn brings up a new tap0 device but does not add it to the bridge. You should probably figure out a way to tell OpenVPN to run a script after it has created the tap

Xorg failure

2009-03-08 Thread Baz
Hi, Got a serious problem here. After the upgrade from "etch" to "lenny" several weeks ago, xorg is failing at various instances. It can't be intentionally reproduced. The "error" message indicated looking at the configuration first before filing a bug report; however, it ended with "fatal serv