Re: Problem with upgrading libc6

2009-03-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-03-16 17:42 +0100, NFN Smith wrote: > I have a server that is running etch, and before upgrading to lenny, > there's a a couple of packages with a lot of local configuration work in > them that I want to upgrade individually to lenny versions first, so > that I don't have the problem of ha

Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

2009-03-16 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth green at 2009-03-14 03:28... Also, you may want to try using the Debian linux-image-2.6.24 package¹. I think it corresponds to 2.6.24.7, so if it works you should be able to install linux-source-2.6.24², patch that source with the realtime patches, and then use make-kpkg in the kernel-pa

Re: nvidia problems after upgrade

2009-03-16 Thread Aidan Gauland
Steven Demetrius wrote: Please list the full contents of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and the kernel version you are using. Ok, I've attached my xorg.conf file to this message, and my kernel version is 2.6.26-1-686 (as reported by "uname -r"). You can also get xorg to generate a xorg.conf file

Re: AMD64 in vmware

2009-03-16 Thread Victor Padro
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:39 PM, David Parker wrote: > > Thanks everyone for the reply. > > > > On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:06:48 -0400, David A. Parker wrote: > > > > >> You are asking if you can run a 64bit VM guest on a 32bit host? > > >> > > >> Sorry. Can't do it. Even if you have a 64bit processo

Re: AMD64 in vmware

2009-03-16 Thread David Parker
> Thanks everyone for the reply. > > On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:06:48 -0400, David A. Parker wrote: > > >> You are asking if you can run a 64bit VM guest on a 32bit host? > >> > >> Sorry. Can't do it. Even if you have a 64bit processor, if > you only > >> have a 32bit host it won't work. > >> > >

Re: Postfix Version/Upgrading

2009-03-16 Thread Jeff Grossman
Matthew Smith wrote: >Quoth Jeff Grossman at 2009-03-16 14:32... >> I am running Debian Testing. I just switched from Sendmail to Postfix >> on my machine. This machine is used as an e-mail and web server. I >> noticed that the version in Debian is 2.5.5. The current version >> available on p

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

2009-03-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> does it apply on CF cards? The name says flash, so I would assume yes? But > still, I think it really reasonable to consider the life of the media. Yes, same thing. BTW, regarding the life of the media: let's say the internal maximum write speed is 50MB/s, an expected lifetime of 10-writes,

Re: Boot CD and terms of use

2009-03-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Option a requires the source and binary to be distributed on the same > medium. Yes, sorry I erased the right option (b) and kept the wrong one (a). > Now, *if* the Internet is considered a "medium customarily used for software > interchange", a URL that was live for at least 3 years after th

Re: AMD64 in vmware

2009-03-16 Thread T o n g
Thanks everyone for the reply. On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:06:48 -0400, David A. Parker wrote: >> You are asking if you can run a 64bit VM guest on a 32bit host? >> >> Sorry. Can't do it. Even if you have a 64bit processor, if you only >> have a 32bit host it won't work. >> >> > I thought this was

Re: Advice about ext3, please (An experiment & results)

2009-03-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Stefan Monnier wrote: >> an issue with the flash drives is their life cycle. they support about >> 10 writes or so in average - there was article I read recently > > For large enough drives, 10 writes will take several years > of constant write access. So I wouldn't worry about it. > >

Re: It's possible to install Debian 5.0 using serial console?

2009-03-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
> > thanks for this, but if i mus enter the extra parameter, i need keyboard > and monitor attached into this machine, can i add this parameter into > grub? Not necessary. the device should either provide access to configuration menu with kind of vga cable you plugin to reconfigure the bios, or

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

2009-03-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> Why ext2 rather than ext3? >> I think you trimmed that line a bit prematurely in that it went on to >> say "flash drive". ext2 is arguably better than ext3 for flash drives >> because of the reduced number of writes to disk. > > The extra writes of ext3 have 2 consequen

Re: Problem with upgrading libc6

2009-03-16 Thread NFN Smith
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: OK, its the best analogy I could come up with. I don't know if fixing this is possible, hopefully someone can help you. I hope you had good backups (if not, do them now if you can). Turns out that it's not necessarily a problem. As long as I don't reboot the serve

Re: iomega portable hard drive

2009-03-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 07:47:16PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > 2009/3/16 Douglas A. Tutty : > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 07:11:55AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > >> is it possible to put to work a 120 GB Iomega Portable Hard Drive (usb > >> powered) under Lenny? I own one myself, but I

Re: Problem with upgrading libc6

2009-03-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:32:38PM -0700, NFN Smith wrote: > I have a server that is running etch, and before upgrading to lenny, > there's a a couple of packages with a lot of local configuration work in > them that I want to upgrade individually to lenny versions first, so > that I don't have

reboot/shutdown hangs at 'acpid:exiting'

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Yang
After recent upgrade, my system becomes kind of mess up. My story is that I did a apt-get upgrade of some packages to squeeze/sid by accident(I didn't change the 'testing' in my source.list). So I downgrade most of packages back to dist lenny by pinning packages except the kernel (2.6.24 kernel) a

Acomdata 320 Gb external USB & Linux/Sidux.

2009-03-16 Thread s. keeling
Acomdata 320 Gb external USB has so far been useless on every Linux I've tried it with. Thanks to a hint from d-u, I finally got around to loading usb_storage ("Doh!"). That manages to get this drive to elicit "sdb" (finally). The box says it's USB 2.0 ("Interface: Hi-Speed USB 2.0"). "Acomdata

Re: Consolechars Question

2009-03-16 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 02:18:40PM EDT, Thomas H. George wrote: [...] > maybe, but I have no such command. Sorry .. was in too much of a rush to proofread before posting. The command is "showconsolefont" and it's part of the kbd package. http://www.geocities.com/fcky1000/fcky/showconsolefo

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Think there is a little confusion here that needs to be cleared up: > > ODF if not supposed to be a printable format.  It is the native format used > by OOo to store its working files for editing, not printing - it is NOT a > page description language like PDF or PostScript. > I now know that. B

re: xhost: cannot connect to X server

2009-03-16 Thread Dieder Vervoort
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 22:05:20 +0100, Dieder Vervoort wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 23:22:32 +0100, Dieder Vervoort wrote: >>> I can' t make xhost to work. >>> I searched around but couldn 't find a solution. [...] >>> die...@koala:~$ xhost + >>> acce

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-16 Thread randall
Matthew Smith wrote: It would certainly be possible to write a command-line application to convert ODF to PostScript, PDF etcetera. The document format is open so there is nothing stopping anyone from cobbling something together with, say Perl and XSLT. If nobody has done this and you don't

Re: iomega portable hard drive

2009-03-16 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello Douglas 2009/3/16 Douglas A. Tutty : > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 07:11:55AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: >> is it possible to put to work a 120 GB Iomega Portable Hard Drive (usb >> powered) under Lenny? I own one myself, but I can't mount it. I >> googled a bit too, but without success b

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-16 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Dotan Cohen at 2009-03-17 08:24... Or you can use the "cups-pdf" package. That's what I am using. However, it appears that cups cannot accept an ODF file as input. I suppose that OOo is internally converting the ODF to PS for printing. Think there is a little confusion here that needs t

Problem with upgrading libc6

2009-03-16 Thread NFN Smith
I have a server that is running etch, and before upgrading to lenny, there's a a couple of packages with a lot of local configuration work in them that I want to upgrade individually to lenny versions first, so that I don't have the problem of having to adjust for lenny-specific changes to pack

Re: iptables question

2009-03-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,12.Jan.09, 14:50:48, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I used to be able to ssh to my desktop, then.. I couldn't ( sounds like my > K3B > issue:). > I noticed someone else with a message about iptables, and I basically copied > his script: > # iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW --dport

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Or you can use the "cups-pdf" package. > That's what I am using. However, it appears that cups cannot accept an ODF file as input. I suppose that OOo is internally converting the ODF to PS for printing. -- 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

Re: Moving to LVM

2009-03-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Stefan Monnier wrote: >> What happens if, for whatever reason, just one of the disks is >> available? > >You lose it all (pretty much). For that reason, it's not recommended, >unless you have backups elsewhere. You don't really lose it all. If the disk is just unavailable, the VG is just

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Wagner
* Tzafrir Cohen 15.03.2009 > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:47:43PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I just noticed that I can in fact print PDF files this way, so the > > problem is that I am trying to print an ODT file. How can I convert > > that ODT to PDF on the command line? I have googled that befo

Re: Boot CD and terms of use

2009-03-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Stefan Monnier wrote: >> a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable >> source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections >> 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software >> interchange; or, > >[...] > >> Usually, this prohibits "simply" providi

Re: Boot CD and terms of use

2009-03-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable > source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections > 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software > interchange; or, [...] > Usually, this prohibits "simply" providing a "pointer" to the > source cod

Re: Moving to LVM

2009-03-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> What happens if, for whatever reason, just one of the disks is > available? You lose it all (pretty much). For that reason, it's not recommended, unless you have backups elsewhere. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: AMD64 in vmware

2009-03-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Thanks for letting me know! I learned something new*! [...] > *If you learn something new everyday, does this mean I just met my quota > and can go home early? :) Beware: you may also learn something new at home (or even on the way home), so your best bet is to go straight to tomorrow,

Re: Moving to LVM

2009-03-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090316183713.ga...@fuchs>, André Berger wrote: >My plan is to create a Logical Volume Group to span two partitions >located on different disks, and export that LV group via NFS. If I >got it right (please correct me), I need partitions of type 8e on >both disks. LVM is happy to use any block

Re: Moving to LVM

2009-03-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
André Berger wrote: > What happens if, for whatever reason, just one of the disks is > available? You are out of luck and loose access to any of your data. You didn't expect something else, did you? Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: any software for 3D surfaces visualization in debian sid?

2009-03-16 Thread tyler
Star Liu writes: > I'm looking for a free software which can draw 3D picture if I setup > mathmetical equations and specify its scope, it's an important part of > my current project. thanks! gnuplot might do what you need. Tyler -- When in doubt, use brute force.

Re: Problem with upgrading libc6

2009-03-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 16 March 2009 13:06:59 Mike Bird wrote: > With tricky upgrades I usually remove all -dev packages first > and reinstall them after. That seems to make things work better here, as well. I also tend to remove -dbg packages, too. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b.

Re: how to get past apt-get errors? is there a manual workaround? SOLVED

2009-03-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 16 March 2009 11:33:33 will trillich wrote: > Thanks to you, too! And sorry about the non-technical quoting... Not a big issue. I greatly prefer interleaved, but it's not official list policy or anything. > I'm not on the > debian-user list so I just copy/paste from lists.debian.org,

Re: any software for 3D surfaces visualization in debian sid?

2009-03-16 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
In Debian sid there is sagemath (a really big package) which itself uses, a.o., python-matplotlib. Maybe, you like to try one of them? -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Re: Random crashes in squeeze

2009-03-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 01:19:18PM +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> Andrew Sackville-West schreef: >>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:22:11PM +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Hi all, My laptop (a dell XPS 1330) started about five days ago with suddenly crashing

Re: Moving to LVM

2009-03-16 Thread randall
André Berger wrote: Hi there! I'm on Etch and have got two external USB disks, one GB each in size. Disk1 contains one ext3 partition and my media files, and is full. Disk2 is empty and should take future media files. I don't have a third disk I could use for backups. My plan is to create a Log

Moving to LVM

2009-03-16 Thread André Berger
Hi there! I'm on Etch and have got two external USB disks, one GB each in size. Disk1 contains one ext3 partition and my media files, and is full. Disk2 is empty and should take future media files. I don't have a third disk I could use for backups. My plan is to create a Logical Volume Group to s

Re: AMD64 in vmware

2009-03-16 Thread Victor Padro
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Mark Allums wrote: > Stackpole, Chris wrote: > >> From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of T o n g >>> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 9:49 AM >>> Subject: AMD64 in vmware >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Quick question, is it possible to test AMD64 ios under vmware w

Re: Consolechars Question

2009-03-16 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 01:13:39PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:24:47AM EDT, Thomas H. George wrote: > > During bootup (Lenny) the console font changes to a thin, wiry font > > and then changes again to a font with much fatter characters. The final > > font is very readab

Re: Problem with upgrading libc6

2009-03-16 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon March 16 2009 09:42:54 NFN Smith wrote: > Is there a way of getting around this one (perhaps booting from a CD and > using the rescue shell)? Or is it going to be faster/easier to simply > back up the machine and rebuild it? With tricky upgrades I usually remove all -dev packages first and

Problem with upgrading libc6

2009-03-16 Thread NFN Smith
I have a server that is running etch, and before upgrading to lenny, there's a a couple of packages with a lot of local configuration work in them that I want to upgrade individually to lenny versions first, so that I don't have the problem of having to adjust for lenny-specific changes to package

Re: can't reinstall php

2009-03-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 06:11:13PM +0100, Pet wrote: > Hi, > > what I did: > > 1. apt-get remove php5 But you haven't purged anything. > 2. installed php5.1.6 from sources (just needed it for old scripts) > 3. then removed 5.1.6 manually > 4. tried to install apt-get install php5 again > 5. now

Re: AMD64 in vmware

2009-03-16 Thread Mark Allums
Stackpole, Chris wrote: From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of T o n g Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 9:49 AM Subject: AMD64 in vmware Hi, Quick question, is it possible to test AMD64 ios under vmware which is hosted under i386? IIRC, launching AMD64 apps under chroot in i386 won't

Re: pppd curiosity

2009-03-16 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:21:13 +0800 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > --> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets: Permission denied > --> --> PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) may be flaky. > --> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: Permission denied > --> --> CHAP (Challenge Hands

Re: Consolechars Question

2009-03-16 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:24:47AM EDT, Thomas H. George wrote: > During bootup (Lenny) the console font changes to a thin, wiry font > and then changes again to a font with much fatter characters. The final > font is very readable but when I start mutt the symbols used to indicate > threading of

can't reinstall php

2009-03-16 Thread Pet
Hi, what I did: 1. apt-get remove php5 2. installed php5.1.6 from sources (just needed it for old scripts) 3. then removed 5.1.6 manually 4. tried to install apt-get install php5 again 5. now php -v produce: bash: php: command not found 6. tried apt-get install php5-cli error:Not replacing delete

Re: how to get past apt-get errors? is there a manual workaround? SOLVED

2009-03-16 Thread will trillich
Thanks, Daniel -- We got it to work by inserting "exit 0" as the first line of code in /etc/init.d/postgresql-7.4. (Tried the /var/lib/dpkg/info/postgresql-7.4.prerm tweaks you suggested but still had trouble.) This was acceptable in our case because 7.4 was NOT running, there was NO pidfile, so j

Re: Boot CD and terms of use

2009-03-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 15 March 2009 15:33:23 Oliver Schneider wrote: > > IANAL and TINLA, but you will probably only need to provide source for > > software that appears on the image that was licensed to your company > > under the LGPL or GPL. Those licenses give a number of options for how > > you can sat

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

2009-03-16 Thread H.S.
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> What about >> find . -name *.odt -exec unzip -c {} content.xml | grep "what you >> want to find"\; -print > This one is not working, use > find . -name *.odt -exec sh -c 'unzip -c {} content.xml | grep "what > you want to find"' \; -print > inst

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

2009-03-16 Thread Rainer Kluge
Bob Cox schrieb: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 15:29:50 +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman > (sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl) wrote: > >> Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >>> What about >>> find . -name *.odt -exec unzip -c {} content.xml | grep "what you want >>> to find"\; -print >> This one is not working, use >> fin

Re: Consolechars Question

2009-03-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Thomas H. George wrote: > What font am I using? Is there a way of displaying the available > English fonts? What is an 'English font'? Do you mean ascii or Latin? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

2009-03-16 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 15:29:50 +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman (sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl) wrote: > Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> What about >> find . -name *.odt -exec unzip -c {} content.xml | grep "what you want >> to find"\; -print > This one is not working, use > find . -name *.odt -exec sh -c '

RE: AMD64 in vmware

2009-03-16 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: David A. Parker [mailto:dpar...@utica.edu] > Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 10:06 AM > Subject: Re: AMD64 in vmware > > Stackpole, Chris wrote: > >> From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of T o n g > >> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 9:49 AM > >> Subject: AMD64 in vmware > >> > >> H

Re: AMD64 in vmware

2009-03-16 Thread David A. Parker
Stackpole, Chris wrote: From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of T o n g Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 9:49 AM Subject: AMD64 in vmware Hi, Quick question, is it possible to test AMD64 ios under vmware which is hosted under i386? IIRC, launching AMD64 apps under chroot in i386 won't

Re: Xorg failure

2009-03-16 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: javibarr...@gmail.com >To: delop...@yahoo.com >Subject: Re: Xorg failure >Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:46:49 +0100 > >>On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Emanoil Kotsev >wrote: >>> Javier Barroso wrote: >>> >>> > > I was using the xserver-xorg-video-inte

RE: AMD64 in vmware

2009-03-16 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of T o n g > Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 9:49 AM > Subject: AMD64 in vmware > > Hi, > > Quick question, is it possible to test AMD64 ios under vmware which is > hosted under i386? IIRC, launching AMD64 apps under chroot in i386 won't > work, but

AMD64 in vmware

2009-03-16 Thread T o n g
Hi, Quick question, is it possible to test AMD64 ios under vmware which is hosted under i386? IIRC, launching AMD64 apps under chroot in i386 won't work, but I don't about this. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

2009-03-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: What about find . -name *.odt -exec unzip -c {} content.xml | grep "what you want to find"\; -print This one is not working, use find . -name *.odt -exec sh -c 'unzip -c {} content.xml | grep "what you want to find"' \; -print instead. Sjoerd -- () ascii ribbon cam

ldonfig errors

2009-03-16 Thread mitch
ran aptitude update and then safe-upgrade and the following error messages came up. Googled for help, found some bugs from last year. Is this a bug or an error that is correctable? debian:/home/mitch# aptitude safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading st

Consolechars Question

2009-03-16 Thread Thomas H. George
During bootup (Lenny) the console font changes to a thin, wiry font and then changes again to a font with much fatter characters. The final font is very readable but when I start mutt the symbols used to indicate threading of messages are weird. I installed console-tools and found the command con

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

2009-03-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
John O Laoi wrote: Hello, I sometimes need to find a file, and I only know of some text contained therein. |The problem is that this does not search within .odt openoffice files.| |It will located any .doc files that contain the string, but not openoffice files.| You mean MS-word? How d

Re: ACPI init

2009-03-16 Thread linux china
I added these additional parameters to kernel boot line, it seems this doesn't help, I can still see these error messages. I know this is caused by another motherboard replacements. I also noticed there is a line before these error message, something like "ACPI unable to load system description ta

Re: GTK fonts too big

2009-03-16 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 01:08:32PM EDT, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > afer upgrading to lenny I have noticed that fonts in GTK applications are > > too big. It seems that GTK does count font size from DPI resolution (hbigger > > DPI, higher font). On 15.03.09 19:33, Chris Jones wrote: > Are

Re: GTK fonts too big

2009-03-16 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:08:32 +0100 > Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > afer upgrading to lenny I have noticed that fonts in GTK applications > > are too big. It seems that GTK does count font size from DPI > > resolution (hbigger DPI, higher font). > > > > Is there any way to force GTK to ignor

recursive grep and openoffice

2009-03-16 Thread John O Laoi
Hello, I sometimes need to find a file, and I only know of some text contained therein. So I launch a search as follows: $ grep -r "text i am looking for" /home/john OR $ find /home/john -type f -exec grep -i * **"text i am looking for" * '{}' \; -print where /home/john is my home direct

Re: xhost: cannot connect to X server

2009-03-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:05:20PM +0100, Dirk Vervoort wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 23:22:32 +0100, Dieder Vervoort wrote: > >>I can' t make xhost to work. > >>I searched around but couldn' t find a solution. > >If your goal is to run X applications via ssh, then I

Re: Install debian 5.0 without press ENTER key?

2009-03-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 09:21:14AM +0100, randall wrote: > >--- On Mon, 3/16/09, Daryl Styrk wrote: > >From: Daryl Styrk > > > >>can i install leny without install key, like another distro linux, will > >>automatically run installer if you don't anything in 30 seconds. > >> > >>I have boot usi

Re: iomega portable hard drive

2009-03-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 07:11:55AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > is it possible to put to work a 120 GB Iomega Portable Hard Drive (usb > powered) under Lenny? I own one myself, but I can't mount it. I > googled a bit too, but without success besides the fact that there is > no direct linux s

Re: iomega portable hard drive

2009-03-16 Thread 明覺
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Marcelo Chiapparini < marcelo.chia...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > > is it possible to put to work a 120 GB Iomega Portable Hard Drive (usb > powered) under Lenny? I own one myself, but I can't mount it. I > googled a bit too, but without success besides the fact t

Re: Random crashes in squeeze

2009-03-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Andrew Sackville-West schreef: On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:22:11PM +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Hi all, My laptop (a dell XPS 1330) started about five days ago with suddenly crashing, mostly from idle state. The caps-lock and scroll-lock light start blinking and the syst

Re: pppd curiosity

2009-03-16 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/3/16 Adrian Levi > 2009/3/16 Umarzuki Mochlis : > > Frankly, I don't really know how to answer that other than giving you the > > full dialing message > > What was the command you typed to get that message? > PS I am subscrubed, you don't need to email me, just the list is fine. > > Adrian >

Re: Iceweasel address completion non-working?

2009-03-16 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> Thanks for the suggestions, but they didn't help. The problem looks a >> bit worse, since even my history seems lost (but still got entry >> autocompletion like my GMail login usernames and passwords inta

Re: IP Forward Problems

2009-03-16 Thread Gerard Hooton
-Original Message- From: Alex Samad To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: IP Forward Problems Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:02:28 +1100 Mailer: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:44:40PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:43:52AM -, Gerard Hooto

Re: Iceweasel address completion non-working?

2009-03-16 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions, but they didn't help. The problem looks a > bit worse, since even my history seems lost (but still got entry > autocompletion like my GMail login usernames and passwords intact). > The navigation (bak and forward) buttons are also non-functi

Re: Measure "cp" Speed?

2009-03-16 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Zaki Akhmad writes: > I am wondering, how do I measure the speed while I am doing cp > command? Check this[1] out. And various "cp progress bar" related discussions will probably interest you. Regards. [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-coreut...@gnu.org/msg00610.html -

Re: iomega portable hard drive

2009-03-16 Thread Thorny
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:11:55 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello! > > is it possible to put to work a 120 GB Iomega Portable Hard Drive (usb > powered) under Lenny? I own one myself, but I can't mount it. I googled a > bit too, but without success besides the fact that there is no direct >

Re: Iceweasel address completion non-working?

2009-03-16 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Matthew Smith wrote: > Quoth Tshepang Lekhonkhobe at 2009-03-16 19:10... >>> >>> I booted into Friday's Sid this morning to find that there's no >>> address completion in Iceweasel and upgraded to latest Unstable, and >>> still no pleasure. Where can I look? Last

Re: ACPI init

2009-03-16 Thread randall
linux china wrote: While booting Debian lenny, I saw there are errors during ACPI initiation process on console, like error inserting fan, error inserting processor and thermap, how to get rid of these error messages? the messages are pretty harmless, but there is a way to disable it. OR you

Re: Random crashes in squeeze

2009-03-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
明覺 wrote: I had a similar case, I had 2G memory first, then 1G of it was removed, then my machine got dead randomly, then I plug in the removed 1G memory again, and resolved this problem. Maybe it's not your case. I haven't done anything to the hardware, so I think it is unrelated. However, str

stream audio WAV file to local usb port

2009-03-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
I need to stream an audio file in WAV format to a local USB port. Connected to the USB port is a Henry Engineering USB-AES Matchbox ( http://www.henryeng.com/usbaesmb.html ) in order to convert the WAV file to an AES/EBU stream for further processing by apparatus which has an AES/EBU input.

ACPI init

2009-03-16 Thread linux china
While booting Debian lenny, I saw there are errors during ACPI initiation process on console, like error inserting fan, error inserting processor and thermap, how to get rid of these error messages? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: iomega portable hard drive

2009-03-16 Thread Aioanei Rares
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello! is it possible to put to work a 120 GB Iomega Portable Hard Drive (usb powered) under Lenny? I own one myself, but I can't mount it. I googled a bit too, but without success besides the fact that there is no direct linux support for it. Thanks in advance! Marc

iomega portable hard drive

2009-03-16 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello! is it possible to put to work a 120 GB Iomega Portable Hard Drive (usb powered) under Lenny? I own one myself, but I can't mount it. I googled a bit too, but without success besides the fact that there is no direct linux support for it. Thanks in advance! Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Random crashes in squeeze

2009-03-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Andrew Sackville-West schreef: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:22:11PM +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> My laptop (a dell XPS 1330) started about five days ago with suddenly >> crashing, mostly from idle state. The caps-lock and scroll-lock light >> start blinking and the system stops re

msginit doesn't work

2009-03-16 Thread Chris
Hi everyone, I try to use msginit to generate a po file, but it doesn't work. msginit -l zh_CN.UTF-8 The new message catalog should contain your email address, so that users can give you feedback about the translations, and so that maintainers can contact you in case of unexpected technical

Re: reconfig network interface

2009-03-16 Thread linux china
thank you professional support, I removed the file and after reboot, my network eth0 is back and is working now, thanks. On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:39 PM, randall wrote: > linux china wrote: >> >> There is one file named 70-persistent-net.rules, I guess this is my >> old one, I didn't find any fil

Re: reconfig network interface

2009-03-16 Thread randall
linux china wrote: There is one file named 70-persistent-net.rules, I guess this is my old one, I didn't find any filename beginning with z in that directory, it doesn't matter I guess. So could I remove this file and reboot system? i just checked and it apparently changed into 70-persistent-

Re: reconfig network interface

2009-03-16 Thread linux china
There is one file named 70-persistent-net.rules, I guess this is my old one, I didn't find any filename beginning with z in that directory, it doesn't matter I guess. So could I remove this file and reboot system? On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:18 PM, randall wrote: > linux china wrote: >> >> after I

Re: reconfig network interface

2009-03-16 Thread randall
linux china wrote: after I replace a new network card in Debian, the network interface eth0 is not up anymore. Before the replacement, the network is fine, if I try to ifup eth0, I got error like "eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCSIFNETASK: no such device SIOCSIFBRDA

reconfig network interface

2009-03-16 Thread linux china
after I replace a new network card in Debian, the network interface eth0 is not up anymore. Before the replacement, the network is fine, if I try to ifup eth0, I got error like "eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCSIFNETASK: no such device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: no such device e

Re: debian/lenny: keyboard doesn't work after software upgrade

2009-03-16 Thread Thorny
> thanks. I post message in my mail client that puts quotes below reply. It would also be a good idea to post in text only for this list. > I've been happily using 2.6.24 kernel without meeting much problems. > Recently just out of curiosity I did a upgrade (not dist-upgrade yet). > Is there out

Re: Iceweasel address completion non-working?

2009-03-16 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Tshepang Lekhonkhobe at 2009-03-16 19:10... I booted into Friday's Sid this morning to find that there's no address completion in Iceweasel and upgraded to latest Unstable, and still no pleasure. Where can I look? Last I checked, on Friday, there was no problem. I just logged in with anot

Re: Iceweasel address completion non-working?

2009-03-16 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > I booted into Friday's Sid this morning to find that there's no > address completion in Iceweasel and upgraded to latest Unstable, and > still no pleasure. Where can I look? Last I checked, on Friday, there > was no problem. I

Re: Install debian 5.0 without press ENTER key?

2009-03-16 Thread randall
my mail wrote: --- On Mon, 3/16/09, Daryl Styrk wrote: From: Daryl Styrk Subject: Re: Install debian 5.0 without press ENTER key? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 5:11 AM my mail wrote: can i install leny without install key, like another distro linux, will

Re: pppd curiosity

2009-03-16 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/16 Umarzuki Mochlis : > Frankly, I don't really know how to answer that other than giving you the > full dialing message What was the command you typed to get that message? PS I am subscrubed, you don't need to email me, just the list is fine. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad

Iceweasel address completion non-working?

2009-03-16 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I booted into Friday's Sid this morning to find that there's no address completion in Iceweasel and upgraded to latest Unstable, and still no pleasure. Where can I look? Last I checked, on Friday, there was no problem. -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

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