Inquiry:Can I make use of external memory stick for Debian installation ?

2009-09-05 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I make use of the external memory stick for Debian installation ? Please be informed that my server doesn't come with internal CDROM drive so I need to make use of the external memory stick for this purpose . I have downloaded the *.iso fi

Re: lprng needed by AUCTeX?

2009-09-05 Thread brownh
Wayne, You are quite correct that a google search using your search terms immediately provided the answer to my question, which arose from a bug in the documentation (#512098). I assumed (wrongly) that CUPS was broken, and so googled with the wrong search terms. The tools you point to were of

dependency based boot sequencing

2009-09-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
I'm using apt 0.7.23.1. I did an apt-get dist-upgrade I received the following error messages: Setting up sysv-rc (2.87dsf-3) ... info: Checking if it is safe to convert to dependency based boot. error: Unable to migrate to dependency based boot sequencing. The error message invoked a screen with

Re: file system errors

2009-09-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 08:22:36PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Daniel Dalton: > > > > The hard drive in the mp3 just spins up and back down when I plug the > > usb in. Now it's not even showing up under /dev. Do you guys think it's > > a bad hdd and it's time to get a new mp3? > > Yes and no. Th

Re: lprng needed by AUCTeX?

2009-09-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 05:01:13PM -0400, brownh wrote: > > The answer is already on your system, if you had done some > > research. You seem to want others to research for you. > > > > Have you installed the cups-bsd package? > > Not sure what "on my system" means. The information associated

Re: lprng needed by AUCTeX?

2009-09-05 Thread Wayne Topa
brownh wrote: The answer is already on your system, if you had done some research. You seem to want others to research for you. Have you installed the cups-bsd package? Not sure what "on my system" means. The information associated with the packages for cups and auctex did not say I had to in

Re: lprng needed by AUCTeX?

2009-09-05 Thread Wayne Topa
brownh wrote: The answer is already on your system, if you had done some research. You seem to want others to research for you. Have you installed the cups-bsd package? Not sure what "on my system" means. The information associated with the packages for cups and auctex did not say I had to in

Re: Firefox 3.5 wine

2009-09-05 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/9/6 Eugene Apolinary : > fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub! > fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x32fcd4 I have no answers to your direct problems but it seems to me that Firefox is trying to use functions in libraries that haven't been implemented yet in wine. You might like to look

Re: Firefox 3.5 wine

2009-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-05 16:50, Tim Tebbit wrote: Eugene Apolinary wrote: Hi I just want to use Firefox under wine but after I start with "wine firefox.exe", I get this error message: fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub! fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x32fcd4 does someone know what does these m

Re: Firefox 3.5 wine

2009-09-05 Thread John Hasler
Eugene Apolinary writes: > I just want to use Firefox under wine Why? What are you trying to accomplish? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Firefox 3.5 wine

2009-09-05 Thread Tim Tebbit
Eugene Apolinary wrote: > Hi > > I just want to use Firefox under wine > > but after I start with "wine firefox.exe", I get this error message: > > fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub! > fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x32fcd4 > > does someone know what does these messages mean? How coul

Firefox 3.5 wine

2009-09-05 Thread Eugene Apolinary
Hi I just want to use Firefox under wine but after I start with "wine firefox.exe", I get this error message: fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub! fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x32fcd4 does someone know what does these messages mean? How could I fix it to get a Fresh Firefox under win

Re: lprng needed by AUCTeX?

2009-09-05 Thread brownh
> The answer is already on your system, if you had done some > research. You seem to want others to research for you. > > Have you installed the cups-bsd package? Not sure what "on my system" means. The information associated with the packages for cups and auctex did not say I had to install cups

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Amarok 2.1 playback problems

2009-09-05 Thread AG
Erik Sundin wrote: On Saturday 05 September 2009 14:35:33 AG wrote: AG wrote: Downloaded Amarok 2.1. from the testing repos this a.m. One fundamental problem: once a track has been selected, clicking the play button gives a message at the bottom of the screen about the track playing, b

Re: How to save live video (mms) ?

2009-09-05 Thread a dehqan
In The Name Of God Thanks for your attentions ; I apologize from you jochen if i bothered you ; now problem is how to make seekable dump . Andrew would you tell how to use mencoder to make it seekable ? Regards dehqan On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > a dehqan: > > In Th

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-09-05 Thread John Fry
Andrei Popescu writes: > As for speeding up the bootprocess: > > # aptitude install dash > # dpkg-reconfigure dash # let it take over the /bin/sh link That saved me 1s. > # aptitude install insserv > # dpkg-reconfigure insserv That *cost* me 2s (i.e., 2s longer to boot). > # echo "CONCURRENCY

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Amarok 2.1 playback problems

2009-09-05 Thread Erik Sundin
On Saturday 05 September 2009 14:35:33 AG wrote: > AG wrote: > > Downloaded Amarok 2.1. from the testing repos this a.m. One > > fundamental problem: once a track has been selected, clicking the play > > button gives a message at the bottom of the screen about the track > > playing, but the progre

Re: apt-get not working anymore

2009-09-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Klaus Ethgen writes: > Hi, > > maybe that is an issue for debian-user, so I put it in the To too > although I am not subscribed there. > > If you look to Bug #497617 there is a long time bug in apt first only > targeting the German translations but now it is independent of the > locales. > > When

Re: problem installing new packages

2009-09-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 06:28:15PM +0200, Bernard wrote: ... > I just tried something new... a really hazardous test... but since I was > nearly ready to reinstall my Lenny, I thought I could take another > chance. > > Since all error messages mentioned that 'ldconfig' was missing, I > checked

Re: file system errors

2009-09-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Daniel Dalton: > > The hard drive in the mp3 just spins up and back down when I plug the > usb in. Now it's not even showing up under /dev. Do you guys think it's > a bad hdd and it's time to get a new mp3? Yes and no. The hd is probably dying, but if I were you, I would search for a replacement o

Dialin server problem?

2009-09-05 Thread I Rattan
I am trying to set up a dialin server under Linux/Debian. The box is connected to Internet via LAN (dialin access desired from home). The box also has firewall (iptables). I can connect but can't ping (even the Linux box itself) from a Windows-XP box at home. The logs do not show any problems.

Re: lprng needed by AUCTeX?

2009-09-05 Thread Wayne Topa
brownh wrote: Lprng provides lpr and is characterized as a BSD "spooling system". CUPS, on the other hand, is described as a "printing system". I installed CUPS but not lpr/lprng. I cannot print from AUCTeX: Running `Print' on `test' with ``dvips -P hp_Laserjet_1320_series_USB_1 test

lprng needed by AUCTeX?

2009-09-05 Thread brownh
Lprng provides lpr and is characterized as a BSD "spooling system". CUPS, on the other hand, is described as a "printing system". I installed CUPS but not lpr/lprng. I cannot print from AUCTeX: Running `Print' on `test' with ``dvips -P hp_Laserjet_1320_series_USB_1 test'' dvips: wa

Re: jackd won't start in X

2009-09-05 Thread tom
Quoting Brian Marshall : On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 07:09:18AM +0100, tomdeb wrote: Hello, I am trying to migrate away from pulseaudio and currently testing out jack-audio-connection-kit For some unknown weird reason jackd won't start if I launch it via an X terminal. I get the following: ~ >

Re: problem installing new packages

2009-09-05 Thread Bernard
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 13:11:09 +0200, Bernard wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 19:06:41 +0200, Bernard wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 00:09:07 +0200, Bernard wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote:

Re: problem installing new packages

2009-09-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 16:58:53 +0200, Bernard wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 13:11:09 +0200, Bernard wrote: [...] > >>r...@new-host:/home/bd# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18_*.deb > >>dpkg : « ldconfig » introuvable dans la variable PATH. > >>dpkg: 1 prog

Re: problem installing new packages

2009-09-05 Thread Bernard
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 13:11:09 +0200, Bernard wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 19:06:41 +0200, Bernard wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 00:09:07 +0200, Bernard wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote:

Re: apt-get error message seems contradictory

2009-09-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,05.Sep.09, 19:54:18, Gero Putzar wrote: > > I tried to install the package "shutter" from testing on my stable distro. I > included the testing repositories in the apt-sources list and set > APT::Default-Release "lenny"; Be careful with that, due to a long-standing bug in apt codenames are

Re: Server freezes sporadically

2009-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-05 06:59, Adrian Kirchner wrote: Hi, I have a small backup Server which runs on Debian 5.0 Lenny with all available stable updates. For one month now this Server wasn't running for more than 24 hours because of problems which passes me by. I checked the syslog, messages and kerne

Re: Websites which insist upon Adobe Acrobat

2009-09-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
>   Well everyone, got mail from the webmaster - they say they are > going to take a look at the problem and say they will try to resolve > it. In the meantime, they "suggest" I visit using Windows and Adobe:) > I guess that's not weird software :) I think that's a polite way of saying "Don't get

Re: open office conditional formatting

2009-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-05 06:28, michael wrote: On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 12:24 +0100, michael wrote: Anybody know how to get OpenOffice (oocalc) to respect the conditional formatting? eg if I set up some cells to have a given cond. formatting, save and exit, then upon reopen it's got a *different* conditional

Re: apt-get error message seems contradictory

2009-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-05 06:54, Gero Putzar wrote: Thank you very much for your help! @ Brian: So "A: Breaks: B" is meant to read as "A would break B if it was going to be installed". I interpreted the "Breaks:" as "does not comply with the need for the following dependency". Well, I'm not a native spea

Re: file system errors

2009-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-05 07:25, Daniel Dalton wrote: The hard drive in the mp3 just spins up and back down when I plug the usb in. Now it's not even showing up under /dev. Do you guys think it's a bad hdd and it's time to get a new mp3? Oh and when I ran badblocks, I believe there were some errors, but it

Re: Websites which insist upon Adobe Acrobat

2009-09-05 Thread Charles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:22:18 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I have done so. But in this province (Quebec) anglos are lucky > > to get a Quebec government webpage in English, never mind making > > it easy to DL PDF's :) We'll see if they answer. >

Re: static ip address is being reset constantly

2009-09-05 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, John: On Friday 04 September 2009 14:21:25 John O Laoi wrote: > > Verify that no dhcp process is running in the background. If there is > > none remove the network manager. > > Thanks Frank. > Indeed there was DHCP processes running: > > # ps aux | grep dhc > root 3650 0.0 0.0 0

[SOLVED] Re: Amarok 2.1 playback problems

2009-09-05 Thread AG
AG wrote: Downloaded Amarok 2.1. from the testing repos this a.m. One fundamental problem: once a track has been selected, clicking the play button gives a message at the bottom of the screen about the track playing, but the progress indicator bar does not move and no sound is produced. In s

Amarok 2.1 playback problems

2009-09-05 Thread AG
Downloaded Amarok 2.1. from the testing repos this a.m. One fundamental problem: once a track has been selected, clicking the play button gives a message at the bottom of the screen about the track playing, but the progress indicator bar does not move and no sound is produced. In short - noth

Re: file system errors

2009-09-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
The hard drive in the mp3 just spins up and back down when I plug the usb in. Now it's not even showing up under /dev. Do you guys think it's a bad hdd and it's time to get a new mp3? Oh and when I ran badblocks, I believe there were some errors, but it was hard to tell, because there was no outpu

Re: file system errors

2009-09-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 12:33:41PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > rsync has an -- exclude option. How should this be used? In this case? > player's storage. I would wipe it and try a badblock scan. Maybe the > flash is dying. How and what does a badblock scan do? The mp3 player is hdd based btw.

Re: file system errors

2009-09-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:26:52AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-09-01 05:04, Daniel Dalton wrote: > >If I remount, I can't remove these effected files, the only way to fix > >things is to make use of fsck.vfat > > That seems to indicate that the error is on your mp3 player. Ok. So there is

Server freezes sporadically

2009-09-05 Thread Adrian Kirchner
Hi, I have a small backup Server which runs on Debian 5.0 Lenny with all available stable updates. For one month now this Server wasn't running for more than 24 hours because of problems which passes me by. I checked the syslog, messages and kernel log and the only anomaly I could find was a

RE: apt-get error message seems contradictory

2009-09-05 Thread Gero Putzar
Thank you very much for your help! @ Brian: So "A: Breaks: B" is meant to read as "A would break B if it was going to be installed". I interpreted the "Breaks:" as "does not comply with the need for the following dependency". Well, I'm not a native speaker. So maybe I should not complain about

Re: libc6 upgrade problem

2009-09-05 Thread Laurent CARON
On 05/09/2009 13:16, Sven Joachim wrote: You can set LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that the dynamic linker searches in /lib before /usr/local/lib: # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/lib rm -f /usr/local/lib/tls/libc.so.6 Thanks This made it.which is a really good news since this machine is located about

Re: open office conditional formatting

2009-09-05 Thread michael
On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 12:24 +0100, michael wrote: > Anybody know how to get OpenOffice (oocalc) to respect the conditional > formatting? eg if I set up some cells to have a given cond. formatting, > save and exit, then upon reopen it's got a *different* conditional > formatting... > > M. > > S

open office conditional formatting

2009-09-05 Thread michael
Anybody know how to get OpenOffice (oocalc) to respect the conditional formatting? eg if I set up some cells to have a given cond. formatting, save and exit, then upon reopen it's got a *different* conditional formatting... M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: libc6 upgrade problem

2009-09-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-05 12:27 +0200, Laurent CARON wrote: > I did just upgrade some packages (one of them is libc6) on a server > running etch. > > It seems (from what I can see in the backups of this server) that an > old version of libc6 is lying in /usr/local/lib/tls (maybe a leftover > from some previou

libc6 upgrade problem

2009-09-05 Thread Laurent CARON
Hi, I did just upgrade some packages (one of them is libc6) on a server running etch. It seems (from what I can see in the backups of this server) that an old version of libc6 is lying in /usr/local/lib/tls (maybe a leftover from some previous install). As a matter of fact, i'm unable to r

Re: jackd won't start in X

2009-09-05 Thread Brian Marshall
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 07:09:18AM +0100, tomdeb wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to migrate away from pulseaudio and currently testing out > jack-audio-connection-kit > > For some unknown weird reason jackd won't start if I launch it via an > X terminal. I get the following: > > ~ > /usr/bin/jac

Re: jackd won't start in X

2009-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-05 02:05, tomdeb wrote: Do you *need* jack? I.e., are you doing sound mixing, editing, etc? Well, I'd like to. Good enough!!! :) What's wrong with starting jackd before starting X? Nothing, it only seems weird to have to drop to tty1 to restart it. Could you start it during

Re: jackd won't start in X

2009-09-05 Thread tomdeb
Do you *need* jack? I.e., are you doing sound mixing, editing, etc? Well, I'd like to. What's wrong with starting jackd before starting X? Nothing, it only seems weird to have to drop to tty1 to restart it. I am also interested as to why this is so. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia