PPPOE Failure on Verizon DSL

2003-03-12 Thread JP Glutting
Hi, I have been running pppoe over a Verizon DSL service for about a year and a half, and it suddenly has failed. I first noticed this a few days ago, and assumed the the connection hd timed-out (which it used to to, until I started to run Kmil, which makes periodic pop requests over the ethen

Runaway vim on SSH disconnect

2002-12-16 Thread JP Glutting
Hi, I have a problem with a Debian-stable (Wody) install. When I connect via ssh to this box, and the connection gets cut while I am running a vim session, vim runs out of control and the CPU usage goes up to 99.5%. The process has to be killed manually. I have heard that this is a problem wit

Re: cdrecord problems

2001-12-23 Thread JP Glutting
Will do. I have a strange thing in my dselect list, under Obsolet/local optional packages: kernel-image 1.64 when I try to remove the package, I get a warning that I am going to uninstall the kernel. However, I also have 2.2.19 installed. Not sure what is causing that... The problem could be wi

Re: /dev/cdrom problem...

2001-12-23 Thread JP Glutting
.e. hdd before hdc. Anyone else have this problem? Is this a bug? Cheers, JP On Sunday 23 December 2001 01:30 am, JP Glutting wrote: > Rese > nt-Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/187577 > X-Loop

Re: /dev/cdrom problem...

2001-12-23 Thread JP Glutting
Thanks Daniel, I am using the standard (unmodified) 2.2.19-12 kernel from the Debian distribution. The devfsd package is not installed. I checked out the website, but I am not sure if this would solve my problem. I am not mounting this manually, or I would do it the way I want it. I will check

/dev/cdrom problem...

2001-12-22 Thread JP Glutting
Hi All, I have a problem with my device configuration. I have a CD player and a CD writer (/dev/hdc and /dev/hdd, respectively), and whenever I boot up it links up the writer on /dev/cdrom1, and the reader on /dev/cdrom2 (/dev/cdrom is, correctly a link to /dev/cdrom1). I can change the links,

RE: KDE and X

2001-10-20 Thread JP Glutting
I'm not so sure it is a KDE problem. I have this same problem, but I also have it with sawfish/Gnome (it is worse - I can't get to a terminal), and even with only twm and the basic X system running. Trying to log in just puts you back to the login screen. I also have an nVidia card (GeForce2 MX

Remove a half-configured package on Potato/Progeny/Testing...

2001-10-18 Thread JP Glutting
Hi, I upgraded my Potato box to Progeny, and now to Debian testing. When I tried to install xserver-xfree86 (4.1), it started out fine, identified my printer, and then hung while installing/configuring. This also happened when I upgraded to Progeny/Newton. In the earlier case I just uninstalled th

disk error "no DRQ after issuing WRITE"

2000-09-26 Thread JP Glutting
returning the hard drive? Many Thanks, JP Montse Rue JP Glutting [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/

disk error "no DRQ after issuing WRITE"

2000-09-25 Thread JP Glutting
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