woody update (r1)?

2002-10-09 Thread Jens Guenther
Hi! Are there any plans to release an update (r1) to woody? Is there going to be a single cd-image that would contain only those updated packages in addition to the usual cd-image set? Cheers, Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

cnews: spool dir ownership

2001-10-16 Thread Jens Guenther
Hi! When I install cnews (potato) a directory /etc/news/spool/ with subdiretories is created owned root.root. Usually, it should be news.news, shouldn´t it? Or is this special to cnews? TIA Jens

Re: apt problems

2000-09-29 Thread Jens Guenther
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 01:36:38AM -0500, eric k. wolven wrote: > Hi! > > I recently ran "apt-get update" and "apt-get dist-upgrade" (I have woody). > > I get this message: > > "/usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared library: libdb.so.3 : cannot open See debian weekly news: "Be careful. If

Re: Netscape E-Mail-trouble

2000-07-19 Thread Jens Guenther
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 02:05:53PM +0200, Marcel Karras wrote: > for it? > (there's no error-message) > Marcel, did you start netscape from some menu? If so, you might get some error messages by starting it from an xterm or other terminal emulator. Cheers, Jens

Re: Problem with es1371

2000-06-26 Thread Jens Guenther
Hi! On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:31:52AM +0300, Petteri Heinonen wrote: > I've compiled new kernel, and made soundcard support as modules. I've > SB64PCI card, which I think is preferred as es1371. I've tried to do as told I do not know which settings you need in conf.modules to make this work, but

Re: installing kernel

2000-05-12 Thread Jens Guenther
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 12:22:17PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > Hi, I've been using debian slink and the 2.0.36 kernel for a while now, > > and have just compiled the 2.2.4 kernel. I have my linux partition Hi, as far as I know there were some nasty problems in early 2.2.x kernels. I thin

Re: Woody: missing parse-xf86config? /etc/init.d.xdm wants it!

2000-03-30 Thread Jens Guenther
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:24:59AM -0800, tjm wrote: > Brian Boonstra wrote: > > Something blew away a program called parse-xf86config this weekend. > > I suspect it was when I did my apt-get upgrade. This is a problem because > > /etc/init.d/xdm won't run properly without it. > > Accordin

Re: Is it safe to upgrade debhelper to potato, leaving the rest of slink?

2000-02-04 Thread Jens Guenther
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 11:32:50AM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > I'd like to compile/install the ted package on my slink box. Unfortunately > the slink debhelper lacks the dh_installmime and dh_link functions, (and > maybe some others) needed by the source package of ted. > Is it safe to upgr

Re: Dpkg install error on Enlightenment Package

2000-02-04 Thread Jens Guenther
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 01:11:56AM -0800, AU,SCOTT CHUONG wrote: > Tried to upgrade Enlightenment from 0.14 to 0.16 as seen below. I can't > figure out the unknown option about --assert-long-filenames as it's not in > the dpkg --help or in the man files of dpkg. Do I have an outdated dpkg > or an

Re: HELP HELP HELP

2000-01-20 Thread Jens Guenther
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 10:22:58AM +0100, Alberto Maurizi wrote: > > I accidentally pushed the reset button! > This resulted in a lot of errors in the disk and > several files lost. > > Could anybody tell me how to check the system consistency? You could have taken notes

Re: QuickTime player for Debian?

2000-01-14 Thread Jens Guenther
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 11:38:05AM -0500, Joe Block wrote: > It isn't Apple's to release docs on - they just license it from Sorenson > Vision (www.s-vision.com) I asked Sorenson some time ago (after this subject was raised last time...) and they told me, that they have not the right to license it

Re: How to recover from crash (urgent for me)

2000-01-10 Thread Jens Guenther
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 03:01:32PM +0100, Fam. Engelen wrote: > After having crashed my slink-with-a-bit-potato, the following appears on > boot: > > --- > /dev/hda5 contains a fs with errors, check forced. > /dev/hda5: Inode 87941 has illegal block(s). > > UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MAN

Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

2000-01-04 Thread Jens Guenther
Hi! > > Potato sources seem to be useless for slink installations. > > Some may be useless, e.g. sources that explicitly require glibc-2.1 > or gcc-2.95. The problems I encountered where in no case compiler- or library-related. Compilation worked fine. The only problem was that the package build

debhelper, potato sources on slink

2000-01-04 Thread Jens Guenther
Hi, I tried to build several potato packages for my slink machine. This failed, because some debhelper scripts were not available. After installing the potato version of debhelper, it failed again, this time because some command (it might have been "chown") did not support some command line option

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

1999-11-16 Thread Jens Guenther
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 04:13:55PM -0500, Joe Block wrote: > aphro wrote: > > > > On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Joe Block wrote: > > > > jpb >In fairness to Apple, it isn't their codec to give away. They license > > jpb >the sorenson codec from Sorenson Vision (http://www.s-vision.com) who > > jpb >are t

Re: quicktime4 player for linux?

1999-11-10 Thread Jens Guenther
On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 03:05:14PM -0700, James Pullman wrote: > Apple has steadfastly refused. So bug Apple some more. It might be worth bugging those, who produce QT movies. Usually they want people to watch them; certainly if they produce them for advertising. It would be in their interest, t

console login messed up, works in X

1999-09-24 Thread Jens Guenther
Hi, I'm recovering from file system corruption. I think, I restored all packages, but ran into this problem: I can't log in on console as root. When logging in as a regular user, I get my usual shell (bash), but the keyboard is not configured for germany. Also, I can't su to root. Login in X wor

Re: xfree 3.3.4 for slink and dpkg

1999-09-20 Thread Jens Guenther
Hi! On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 09:15:47PM -0400, Damir J. Naden wrote: > but xbase-clients wouldn't upgrade until I removed all my fonts > packages from 3.3.2.3a-11. Then it worked, but failed with the message: > I upgraded successfully by using the xfonts-* packages from potato. Bye, Jens