Re: Removing all packages from a given repository (RESOLVED)

2006-12-29 Thread John Halton
Linas Žvirblis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Halton wrote: I'm trying to remove all packages installed from the E17 repo at edevelop.org. Is there a way (e.g. within aptitude) to list packages according to the repo/domain from which they were downloaded, and

Re: APT problems (416 error and "uncaught exception") (RESOLVED)

2006-12-28 Thread John Halton
John Halton wrote: On 12/28/06, John Halton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm having problems with updating/installing with aptitude, on a mixed Etch/Sid system. When running "aptitude update", the output ends with the following: Err http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages 41

Removing all packages from a given repository

2006-12-28 Thread John Halton
I'm trying to remove all packages installed from the E17 repo at edevelop.org. Is there a way (e.g. within aptitude) to list packages according to the repo/domain from which they were downloaded, and then remove them? Thanks, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: APT problems (416 error and "uncaught exception")

2006-12-28 Thread John Halton
On 12/28/06, John Halton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm having problems with updating/installing with aptitude, on a mixed Etch/Sid system. When running "aptitude update", the output ends with the following: Err http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages 416 Requested Range

APT problems (416 error and "uncaught exception")

2006-12-28 Thread John Halton
I'm having problems with updating/installing with aptitude, on a mixed Etch/Sid system. When running "aptitude update", the output ends with the following: Err http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable Then when I try to install/dist-upgrade, I get the following

Re: No sound for non-root users

2006-09-10 Thread John Halton
On 9/10/06, Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The sound has stopped working for regular, non-root users on my > installation of Debian Etch (on a Dell PC with integrated Intel audio > chipset). > > Sound still works for root (or using sudo), but when I try to run an > audio program as

No sound for non-root users

2006-09-09 Thread John Halton
The sound has stopped working for regular, non-root users on my installation of Debian Etch (on a Dell PC with integrated Intel audio chipset). Sound still works for root (or using sudo), but when I try to run an audio program as an ordinary user (eg mplayer, alsamixer), I get an error saying

Re: System works fine, but where's my grub.conf?

2006-03-27 Thread John Halton
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 13:33 -0500, Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've just noticed something that is a bit odd. I have Debian 3.1 (Sarge) > running on a server which boots up fine from the GRUB bootloader (the kernel > selection menu appears in the beginning, etc.), however, when

Re: DHCP client takes too long

2006-03-07 Thread John Halton
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 21:12 +0530, Aravind. R wrote: Hello I am using Debian Sarge. Whenever I boot the machine, the DHCP client assigns an IP address, and just waits. Booting continues only when I press Ctrl + C . Howver, the network works fine. Could you suggest some remedy. I had this exact

Re: MUTT users PLEASE read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)]

2006-02-24 Thread John Halton
On 2/24/06, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [1] Bounce as in mutt b. I don't know if and how this can be done in > thunderbird Apparently the following extension allows bouncing using Thunderbird - http://mailredirect.mozdev.org/ Haven't looked into it any further though so don't

Re: description of udev, sysfs, hotplug, hal, etc.

2006-02-22 Thread John Halton
On 2/22/06, Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, none of this is in its final state. What is?

Re: xmms in sid

2006-02-21 Thread John Halton
On 2/20/06, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so: i decided to keep mplayer. is at least as good as the rest and > without humbug or fancy gui's. i like to *do* classic linux from the > command-line. Should you develop a yearning for a "fancy gui" for mplayer, you can always run gmplayer, which i

Re: DHCP problem following Etch upgrade

2006-02-21 Thread John Halton
On 2/21/06, Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 23:43:06 + > have you tried the dhcpcd package? I've had an off-list email suggesting that the problem is due to a bug in zeroconf, and that purging zeroconf will solve it. (See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.c

Re: GNU Hurd

2006-02-21 Thread John Halton
On 2/21/06, Peter McAlpine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The biggest thing that seems to be holding up development has been the > realization by key members of the project that the Mach kernel has > fundamental flaws that do not support the long term goals of the Hurd. > There was some work done to

Re: xmms in sid

2006-02-20 Thread John Halton
On 2/19/06, Toshiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using amarok and I think is the best! Amarok is great as a player for your music collection (i.e. as an equivalent to Windows Media Player or iTunes), but a bit bloated for just playing a single MP3 file. XMMS is just the ticket for that.

Re: film codec conversion

2006-02-19 Thread John Halton
Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello. I use Debian Sarge. Is there a Debian package of a program that converts movie file codecs? I have used a program called Tovid to covert an avi to an mpg, and then used Dvdstyler to burn it to a playable dvd. Is there an equivalent to Tovid that is part of the

Re: Why does aptitude do this?

2006-02-19 Thread John Halton
Marty wrote: Did it acquire a GUI? My Sarge version only seems to have a curses interface. I'm guessing that the reference to a "GUI" was to aptitude's "interactive" mode, which is indeed a curses interface. They are (or at least should be) complementary, not competing tools. As I unders

Re: Unable to print from mozilla-firefox only

2006-02-19 Thread John Halton
Jason M Cox wrote: This issue started when trying to print from mozilla-firefox. I choose file>print. I get the print dialog. Then click print and get a window titled "printing" and a progress bar as if it is piping it to lpr. The progress bar completes the "printing" window disappears and noth

Re: Play 3gp file in gnome debian linux.

2006-02-19 Thread John Halton
Surachai Locharoen wrote: what program can play 3ogp file in gnome shell? I use mplayer for play it. but there is not sound. Could you sugguest any program? Kan Do you use ALSA or OSS? I've found that using OSS output sometimes solves problems with mplayer audio output (eg choppiness on WM

Re: DHCP problem following Etch upgrade

2006-02-18 Thread John Halton
John Halton wrote: This is the same problem as in my previous thread ("Hanging during boot-up following dbus upgrade") but a response on that thread has enabled me to narrow it down a bit. dhcp-client (I assume) is pausing indefinitely at the "bound to 80.x.xxx.x -- renewal i

DHCP problem following Etch upgrade

2006-02-18 Thread John Halton
This is the same problem as in my previous thread ("Hanging during boot-up following dbus upgrade") but a response on that thread has enabled me to narrow it down a bit. dhcp-client (I assume) is pausing indefinitely at the "bound to 80.x.xxx.x -- renewal in 56953 seconds" message. This appli

Re: Hanging during boot-up following dbus upgrade

2006-02-18 Thread John Halton
cody chamberlain wrote: I am experiencing a similar problem. Mine isn't during boot, however, because my iface is set to no auto. When I 'ifup eth0' or 'eth1' it hangs after: bound to 192.168.1.67 -- renewal in 300 seconds. If I wait long enough, it closes itself. However, if I jsut close the t

Hanging during boot-up following dbus upgrade

2006-02-18 Thread John Halton
I'm running Etch (with a handful of packages from Sid) on my desktop PC, connected to the internet by a cable modem. Following the recent upgrades to Gnome 2.12 and KDE 3.5, I had about 40 packages that were being held back by aptitude. I set about clearing these manually, and one of the chang

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread John Halton
On 2/17/06, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Several people have already pointed out that more info is needed. > > I hope he can get back to us with more about what is going on, but with what > he's given us, I know I don't have a suggestion, other than what has been > given. Agreed. There

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread John Halton
On 2/17/06, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Courtesy is rising above others' rudeness and anger and being decent to them > even in such a case. Agreed. I also found the OP's attitude a bit unhelpful ("Why can't Debian be more like Windows?" - gosh, where to start?) but I think we should h

Re: Debian Testing + Open Office 2.0.1 conflict

2006-02-16 Thread John Halton
Keith Bates wrote: Yesterday, I did an upgrade on my Debian testing system. For some reason, when some KDE packages are upgraded Open Office breaks. In the past I've just re-installed my OO deb files and all is well with the world again. If you're running Debian testing, then you could try just

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread John Halton
On 2/16/06, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:47:58AM -0500, Edward Shornock wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement wrote: > >[...] > >> For work I will have to use WinXP. With that I stick the disks in and > >> it installs and works. T

Re: No audio output when playing CDs

2006-02-16 Thread John Halton
On 2/15/06, Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does your PC have a wire from the CD drive to the sound card? No, but that hasn't been a problem before, and Amarok can still play CDs - except that if I flick from track to track I soon hit an error with Amarok telling me that "device /dev/

No audio output when playing CDs

2006-02-15 Thread John Halton
Since the recent ALSA upgrade (that seems to have caused a number of problems for other people) I'm now unable to play audio CDs on a number of applications (gnome-cd and XMMS, for example). I can play them fine on Amarok, but would prefer to get the other apps working to avoid having to start

Re: Sound problems after recent etch upgrade

2006-02-15 Thread John Halton
On 2/14/06, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/14/06, Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hiya Patrick, > > Perhaps you're using OSS in xmms? Try installing xfce4-mixer-oss > (which will remove xfce4-mixer-alsa). > Thank you! That took care of it (and I'm happy with OSS as

Interpreting Snort results

2006-02-11 Thread John Halton
I've installed Snort on my Debian desktop (as recommended on the Debian security advice page) but am not sure how to interpret the emails it is sending through. Here's a typical morning email - does this look like anything to worry about? (I'm already running the Firestarter firewall which gets

Re: Pen drive real unmount

2006-02-11 Thread John Halton
Alejandro Salas wrote: My question is that I can mount-unmount the device perfectly, but in windows I notice that when I unmount it the light from the pen drive goes off... and when I unmount it under linux the light stays on. A friend told me that I should unmount it using eject, that the light

Re: source for downloadable music?

2006-02-11 Thread John Halton
Wackojacko wrote: I use allofmp3.com. Russian site (click button in top left corner for english) and you pay based on the size of the file downloaded not per song. Supports various different formats too. Quite apart from the credit card security risks, bear in mind these Russian sites are *n

Re: xmms caught laryngitis

2006-02-10 Thread John Halton
On 2/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > xmms stopped making any sounds as of a week or two ago. Other audio > players still work, but xmms goes through all the motions of playing > audio files without a peep. > > It's not mission critical, but disconcerting. > > -- hendrik > I

Re: GNU Hurd

2006-02-09 Thread John Halton
On 2/9/06, Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As Hurd is an official part of the GNU project, it's not GNU/Hurd, but GNU. > I mean, if I use Windows with Linux (the kernel) it should be > Windows/Linux. But if I use just Windows it's just windows, not > "Windows/The windows kernel" or "W

Re: KDE and Browser icon?

2006-02-08 Thread John Halton
Ishwar Rattan wrote: I am using a debian derivative with KDE desktop environment. After apt-get install firefox today I lost the browser icon (in task bar). Rebooting the system did not help. I can start the browser with explicit by invoking it via command line though. Any ideas? -ishwar Righ

Re: HELP, Mixed system with apt pinning

2006-02-08 Thread John Halton
Chris Lale wrote: Tom Davidson aka Dutler wrote: Hi, I need help setting up a mixed system with apt. This is my first in the Debian list, but let me know if i mess up on protocal... Back to apt pinning. I have scoured through these websites: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ap...efault-versi

Re: OpenOffice 2.0 Sarge or Etch

2006-02-07 Thread John Halton
John Talbut wrote: I would really like to have OpenOffice 2.0 on my system. At present it seems to be available in Etch or as a backport to Sarge. Currently I am on Sarge with at least one package from Etch. My options seem to be: use the backport to Sarge, use the Etch version of OpenOffic

Re: Where does a guy get KDE 3.5?

2006-02-06 Thread John Halton
On 06/02/06, Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Packages? > Apparently there is an unofficial version for Sarge at http://deb.stosberg.net/. Haven't tried it out though as I don't run Sarge. Or KDE, for that matter. (Source for this info: http://forum.libranet.com/viewtopic.php?t=9376)

Re: libXft

2006-02-06 Thread John Halton
On 05/02/06, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to compile several KDE applications need libXft.la and cannot find it! > I have re-installed libXft-dev with no avail. Anybody know what's happening > here. I have the .so's and .a, but no .la! > > Californina Dreaming :-) > According to

Re: Testing and Flash plugin trouble

2006-02-04 Thread John Halton
jef wrote: Just wondering if anyone else is seeing a problem with the Flash 7 plugin. I'm running testing, and in all of my browsers I'm having trouble with certain types of text in Flash objects. An example can be found at http://www.umich.edu The search option there does not show me what I ty

Re: packages.debian.org status update?

2006-02-04 Thread John Halton
Aaron Hall wrote: On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Stephen Cormier wrote: Try http://pdo.debian.net I seen this on http://planet.debian.net/ which seems like a rather strange place to be mentioned. As of right now, packages.debian.org does mention pdo.debian.net, and it also says this: We already g

Re: GNU Hurd

2006-02-03 Thread John Halton
On 03/02/06, Joseph Smidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been reading up on the GNU Hurd OS. Unfortunately most articles are > several years old. I know Debian is actively assisting in the Hurd project. > My question is, will Etch be released officially on the Hurd, or is there > any goals

Re: use stable/unstable source at the same time

2006-02-03 Thread John Halton
On 03/02/06, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > could I use stable and unstable sources list at the same time as this in > > /etc/apt/sources.list? > > > > deb ftp://ftp.linuxforum.net/debian/ stable main > > deb ftp://ftp.linuxforum.net/debian/ unstable main > > Yes. I think you should incl