2.4.2 Hates me :-(

I suffered a little reiserfs corruption the other day (okay well a lot :-), after booting my new 2.4.2 kernel on my Sid setup. So I just wiped it all and reinstalled using ext2 only. Being brave I build 2.4.2 again, hoping it was strictly a reiserfs problem. On first boot...file corruption. /et

Re: Reconstructing Var?

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 19:34:55 -0900, you wrote: >if /var/lib/dpkg/* is gone and you have no backups your screwed. >reinstall your system from scratch. This is what I was afraid of. And yes, it's ALL gone :-(. I had gotten so used to the reliabiltiy of 'unstable' that I had neglected to make pr

Re: Reconstructing Var?

On Thu, 01 Mar 2001 14:55:26 +1100, you wrote: >When you say 'meltdown', what exactly do you mean? Can you go into more >detail about what appeared to happen? What kernel version did you >upgrade from? What versions of the reiserfs-utils did you move between? Not really sured why/what happened.

Reconstructing Var?

Is there an easy way to reconstruct the basic heirarchy and files for /var? I had a reiserfs meltdown after installing 2.4.2. I'm not really sure if it was that or the new reiserutils or a combination of both. reiserfsck managed to fix everything except for /var which was pretty well hosed. So I

Re: Uh-Oh...

On 28 Feb 2001 13:17:07 +0100, you wrote: >I always enjoy asking people if they have their power cord plugged in... Yes, this part I am sure of . >Which version of reiserfstools is installed? It was the most current version in unstable. I did a dpkg -X to manually install the older version fro

Uh-Oh...

Well I grabbed 2.4.2, did a make-kpkg as usual and installed it. But I reboot to find my filesystem pretty well trashed. I'm running Sid and everything is on Reiserfs except for /boot. The only way I can do anything (with any kernel) is to boot to single user. I have tried reiserfsck'ing it, bu

Re: Site to watch

On Thursday 08 February 2001 20:48, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote "DSC Lithuania" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # He's the guy who wrote "TIP" that keeps my ZIP drive working, so he > seems to > # know his > # stuff. > > Personally, I used to use that site a lot for portscans and the > like(for well o

Re: The Next Yahoo

On Tuesday 06 February 2001 08:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * > Hi, debian-user > > What if Yahoo Paid You ? Now a reality !!! > > World's first completely commissionable Portal just released. Spam. The other other white meat ;-). jt

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

On Monday 05 February 2001 13:12, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > (Where was the link?) > > > > IIRC, Opera is now free-as-in-beer, but it's still not free in the > > DFSG sense, which is a great shame; it would be great if it could > > go into Debian

Re: Old news : Opera Free 4 Linux

On Monday 05 February 2001 12:41, Preben Randhol wrote: > Joris Lambrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/02/2001 (12:17) : > > Thursday, Feb. 1st > > > > Free Browser Coming for Linux and Mac Posted by amrdog @ 2:02 Post > > Comment (0) > > The Netscape-Microsoft Browser Wars are no longer at thei

Re: partitioning 45 gig HD

On Sunday 04 February 2001 07:20, ktb wrote: > To get around the 1024 thing put the line - > lba32 > in your /etc/lilo.conf file or use the -L option. > # lilo -L > > As far as partitioning primary vs. logical I think you can have 2 or > so primary and as many logical as you need. I may be wrong o

Re: Stupid Question...keymappings?

On Friday 02 February 2001 12:11, David Purton wrote: > just a thought, but do you have 'less' installed? > > I think man uses 'more' if 'less' isn't available and hence you can't > scroll up, etc. LOL. THWACKKK! (sound of hand hitting forhead). I just assumed that it got pulled in somewher

Stupid Question...keymappings?

I recently helped a friend resurrect an old machine with Debian :-). There is one little thing that annoyed me, and will annoy him, the more he learns. The keymappings that I am used to don't always seem to work. For instance with a 'man man,' I couldn't use the vi(m) like keybindings for mo

Kapps not threading properly?

I have this strange problem with Knode and Kmail. Neither one threads properly. The threads are broken and scattered. But this only happens with my ISP (Road Runner). If I use a different news/mail server everything works correctly. Unfortunately I *need* the services from my provider, and

Re: CVSup(it) for Debian?

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 18:40:57 -0800, you wrote: >Then look at apt-move. Use normal 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' >on the 'main' machine, when done, use 'apt-move update'. Depending on >where you tell apt-move to put its things, you can have a local mirror >(usually of just the packages you

Re: CVSup(it) for Debian?

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:52:58 +0400, you wrote: :cvsup of FreeBSD is much like Debian's apt-get. you can either get the source :or the .deb package to install. : :your friend doesn't need to get the whole shebang just to install debian. one :only needs 5 diskettes and the base install file and ju

CVSup(it) for Debian?

Hello Debianites :-). I've been too busy to track this list for a while, but I thought I get back into swing by asking a question for a friend of mine first. They don't subscribe to the list, but I figured some of the gurus here could answer the question... _ Is there an app like (

Re: OT - Virus?

On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:26:20 -0900, you wrote: :On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:08:24AM -0800, Michael Smith wrote: :> I second this. I mean, come on, if you can read the script, you can tell at :> least a little of what it does, and it doesn't sound too good. I guess this is :> one of the voluntary

OT - Virus?

I know this is a little OT but this is about the only forum where I provide the email address that the message in question was received from. And besides, you gurus should be able to straighten this out :-). I just got an email (not at this address) warning of a GNU/Linux virus named LinX that is

Re: TWAIN compliant digital camera

On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 19:20:45 -0700 "Cameron Matheson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > My friend got a USB digital camera for Christmas. It's TWAIN, so I was > wondering if I could use it with Linux (with SANE or something). If > their is, could you point me towards some documentation? > >

Re: Big Problem->2.4-test12+Nvidia

On Saturday 23 December 2000 20:06, John Travis wrote: Never mind :-). Somone in one of the ngs pointed me to the nvidia IRC channel where I could get a patch for Test12. Happy Holidays to all of the Debianites around the world!!!

Big Problem->2.4-test12+Nvidia

I was just wondering if anyone has successfully compiled the Nvidia .95 drivers with the latest kernel. The reiserfs patches for it just came out so I thought I would upgrade from test9 to test12. But when trying to rebuild the nvidia drivers (which worked very well before) I get _

Re: Dump root window to a JPG?

On Saturday 23 December 2000 14:03, Laurent Boulard Debian User wrote: > Le Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:25:49PM +0100, John Travis écrivait : > > Thanks, that's a lot faster than my previous methods. Except the > > video (from xine) still shows up as a bright ass blue box

Re: Dump root window to a JPG?

> > "import", which is part of the ImageMagick package will do it. A > command like this: > > import -window root screenshot.jpg > > You can even add a delay in case you want to move a window or bring > one to the "front", etc, etc. For more help, the usual "man import" > will tell you all you nee

Dump root window to a JPG?

I'm sure there is a cl method for dumping your X session to a file. I know this sounds stupid but taking a screenshot with something like the Gimp or Ksnapshot doesn't quite work (I'm trying to get a screenshot while playing mpeg2 streams). The video just appears as a bright blue box :-). An

Re: Install/Config q's

On Wednesday 20 December 2000 23:50, D-Man wrote: > Last night I installed Potato using the 'network' method. It was > very nice! (especially with my 100Mb/s connection). > > Debian has more packages in the distro than RH! Very cool! I found > some debian packages that I hadn't been able to find

Re: debian 2.2 + kernel 2.2.18 + USB

> Davi and others: > > I'm interested in the 250 MB ZIP USB that I acquired and use under > Windows, but want to access it under Linux. I know about > adding USB support to the kernel, but else must I do? > > Would someone point me to the right place to find how make this > device work with Potato.

Re: SBLive+CreativeSource==BadMixer?

Actually I just tried the latest snapshot and it should be a SigmaTel not a PCI Tel. A SigmaTel STAC9721/23 to be exact ;). jt

SBLive+CreativeSource==BadMixer?

I was just curious as to whether or not anyone has experienced this. First of all I'm runny woody and 2.4-test9. I like to use the source from creative becuase it provides a few extra channels in the mixer than the kernel source. But anything after about 10-01-2000 presents a strange problem

Re: downloading Debian

On Tuesday 12 December 2000 03:35, Xucaen wrote: > this sounds like fun. :-) I've been > contemplating my options and I think installing > from the base disk sets would be good. it would > at least give me a better understanding of and > more control over what is actually being > installed. (as op

Re: Enlightenment, X, and Gnome

On Tuesday 12 December 2000 03:50, Chris wrote: > Hello, > > I have just installed Debian 2.2 with X, enlightenment, and gnome. > When I boot the system and log in, it goes into enlightenment. > From here I can no longer seem to get to a command prompt (i.e. log > out) In addition, how do I get x t

Re: OT: Mozilla won't load page that Konqueror will load

On Monday 11 December 2000 20:58, Kent West wrote: > I'm web-development illiterate, so was wondering if some of you more > HTML-savvy folks might help. > > My higher-ups want me to test-run a web-based personality assessment > that we're thinking about using for new hires. The site is > > > http:/

Re: X error message

On Monday 11 December 2000 07:46, Lance Simmons wrote: > I recently started getting the following error message when I try to > run xinit as a user: > > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. > > I've been running XFree86 4 for awhile (about 2 months before it > entered woody), and

Re: gnome upgrade

On Monday 11 December 2000 01:46, Nick wrote: > anyone know of a good source-lists for gnome updates?? > > thanks in advance I use the stuff from Helixcode... deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main HTH, jt

Re: Three Stupid X Questions...

On Sunday 10 December 2000 01:03, Defresne Sylvain wrote: > Hello > > * John Travis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > My third problem involves gtk themes, basically I can't use any. I get a > > warning about "libpixmap.so." I thought that maybe I could just ad

Re: Three Stupid X Questions...

On Saturday 09 December 2000 23:51, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 04:31:00PM +0100, John Travis wrote: > > I am not allowed to su to root and launch anything. I get a connection > > refuesed by server error. I am sure this is probably a one word edit in > &

Three Stupid X Questions...

Running Woody, X 4.0.1, and the Nvidia .95 drivers. The first problem is that /etc/X11/Xsession doesn't seem to get sourced during manual startx logins. I would like to throw a few things in there (xscreensaver, etc.). It does get sourced when using a login manager. Any personal xsession or

Re: I can burn CDs, but can't mount any CDs.

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:54:09 -0500, you wrote: > >As per the instructions of the CD-Writing HOWTO, I disabled IDE/ATAPI >CD-ROM support from my kernel, and instead selected SCSI emulation >support in the kernel, and a few other related options which I can't >remember offhand. Well this is why you

Re: PCI modems

On Thursday 19 October 2000 11:45, Ken Januski wrote: > Hi > > Can anyone point me in the right direction to help in configuring a > USRobotics internal modem? Unless I missed something the Hardware > Compatibility list didn't mention PCI though the MODEM HOWTO docs indicate > that they might not b

Re: Arghh.... glibconfig.h

On Thursday 19 October 2000 09:04, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > Stil have the same problem? Unfortunately yes :-(. Please excuse my lack of expertise on the subject and bear with me :-). I knew it wasn't in the include path. I just don't know EXACTLY what I have to do to get it to compile cl

Arghh.... glibconfig.h

Okay, I am not able to compile a few things I want back after a new install. They all crap out at glibconfig.h (which is provided by libglib1.2-dev, which I do have installed). The file is located in /usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h. But I get errors like... gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I

Re: Two Completley unrelated questioins

> > I installed from the .deb I still have 4.73 (for somereason its flaged > > not to upgrade, thats my next project.) I dont remember having to do > > anything like choosing options. I just did apt-get install netscape. Then > > it selected some aditional packages as i recall. Any ideas? Should i

Re: Need help compiling gtk apps :-(

Thanks for the quick reply but... both of these examples were using autoconf/automake. That's what I don't understand. checking for glib-config... (cached) /usr/bin/glib-config checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.2... yes checking for gtk-config... (cached) /usr/bin/gtk-config checking for GTK -

Need help compiling gtk apps :-(

I just nuked my Storm install (intentionally, but it is a great distro :-), and did a full reiser-debian install and re-upgraded to Woody. In trying to get everything back the way it was I have run into a few problems. I can't seem to compile any gtk apps. A simple example In file included

Re: apt-get: "The following packages have been kept back" - What does it mean?

Mario Vukelic wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running potato. Recently I've upgraded helix-gnome and since then > every time i run apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade) it tells me: > > "host:/home/mario# apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packa

Re: Corel Linux + Wine

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > I successfully installed the documentation for Debian Wine, but I cannot > install the actual program. Corel Linux (version 2) keeps giving me "file > dependency" errors. Unfortuanately, I am new at this, and need some > advice. > > Sincerely, > > CTK > [EMA

Re: Creative Live Value !!

> > I'm running the same card in potato but with a kernel 2.4.0-test7 and > the kernels own SBLive driver (seems to be the one Creative put > OpenSource some time ago), and... for what I tested by now, it *rocks*, > sound quality is much better than on the Window$9x. H, but just for > curiosit

debian-user@lists.debian.org

Rino Mardo wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:03:13PM +0200 or thereabouts, Veit Waltemath wrote: > > Change to 16 or 32bpp. This is an know behaviour from Netscape. > > -- > > cu Veit [EMAIL PROTECTED] [de] > > only 16 or 32? what about 24? i'm running at 24bpp and i

Re: DIVX?

Krzys Majewski wrote: > > Anyone got divx working? I guess I mean divx;) and not divx, gah. > chris > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null Like a charm :-)... jt

Whoops I really do need help...

Okay short story, I did a reiser-debian install and I REALLY need help setting up X. I am using my old XF86Config so that should be fine. I posted this already, but then the strangest thing happened. I was working on getting it fixed, I swapped xdm for gdm and presto, xdm fired up and I

Re: Help setting up X! (NEVER MIND :-)

Thanks for the response, unfortunately I had all of those packages installed. I was actually about to post another cry for help on some newsgroups but... after a few more apt-gets, fixing a link or two, and swapping xdm for gdm I have a functionall X setup. So I now have a full reiser debian pota

Help setting up X!

I was running Storm, upgraded to Woody without any problems (minus the libc6 saga :-). However some power failures encouraged me to do a full reiser-debian install (yes I know the disks aren't supported). I've got a quasi functional potato box right now. My networking is set up so I can apt-get

Re: Downgrading using apt-get?

On Sunday 15 October 2000 16:21, Steve Simons wrote: > I've made a bit of a booboo recently. I apt-get installed a recent, > unstable version of mysql and it pulled in a few other packages (I can't > for the life of me remember what they were). > > The problem is, licq seems to be broken. I'm run

Re: Win 95 like GUI

On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Jatin Golani wrote: > Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 01:41:01 -0500 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Jatin Golani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Win 95 like GUI > > > Hi all, > > i'm using Debian 2.2.havent been able to get a GUI > that I like...also not sure about t

Re: Help Again moving /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom for apt-get

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 06:44:35 -0500 > To: "Debian" > From: "Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Jonathan Gift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Help Again moving /cdrom to /mnt/cdrom for apt-get > > Hi, > > I want to move the cdrom from /

Re: Menu editor crashes in Helix GNOME

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Martin Weinberg wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:51:53 -0400 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Martin Weinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Menu editor crashes in Helix GNOME > > I find that the menu editor dies when one attempts to edit

Re: Package manager

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:41:28 -0300 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Package manager > > Hi all. > > I'm new to the lists and to Debian too. > I had installed Debian 2.2. The install process work fine but I

Re: staroffice

On Tuesday 10 October 2000 06:48, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > "Agner-Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I downloaded the Staroffice binaries (10 files with an extension of .bin) > > from the Sun site and realized I have no idea how to install them (to a > > Throw all files in /tmp, then `chmod

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

> > Well, the old logo did look like a chick, after all. > > > > On the other hand we could make it a cock, er, I mean rooster. > > I suppose that would go with woody. LOL ... who says Debian users aren't funny ;-). jt -- Debian GNU/Linux [Woody] 2.4.0-test8-ReiserFS Storm {Hail} You mean there

Re: mozilla & netscape

On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, John Travis wrote: > > On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > > So, can these two coexist? I've done it with debian packages, but I > > > > I am running Netscape 4.75, Mozilla M

Re: Compiling PHP 4.0.2

On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Matt \\"ObeseWhale\\" Grinshpun wrote: > I get the following running ./configure... Anyone know a fix? > > checking for flex... no > checking for lex... no > ./configure: flex: command not found > cchecking for flex... lex > checking for yywrap in -ll... no > checking lex outp

Re: mozilla & netscape

On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > So, can these two coexist? I've done it with debian packages, but I > decided to check out one of the nightly builds of mozilla, and it did a > whole bunch of stuff on its first invocation, and from that point on, > netscape started mozilla. I'd run

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Randy Edwards wrote: > Has anyone seen Joe Barr's article in LinuxWorld at > ? > >I was struck by the article in a number of ways. I think it's sad that > an experienced user like him couldn't install

Re: Sound Blaster

On Sun, 09 Nov 2036, Tino Ionescu wrote: > Hi > I'm trying to install the driver emu10k1 for Sound Blaster Live > Driver's Makefile is complainig that it can't find "modversion.h" > Can anybody tell me what should be done? > > Thank you in advance, > Florenin. Do you have the kernel source/hea