Re: hdparm configuration help

2007-08-31 Thread Joris Huizer
--- Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joris Huizer wrote: > > Hello, > > > > After the recent udev + hdparm problems, I'm > thinking > > of reconfiguring hdparm (hdparm currently is not > > configured, just reinstalled, so I'

hdparm configuration help

2007-08-30 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello, After the recent udev + hdparm problems, I'm thinking of reconfiguring hdparm (hdparm currently is not configured, just reinstalled, so I'm assuming it's currently using default settings) This is the output of `hdparm -v -i /dev/hda`: /dev/hda: multcount= 0 (off) IO_support =

Re: fresh kde install

2007-08-25 Thread Joris Huizer
--- "L.V.Gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed etch base system and then > installed xorg. I was > trying to install kde > apt-get install kde kdm > I get msg saying > . > the following packages has unmet dependencies > kde:depends on kde-core(>=5.47), but it not going to

Re: harddisc errors

2007-08-24 Thread Joris Huizer
--- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Alright, a small update here. I booted in rescue > mode > > and did the `e2fsck -f -c -c` on the root > partition. > > It seems to fix something (giving a warning > > 'FILESYSTEM HAS CHANGED' or something similar) > > > > I'm suspecting t

Re: harddisc errors

2007-08-24 Thread Joris Huizer
--- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Joris, > > I don't know if the business-card iso will work > since I've never used > it. I'm on dialup and it doesn't have ppp support. > The netinst.iso > isn't that much bigger (it just won't fit on a > business card size CD) > and do

Re: harddisc errors

2007-08-22 Thread Joris Huizer
--- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Take a deep breath. > Breathe out. > > OK. If you weren't having troubles with modules I'd > be more worried. > Since you seem to be having troubles with modules, > its possible that the > correct module for your drive/controller/whatever > i

harddisc errors

2007-08-21 Thread Joris Huizer
y SeekComplete DataRequest } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdb: CHECK for good STATUS Those aren't showing up consistently in dmesg output either. I hope I'm wrong, that this somehow is some configuration error or so (in udev configuration perhaps??) but... Hoping

Re: Why Debian3.1 is slower so much than FreeBSD6.1 in our test?

2006-06-29 Thread Joris Huizer
You can tweak hard disk settings with hdparm, that might improve performance a lot (have a look at http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html if you are unfamiliar with it) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

2006-06-27 Thread Joris Huizer
Joey Hess wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: Yes it is, it's upgraded whenever base-files is upgraded. true, but that doesn't tell that you're whole system is testing or stable; you can use apt-show-versions to see all the individual package versions HTH, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

2006-06-27 Thread Joris Huizer
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: * If so, how can I make upgrade mine from 3.1r1 to 3.1r2 -- would it be as simple as 'sudo apt-get update' ? apt-get update only updates the repository for your computer. That is it only fetches a file from the server you specifie in /etc/apt/sources.list that s

Re: does this /etc/apt/sources.list look okay?

2006-06-21 Thread Joris Huizer
Lynn Kilroy wrote: I wonder if my etc/apt/sources.list is okay? It has nothing in it. Is it missing anything? It should have at least a few lines; you can get them added using apt-setup I have lines like this: #sarge deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib deb http

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Joris Huizer
one more note, in case you have aptitude installed, you may try using that, too, as it is known to be handle conflicts and brakage slightly different from apt-get; The interactive interface can show what is broken and such (just calling out a few suggestions now) HTH, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Joris Huizer
just thinking aloud, maybe `apt-get --reinstall install debconf` could help out on debconf, and then also on x11-common... I hope? HTH, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Joris Huizer
Charles Hallenbeck wrote: Hi, Joris On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:37:17PM +0200, Joris Huizer wrote: Charles Hallenbeck wrote: Package x11-common is not installed, so not removed Hmm, you could try `dpkg --purge x11-common` Unfortunately I get the same familiar output: Script started on

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Joris Huizer
Charles Hallenbeck wrote: Package x11-common is not installed, so not removed Hmm, you could try `dpkg --purge x11-common` HTH, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installing new kernel

2006-06-11 Thread Joris Huizer
Sam Rosenfeld wrote: I am using Debian Sarge with a 2.4.27 linux kernel. To replace this kernel with a late 2.6 kernel, is it a simple apt-get install? If so, is there any danger of wiping out parts of my home directory? If it's not a simple apt-get install, is there a suitable HOWTO? It's

Re: sudo password vs. login

2006-05-29 Thread Joris Huizer
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Joseph Smidt wrote: Is there any way to make the sudo password different from the login password? Wouldn't that make it more secure? That would make two passwords you have to get through to have root access vs. one. I like the approach which SuSE takes. It req

Re: sudo password vs. login

2006-05-28 Thread Joris Huizer
Joseph Smidt wrote: Is there any way to make the sudo password different from the login password? Wouldn't that make it more secure? That would make two passwords you have to get through to have root access vs. one. -- - Jo

Re: best way to secure communication?

2006-05-23 Thread Joris Huizer
lee wrote: Yeah, I wondered why that has not been done. It's one of the first things to think of when creating any protocol that can be used to transfer information over insecure channels. That may be because of how the internet started -- it was meant just for sharing information; when you

Re: Installing Flash Player

2006-05-20 Thread Joris Huizer
Raquel Rice wrote: I would like to install Flash Player for Mozilla and Firefox. Searching the archives is useless. How might I proceed? Thanks for your help! There is an (unofficial) package named flashplayer-mozilla You can download it (with any needed dependencies) with the following ap

Re: Script to delete duplicate files

2006-05-20 Thread Joris Huizer
Curtis Vaughan wrote: No actually the -d option is not an option. The reason is is because it then asks you after all found duplicates, which of them you wish to keep. Well, I have some 5000 duplicates to go through, so it will take forever. I would rather think of a way to use the output of

Re: switching from apt-get to aptitude

2006-05-17 Thread Joris Huizer
Grant Thomas wrote: Question for you (anyone) then: If you install kde through aptitude, an aptitude marks Xorg as a dependency, and then install gnome a couple of days later, would removing kde also remove Xorg, or would it see it as a current dependency for gnome and leave it? It would see

Re: grub and lilo

2006-05-09 Thread Joris Huizer
Art Edwards wrote: When I updated to testing on Friday night, lilo became the default boot loader. I have removed lilo. Grub is still present, and I am trying to install grub as the boot loader, following the instructions on its website. When issue the command grub> find /boot/grub/stage I r

Re: upgrade glibc on Sarge

2006-05-07 Thread Joris Huizer
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 14:13 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: It is *very* unsafe. The amavisd-new package is in backports. I would just use that instead. http://backports.org/instructions.html Thanks, Roberto, That's the first place I looked, but they only have 2.3.3

Re: who has heard of libnd?

2006-05-05 Thread Joris Huizer
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In pursuit of a dialog like replacement that uses the mouse I came across Ndialog: http://gehenna.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/ndialog/ But it needs a libnd to compile its examples: cc -o fancyhello fancyhello.c -lnd -lpanel -lncurses -lgpm In fact I just tried

Re: who has heard of libnd?

2006-05-05 Thread Joris Huizer
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In pursuit of a dialog like replacement that uses the mouse I came across Ndialog: http://gehenna.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/ndialog/ But it needs a libnd to compile its examples: cc -o fancyhello fancyhello.c -lnd -lpanel -lncurses -lgpm Anybody ever heard of t

Re: search and replace code in php or html files

2006-05-05 Thread Joris Huizer
Casey T. Deccio wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 13:16 -0400, H.S. wrote: The problem is to change a particular link in all the pages. I assume the webpages were made using a template. If I were to search and replace a particular string with a the new desired one, I would be done. Could somebody su

Re: More X Problems Today

2006-05-04 Thread Joris Huizer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think we should blame all Debian developers. The only real problems I've had with sid were related to x-server; all other parts of Debian are rock solid. Maybe the x-server Debian maintainers are new/unexperienced in that task? Managing something as

Re: daylight saving time

2006-05-04 Thread Joris Huizer
Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 28 April 2006 11:19, Joris Huizer wrote: How does one setup debian to automatically account for "daylight saving time"? Debian does this automatically by default. Make sure you answer the questions regarding how your clock is set and where you a

daylight saving time

2006-04-28 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello, How does one setup debian to automatically account for "daylight saving time"? Here In Holland the dates at which the hour time change occurs are fixed; (This computer has also a Windows install, though one that isn't used often; Windows sets up the clock, linux ignores it) Thanks, Jo

Re: New user need some help

2006-04-27 Thread Joris Huizer
Mariusz Kruk wrote: Ken Walker napisał(a): apt-get install x-windows-system No! There ain't no such thing as X Windows! Read the X(7x) manual That should be `apt-get install x-window-system` or `apt-get install x-window-system-core` -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-26 Thread Joris Huizer
Ron Johnson wrote: I suppose that should've been version 2.8 Gotcha. What branch is that, Stable? Sid is at 2.14, and 2.8 is old enough that I didn't believe that anyone is still using it... Uhm yes that's stable (though I don't use gnome myself) (Chances of breakage still make me feel I

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-26 Thread Joris Huizer
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 16:15 -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: Both desktops have been making huge strides lately in performance and what not. I hadn't used GNOME/KDE in about a year, but I have given the 1.8 release a whirl and it does seem a lot snappier. Version 1.8? Am I

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-25 Thread Joris Huizer
Curtis Vaughan wrote: I remember sometime at the end of last year reading that KDE uses less resources than Gnome. After reading that I had to install linux on an older machine for someone, so I put KDE on it. It worked OK. Now I get the latest Linux Journal and they say in there than Gnome

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-24 Thread Joris Huizer
Andrei Popescu wrote: Do you need to reboot after this upgrade? I'm asking because I did the upgrade on a remote machine with some hardware troubles and I am afraid to reboot it. Hmm... if you got a new kernel image you need to restart the machine to use it (untill then it's running with the

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-24 Thread Joris Huizer
Andrei Popescu wrote: Do you need to reboot after this upgrade? I'm asking because I did the upgrade on a remote machine with some hardware troubles and I am afraid to reboot it. There shouldn't be a need to do so; if some service needs to be restarted, just do the `/etc/init.d/ restart`, th

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-23 Thread Joris Huizer
Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: I'm using Sarge. I just did an "aptitude update," and now when I attempt to upgrade, aptitude says that it wants to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev. I know that those are pretty critical to the functioning of the system, so I've temporarily put them on ho

Re: still learning, need a think i should?....for gnome components.

2006-04-23 Thread Joris Huizer
Xplicit Language wrote: i have gotten synaptic to update a unstable file i needed, but it wants to remove a lot of stuff and upgrade and install somethings but not gnome word, ark and a few others that i think i need, a little help here please. Hmm, why are you upgrading to unstable? I think y

Re: What happened to glxgears?

2006-04-18 Thread Joris Huizer
David Goodenough wrote: On Tuesday 18 April 2006 00:03, Toshiro wrote: According to apt-file glxgears is in xbse-clients, but according to dpkg -c it is not in the latest version. Has it moved to another package or has it been dropped. If it has gone away, what is the new recommended test veh

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Joris Huizer
Andrei Popescu wrote: "Matthew R. Dempsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 02:54:36PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: If you were using .xsession before, try: $ ln -s .xsession .xinitrc in your home directory. A better solution is ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc .xinitrc

Re: What's the next step?

2006-04-11 Thread Joris Huizer
Rocky Ou wrote: Hey, I use netinst CD installed Debian Sarge 3.1 successfully. I only installed base system no any other stuff. I can use SSH to connect to remote server. If you could give me some hints regarding to the following items, I would really appreciate it? in general `apt-cache

Re: Telling aptitude dist-upgrade it can add but not remove packages?

2006-04-11 Thread Joris Huizer
Adam Funk wrote: Is there any set of command-line options that will let me `aptitude dist-upgrade` so that it will add any packages necessary to upgrade existing packages, but not remove any currently installed packages? You could run `aptitude dist-upgrade` and use the list of packages to i

Re: PUHHLLLEEEEZZZE LOOK AT THESE RETARDED NAMES OF EXE's YOU DEBIAN PACKAGE DUDES

2006-04-07 Thread Joris Huizer
Ron Johnson wrote: This is what I'd use to track down package names: locate | grep bin dpkg -S apt-get search or try apt-file search -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is it possible to simply copy the kernel from one machine to another and use it?

2006-04-07 Thread Joris Huizer
Christopher Nelson wrote: On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 10:01:08PM +0200, Joris Huizer wrote: Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: I was wondering if it's possible to copy the vmlinuz-x.y.z from one machine to another and have the other machine run properly with it. You'll also need t

Re: Is it possible to simply copy the kernel from one machine to another and use it?

2006-04-07 Thread Joris Huizer
Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: Hello everyone, I was wondering if it's possible to copy the vmlinuz-x.y.z from one machine to another and have the other machine run properly with it. Here's the scenario: I have 2 systems, both running Debian 3.1 (Sarge), and their hardware is a little different f

Re: execute a program using C

2006-04-05 Thread Joris Huizer
Deephay wrote: Greetings all, I am wondering that if there is way to execute a compiled program using C (either system calls / library calls)? Thx a lot! Deephay Maybe it's just me, but I don't really get what your question is - what do you mean by 'executing a compiled program using C' ?

Re: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 update

2006-03-28 Thread Joris Huizer
Tomas Brandysky wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I noticed there is a new kernel image available for debian sarge. I am currently using this kernel: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 2.4.27-10sarge1 when I try to: apt-get update; apt-get upgrade I get just: 0 upgraded,

Re: prefered kernel configuration? (solved)

2006-03-17 Thread Joris Huizer
jlmb wrote: Hi Joris, Joris Huizer wrote: Hello, I have a simple question: I'm using an AMD Sempron machine, and I >build my own kernels; There seems to be 64bit and 32bit semprons. I'm currently using the 386 configuration in the linux kernel, as I didn't know what op

prefered kernel configuration?

2006-03-17 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello, I have a simple question: I'm using an AMD Sempron machine, and I build my own kernels; I'm currently using the 386 configuration in the linux kernel, as I didn't know what option would be best to choose... What is actually the best option for best performance? I was wondering whether 6

Re: Debian 3.1 installation not detecting my hard drives =(

2006-03-03 Thread Joris Huizer
Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: Hmm...I think there's some confusion here, so allow me to clear things up a little. 1) I am trying to install Debian 3.1 Sarge (at the moment I don't care which kernel) on a Dell PowerEdge 2800 Server 2) When I try to do (1), at the "Partition Hard Disk" section of th

Re: Debian 3.1 installation not detecting my hard drives =(

2006-03-03 Thread Joris Huizer
Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: Hi, Thanks for your reply Jorge, but I've already tried that ISO before and it's for the 3.0 Woody version of Debian. However, I'm looking to install Sarge. However, it did say on the site that it would work for Sarge as well, but I don't see how that would work. W

Re: 2.6 compilation woes...

2006-03-02 Thread Joris Huizer
Doofus wrote: Colin wrote: Doofus wrote: Now I'm bamboozled. If I compile a kernel using the identical .config file that was used to compile the working and running kernel and it won't boot properly, then my powers of fault finding dry up. I'd be mightily grateful if anyone can give me any

Re: What virtual package is "minimal system"?

2006-02-25 Thread Joris Huizer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 08:12:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One way to get the system to be really minimal, is to mark *everything* as auto-installed (M in aptitude), and then to select those packages you need to be there as manually installed (m in aptitude)

Re: What virtual package is "minimal system"?

2006-02-25 Thread Joris Huizer
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:39:39 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I managed to install etch on my AMD-64 system, except that in the package selection I could not even ask for it to nstall "minimal system" because of dependency conflicts. Neither could I do manual package sel

Re: wine 3d very very slow, toolchain problem?

2006-02-19 Thread Joris Huizer
Rodney Gordon II wrote: Recently I have built my own compilation of wine on Debian, three different revisions (0.9.6 .7 and .8). All of these versions are compiled correctly. I have noticed an odd problem with these builds of wine, and the commercial cedega fork of wine on Debian. My dilemma: I

Re: Newbie wants KDE

2006-02-08 Thread Joris Huizer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a more or less default install of Sarge usin the mini-disk and download method. Now the system fires up in Gnome instead of KDE. How do I convince the system to start up kdm instead? My previous experince is with Slackware where you could choose the window mana

Re: Can I fix this with apt-get???

2006-02-01 Thread Joris Huizer
Rob Blomquist wrote: I had a total of 3 crashes during my initial install of Debian Sarge about 2 weeks ago. I am noticing a number of buggy problems: -needed to install ghostscript for CUPS to work. -Still have no access to my cardreader as the USB subsection sees it, but is not mounting it

Re: Synaptic shows kernel 2.6.14 as obsolete. Why?

2006-01-21 Thread Joris Huizer
Edward C. Jones wrote: I have a PC with an AMD64 +3500 cpu chip. I use up-to-date debian unstable, "i386" distribution. I have two "vmlinuz"s: "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-386" and "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-2-386". The installed packages are "linux-image-2.6.12-1-386", version 2.6.12-10 and "linux-imag

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

2006-01-16 Thread Joris Huizer
Greg wrote: which device do you write to ? (there's a reason I ask, I'll elucidate when sober...^hic)};) I call cdrecord as follows: cdrecord --force dev=ATA:1,0,0 that means, the ATA:1,0,0 device hmm, as I think of that, I guess that's a scsi naming scheme; I think I read writing to /dev/

Re: how do i downgrade to xfree86 on sid?

2006-01-15 Thread Joris Huizer
Matt wrote: Joris, Thanks for the tip, I'm working on it right now, but was just wondering if you know of a "clean" way of doing this. currently, i'm planing on removing x-org related packages, editing my sources.list to point to sarge, then apt-get installing the xfree packages. however,

Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

2006-01-15 Thread Joris Huizer
David R. Litwin wrote: Are you able to run apt-get update? Yes. The problem is with dpkg or debconf. When using synaptic, it said that debconf was broken. An update: # dpkg-reconfigure debconf dpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 359695 pack

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

2006-01-15 Thread Joris Huizer
Greg wrote: Seeker5528 wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:17:50 -0400 > Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>Don't you think it would be more confusing to tell people that SCSI >>>emulation was built in to ide-cd. If you tell them that then they will >>>be expecting to have srX devices for

Re: how do i downgrade to xfree86 on sid?

2006-01-15 Thread Joris Huizer
matt wrote: hi all, i can't really believe that i need to do this (i like xorg a lot) but i need to downgrade to xfree in order to use a midified trident driver. since there are no xfree86 packages in the official repository, i can only hope that they exist elsewhere... so, how can i use xfre

Re: zero install - serious critiques?

2006-01-13 Thread Joris Huizer
David M.Besonen wrote: On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:51:20 +0100, Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you may see this as some problem: "Isn't running stuff off the net a security risk? Isn't that where you get your software from anyway? Zero Install automatically perfor

Re: zero install - serious critiques?

2006-01-13 Thread Joris Huizer
David M. Besonen wrote: hi all, i have recently been reading about the zero install system as a result of my interest in the rox desktop. i personally would prefer to use rox with apt. however, it seems the rox devs are primarily packaging for zero install. anyhow, is there any reason i

Re: apt-listbugs and security

2006-01-13 Thread Joris Huizer
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:02:07 + (GMT) david cuthbertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Installing sudo returns the apt-listbugs message: Critical bugs of sudo (-> 1.6.8p7-1.2 ) #315115 -[bugtrak] sudo version 1.6.8p9 now available, fixes security issue. Merged

Re: apt-listbugs and security

2006-01-12 Thread Joris Huizer
david cuthbertson wrote: Hi, Installing sudo returns the apt-listbugs message: Critical bugs of sudo (-> 1.6.8p7-1.2 ) #315115 -[bugtrak] sudo version 1.6.8p9 now available, fixes security issue. Merged with:315718 The trouble is that I can't find v. 1.6.8p9 from the stable package list, and e

Re: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-11 Thread Joris Huizer
Ed Young wrote: Thanks for the reply. It's a standard PS/2 mouse with a scroll wheel. The mouse works fine under Windows XP(dual boot system) and when I cat /dev/input/mice and move the mouse, I get the random characters. The system is a cheapo MicroCenter PowerSpec, but I've had it running L

and it's a good thing too (Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?)

2006-01-11 Thread Joris Huizer
Clive Menzies wrote: It's written as a comment in the conf file itself. If you manually modify the conf file dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 won't work until you move the modified file out of the way: # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically # updated # again, run

Re: apt-listbugs and security

2006-01-11 Thread Joris Huizer
david cuthbertson wrote: Hi, What am I to do with the bug reports I regularly receive from apt-listbugs when installing or upgrading debian packages? I installed Debian Sarge because I am a relative beginner and didn't want to worry about OS and application security issues. Now I administer a M

Re: Free Memory and Tasks

2006-01-11 Thread Joris Huizer
Marco wrote: Hi all, How to check the memory used from a task? With "top" I look only total memory, free memory and used memory. Every day my free memory decrease and I don't understand why... Help :-( Thanks Marco Top should tell you the meemory per task - start top and press 'f' - this

Re: Linux Distribution Chooser

2006-01-08 Thread Joris Huizer
Steve Lamb wrote: Joris Huizer wrote: I think, if the newbie just wants kde because of some fancy screenshots, it's too hard for him/her; remember the newbie doesn't know the character '/' upons up a search in so many linux/unix tools, so he/she is completely lost in an u

Re: newbies needing help for graphic login

2006-01-08 Thread Joris Huizer
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: see my other note on this: why isn't (and I know NOTHING about the installer so bear with me) knoppix type detection done by the installer? There should be NOTHING that knoppix does that Debian can't do at install time, excepting kernel modules that are to far up

Re: Linux Distribution Chooser

2006-01-08 Thread Joris Huizer
Steve Lamb wrote: How hard can it be to give the user a choice during the install, and why is that such a stupid idea according to you? You are given a choice. You just refuse to see that. the way to choose is fine by me, but, for example, manually going through aptitude and finding

Re: How do I automate this?

2006-01-08 Thread Joris Huizer
Tyson Varosyan wrote: Could someone post a bit more of a step-by step for this? I am still very new to Linux... Thanks, Tyson Varosyan Technical Manager, Uptime Technical Solutions LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.up-times.com 206-715-TECH (8324) UpTime/OnTime/AnyTime -Original Message- F

Re: Problems with apt-get install

2006-01-06 Thread Joris Huizer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you help me to fix this? I really want to reinstall the system, I don´t know how I can repair it, wasted some hours with trying. mond:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following ex

Re: Getting a list of installed packages

2005-12-27 Thread Joris Huizer
Jaime Casanova wrote: On 12/27/05, J Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a way to get a list of installed packages in Debian, preferably from the command line and preferably in a text file? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. JM dpkg-query i think it needs some options and red

Re: Sarge kernel update, using newer kernel, should I update older kernel?

2005-12-23 Thread Joris Huizer
Laszlo wrote: Is it ok to install this patch or perform this upgrade to 2.6.8 while running 2.6.11-k7 or do I need to boot into the 2.6.8 kernel before patching/ upgrading? Thanks, -- Laszlo -- Doing so using the 2.6.11-k7 should not be a problem; I don't think it'll make a difference

Re: qemu with network

2005-12-21 Thread Joris Huizer
Juraj Fedel wrote: I am having troubles with useing tun/tap network with qemu. If I start qemu as ordinary user it complains that it can not connect to tun device. If I run it with 'sudo qemu' it create tun0 network device and than I can connect to virtual system. $ ls -l /dev/net/tun crw-rw

Re: (G)Vim Oddity

2005-12-19 Thread Joris Huizer
Heimdall Midgard wrote: I just noticed something weird with my (G)Vim installation when editing generic config files. The syntax highlighting colors appear wrong. Could somebody do a test to confirm if this is really a bug or just a misconfiguration on my end? To do the test, create two files bo

Re: Install kernel-source-2.6.8 update

2005-12-16 Thread Joris Huizer
Marco wrote: Hi all, I have installed Debian Sarge and I have an custom kernel. Yesterday, I downloaded from security.debian.org the "kernel-source-2.6.8" (DSA 922) update with a "apt-get update" and after "apt-get upgrade". This is the output of command: "dpkg -l | grep kernel-source" ii ker

Re: OT: converting C to C++ : linkng problems

2005-12-13 Thread Joris Huizer
Gregory Seidman wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:14:37AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: } Joris Huizer wrote: } >That makes sence, but still - it's exactly the same code as used in C } >and the C code compiles fine (except for some added casts as C++ doesn't } >like coerci

Re: OT: converting C to C++ : linkng problems

2005-12-13 Thread Joris Huizer
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Joris Huizer wrote: Hello, Sorry for offtopic-posting but I wouldn't directly know where to ask elsewhere... I'd like to ask this question: in some project I try to switch from C to C++ , in order to refactor/learn C++ constructs (that is, classes, inheri

OT: converting C to C++ : linkng problems

2005-12-13 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello, Sorry for offtopic-posting but I wouldn't directly know where to ask elsewhere... I'd like to ask this question: in some project I try to switch from C to C++ , in order to refactor/learn C++ constructs (that is, classes, inheritance, and such) better There is this problem: it doesn't l

Re: default kernel in debain 3.1

2005-12-10 Thread Joris Huizer
Fabián Barco wrote: Hi, which is the default kernel in debian 3.1? thanks! -- I'll be back! apt-cache search comes up with 2.4.27 and 2.6.8, those are the defaults in the installer, you can choose the 2.4.27 one (by typing linux) or 2.6.8 (by typing linux26) - look at the f2,f3... screens in

Re: qt dependency problem

2005-12-05 Thread Joris Huizer
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 02:11:53AM +, jpdrawneek wrote: I am trying to compile an app called DJplay. I think i have downloaded all the correct packges but i am still getting this error: Any ideas where to find qobjcoll.h and which package its in. I am usi

Re: Kernel Panic: "initrd" ?

2005-11-20 Thread Joris Huizer
Alex Goldman wrote: My self-compiled kernel refuses to boot, saying it can't mount/init/access /dev/hda7 (root partition) I compiled 2.6.14.2 following the instructions in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz, basically cp /boot/config-2.6.8-2-386 linux-2.6.14.2/.config make menuconfig (few

Re: chmod mistake

2005-11-02 Thread Joris Huizer
Masatran (Rajasekaran Deepak) wrote: I accidently executed "chmod -R a+rX ." on my home directory. I want to undo its effect. 1. Is there any way to undo its effect? (I do not have any recent backup, and the administrators do not maintain a backup.) 2. "find" in my home directory gives 1,300 fi

Re: X won't start after kernel compile

2005-09-08 Thread Joris Huizer
Bruno Buys wrote: Hi Jaime and Simo, I happen to be more stupid than I previously thought. My mouse is a serial. I had disabled serial stuff on .config. Now, recompiled and 2.12-5 is working ok with X. That's actually the first time I try to compile kernels. Funny thing to do. Do you

Re: SHould I bother configuring xfree?

2005-08-27 Thread Joris Huizer
Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 02:10:40PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Hendrik Boom wrote: I have a machine with two sarges on it -- one was installed as a sarge system, the other as a woody, and upgraded. But xfree did not survive the upgrade -- and when I boot that one,

Re: APT-GET Returns tar CRC Error

2005-08-03 Thread Joris Huizer
jtmarran wrote: Hello All! Looking for some help with the following problem... On apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade, get the output... Preconfiguring packages ... Setting up tar (1.15.1-2) ... gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error install-info(/usr/share/info/tar.info.gz): rea

Re: should etch be Debian 4.0 ?

2005-07-10 Thread Joris Huizer
Johan Kullstam wrote: Let me see if I understand you correctly. Your reason for having the ambiguity of wether to call it 3.2 or 4.0 is just to keep people from assigning etch a number? I think this is quite logical, as there is some structure in those numbers - 4.0 means a big leap, 3.2 m

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-08 Thread Joris Huizer
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Leonard Chatagnier said: tar: ./lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/modules.symbols: Cannot write: No space left on device tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors I chacked partition space with df and seem to have ample room as shown" ChatagnierL-Home:~# df Filesystem

mozilla profile mail incompatibilities

2005-06-01 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello, I have this question: under sarge I'm currently running this mozilla version: Mozilla 1.6 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040413 Debian/1.6-5 Some time ago, I tried using a mozilla 1.7.x version, and recently I again tried this, this time mozilla 1.7.8 The pr

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-05-26 Thread Joris Huizer
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: On Sunday 22 May 2005 03:33 pm, Bill Mair wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: > Leonard Chatagnier wrote: >>Ok, I get your message, but for my gratification, insight and knowledge >>of Linux how do I get the programs to run without error and not distroy >>my harddisk? debian

Re: Sarge Performance

2005-05-25 Thread Joris Huizer
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Re: [Fwd: Re: aMSN]

2005-05-21 Thread Joris Huizer
Pollywog wrote: On Saturday 21 May 2005 08:14 pm, Joris Huizer wrote: Original Message Subject:Re: aMSN Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 15:44:28 -0400 From: David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Joris Hu

[Fwd: Re: aMSN]

2005-05-21 Thread Joris Huizer
Original Message Subject:Re: aMSN Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 15:44:28 -0400 From: David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: aMSN

2005-05-21 Thread Joris Huizer
David R. Litwin wrote: I have installed the package of aMSN (via downloading the .deb package and the installing via dpkg -i aMSN). Though it is located in both the debian-apps-net aMSN and internet aMSN, the latter did not have an Icon (I set one), they both seem to point to a slightly differe

Re: kernel version

2004-12-31 Thread Joris Huizer
Dani Belz wrote: * YH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-12-30 20:45]: Thanks all for the help. How can I type the "uname -r" and get "2.2.20-idepci"? I really didn't know what that means as I am only aware of most distributions use the kernel 2.4.x or 2.6.x? Any explain please? You need to type "bf24" at

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