Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch problems

Hi, Thanks for all of the suggestions, they were really helpful. I wasn't trying to get the X app to configure the network settings, I just wanted to monitor network traffic (as in "Oh, it's not flashing, the network is probably down" type of way). By the way, eth1 is a firewire port which was no

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch problems

Hello again, I've managed to fix most of the problems, it seems there was some trouble with some packages that were installed (like fglrx-driver and nspluginwrapper) that had some dependency conflicts that prevented gdm and some other programs to work correctly (I was in the middle of the upgrade

Upgrade from Sarge to Etch problems

Hi, Here's the deal: I'm having some serious problems with the upgrade. I've followed the instructions found here http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes and I have a "full desktop system". That means that after doing a minimal install (pointing sources.list to etch and doing #

Problems upgrading libc6

Hi, I think I have a serious problem. I tried to upgrade my packages using apt-get upgrade but instead of being successful the following message appeared: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done T

mysql 4.1

Hi, I need some of the "new" functions of mysql 4.1 (I'm currently on 4.0), and I think that just apt-installing mysql 4.1 won't work in preserving my current databases and tables. I could export everything to text files, unless there is a way to do it from 4.0 to 4.1. Thanks -- Luis "All scien

Not a debian question, I apologize

Any of you has a clickandbuy account, like the one needed to buy a xrost prepaid card to use on allofmp3.com? Anyone who might be interested in helping me out in buying a pin number (as in you buy it and I pay you for it) please contact me by e-mail. I used the list because it is less likely some

Re: Help offered 2 - opinion wanted about debian.org

Hi, I personally dislike the colors of this particular website and I like cooler colors. The problem is that, I think this way and many may think alike (or not) but IMHO a color scheme is just too subjective to  ask a person's opinion.-- Luis"All science is either physics or stamp collecting." - E

Re: Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

(Sorry Michelle) >From Willie Wonka:>I'll wager a guess and say your FONT or LOCALE are messed up -- pertaining to>UTF-8 and default Languages / Keymap codes you have installed...etc>I think those 'numbers' instead of fonts is/are the UTF-8 representation in >code of wghat the font should be (mappe

No menus on some multimedia apps (xmms, audacity)

Hi, I'm running Sarge 3.1 AMD64 port on an acer ferrari 4005, kernel 2.6.14. I'm a bit concerned with the fact that when I open some apps like xmmx or audacity, the menus have all the options and the programs behave the usual way, with a slight inconvenience: The labels of each option from the m