firefox segmentation-fault

Dear all, I have just started recently having problems with Firefox (and Mozilla) in Sarge. I suspect that it started to happen after a recent update, since a week ago (or so) I did not have any problems. If I go to maps.google.com, for instance, either browser crashes with a "Segmentation

Re: Debian, X and ATI Radeon X1300

Vitaliy Ischenko wrote: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=414 *ATI v8.23.7 Display Drivers* Yet again ATI continues in their monthly ritual of releasing new Linux display drivers that are accompanied by the relea

Re: umount partition is busy

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I do: umount /hda14 and get: umount: /hda14: device is busy umount: /hda14: device is busy Is there a way of finding out *why* it is busy? Obviously it is linked to someplace, but where? Thanks! H You can try "lsof" to find what is keeping the device busy:

Re: kudos to authors of kompose

kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Luis Finotti wrote: Thanks for the info. It seems nice and it's a good idea, but it made the desktop switching a bit too slow... (...) Only when kompose is launched for the first time, it takes some time create the screenshots. The second time onwards it is very

Re: Debian Sarge on SATA

Simon Meelich wrote: Hello, I'm new to the list and fairly new to Debian. I recently bought myself a new PC (HP Pavilion a1320n) with a SATA drive. I know, that there is an issue with the 2.4 kernel and I know that it is supposed to work with the 2.6 kernel. For some reason I can't get it to

Re: iptables at boot

BTP wrote: Hi, I was wondering if someone would be able to give me the correct way of disabling all network activity (iptables commands/script) during the boot process so that my network is inoperable during bootup until I activate it manually. I'm unsure in which startup script I would place t

Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Hi, On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Niels Larsen wrote: I am using debian sarge. When I try to run: "sudo synaptic" I get the below warning. (synaptic:4338): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: I have to my ~/.bash_profile file added following, according to advice from some mailing list, but it does n

Re: Why does dpkg think my pentium computer is an AMD?

Hi, Peter Stoddard wrote: Hi folks I am running sarge and kernel 2.6.14.3-smp on a box with a pentium 4 dual core processor. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/$ uname -a Linux paris 2.6.14.3-smp #1 SMP Fri Dec 9 13:21:36 CST 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: How do I make my NIC pick the same ETH port every time?

Tyson Varosyan wrote: Using Debian command mode 2.6 kernel. My NIC keeps jumping around between eth0 and eth1 every so often when I reboot. It is real annoying! How do I get it to stick to be the same all the time? It is conflicting with a firewire controller... Try ifrename: debian[~]% waj

Re: 2.6.15 with Sarge [Solved]

Dave Ewart wrote: On Wednesday, 22.03.2006 at 11:54 -0500, Luis Finotti wrote: I recently tried to install the linux image 2.6.15 from backports.org. I noticed that it would bring other files with it and remove some. My question is: will this make the stock 2.6.8 kernel not work? Since it ac

Re: Shell script question

Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: Andras Lorincz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ENTRY=3D$(cat input_file) for I in $ENTRY while read i; do echo "$i" done < input_file regards Mario And if the spaces give you trouble, add - IFS=' ' - That's just a "newline" between t

Re: System hangs at boot

Leo Britto wrote: Unfortunately nothing of these worked. I will try to reinstall the system from scratch and see if I will have the same problem. I hope I wont :) Thanks for your help, That's what they call the "windows way"... :-) You should not have to do that, but it might work... (If so

Re: System hangs at boot

> --- Luis R Finotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Hi, >> >>Leo Britto wrote: >> >>>Hi everyone, >>> >>>I have a Debian Sarge 2.6.8 running on my laptop >> >>and I >> >>>finally got my wireless adapter to work. But

Re: System hangs at boot

Hi, Leo Britto wrote: Hi everyone, I have a Debian Sarge 2.6.8 running on my laptop and I finally got my wireless adapter to work. But when I reboot it I just cant go pass the jabberd startup. Earlier it was "hanging" on the MTA startup so I apt-get remove exim4-base and got rid of it just to f

Re: Which kernel for highmem support?

Hi, Andy wrote: Hello List, Today I have built a new box running Debian testing with 2GB of RAM. I used Debian testing because the Sarge installer didn't support my hardware. The problem is that while my BIOS reports the full 2GB of RAM, top only reports 960MB. I have learnt from Google t

Re: trying to use Knoppis to recover unbootable debian linux drive

Hi, kenn wrote: Greetings. I'm still trying to recover data from a drive that won't mount, and in spite of lots of help from this list, I haven't accomplished it yet. My current plan of attack is to try to boot on Knoppix and copy to a USB thumb drive. I've learned the obvious stuff ... I've

Re: c-cedilla problem

Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi, many thanks to all the answers! However, Luis tip almost work for me, see below (...) yes, if I call now the applications from the command line, I can write the c-cedilla. But if I call the application from a button in the panel, I get the problem again. Do you

Re: Fwd: Reposting-2.6.15-1-686 Kernel Wont Upgrade

Hi, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Reposting since I got no reply as seems to be the case for me lately. I has happened to me before. In a list with 100's of messages a day and lots of useful comments and help, sometimes a few (usually mine) :-) go answered. This is a problem I can't resolve

Re: 2.6.11 kernel in sarge?

Dear all, Greg Madden wrote: On Friday 08 July 2005 02:06 pm, Bill Thompson wrote: On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 23:12:24 +0200 Matthijs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the APT-HowTo, I found a section on 'keeping a mixed system': http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-de faul

Re: Cannot burn audio tracks with cdrecord

Dear Chris (and all), Chris Lale wrote: Chris Lale wrote: I have this problem in both Stable (Sarge) and Unstable with kernel 2.6.8-2-386. I have two .wav files (recorded with sound-recorder). I can burn a CD with cdrecord using either one of the files, and the result is a playable audio CD.

Re: acrobat shortcuts

Dear Roberto (and all), roberto wrote: --- Luis Finotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: This is likely not the case, but... Some older versions of acroread did not respond to shortcuts if you had "Num Lock" on. But since you are using on a laptop, I doubt it is the case. Just in case...

Re: very slow boot (kernel issue) [partly solved]

Luis R Finotti wrote: Dear all, I just tried to install Sarge in my laptop: Pentium M (Centrino) 1.6GHz, 1Gb of RAM. (For more info: http://www.uniwill.com/products/other/244ii0/244ii0_print.php) The installation went OK, but the 1st boot took over 1 hour. (The rest of the installation

very slow boot (kernel issue)

Dear all, I just tried to install Sarge in my laptop: Pentium M (Centrino) 1.6GHz, 1Gb of RAM. (For more info: http://www.uniwill.com/products/other/244ii0/244ii0_print.php) The installation went OK, but the 1st boot took over 1 hour. (The rest of the installation took several hours.) I h

Re: iptables problem

Luis R Finotti wrote: Dear Rogério and all, Rogério Brito wrote: On Jun 04 2005, Luis R Finotti wrote: After that iptables is not working anymore. Here is a the errors that I get: (...) Before you try more drastic changes (like installing a new kernel -- see below), can you try running

Re: iptables problem

Dear Rogério and all, Rogério Brito wrote: On Jun 04 2005, Luis R Finotti wrote: After that iptables is not working anymore. Here is a the errors that I get: (...) Before you try more drastic changes (like installing a new kernel -- see below), can you try running "depmod" as

Re: iptables problem

Dear all (again), Luis R Finotti wrote: Dear all, I am running Sarge and recently the kernel was updated by "apt-get update/upgrade". (Although it still shows the same version: debian[~]% uname -a Linux debian 2.6.8-2-k7 #1 Mon Jan 24 03:29:52 EST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux And that&#x

iptables problem

Dear all, I am running Sarge and recently the kernel was updated by "apt-get update/upgrade". (Although it still shows the same version: debian[~]% uname -a Linux debian 2.6.8-2-k7 #1 Mon Jan 24 03:29:52 EST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux And that's what I had before. It's always been a stock debian k

Re: .bash_profile not sourced on login

Dear Alphan and all, Alphan Bayazit wrote: For some reason, my .bash_profile is not sourced on login. I tried different users, and all have the same problem. I'm running a very recent installation of Sarge (updated). which login? for ssh and virtual terminals, it is strange. (...) > If you are

.bash_profile not sourced on login

Dear all, For some reason, my .bash_profile is not sourced on login. I tried different users, and all have the same problem. I'm running a very recent installation of Sarge (updated). -- debian[~]% cat .bash_profile # ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash(1) for login shells. # see /us

Re: can't mount DVD-ROM

> It would appear your dvd is being treated as a SCSI device. Check your scsi > device nodes, and change your fstab as appropriate. That was it. Thank you so much Justin! I don't how that happened? But is there any problem in having the DVD drive as a SCSI device when it actually isn't? Tha

Re: Re: can't mount DVD-ROM

>Incoming from Luis R Finotti: >> Dear all, >> >> For some reason I can't mount my DVD-ROM anymore. I put a data CD in it >> and I get the following message when I try to mount it: >> >> debian[~]% mount /dvd/ >...^ > >W

can't mount DVD-ROM

Dear all, For some reason I can't mount my DVD-ROM anymore. I put a data CD in it and I get the following message when I try to mount it: debian[~]% mount /dvd/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted file systems (could this be the IDE dev

Re: apt-get: mixed system

Thanks, Joris and Paul. I will try to stick to backport. (Thanks for the warning, Paul.) All I want is to add a newer version of gphoto2/gtkam, since the older version does not support my camera. I tried adding the line deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable gphoto2 gtkam to my source li

apt-get: mixed system

Dear all, I am trying to install a program (gphoto2) from the testing distribution in my stable system. I tried to follow the instructions on http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get#s-default-version First I noticed that I did not have a "/etc/apt/apt.conf" file. So I created o

Re: Gnome's gmc

0:38:49 -0700, Luis R Finotti wrote: > > gmc: error while loading shared > > libraries: /usr/lib/libgnome.so.32: undefined symbol: __db185_open > > On an up to date "unstable" system, > find /lib /usr/lib -type f -name '*.so*' -exec \ >

Gnome's gmc

Hi, I am having some problems starting gnome after an upgrade I just done. The panel starts fine, but the file manager and the icons for CD, floppy etc., wont. If I try to start it with "gmc", I get the following error messages: audio_alsa: no cards found!Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo,

ppp problem

Hello, I am having some problems to connect to my ISP (verizon.net) and was hoping that someone could help me... I just did a BIG "apt-get upgrade" (apparently even the Linux version was upgraded to a testing one), and I was prompted many times about configuration files, and instead of keeping mi