RE: Install a package from testing?

2012-05-01 Thread Nick Meyers
e that out, but in the meantime I'll abstain from posting again, and... Apologies to all! Nick > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: noela...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: Install a package from testing? > Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:20:23 + > > On Sat, 28 Apr 2012

Install a package from testing?

2012-04-28 Thread Nick Meyers
Good evening all, Got a hopefully easy question. I currently have a dual boot system with Debian (Squeeze) and windows. The only reason I've booted into windows for several months now has been to access MySQL Workbench when I'm not at work. I noticed that MySQL Workbench is available as a pac

Re: Just a simple query

2011-10-29 Thread Allen Meyers
I have been both a Debian and Ubuntu user for some time. Recently switched to virtual box and gave up the partitioning and while the process is absolutely astounding the size of the desktop was rather disappointing. Recently installed SUSE on VB and was astounded the desktop covers my entire 17.3 i

Re: Reason to not upgrade to 5.0 - was Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

2009-08-01 Thread Allen Meyers
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-08-01 13:07 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 2009-08-01 05:33, Bret Busby wrote: >> [snip] >>> >>> Actually, in today reconsidering upgrading to Debian 5.0, and, >>> reading the information on the Debian web site, and, in checking >>> u

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-07-28 Thread Allen Meyers
e, considerate and respect have lost their meaning in a segment of our society. When was the last time as an example you heard a response like yes sir or no sir except in the military where they have something called a code of conduct.. Merely the 2 cents of a 77 year old who no longer marvels at th

Re: Goodbye debian

2009-06-25 Thread Allen Meyers
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Daryl Styrk wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 08:26:25AM +0800, 明覺 wrote: >> I do not have time to read your replies about another discussion >> anymore for they are useless, and I do not feel happy with all you >> debian guys, so I leave this mailing list, also debi

Re: Mozilla broken, does not start up

2004-01-18 Thread A . L . Meyers
Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:20:08 +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > >> Unfortunately these do not work. One further information is that not >> only mozilla-bin but another process called "gconfd-2" is left hanging >> and must be killed. > > Then go and do this ! > Per

Re: Gnome-session startup failure

2004-01-18 Thread A . L . Meyers
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A.L.Meyers wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>A.L.Meyers wrote: >>> Hi! When trying to start gnome-session, I get the Debian splash screen but then gnome exits, the console indicating an error in /usr/lib/libXft.so

Re: Gnome-session startup failure

2004-01-17 Thread A . L . Meyers
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A.L.Meyers wrote: >> Hi! When trying to start gnome-session, I get the Debian splash >> screen but then gnome exits, the console indicating an error in >> /usr/lib/libXft.so.2. Ideas welcome on how to get around this. Lux > > /var/log/gdm ? > /var/l

Re: Mozilla broken, does not start up

2004-01-17 Thread A . L . Meyers
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A.L.Meyers wrote: > >>Hi! Trying to start Mozilla recently does nothing. ps -A tells me that >>a task called mozilla-bin is running but the browser does not come up. >>Same systems runs konqueror and netscape perfectly. Galeon, however, >>will not start u

Gnome-session startup failure

2004-01-17 Thread A . L . Meyers
Hi! When trying to start gnome-session, I get the Debian splash screen but then gnome exits, the console indicating an error in /usr/lib/libXft.so.2. Ideas welcome on how to get around this. Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD

Mozilla broken, does not start up

2004-01-17 Thread A . L . Meyers
Hi! Trying to start Mozilla recently does nothing. ps -A tells me that a task called mozilla-bin is running but the browser does not come up. Same systems runs konqueror and netscape perfectly. Galeon, however, will not start up either. Advice appreciated. Lux -- If you receive this by error,

OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread A . L . Meyers
Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 20:49:17 +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > >> Bingo, Monique. And precisely that directory entry apparently was on >> one of the bad blocks on that partition (IDE drive about 4 years old >> - now I know why the old wizzards always prefer SCSI

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-28 Thread A . L . Meyers
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 at 14:47 GMT, A.L.Meyers penned: > [large snip] > > > > Thanks, Jerome, that did help. apt-get goes a great step further but, > > alas, then complains about missing file lists for each of the > > installed packages. Probably

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-25 Thread A . L . Meyers
"Jerome R. Acks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:43:48PM +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > > Hi! Due to physical disk read errors had to copy /var/spool/apt and > > /var/lib/apt files to another disk and, after bad block checking, back. > > Apparently something went wrong in the

apt-get files problems

2003-12-24 Thread A . L . Meyers
Hi! Due to physical disk read errors had to copy /var/spool/apt and /var/lib/apt files to another disk and, after bad block checking, back. Apparently something went wrong in the process, perhaps due to file corruption. Anyway, now consistently getting the following error messages when doing apt

Re: OT How to get debmenus with fvwm - solved

2003-12-19 Thread A . L . Meyers
Thanks, Micha! Simple and effective solution. Being chonically lazy, my next question (OT) is if you can recommend a good menu-driven configuration tool for fvwm. Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC EFC

How to get debmenus with fvwm ?

2003-12-19 Thread A . L . Meyers
Hi! fvwm seems to have improved a lot recently and is at least colourfull and fast. But in the default debian package install (at least on my system) I don't see any debmenus. Advise and / or pointers to specific parts of docs welcome. Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and

Re: loopback interface down - solved

2003-12-17 Thread A . L . Meyers
Yes. But we can help development by making packagers aware of such an item. Lou, as you are more competent that yours truly, you will probably be able to post a better report. However, please let me know if you would prefer me to do it. Regards, Lux -- If you receive this by error, please del

Re: loopback interface down - solved

2003-12-16 Thread A . L . Meyers
Thanks a million, Lou! You're a genius. Small cause, big effect. Whew! Did you post a bug report to the inetutils-tools packagers? Greetings, Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC EFC4 4D36 580D To Big

Re: loopback interface down, sob ;-(

2003-12-16 Thread A . L . Meyers
Thanks, Andreas. Alas the problem is still alive but here are some details from doing networking restart in /etc/init.d/ : wassern:/etc/init.d# ./networking restart Reconfiguring network interfaces...ifconfig: can not resolve `down': Host name lookup failure cat: /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid: No

loopback interface down, sob ;-(

2003-12-14 Thread A. L. Meyers
Hi! After all the publicity about the breakins to the Debian servers, I decided to try to secure my systems better and, alas, not only failed in the process but trashed my network as well. The loopback interface lo is down, unreachable (even as root) and ping fails. Occasionally I get message

Unsubscribe DOES NOT work!

2002-10-10 Thread Kurt Meyers
Why is it impossible to unsubscribe to this list? I know this is not the correct way, but I have tried the correct way many times and it DOES NOT work! Kurt Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

wrong libc6 - ouch! (fwd)

2001-03-31 Thread A. L. Meyers
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:28:30 +0200 (CEST) From: A. L. Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: wrong libc6 - ouch! Dear fellow Debianites, Tried to install a new (in "testing") version of flwm. It required a newer vers

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