Re: [CVS] Merging external snapshot to local repository

2004-12-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 04:30:53PM +1100, Sam Watkins said > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 04:47:53AM +0100, Mateusz ?oskot wrote: > > I'm running Debian and looking for some tools and solutions > > which could help me with merging external snapshot of some project > > into my own local version of it in

Re: which version of the ssh daemon is more secure?

2004-10-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 02:00:17PM +0200, Anonymous said > I'm running an "unstable" system and I need remote access by > ssh. "Stable" is considered better for servers (but I need > unstable for newer versions of a lot of packages on my > workstation), "testing" gets security updates last, but > "

Re: Is there a stable mail client for linux?

2004-10-02 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:30:46AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre said > is still annoying. I don't have this problem with the mbox format. Mail won't be delivered to a mbox while you're reading it. -rob -- Words of the day:Rand Corporation propaganda Pine Gap enigma Panama CIA signature.asc

Re: question

2004-09-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:35:37AM -0400, Michael Marsh said > On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:24:19 +1000, Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm pretty sure you need the headers to build against the library. > > If you mean "link" as in "link up at runti

Re: question

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:05:33AM -0400, Michael Marsh said > On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:43:15 +1000, Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:52:26AM -0400, Michael Marsh said > > > >/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lvte > > > >collect2:

Re: Cannot get this virtual package right!

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:15:02PM -0400, David A. Cobb said > REPLIES INLINE > > Travis Crump wrote: > > >David A. Cobb wrote: > > > >>I currently am running kernel-2.6.7-1 and I've slowly brought many > >>key components up to the bleeding edge. > >>I have apt at 0.6.25 > >> > >>I keep getting

Re: Gdk-ERROR **: BadValue

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 12:11:50AM +0800, Cathayan said > Hi, friends, > > I am using Debian Unstable, and try to switch from xtt font engine to > freetype. But when I change this in XF86Config-4, xmms, rxvt can not > run. The error is: > > Gdk-ERROR **: BadValue (integer parameter out of range

Re: [Linux newbie asks:] Why "dhelp_parse: no title found for directory "

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:44:59PM -0400, David A. Cobb said > On several of my recent installs, (I'm using dpkg --install -R You could just chroot into it from a working linux system... > because I still haven't got my Linux talking to my > network controller ) I get a boatload of > "Unpackin

Re: Can't get a gnome gui

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:10:19AM -0300, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra said > Em Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:40:19 +0200, Paul Akkermans escreveu: > > > I was hoping to get a Gnome environment > > dpkg -l gnome* > > aptitude gnome-desktop-environment You need an "install" in betw

Re: How to Get Latest Thunderbird, KDE?

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 11:02:40PM +0300, Ivan Adams said > I think that the right server was: > ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main > > this have to be in first place in /etc/apt/sources.list apt (unless you're pinning) will use the most recent version of each package, regardless of th

Re: Printing From Browser Uses Ugly Font

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:13:35PM -0500, Jacob S. said > I'm not exactly sure when this started, as I've done a couple of > updates recently. This is on a box running all of the latest updates to > Sarge. > > Whenever I print from Mozilla, Firefox or Galeon, all using the > 'Postscript/default' p

Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 10:37:11PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman said > (I'm bottom-posting only because this list - uniquely, in my > experience - insists on it. You really should try reading your email > in reverse chronological order. It works.) Every single technical list (far too many) I'm on is *

Re: blackbox broke

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:13:59PM -0600, statik tzu said > i recently did an `apt-get update; apt-get dist-ugprade` and one of the packages > it touched was blackbox. since then, i haven't been able to get blackbox to just > start, it says something about not being able to connect to the screen. i

Re: NOT ALL of the packages are in CD

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:30:23PM -0700, belahcene abdelkader said > Hi, > I checked all the 13 CD of the sarge version, I didn't > find the lyx package, but I lyx exists in the sarge > (testing) in editor section. does that mean that NOT > ALL of the packages of the sarge, are in the 13 CD's. Ly

Re: overriding files in nfs mount

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:52:53PM +0300, Micha Feigin said > Bottom line, is it possible to mount /etc through nfs and the override > some of the files with local ones without resorting to playing around > with links? Yes, use bind mounts to mount dirs and files from the local disk into /etc/. e

Re: question

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:52:26AM -0400, Michael Marsh said > >I am trying to compile a structure editor which I found on the > internet. But I get the following >message: > >---

Re: How to Get Latest Thunderbird, KDE?

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 01:50:37PM -0400, Ed Sutherland said > What do I add to my sources.list to apt-get install the latest > mozilla-thunderbird and kde 3.3? Software doesn't magically get packages, someone has to do them. KDE 3.3 is partially in unstable, but I'm not sure if it's usable or n

Re: bind in jail?

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 01:03:51PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone said > Now should bind run in a chroot'd environment, an entry using a remote > exploit in bind would be contained inside the confines of the chroot > jail. In theory damage can be compartmentalized to the directory > hosting the jail.

Re: Command line arguments in applications and X

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 07:58:31PM +0200, Inge Thorin Eidsaether said > > Hi all! > > Does anyone have an idea what command line arguments or switches to > pass to an MDI application, so that, when a running instance of the > application exists in system memory, a new one isn't spawned? > > I be

Re: testing SILENTLY removed mozilla-firefox

2004-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:29:25PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman said > How annoying! The current versions of mozilla-diggler and > -tabextensions are apparently incompatible with the current version > (in testing, that is) of mozilla-firefox, so an aptitude update > removed firefox. I know it's 'testin

Re: Perl Apache::Session

2004-07-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 06:36:40AM -0400, Tom Allison said > I was looking but not finding the following: > > Apache::Session::CacheAny > > in the deb's. Just to be certain, does anyone know if this is available > as a deb (and I'm using bad search terms) You can search for individual files i

Re: ldd output

2004-07-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 02:47:37AM -0400, Arthur E. Conrad said > in the following case is > does [libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x40034000)] == [libcrypt.so.1 => > /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x40154000)] I'm no elf expert, but I'm pretty sure that they're refering to the same library loaded at a

Re: Copyright/License of Debian Constitution

2004-07-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 04:32:19PM -0400, Carl Fink said > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 02:55:28PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > > > a) Go try and 'reword' a book and try to pass it off as your own. > > Perfectly legal. Note that WEST SIDE STORY is not ROMEO AND JULIET > for copyright purposes. Yes,

Re: EnableHiMem for Memory == exactly 1GB?

2004-07-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 12:26:55AM -0700, William Ballard said > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 05:31:11PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > For 1-2 GB machines there is also a patch that gives you a 2GB-2GB > > memory split which allows you to use up to two GB without highmem (not > > sure where the exact l

Re: Debian + The New PowerBook G4s

2004-06-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 06:12:30PM +0200, Bob Hentges said > Rob Weir wrote: > > >On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:37:54PM +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson said > > > >> > > > > > >I've just bought an ibook g4 and a netgear ma111 usb wireless thingy, &

Re: Changing from testing to unstable.

2004-06-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:45:56PM +, Adam Funk said > To change from testing to unstable, is is as simple as > s/testing/unstable in /etc/apt/sources.list, `apt-get update` and > `apt-get upgrade` (or do I need to use dist-upgrade for this)? Yes, use dist-upgrade. > If I have problems with a

Re: No mysql lookup table types in postfix

2004-06-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 03:32:24PM +0200, Joost De Cock said > Hi list, > > I want to use a mysql table for check_recipient_access lookups in postfix. > I installed postfix-mysql, and that should do the trick. However, postconf -m > gives me this: > > static > nis > dbm > regexp > environ > btre

Re: Frontpage-extensions and php in apache

2004-06-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 08:47:46PM +0200, Colemont Bert said > ok, I cannot find what is wrong,... any help? Read /usr/share/doc/php4/README.Debian.gz -- Words of the day: STARLAN Freeh TELINT BLU-114/B White House CIDA 2600 Magazine signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Unknown root partition type?

2004-06-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 04:06:00PM -0400, Norman Walsh said > There was a short thread about this a couple of weeks ago, but I don't > recall seeing any resolution. I do remember that I wasn't the only > one experiencing the problem. > > Did I miss something, or is it still unresolved? I missed t

Re: Problems with apt

2004-06-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:05:30AM -0700, Jonas Jasas said > Hello > > I have problems with apt, tell me the way in this situation how to make apt work? > > After I added to my source.list > deb http://mars.iti.pk.edu.pl/~jakub/dist/sarge ./ and tryed to install gimp 2.0 I > am getting: Are you

Re: EnableHiMem for Memory == exactly 1GB?

2004-06-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 11:25:03PM -0700, William Ballard said > Greg Madden in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, suggested > enabling CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y for machines with > 960MB memory; however > the help for this option in 2.6.7 says "if you will never run a machine > with more than 1 Gigabyte of memory."

Re: Memory limit testing: whether user really can use 2100MB memory

2004-06-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 11:56:46AM -0400, Jameson C. Burt said > > As a user, without administrative privileges, I want to determine if I > really can consume a certain amount of memory. Try to consume it, and see if malloc() fails or your kernel locks up. There are a huge number of factors: *

Re: weird pb

2004-06-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 02:18:29PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said > > > Hi, > > I have a really weird problem on one of my box (woody): > > [(14:15:00) Linux Wifix ~]$ ls > Segmentation fault > [(14:15:02) Linux Wifix ~]$ > > any idea? Does "dmesg" print a kernel oops after running this comman

Re: Debian + The New PowerBook G4s

2004-06-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:37:54PM +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson said > 'ello, > > Thanks very much for the info (especially on wireless and the good news > about production issues). I'd totally forgotten that Debian had a > PowerPC users list; I'll post on that very soon. > > Not having wireless w

Re: Visual C++?????

2004-06-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 08:11:41PM -0400, Paul Tsai said > Joris Huizer wrote: > > > > >The worst thing I know of Visual C++ is, > > > >for (int i = 0; ) > > ... > >... > >... > >for (int i = 0; ) > > > is the bad thing the declaration of int in the for loop? According to > scoping ru

Re: mysql and libgcc_s.so.1

2004-06-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:50:33AM -0400, Philip C. said > >>I was using mysql-4.0.14 compiled under stable so I decided to move to > >>mysql-4.0.20 compiled under unstable to no avail. Every time the > >>thread > > > >You're built it from source on unstable, on the exact machine you're > >trying

Re: can not compile kde, some xmkmf problem

2004-06-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 09:54:21AM +0200, LeVA said > That *is* the default install > path, and I think installing to anywhere else is a *really* bad idea... No, it's a good idea, since it won't confuse dpkg. You can just point configure scripts at whatever dir you put them in. -- Words of the

Re: can not compile kde, some xmkmf problem

2004-06-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:51:56AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez said > If nothing gets resolved about that 4.4 release in the future, The XFree86 group seems to be refusing to back down. > I am > considering installing 4.4 in my system too, so, I would like to hear > recommendations about making it

Re: can not compile kde, some xmkmf problem

2004-06-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 03:28:14PM +0200, LeVA said > > [...] > > checking for xmkmf... /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf > > checking various X settings... failed > > configure: error: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf (imake) failed. > > Make sure you have all necessary X development packages installed. > > On some system

Re: can not compile kde, some xmkmf problem

2004-06-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:13:23PM +0200, LeVA said > 2004. jĂșnius 24. 04:31, > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -> Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:54:05AM +0200, LeVA said > > > > Since XFree86 4.4.0 isn't in Debian, y

Re: can not compile kde, some xmkmf problem

2004-06-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:54:05AM +0200, LeVA said > Hi! > > After reading the #76360 bug at kde.org, I decided to compile a kdebase > snapshot, but during the configure, I get this error: > > [...] > checking for xmkmf... /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf > checking various X settings... failed > configure

Re: MAC address not shown?

2004-06-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 02:27:40PM -0400, David Piniella said > My sarge machine has a weird problem: it's set to DHCP and the DHCP > server has the machine's MAC address bound to a particular 10.x.x.x IP; > lately another computer has been getting IP conflicts with the same IP, > even though it

Re: Missing packages or modules for Sid 2.6.X kernels?

2004-06-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 01:31:06PM -0700, Charlie Zender said > Hi, > > I use Debian Sid pre-packaged kernels on my Dell laptop. > When a new binary kernel package comes out I do a > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686 kernel-headers-2.4.26-1-686 \ > kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.26-1-686 l

Re: Cancel Apt-Get

2004-06-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:49:33AM -0700, Michael Montagne said > So I've got myself into a bit of a dependency problem by jumping the > gun. kdelibs-data needs a later version of openoffice.org than will > be installed. I think if I just let libranet handle this it would be > ok but I need to ge

Re: mysql and libgcc_s.so.1

2004-06-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 07:40:38PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said > I'm experiencing something very strange since I moved to woody unstable. "woody" and "unstable" are different versions of Debian. *very* different versions. From the versions you give below, though, it seems you are indeed runnin

Re: no deliver from Subsystem

2004-06-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 05:33:50PM +0200, Frank Kaldewey said > Hallo, > > I install postfix on linux-debian. > I receive and send mails from everyuser on system > without error. > > Now I have to deliver mails via webserver(apache) in php > > On other system with sendmail it is no problem > to

Re: software suspend on 2.6.5-1-686-smp

2004-06-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:04:13PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi said > Can someone help me how to get software suspend working on debian > unstable machine? In particular I would like to try the hibernating > feature. I am using default kernel-image and the > /boot/config-2.6.5-1-686-smp has the f

Re: Something odd in XFree86 (unstable)

2004-06-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:08:51PM +0100, David Goodenough said > Just recently the Alt+ shortcut to get to KDE menu entries > stopped working. I commented on this on the debian-kde list and got the > reply that someone had cured it by backout from 4.3.0dfsg.1-5_all to > 4.3.0-7_all. I am unsure

Re: UnixODBC/MDBTools on Debian Testing

2004-05-11 Thread Rob Weir
ux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x8000) Are you sure you don't have any unofficial packages from outside debian, or old libs in /usr/local/lib? If so, file a bug on the mdbtools (I guess) package. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I w

Re: My System Down-Pls Reply to dryden@verizon.net

2004-05-11 Thread Rob Weir
#x27;t be affected by that. Does "links" or "lynx" work? The "connection refused" message means that the host you were connecting to told you to buzz off. Is it possibel that it is restricting access to only certain IPs? -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAI

Re: install path for a deb package

2004-05-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 10:09:55PM +0100, Lars E. D. Jensen said > Hi list > > I'm trying to make a deb package for the first time. You can try asking on the debian-mentors list, it's specifically for package questions like this... -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [

Re: Problems finding CD-rom

2004-05-11 Thread Rob Weir
ould say which the kernel thinks is a cd rom device. If you're using ide-scsi, you'll need to look through the output of dmesg and see where it was remapped to, too. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:

Re: ITP Ximian Connector?

2004-05-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 12:06:57PM -0400, Paul Smith said > So, who's going to ITP Connector for Debian? :-) > > http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2004/05/pr04034.html #248555. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a

Re: Logcheck unstable broken?

2004-05-11 Thread Rob Weir
s.debian.org/logcheck), go ahead and file one yourself (reportbug is useful for this). -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: underground cybercash Uzi bullion supercomputer Manfurov signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [SLUG] After kernel 2.6.5-1 install, cursor&printing lost, reboot hangs after upgrade...

2004-05-11 Thread Rob Weir
it go blank or does it just not change from that point? Does the disk audibly churn? > I can access the system on a 2.25 kernel rescue disk, but which does not > have net access. Can you purge (dpkg -P) and reinstall the kernel-image-2.6.5-1-686 package from this kernel? -- Rob Weir

Re: nfslock

2004-05-11 Thread Rob Weir
upports it, however (none of the install ones do, I suspect, but the kernel-image-foo packages should). -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: investigation sniper Juiliett Class Submarine Subversion signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Problem with newly installed kernel-2.6.3

2004-05-11 Thread Rob Weir
y I am not getting syslog and the gui. I can't figure out what's > wrong. Any suggestions? Did you build your kernel yourself? Did you include support for Unix domain sockets? I suspect yes and no, respectively ;-) -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do

Re: Scheduling problems

2004-05-11 Thread Rob Weir
bootc]$ pa | grep notty > bootc24408 99.9 0.4 10688 3928 ?R14:15 0:38 sshd: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > bootc24448 0.0 0.0 1576 496 pts/7S+ 14:16 0:00 grep > notty No idea about this, I can't imagine why SSH would suddenly take so much CPU tim

Re: How much disk space do I allot for different distros ?

2004-05-11 Thread Rob Weir
NE I imagine this would be plenty of space, but asking a RH person would be a good idea. > h) LFS ( Linux from Scratch) - 4 GB The same deal with gentoo here, you need extra space to build things. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of

Re: phpnuke

2004-05-11 Thread Rob Weir
license other contributors used). See the archives of the debian-legal list for the gory details. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: armed overthrow Pakistan Ft. Meade FBI M-14 enigma radar signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

2004-04-20 Thread Rob Weir
2.6.5 but in the > boot process i get this: > > Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Did you include support for your ide/scsi controller IN the kernel, too? -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of th

Re: libxft-dev install issue.

2004-04-20 Thread Rob Weir
not seem to know about it. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=237511 -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Panama chameleon man AVN ANC Nazi CDC gamma Nazi signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: MailScanner 4.29.7-1 and MCP

2004-04-12 Thread Rob Weir
d. /var/log/mail.log says it calls MCP, but never finds any of the > banned text in /etc/MailScanner/mcp/mcp.cf. Anyone else had issues with > the new unstable MailScanner and MCP checking? Thanks. Does downgrading it fix it? -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do

Re: Warning: Do not use gcc-3.3.3-5 in testing

2004-04-11 Thread Rob Weir
rom ugly broken systems! > > > >Grtz. Martin > > > > > > Well, since switching back to gcc/g++ 3.2.3 from 3.3.3-1 on Sarge all my > weird problems have disappeared: > - valgrind runs normally > - no more segfaults in the QString destructor > - segfaults

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-04-11 Thread Rob Weir
past the "release notes" screen. Is there > a patch or something I should download that will allow it to see these? > Both of them are USB devices. You might get better reponses on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. Also, don't forget a subject next time. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PRO

Re: ayttm blocks /dev/dsp

2004-04-11 Thread Rob Weir
, If I use gaim or ymessenger, there is no prblem with sounds > and I can even play mplayer along with ymessenger and still get the > audio from mplayer. Tell ayttm to use esd. If you can't, try using "esddsp" to force it. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: libstdc++.so.5 for woody?

2004-04-11 Thread Rob Weir
e libstdc++ in woody? If that's not an option, maybe make a sarge chroot and run it in there. http://people.debian.org/~walters/chroot.html explains how. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: MP5K-SD Semtex TWA AMW assa

Re: who's killing xinetd?

2004-04-11 Thread Rob Weir
als. Exiting... Have you run memtes86 lately? Bad ram could make it segfault. But since it's a network service, so could (potentially) a remote attack. I don't know anything about xinetd, but can you see if it was receiving connections just before each segfault, and from who? -- Ro

Re: Kernel paging errors

2004-04-11 Thread Rob Weir
Code: 89 02 c7 41 04 00 00 00 00 c7 43 08 00 00 00 00 8b 7e 08 85 > - end error - > > I'm at a loss as to the source of these errors. I've dug around with > Google, without luck. The memory and hard drive are both fully tested, > and work fine. Have you tried chkroot

Re: (pam_securetty) access denied

2004-04-11 Thread Rob Weir
n and the su do work, > though. > > I don't see any such message when I log in or su in a normal console. I'm pretty sure this is because :0 isn't in /etc/securetty. Why not just use sudo? -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like

Re: Help needed

2004-04-05 Thread Rob Weir
which fails when it tries to install > certain packages. Check the md5 sum of the CD with the image you downloaded and the oen listed on the Debian website, it might be corrupted. > Could someone please point me to an ISO that supports 48bit LBA. Sarge beta3 has kernel 2.4.25, which should

Re: Some sox questions.

2004-03-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 01:28:57PM +, Adam Funk said > On Wednesday 24 March 2004 07:40, Rob Weir wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:23:03AM +, Adam Funk said > >> (I'm running sox 12.17.4 on Debian testing.) > >> > >> sox

Re: Some sox questions.

2004-03-23 Thread Rob Weir
e of a type that XMMS cannot play and cdrecord cannot > use (although the WAV file can be converted by sox into valid files in > other formats such as ogg). Why is this? What does "file" say the weird .wav is? -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look l

Re: (maybe solved -- well, not) Re: apt-get reports conflicts while installing j2sdk

2004-03-23 Thread Rob Weir
ugin_oji.so You need a JRE built with gcc 3.2 for it work with sarge/sid's mozilla. AFAIK the blackdown debs are built with gcc 2.95 and will NOT work. Try getting the j2re1.4-gcc3.2 tarball and put it in /usr/local. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: NORAD NATO UOP BLU-97 A/B Clinton Panama Peking Rumsfield signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: magnifier

2004-03-23 Thread Rob Weir
g for data on port UDP 7000. Do you have gnome-mag installed? -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Becker assassination Pakistan Pope Honduras Adriatic Baranyi signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Re: Message

2004-03-23 Thread Rob Weir
NG TIME AGO! > PLEASE REMOVE MY EMAIL ADDRESS FROM YOUR LISTS!! Try reading the headers, it was probably using a spoofed From: address. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:number key bank smuggle Exon Shell airframe

Re: memory of video card

2004-03-23 Thread Rob Weir
blem is, I can't remember how much RAM in on the video card. > Checked 'lspci -vv' and it doesn't come back with anything decipherable What happens if you just hit enter and leave it blank? I'm pretty sure X can figure it out for itself most of the time. -- Rob Weir &

Re: xmms show some errors

2004-03-22 Thread Rob Weir
or directory ignore it; you can install libmikmod2 if you really want to listen to MOD files. > Inconsistency detected by ld.so: ../sysdeps/generic/dl-tls.c: 72: > _dl_next_tls_modid: Assertion `result <= _rtld_local._dl_tls_max_dtv_idx' > failed! That's bad, and there was a

Re: Where is XFree86?

2004-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
# apt-get install xserver-xfree86 xfree86-common And it will try to auto-detect whatever it can. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: BATF NATO military infowar bce Rand Corporation ISEC brigand signature.asc Descript

Re: Can't login to RXVT in X

2004-03-01 Thread Rob Weir
,mode=620) or something about devfs if you're using devfs with 2.4. If it's not mounted, mount it. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: VX nerve gas high security JFK condor bomb CESID Perl-RSA signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: GNOME font problem.

2004-02-28 Thread Rob Weir
" > EndSection > > I've restarted the X-server. The GTK applications font has changed to > something slightly less offensive but still too big. How can I fix > this -- can I just manually set the GTK app font somehow? Sure, with "switch" (for GTK1.2) and "switch2" (for GTK2) from the gtk-theme-switch package. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:Watergate basement condor IRA industrial espionage hackers signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: OT: google or debian-user?

2004-02-27 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 12:50:17AM -0800, Paul Johnson said > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:37:19PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > Of course, just saying "RTFM" and "SFTW" when there's no FM or W hits to > > read is not OK, either. > > At least not without q

Re: chgrp not permitted

2004-02-25 Thread Rob Weir
096 Feb 24 12:13 ./ > > I'm the owner of the directory. I belong to the new group. I don't > understand what's stopping me doing the chgrp? Is it on a DOS (vfat/ntfs) filesystem? Can root chgrp it? -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look lik

Re: apt-get rollback !?!

2004-02-25 Thread Rob Weir
o > > implement than it might seem. > > Awesome and or difficult, we see now it has become necessary. Um, it's not generally possible to downgrade packages at all, much less automagically. If something breaks, file a bug, then install the previous version from /var/cache/apt/ar

Re: OT: google or debian-user?

2004-02-25 Thread Rob Weir
Debian-specific solution to a Debian-specific problem with google, you can often find background info about the system you're having trouble with that helps you figure things out yourself. If nothing else, you can slap anyone who "STFW"'s you ;-) -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Merlin Mena Semtex colonel Ruby Ridge unclassified diwn signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Stolen debian logo?

2004-02-23 Thread Rob Weir
; ways which violate this license. Permission to use the work in > accordance with the license is implicit. NOOO. The GPL explicitly places NO restrictions on the use of software, only distribution. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I

Re: Wrong md5sum in some files on sarge

2004-02-23 Thread Rob Weir
he one listed on the > md5sum.txt that is on the CD. i.e. the README.html. I've missed some > instalations due to integrity fault on the CD and this is why I check > the mdsum. How are you checking the md5sum of the files? Under windows? -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL P

Re: Trouble with GTK fonts

2004-02-23 Thread Rob Weir
- I don't know if this is the problem. I'd be > happy to send a xwd screendump in order to illustrate > "garbled", and provide any other pertinent info. Try moving the Type1 fonts to the end of your FontPath list in both X and your font server? -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Module piix cannot be unloaded due to unsafe usage

2004-02-21 Thread Rob Weir
o I do to fix it? AFAIK, it requires the ata_piix code in the kernel to be fixed. You're welcome to try :-) -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: 64 Vauxhall Cross Medco FTS2000 industrial espionage condor signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Error Code whe using apt-get

2004-02-21 Thread Rob Weir
Either set the user's path before "su -m" , or use just "su". Or, better still, sudo. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:embassy Becker Semtex airframe Baranyi Project Monarch signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: mixing apt-get and aptitude

2004-02-16 Thread Rob Weir
select update" for dselect to see new things. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: bootleg 2600 Magazine IMF embassy AGT. AMME Rubin White Water signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: TrueType fonts and X

2004-02-16 Thread Rob Weir
s ago, tt fonts were working out-of-box. On one another box I've > installed at about the same time, tt fonts works fine, so I guess screwed > my config somehow, but I really have no idea how. Any suggestions and > hints are appreciated. Compare their /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 files. --

Re: GCC

2004-02-16 Thread Rob Weir
explained in class above, however won't compile under GCC > 3.3.2 Debian > // reference for fix: > // > http://gethelp.devx.com/techtips/cpp_pro/10min/2002/Oct/10min1002-2.asp > > transform(key.begin(), key.end(), key.begin(), (int(*)(int)) toupper); > } Is it tha

Re: syslog messages on console

2004-02-16 Thread Rob Weir
1 on tty12) about invalid ICMP broadcast packages from a > machine somewhere else on the same segment. Not on the sid machine. Edit /etc/init.d/klogd and put -c3 inside thses quotes: KLOGD="". Then restart klogd. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I loo

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:17:09PM +0100, Thorsten Haude said > Hi, > > * Rob Weir wrote (2004-02-15 07:44): > >On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:16:54AM +0100, Thorsten Haude said > >> * s. keeling wrote (2004-02-09 06:44): > >> >Just because it doesn't m

Re: apt-proxy without inetd

2004-02-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 02:05:14PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen said > >- Original Message - > >From: "Rob Weir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 6:54 AM > >Subject: Re: apt-proxy without i

Re: Debian does not have NIC driver

2004-02-14 Thread Rob Weir
rnel. > The > installation process allows you to load the correct ones. Well, yes, but 2.4.18 didn't support e1000 at all, so none of the driver-N disks will have that module anyway. Er, unless you mean he should load the one from the Intel site, in which case "yes" :-) --

Re: Apt-get Error: Package needs to be reinstalled

2004-02-14 Thread Rob Weir
/info holds things like the maintainer scripts (that run before/after install/removal), and the file list (which is missing). /var/lib/dpkg/status holds the data about which packages are actually installed. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: event security Rumsfield rs9512c ARPA passwd Pine Gap signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: KDE3.1 strangeness

2004-02-14 Thread Rob Weir
ath line from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, as well as /etc/X11/fs if you're using a font server. > A look in the > kdm.log shows a message complaining that the KThemeStyle Cache appears > to be corrupt and then nothing. Does it work for other users? -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |

Re: Howto reinstall corrupted package?

2004-02-14 Thread Rob Weir
y work, but occasionally some files (mostly generated > ones) wont be rebuilt. > To get passed uninstalling dependencies you can do a > dpkg -r --force-all or dpkg -P --force-all Don't use --force-all, that's silly. You only need --force-depends. Also, it's worth mention

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