Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-10 Thread Steve Langasek
emd-sysv > Pin: origin * > Pin-Priority: -100 This one. The systemd package contains other dbus services that you don't want to try to exclude from a desktop system; and libpam-systemd provides necessary integration with policykit on those same systems. Hope that helps, -- Steve Langasek

Re: Is heimdall capable of flashing to s5670 froyo?

2013-08-18 Thread Steve Langasek
p in interpreting the logs. Your best bet is really to report any problems upstream (https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/Heimdall.git/). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubun

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

2009-12-17 Thread Steve Langasek
nput on the uninstallability of gnome in testing. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ub

Re: Debian Installation upon an Alpha Server 4000 5/400

2007-10-20 Thread Steve Langasek
rly in 2.6 because of the non-standard device names that it exposed. These are probably worth a try, anyway. Of the other cards you inquired about, the DAC960 cards and the QLogic ISP1040 are probably the best bets. The ISP1020 does not work for me, but the later QLogic cards are still widely

Re: kile

2007-07-03 Thread Steve Langasek
n't see this in any version of kile in etch/lenny/sid. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSU

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-18 Thread Steve Langasek
that > > they might look at me and think "oh, he must be the token spic." Ah, what a nice example for a Debian developer to set on that list. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Disable ipv4 fragmentation

2007-04-24 Thread Steve Langasek
> Anyone can help me? What do you expect the system to do with oversized packets instead of fragmenting them? Discard them? Fragmentation is used any time a given packet is too large to fit inside a single frame of the underlying transport, as determined by the network interface's MTU.

Re: etch/volatile -- public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EC61E0B0BBE55AB3

2007-04-14 Thread Steve Langasek
ilable: NO_PUBKEY EC61E0B0BBE55AB3 > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems You need to import the public key for volatile.debian.org separately using apt-key if you want to use this repo with secure apt, the key is not included in the default debian-archive-keyring package

Re: xserver-xorg-core installing problem

2006-10-26 Thread Steve Langasek
-free accelerated driver installed (nvidia, I believe) which has a broken diversion of the Xorg GLX extension. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with installing samba via apt-get.

2006-06-14 Thread Steve Langasek
unlikely. > Debian r3.2 is installed on the machine There is no such version of Debian. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ratpoison install error

2006-05-29 Thread Steve Langasek
nt > issue. It is not a development issue that belongs on the debian-testing list; it belongs as a bug report on the package in question. If the user is not familiar with the bug submission process, debian-user is the place to get help with that. -- Steve Langasek Give me a le

Re: Mounting partition as fs

2006-04-02 Thread Steve Langasek
XP partition should be 0 since it was > created first, the fs is ntfs and there's no critical data on either > partition yet. > I'd also like to know - since I'm doing this for testing purposes - is there > any harm in simply installing all the available packages? I ha

Re: secure apt

2005-10-22 Thread Steve Langasek
e security nag? Please direct questions of this sort to debian-user; debian-testing is not intended to be a general support forum for testing. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can m

Re: problem with rebooting in Sarge

2005-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
to solve this problem. I do not know what's this! > p.s. > Both this computers have different version of phoenix bios. You will want to ask this question on debian-user instead. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Devel

Re: Loadlin Booting Problem

2005-08-11 Thread Steve Langasek
a copy of Debian 3.1 instead, as 3.0r6 is no longer the current stable release. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I will move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

Re: Sarge release

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Langasek
t; >patience. > >A very grateful user ;) > Should I be concerned that my link to > http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free > and other 'non-us.debian.org' URLs? http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#s-non-us --

Call for upgrade testing

2005-05-16 Thread Steve Langasek
please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'll be happy to put you to work. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Release Team [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/05/msg1.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Make Debian better (Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot)

2002-10-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:31:24PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:35:45PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > I don't see why...it takes a few seconds to pass on a bug. > > > > If it only takes a few seconds, then why do you object to bein

Re: Make Debian better (Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot)

2002-10-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:30:01PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:35:45PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 03:21:40PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > I don't see why...it takes a few seconds to pass on a bug. > > I

Re: Make Debian better (Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot)

2002-10-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 03:21:40PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:04:43PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > submitter to work with upstream directly, or the maintainer has to add > > the bug to the bottom of his own long TODO list. > I don't s

Re: Make Debian better (Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot)

2002-10-21 Thread Steve Langasek
aintainer has to add the bug to the bottom of his own long TODO list. If a bug submitter comes to me with a well-formed patch for an upstream issue, there are definitely times that it helps if the submitter can talk directly with upstream about it, rather than using me as a relay for everything. Ste

Re: resource for woody freeze status?

2002-02-28 Thread Steve Langasek
ase Manager reminds us, and right now there's no reason to think that Woody can't still be released this spring. Follow-ups directed to debian-devel; discussions of release mechanics and timetables are inherently development topics. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpOz3EjIicSW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [pptp-server] Does anyone have a PPP 2.4.1 .deb built with mppe for PPTP

2001-10-07 Thread Steve Langasek
issue is also being looked into. I am not currently subscribed to debian-user. Please direct any questions to the pptp-server mailing list or to me personally. Regards, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Dean A. Roman wrote: > Hello all, >Does anyone have a .de

Re: Security trough paranoia

2001-03-30 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Steve Langasek wrote: > Which default is really going to better the Debian community as a whole? ObCorrection: 'Which default is really going to better serve the Debian community as a whole?' I have no illusio

Re: Security trough paranoia

2001-03-30 Thread Steve Langasek
ds can override the default as easily as those of us who want security are currently required to do. Which default is really going to better the Debian community as a whole? Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see h