On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:47:11 +, Andrew M.A. Cater
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All,
>
> Apologies for the bandwidth used. I had the entry for
> security.debian.org stable updates in my /etc/apt/sources.list.
>
> Upgrade-system saw that and attempted to downgrade my entire system
> such that
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 06:54:19 -0700 (PDT), Eric Dickner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "To use the packages, finally, add:
> >
> > deb file:/root debs/
> > "
> >
> > NB that there in no '#' here...does that mean to
> > "add"
> > that line to somethi
This is a resend (I'm not sure mails from my gmail account are reaching
the list).
I'm running testing and have been happily for the last few months. No
real problems, updating every few days by doing an apt-get
distupgrade.
Yesterday I saw the package upgrade-system in the available list and
deci
I'm running testing and have been happily for the last few months. No
real problems, updating every few days by doing an apt-get
distupgrade, yesterday I saw the package upgrade-system in the
available list and decided to install it. I installed and ran it, it
said it wanted to downgrade 20 package
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 11:11:04 +0200, Gebhardt Thomas
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since my problem seems not that uncommon to me, I was asking
> for an established procedure that has already been "reviewed" and
> found to be secure.
>
> Cheers, Thomas
>
>
what about using webmin
http://www.webm
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:39:02 +0800, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On the Debian mirrors, each day there is a period, perhaps a few
> hours, between the time the Packages files arrive, and the time
> packages themselves arrive.
>
> This is not a problem, because it happens early in the
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:32:28 +0200, Philippe Marzouk
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:14:12PM +0300, Alejandro Matos wrote:
> > I tried with xine but it says something about "dvd:/" don't understand
> > that :-\
> >
>
> Do you have a /dev/dvd link to the device of your dvd dr
or at least it seems to ;)
It wont talk to /var/cache/apt/archives
I normally run 'apt-move update' to move all packages to a local
mirror. But it no longer does anything. I start it and it says:
Updating from local Packages files...
Moving files...
and thats it, it will sit there for days withou
Jason Rennie wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just did a Debian Sarge install using the beta 4 installer. I had
> an existing ext3 paritition that I wanted to mount as /home, but after
> "manually partitioning" and telling Debian to use the existing format,
> Debian complained that the ext2 filesystem had s
Csaba Sarai wrote:
> Hello everybody!
>
> I have installed Debian Woddy 3.01r1 (stable) on my computer which
> has integrated video card SiS5597/5598. Unfortunately it has side
> effect-'white rain'. Could somebody has any idea to fix this problem?
sorry, could you expand on the white rain, is i
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 21:08, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> > if you do a dpkg-reconfigure locales it will take you through the
> > same config as the original install
>
> will that do it? i don't think it's just the locales he needs, but
> the keyboard layout itself. to do this, you'll need to do a
>
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:47:07 +0200, Lorenzo Rossi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when I installed debian I setup my keyboard with italian layout.
> After an apt-get upgrade I loose the keyboard settings..how can I
> restore the correct language?
>
> thanks
> Lorenzo
if you do a dpkg-reconfigure locales it wi
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:26:14 -0500, John Fleming wrote:
> Running unstable - How to get USB disk mounted? My fstab is:
>
s,exec 0 0
> /dev/hdb3 none swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/sda /mnt/sda auto noauto,users,exec 0 0
>
assuming that /dev/sda is your usb disk, change that to read /dev/sda1 and
it
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:57:43 +, ricktaylor wrote:
>
> Personally, I'd use kpackage or synaptic in X and dselect in a terminal
> {mainly because synaptic and kpackage are easier to read... the
I've always found that unless I stick to one package manager - synaptic at
the moment, they resolv
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:28:56 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
> Same behavior (I am using wdm and no xdmcp and the no listen on tcp
> switch). It seems like /usr/X11R6/bin/X is whats causing the trouble,
> running tcpdump when X startx shows the name lookup BTW:
>
you know, I think we're barking up the
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:58:40 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
>
> BTW I got the following reply after I tried reporting a bug on netbase
> on this:
>
> [...] this is how it's supposed to work. host(1) is an
> interface to the resolver library, which does not use /etc/hosts by design.
>
> The problem
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:57:16 -0400, * Tong* wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Quick question how to change hostname under debian?
>
> I changed my /etc/hosts
> from
> 127.0.0.1 cxmr localhost to
> 127.0.0.1 cxmr.dyndns.org localhost
>
> but why my hostname is
> Ping uses the hosts file but host seems to ignore it. So if the
> nameserver is not reachable then ping works but
> host returns
> 192.168.0.1 connect: Network is unreachable
> Nameserver not reachable
> litshi.luna.local A record not found, try again
> my /etc/hosts has the following lines:
>
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 22:53:09 +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
>> On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 20:18:19 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
>>
>> no, its caused by the machine trying to resolve its name over eth0
>> AFAIR. If the network is up. If you've configured the network, you've
>> set a hostname, so it is trying to re
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 20:18:19 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> --- Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
>
>> I'm not sure yet on what package to report this bug, but was wondering
>> if anyone else experiences it too.
>
> Have a look at the bugpage for 'xserver-xfree86'. If it isn't listed
> ther
Look
in your /etc/dev for /cdrom and mount using that, linux sees it as a cdrom not a
hd (i think)
-Original Message-From: Kevin A Smith
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 06 May 2000 09:58To: Eric G
. Miller; debian-user@lists.debian.orgSubject: Re: Accessinf
devices after ins
My understanding is (more from windoze than linux) that installing on one
hrd drv and using it in a diff system is a bad idea, lots of different
hardware / configurations, unless you both have identical systems
-Original Message-
From: Arcady Genkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Arca
i found with my mouse (the first timei ever had probs) that after i
reconfigured it i had to make a new xf86config file, util i did the mouse
wouldnt work
-Original Message-
From: Rafael Caetano dos Santos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26 April 2000 04:55
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
There is no prob with having fat16 after fat32 partitions but using fdisk
(windows-dos version) you can only have 2 partitions - logical drives aren't
included - i.e. 2 primary or 1 primary and one extended, Linux fdisk I think
can have up to 4 primary partitions, you prob could be related to the b
Isnt there a command call 'locate' which is simalir to find but about 1000
times faster (search your entire filesys in about 10 seconds) which works by
examining the filesys every few hours?
could be this which is running find
-Original Message-
From: Oswald Buddenhagen [mailto:[EMAIL PROT
what are the vert/horiz frequencies?
-Original Message-
From: Mats Ström [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 25 April 2000 02:34
To: Steven Satelle
Cc: 'Olaf Meeuwissen'; 'Debian User List'
Subject: RE: Xproblem - modelines?
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Steven Satelle wrote:
&
Hi, does anyone know how to mount a ntfs partition in linux, i have
installed the ntfs modules but linuxconf only lists my msdos filesystem not
my ntfs or fat32 file syses, what lines do i need to add to fstab so they
are automounted on boot
check your settings for the moniter vert & horiz frequencies
-Original Message-
From: Olaf Meeuwissen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 25 April 2000 02:03
To: Mats Ström
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Xproblem - modelines?
Mats Ström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 25 Apr
simple question, where do you put lines for the modules you want to
autoload in debian? ie my winmodem and audio device
try copyong th package to your hard drv first
-Original Message-
From: Dulan Tevesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 25 April 2000 01:19
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Problems - Installing Packages from the A:
I'm having problems installing simple packages with debian. I'm cur
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