KVM Debian guests fail to boot after update-initramfs

2020-07-09 Thread Stewart Middleton
(I have already posted to the libguestfs mailing list, without any luck) I run a number of virtualisation hosts, the host OS is Debian 10 (tho this issue has also been present with 9) and the virtualisation tech is KVM. All packages are current & from 'stable'. I am encountering a problem where D

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2013-05-29 Thread Paul Stewart
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Re: Debian 6.x NIC Bonding

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Stewart
So you can confirm that you have this working today on a 6.x server? I have been told many times that this is broken in 6.x tree Also, you have it working IPv4/IPv6 environment or just IPv4? Thanks, Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/07/11 01:30, Paul Stewart

Debian 6.x NIC Bonding

2011-07-04 Thread Paul Stewart
Is there any updates on getting this to work? We are some Debian 6.x servers we really need NIC bonding to work on - last time we attempted it, there was no success. Just wondering if I've missed any updates on this topic? ;) Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Squeeze and NIC bonding

2011-04-27 Thread Paul Stewart
Hi there. Only finding a limited number of posts on this topic - hopefully I didn't miss it when Googling around .;) Running Debian Squeeze 6.0.1 and need to bond some NIC cards. Found a posting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/05/msg00829.html but no answers. The instructions that I

Intermittent NIC issue after upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2008-09-21 Thread Stewart Middleton
2C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) Can anybody give me any suggestions of what I can try to fix this? Many thanks, Stewart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

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2006-03-09 Thread Stewart Gilliland
-- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/277 - Release Date: 3/08/06 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Newly added TV Card disables existing sound card.

2006-02-13 Thread Stewart Middleton
I have an onboard sound card that has been working fine based on default settings for some time. I have added a Pinnacle TV card and now find that the sound card is no longer configured after boot. Can anybody provide advice on what config step I am missing? Debian = Sarge desktop:~# lspci | grep

Re: Question about usbkey lights

2004-12-07 Thread Stewart Jenkins
be I'll have time in a day or two and will report what I find. As far as I can remember off hand (not near my desktop), both are running a stock 2.6.9 kernel and udev and hotplug. -- Stewart... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

KVM (kernel memory interface)

2004-07-21 Thread Stewart Flood
an't find a man page on it. Is there a package that I need to install? If not, what do I use to get the functionality of KVM? Stewart Flood ivo.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2004-03-16 Thread Paul Stewart
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ATTACHMENT part 1 message/rfc822 > > debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2004 : Issue 886 > > Today's Topics: > Re: c++ reference package [ Brian > Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] > Re: c++ reference package [ Ke

Re: Thunderbird empty - anyone else ?

2004-02-23 Thread Stewart
Uwe Dippel wrote: After the latest upgrade, Thunderbird opens without problem, but does not show anything. Just the title. No Icon, no menu. It does not complain either. Any idea; anybody else experiencing this ? Yes. It happened when I upgraded TB from 0.5-1 to 0.5-2. The old mozilla solutio

Re: Ethernet Cardbus problem

2004-01-14 Thread Stewart Jenkins
6 RBEM56G-100. Running the make oldconfig and recompiling _should_ fix things, though. -- Stewart... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-14 Thread Stewart Jenkins
had rock solid performance from the downloaded drivers from Nvidia. This backward than what is usual in the Debian community. -- Stewart... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

2003-12-01 Thread Stewart Jenkins
swers in one location. -- Stewart... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Formatting disc on HP Writer 7100`

2003-11-14 Thread Duncan Stewart
I have had this on my computer since 1999. Within last few days have tried to format a new Memorex CD-RW, 700 MB, 80 Minute, 4X multi speed disc.   I am attempting to make a data CD. When formatting after about 5 minutes it crashes and I get the following error message.   "Illegal Start Bloc

Re: providing default route

2003-09-21 Thread Chad M Stewart
e to 'man interfaces' for even more help. Thank you to Greg and Marc. -Chad- On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 12:55 PM, Greg Folkert wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 12:10, Chad M Stewart wrote: Where is the proper place in debian to define the default route? I've got my own h

providing default route

2003-09-21 Thread Chad M Stewart
Where is the proper place in debian to define the default route? I've got my own hack, but I'd like to know the 'proper' place. -Chad- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-21 Thread Chad M Stewart
I'm finding similar things here. I've had my domain a number of years and this is the first time I've been affected by an M$ email worm. Usually I sit back and laugh, but not this time. I'm new to the debian-* lists and recently posted for the first time. All of the copies of the virus have

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Chad M Stewart
I actually went through the trouble yesterday of setting up anti-virus software on my mail server. This is the first time that my personal email account has ever come under fire by an M$ virus, ugh! Makes me glad to be a Mac user. The rate seems to have slowed, at least for me, since yesterd

Re: dealing with testing and security

2003-09-19 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 04:10 PM, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Chad M Stewart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030919 12:18]: I'm tired of the stale nature of stable. Last weekend I upgraded to testing. I'm wondering what is the recommended method of dealing with security updates for te

dealing with testing and security

2003-09-19 Thread Chad M Stewart
I'm tired of the stale nature of stable. Last weekend I upgraded to testing. I'm wondering what is the recommended method of dealing with security updates for testing? Should I downgrade and only upgrade the few packages that I want newer versions of, like mailman, spamassassin, and bind. Th

Bind 9 chroot now slave/tmp- failed

2003-09-14 Thread Chad M Stewart
I'm rebuilding my secondary name server. I'm using debian/testing and bind 9.2.2. I have changed the default install/config to be in a chroot jail. Actually I'm going to run two instances of bind on this same box, both in their own chroot jails. I've got this working just fine on an older d

Re: Palm Zire 71 & Debian

2003-07-11 Thread Stewart Jenkins
ot daemon running first, then plug in the cradle the Zire 71, wait two seconds and press Hot Sync and all should then work. -- Stewart... They took the fourth amendment and I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs When they took the sixth amendment, I was quiet because I was innocent. Whe

Re: Palm Zire 71 & Debian

2003-07-11 Thread Stewart Jenkins
yncing to work. Once you do it right once, it works every time. I did have to compile a kernel with all the proper usb modules loaded. ( I do monolithic rather than modular.) -- Stewart Jenkins... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

help with linux

2003-02-21 Thread anna stewart
can you sent me a binhex or MacBinary copy of mac-fdisk? sorry but i tryed to download it over the net and it came as a text file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

problem USB

2003-02-09 Thread Vivian Stewart
I have a problem with debian3 and that is, that I want a desktop environment where USB keyboard & mouse, soundblaster Live, Geforce3 hardware acceleration all work And doing this seems to be a mission. especially USB keyboard & mouse. the install kernel is lame and changing kernels and inster

Re: SNMP on Debian

2003-02-02 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Thursday 30 January 2003 08:54, Reaz Baksh wrote: > Hello > > I'm trying to setup a Debian system that would act as an SMNP Server(?), > the unit that will be receiving traps from various Windows NT machines. > > What is out there that would enable me to do this? I believe snmpd, which is avail

Re: Can't start X with Nvidia

2003-01-19 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Sunday 19 January 2003 06:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My module is called nvidia and not NVdriver. I think the problem is that > you are loading a module called NVdriver and you have nvidia listed as the > driver in the X config file. Maybe try changing the Driver in X to > NVdriver to s

Re: apt-get (status file) broken?

2003-01-01 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.12.31 00:25 Adahma wrote: I get the following error when trying to use apt-get or dselect: Hit http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/non-free Release Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing liblir

Re: ntpd; local clock reference 127.127.1.0

2003-01-01 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.12.31 17:51 Brenda J. Butler wrote: I get the following in my logs [manually wrapped for legibility in email] Dec 31 15:44:27 seal ntpd[17700]: attempt to configure \ invalid address 127.127.1.0 when I set the following in /etc/ntp.conf: server 127.127.1.0 fu

Re: Changing font size in galeon menu

2003-01-01 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2003.01.01 07:28 Sridhar M.A. wrote: Hi, I would like to know how does one change the size of the menu font in galeon and other gnome apps like gaim, etc. They are too tiny for my taste. My current setup is `testing' running gnome2. Go to Desktop | Theme Selector in Gnome Control Center, s

Re: pam-ldap headaches

2002-11-25 Thread Stewart James
I should have been clearer on this. This also seems to have resolved my issues with pam_ldap. Cheers, Stewart > > Begin Stewart James quotation: > > > > Just doing a little follow up here, I think I tracked my issues down. I am > > not going to get into too much detai

Re: pam-ldap headaches

2002-11-24 Thread Stewart James
. Cheers, Stewart On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, nate wrote: > Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 18:40:11 -0800 (PST) > From: nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: pam-ldap headaches > Resent-Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:41:18 -0600 (CST) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: pam-ldap headaches

2002-11-07 Thread Stewart James
I am now starting to think this problem is not pam-ldap, if I set ssh up to use pam-ldap it connects, just won;t connect if being called by sendmail via sasl, if I find a solution I will post it to list. Thanks, STewart On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Stewart James wrote: > Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:26

Re: pam-ldap headaches

2002-11-07 Thread Stewart James
chedule LDAP server down time, so restarting the server is not an option. Oh well, time to take the cobwebs off the C manuals and relearn how to program. CHeers, Stewart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pam-ldap headaches

2002-11-07 Thread Stewart James
e to the problem and sort out why, again thanks fo rthe help ;) Cheers, Stewart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pam-ldap headaches

2002-11-07 Thread Stewart James
the multiposts. Cheers, Stewart On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, nate wrote: > Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 16:52:31 -0800 (PST) > From: nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: pam-ldap headaches > Resent-Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 18:53:35 -0600 (CST) > Resent-From: [EMAI

pam-ldap headaches

2002-11-07 Thread Stewart James
okup the LDAP host, but it never seems to attempt to connect the ldap host. Has anyone else seen this. I have this behaviour occuring on woody sarge and sid, so am really confident it's a user issue ;) any help would really be appreciated. Thanks Stewart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

pam-ldap headaches

2002-11-06 Thread Stewart James
okup the LDAP host, but it never seems to attempt to connect the ldap host. Has anyone else seen this. I have this behaviour occuring on woody sarge and sid, so am really confident it's a user issue ;) any help would really be appreciated. Thanks Stewart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

pam-ldap headaches

2002-11-05 Thread Stewart James
okup the LDAP host, but it never seems to attempt to connect the ldap host. Has anyone else seen this. I have this behaviour occuring on woody sarge and sid, so am really confident it's a user issue ;) any help would really be appreciated. Thanks Stewart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: DHCP client stopped getting responses from ATTBI server

2002-06-29 Thread Ian D. Stewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 June 2002 18:02, Alex Roitman wrote: > Hello, > > I had my home system on a cable modem with AT&T Broadband > as a provider for about a year. Everything worked perfectly > well, until about a week ago they must have switched the > DHCP ser

Re: Completely OT: Perl progress bar/meter

2002-06-29 Thread Ian D. Stewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 June 2002 05:21, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I've been thinking about this for a while, and even though it's not > really important, I would like to get it in. I've got a script which, on > average, processes about 10,000 files each time it

Re: Question regarding DL of Debian

2002-06-28 Thread Ian D. Stewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 June 2002 01:06, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 12:14:30AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Thursday 27 June 2002 23:07, Paul Johns

Re: find utility gives segmentation fault

2002-06-27 Thread Ian D. Stewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 June 2002 00:06, Larry Smith wrote: > I've been having trouble with the find utility in > Potato. > > Often, if I run find as root (so I can have permission > to look in all directories), it will run awhile, then > die with a segmentation

Re: Question regarding DL of Debian

2002-06-27 Thread Ian D. Stewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 June 2002 23:07, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 06:29:15PM -0400, David J. Weaver wrote: > > I am in the US, but it sounds like (on the website) that I have to > > download Non-US files to get US encryption? Is that right

Re: Question regarding DL of Debian

2002-06-27 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Thursday 27 June 2002 18:29, David J. Weaver wrote: > I am in the US, but it sounds like (on the website) that I have to download > Non-US files to get US encryption? Is that right? I know that at least with KDE's crypto support, you have to include non-US in your sources.list. Ian -- To

KAB Conduits

2002-06-26 Thread Ian D. Stewart
Howdy Folks, Does anyone know where I can get the conduit for synch the address book in my palm device with KAB (the KDE Address Book) ? There is a reference to it in the online help, but it is not available in the KPilot Conduit Configuration dialog, and does not appear to be available as a s

Re: Debian Project Manager

2002-06-25 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Tuesday 25 June 2002 20:34, Hubert Chan wrote: > >>>>> "Ian" == Ian D Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ian> The summary on freshmeat said this was a Gnome project manager (I > Ian> use KDE for my desktop environment). I suppose they

Re: apache + apache-ssl

2002-06-25 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Tuesday 25 June 2002 16:56, j2 wrote: > > > Have you tried installing libapache-mod-ssl? As I understand it, this, > > in > > > > conjunction with apache, provides the same functionality as apache-ssl > > but > > > as > > > > > a loadable module (what Apache calls a DSO) instead of compiled > >

Re: Debian Project Manager

2002-06-25 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Tuesday 25 June 2002 16:12, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:11:29 -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > Can anybody recomend a good X11/KDE project manager for Debian, along the > > lines of MS Project? A cursory search of both apt-cache and freshmeat > &

Debian Project Manager

2002-06-25 Thread Ian D. Stewart
Howdy, Can anybody recomend a good X11/KDE project manager for Debian, along the lines of MS Project? A cursory search of both apt-cache and freshmeat failed to turn up anything particularly promising. TIA, Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: apache + apache-ssl

2002-06-25 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Tuesday 25 June 2002 08:34, Jan Johansson wrote: > Installing the .23 apache removed my apache-ssl, no worries since it was a > lab system, but uhm.. how do i proceed if i _want_ apache and apache-ssl on > the same rig? Have you tried installing libapache-mod-ssl? As I understand it, this, in

Re: X, Window manager, and startup question

2002-06-25 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Tuesday 25 June 2002 10:41, Dave Whiteley wrote: > Help please, > > I am using xdm and icewm, (but I suspect that my problem relates to > other window managers as well). I start up several applications at > login, using .xsession but these all start up in the first virtual > screen. Is there any

Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-25 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Monday 24 June 2002 20:19, Ian D. Stewart wrote: I know, pretty bad, replying to my own mail... ;) > > I think I'm starting to see the problem. As far as I can tell, dpkg does > not record the datetime when any particular package is installed/upgraded, > and I can't fi

Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-24 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Monday 24 June 2002 18:03, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 11:25:33AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > On Sunday 23 June 2002 23:40, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > > Thanks Brian for the CVS tips. But even if I were to go that route I > > > must still locate

Re: DEPMOD messages at boot time

2002-06-24 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Monday 24 June 2002 18:31, Larry Smith wrote: > Since building my kernel, when booting a screen or two > of depmod warnings (or errors?) flash by so fast I > can't read them. It happens during boot right after > the message "Checking Dependencies" comes up. > > After booting is complete, dmesg

Re: backup all the changes I made to the "virgin debian system"

2002-06-24 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Sunday 23 June 2002 23:40, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Thanks Brian for the CVS tips. But even if I were to go that route I > must still locate all the files except for in /home that I have > changed from the virgin debian system. I imagine it would be relatively straight forward to write a shell sc

Re: How stable is dual head, twin view feature ?

2002-06-24 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Sunday 23 June 2002 23:44, tvn1981 wrote: > > - Nvidia GF2 - couldn't get the Nvidia binary drivers even to run, let > > alone try it with Xinerama. > > I got it working, it just crashes and freezes X too much that I have > to stop using it. I have XFree86 4.1.0.1 running with a GeForce 2 400MX

Re: Apache Exploit Released - where is an update for Woody?

2002-06-22 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.20 22:02 Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 01:58:23PM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: | On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:04:40 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | >On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 01:29:04PM +1000, John wrote: | | >Nonetheless, the DSA says it affects 64-bit architectur

Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.18

2002-06-22 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.22 09:38 Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: Sorry to pick up this conversation midstream, but all this talk of kernel upgrades got me wondering, and I decided to try it for myself. I have downloaded the sources and uncompressed them where they should be. I made the link (if I should or not, t

Re: Apache 1.3.26 compatible build of libapache-mod-perl

2002-06-21 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.21 13:27 Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 12:57:41PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Galeon reports 'incoming.debian.org could not be found. Please check > the name and try again' Well, please check the name and try again. :-) It does exist, but was

Re: Apache 1.3.26 compatible build of libapache-mod-perl

2002-06-21 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.21 12:55 Christopher Swingley wrote: * Ian D. Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-Jun-21 07:10 AKDT]: > Does anyone know when a build of libapache-mod-perl that is compatible > with apache-common 1.3.26-1 will be made available? Point your favorite http cl

Apache 1.3.26 compatible build of libapache-mod-perl

2002-06-21 Thread Ian D. Stewart
Howdy Folks, I recently tried to upgraded my Apache installation from 1.3.24 to 1.3.26 IOT get the recent security patch and got the following error: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libapache-mod-perl: Depends: apache-common (< 1.3.25) but 1.3.26-1 is to b

Re: Apache Exploit Released - where is an update for Woody?

2002-06-20 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.19 23:29 John wrote: There's now an exploit in the wild for Apache (the chunked whatever bug). The DSA mentions an update which is version 1.3.9-14.1 We need a version > 1.2.12, and are running 1.3.23 from woody. Is there any idea where a patched 1.3.23 for woody might be? Or should

Re: Can't get audio to work

2002-06-19 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.18 23:59 Glen Lee Edwards wrote: On Tuesday 18 June 2002 12:41 am, you wrote: > The 'K7' builds are only for us who run AMD Athlons. I thought I > made this point in my previous message, but obviously not. Not sure what you mean. Last I heard the Duron, Thunderbird, and XP are all p

Re: Dll's missing

2002-06-18 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.18 13:42 Duane Clark wrote: YUFUFI wrote: I'm using winestuptk and it put some line for dlls : [DllOverrides] ; default for all other dlls "*" = "builtin, native, so" I'm not pointing a window dir right now. 'cos whether I point it or not. wine can't find same dlls like DISPLAY.d

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-18 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.17 21:26 Rox de Gabba wrote: Well, if you look at it from the practical point of view... screaming and complainting has never done any good... at leat with computer systems it hasn't. Suing... well, have you ever heared of anyone get a penny off M$ for the bilions lost on their syste

Re: Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-18 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.18 08:04 Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 15:31, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Can anybody else shed some light on the difference between SIZE and RSS? Size is how much memory has been allocated through brk(2). RSS is how much is currently paged in. So, a program can (

Re: upgrading xfree86

2002-06-17 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.17 04:49 ian wrote: hi all, i'm running debian 2.2r6 would it be wise/safe to upgrade to xfree86 4.2? i need the support for my v/card (gforce2 mx 100/200) Hi Ian, So long as you're running XFree86 4.1.x (or later), you should have support for your card (I'm running 4.1.0.1 with a

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-17 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.17 05:26 Jan Johansson wrote: > you've got to be new around here. there isn't enough salt in > the world to > make your hat tasty enough to retract the last sentence > above. go directly to > jail. do not pass go. do not, under any circumstances, > attempt to collect > anything at all.

Re: 1024x768 resolution on Extended SVGA monitor

2002-06-16 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.16 15:13 Jerome Acks Jr wrote: On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 09:34:04AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: [snip] > > Does anyone know what the interlace/doublescan/hsync values should be, > or know of a resource where I might possibly research this? read-edid package may tell you what

Re: 1024x768 resolution on Extended SVGA monitor

2002-06-16 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.16 10:02 Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Does anyone know what the interlace/doublescan/hsync values should be, > or know of a resource where I might possibly research this? I think that xvidtune will tell you hsync and vsync. Thanx P

1024x768 resolution on Extended SVGA monitor

2002-06-16 Thread Ian D. Stewart
Howdy Folks and Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there, My wife got me Loki's port of Railroad Tycoon II for father's day. The game looks pretty cool, but needs to run at 1024x768 resolution. My problem is that I have a generic Magnavox SuperVGA monitor, and of course, the good folks h

Re: FreeCraft, SDL Audio and ESD

2002-06-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.14 22:58 Ian D. Stewart wrote: Howdy Folks, I recently installed the FreeCraft .debs, and I the main screen comes up Ok. However, there is a message at the top that says 'Sound Disabled. Please check!'. When I exit the program, there is an error message: Cou

FreeCraft, SDL Audio and ESD

2002-06-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
Howdy Folks, I recently installed the FreeCraft .debs, and I the main screen comes up Ok. However, there is a message at the top that says 'Sound Disabled. Please check!'. When I exit the program, there is an error message: Couldn't open audio: No available audio device I've conf

Re: Minimizing all windows

2002-06-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.14 17:14 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 12:08:13PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Howdy Folks, > > In windows, you can right click on the task bar and one of the options > is to minimize all windows, exposing the underlying desktop. I've > loo

Re: Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.13 12:34 Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:14:48AM +0200, Jerome Lacoste wrote: | I have the following in top: | | PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND | 532 root 16 -10 289M 32M 7528 S < 54.6 6.5 8:35 XFree86 | | I t

Minimizing all windows

2002-06-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
Howdy Folks, In windows, you can right click on the task bar and one of the options is to minimize all windows, exposing the underlying desktop. I've looked through both the gnome-list archive and the Gnome User's Guide but was unable to find any reference to similiar functionality. Is this

Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk

2002-06-13 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.13 09:16 Jan Johansson wrote: > I remember reading about a data recovery team that recovered > files after > the data had supposedly been removed with a 'dd' command like above. www.ibas.no they claim to be able to see under 3 layers of overwrites. And since they are a public contract

Re: grub Q

2002-06-13 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.13 09:33 Mark Janssen wrote: On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 14:12, Alice M. Pinard wrote: > or... another way to look at it... does anyone know a way to pack up a set > of info docs so that it could be read on a windows box? (that way I could > browse through it here at work ) There is a cygw

Re: setting up a Gateway

2002-06-13 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.13 09:25 Nicos Gollan wrote: On Thursday 13 June 2002 14:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ye all Linux Wizzards. > > plunging around some time with debian (at the moment 2.4.18 kernel) I > am trying to set up a linux box as a gateway. What you want is probably masquerading. Read the ipf

Re: VmWare on Woody

2002-06-12 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.12 09:58 Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:26, Colin Watson wrote: > I believe it's there for extracting files manually from RPMs, building > RPMs, and that sort of thing. Using it to install packages on your live > system is dangerous because there's no protection aga

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.11 16:05 Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:39:40PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Reminds me of vigor of user friendly fame > >"You just pressed the tab key. Are you sure you wish to > continue?" You *do* know it's in Debian, right? :)

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.11 15:54 Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 06:25:57AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote: | > Do I have to re-boot for a change to take effect? Your mouse has moved. You must restart Windows for your

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.11 15:09 Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 02:33:27PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Different parts of the world have slightly different conventions for > representing for various types of data. As an example, take the date > 04/01/2002. To a brit, this is Ja

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.11 14:16 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 19:42, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> > Wouldn't "C" be a more appropriate default locale for non-US users? >> > >> >> sure, but you are assuming competency in coders (-: C should work by >> de

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.11 14:00 Helgi Örn wrote: On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 19:42, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Wouldn't "C" be a more appropriate default locale for non-US users? > > > > sure, but you are assuming competency in coders (-: C should work by default > without editing or enabling anything . Could

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.11 13:42 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > Wouldn't "C" be a more appropriate default locale for non-US users? > sure, but you are assuming competency in coders (-: Gah! Hate it when I do that!! ;) Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.11 09:25 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 08:45, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> >> On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote: >> > This is all that's there: >> > >> > is_IS ISO-8859-1 >> > sv_SE ISO-8859-1 >> > >> >> Does this match the locale you

Re: Non-Browser Compliance

2002-06-10 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.10 06:21 Helgi Örn wrote: On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 02:00, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > Yep. I remember a while back, there was a big stink because the UK had > developed an e-gov gateway that only worked with MSIE running on > certain versions of Windows. I also remember th

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.10 05:48 Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 03:46, Alvin Oga wrote: > > - and if the drives gonna fail... i say its more likely to die > within the first 30 days ... Yes. MTBF only measures how likely it is to fail during the middle of its life. A good number die early

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.10 03:35 Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 20:33, Alvin Oga wrote: > if you have a nearly full 80GB disks ... it wont matter > if you have 1x 80GB or 4x 20GB( stripping ) No, it does matter. You can expect at least one of four 20GB drives to fail much sooner than one 80

Re: Packaging mod_accel?

2002-06-09 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.04 16:52 Christian Jaeger wrote: I would like to run Debian's apache and apache-perl packages for this configuration. You may want to consider using apache and libapache-mod-perl instead. It provides the mod_perl functionality as a DSO (Dynamic Shared Object), instead of being

Re: sk domain

2002-06-09 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.04 15:07 Oleg wrote: Ouch! this guy is a jerk. I'm filtering everyone from *.sk now. The entire nation of Slovakia? Kinda extreme, doncha think? Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-09 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.08 22:33 Alice M. Pinard wrote: As I'm continuing to try and troubleshoot a hd that doesn't seem to want to boot (promise ultra card, 60g hd) I just wanna doublecheck one thing Semi-OT As the size of IDE hard drives increase, what are the advantages/disadvantages of using a single

Re: Debian GIS

2002-06-08 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.05 23:50 Eric G. Miller wrote: GRASS is best for folks doing raster analysis/modeling. The vector stuff isn't quite "there" yet. Are there others that do better at vector-based modeling, or would I be best served waiting on GRASS to 'get there' ? Thanx, Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Non-Browser Compliance

2002-06-08 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.08 15:23 Helgi Örn wrote: Thank's for your information. I find this very interesting because I've made it to a sort of a hobby to harass webmasters that ignore anything else than IE, and those are not few. More and more sites seem to become almost exclusively IE centered, even sites th

Re: Setting system time on startup

2002-06-07 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.07 01:16 Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:51:16AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: | Hello Pietro Cagnoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, | | What is the advantage to keep the clock on GMT? Suppose the machine moves and is now in a new timezone. Also suppose you're running a l

Re: nothing to apt-get upgrade for a long while?

2002-06-07 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.06 23:29 Hubert Chan wrote: If you're suffering from "apt-get upgrade" withdrawal, you can always switch to unstable, but just beware that it's called unstable for a reason. With the Woody freeze on, alot of folks that would be adding/updating packages in sid have been holding off

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