Re: LM-Sensors on an ASUS P4B533

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:21:15 -0500 (EST) Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked for various howto's, but they all assume you're running prebuilt > kernels, unfortunately. Once you've scoped out the lm-sensors situation, go here for hints on building that kernel with kernel-package: ht

Re: resizing root partition

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 22:16:15 +0200 Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System > >/dev/hdc1 * 1 5817 2931736+ 83 Linux > >/dev/hdc2 57921 581681249925 Extended > >/dev/hdc3 5818

Re: PPPOE / ADSL fails

On 04 Apr 2003 12:04:18 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian P. Flaherty) wrote: > Both of you should try adsl-start as an alternative. I had been using > pppd at boot-time to get my DSL connection up and it has worked for > months. However, about a week ago, it stopped working. I fought with > it fo

Re: resizing root partition

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 11:13:20 -0500 Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I originally created my disk partitions, I figured 3GB would be > plenty for my root partition, and gave the rest of my 30GB disk over to > my /home partition. However, my root now shows 90% usage, and I'd

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade upgraded kernel source package!

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 08:14:25 -0500 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The last night, when I ran apt-get dist-upgrade, it updated my kernel > source package (2.4.20, of it matters). I'm _very_ puzzled, I thought that > the version number got bumped when a kernel was changed. When you say "version n

Re: Cups problem

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 06:27:24 -0500 Michael Bevilacqua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you remember to > > `/etc/pnm2ppa.conf` > > since the Debian package pnm2ppa has a bug where it doesn't install a > default conf which kills CUPS? Alternatively, you can go to > /usr/doc/pnm2ppa/ to get other p

Re: kernel won't boot (was Re: compiling a kernel)

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 23:25:04 -0800 (PST) Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I might need to set " Advanced partition > selection " on and select some > partition types there - but I'm not at all sure (I'm > just curious why it's off) You don't need any "Advanced partition" types en

Re: remote printer configuration - cups

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 07:18:50 -0500 Michael Bevilacqua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 06:09:49AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > Tried both, no luck. > > Sorry if I missed some of this thread, but did you increase the logging > level to look at the problem? I find that helped m

Re: PPPOE / ADSL fails

On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 21:30:31 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > it behaved perfectly. It just smply stopped working. I'm connecting > right now through a Win98 box using Verison's PPPOE software for > Windows. I formerly used pppoe to connect to Verizon, but now I usually go through a gateway

Re: remote printer configuration - cups

On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 21:46:06 -0500 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sudo lpadmin -p Kyocera -E -v socket://192.168.0.100 -m > Kyocera-FS-1900-Postscript.ppd > lpadmin: add-printer failed: server-error-service-unavailable > lpadmin: add-printer failed: server-error-service-unavailable >

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 11:59:35 +1000 "Lindsay Yardley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G'day Alex, > I found the installer great but while I'm new to linux I've been using > PC's since about 1982. It would probably be very helpful to the > developers if you could be more specific about the information y

Re: login as root to GUI

You completely missed the point. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: create an image of a partition

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:25:47 +0200 Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does somebody know a better way to create an image of a existing > partition? > > I know dd=/dev/hda1 of=windows_partition.img, but the image has a size > of 3 GB. I thought about backup a fresh win98 installation, so i c

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:19:52 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > And best of all nano is free software while pico/pine fails the DFSG > test. Wasn't that how nano came about? A free replacement for a non-free but popular editor? Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: remote printer configuration - cups

It bears noting in all this that when in CUPS you use "lp" commands they come from the cupsys-bsd package, which provides same-named replacements for traditional printing commands. They are not the same "lp" commands you read about in Linux books and other places. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re:

On 03 Apr 2003 16:13:06 +0200 Søren Boll Overgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Unstable) install has proven tricky. Thus, I would very much like > some input on which cards you are using and to what degree they > perform as expected. Google hasn't yielded much in the way of help, > except that

Re: login as root to GUI

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 08:47:54 -0600 Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mutt does line wrap, but the default is ugly and hard to read. Many > popular and useful MUAs don't do linewrap at all. Furthermore, how > does someone effectively _quote_ text which is not linewrapped? Now > the loc

Re: login as root to GUI

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:31:52 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Please turn your line wraps on to something more sensable like 72 > columns per line instead of one paragraph per line. This isn't meant to be picking on you. But I've

Re: help!! my partition table is lost after a next reboot ...

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 09:22:39 +0200 Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If someone had the same bad luck, i'll recommend to do this: > > 1. print out your partition table or rescue it, like Kevin said: fdisk > -ul /dev/hda >part.table 2. remove all the partitions > 3. create a new partition

Re: upgrading to unstable KDE

Great, thanks. I read the thread. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: remote printer configuration - cups

On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 06:06:05 -0500 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | I started to try this approach and died here: > > | > > | Setting up cupsys (1.1.15-4) ... > > | Starting CUPSys: cupsd. > I have what is supposed to be a network printer with support for > JetDirect, Cups and LPD.

Re: help!! my partition table is lost after a next reboot ...

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 19:59:44 +0200 Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I destroyed my partition table with parted. I tried the command > mklabel:( .. damn... For today you're screwed. For tomorrow, whenever you set up your new partition table (and any time you make changes to it) save the d

Re: compiling a kernel

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 12:53:43 -0800 (PST) Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > request_module[block_major-3]: Root fs not mounted > UFS Cannot open root device "341" or 03:41 > Please append a correct "root" boot option > kernel panic: UFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03.41 It looks like you di

Re: urgent Mail Server

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 12:26:37 -0600 Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please read section 5 of rfc 2821. > > "If no MX records are found, but an A RR is found, the A RR is > treated as if it was associated with an implicit MX RR, with a > preference of 0, pointing to that host." >

Re: NVidia latest update - do they solve performance problems?

On 02 Apr 2003 09:38:55 +0200 Jerome "Lacoste (Frisurf)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using the 1.0.4191 version and they put my system to crawl. > 1.0.2880 were working fine. > > I was about to downgrade when I saw that NVidia drivers had an update. > > Do these updates fix the problem tha

Re: compiling a kernel

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 23:35:10 -0800 (PST) Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > As I want scsi emulation, and I'm missing the sr_mod > module, I think I'll have to compile a new kernel. > > What do I need to do for this, exactly? I'll have to > get the source, ofcourse, bu

Re: urgent Mail Server

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 01:31:02 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess this message is some sort of demented halucination. I have > never had an MX record...yet I still get the list. I also haven't had He didn't say the person with the mail server needed an MX record, he said that

Re: upgrading to unstable KDE

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 02:37:03 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd also go re-read the long "The Myth of Apt Pinning" thread that ran > a while back. One of the DDs speaks out against pinning, essentially > considering it harmful. Consider yourself warned if you *really* want > to r

Re: kernel recompile - eth0 problems

On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 10:11:31 +0800 Brian Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Searching through documentation I realized there was no module > compiled - recompiled but could not find the needed axnet_cs driver in > the choices revealed by make xconfig, and in > /lib/modules/2.4.20/pcmcia not a tra

Re: network

On 01 Apr 2003 16:57:01 -0700 Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm afraid I've bent my networking, and I can't figure out how to fix > it. It used to work. > > Sarge, Dell Latitude, 512 MB RAM, PCMCIA Orinoco wireless. In /etc/network/interfaces, if you have "auto eth0" comment it out

Re: Kernel Rebuild

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 15:42:51 -0800 "Kris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > both of these are dep files. I am following these steps listed at > http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ch-kernel.en.html for rebuilding a > kernel Try using these directions instead: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/ker

Re: new kernel problems with pcmcia and initrd

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:05:11 -0800 "Kris P.- Mother Lode Internet Tech Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just recompiled my kernel and the PCMCIA does not appear to be > loading. It is important that I use initrd for the root file system > and that PCMCIA be built into the kernel instead of m

Re: Removable Media: What is the practical answer??

On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 14:33:49 -0500 Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check out the mtools package. "Mom tools"? (Sorry, I couldn't resist) Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: echo $MAIL

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 06:48:17 -0800 debian_newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to learn Mutt. On the My First Mutt web site > "http://mutt.blackfish.org.uk/storage/"it says that Mutt by default > looks in the mailspool for mail. It then says to find your mailspool > do this: >

Re: ntp.conf question

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:40:04 -0500 "Thomas H. George,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The file /etc/ntp.conf does not contain any server entries but does > include a note saying these are entered auto generated, use > dpkg-reconfigure to modify these lines. dpkg-reconfigure ntp simply > return

Re: Mutt e-mail charset. Read is bad, write is ok.

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:02:00 +0100 Joao Clemente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I think I'll put my LANG settings at /etc/profile or .bashrc or > someother) I suspect you'll want you LANG settings in /etc/profile. That way they'll be used for anyone who logs in, whether from the console or in X.

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 21:38:08 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I gotta wonder why everybody's harping so badly on Memorex. I've got > to really abuse the media to burn a Memorex brand coaster. So far, > the only Memorex CDR I couldn't burn was one I made a fractal out of > in the m

Re: Networking troubles with multiple nics

On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:40:39 -0600 Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In any case, I believe a primary purpose of this list is to teach, not > just solve problems. If I can make someone _think_ I've been more > successful than if I fixed whatever was broke. Oh and BTW, the OP > respond

Re: undelete

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:40:33 +1000 "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have foolishly deleted a file I did not want to. > It was created this morning, so it is not backed up. > > is there an undelete util ? "recover" undeletes files on ext2 partitions. If you have an ext3 partiti

Re: limiting hard drive space for a user..

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:19:48 +1000 "Ross Tsolakidis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Newbie question I know, > But how can I limit a users home dir to certain amount of hard drive > space ? Is it possible ? It is if you're using the ext2 filesystem for /home. I don't know about other fi

Re: Networking troubles with multiple nics

On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:56:15 -0600 Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > auto eth1 > iface eth1 inet static > address 192.168.1.1 <-- > network 192.168.1.0 > netmask 255.255.255.252 > broadcast 192.168.1.3 > > auto eth2 > iface eth2 inet static > a

Re: X over ssh

On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:38:42 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > And also VNC should be mentioned here too. > > http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ > > apt-cache show vncserver xvncviewer tightvncserver is a debian package of tightVNC, also worth mention. Kevin -- To UNSUBSC

Re: bootmanager madness

On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:05:54 +0200 Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, still one problem remains, that i can't boot to windows. Maybe > someone has an idea or i've to reinstall this windows. Okey - it's not > a problem - i don't work with it. What does your Windows 98 entry currently say

Re: bootmanager madness

On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:39:00 -0500 David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The canonical location is /boot/grub/menu.lst, *relative to the > default root partition*; if your /boot is a separate partition, try > using /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst. Not. The canonical location is relative to *grub's*

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

On 30 Mar 2003 12:19:05 -0500 "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, it wasn't only Memorex media that became coasters, but thx for > the heads up. (Looking over shoulder and seeing 48 blanks still on > that 50 CD Memorex spindle, and muttering various phrases > inappropriate for this

Re: WLAN PCMCIA card

On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 14:26:13 +0200 Christian Schoenebeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Can somebody recommend me a wireless LAN PCMCIA card? It's very hard > to get useful (and up-to-date) information about that on the net. > > Appreciate any comments! Orinoco Gold: http://www.orinocow

Re: Lots of updates!

On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 17:18:10 +0200 Ronald Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good to know this isn't a weird thing with my computer! Now, reading > the web page on DebianPlanet I saw there were some stability problems > with KDE 3.1. Any word if this has been solved already or maybe I > shoul

Re: remote printer configuration - cups

On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 07:02:49 -0500 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I tried configuring it a direct configuration: > > foomatic-configure -s cups -n remoteraw -c socket://192.168.0.100:631/ > foomatic-configure -s cups -D -n remoteraw > > And nothing, so I removed it and tried: > >

Re: bootmanager madness

On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 20:40:30 +0800 Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Before reinstalling, first try adding "makeactive" to the Windows 98 > setting, like this: > > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 "makeactive" isn't really needed, although the grub docs say to us

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

On 30 Mar 2003 02:09:11 -0500 "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The band around the spindle says 700 MB (and even Memorex) but I've > produced two coasters based on the message hoarked out by cdrecord. > > I just don't seem to have much luck with trying to get a working > Knoppix CD ;)

Re: How do I "apt-get upgrade" the kernel for debian-390?

On 30 Mar 2003 00:11:39 -0500 Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kernels are special in debian since you have to reboot for them to > take effect. apt-cache search kernel-image should show you all the > kernels avaliable. Choose one and apt-get install it making sure your > boot loader re

Re: How do I "apt-get upgrade" the kernel for debian-390?

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 20:17:43 -0800 (PST) Peter Farley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running stable debian-390 under the hercules > emulator on an RH7.3 base system, and the debian-390 > kernel is 2.4.17-s390. I have set up my sources.list > to add the testing release, but neither apt-get > up

Re: dsl problem on Mac ibook with Debian PPC 2.4.x

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 22:43:58 -0500 Brad Tilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the errors that I see in /var/log/ppp-connect-errors: > > pppoe: read (asyncReadFromPPP) Input/output error > pppoe: Timeout waiting for PADO packets > > Here's what shows up in /var/log/messages: > > Mar 30 01:0

Re: What's the std print config tool

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 20:02:37 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > However most people are recommending cupsys as the best server for > standalone systems for new folks. That is probably the best place for > you to start. > > apt-cache show cupsys > apt-get install cupsys Also insta

Re: Kernel compile - kernel panaic at boot

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 19:46:34 -0800 (PST) Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and yes ... 1024 doesn't mean anything anymore ...but people still > create a partition for /boot... whats the point ?? > /boot partition was to make sure the kernel resided below > the silly 1024 cylinde

Re: Kernel compile - kernel panaic at boot

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 16:58:42 -0800 (PST) Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - if you build all the drivers into 2.4.20.. > - you do NOT need initrd > - unless you have / and/or /boot spans more than 1024 cylinders I don't believe 1024 cylinders means anything. That was a limitatio

Re: Kernel compile - kernel panaic at boot

On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 08:06:28 +0800 Petr Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please help! > I did it many times , but now I made some silly mistake and I can't > boot my fresly compiled kernel. I can boot Debian default 2.4.18-k7, > but I I'm guessing (since you didn't say what the boot error mess

Re: Should I upgrade my kernel?

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:04:22 -0500 "Roberto Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running Woody with 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. I am wondering if I > should bother upgrading my kernel? If there is no point to upgrading > now, what should I look for that will make it worthwhile? I realize > this

Re: dpkg/dselect misbehavior

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:42:19 -0500 Stephan Sauerburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh man.. I just spent about 4 days installing packages and > reconfiguring it from scratch, including rolling a new kernel. Not > having to completely redo all of it again from a Woody CD would be > most preferred.

Re: [OT] History of debian-user footer.

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:48:31 -0600 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do any of your clients ever remind you that the mean is not the > median? Do any of yours remind you that the median is an "average"? Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: dpkg/dselect misbehavior

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 22:22:26 -0500 Stephan Sauerburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed Debian from a Deb 2.2 Potato CD after a hard drive > crash which occurred about a month ago. I used the same CD I did for > the previous install, and as far as I can tell, the same installation > p

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:16:07 +0200 Aryan Ameri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What about Libranet? Has anyone tried installing Libranet, and the > pointing the repository to Debain's repository and upgrade packages? > Do you think it is doable? I've done this with Xandros, and it works quite wel

Re: Webmin revisited

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:30:37 +0100 Mark Annandale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > https://localhost:1 I am getting the error message 'cannot connect > to loachost (port 1), whereas webmin uses the default port of > 1. > > I have searched the archives to no avail and ensured that localho

Re: Limit a process's CPU usage?

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:26:54 +0100 Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > processor fan constatly being on. Is there a way on telling [EMAIL PROTECTED] > to use the CPU at no more than, say 30%? > I have already set it to nice 19, but this affects only the priority, > so that an other process

Re: LWN: Ptrace vulnerability in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:38:14 +0300 DouRiX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > Does someone know where is debian about this issue ? > > I already have the patched 2.4.20 kernel, so I know it's available. I don't know about the others, but I doubt i

Re: synaptic issues...

On 27 Mar 2003 23:24:49 -0600 ZephyrQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > problem?). I checked /var/cache/apt and most of the files have been > downloaded--but when I re-run synaptic to install the debs, it gives > me a seg fault. > > Should I just stick with apt-get? I liked being able to brows

Re: FUCK

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:34:43 +0100 Nicolas Kratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:42:32AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > You're more than welcome to do the same. Abuse departments usually > > take action on issues that they recieve multiple complaints about. I hope you're

Re: God answeres my prayers to get off this list, "NO!", God says,"Your pain must endure forever!!!"

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:04:30 -0600 Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please don't do this ... if you don't violate your provider's AUP > you'll at the very least portray the debian community in a poor light. > > If the presence of someone who appears to be lacking intelligence > raise

Re: xpdf

On 27 Mar 2003 21:22:16 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian P. Flaherty) wrote: > talk, but it is not an elegant solution. I use fvwm with a 3x3 > virtual desktop. I simply sized gv so that one of the nine views of > the virtual desktop was the slide. The menu bar, sidebar, and > scrollbars were off

Re: sylpheed-doc package broken?

I understand that apt doesn't know anything about packages other than what it't told about dependencies and conflicts. Let's get to the big picture -- is the doc there to support the use of the binary, or is the binary there to support the use of the doc? If we can agree that the binary is primar

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade bails

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 18:03:42 -0500 (EST) Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note all the packages not fully installed or removed; then, when I > proceed, here are messages referring to the package which seems to be > causing the problem: > > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading databa

Re: sylpheed-doc package broken?

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 14:31:46 -0800 Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you objecting to the idea that a doc package and a binary package > can conflict simply because the documentation is for a different > version of the program? Or are you suggesting that apt should simply > refuse to

Re: sylpheed-doc package broken?

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 22:21:34 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure; not one that filing's going to particularly help, though ... If you're saying the maintainer will ignore it, I guess that's possible. But if the maintainer is in the habit of specifying dependencies this way, the

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade bails

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:40:39 -0500 (EST) Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/gdk-imlib-dev_1.9.14-6_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > So, how badly hosed is my system, and what do I

Re: sylpheed-doc package broken?

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:30:44 -0800 Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > version of sylpheed itself. Unstable has a newer sylpheed that is > compatible with sylpheed-doc, but it hasn't been moved into testing > yet. That's what's causing your problem. > > There is no need to file a bug about

Re: System Slows Down

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 23:59:59 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Every so often, things will slow to a CRAWL, > and then poof, go back to normal. WHAT IS THIS? > How can I stop it? > Whatever clever program is running in the background, > I would like it to stop! Wow, with that hardware you shouldn

Re: How to unselect the german language as

On 26 Feb 2003 22:40:00 +0100 Mariano Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I accidently have chosen german as the installer language which also > turned out to be the language of my system now. How can I revert to > english? Do "dpkg-reconfigure locales" to generate an English locale, the

Re: Boot problem

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 22:33:31 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No, actually it makes great sense -- I just can't believe I might have > left something so obvious out! (I suppose I may have thought IDE > support was a default 'yes,' -- but I can see how it may be best > assumed NOT, because SCSI is

Re: debian-installer: VMWare as a sandbox?

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 04:38:32 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know if VMware is a reliable testbed for such activites? Apparently it's being used for that purpose: http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/screenshots/2003-02-16/slang/00-all.html Kevin -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Boot problem

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:01:55 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > one of times after which I recompiled a 2.4.16 kernel for the Official > Deb (I got the source pkg. from the Libranet CD's), and carefully > modified the /boot/grub/menu.lst on Libranet, I got a kernel panic on > the subsequent boot. >

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:40:00 -0500 David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The other thing that might cause this is if setiathome is a script of > some sort, and the thing the script points to isn't executable: That's a good point, thanks. As it turns out, in fstab I had specified "exec", but

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

On 25 Mar 2003 17:58:24 -0800 Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > bash:/home/ronin/files/seti$ ./setiathome > > bash: ./setiathome: Permission denied > > Is the partition containing your home directory mounted "noexec", > perhaps? Turned out it was. Thanks

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:02:06 -0800 "Kris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I look at the bottom of this message at the directory entry for setiathome, I count three little x's already. Will one more make it work? Kevin > chmod +x setiathome > > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTECT

Permission denied -- Say what?

Sometimes I still get baffled by Linux. This is one of those times. I'd like to run the [EMAIL PROTECTED] client; I've done this before on this machine (different system) and on other machines. Today I get "Permission denied" to execute a file I own, in a directory I own and have write and execut

Re: smbmount

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:52:18 +0100 Martin Kacerovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > for hints about compiling a new kernel see Linux Kernel HOWTO > ( packages usually needed : gcc binutils make libncurses5-dev ) For better hints check out the kernel compiling newbiedoc: http://newbiedoc.sourcefor

Re: output of a2ps

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 13:51:50 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sometimes, a2ps will output to stdout, other times it will send the > output directly to the default printer (even without -d). how can > i control this. i'd like to make a2ps send to stdout at all times, > unless, of

Re: Woody and 2.4 kernel

On 22 Mar 2003 09:59:17 -0700 Blake Covarrubias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, Linux Junior has a good PET on compiling a kernel from source on > Debian. > http://www.linuxjunior.org/cgi-bin/pet/pet.cgi?SUBMIT=Display&id=12 > From my experiences it also works on Woody and Sid. Good luck. There

Re: Kernel Recompile Issue

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:58:42 -0600 "Irish, Jon D MEVATEC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just recompiled my kernel to get sound working. I used 2.4.20, and > sound is now working fine :-) However, my network connection is now > dead. I selected it when I compiled the kernel (it is a 3com 3c905C),

Re: SOLVED: How do I get the install disks to recognize my network?

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:30:10 -0500 John Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Tillman suggested... > > >Check out people.debian.org/~blade, > >I think there is a later & greater bf24 version there. > > And it worked perfectly! Well, still didn't recognize the D-Link that > it should have,

Re: Kernel 2.4.18 selfmade stops at make modules_install on debian3.0

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:12:51 +0100 "Alexander Bruns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > on my debian box the debian-kernel 2.4.18-686 by woody is installed. I > tried to kompile a 2.4.20 kernel, but it fails. Then I tried to > kompile a 2.4.18 myseld, but it fails too. > > why does make_module

Re: algorithm for correct sources.list lines?

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 01:23:44 -0700 Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >2. Nope. metalab.unc.edu is now ibiblio.org (but requests are > >forwarded) and the debian directories aren't there. > > > I changed that and I still get: > Err ftp://ibiblio.org unstable/main Packages > Unable to fetch

Re: algorithm for correct sources.list lines?

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 22:08:32 -0700 Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Is the algorithm for creating lines for sources.list defined > somewhere? > > 2. Is this line correct? > > deb > ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian > unstable main non-free > > 3. Is

Re: gcc 3.2 and kernel 2.4.20

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:24:11 +0530 "Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed that gcc-3.2 has entered testing and have it installed. If I > compile the kernel with the new gcc and install it, will there be any > noticeable improvement in performance? Or will there be any gotchas? > >

Re: Why use COPS?

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:26:17 -0500 Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lp is the sysv command that's standard with CUPS, lpr would be the > bsd version. CUPS provides lp, lpr, lprm, lpq, lpstat, and maybe^^probably some other commands I don't know about. I can use all of those and I don

Re: Why use COPS?

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 23:09:30 +1100 Russell Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have: /etc/cups/ppd/Stylus400.ppd > and i use lp to print (not lpr). > Stylus400.ppd came with cups. cupsys-bsd includes a suite of lpd-type commands; the lp you use to print is probably one of these. Kevin -- T

Re: How do I get the install disks to recognize my network?

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 23:35:41 -0500 John Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once again, a million thanks for all your help. Despite my continuing > inability to install, everyone's help is really quite appreciated, and > is truly making me feel I've made the right choice in distros to > attempt.

Re: Kernel compile

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 14:10:31 -0500 David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Short summary, assuming you have everything (kernel modules, gcc, > libncurses5-dev, bin86, fakeroot, kernel-package) installed: > > for i in /usr/src/modules; do tar xzf $i; done > export MODULE_LOC=$PWD/modules >

Re: Kernel compile

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:24:19 -0300 "GBV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone knows the best web reference to > > source to download the newest kernel > compile a new kernel, in debian with dpkg > configure lilo > booting, and restoring if a sinister occurs.. > managing several kernel versions ht

Re: installing new kernel

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:50:33 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > doesn't need it unless he's not on x86 but it looks like > the 2.4.x doesn't use it either. Most of my systems are 2.2.x > and 2.2.x requires it. > > I've always needed bin86 to compile. I just recompiled again to be

Re: caendar recommendations

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:57:11 -0500 Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a calendar program (not a full groupware suite) that I > any hints? http://bulldog.tzo.org/webcal/webcal.html Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

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