backports repository in trouble

2011-08-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
one of the files uploaded to http://backports.debian.org/squeeze/ failed gpg verification and aptitude on this end is not updating its files. An incoming directory separate from repository directories might be useful if at least one person administers that repository that way they could check

Still in trouble with Xorg migration.

2005-10-16 Thread Nicolas CANIART
Hi ! Since the migration from XF86 to Xorg I had trouble with my screens. My hw config is as follows : 1 Radeon 7000 VE. 2 Flat panels. With some work i've been able to get a 3200x1200 virtual desktop but my second screen remains black. I meani, everything seems to work just fin

Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

2005-05-18 Thread Colin Ingram
Derrick Hudson wrote: | > | > ... and I thought MS products would stop sucking as soon as they started | > making vacuums. | | Is that a reference only us greybeards would understand? ;) It's a play on the word "suck". If software sucks, its bad. If a vacuum sucks, it is working. -D You co

Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

2005-05-18 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 08:02:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: | On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 19:49 +, Stephen Patterson wrote: | > Jude DaShiell wrote: | > > I hope you're writing about an excellent Microsoft heavy duty Shop Vac, | > > because otherwise excellent and Microsoft never get that close in |

Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

2005-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 19:49 +, Stephen Patterson wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I hope you're writing about an excellent Microsoft heavy duty Shop Vac, > > because otherwise excellent and Microsoft never get that close in > > reality otherwise. > > ... and I thought MS products would stop s

Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

2005-05-14 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Stephen Patterson, > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I hope you're writing about an excellent Microsoft heavy duty Shop Vac, > > because otherwise excellent and Microsoft never get that close in > > reality otherwise. > > ... and I thought MS products would stop sucking as soon as they start

Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

2005-05-14 Thread Stephen Patterson
Jude DaShiell wrote: > I hope you're writing about an excellent Microsoft heavy duty Shop Vac, > because otherwise excellent and Microsoft never get that close in > reality otherwise. ... and I thought MS products would stop sucking as soon as they started making vacuums. -- Stephen Patterson [

Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

2005-05-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
I hope you're writing about an excellent Microsoft heavy duty Shop Vac, because otherwise excellent and Microsoft never get that close in reality otherwise. On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Guy Koehler wrote: Will someone please forward me the original document? Thanks. I inadvertently deleted it before rea

Re: gdm - Please, send me a default Xsession (Newbie in trouble) - Solved

2004-04-14 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
Hi, Finally I solved *all* the problems I had with gdm with: apt-get --purge remove gdm (it said it didn't remove /etc/dm/) rm -rf /etc/dm/ (so that everything is removed) apt-get install gdm And now it works fine! Cheers, Sylvain. On Wednesday 14 April 2004 19:21, you wrote:

Re: gdm - Please, send me a default Xsession (Newbie in trouble)

2004-04-14 Thread Aurel
Hi, try a dpkg-reconfigure gdm then take a look at the /etc/dm/Sessions directory. you'll find a file default.desktop. Add one file per desktop/WM you want to be launched using gdm. Each file has to be in this form: [Desktop Entry] Name=Gnome / KDE / WMaker Comment=Gnome / kde /Wmaker Exec=/usr

Re: gdm - Please, send me a default Xsession (Newbie in trouble)

2004-04-14 Thread Paul W.
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hello, > > => Can any of you send me a default/example Xsession file? > => And also tell me where it should be located to work? > > I broke my gdm configuration 3 days ago > with an apt-get upgrade (SID) + various attempts I made. > > I'll avoid stupid attempts nex

gdm - Please, send me a default Xsession (Newbie in trouble)

2004-04-14 Thread sylvain . vedrenne
Hello, => Can any of you send me a default/example Xsession file? => And also tell me where it should be located to work? I broke my gdm configuration 3 days ago with an apt-get upgrade (SID) + various attempts I made. I'll avoid stupid attempts next time (such as removing a file/directory wit

Re: Get in Trouble Now

2003-03-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:22:35AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:44:40AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:52:12PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I've heard a couple times that the reason that gdm2

Re: Get in Trouble Now

2003-03-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:44:40AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:52:12PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've heard a couple times that the reason that gdm2 is not in Sid is > > > that it doesn't as yet build on all platforms.

Re: Get in Trouble Now

2003-03-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:52:12PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:28, David Z Maze wrote: > >> arief_mulya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > But I do notice that gdm is back to the gnome1.4 version. And the font > >> >

Re: Get in Trouble Now

2003-03-11 Thread Brian Nelson
"Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:28, David Z Maze wrote: >> arief_mulya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > But I do notice that gdm is back to the gnome1.4 version. And the font >> > become very ugly. >> >> The gdm is sid is the GNOME 1.4 gdm; I don't think

Re: Get in Trouble Now

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 01:05:14PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 03:51:38PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:28:26AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > > > The gdm is sid is the GNOME 1.4 gdm; I don't think the GNOME 2.x gdm > > > is there at all. (Not entirel

Re: Get in Trouble Now

2003-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 03:51:38PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:28:26AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > > The gdm is sid is the GNOME 1.4 gdm; I don't think the GNOME 2.x gdm > > is there at all. (Not entirely sure why, though.) There are a few > > bugs against the gdm package

Re: Get in Trouble Now

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:28:26AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > arief_mulya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But I do notice that gdm is back to the gnome1.4 version. And the font > > become very ugly. > > The gdm is sid is the GNOME 1.4 gdm; I don't think the GNOME 2.x gdm > is there at all. (

Re: Get in Trouble Now

2003-03-07 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:28, David Z Maze wrote: > arief_mulya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But I do notice that gdm is back to the gnome1.4 version. And the font > > become very ugly. > > The gdm is sid is the GNOME 1.4 gdm; I don't think the GNOME 2.x gdm > is there at all. (Not entirely

Re: Get in Trouble Now (was To Get GNOME2... )

2003-03-07 Thread Jorge Santos
arief_mulya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear all. > > > Thanks for the clues on GNOME2. > > But before I read the emails, I've already tried the ported GNOME2 for > woody. > > > It was working great. > Until the time, I felt, It's the wrong thing. I should do it from the > official place. A

Re: Get in Trouble Now

2003-03-07 Thread David Z Maze
arief_mulya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But I do notice that gdm is back to the gnome1.4 version. And the font > become very ugly. The gdm is sid is the GNOME 1.4 gdm; I don't think the GNOME 2.x gdm is there at all. (Not entirely sure why, though.) There are a few bugs against the gdm packag

Re: Get in Trouble Now (was To Get GNOME2... )

2003-03-07 Thread Yuhanes Tjandra
arief_mulya wrote: But the funny thing is, dselect only shows me gnome 1.4. Just a dumb question, have you updated available packages info in dselect? Correct me if I am wrong, doing it with apt-get update doesn't automatically update packages info in dselect. You got to update the packages in

Get in Trouble Now (was To Get GNOME2... )

2003-03-07 Thread arief_mulya
Dear all. Thanks for the clues on GNOME2. But before I read the emails, I've already tried the ported GNOME2 for woody. It was working great. Until the time, I felt, It's the wrong thing. I should do it from the official place. And so I apt-get remove gnome (all the thing I previously install

Re: I'm in trouble. Someone call 911, I'm in trouble....

2001-02-09 Thread Xucaen
ok! I called 911!! they will be there shortly!!! --- Johan Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moritz Schulte wrote: > > > > Johan Groth > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > > > > > So now I got an unstable :-) system which > is not so good I think. So what > > > would happen if I change unstable t

Re: I'm in trouble. Someone call 911, I'm in trouble....

2001-02-09 Thread Colin Watson
Johan Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >'Someone call 911 and tell them' my computer has 'been shot down'... >... (wonder if anyone recognize the song) because I, my dumb ass, changed a >line in /etc/apt/sources.list from stable to unstable instead of testing and >to top it of course I had to do ap

Re: I'm in trouble. Someone call 911, I'm in trouble....

2001-02-09 Thread Johan Groth
Moritz Schulte wrote: > > Johan Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So now I got an unstable :-) system which is not so good I think. So what > > would happen if I change unstable to testing and do apt-get update; apt-get > > dist-upgrade again? > > IMHO nothing. At least the APT in Potato d

Re: I'm in trouble. Someone call 911, I'm in trouble....

2001-02-09 Thread Moritz Schulte
Johan Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So now I got an unstable :-) system which is not so good I think. So what > would happen if I change unstable to testing and do apt-get update; apt-get > dist-upgrade again? IMHO nothing. At least the APT in Potato doesn't seem to do downgrades. Does this

I'm in trouble. Someone call 911, I'm in trouble....

2001-02-09 Thread Johan Groth
'Someone call 911 and tell them' my computer has 'been shot down'... ... (wonder if anyone recognize the song) because I, my dumb ass, changed a line in /etc/apt/sources.list from stable to unstable instead of testing and to top it of course I had to do apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade (why ca

Re: I'm in trouble

2000-09-23 Thread mike
I think you have to replace the 'table=' line in the red stanza with root=/dev/hda5 and be sure to mount /dev/hda5 before you run lilo. On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 21:13:02 +0600 (BDT), Satyajit Das said: > > > On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Leen Besselink wrote: > > > > > My problem is now

Re: I'm in trouble

2000-09-23 Thread Satyajit Das
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Leen Besselink wrote: > > My problem is now I'm not able to boot Red Hat linux. > > please help me how can I solve this problem, waiting reply urgently > > because I have so many important files and email. > > Until we figure out what happend, maybe someone has had the

Re: I'm in trouble

2000-09-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 12:31:09PM +0600, Satyajit Das wrote: > I have 6.4GB Harddisk. > Hda1 --- > Win98 ( 1800 MB) > Hda5 --- > RedHat 6.1 Kernel : 2.2.12-20 (1700MB) > Hda6 --- > Swap (133MB) > Hda7 --- > Storm Linux -2000 (2510 MB) > > Firstly I install Win98 > next RedHat 6.1 > at last Stor

Re: I'm in trouble

2000-09-22 Thread Leen Besselink
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Satyajit Das wrote: > My problem is now I'm not able to boot Red Hat linux. > > please help me how can I solve this problem, waiting reply urgently > because I have so many important files and email. Until we figure out what happend, maybe someone has had the same probl

I'm in trouble

2000-09-22 Thread Satyajit Das
I have 6.4GB Harddisk. Hda1 --- > Win98 ( 1800 MB) Hda5 --- > RedHat 6.1 Kernel : 2.2.12-20 (1700MB) Hda6 --- > Swap (133MB) Hda7 --- > Storm Linux -2000 (2510 MB) Firstly I install Win98 > next RedHat 6.1 > at last Storm Linux. My problem is now I'm not able to boot Red Hat linux. only boot wi

Re: In trouble

1999-12-16 Thread dyer
Robert Thrall wrote: > > I have the deluxe Mandrake OS of Linux installed this week on my > computer. But, none of the command references from the readme files > work in the root or user modes. I can type in all the commands I want, > but I keep getting no access to such files. For instance, I

In trouble

1999-12-16 Thread Robert Thrall
I have the deluxe Mandrake OS of Linux installed this week on my computer. But, none of the command references from the readme files work in the root or user modes. I can type in all the commands I want, but I keep getting no access to such files. For instance, I would lie to install the Star Of

Re: newbie² in trouble: installation failshello there, (please forgive my poor English)I've got an interesting case for you linux wizzkids...I tried to install Debian 2.1 and now i can't boot from hard disk andfloppy, or reinstall the system:I tried to install Debian 2.1 on a 486 with floppies.I managed to bootfrom hard disk, and started doing some linux. Soon i got tired ofdownloading the packages each time i wanted to try something new andordered the cdroms. First wanted to configure the cd-driver for mycreative labs CR-563 B in linux, it never worked out(also in dselect).After a while i convinced myself it would be better to reinstall (whatwould allow me to repartition as well). I still had a rescue and a bootdisk. I repartitioned, and wanted to continue with a cdrom-installation.I couldn't configure my cdrom-driver. I tried a few things, and gave itup. When i wanted to reboot, i found out my hard disk was empty(ipartitioned it), and i tried to reboot with my boot disk. Linux stoppedbooting with an 'unable to open an initial console' message. Then icould only try to reinstall with floppies. When i started the wholeinstallation once again everything seemed allright, till i came at'install the OS kernel and modules' where you have to insert the rescuedisk (it was already inserted). i got 'this is not the rescuefloppy...'message. tried it again and again, nothing helped. I threw thefloppy away, took another computer, rawrited2 resc1440.bin to it, thisone didn't work either, nor did any other floppy.(all formatted 14.4disks that allowed me to start the installation but stopped at the samepoint).So these are my questions: how can i get Linux to understand that i'musing the right floppies?how can i configure my CR-563creative labs in the installation program?what is this message when i bootfrom a boot-floppy:'unable to open an initial console'?here are some technical details: MB: Sis85c47,BIOS: Award v 4.50G,12MBram, SB16 with CR-563B CDROM (proprietary), linuxver: Debian 2.1, kernel

1999-08-03 Thread Mark Wagnon
Holy smoke! I didn't know one could get that much into a Subject header!!! -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_

newbie² in trouble: installation failshello there, ( please forgive my poor English)I've got an interesting case for you linux wizzkids...I tried to install Debian 2.1 and now i can't boot from hard disk andfloppy, or reinstall the system:I tried to install Debian 2.1 on a 486 with floppies.I managed to bootfrom hard disk, and started doing some linux. Soon i got tired ofdownloading the packages each time i wanted to try something new andordered the cdroms. First wanted to configure the cd-driver for mycreative labs CR-563 B in linux, it never worked out(also in dselect).After a while i convinced myself it would be better to reinstall (whatwould allow me to repartition as well). I still had a rescue and a bootdisk. I repartitioned, and wanted to continue with a cdrom-installation.I couldn't configure my cdrom-driver. I tried a few things, and gave it up. When i wanted to reboot, i found out my hard disk was empty(i partitioned it), and i tried to reboot with my boot disk. Linux stopped booting with an 'unable to open an initial console' message. Then i could only try to reinstall with floppies. When i started the whole installation once again everything seemed allright, till i came at 'install the OS kernel and modules' where you have to insert the rescue disk (it was already inserted). i got 'this is not the rescue floppy...'message. tried it again and again, nothing helped. I threw the floppy away, took another computer, rawrited2 resc1440.bin to it, this one didn't work either, nor did any other floppy.(all formatted 14.4 disks that allowed me to start the installation but stopped at the same point).So these are my questions: how can i get Linux to understand that i'musing the right floppies? how can i configure my CR-563 creative labs in the installation program? what is this message when i boot from a boot-floppy:'unable to open an initial console'?here are some technical details: MB: Sis85c47,BIOS: Award v 4.50G,12MBram, SB16 with CR-563B CDROM (proprietary), linuxver: Debian 2.1, kernel

1999-08-03 Thread Mike Bulmer
>hello there, (please forgive my poor English) Hi Damiaan No need, Your English is very good. I don't know anything about your cdrom, but I do have allot Of experience with bad disks. Try A different disk and redownload resc1440.bin and rawrite it again it may have gotten corrupted ( con

Re: newbie² in trouble: installation fails

1999-08-03 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 01:38:50AM +0200, damiaan wrote: > hello there, (please forgive my poor English) Your English, especially the spelling, seems much better than a lot of Americans I know :-) If only we in the States had such a good grasp of foreign languages as you Europeans do :-) > I tri

newbie² in trouble: installation fails

1999-08-02 Thread damiaan
hello there, (please forgive my poor English) I've got an interesting case for you linux wizzkids... I tried to install Debian 2.1 and now i can't boot from hard disk and floppy, or reinstall the system: I tried to install Debian 2.1 on a 486 with floppies.I managed to boot from hard disk, and s

debian.midco.net mirror in trouble ...

1999-07-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
Hey everyone, I just returned from a week vacation and after being assured that everything worked fine in my absence, I find that's not the case regarding debian.midco.net. I don't know how out of shape the mirror is, but it's probably not up-to-date. I'll try to get it there ASAP. The machine

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on why MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

1998-11-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 12:09:54PM +0100, Roberto Ripio wrote: > El Wed, 04 Nov 1998, Chad A. Adlawan escribió: > > http://www.opensource.org/halloween.html Very interesting. I can't believe they describe Gimp 1.0 as Paintbrush. At least they weren't stupid enough to say nasty things about Pe

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on why MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

1998-11-04 Thread Roberto Ripio
El Wed, 04 Nov 1998, Chad A. Adlawan escribió: >Hi everyone ! Anyway, i glanced on this one from David Ranch's page >and some of you might be intersted in reading it. > > >This is an excellent doc that was leaked out of MS on the future >issue of O

[Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on why MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

1998-11-04 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
Hi everyone ! Anyway, i glanced on this one from David Ranch's page and some of you might be intersted in reading it. Cheers, Chad This is an excellent doc that was leaked out of MS on the future issue of Open Source OSes like Linux, etc. The hos