Re: Oops - copied iso image to wrong device

2013-10-15 Thread mark ryan
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Brian wrote: > On Sun 13 Oct 2013 at 00:54:44 +, mark ryan wrote: > > > I was creating a bootable USB stick from an installer image on another > > external hard drive. I did a cat debian-7.1.0-i386-netinst.iso > /dev/sdb > > when I meant /dev/sdc. sdb was my

Re: Oops - copied iso image to wrong device

2013-10-15 Thread mark ryan
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > The problem is that you didn't delete it, but you've overwritten the > data, OTOH the ISO is very small, so not very much is overwritten. First > you need to try to recover the partition table. Assumed this should > work, then mount the driv

Re: Oops - copied iso image to wrong device

2013-10-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 10:52:33PM +0100, Brian wrote: > The dd command was recommended on the off-chance GRUB might be put on > the drive now or in the future; it will refuse to install. I see, I didn't know that, thank you. Apparently grub-setup is the bit that complains, and it can be made to

Re: Oops - copied iso image to wrong device

2013-10-13 Thread Brian
On Sun 13 Oct 2013 at 21:49:40 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:00:50AM +0100, Brian wrote: > > The data on the drive are gone. Do > > > >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb count=1 > > > > to remove all traces of the iso you put on it and start from scratch. > > …why

Re: Oops - copied iso image to wrong device

2013-10-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:00:50AM +0100, Brian wrote: > The data on the drive are gone. Do > >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb count=1 > > to remove all traces of the iso you put on it and start from scratch. …why? As things currently stand, the user could possibly reconstruct the partition

Re: Oops - copied iso image to wrong device

2013-10-13 Thread Hans
Am Sonntag, 13. Oktober 2013, 11:00:50 schrieb Brian: > On Sun 13 Oct 2013 at 00:54:44 +, mark ryan wrote: > > I was creating a bootable USB stick from an installer image on another > > external hard drive. I did a cat debian-7.1.0-i386-netinst.iso > /dev/sdb > > when I meant /dev/sdc. sdb was

Re: Oops - copied iso image to wrong device

2013-10-13 Thread Brian
On Sun 13 Oct 2013 at 00:54:44 +, mark ryan wrote: > I was creating a bootable USB stick from an installer image on another > external hard drive. I did a cat debian-7.1.0-i386-netinst.iso > /dev/sdb > when I meant /dev/sdc. sdb was my external drive with the iso on it, and > other files. I am

Re: Oops - copied iso image to wrong device

2013-10-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
The problem is that you didn't delete it, but you've overwritten the data, OTOH the ISO is very small, so not very much is overwritten. First you need to try to recover the partition table. Assumed this should work, then mount the drive read only and use a tool to undelete files for the original u

Re: How to recover after unintentional 'dpkg --unpack' ? (was ... Re: Dpkg SNAFU was Re: Oops!)

2013-08-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Bob Proulx wrote: > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > have resulted in Gnome being install, too. More or less. So I > > > > just did as root in /root a 'dpkg --download,' and then an > > > > '--unpack' thinking that would uncompress the .deb file in /root > > > > from which I wo

Re: How to recover after unintentional 'dpkg --unpack' ? (was ... Re: Dpkg SNAFU was Re: Oops!)

2013-08-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > have resulted in Gnome being install, too. More or less. So I > > > just did as root in /root a 'dpkg --download,' and then an > > > '--unpack' thinking that would uncompress the .deb file in /root > > > from which I would get the single svg file I needed, and then jus

Re: How to recover after unintentional 'dpkg --unpack' ? (was ... Re: Dpkg SNAFU was Re: Oops!)

2013-08-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Kailash wrote: > On Sunday 11 August 2013 10:39 AM, Dom wrote: > > On 11/08/13 03:43, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> > >>> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 06:13:20PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Changing subject as suggested by Chris, an

Re: How to recover after unintentional 'dpkg --unpack' ? (was ... Re: Dpkg SNAFU was Re: Oops!)

2013-08-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Dom wrote: > On 11/08/13 03:43, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 06:13:20PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> Changing subject as suggested by Chris, and reposting original > >>> question. > >>> ---

Re: How to recover after unintentional 'dpkg --unpack' ? (was ... Re: Dpkg SNAFU was Re: Oops!)

2013-08-11 Thread Kailash
On Sunday 11 August 2013 10:39 AM, Dom wrote: On 11/08/13 03:43, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 06:13:20PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: Changing subject as suggested by Chris, and reposting original question. -

Re: How to recover after unintentional 'dpkg --unpack' ? (was ... Re: Dpkg SNAFU was Re: Oops!)

2013-08-10 Thread Dom
On 11/08/13 03:43, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 06:13:20PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: Changing subject as suggested by Chris, and reposting original question. -

Re: How to recover after unintentional 'dpkg --unpack' ? (was ... Re: Dpkg SNAFU was Re: Oops!)

2013-08-10 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 06:13:20PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Changing subject as suggested by Chris, and reposting original > > question. > > - > > Still an unhelpful question,

How to recover after unintentional 'dpkg --unpack' ? (was ... Re: Dpkg SNAFU was Re: Oops!)

2013-08-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 06:13:20PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Changing subject as suggested by Chris, and reposting original question. > - Still an unhelpful question, esp when one knows the true meaning of SNAFU > have resul

Dpkg SNAFU was Re: Oops!

2013-08-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 10 August 2013 18:08:53 Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sat, 10 Aug 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 06:56:56PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > > > Could you please provide a meaningful subject relating to your post. > > This is the second try replying to yo

Re: Oops!

2013-08-10 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 06:56:56PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > Could you please provide a meaningful subject relating to your post. This is the second try replying to your post. The first one failed to send. Don't know why. I did. The o

Re: Oops!

2013-08-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 06:56:56PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: Could you please provide a meaningful subject relating to your post. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malc

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3 - again!

2008-04-13 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 02:51:10PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It looks like the system is still running, but any attempt to access the > hard drive gets stuck in an uninteruptible sleep. you might consider the following sysctl settings (if you want to automatically reboot the system): fi

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-13 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 02:35:25PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > my memory usage > has steadily climbed despite having no users on the system, perhaps htop memstat sysatat or similar things can help smartmontools hdparm (and badblocks, later) for the HD Also, how much (kernel) memory is used

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3 - again!

2008-04-13 Thread digbyt
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 05:55:36AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:23:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free -b > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > > Mem:1061478400 311463936 750014464

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-13 Thread digbyt
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 05:55:36AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:23:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free -b > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > > Mem:1061478400 311463936 750014464

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:23:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free -b > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem:1061478400 311463936 750014464 0 100552704 105132032 > -/+ buffers/cache: 105779200 955699200 > Swap

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-12 Thread digbyt
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 06:48:28PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Give us some hardware details. CPU and speed, ram size, swap size, any > errors in /var/log/syslog? > > You may want to install the memtest86+ package and run it when you can > spare the box for a while. The package installs a gr

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 02:23:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have recently installed debain Etch 40r3 on an older Intel desktop > which was previously reliably running a 2,4 Kernel SuSE system. > > The installation went pretty smoothly, and the system is being manly > used as a firewall

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-12 Thread digbyt
I would think so. It is quite a lightly loaded system: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free -b total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:1061478400 311463936 750014464 0 100552704 105132032 -/+ buffers/cache: 105779200 955699200 Swap:699138048

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 02:23:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > tuko kernel: Process kswapd0 (pid: 122, ti=dfa66000 task=dff98550 > task.ti=dfa66000) Is the memory (ram + swap) sufficient ? A 2.6 kernel might need more memory than a 2.4 kernel. The heavvier use of swap is needed, the easier

Re: Oops and segmentation fault

2006-03-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:08:10 + Pelusa Vali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi everybody, well my problem is this, i had debian sarge and because of many > changes i had to do to libs it become unstable, so i tried to reinstall it, > but now i cann't.it stops suddenly when try to install lib

Re: oops, I broke something :)

2004-12-27 Thread Kent West
dorn hetzel wrote: On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 05:56:10PM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 17:29:41 -0500, dorn hetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I installed GCC 3.4.3 to fix problems compiling some software, and then got into conflicts with different versions of the C libraries

Re: oops, I broke something :)

2004-12-27 Thread dorn hetzel
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 05:56:10PM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 17:29:41 -0500, dorn hetzel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I installed GCC 3.4.3 to fix problems compiling > > some software, and then got into conflicts with > > different versions of the C libraries (or at > >

Re: oops, I broke something :)

2004-12-25 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 05:29:41PM -0500, dorn hetzel wrote: > I installed GCC 3.4.3 to fix problems compiling > some software, and then got into conflicts with > different versions of the C libraries (or at > least that's what I think went wrong). I've got both gcc-3.3.5 and gcc-3.4.4 installed

Re: oops, I broke something :)

2004-12-25 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 17:29:41 -0500, dorn hetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed GCC 3.4.3 to fix problems compiling > some software, and then got into conflicts with > different versions of the C libraries (or at > least that's what I think went wrong). Then I > removed some older library

Re: oops, I broke something :)

2004-12-25 Thread dorn hetzel
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 05:29:41PM -0500, dorn hetzel wrote: > > I installed GCC 3.4.3 to fix problems compiling > some software, and then got into conflicts with > different versions of the C libraries (or at > least that's what I think went wrong). Then I > removed some older library versions

Re: Oops, no more /usr.

2004-08-24 Thread John Summerfield
Thomas Adam wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:48:34PM -0400, PaulNM wrote: 1: Should I tar /etc before this and overwrite it again afterwards? If so, are there any other directories I should do the same to? Unless you have made a lot of modifications, no. Of course, if you had made modific

Re: Oops, no more /usr.

2004-08-24 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:39:00PM -0500, Tim Kelley wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:05:28PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:48:34PM -0400, PaulNM wrote: > > > > 2: Is there a way to only reinstall packages with files in /usr? For > > > example, kernel-sources* has f

Re: Oops, no more /usr.

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 04:09:15PM -0400, PaulNM wrote: > 3: Maybe using net-installer cd to reinstall debs (at least base debs). > > Number 3 looks most appealing, I'm checking to see if it's possible. Any > other suggestions would appreciated. Sorry about that, I mis-understood your initial p

Re: Oops, no more /usr.

2004-08-24 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:05:28PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:48:34PM -0400, PaulNM wrote: > > 2: Is there a way to only reinstall packages with files in /usr? For > > example, kernel-sources* has files placed in /usr, but kernel-image* do not. > > COLUMNS=200 dpkg -

Re: Oops, no more /usr.

2004-08-24 Thread PaulNM
Thomas Adam wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:48:34PM -0400, PaulNM wrote: 1: Should I tar /etc before this and overwrite it again afterwards? If so, are there any other directories I should do the same to? Unless you have made a lot of modifications, no. Of course, if you had made modifications,

Re: Oops, no more /usr.

2004-08-24 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:48:34PM -0400, PaulNM wrote: > I have a Sarge system where I tried to move /usr to a separate > partition. To make a long story short, I accidently copied the Knoppix > cd's /usr, not the deb system's /usr. > > I actually saved /usr as /usrold on the original partitio

Re: Oops, no more /usr.

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:48:34PM -0400, PaulNM wrote: > 1: Should I tar /etc before this and overwrite it again afterwards? If > so, are there any other directories I should do the same to? Unless you have made a lot of modifications, no. Of course, if you had made modifications, you'd have don

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-11 Thread csj
On Thursday 11 October 2001 17:14, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > Linux is a couple of steps behing in ease of use in comparison to > windows. Windows is weak where linux is especially strong like > stability and flexibility. Ms has billions of dollars to invest > getting windows to be as good as Linux

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-11 Thread Erik Steffl
Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:44:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:28:42PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > > > > And he does have a point. The anti-M$ sentiment has led to a number of > > > > comments on this list that, wer

RE: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-11 Thread Brad R
e a matter of what is the best fit for the situation and individual. In my humble opinion, anyways. Hope this wasn't off topic. Brad R. -Original Message- From: John Gilger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 1:01 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: R

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-11 Thread John Gilger
From: "Hall Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Finally, what I'm really interested in is the adamant MS-bashers and when they've last used Windows. If they're s against it, I assume they either never have or it's been 5+ years. I'm not an "adamant MS-bahser", at least I don't think so ;) Howe

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > Sorry to disappoint you Hall, but I have used windows since the first > release of 95, and still have to use it regularly. Up until about 2 > weeks ago I had to have NT, then 2k on my machine at work. > Fortunately for me I now have Debian running on

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:14:45AM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > Hi All, > > firstly, these are just my opinions so lets not start a war. > > I think most of us would agree that linux is not the easiest to use > and in X, it is not the fastest and still not near the ease of use of > windows

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:44:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:28:42PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > > > And he does have a point. The anti-M$ sentiment has led to a number of > > > comments on this list that, were I thinking of transitioning to

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-11 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
Hi All, firstly, these are just my opinions so lets not start a war. I think most of us would agree that linux is not the easiest to use and in X, it is not the fastest and still not near the ease of use of windows - Mozilla takes a good few seconds to load up on at least the lower spec machines

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Hall Stevenson wrote: ... > This is kinda my point. If you haven't used an MS product in 'x' > number of years, how do you know it's the fault of the MS program ?? > Simply 'cause MS makes it ?? Because others who also haven't used that's actually a pretty good heuristics. (I use windows ever

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:28:42PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > > And he does have a point. The anti-M$ sentiment has led to a number of > > comments on this list that, were I thinking of transitioning to Linux, > > would deter me from doing so because self-righteousness

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread John Hasler
Hall Stevenson writes: > This is kinda my point. If you haven't used an MS product in 'x' number > of years, how do you know it's the fault of the MS program ?? I thought you were implying that the "MS bashers" were hypocrites who did use MS daily rather than people like me who haven't used it in

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Kent West wrote: > Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > > > Finally, what I'm really interested in is the adamant MS-bashers and > > when they've last used Windows. If they're s against it, I > > assume they either never have or it's been 5+ years. > > > > Regards > > Hall > >

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:59:14PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: ... | Finally, what I'm really interested in is the adamant MS-bashers and | when they've last used Windows. If they're s against it, I | assume they either never have or it's been 5+ years. Sorry to disappoint you Hall, but I hav

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread Kent West
Hall Stevenson wrote: Finally, what I'm really interested in is the adamant MS-bashers and when they've last used Windows. If they're s against it, I assume they either never have or it's been 5+ years. Regards Hall I'm a support tech at a university, keeping the PCs and Macs running f

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
> ... I do find discussions of Microsoft and its products boring > and usually off-topic Agreed. I guess I'm being a hypocrite though ;-) > Why shouldn't people with Microsoft-specific problems be > told to ask Microsoft for help? This is kinda my point. If you haven't used an MS product in

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:19:17PM -0400, Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Your message, and Nathan Norman's was similar, showed up with > a *.txt attachment containing this: > > Mmh, perhaps attached PGP/GPG-Signatures? Does this mail also > have an > attachement like the others? It's

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:58:57AM -0700, Ben Hartshorne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:37:17AM -0700, Royce Bell wrote: > > Uh...is there a reason why several posts to the list (usually from specific > > individuals), come with attached text files. I'm not in the habit o

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread John Hasler
Hall writes: > Finally, what I'm really interested in is the adamant MS-bashers and when > they've last used Windows. If they're s against it, I assume they > either never have or it's been 5+ years. It's been more than five years since I have used any Microsoft product. While not much of an M

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > And he does have a point. The anti-M$ sentiment has led to a > > number of comments on this list that, were I thinking of transitioning > > to Linux, would deter me from doing so because self-righteousness > > is rarely very friendly. > > I couldn't agree more. Despite not having used a Micro

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:17:19PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > I don't recall the specifics, but I don't think anything > definite was agreed upon. I *thought* some people did in fact > blame mutt (more specifically, an old(er) option in people's > /etc/Muttrc or ~/.muttrc that needed updating).

Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:28:42PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > And he does have a point. The anti-M$ sentiment has led to a number of > comments on this list that, were I thinking of transitioning to Linux, > would deter me from doing so because self-righteousness is rarely very > friendly. I

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Ben Hartshorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Strictly, I guess you're right. But then, MIME itself isn't a standard > yet either. True, but it's one step further down the line. Check out RFC2026 for the difference between proposed standards and draft standards. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:35:02PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:52:28PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > > Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > mutt doesn't want to change because it's using the open standard > > > correctly and m$ doesn't want to change becau

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:52:28PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > mutt doesn't want to change because it's using the open standard > > correctly and m$ doesn't want to change because it's using the open > > standard incorrectly. > > It's not a standard

Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

2001-10-10 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:24:36PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Unfortunately, as is usually the case with interoperability problems, > there's no clear place to go first: mutt doesn't want to change because > it's using the open standard correctly and m$ doesn't want to change > because it's using

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Alan Shutko
"Hall Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So Microsoft isn't wrong ... yet ?? I don't know whether MS is wrong or not, not using the mailer myself, and not being entirely sure what the MIME standards require mailers to do in the case of multipart subtypes they don't recognize. I do not beli

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > mutt doesn't want to change because it's using the > > open standard correctly and m$ doesn't want to change > > because it's using the open standard incorrectly. > > It's not a standard, yet. So Microsoft isn't wrong ... yet ?? You're a brave man for claiming that mutt's wrong about standard

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > mutt doesn't want to change because it's using the open standard > correctly and m$ doesn't want to change because it's using the open > standard incorrectly. It's not a standard, yet. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Duck

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Royce Bell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011010 11:20]: > Hall... > > I appreciate your comments, but hasten to reply that the only thing > comparable to the arrogance of Microsoft is the reverse arrogance of their > detractors. I would have sworn that my questions to this list were in the > interest of

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
> IMO, mutt and Mailman are both doing the right thing by > properly implementing the relevant standards. You may > or may not agree. I don't recall the specifics, but I don't think anything definite was agreed upon. I *thought* some people did in fact blame mutt (more specifically, an old(er) o

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:19:17PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > As I recall from a past discussion/arguement/debate over this, > it had something to do with mutt actually doing something > wrong... Or was it a misconfiguration on some user's part in > their mutt config ?? None of the above, IIRC

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
Your message, and Nathan Norman's was similar, showed up with a *.txt attachment containing this: Mmh, perhaps attached PGP/GPG-Signatures? Does this mail also have an attachement like the others? It's signed with GnuPG. It also contained a *.dat attachment containing this: -BEGIN PGP SIGNAT

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Royce Bell
t me that much. rpb = R. P. Bell Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Hall Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 10:53 AM Subject: Re: Oops, forgot... >snip< >You've been over-educated... They are safe to open believe it >or not. > > Hall

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Alexander Wasmuth
Royce Bell schrieb: > Uh...is there a reason why several posts to the list (usually from specific > individuals), come with attached text files. I'm not in the habit of > opening ANY attachment, not even from friends I know well, and this is quite > disconcerting. Mmh, perhaps attached PGP/GPG-S

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:37:17AM -0700, Royce Bell wrote: > Uh...is there a reason why several posts to the list (usually from specific > individuals), come with attached text files. I'm not in the habit of > opening ANY attachment, not even from friends I know well, and this is quite > disconce

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:37:17AM -0700, Royce Bell wrote: | Uh...is there a reason why several posts to the list (usually from specific | individuals), come with attached text files. I'm not in the habit of | opening ANY attachment, not even from friends I know well, and this is quite | disconce

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:37:17AM -0700, Royce Bell wrote: > Uh...is there a reason why several posts to the list (usually from specific > individuals), come with attached text files. I'm not in the habit of > opening ANY attachment, not even from friends I know well, and this is quite > disconce

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Uh...is there a reason why several posts to the list (usually > from specific individuals), come with attached text files. > I'm not in the habit of opening ANY attachment, not even > from friends I know well, and this is quite disconcerting. This has been brought up before, but I don't recall w

Re: Oops, I blew away dpkg/dselect

2001-09-05 Thread John Patton
Deb files are ar archives containing 3 files. Download dpkg...deb, and then run the following command to unpack it: ar x dpkg...deb One of the files it will create is data.tar.gz. Move that file to root (/), and gunzip/untar it. It will install all of the needed binaries and libraries. You wi

Re: Oops, I blew away dpkg/dselect

2001-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:52:05PM -0500, Matt Wehland wrote: > The problem comes in that while upgrading something puked but the older > version of dpkg was removed (yes I had to type in 'removing this may screw > up your system' or something like that). Don't do that then :-) > The newer vers

Re: oops

2001-05-30 Thread will trillich
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:15:39PM -0600, HAL 9000 wrote: >The next day I was playing with a operational Linux system which would boot > from the hard drive. Since I'm a complete novice at Linux I didn't know even > how to view a directory. I had seen the install done so I thought I'd > re-in

Re: oops..missed a module

2001-03-27 Thread Ray Percival
Use modconf to add it. -- Original Message -- From: "Jake R. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:38:12 -0600 (CST) >I recently installed debian and I missed a module es1688 for my latitude >lm sound support. Is there a way that I can ad

Re: oops

2000-10-01 Thread George Bonser
But I WAS quick to point out my error. Sorry about that but I also tried to respond as soon as I knew I was in error. Please check the times on the messages. On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > Sorry to have jumped the gun but I am "spring loaded" to blame libc at > > this point fo

Re: oops

2000-10-01 Thread Joey Tsai
Firstly, thanks to Ben for his work, the speed at which the libc6 issues were resolved calls for high praise. The only issue that seems to remain for me is with exim - after fetchmail grabs my SMTP mail, exim doesn't deliver it. Exim's logs say Unable to get root to set uid 1000 and gid 8 for lo

Re: oops

2000-09-30 Thread Ben Collins
> > Sorry to have jumped the gun but I am "spring loaded" to blame libc at > this point for any weirdies I see. > which helps nothing, to say the least about making an already overworked libc maintainer stop what he's doing and take time to investigate half-investigated bug reports... --

Exporting X-stuff (was: Re: oops..sorry for the blank msg earlier)

2000-07-05 Thread Morten Liebach
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 10:59:04PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 12:18:40AM +, john smith wrote: > > Strongly suggest you learn to add paraphraphs and whitespace to your > posts. > Aye! :-) > > I have another lazy > > question, I want to allow another client to

Re: oops..sorry for the blank msg earlier

2000-07-05 Thread kmself
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 12:18:40AM +, john smith wrote: Strongly suggest you learn to add paraphraphs and whitespace to your posts. > I have another lazy > question, I want to allow another client to connect to the x-Server.how do I > do this? i.e. to allow another user to use the x-server

Re: Oops. New kernel will not come up

2000-04-07 Thread David Wright
Quoting Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > How do I do "dkpkg -i old k-i" if the system would not > come up at all? You can't. But that's not the point. You can boot any kernel in any old way (rescue disk, boot floppy, bootable CD, etc. and mount your filesystem. You may not even have

Re: Oops. New kernel will not come up

2000-04-06 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi Eric, How do I do "dkpkg -i old k-i" if the system would not come up at all? "eric k. wolven" wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Tim: > > It may be a "buggy" kernel. dpkg -i old kernel-image (the one that works). > Try downloading the k.-s.-2.2.14-4 and configuring fro

Re: Oops. New kernel will not come up

2000-04-05 Thread eric k. wolven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Tim: It may be a "buggy" kernel. dpkg -i old kernel-image (the one that works). Try downloading the k.-s.-2.2.14-4 and configuring from there. I had problems with the k-s-2.2.14-3. Eric Wolven > "Timothy" == Timothy C Phan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Re: oops.... I screwed up wmnet and want it back

1999-06-24 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Aaron Solochek wrote: > > I was messing around trying to get wmnet to load with x, so I put it in > .xinitrc. First of all, is this the place to put things like this? > Even if its not, thats where it went, but instead of of gicing me the > outline for manual placement like it did when loaded man

Re: [oops] Sound-HOWTO docs wrong; what next?

1999-06-16 Thread athos
Kent wrote: KW> Hartmut Figge wrote: KW> Thanks for the response! I really appreciate it. Comments dispersed KW> throughout below: Oops. Well.. scratch my comments. :) -- | Shawn Sulma, The Rigel Group | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _\|/_ http://www.rigelgroup.org/

Re: (Oops. Again with no HTML) Std. Serial ports beyond 115K?

1999-02-24 Thread Chuck Mead
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Kevin Traas wrote: > I want to connect an external ISDN to my system using the MB's standard > serial ports. However, everything's telling me I can only push 115K through > these serial ports - far less than the theoretical max of an ISDN TA that > does V.42bis. > > Any comm

Re: oops, gues MC is broken :)

1999-01-10 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 12:41:57AM +1300, John Leget wrote: > Just updated with potato, maybe not such a good idea :). > > Anyway seems Midnight Commander has broken, now comes up > > mc: error in loading shared libraries > /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1: undefined symbol: stdscr Yes, it's broken :( Look

Re: Oops! Sent that too soon.

1998-12-06 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 22:35:00 AST Jeff Browning writes: > > And another thing. Is it possible to get back into the drivers > configuration thing that I used after installing the drivers disk? modconf Torsten BTW: I just noticed that modconf speaks German to me, impressive.

Re: (oops) loading pcmcia eth0 II

1998-06-18 Thread Ian Stuart
Micha Kersloot wrote: > > Michael Roark wrote: > > > > /lib/modules/2.0.30/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol . . . > > (there are several lines of this) > > Looks like you've got diverent versions of the Kernel and the pcmcia > modules That would tie in with my experiences - you need to redo

Re: (oops) loading pcmcia eth0 II

1998-06-18 Thread Micha Kersloot
Michael Roark wrote: > > /lib/modules/2.0.30/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol . . . > (there are several lines of this) Looks like you've got diverent versions of the Kernel and the pcmcia modules -- Met vriendelijke groet Micha Kersloot Ko

Re: oops, the message

1998-06-06 Thread Ed Cogburn
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > d) if kernel-headers is installed after kernel-source, it seems to change the > linux >symlink to itself. libc6dev seems to demand kernelheaders even if > source is already >installed. this also causes "include/asm" is a directory > problems > > rick >

Re: oops, the message

1998-06-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
greg bonser wrote, > On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > oops, here's the message. And it's always the same LBA & Sector > Back the hard drive up NOW. Are you running 2.0.33? I got errors just > like this with 2.0.33 and UltraDMA disks. Reverting to 2.0.32 fixed it > for me

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