Darac Marjal writes:
On 10/06/2023 16:08, S M wrote:
On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 02:12:14PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
Is command-line editing part of POSIX, then? Are you suggesting that dash is
missing some bit of POSIX compliance? That's possible.
Command-line editing in vi-mode is defined by
On 10/06/2023 16:08, S M wrote:
On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 02:12:14PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
Is command-line editing part of POSIX, then? Are you suggesting that dash is
missing some bit of POSIX compliance? That's possible.
Command-line editing in vi-mode is defined by POSIX, but it's not m
On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 09:21:19PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Unfortunately neither the Debian changelog of dash nor the commit
> message for this change[2] give an explanation. Removing the debconf
> handling certainly simplifies the package, and there are not too many
> scripts around that sta
On 2023-06-09 12:06 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2023-06-09 at 12:00, Charles Curley wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 13:38:25 +
>> S M wrote:
>>
>>> I noticed on a newly installed system with Debian 12 that
>>> dpkg-reconfigure no longer allows to switch the /bin/sh symlink from
>>> dash to
On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 09:49:14AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> There's no point debating any further. S M has a unique desire, which
> is not shared by any other person I've ever heard of, and they're going
> to do what they want.
I didn't mean this to be a discussion about my particular wants
On 6/9/23 20:33, S M wrote:
On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 08:00:51PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 05:45:04PM -0500, S M wrote:
Regarding a workaround, I ended up creating a symlink /usr/local/bin/sh
pointing to bash and chsh to that.
Why? Why not simply chsh to /bin/bash if
On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 02:12:14PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> Is command-line editing part of POSIX, then? Are you suggesting that dash is
> missing some bit of POSIX compliance? That's possible.
Command-line editing in vi-mode is defined by POSIX, but it's not mandatory as
far as I know.
On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 02:12:14PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On 10/06/2023 01:32, S M wrote:
> > Yes. POSIX-compliance is a feature to me. I'd actually be fine with
> > using dash itself but the lack of command line editing and filename
> > completion is a deal-breaker to me.
> Is command-line
On 10/06/2023 01:32, S M wrote:
On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 08:00:51PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 05:45:04PM -0500, S M wrote:
Regarding a workaround, I ended up creating a symlink /usr/local/bin/sh
pointing to bash and chsh to that.
Why? Why not simply chsh to /bin/bash
On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 08:00:51PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 05:45:04PM -0500, S M wrote:
> > Regarding a workaround, I ended up creating a symlink /usr/local/bin/sh
> > pointing to bash and chsh to that.
>
> Why? Why not simply chsh to /bin/bash if that's what you wan
On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 05:45:04PM -0500, S M wrote:
> Regarding a workaround, I ended up creating a symlink /usr/local/bin/sh
> pointing to bash and chsh to that.
Why? Why not simply chsh to /bin/bash if that's what you want as your
interactive shell?
Are you somehow relying on bash's disabling
On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 04:07:03PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Nothing you wrote here is incorrect, but none of it explains the policy
> change that has occurred. I won't even say it's a bad policy change.
> It makes at least a little bit of sense...
Yeah, I'd also like to know what was the re
Greg Wooledge wrote:
...
> Huh. Well, that's rather important, isn't it?
>
> The package maintainers seem to have forgotten to TELL us this, at least
> in the NEWS.Debian.gz file, which still says only:
>
> unicorn:/usr/share/doc/dash$ zless NEWS.Debian.gz
> dash (0.5.5.1-2.1) unstable; urgency=l
On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 08:20:52PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote:
> Le 09/06/2023 à 15:38, S M a écrit :
> > I noticed on a newly installed system with Debian 12 that dpkg-reconfigure
> > no longer allows to switch the /bin/sh symlink from dash to bash. This is
> > apparently intentional as per the
Le 09/06/2023 à 15:38, S M a écrit :
Good day.
I noticed on a newly installed system with Debian 12 that dpkg-reconfigure no
longer allows to switch the /bin/sh symlink from dash to bash. This is
apparently intentional as per the following:
https://launchpad.net/debian/+source/dash/0.5.11+git
On 2023-06-09 at 12:00, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 13:38:25 +
> S M wrote:
>
>> I noticed on a newly installed system with Debian 12 that
>> dpkg-reconfigure no longer allows to switch the /bin/sh symlink from
>> dash to bash.
>
> You can still change it manually (rm ; ln -s
On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 13:38:25 +
S M wrote:
> I noticed on a newly installed system with Debian 12 that
> dpkg-reconfigure no longer allows to switch the /bin/sh symlink from
> dash to bash.
You can still change it manually (rm ; ln -s).
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Does anybody read signatures any more?
https://char
On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 07:20:29AM -0700, Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> >From the comments on
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dash/-/commit/c322a1c9fc6be11d7eb4439407c0a398aba8bbb7,
> this is intentional and permanent. /bin/sh pointing to bash is no
> longer supported.
Huh. Well, that's rather impor
On Fri, Jun 09 2023 at 01:38:25 PM, S M wrote:
> Good day.
>
> I noticed on a newly installed system with Debian 12 that
> dpkg-reconfigure no longer allows to switch the /bin/sh symlink from
> dash to bash. This is apparently intentional as per the following:
>
> https://launchpad.net/debian/+sou
Quoting David Wright (2019-07-16 19:41:17)
> On Sat 11 May 2019 at 01:22:09 (+0200), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > Den 2019-05-10 kl. 18:21, skrev David Wright:
> > > > For example, I append lines to /etc/console-setup/remap.inc to
> > > > do things like enhancing the navigation keys, and preventi
On Wed 17 Jul 2019 at 05:53:30 (+0200), Erik Josefsson wrote:
> On 17 July 2019 01:22:52 CEST, David Wright wrote:
> >On Sat 11 May 2019 at 10:10:42 (+0200), Erik Josefsson wrote:
> >> […]
> >> That encourages me to ask another stupid question: I'd like to know
> >> why the "Keyboard model" has to
Hi David, which "driver doesn't seem to have a clue"?
//Erik
sorry for top posting
On 17 July 2019 01:22:52 CEST, David Wright wrote:
>On Sat 11 May 2019 at 10:10:42 (+0200), Erik Josefsson wrote:
>> […]
>> That encourages me to ask another stupid question: I'd like to know
>> why the "Keyboard
On Sat 11 May 2019 at 10:10:42 (+0200), Erik Josefsson wrote:
> […]
> That encourages me to ask another stupid question: I'd like to know
> why the "Keyboard model" has to be set before "Keyboard layout" when
> walking through the dpkg-reconfigure menues?
>
> If it was the other way around, the fi
On Sat 11 May 2019 at 01:22:09 (+0200), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Den 2019-05-10 kl. 18:21, skrev David Wright:
> > > For example, I append lines to /etc/console-setup/remap.inc to do
> > > things like enhancing the navigation keys, and preventing Alt-space
> > > from producing NO-BREAK SPACE (
On 5/22/19 12:40 PM, David Wright wrote:
On Wed 22 May 2019 at 04:06:46 (+), Erik Josefsson wrote:
On 5/5/19 7:21 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
I don't know if there is a screw loose in your laptop, or
warewolves pissed on a USB plugs.
Well, what comes out of one of the keyboards now is
On Wed 22 May 2019 at 15:18:36 (+0200), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting David Wright (2019-05-22 14:40:28)
> > On Wed 22 May 2019 at 04:06:46 (+), Erik Josefsson wrote:
> > > On 5/5/19 7:21 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > > I don't know if there is a screw loose in your laptop, or
> > > > w
Quoting David Wright (2019-05-22 14:40:28)
> On Wed 22 May 2019 at 04:06:46 (+), Erik Josefsson wrote:
> > On 5/5/19 7:21 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > I don't know if there is a screw loose in your laptop, or
> > > warewolves pissed on a USB plugs.
> >
> > Well, what comes out of one of t
On Wed 22 May 2019 at 04:06:46 (+), Erik Josefsson wrote:
> On 5/5/19 7:21 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > I don't know if there is a screw loose in your laptop, or
> > warewolves pissed on a USB plugs.
>
> Well, what comes out of one of the keyboards now is p.
In response to
On 5/5/19 7:21 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
I don't know if there is a screw loose in your laptop, or
warewolves pissed on a USB plugs.
Well, what comes out of one of the keyboards now is p.
Could be warewolf p's, or baby drool.
It's magic either way.
//Erik
Den 2019-05-11 kl. 01:22, skrev Jonas Smedegaard:
Quoting Erik Josefsson (2019-05-11 00:51:38)
My original problem was that I could not figure out how to get both
Swedish and pipe "|" at all (which Jonas duly noted by removing "¦"
from the original subject line).
I edited the subject line in my
Quoting Erik Josefsson (2019-05-11 00:51:38)
> My original problem was that I could not figure out how to get both
> Swedish and pipe "|" at all (which Jonas duly noted by removing "¦"
> from the original subject line).
I edited the subject line in my posts unrelated to the content of the
threa
Den 2019-05-10 kl. 18:21, skrev David Wright:
On Fri 10 May 2019 at 15:45:34 (+0200), Erik Josefsson wrote:
https://www.iso.org/standard/57852.html
If it was compliant, then I guess that would make an informed choice
of "Keyboard model" easier than it is now.
The only rule I know is that
On Fri 10 May 2019 at 15:45:34 (+0200), Erik Josefsson wrote:
> Thanks for helping me sort out my thoughts!
OK, but I don't claim any expertise here.
> Den 2019-05-06 kl. 22:42, skrev David Wright:
> > [Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with the Teres keyboard beyond looking at
> > https://www.olimex.
Hi David!
Thanks for helping me sort out my thoughts!
Den 2019-05-06 kl. 22:42, skrev David Wright:
On Sun 05 May 2019 at 20:52:40 (+0200), Erik Josefsson wrote:
Den 2019-05-05 kl. 16:26, skrev David Wright:
Is this some sort of ticking off for wondering why the OP is*so*
keen to be able to t
On Sun 05 May 2019 at 20:52:40 (+0200), Erik Josefsson wrote:
> Den 2019-05-05 kl. 16:26, skrev David Wright:
> > Is this some sort of ticking off for wondering why the OP is*so*
> > keen to be able to type ¦ directly on the keyboard that they are
> > almost willing to use a USB keyboard with a lap
Den 2019-05-05 kl. 16:26, skrev David Wright:
Is this some sort of ticking off for wondering why the OP is*so*
keen to be able to type ¦ directly on the keyboard that they are
almost willing to use a USB keyboard with a laptop to get it?
Particularly as the wiki page referred to above has a refer
Quoting David Wright (2019-05-05 16:26:26)
> On Sat 04 May 2019 at 21:16:25 (+0200), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting David Wright (2019-05-04 20:14:12)
> > > We British are used to having £ available, but US keyboards don't
> > > even have ¢.
> >
> > ¢ (ecu) is obsolete since many years.
>
>
On Sat 04 May 2019 at 21:16:25 (+0200), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting David Wright (2019-05-04 20:14:12)
> > On Sat 04 May 2019 at 12:23:48 (-0400), Kenneth Parker wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 10:37 AM Erik Josefsson wrote:
> > >
> > > > And it works! Now I am just missing "|" and "¦".
Den 2019-05-05 kl. 12:47, skrev Jonas Smedegaard:
Quoting Erik Josefsson (2019-05-05 12:06:53)
With some stickers to put onto the printed keys I'll be fine. Grateful
for pointers to such.
Did you try search the web e.g. for "keyboard stickers"?
I did! And "swerty" came up!
http://johanegustaf
Quoting Erik Josefsson (2019-05-05 12:06:53)
> With some stickers to put onto the printed keys I'll be fine. Grateful
> for pointers to such.
Did you try search the web e.g. for "keyboard stickers"?
- Jonas
--
* Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt
* Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website:
Den 2019-05-05 kl. 04:29, skrev Erik Josefsson:
Den 2019-05-04 kl. 21:43, skrev Jonas Smedegaard:
For danish, picking the layout "Danish (Win keys) has pipe key reachable
as AltGr+= (where AltGr is the right Alt key).
I also set "Menu" (which is the key between right Alt and right Ctrl) as
comp
Quoting Erik Josefsson (2019-05-05 03:48:22)
> Den 2019-05-04 kl. 19:08, skrev Jonas Smedegaard:
> > Quoting Kenneth Parker (2019-05-04 18:23:48)
> >> On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 10:37 AM Erik Josefsson wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> -> Generic 105-key PC (intl.)
> >>> -> Other
> >>> -> Swedish
> >>> -> Swedi
Den 2019-05-05 kl. 04:31, skrev Doug:
What is on the last key on the right, directly above the right Enter
key? On a US keyboard, the is a back slant (unshifted) and the pipe,
shifted. You haven't mentioned that key at all.
The print on that physical key on the Teres laptop is backslash \ an
On 05/04/2019 08:59 PM, Erik Josefsson wrote:
Den 2019-05-04 kl. 18:23, skrev Kenneth Parker:
On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 10:37 AM Erik Josefsson wrote:
-> Generic 105-key PC (intl.)
-> Other
-> Swedish
-> Swedish
-> The default for the keyboard layout
-> No compose key
Den 2019-05-04 kl. 21:43, skrev Jonas Smedegaard:
For danish, picking the layout "Danish (Win keys) has pipe key reachable
as AltGr+= (where AltGr is the right Alt key).
I also set "Menu" (which is the key between right Alt and right Ctrl) as
compose key.
So if you were to make a Danish Teres
Den 2019-05-04 kl. 19:08, skrev Jonas Smedegaard:
Quoting Kenneth Parker (2019-05-04 18:23:48)
On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 10:37 AM Erik Josefsson wrote:
-> Generic 105-key PC (intl.)
-> Other
-> Swedish
-> Swedish
-> The default for the keyboard layout
-> No compose key
-> Use Control+Alt+Backsp
Den 2019-05-04 kl. 18:23, skrev Kenneth Parker:
On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 10:37 AM Erik Josefsson wrote:
-> Generic 105-key PC (intl.)
-> Other
-> Swedish
-> Swedish
-> The default for the keyboard layout
-> No compose key
-> Use Control+Alt+Backspace to terminate the
Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2019-05-04 19:08:19)
> Quoting Kenneth Parker (2019-05-04 18:23:48)
> > On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 10:37 AM Erik Josefsson wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -> Generic 105-key PC (intl.)
> > > -> Other
> > > -> Swedish
> > > -> Swedish
> > > -> The default for the keyboard layout
> > >
Quoting David Wright (2019-05-04 20:14:12)
> On Sat 04 May 2019 at 12:23:48 (-0400), Kenneth Parker wrote:
> > On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 10:37 AM Erik Josefsson wrote:
> >
> > > And it works! Now I am just missing "|" and "¦".
> >
> > With US Keyboards, I see either of those characters, right of th
On Sat 04 May 2019 at 12:23:48 (-0400), Kenneth Parker wrote:
> On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 10:37 AM Erik Josefsson wrote:
>
> > And it works! Now I am just missing "|" and "¦".
>
> With US Keyboards, I see either of those characters, right of the "p" key.
> I was not aware that there were two, disti
Quoting Kenneth Parker (2019-05-04 18:23:48)
> On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 10:37 AM Erik Josefsson wrote:
>
>
> > -> Generic 105-key PC (intl.)
> > -> Other
> > -> Swedish
> > -> Swedish
> > -> The default for the keyboard layout
> > -> No compose key
> > -> Use Control+Alt+Backspace to terminate the
On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 10:37 AM Erik Josefsson wrote:
> -> Generic 105-key PC (intl.)
> -> Other
> -> Swedish
> -> Swedish
> -> The default for the keyboard layout
> -> No compose key
> -> Use Control+Alt+Backspace to terminate the X server?
> sudo shutdown -h now
>
> And it works! Now I am jus
On Friday 22 January 2010 10:03:07 Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Is it normal that dpkg-reconfigure can be affected by environment
> variables?
That's pretty normal. Most programs don't go out of their way to ignore your
environment settings.
dpkg-reconfigure also uses things like LANG and LC_* for
On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:57:22 +0300 Γιώργος Πάλλας
sent this information:
>Charlie wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> System Debian Testing [Squeeze] after upgrade:
>>
>> As root did: dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc
>>
>> Got the error messages below:
>>
>> # dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc
>> info: Checking if i
Charlie wrote:
Hello Everyone,
System Debian Testing [Squeeze] after upgrade:
As root did: dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc
Got the error messages below:
# dpkg-reconfigure sysv-rc
info: Checking if it is safe to convert to dependency based boot.
error: Unable to migrate to dependency based boot sequ
The separator is a dot not a colon or double colon.
1.2.3.4.port as in 123.123.123.123.2525
HTH/Sx
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On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:14:13AM +, Carr, Chris wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I can connect to my IMAPS server remotely to read my home email, but
> some places block port 25 outbound so I can't connect to my home SMTP
> server to relay email sent from that account. If I could get exim to
> listen on
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 08:16:00PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> What does it mean when you've got all of the questions answered by
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg refuses to
> create configuration files because pre-existing files were found?
This may be related
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 05:47:36AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> dpkg-reconfigure couldn't reconfigure xserver-xorg because
> /etc/x11/xorg.conf is being shared by something else on this system. what
> might be sharing it and how might that be cleared?
I don't know if it is complaining about ano
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 08:16:00PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> What does it mean when you've got all of the questions answered by
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg refuses to
> create configuration files because pre-existing files were found?
Run dexconf
I don'
Am Freitag, 5. Oktober 2007 03:16 schrieb Jude DaShiell:
> What does it mean when you've got all of the questions answered by
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg refuses to
> create configuration files because pre-existing files were found?
Hi,
have you tried this:
#
Got it!
After removing the problem user from all likely groups, there was no difference
- still could not run X.
Started getting desparate and deleting anything that looked like a
configuration file or directory in the user's home directory. It all came right
when I removed .gconf.
Therefore,
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 04:55:53 +, Bruce M. Ward wrote:
> Thanks guys.
>
> Yes, Michael, problem user cannot start using startx.
>
> Since there is a possibility that it may involve groups here are the two
> users (renamed).
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups problem
> problem : problem dialo
Thanks guys.
Yes, Michael, problem user cannot start using startx.
Since there is a possibility that it may involve groups here are the two users
(renamed).
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups problem
problem : problem dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev netdev powerdev
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:55:35 +, Bruce M. Ward wrote:
> Thanks to those who responded. Unfortunately, on this machine I'm restricted
> to using web-mail so can't continue the thread ...
>
> Michael - problem user is in same groups (and more) as new user.
Which groups are those? Maybe the
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:55:35AM +, Bruce M. Ward wrote:
> Thanks to those who responded. Unfortunately, on this machine I'm
> restricted to using web-mail so can't continue the thread ...
>
> Michael - problem user is in same groups (and more) as new user.
>
> Here follows the output Flori
Thanks to those who responded. Unfortunately, on this machine I'm restricted to
using web-mail so can't continue the thread ...
Michael - problem user is in same groups (and more) as new user.
Here follows the output Florian asked for:
egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) The director
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 22:54:48 +, Bruce M. Ward wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> A recent install of the Etch release.
> Root uses 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' to change the video resolutions.
> Root can start X no problems.
> Existing user cannot login with gdm - returns to login box. User can
> log
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:54:48PM +, Bruce M. Ward wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> A recent install of the Etch release. Root uses 'dpkg-reconfigure
> xserver-xorg' to change the video resolutions. Root can start X no
> problems. Existing user cannot login with gdm - returns to login box.
> User can
Liam O'Toole wrote:
>On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:28:55 -0200
>Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
>>I am missing the dpkg-reconfigure command to reconfigure the network
>>interfaces. I am moving from dhcp to static ip address, and I need
>>that dpkg dialog.
>>Can someone here recall that? The
Bruno Buys wrote:
> I am missing the dpkg-reconfigure command to reconfigure the network
> interfaces. I am moving from dhcp to static ip address, and I need that
> dpkg dialog.
You're overengineering this a little bit. Check out /etc/network/interfaces
with a text editor and this manual page fo
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:28:55 -0200
Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am missing the dpkg-reconfigure command to reconfigure the network
> interfaces. I am moving from dhcp to static ip address, and I need
> that dpkg dialog.
> Can someone here recall that? The machine is sarge.
> thanks mu
--- Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am missing the dpkg-reconfigure command to
> reconfigure the network
> interfaces. I am moving from dhcp to static ip
> address, and I need that
> dpkg dialog.
> Can someone here recall that? The machine is sarge.
> thanks much!
>
Have you tried editin
Liam O'Toole wrote:
>On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:28:55 -0200
>Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
>>I am missing the dpkg-reconfigure command to reconfigure the network
>>interfaces. I am moving from dhcp to static ip address, and I need
>>that dpkg dialog.
>>Can someone here recall that? The
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:28:55 -0200
Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am missing the dpkg-reconfigure command to reconfigure the network
> interfaces. I am moving from dhcp to static ip address, and I need
> that dpkg dialog.
> Can someone here recall that? The machine is sarge.
> thanks mu
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 08:17:00 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 01:35:58PM +, s. keeling wrote:
> > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:52:05AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote:
> > > >
> > > > You know when you install debian and debconf a scree
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 01:35:58PM +, s. keeling wrote:
> Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:52:05AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote:
> > >
> > > You know when you install debian and debconf a screen whereby you can add
> > > more sources to the sources.list file etc.
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:52:05AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote:
> >
> > You know when you install debian and debconf a screen whereby you can add
> > more sources to the sources.list file etc.
> >
> > Is there a dpkg-reconfigure option for that.
Try running "a
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:52:05AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote:
> Hi
>
> You know when you install debian and debconf a screen whereby you can add
> more sources to the sources.list file etc.
>
> Is there a dpkg-reconfigure option for that.
>
If you want to add or edit your /etc/apt/source.list ,
2006. July 26. 11:42, Andreas Janssen:
> Hello
>
> Brent Clark (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> > You know when you install debian and debconf a screen whereby you
> > can add more sources to the sources.list file etc.
> >
> > Is there a dpkg-reconfigure option for that.
>
> No, the program used for
Hello
Brent Clark (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> You know when you install debian and debconf a screen whereby you can
> add more sources to the sources.list file etc.
>
> Is there a dpkg-reconfigure option for that.
No, the program used for that is apt-setup from the base-config package.
It ha
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:10:57AM +0300, Artem Zolochevskiy wrote:
> hi all
>
> after X upgrade (etch 7.0.20) dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't change
> xorg.conf. Any ideas why?
>
> --
> Artem Zolochevskiy
>
I learned from an earlier posting to run dexconf. I have been
experimenting with
On (12/06/06 10:35), Artem Zolochevskiy wrote:
> Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > To make dpkg-reconfigure think that xorg.conf hasn't been modified, run
> >
> > md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf >| /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum
> >
> > then rerun dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.
>
> didn't help :(
There's an
Andrew Schulman wrote:
> To make dpkg-reconfigure think that xorg.conf hasn't been modified, run
>
> md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf >| /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum
>
> then rerun dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.
didn't help :(
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> after X upgrade (etch 7.0.20) dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't change
> xorg.conf. Any ideas why?
dpkg-reconfigure won't change it if you've modified it. It compares the
current md5sum against a stored md5sum of the original config file. If the
two are different, it will go through the wh
On 12/06/06, Artem Zolochevskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hi all
after X upgrade (etch 7.0.20) dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't change
xorg.conf. Any ideas why?
So that it doesn't overwrite any custom changes you have made? But
yes, it can back your file up and then replace it. I also do
On 6/9/06, Christopher Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 04:41:17PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote:
> I also had
> to reboot for the server to actually be able to start, but I have no
> idea why. The reboot might have cleared some temp file that was
> confusing it.
This ma
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 04:41:17PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote:
> I also had
> to reboot for the server to actually be able to start, but I have no
> idea why. The reboot might have cleared some temp file that was
> confusing it.
This may sound silly, but did you try a '/etc/init.d/dm stop &&
/
On 6/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm running etch on an AMD-64. I have (mostly) finished
the xorg6.9 -> 7.0 transition, which you have probabl
head about in mu other messages on this list. Have installed
nvidia-kernel-drivers after building them from the nvidia-kernel-sou
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 01:03:17PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:00:32PM +, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote:
> > ?ann 2006-06-09, 08:57:21 (-0400) skrifa?i [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> > >
> > > which complains
> > >
> > > xserver-xorg
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:00:32PM +, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote:
> ?ann 2006-06-09, 08:57:21 (-0400) skrifa?i [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> >
> > which complains
> >
> > xserver-xorg postint warning: not updating /etc/X11/X; file has been
> > customised
>
> Hm
Þann 2006-06-09, 08:57:21 (-0400) skrifaði [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
>
> which complains
>
> xserver-xorg postint warning: not updating /etc/X11/X; file has been
> customised
Hmm, seem to remember someone else posting about this a short while
ago (within a month), ha
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Bruce Byfield wrote the following on 27.04.2006 21:40:
> As many users probably know, dpkg-reconfigure can be used to reconfigure
> installed packages. In some cases, such as locales and alsa-base, it
> also opens a series of text-based dialogs to
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 12:40:32PM -0700, Bruce Byfield wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if there is a definititve list of which packages are
> reconfigured through a dialog? I can make a list of about a dozen off
> the top of my head, but I'm sure there must be more.
>
try configure-debian
cheers,
Bruce Byfield wrote:
> As many users probably know, dpkg-reconfigure can be used to reconfigure
> installed packages. In some cases, such as locales and alsa-base, it
> also opens a series of text-based dialogs to guide you through possible
> choices.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a definititve
Angelina Carlton wrote:
Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
But now I'm even more confused. Ideally I'd like to understand why it
suddenly works. Everything I've found on the net describes the great
difficulty in configuring this laptop to run correctly at
1400x1050. Some X config files I've
Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But now I'm even more confused. Ideally I'd like to understand why it
> suddenly works. Everything I've found on the net describes the great
> difficulty in configuring this laptop to run correctly at
> 1400x1050. Some X config files I've found (which didn't wo
Angelina Carlton wrote:
Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
xf86cfg prduces a sort of working config with a 640x480 display in the
middle of the screen, but no mouse. Can anyone describe any other
methods of fighting one's way toward a working config file?
ugh, the attachment I sent d
Angelina Carlton wrote:
> Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>>xf86cfg prduces a sort of working config with a 640x480 display in the
>>middle of the screen, but no mouse. Can anyone describe any other
>>methods of fighting one's way toward a working config file?
>>
>
> ugh, the attachment
Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> xf86cfg prduces a sort of working config with a 640x480 display in the
> middle of the screen, but no mouse. Can anyone describe any other
> methods of fighting one's way toward a working config file?
>
ugh, the attachment I sent dosent have that resoulution b
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