Re: woody - problems with dns

2001-11-08 Thread Steffen Evers
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 22:16, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > Host should not look at your /etc/hosts file. It's one line description > puts it quite succinctly: I got several private mails about that and knwo I think there is a problem with looking up loca host, but it has nothing to do with the 'ho

Re: woody - problems with dns

2001-11-07 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 17:57, Steffen Evers wrote: > Hello, > > I have some problems with the DNS service on my woody system and I think > I have experienced the same problems on my sid installation: > > Maybe I have misunderstood something, but I think this behavior is not > correct: > > When I

Re: new to the list - XFree86 on Woody problems

2001-11-07 Thread Rachel Andrew
1. If you have a mouse config problem, the server rarely crashes on startup. You will get a screen but the mouse will not work properly...i.e. no movement or erratic movement. If I move the mouse while x is running (it crashes during the kde screen 'loading peripherals') the movement is er

Re: new to the list - XFree86 on Woody problems

2001-11-07 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Rachel Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi > > I'm new to the list and am having problems with the XFree86 set up in > Woody. I recently upgraded from Potato to Woody and have also grabbed the > KDE2.2 packages from Sid but I'm having trouble getting the x-server up and > running. >

Re: new to the list - XFree86 on Woody problems

2001-11-07 Thread Frank Zimmermann
removing that line or changing it to false doesn't seem to make any difference to it starting up. Right now I'd just like to see it starting up even if I still need to fine tune it a bit afterwards. Rachel Rachel, Do I remember this right that you have a Cirrus card as well? With the Opt

Re: new to the list - XFree86 on Woody problems

2001-11-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Rachel Andrew wrote: Hi I'm new to the list and am having problems with the XFree86 set up in Woody. I recently upgraded from Potato to Woody and have also grabbed the KDE2.2 packages from Sid but I'm having trouble getting the x-server up and running. Rachel I used "XFree86 -c

Re: new to the list - XFree86 on Woody problems

2001-11-06 Thread Rachel Andrew
You don't want to emulate a third button, you already have 3 buttons. You can also set the zaxis mapping to use the scroll options of your mouse. removing that line or changing it to false doesn't seem to make any difference to it starting up. Right now I'd just like to see it starting up

Re: new to the list - XFree86 on Woody problems

2001-11-06 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Hi I'm new to the list and am having problems with the XFree86 set up in Woody. I recently upgraded from Potato to Woody and have also grabbed the KDE2.2 packages from Sid but I'm having trouble getting the x-server up and running. I have been configuring via dpkg-reconfigure x-server-xfree8

new to the list - XFree86 on Woody problems

2001-11-06 Thread Rachel Andrew
Hi I'm new to the list and am having problems with the XFree86 set up in Woody. I recently upgraded from Potato to Woody and have also grabbed the KDE2.2 packages from Sid but I'm having trouble getting the x-server up and running. I have been configuring via dpkg-reconfigure x-server-xfree8

woody - problems with dns

2001-11-05 Thread Steffen Evers
Hello, I have some problems with the DNS service on my woody system and I think I have experienced the same problems on my sid installation: Maybe I have misunderstood something, but I think this behavior is not correct: When I look for the hostname of my local machine with > host mymachine >

Re: kdm/xdm/woody problems

2001-10-19 Thread Jens Müller
"nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i can startx no problem. X comes up. Hm ... I should maybe try ... > but kdm nor xdm lets me login > to anything but 'failsafe' which just brings up an xterm. i can > work around it by just typing 'afterstep' in the xterm and it > fires up my full session. b

kdm/xdm/woody problems

2001-10-16 Thread nate
hi. glad to be back on the list :) a few days ago i dist-upgraded my potato box at work to woody, phew! no major issues.. ive been running woody on my laptop for a few months, and tonight decided to do an upgrade so i could get xfree4.1 so i could use the new savage_drv.o. and it sorta works. i

Re: Woody: problems upgrading lately?

2001-09-05 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-08-30 at 21:55, der.hans wrote: > Am 29. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Paul D. Smith so: > > > I don't really understand some of these messages; for example > > libgtk-perl says it depends on libgtk1.2 >= 1.2.0 but 1.2.10-1 is to be > > installed... well, 1.2.10-1 _is_ >= 1.2.0, isn't it? Perha

Re: Woody: problems upgrading lately?

2001-08-30 Thread der.hans
Am 29. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Paul D. Smith so: > I don't really understand some of these messages; for example > libgtk-perl says it depends on libgtk1.2 >= 1.2.0 but 1.2.10-1 is to be > installed... well, 1.2.10-1 _is_ >= 1.2.0, isn't it? I've been getting a lot of that the last few days as well. H

Re: Woody: problems upgrading lately?

2001-08-29 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 29 Aug 2001 21:28:00 -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > %% Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > bw> No problems here. If you already have a woody system, you don't > bw> need apt-get dist-upgrade. Just apt-get upgrade. > > Neither them work. Sorry, I should have said that. > > Since I'

Re: Woody: problems upgrading lately?

2001-08-29 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bw> No problems here. If you already have a woody system, you don't bw> need apt-get dist-upgrade. Just apt-get upgrade. Neither them work. Sorry, I should have said that. Since I've updated last, now if I try "apt-get upgrade" I get: # apt-get

Re: Woody: problems upgrading lately?

2001-08-29 Thread Bill Wohler
No problems here. If you already have a woody system, you don't need apt-get dist-upgrade. Just apt-get upgrade. -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're

Woody: problems upgrading lately?

2001-08-28 Thread Paul D. Smith
I've been doing apt-get update's for about a week now, on three different Debian systems which are all more-or-less recent "testing" systems, and none of them will let me do an "apt-get dist-upgrade". I keep getting some packages listed, then this error: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve gener

Re: Woody problems

2001-07-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
I seem to recall seeing a recommendation to install the testing version of debconf and then rerun the dist-upgrade. On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 11:13:59PM +0100, Stephen J. Thompson wrote: > Thanks for that, > > Any idea when the updates could be ready? > > Regards, > > Stephen. > > > On Monday 3

Re: Woody problems

2001-07-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 11:13:59PM +0100, Stephen J . Thompson wrote: > On Monday 30 July 2001 10:56 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > > It's OK - that one's been noticed, Joey tracked it down, and is being > > fixed. The problem was that some packages were using a syntax in their > > debconf template file

Re: Woody problems

2001-07-30 Thread Stephen J . Thompson
Thanks for that, Any idea when the updates could be ready? Regards, Stephen. On Monday 30 July 2001 10:56 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:48:15PM +0100, Stephen J . Thompson wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have just attempted to upgrade from stable to testing and I have >

Re: Woody problems

2001-07-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:48:15PM +0100, Stephen J . Thompson wrote: > Hello all, > > I have just attempted to upgrade from stable to testing and I have received > the following error: > > [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60,

Woody problems

2001-07-30 Thread Stephen J . Thompson
Hello all, I have just attempted to upgrade from stable to testing and I have received the following error: [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60, chunk 2. E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (2

woody-problems: perl, locale, ppp and X4

2001-04-03 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi all! I have 4 problems after dist-upgrading to woody: (in order of descending importance ;-) ) Problem 1:) When I start some programs (e.g. emacs) from an xterm, I get the following message: Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged I think this one is related whith the on