Re: Help - My apologies

2012-11-29 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear list - My messages were bouncing, and Hostway  thought that it was from your  end. I thought, mistakenly, that was the format to get a feedback on list list operations. I NEVER intentionally send spam.  Both you and I are way to busy for that.

Re: Help! My debian sid cannot boot, "A manual fsck must be performed"

2009-03-10 Thread Star Liu
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Bob Cox wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 08:25:35 +0800, Star Liu (minxinjian...@gmail.com) > wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Star Liu wrote: >> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> >> At grub's menu, edit the kernel comm

Re: Help! My debian sid cannot boot, "A manual fsck must be performed"

2009-03-10 Thread Bob Cox
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 08:25:35 +0800, Star Liu (minxinjian...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Star Liu wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> At grub's menu, edit the kernel command line so that you add: > >> > >>        init=/bin/sh

Re: Help! My debian sid cannot boot, "A manual fsck must be performed"

2009-03-10 Thread Star Liu
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Star Liu wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 01:21:55PM +0700, Steven Demetrius wrote: >>> On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 21:14 +0800, Star Liu wrote: >>> > When I boot my debian sid 5 minutes ago, I got this error m

Re: Help! My debian sid cannot boot, "A manual fsck must be performed"

2009-03-10 Thread Star Liu
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 01:21:55PM +0700, Steven Demetrius wrote: >> On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 21:14 +0800, Star Liu wrote: >> > When I boot my debian sid 5 minutes ago, I got this error message: >> > --

Re: Help! My debian sid cannot boot, "A manual fsck must be performed"

2009-03-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 01:21:55PM +0700, Steven Demetrius wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 21:14 +0800, Star Liu wrote: > > When I boot my debian sid 5 minutes ago, I got this error message: > > -

Re: Help! My debian sid cannot boot, "A manual fsck must be performed"

2009-03-09 Thread Steven Demetrius
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 21:14 +0800, Star Liu wrote: > When I boot my debian sid 5 minutes ago, I got this error message: > --- > /dev/sda4: unexpected inconsistency; run fsck manually.(i.e., witho

Re: Help! My debian sid cannot boot, "A manual fsck must be performed"

2009-03-09 Thread Dave Patterson
* Frank Lanitz [2009-03-09 14:58:57 +0100]: > But it's cool to see all the stuff comes in and help testing the packages. We do. When I have time to play, I love to see what can be done with my favorite stuff. My road lappy is running Lenny - and is quite happy with it. I'll keep it there,

Re: Help! My debian sid cannot boot, "A manual fsck must be performed"

2009-03-09 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Dave Patterson escreveu: > * Star Liu [2009-03-09 21:20:59 +0800]: > >> i have fixed it, just exe "fsck /dev/sda4" and press enters :) >> > > Sid's a mess right now... > Heh. > I'd tend to agree, but I don't think this specific case is a problem with sid. It's just the drive that nee

Re: Help! My debian sid cannot boot, "A manual fsck must be performed"

2009-03-09 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 20:55:18 +0700 Dave Patterson wrote: > * Frank Lanitz [2009-03-09 14:50:57 +0100]: > > > > Sid's a mess right now... > > > > And nothing for untrained Debian users IMHO. > > Yup, happens every time a new release goes out. We try lotsa new stuff, > and it's not quite coord

Re: Help! My debian sid cannot boot, "A manual fsck must be performed"

2009-03-09 Thread Dave Patterson
* Frank Lanitz [2009-03-09 14:50:57 +0100]: > > Sid's a mess right now... > > And nothing for untrained Debian users IMHO. Yup, happens every time a new release goes out. We try lotsa new stuff, and it's not quite coordinated. reportbug gets lots of exercise, and upstream gets spanked. --

Re: Help! My debian sid cannot boot, "A manual fsck must be performed"

2009-03-09 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 20:42:52 +0700 Dave Patterson wrote: > * Star Liu [2009-03-09 21:20:59 +0800]: > > > > i have fixed it, just exe "fsck /dev/sda4" and press enters :) > > Sid's a mess right now... And nothing for untrained Debian users IMHO. Cheers, Frank -- Frank Lanitz pgpwqV3ihIY

Re: Help! My debian sid cannot boot, "A manual fsck must be performed"

2009-03-09 Thread Dave Patterson
* Star Liu [2009-03-09 21:20:59 +0800]: > i have fixed it, just exe "fsck /dev/sda4" and press enters :) Sid's a mess right now... Heh. -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Help! My debian sid cannot boot, "A manual fsck must be performed"

2009-03-09 Thread Star Liu
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Star Liu wrote: > When I boot my debian sid 5 minutes ago, I got this error message: > --- > /dev/sda4: unexpected inconsistency; run fsck manually.(i.e., without

Help! My debian sid cannot boot, "A manual fsck must be performed"

2009-03-09 Thread Star Liu
When I boot my debian sid 5 minutes ago, I got this error message: --- /dev/sda4: unexpected inconsistency; run fsck manually.(i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck died with exit status 4 failed

Re: HELP! MY PRINTER\'S ON FIRE!!

2008-02-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 08:26:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > HELP! When I printed debian said my printer\'s on fire but upon > inspection I can\'t find any signs of fire on or in my printer, I fear > that if I don\'t find the fire soon my printer may die. PLEASE HELP!!! Its a generic er

HELP! MY PRINTER\'S ON FIRE!!

2008-02-25 Thread zomgapenguin
HELP! When I printed debian said my printer\'s on fire but upon inspection I can\'t find any signs of fire on or in my printer, I fear that if I don\'t find the fire soon my printer may die. PLEASE HELP!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

2007-04-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 22:54 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 05:48:30PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > > I have tried nearly everything and no joy ... yet! I have faith in you guys! > > > > I created a new account and it works fine. So does root. > > > > Nautilus seems to w

Re: Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

2007-04-06 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 05:48:30PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > I have tried nearly everything and no joy ... yet! I have faith in you guys! > > I created a new account and it works fine. So does root. > > Nautilus seems to work fine. I have a cou

Re: Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

2007-04-06 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
I have tried nearly everything and no joy ... yet! I have faith in you guys! I created a new account and it works fine. So does root. Nautilus seems to work fine. I have a couple of launchers in a side panel that do "nautilus /H/hunters/public_html" or similar and they work fine. Also /apps/naut

Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

2007-04-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 02:37:09PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the > > icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and > > some launchers I had set up are gone. > > > Anybody know of an easy way to get back to where I was? > > Some

Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

2007-04-06 Thread Mark Grieveson
> I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the > icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and > some launchers I had set up are gone. > Anybody know of an easy way to get back to where I was? Some easy suggestions: Perhaps starting nautilus, via the keyboard, might help (p

Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

2007-04-06 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dennis G. Wicks: > > I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the > icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and > some launchers I had set up are gone. Are you using Gnome? Then it sounds like nautilus either isn't running or has been configured not to manage the desktop any

Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

2007-04-06 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 12:12:47PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the > icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and > some launchers I had set up are gone. > > I have been searching and

Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

2007-04-06 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and some launchers I had set up are gone. I have been searching and doing diffs to try and locate the problem, but no luck. Too many differences. Also, right-clicking on the desktop does n

Re: d-u backlog (was Re: ..help my doorbell...)

2007-03-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
..reposting, last try was lost in gmane's auth queue. On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:09:01 +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:53:34 -0600, Ron wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/13/07 04:53, Ar

Re: d-u backlog (was Re: ..help my doorbell...)

2007-03-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:53:34 -0600, Ron wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/13/07 04:53, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:31:42 -0600, Ron wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> On 02/12/07 21:38, Arnt Karl

Re: d-u backlog (was Re: ..help my doorbell...)

2007-02-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/13/07 04:53, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:31:42 -0600, Ron wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On 02/12/07 21:38, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> [snip] >>> ..pls cc me too, my d-u backlog is 4177 new messages plus the 44224 >>>

Re: d-u backlog (was Re: ..help my doorbell...)

2007-02-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:31:42 -0600, Ron wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/12/07 21:38, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > [snip] > > ..pls cc me too, my d-u backlog is 4177 new messages plus the 44224 > > unread ones, > > That's what aggressive

Re: ..help my doorbell server recognize the doorbell ding-dongs...

2007-02-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:56:42 -0600, John wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Arnt Karlsen writes: > > ...all I need is something _simple_... > > How about a relay and a serial or parallel port? ..means gutting other peoples doorbells. I have a microphone and sound working ok on this box,

Re: ..help my doorbell server recognize the doorbell ding-dongs...

2007-02-12 Thread John Hasler
Arnt Karlsen writes: > ...all I need is something _simple_... How about a relay and a serial or parallel port? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

..help my doorbell server recognize the doorbell ding-dongs...

2007-02-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
Hi, ..I need help getting my doorbell server recognize the doorbells, I started with the usual basics, and I figured a wee simple loop ougghtta do the job nicely, like in: while listen to doorbell microphone compare microphone with ding-dong sample if ding-dong's

Re: help! my usb keyboard works only slightly on install

2006-11-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:33:14PM -0800, David Gluss wrote: > > I did achieve success by setting the root password to 888, and skipping > the create user step. This was done with a USB-ps2 dongle. So the > installation > kernel definitely supports USB. The serial console is the (darn it) obvi

RE: help! my usb keyboard works only slightly on install

2006-11-16 Thread David Gluss
as I can tell so far, the Sun x4100 is a smokin' hot machine. Boots really fast. DG -Original Message- From: Douglas Tutty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 11/16/2006 2:36 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: help! my usb keyboard works only slightly on install O

Re: help! my usb keyboard works only slightly on install

2006-11-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 07:23:50PM -0800, David Gluss wrote: > I am installing on AMD64 using the netinst CD, from testing. This has > been happening (apparently just to me??) for months with various > versions of the installer. During various selections, such as "what > is your hostname" and "wh

help! my usb keyboard works only slightly on install

2006-11-14 Thread David Gluss
I am installing on AMD64 using the netinst CD, from testing. This has been happening (apparently just to me??) for months with various versions of the installer. During various selections, such as "what is your hostname" and "what is your username" and "what is the root password", none of the key

Re: Help - my xserver just went wild!

2006-10-11 Thread W Paul Mills
Mark Phillips wrote: I just did an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade on Debian Sarge and now I get a message that my xserver is restarting every few seconds. The screen is flashing through the gdm login so fast that I cannot login. Anybody see this before? Any suggestions on how to fix it??

Help - my xserver just went wild!

2006-10-11 Thread Mark Phillips
I just did an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade on Debian Sarge and now I get a message that my xserver is restarting every few seconds. The screen is flashing through the gdm login so fast that I cannot login. Anybody see this before? Any suggestions on how to fix it?? Thanks! -- Mark Phill

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2006-01-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 22:21:41 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It > >keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop > > > > The usual cause of this is that the printer has lost syn

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2006-01-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 22:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. > It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop I think someone is playing with your head, and that you need to study up on /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and ho

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2006-01-11 Thread Mike McCarty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop The usual cause of this is that the printer has lost synchronization with the computer for a moment, and gone back to printing in text mo

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2006-01-11 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/11/2006 09:16:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop 1) Unplug printer. This should clear it's memory, which can contain pages and pages of smiley faces. 2) Use lp

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2006-01-11 Thread MalindaFlores
did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2005-01-06 Thread Jason Rennie
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:52:33PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > You could try: > $ ps aux | grep lpr > which will list the process ID > the kill the process, as root or sudo, with: > # kill -9 ProcessID (the number) Or, even simpler: pkill lpr Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

SOLVED Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2005-01-05 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
This was the solution. Many thanks to all of you responding!! Cheers Vegard > Hi Vegard > > Sam Watkins suggested: > you can use the programs "lpq" and "lprm" to show the printer queue and > remove jobs from it respectively. > > Look at the man pages -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]

2005-01-04 Thread roberto
Quoting Michael Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> ps aux | grep [l]pr > >>> > >>> This still lists all the processes that contain the string "lpr", > >>> but it will not match the grep process itself anymore. > >> > >> Why is that? Isn't a bracket expression containing

RE: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]

2005-01-04 Thread Michael Sims
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> ps aux | grep [l]pr >>> >>> This still lists all the processes that contain the string "lpr", >>> but it will not match the grep process itself anymore. >> >> Why is that? Isn't a bracket expression containing only one >> character exactly the same as the character b

Re: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]

2005-01-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/01/05 15:14), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On (04/01/05 18:17), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > > This is the output of the command > > > > > > $ ps aux | grep lpr > > > > > > hjem:~# ps aux | grep lpr > > > root 1401 0.0 0.3 1828 684

RE: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]

2005-01-04 Thread roberto
Quoting Michael Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A quick note. If you are grepping the output of a ps command, > > enclose the first character of your regexp in square brackets. For > > example: > > > > ps aux | grep [l]pr > > > > This still lists all the processes that c

RE: A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]

2005-01-04 Thread Michael Sims
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A quick note. If you are grepping the output of a ps command, > enclose the first character of your regexp in square brackets. For > example: > > ps aux | grep [l]pr > > This still lists all the processes that contain the string "lpr", but > it will not match the grep p

A note on the use of grep [WAS: Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!]

2005-01-04 Thread roberto
Quoting Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On (04/01/05 18:17), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > This is the output of the command > > > > $ ps aux | grep lpr > > > > hjem:~# ps aux | grep lpr > > root 1401 0.0 0.3 1828 684 pts/1R+ 18:03 0:00 grep lpr > > hjem:~# > > > > Is thi

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2005-01-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/01/05 18:17), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > On (03/01/05 23:09), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > >> I used the lpr command to print an image, which gave me great problems. > >> The printer writes text on every 4th page saying: > >> %!PS-Adobe-3.0 > >> %%Creator: The X Print Server's

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2005-01-04 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:09:02PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > every time I start my PC the printer start again. you can use the programs "lpq" and "lprm" to show the printer queue and remove jobs from it respectively. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2005-01-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/01/05 23:09), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > I used the lpr command to print an image, which gave me great problems. > The printer writes text on every 4th page saying: > %!PS-Adobe-3.0 > %%Creator: The X Print Server's PostScript DDX (xprint.mozdev.org) > > I tried deleting the pri

HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2005-01-03 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
I used the lpr command to print an image, which gave me great problems. The printer writes text on every 4th page saying: %!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%Creator: The X Print Server's PostScript DDX (xprint.mozdev.org) I tried deleting the printer with 'localhost:631' and 'apt-get --purge remove cupsys

Re: Help my deviant desire!

2004-11-16 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 07:28:18AM -0800, Cecil wrote: > Because of sheer boredom, I'd like to be able to setup > my linux box to be able to somehow route stuff in such > a way that email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ends > up in my linux box via fetchmail or maybe even kmail. > Am I lookng in the wro

Re: Help my deviant desire!

2004-11-16 Thread Ron Johnson
Be careful about what subject you use. Why? It looks like porn spam. The only reason I looked at it was to see how SA could flag it as ham. On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 07:28 -0800, Cecil wrote: > Because of sheer boredom, I'd like to be able to setup > my linux box to be able to somehow route stuff

Help my deviant desire!

2004-11-16 Thread Cecil
Because of sheer boredom, I'd like to be able to setup my linux box to be able to somehow route stuff in such a way that email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ends up in my linux box via fetchmail or maybe even kmail. Am I lookng in the wrong direction for this? I'd like to be able to hide my real email

Re: Help: My 'e' and 'c' keys no longer work!

2004-07-18 Thread Jon Dowland
I have experienced exactly the same problem, and I filed a bug: http://bugs.debian.org/257515 I am about to add some information to that bug however, as I have managed to fix the problem. For me, it seems the 'ukgb' keymap which previously did work, now does not. Either 'gb' or 'uk' does though.

Re: Help: My 'e' and 'c' keys no longer work!

2004-07-17 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > By the way, I didn't have setxkblayout on my system, but using dpkg > -S to look for commands of similar name, I found setxkbmap. This > fixed my problem: > >$ setxkbmap us good to know. I have the same problem here and "fixed" it by making a

Re: Help: My 'e' and 'c' keys no longer work!

2004-07-17 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun 18 Jul 04, 12:56 AM, René Seindal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > >Dear all, > > > >My "c" and "e" keys stopped working in xterms (rxvt, etc) on X. They > >work correctly on the console, so it's not a hw issue. The only things > >of note that happened recently are:

Re: Help: My 'e' and 'c' keys no longer work!

2004-07-17 Thread René Seindal
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Dear all, My "c" and "e" keys stopped working in xterms (rxvt, etc) on X. They work correctly on the console, so it's not a hw issue. The only things of note that happened recently are: Well, you're not alone. I've had the very same problem, but it went away, and I did

Help: My 'e' and 'c' keys no longer work!

2004-07-17 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Dear all, My "c" and "e" keys stopped working in xterms (rxvt, etc) on X. They work correctly on the console, so it's not a hw issue. The only things of note that happened recently are: 1. My system froze this morning. Required a reboot and fsck. No "bad" error messages, just the usual "z

Re: HELP! - My linux server won't boot anymore

2004-05-07 Thread richard lyons
On Friday 07 May 2004 01:51, Joost De Cock wrote: [...] > That's why you have to be in the chroot jail, to make sure your running the > lilo on your disk, and not the lilo on your knoppix cd. > > If you forgot to run lilo, just use knoppix again, check if all is ok in > lilo.conf and punch in the 4

Re: HELP! - My linux server won't boot anymore

2004-05-06 Thread Joost De Cock
On Friday 07 May 2004 01:55, Daniel F Garcia shoved this in my mailbox: [...] > Things are not looking good. > > I ran up KNOPPIX > I unlinked my vmlinuz and initrd.img files and re-linked then to the old > kernel 2.4.25-1-686 > > Rebooted > Still get the same problem > > RAMDISK: Couldn't find val

RE: HELP! - My linux server won't boot anymore

2004-05-06 Thread Daniel F Garcia
> >I had something similar once, (not really, since I screwed up my lilo manually ;) ). > >Here's what I did, get Knoppix (knoppix.org) if you don't already have it. >Boot from the knoppix disk, mount your root filesystem. Chroot into it. Edit your lilo configuration. Get out of the chroot jail, >

Re: HELP! - My linux server won't boot anymore

2004-05-06 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:28:54PM +1000, Daniel F Garcia wrote: > Last night I did an apt-get upgrade apache2 and that upgraded a bunch of > things including the kernel. Now when I try and boot up I get the error > message: > > kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,2) >

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

2003-04-03 Thread ronin2
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 09:22:39 +0200 Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If someone had the same bad luck, i'll recommend to do this: > > 1. print out your partition table or rescue it, like Kevin said: fdisk > -ul /dev/hda >part.table 2. remove all the partitions > 3. create a new partition

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

2003-04-03 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:54:53AM +0200, Qian Gong wrote: > I have an idea to recover the partition table. If you create a bigger > partition than the original file system. Then mount it and use df to get > the size of the file system, which is usually the same size as the > partition. Then use

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

2003-04-03 Thread Qian Gong
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:40:54AM +0200, Jeetu Golani wrote: > > Hello, > > Yup did that for a pal once i.e. recover the partition. So long as u > don't > play around too much, i.e. repartitioning or reinstalling, your data > should > be valid. > > Do you remember the approx sizes of all your

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

2003-04-02 Thread Roman Joost
Firstly - thanks for the help. Secondly i fixed it with a bit luck. I found a printout from my partition table so i removed all the rescued, but wrong partitions and created all partitions myself. It worked fine with one exception: i created my boot partition with: mkpartfs logical ext2 XXX -

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

2003-04-02 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hello, Yup did that for a pal once i.e. recover the partition. So long as u don't play around too much, i.e. repartitioning or reinstalling, your data should be valid. Do you remember the approx sizes of all your partitions? Are the other partitions intact? Do you remember the partition schem

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

2003-04-02 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I destroyed my partition table with parted. I tried the command mklabel >:( .. damn... > > I tried the rescue comma

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

2003-04-02 Thread ronin2
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 19:59:44 +0200 Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I destroyed my partition table with parted. I tried the command > mklabel:( .. damn... For today you're screwed. For tomorrow, whenever you set up your new partition table (and any time you make changes to it) save the d

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

2003-04-02 Thread Roman Joost
I destroyed my partition table with parted. I tried the command mklabel :( .. damn... I tried the rescue command from parted, but can't rescue my complete partition table. Is there any other way out? I didn't rebooted yet and for now, i've nothing of my data lost. If there is no solution, i've to

Re: Help! My email is swamped!

2002-05-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 08:04:47PM -0700, Soul Computer wrote: > Can you switch me list email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please? I > would have better tools to manage it, there. Sorry, NO. > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: Help! My email is swamped!

2002-05-10 Thread Soul Computer
Never mind ... I just found the bulk email management controls. Now I feel embarassed ... ->Scwawcaac<- ->The Soul Computer With Abundant Whipped Cream And A Cherry ...<- ->On Top!<- On Fri, 10 May 2002 20:04:47 -0700 Soul Computer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you switch me list email to [EM

Help! My email is swamped!

2002-05-10 Thread Soul Computer
Can you switch me list email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please? I would have better tools to manage it, there. ->Scwawcaac<- ->The Soul Computer With Abundant Whipped Cream And A Cherry ... <- ->On Top!<- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: HELP!!!! my boxen is broken

2001-09-27 Thread Stuart_Luscombe
tuart Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 27/09/2001 12:56:00 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org cc:(bcc: Stuart Luscombe/COSS/CCenter) Subject: Re: HELP my boxen is broken On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 11:25:08AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Help all! Help for a borked bo

Re: HELP!!!! my boxen is broken

2001-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 11:25:08AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Help all! Help for a borked boxen! > > I ran apt-get upgrade to the latest unstable version. All was going ok > until the install phase where everything seems to have gone wrong. Never use 'apt-get upgrade' across different vers

HELP!!!! my boxen is broken

2001-09-27 Thread Stuart_Luscombe
Help all! Help for a borked boxen! I ran apt-get upgrade to the latest unstable version. All was going ok until the install phase where everything seems to have gone wrong. >From what I can gather, the whole problem seems to lie around libc6, most packages that won't install say something along

Help! My USB Zip drive is still not working!

2001-08-01 Thread Joern T. Larsen
Thanks to all of you that have been willing to submit help for my previous posting (Zip drive problems). However, I can still not figure out how to get this thing working. I am using a USB 100 Mb Iomega Zip drive, have hotplug, modutils, usbutils, ifupdown installed, have built into the kernel usb

help: my cron is getting crazy

2000-12-21 Thread Jaume Teixi
now one of my debian servers reports to me this: --- Subject: Cronroot test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily /bin/sh: root: command not found /etc/cron.daily/modutils: rm: cannot remove `/var/log/ksymoops/20001216062615.ksyms': No such file or

help my

2000-10-31 Thread marotto antonio
we are driver for "I have a no-name CS4232-kq-Crystal-PnP-based sound card with an on-boardIDE".   help my driver ( italy ).   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help: my /var/log/lastlog's as big as Canarsie!

2000-05-18 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Ethan Benson: > /me boggles, i have not heard of this one before, this is wacky! > where can i find more info on this, and what uses/advantages it has? Try http://google.com/ and enter "unix sparse files" That returns e.g. http://www.nic.com/~cheah/hole.html Mike. -- Denial. It's n

Re: Help: my /var/log/lastlog's as big as Canarsie!

2000-05-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 09:21:50PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Yes. Try this: > > % dd if=/dev/null of=bigfile bs=1k seek=1024 > 0+0 records in > 0+0 records out > % ls -l bigfile > -rw-r--r--1 miquels staff 1048576 May 17 23:19 bigfile > % du bigfile > 0 bigfile > > T

Re: Help: my /var/log/lastlog's as big as Canarsie!

2000-05-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> >> montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >Has anyone else encountered this situation? >> >> Yes, almost everyone. > >I wonder how come no one in #linux knew about it? Too bad no one in >#debia

Re: Help: my /var/log/lastlog's as big as Canarsie!

2000-05-17 Thread montefin
Holy Canarsie, Miquel! You are absolutely right, 'du /var/log/lastlog' does show the file to be miniscule. Whew! Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Has anyone else encountered this situation? > > Yes, almost everyone. > I wonder how come no one in #linux

Re: Help: my /var/log/lastlog's as big as Canarsie!

2000-05-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, montefin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Has anyone else encountered this situation? Yes, almost everyone. >I was looking at my /var/log directory and this popped out at me >-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 18692964 May 17 04:19 lastlog > >I'm still tweaking a recen

Help: my /var/log/lastlog's as big as Canarsie!

2000-05-17 Thread montefin
Hi, Has anyone else encountered this situation? I was looking at my /var/log directory and this popped out at me -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 18692964 May 17 04:19 lastlog I'm still tweaking a recent upgrade from Slink to Potato, so I guess I do a lot of su - logins, but still isn't that

Help! My Debian blew up!

1999-12-11 Thread T.M. Hospedales
All of a sudden while trying to emacs -nw options to setup my new modem , things refuse to execute! It just stalls and doesn't do anything! I see no particular connection between things that work and those that dont: Working: xterm, ls, cat, fsck, vi Not: startx,emacs, xemacs, netscape, sys

Re: HELP, my installation is broken!!

1999-11-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Svante Signell wrote: > In an attempt to upgrade from slink to potato the installation got > broken. The following I need help with. > > 1. Networking using eth0 and another computer as gateway is no longer >functional. How do I reconfigure networking?? I'm not sure, that should be working.

HELP, my installation is broken!!

1999-11-28 Thread Svante Signell
In an attempt to upgrade from slink to potato the installation got broken. The following I need help with. 1. Networking using eth0 and another computer as gateway is no longer functional. How do I reconfigure networking?? I have the 2.1 CD and downloaded protato files available. 2. The apt-

Re: HELP: my system is still screwed....

1999-11-19 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 03:31:13PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > Have you tried to --force anything? You can probably force it to install the > new apt, the whole list i suspect this was at the beginning the reason why all screwed up > but who knows what it will do then. I bet it fixes

Re: HELP: my system is still screwed....

1999-11-18 Thread Aaron Solochek
Have you tried to --force anything? You can probably force it to install the new apt, but who knows what it will do then. I bet it fixes the file list though. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruno Boettcher wrote: > hello, > > trying to upgrade doesn't work anymore on my system, its state

HELP: my system is still screwed....

1999-11-18 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, trying to upgrade doesn't work anymore on my system, its state is not very good, i lost X and the package list is a mess i admit that with all the tries to restaurate the system it went deeper and deeper in a worse fashion... e.g. trying to install the latest apt: dpkg -i apt_0.3.1

Help! My linux is gone with an error message

1999-11-02 Thread Rafa Castillo
I get this message from the console when I'm working TIOCLINUX (0/8/9) ioctl is gone. Use /dev/vcs and the system goes down. I cannot do nothing and I must power off my machine. I have debian 2.1r3, and I don't install unstable packages. I've done memtest86 this weekend and I didn't get any error

Re: Help! My computer thinks it is a name server

1999-05-21 Thread Marc Mongeon
any sense to me, either... > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri May 21 15:34:57 1999 > From: sawitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Matthew Wade Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Help! My computer thinks it is a name server > > On Fri, 21 May 1999, Matthew Wade Robert

Re: Help! My computer thinks it is a name server

1999-05-21 Thread Matthew Wade Roberts
The IP is: 165.91.194.118 It doesn't make any sense to me, either... > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri May 21 15:34:57 1999 > From: sawitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Matthew Wade Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Help! My computer thinks it is a name se

Re: Help! My computer thinks it is a name server

1999-05-21 Thread sawitt
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Matthew Wade Roberts wrote: > For some reason, my Debian box (lehi.tamu.edu) thinks it is the name > server. For instance: > > % nslookup yahoo.com > Server: lehi > Address: 0.0.0.0 > > *** lehi can't find yahoo.com: No response from server > > > > Here is my resolv.co

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