Strange behaviour of NFS.

2003-01-20 Thread Egor Tur
Hi folk. Sometimes I see messages when use NFS: nfs_statfs: statfs error = 5 nfs: server pupkin not responding, timed out nfsd: last server has exited nfsd: unexporting all filesystems When I try copy any file to NFS-machine I see: $ cp qqq.tar.gz /export/nfs/temp/. cp: writing `/export/nfs/temp/

Re: 2.4 Kernel locks at boot

2003-01-20 Thread Andrew M. Lindley
Arief, The last screen reads Detected 1300.79 MHz Processor Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 2595.27 BogoMIPS Memory 223692K/229312K available (1546K kernel code, 5232K reserved, 626K data, 104K init, 0K highmem) Checking if the processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor

Re: Maintaining a mixed system

2003-01-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 01:54:56PM -0500, Seth Williamson wrote: > I posted the message below on the Libranet list and got some helpful > replies. However, I was not sure about a few of the ramications on > suggestions that I got, and I thought I would post it here and see what > help I might get.

2 mice (USB+PS2) simultaniously for GPM, How?

2003-01-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Folks, Some programs (X, Windows) seems to be able to handle more than 2 mice these days. How can I use both touch pad (PS2) and mouse (USB) at the same time on my notebook's console screen? I love 80*25 Linux console :-) Currently, I change entry in /etc/gpm.conf and restart gpm but this only

Re: how to determine hd partitioning?

2003-01-20 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 18:30:24 -0500 Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night, > and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard drive. I've thrown it > into my older machine, and it's being recognized fine as /dev/hdd --

Re: 2.4 Kernel locks at boot

2003-01-20 Thread Andrew M. Lindley
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:17:03PM +0700, arief_mulya wrote: > Dear Andrew, > > > > This just a guess, > can you try booting with boot parameter: noapic ? > > If it still not successful, may I see your kernel config file? > > > > Best Regards, > > arief_mulya > -- > I used kernel-image .

Re: 2.4 Kernel locks at boot

2003-01-20 Thread arief_mulya
Dear Andrew, Have you tried with noapic parameter on boot? If it's still a failure, maybe you can try disabling CONFIG_*_APIC? Best Regards, arief_mulya -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Security: system reboot?

2003-01-20 Thread Qian Gong
Hi, This morning I found that my Debian box rebooted on Sunday morning (9:35 AM). However, from last Friday till this morning nobody logged in to this system. Do you know where can I find out who has sent the reboot command? And why? Is it related to security holes? Qian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:25:24AM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:15:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Could you try updating to Potato first? That way, you won't be > > making such a huge version leap in almost every bit of software > > in one step. This is definitely the rec

Re: X11

2003-01-20 Thread Vanilla
The problem here is: The box is a server, so I need to use Woody (not Sarge or Sid). For now i'm going to remove the vga from the server to my desktop (Sarge), and put the mga (that works fine on Woody) on the Server. Tanks for your help. Since this problem take a bit of time, and for now i'm i

Re: Security: system reboot?

2003-01-20 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Maybe you either had a power failure, or your kernel just crashed and rebooted itself. Sometimes when I come into my office for the first time on a day, I find my Woody macintosh shut down. I've never worried about it too much. I think /var/log/setuid.changes will tell you if anyone became roo

Re: Detecting the fysical mouse Solved !

2003-01-20 Thread Joris Huizer
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > The Human Interface Driver (HID) appears to not be > loading on Debian. > Try "modconf", and then insert the "hid" module. See > if that helps. > > Kent > Allright !! - that did the job! :-) Thanks to everybody who's helped on this prob! __

RE: Security: system reboot?

2003-01-20 Thread DEFFONTAINES Vincent
If you find nothing in logs, possibly someone pressed CTRL ALT DEL? This happens often when people think they log in on a windoze NT box and press those keys without watching the screen. You can prevent that by editing /etc/inittab (comment the ctrlaltdel line) then "kill -1 1" If you cannot find

sound server message on startup

2003-01-20 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello, I'm getting an error on startup about a sound driver : - Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permissioned denied) The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

Re: Please Help Pass W3C Patent Policy

2003-01-20 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 04:09:32PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > With respect to a Recommendation developed under this policy, a W3C > Royalty-Free license shall mean a non-assignable, non-sublicensable > license to make, have made, use, sell, have sold, offer to sell, >

Fwd: Driver for Netgear PCI Ethernet board?

2003-01-20 Thread Kieren Diment
> From: "Thomas H. George,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: linux.debian.user > Subject: Driver for Netgear PCI Ethernet board? > Is there a driver available for the Netgear FA311 Ethernet board. If > so, where can I get it? It's the national semiconductors module (natsemi). I had a wei

why does X keep throwing messages on console?

2003-01-20 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all when i run X from a console using a simple startx command, off and on, i keep getting a line that says 'getmodeline etc etc' on the console from where i fired X. is there a way to avoid this? -- regards, sandip p deshmukh --*** Audacity, and again, audacity, and always au

Thnaks to the developers (sylpheed-claws & aspell)

2003-01-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Ya know, it isn't said enough but a huge thank you to the developers of both aspell and sylpheed-claws. sylpheed-claws moved away from pspell to aspel 0.5 and it caused some problems with the automatic spell checker inside sylpheed-claws. As of the latest touch-up with aptitude I saw that bot

Re: Security: system reboot?

2003-01-20 Thread Qian Gong
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:11:00AM +0100, DEFFONTAINES Vincent wrote: > If you find nothing in logs, possibly someone pressed CTRL ALT DEL? > This happens often when people think they log in on a windoze NT box and > press those keys without watching the screen. > You can prevent that by editing /e

Re: Security: system reboot?

2003-01-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya qian On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Qian Gong wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:11:00AM +0100, DEFFONTAINES Vincent wrote: ... > > If you cannot find why your system rebooted, worry about it ; it might > > reveal a serious security compromission. > > You should check your system binaries with md

Re: CD difficult to burn

2003-01-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Well no, the CD is in perfect shape - Original Message - From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 12:18 AM Subject: Re: CD difficult to burn > On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 21:13, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > This "particular CD

Re: Thnaks to the developers (sylpheed-claws & aspell)

2003-01-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Oh the irony that I send a message to a public list thanking people for a spell checker with a spelling error in the first word in the subject line. *sigh* -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the s

Re: host for an apt repository

2003-01-20 Thread Mohammed Sameer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Once upon a time Brian Nelson wrote @ Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:40:53 -0800 > "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:17:00AM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote: > > > >> I'm interested for packaging some software for debi

Re: host for an apt repository

2003-01-20 Thread Mohammed Sameer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Once upon a time Osamu Aoki wrote @ Mon, 13 Jan 2003 13:53:54 -0800 > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 09:40:53AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:17:00AM +0200, Mohammed Sameer

Re: kill with regex?

2003-01-20 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:11:29AM +1100, Michael Wardle wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 10:41, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:22:13AM +1100, Michael Wardle wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 02:40, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > > > ps x gives a list of xine's which i would like to k

Re: Re-configuring after an install

2003-01-20 Thread HdV
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 06:41:40AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:19:21PM -0800, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I guess you installed task for laptop like me. I think that introduced > > > package called netenv.

init scripts management

2003-01-20 Thread Francois Chenais
Hello, Is there any "standard method" under debian to add/remove shell @ boot/shutdown time in /etc/rc.* directories ? Like chk-config under R.H. in fact. Thanks a lot. François msg25108/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Emacs21 and menu bar

2003-01-20 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi list I have just installed emacs21 for being able to use the preview-latex package. I really hate this menu bar with Icons (they make me think of Word...). Can I disable this Icon menu bar, and get back to my old text-mode menu (I can turn this one on with "menu-bar-mode 1", but then I have

Re: kill with regex?

2003-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:18:39PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: > so now we have the understanding, why dont they die? > > anni:~# ps -C xine -o pid= > 1609 > 1610 > 1618 > 1619 > 1620 > anni:~# ps -C xine -o pid= |xargs kill > anni:~# ps -C xine -o pid= > 1609 > 1610 > 1618 > 1619 > 1620 > anni:

Re: 2 mice (USB+PS2) simultaniously for GPM, How?

2003-01-20 Thread Joris
> Some programs (X, Windows) seems to be able to handle more than 2 mice > these days. > > How can I use both touch pad (PS2) and mouse (USB) at the same time on > my notebook's console screen? I love 80*25 Linux console :-) > > Currently, I change entry in /etc/gpm.conf and restart gpm but this

Re: init scripts management

2003-01-20 Thread Gee Law
Hi, update-rc.d might help. Gee. On 2003.01.20 11:11 Francois Chenais wrote: Hello, Is there any "standard method" under debian to add/remove shell @ boot/shutdown time in /etc/rc.* directories ? Like chk-config under R.H. in fact. Thanks a lot. François -- Gee Law gee(at)dizzyduck(d

Re: 2.4 Kernel locks at boot

2003-01-20 Thread Andrew M. Lindley
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:15:23PM +0700, arief_mulya wrote: > Dear Andrew, > > > Have you tried with noapic parameter on boot? > > If it's still a failure, maybe you can try disabling > CONFIG_*_APIC? > Thanks, noapic on the boot didn't work but disabling the config did. Problem fixed thank

Re: sound server message on startup

2003-01-20 Thread Gee Law
whoops -- didn't cc to group. Joris, the best thing would be to execute the following command as root: addgroup jorishuizer audio You need to log out and log back in again for it to take affect (or use newgrp). On 2003.01.20 10:27 Joris Huizer wrote: Hello, I'm getting an error on startup ab

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 20/01/03 John Griffiths did speaketh: > great, thanks. > > the forcefsck was recommended to me i didn't think it'd hurt. It was a good recommendation actually. The next fsck is what hides the journal permanently. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8B

Re: Emacs21 and menu bar

2003-01-20 Thread Keith O'Connell
Joerg > I have just installed emacs21 for being able to use the preview-latex > package. I really hate this menu bar with Icons > Can I disable this Icon menu bar, and get back to my old text-mode I think what you are looking for is (tool-bar-mode 0) -- ___

Install all packages

2003-01-20 Thread Hansel Yapadi
How to install all packages in the cds during installation? because I wanna try those software -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-20 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 07:49:18 -0500 "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was a good recommendation actually. The next fsck is what hides the > journal permanently. That it does. Personally I did it with shutdown -r -F. I recommend not doing it from remote or without a con

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:49:18AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 20/01/03 John Griffiths did speaketh: > > great, thanks. > > > > the forcefsck was recommended to me i didn't think it'd hurt. > > It was a good recommendation actually. The next fsck is what hides the > journal permanen

Re: OT: functional languages (was: Politics of Java)

2003-01-20 Thread Robert Land
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:23:43AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 03:17:42PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > | also sprach Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.13.1443 +0100]: > | > what do you mean by "functional"? even though i have quite limited > | > exper

Re: Install all packages

2003-01-20 Thread John Hasler
Hansel Yapadi writes: > How to install all packages in the cds during installation? Can't be done. Many of them conflict. How many Web servers do you want running at once? MTAs? NTP servers? > because I wanna try those software Easy enough to install a package, uninstall it, and try anot

Re: kill with regex?

2003-01-20 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:35:08PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:18:39PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > so now we have the understanding, why dont they die? > > > > anni:~# ps -C xine -o pid= > > 1609 > > 1610 > > 1618 > > 1619 > > 1620 > > anni:~# ps -C xine -o pid= |x

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or other solution

2003-01-20 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
A bit off topic here.. sorry Others ahve expressed problems with Asus based on memory issues. Anyone have any thoughts? The recent comment was on the A7V8X being very picky with RAM. My friend picked up a different KT400 based system and popped in the same PC2700 (not PC3200) that didnt work

Where has gcc been installed?

2003-01-20 Thread Setyo Nugroho
Hi all, I am trying to install kile. and I got this: ".. checking for working makeinfo... found checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH" this command "$ apt-show-versions -p gcc -a" shows th

sound card detection problem

2003-01-20 Thread Aryan Ameri
hi there: I am installing woody on a system with creative vibra 128 sound card. Previously I had Mandrake 9.0 and RedHat 7.3 installed on this system and they both detected this soundcard without a problem. However debain is not able to do so (when ever I try playing a sound file, it gives me a "

default login manager

2003-01-20 Thread Aryan Ameri
hi there: I have installed Ralph Nolden's KDE 3.1 packages on woody stable. However after installing kdm, when starting the computer, xdm is still the default login manager. Howshall I change the default login manager to kdm? Cheers -- /*Tell the world that we're going to be the grim * reaper of

Ignoring ps's pid in ps (was: kill with regex?)

2003-01-20 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Does anyone know of a way to use the standard 'ps' to get a process listing without showing the pid of that instance of 'ps' itself, WITHOUT any piping being performed or auxiliary processes being done, and without using a different utility, such as 'pgrep'? For example, if there are multiple 'ps'

Re: Radeon 9000 Pro anyone?

2003-01-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Haralambos Geortgilakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI All & Peter, > > Whoops, I meant to type in 9000, in a crucial sentence & did not > > Just to bee clear, I have a Power Color Radeon 9000 Pro 128 & the DRI stuff > gets it going in Tux! > > Now, download & enjoy! :-) Thanks! Peter

Re: Where has gcc been installed?

2003-01-20 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:50:04 +0100 > this command "$ apt-show-versions -p gcc -a" shows that gcc has ben > installed. gcc 2:2.95.4-17 install ok installed > gcc 2:2.95.4-14 stable > No testing version > gcc 2:2.95.4-17 newer than version in archive Two ways to find it. One, lo

Re: Ignoring ps's pid in ps (was: kill with regex?)

2003-01-20 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Does anyone know of a way to use the standard 'ps' to get a process > listing without showing the pid of that instance of 'ps' itself, WITHOUT > any piping being performed or auxiliary processes being done, and without > using a different utility, such as

Re: Security: system reboot?

2003-01-20 Thread Qian Gong
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:48:55AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > [snip] > how do you know if there wasn't a simple power glitch ??? After several hours of my searching, somebody told me that power cut happened yesterday morning all over the university, which was the reason for the system reboot. Thi

debian on old powerbook?

2003-01-20 Thread anthony baldwin
I have several old Apple Powerbooks (140, 145) They don;t have CD drives and I can't connect them to my dsl, because they have no ethernet ports. How could I install Debian on them? and Where do I find the Debian that is appropriate for that architecture? I'd like to use them for word processing,

RE: sound card detection problem

2003-01-20 Thread Jon
> hi there: > > I am installing woody on a system with creative vibra 128 > sound card. Previously I had Mandrake 9.0 and RedHat 7.3 > installed on this > system and they both detected this soundcard without a > problem. However debain is not able to do so (when ever I try > playing a sound

Re: Where has gcc been installed?

2003-01-20 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Steve Lamb wrote: > {grey@teleute:~} locate gcc > {grey@teleute:~} dpkg -L gcc and of course: which gcc /usr/bin/gcc Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ignoring ps's pid in ps

2003-01-20 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > >> Does anyone know of a way to use the standard 'ps' to get a process >> listing without showing the pid of that instance of 'ps' itself, WITHOUT >> any piping being performed or auxiliary processes being done,

RE: Curious...Are most of you in tech-relatedcareers/schooling?

2003-01-20 Thread Jay
Phew. I remember when I was 8 years old, my first computer was one that I got from a [then] photographer, a Radio Shack computer model MC-10, with 3k of memory and with a built in Microsoft BASIC interpreter in it's firmware. That is when I started doing BASIC programs, that thing used to plug

Re: Where has gcc been installed?

2003-01-20 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:21:40 -0500 (EST) Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Steve Lamb wrote: > > {grey@teleute:~} locate gcc > > {grey@teleute:~} dpkg -L gcc > and of course: > which gcc > /usr/bin/gcc Well if he is not finding gcc in his path on a ./configur

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:32:48PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Won't the normal fsck on boot do the job? /forcefsck adds the -f option, > "force checking even if the file system seems clean"; I didn't realize > the forced check was required here. No, -f is fast boot, no filesystem check even if i

[SOLVED]: Re: sound card detection problem

2003-01-20 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Monday 20 January 2003 18:41, Jon wrote: > Hi, > > The module you need is 'es1371' for the Vibra 128 chipset. I put this on > a line in /etc/modules so it gets loaded up each time. If you haven't > done so already, you also need to add yourself to the audio group: > > adduser your_name audio

Re: Install all packages

2003-01-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:04:57PM +0700, Hansel Yapadi wrote: > How to install all packages in the cds during installation? because I > wanna try those software You can't. Too many packages conflict with one other to start with. Only pick out what you want to try out, it'll be easier to mai

Lilo and vga=791

2003-01-20 Thread Sridhar M.A.
I am facing a peculiar problem while booting with a kernel which has framebuffer support. My lilo.conf is as follows: root=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot-bmp.b bitmap=/boot/ins64a.bmp bmp-colors=14,11,,15,9,0 bmp-table=21,287p,2,4,175p bmp-timer=73,29,12,8,0 default

Re: init scripts management

2003-01-20 Thread Francois Chenais
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 12:38:23 +, Gee Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hi, | | update-rc.d might help. | Thanks you François | Gee. | | On 2003.01.20 11:11 Francois Chenais wrote: | > Hello, | > | > Is there any "standard method" under debian to add/remove

Re: why does X keep throwing messages on console?

2003-01-20 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > hello all > > when i run X from a console using a simple startx command, off and on, > i keep getting a line that says > > 'getmodeline etc etc' on the console from where i fired X. > > is there a way to avoid this? It's just STDOUT and STD

Re: [SOLVED]: Re: sound card detection problem

2003-01-20 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Aryan Ameri said: > On Monday 20 January 2003 18:41, Jon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The module you need is 'es1371' for the Vibra 128 chipset. I put this on > > a line in /etc/modules so it gets loaded up each time. If you haven't > > done so already, you also need to add y

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:45:34AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:32:48PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Won't the normal fsck on boot do the job? /forcefsck adds the -f option, > > "force checking even if the file system seems clean"; I didn't realize > > the forced check

Re: default login manager

2003-01-20 Thread David Z Maze
Aryan Ameri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have installed Ralph Nolden's KDE 3.1 packages on woody stable. > However after installing kdm, when starting the computer, xdm is still the > default login manager. Howshall I change the default login manager to > kdm? The most straightforward thing to

Re: OT: functional languages

2003-01-20 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) writes: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:23:43AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: >> "imperative" and "procedural" are the same thing, and C is a prime >> example. It is such because the structure of a C program is a >> collection of procedures which start with "main

Re: Unicode-aware grep?

2003-01-20 Thread Gaute B Strokkenes
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a grep that is able to understand utf-16-[lb]e encoded > files? I have a bunch of LaTeX source files intended for Lambda, so > they're stored as utf-16-le. But when I try and grep the files, > nothing happens because of all of the extra byt

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-20 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:48:35 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That doesn't match either /etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh or the e2fsck man > page. But it does match what man shutdown says. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 510

HP scanner: Segfault

2003-01-20 Thread Craig Jackson
I am unable to get scanimage to work: # sane-find-scanner sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x03f0, product = 0x0201) at device /dev/usb/scanner0 But... #scanimage -d hp:/dev/usb/scanner0 segmentation fault # cat /etc/sane.d/ scsi HP /dev/usb/scanner0 xsane closes during scan for

Re: default login manager

2003-01-20 Thread Gee Law
dpkg-reconfigure xdm or dpkg-reconfigure kdm works for me. don't know if that's the 'proper' way though. Gee. On 2003.01.20 14:35 Aryan Ameri wrote: hi there: I have installed Ralph Nolden's KDE 3.1 packages on woody stable. However after installing kdm, when starting the computer, xdm is st

Re: Question on Winbind

2003-01-20 Thread Mark Roach
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 20:35, Debian User wrote: > Hi, I have been pulling out hair on this one. > > I am trying to get a debian box to share files to an NT 4 network. > > I installed Samba, works great. I also installed Winbind and that also > works, but I have a problem when trying to set fi

setup ofr the printer

2003-01-20 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello, I know you can print a file using lpr and configuration could be done using lpd - but lpd is not present. I've got a Lexmark Z31 printer. Although it seems to be a "windows only" printer I had a driver for redhat before. Is there a driver and/or a howto for the printer configuration avail

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:11:12AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:48:35 + > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That doesn't match either /etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh or the e2fsck man > > page. > > But it does match what man shutdown says. Right, but I don't think

Re: Unicode-aware grep?

2003-01-20 Thread Steve Juranich
On 20 January 2003 at 17:12, Gaute B Strokkenes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The preferred way to use Unicode in Debian is to use UTF-8. Try > something like: > > $ iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 my_utf_16_file > temporary_file Thanks. I wrote a hacky little python script to do a kind of fgrep on

Solved: AGAINdebian-newbe problems w. ssh

2003-01-20 Thread Oliver
At 19.01.2003 16:15, you wrote: [I would prefer it if you kept the conversation on the list, so that other people can help. Thanks.] Sorry for that, I just replied, that sent it direct to you ! On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:10:33PM +0100, Oliver wrote: > At 19.01.2003 15:29, you wrote: > >On Su

[OT] custom dyndns.org domain & local bind

2003-01-20 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
Hi, Sorry for the OT post, but a lot of people here seem to be using the dyndns.org services. I am intending to transfer my domain to my home server this week, and have set up a test domain to make sure everything goes smoothly. The only thing I've found so far that isn't going smoothly is I

Kernel fallback

2003-01-20 Thread Paul W
Back again so soon? Hello all, I've been trying (and still am) to compile a 2.4.20 kernel with alsa modules to enable my soundcard, as per the good advice given me earlier. So far I've tried the Debian way and the old fashioned way and I'm nearly there but not quite - I now have a 2.4.

Re: default login manager

2003-01-20 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Aryan Ameri wrote: > hi there: > > I have installed Ralph Nolden's KDE 3.1 packages on woody stable. > However after installing kdm, when starting the computer, xdm is still the > default login manager. Howshall I change the default login manager to > kdm? 1) Install kdm 2)

Re: Lilo and vga=791

2003-01-20 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:29:20PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > I am facing a peculiar problem while booting with a kernel which has > framebuffer support. > > My lilo.conf is as follows: > > root=/dev/hda > map=/boot/map > install=/boot/boot-bmp.b vga=791 "belongs here, no

big problem with libc6 install

2003-01-20 Thread Alberto Rodriguez
I have a host with debian woody. It was a few time that I didn´t upgrade the packets. with apt-get I tried upgrade packets but this failed. Now if I run "dpkg -C" I get:      Package: libc6Status: install reinstreq half-installedPriority: requiredSection: baseInstalled-Size: 12760Maintainer:

diald+dsl connection fails

2003-01-20 Thread vdemart
I'm trying to make diald work with a dsl connection. I've seen that diald with a ppp modem connection works fine (even with that SIOCSIFMETRIC: warning- see below) as well as the dsl connection alone (using 'pon dsl-provider' to start it). But substituting 'dsl-provider' into /etc/diad/diald.pro

Re: Lilo and vga=791

2003-01-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Sridhar M.A.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I am facing a peculiar problem while booting with a kernel which has > framebuffer support. > > My lilo.conf is as follows: > > root=/dev/hda > map=/boot/map > install=/boot/boot-bmp.b > > bitmap=/boot/ins64a.bmp > bmp-color

Re: default login manager

2003-01-20 Thread David Z Maze
Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 3) update-rc.d -f xdm remove This is arguably bad advice; if xdm ever gets updated (as in a security release), update-rc.d will notice that there are no links for xdm, conclude that the package was never installed, and recreate the links, leaving you back

Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 02:51:55AM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 12:34, Paul Johnson wrote: > > If none of this makes sense to you, you probably shouldn't be calling > > yourself a geek and should sell your computer and switch to WebTV or > > something a little less fun.

Re: [OT] custom dyndns.org domain & local bind

2003-01-20 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Kenneth Dombrowski said: > I am trying to set up a http://dev.domain.tld VirtualHost as well as a > http://www.domain.tld VirtualHost, which was working fine in Apache from > the LAN when I was serving the DNS myself, and is reportedly working > now from without the LAN Do you have the Apache v

Re: themes for vt

2003-01-20 Thread Niels Felsted Thorsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vikki Roemer) writes: > Hi! > I'm trying to track down a package that I had installed back when I > was running Potato. AFAICT, the package is not in Woody (for whatever > reason). I can't remember the name of the package, but it had tons of > themes for the console-- it would

Re: Lilo and vga=791

2003-01-20 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi Yall & Sridhar, just change it too vga=791 for each option you want too; no append statement is needed. That way, you can have multiple resolutions available @ boot time. Well, try it with one & see how that goes. The above is how I work mine :-) *BFN* H :-) Arrogant dragon will have c

Re: how to determine hd partitioning?

2003-01-20 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Sunday, 19 January 2003, 06:30 PM -0500): > I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night, > and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard drive. I've thrown it into > my older machine, and it's being recognized fine as

Re: Install all packages

2003-01-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:04:57PM +0700, Hansel Yapadi wrote: > How to install all packages in the cds during installation? because I > wanna try those software This is what you want to do if you have a lot of tome and harddisk :) (You can not put all of them blindly. Enven if you can, how

Re: [OT] custom dyndns.org domain & local bind

2003-01-20 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: Kenneth Dombrowski said: I am trying to set up a http://dev.domain.tld VirtualHost as well as a http://www.domain.tld VirtualHost, which was working fine in Apache from the LAN when I was serving the DNS myself, and is reportedly working now from without the LAN D

GRUB -- hangs on boot

2003-01-20 Thread will trillich
any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after the bios stuff, and then... nothing. a friend suggested trying windo~1 fdisk to make it a fat32 drive, wiping previous linux stuff off, then retrynig with a new linux (ext3) partition scheme. i tried that (i think) and still, hang on bo

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-20 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:49:29AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > What I do is just make up a second Section "Screen" in the same > XF86Config-4 and give it its own identifier. When I want to use it I > just do: > > startx -- :1 -screen but how do you FIGURE OUT WHICH RESOLUTIONS your monitor c

Re: kill with regex?

2003-01-20 Thread will trillich
try man pidof :) On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:37:07PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Jor-el wrote: > >On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > >>On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:32:19PM +0100, Philipp Gruemmer wrote: > >>>Hugh Saunders wrote: > ps x gives a list of xine's which i would

Debian V3 R1 install, not

2003-01-20 Thread Tcat Houser
I am fighing an Adaptac SCSI controller with the Debian CD. I have tried the no_reset, no_probe and it is no luck. I guess I am wondering how (or if a boot floppy set would work) because I have exactly one choice on this IBM 325. The Adaptac controller for hard drives and CD. I did an archive sea

Re: vim and basic .bashrc questions

2003-01-20 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:22:35AM +, iain d broadfoot wrote: > * Seneca ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 04:37:13PM -0800, CM Miller wrote: > > > Also, I have been able to set .bashrc preferences as > > > root, like "rm = rm -i". This works for root, but not > > > for my

Re: how to determine hd partitioning?

2003-01-20 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:32:54PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Sunday, 19 January 2003, 06:30 PM -0500): > > I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me > > Friday night, and I'm trying to grab the data from its hard

Compaq with NC7781 NIC

2003-01-20 Thread Daniel Fabian
Hi, I'm trying to install debian on a compaq server with an nc7781 nic-card. The driver for linux can be downloaded from http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/networking/nics/Compaq_NC7781_Gigabi t_Ethernet_NICs.html, but unfortunatly this is only a srpm for suse and redhat. I downloaded the pr

Re: themes for vt

2003-01-20 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:14:00PM +0100, Niels Felsted Thorsen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vikki Roemer) writes: > > > Hi! > > I'm trying to track down a package that I had installed back when I > > was running Potato. AFAICT, the package is not in Woody (for whatever > > reason). I can't remem

Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot

2003-01-20 Thread Rainer Koenig
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after > the bios stuff, and then... nothing. Can you type at this point? Maybe what you are seeing is the GRUB shell prompt. Try things like "help" to get a help. > a friend suggested trying win

Quick aptitude question...

2003-01-20 Thread ZephyrQ
I'm trying to take better control of my installation, and fired up aptitude. I inadvertently tried to do an upgrade (to woody rc1) a while back and am trying to cancel it. Is there a way to 'wipe' queued actions and/or reset aptitude? Yes, I've RTFM, but haven't gotten anywhere

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