Re: Is this normal with USB mice? (solved)

2003-01-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:24:30AM -0600, Jack wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:10:24AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > #include > > * Jack [Mon, Jan 20 2003, 11:48:16PM]: > > > Thanks for the hints. I have almost the same configure as yours. Would > > > you try this for me when you by chance

Re: autofs vs amd: Is there a preference?

2003-01-22 Thread Frank Lenaerts
on Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 06:45:30PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote about Re: autofs vs amd: Is there a preference?: > anyone have a config for amd to automount home dirs? off redundant > hostnames? > > in amd, when fileserver:/exports/[export1] is automounted, the > files/dirs in [export1] are acc

Re: autofs vs amd: Is there a preference?

2003-01-22 Thread Frank Lenaerts
on Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 08:52:36PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote about Re: autofs vs amd: Is there a preference?: > %% Regarding Re: autofs vs amd: Is there a preference?; > > ao> hi ya robert > > >> > I'm looking at my automount situation and wondering. Is one going > >> > away? Which is th

Re: Starting Navigator while also running Mozilla

2003-01-22 Thread nate
Oleg said: > Hi > > I'm having difficulty starting Navigator 4.77 while also running Mozilla > or Phoenix (0.5 static binary). I'm guessing > /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/wrapper that actually starts Navigator on Debian > detects other browsers running and merely opens another window of the > curren

attempt to access beyond end of device

2003-01-22 Thread Mohammed Sameer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Yesterday i left the PC running all night, When i woke up i found a bunch of those messages in my console i had them before while i was doing a "find ./ -name foo" but ignored them, I really don't feel comfortable. Can anyone point me to the

USB-Netzwerkkarte beim Anschließen konfigurieren

2003-01-22 Thread Christian Kohlmeyer
Einen schönen guten Morgen, an die gesamte Newsgroup! Genug geschleimt ;), jetzt gehts zur Sache. Ich betreibe an einem Notebook (Mitac 5033) die USB-Netzwerkkarte ausm Atelco. Die Karte läuft einwandfrei mit dem als 'experimental'-Treiber ADMtek Pegasus-based Ethernet. Sie wird auch immer korrekt

Re: Hp 840c

2003-01-22 Thread Chris Lale
Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: Hello again, I'm using Debian / KDE 2.2.2 at my desktop for 3 weeks now, and I like it very much, except that I can't print. What stuff / wich packages do I have to install to get my HP 840c printer at the parallel port working? It runs well in Caldera OpenLinux but I

Re: autofs vs amd: Is there a preference?

2003-01-22 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> on Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 06:45:30PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote about Re: autofs vs amd: Is there a preference?: -> > anyone have a config for amd to automount home dirs? off redundant -> > hostnames? -> > -> > in amd, when fileserver:/exports/[export1] is automounted, the -> > files/dirs in

Re: RAID & EXT2-fs error

2003-01-22 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 11:31 pm, Michael Kahle wrote: > > I am trying to install a Debian testing box with root on RAID > > 1 following the instructions given at > > http://karaolides.com/computing/HOWTO/lvmraid/ > > I am working on setting up a system with this configuration. I > decided to w

Re: Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:03:00AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Question about false positives(/usr/share/doc/ directories that don't > correspond to a package): Are they a bug or is there nothing wrong with > them? On my system I have the following false positives: > > debian-reference-en, de

Re: restricting command line arguments in sudo

2003-01-22 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 08:41:23AM +0100, Alexander Steinert wrote: [ stupid advice snipped ] > /usr/bin/tail /var/log/[^.]* > will prevent > sudo tail /var/log/../../etc/shadow > but not > sudo tail /var/log/apache/../../../etc/shadow > :-( Hrm, thanks for catching that. > I have no better i

ssh and tcpwappers

2003-01-22 Thread Johann Spies
How do I get ssh on debian to use tcpwrappers? The same configuration that works on Redhat servers - e.g. sshd: host.allowed.here in /etc/hosts.allow is ignored on my Debian servers. I have also tried ssh: host.allowed.here but without any difference in behaviour. Regards. Johann -- Joha

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

2003-01-22 Thread Chris Lale
Pigeon wrote: On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:53:54PM -0700, Al Davis wrote: I have since installed Debian, with 2.4.20-bf2.4, and now I wonder if it is safe to re-enable DMA. I have a VIA 82C686 southbridge, and 2.4.20 enables its "VIA southbridge workaround" when it boots. So presumably the pr

RE: Burning a CD without ide-scsi

2003-01-22 Thread Colin Ellis
You need to add the following to your lilo.conf: append="hdd=ide-scsi" (or whatever hd device your IDE burner is.) Add this, run lilo, reboot and check the ide-scsi module gets loaded. This _should_ be all you need to do to get it to work. Colin Ellis Solution City Ltd http://www.solution-cit

Re: USB-Netzwerkkarte beim Anschließen konfigurieren

2003-01-22 Thread Joerg Johannes
An Christian: Das hier ist die englische debian-user-Liste, die besten Ergebnisse erzielt man also mit enlglischen Anfragen. Nur mal so eine Idee: apt-cache show hotplug Description: Linux Hotplug Scripts This package contains the scripts necessary for hotplug Linux support, and lets you plug i

renew expired certificate

2003-01-22 Thread Alexander Steinert
Hi all, on a machine a self-signed certificate expired recently. It was created via mod-ssl-makecert (according to /usr/doc/libapache-mod-ssl-doc/README.Debian.gz). After googl'ing and reading HOWTOs I still don't know how to to renew it (it shall have a new expiration date). For example, I tried

darn - nasty pango problems...

2003-01-22 Thread Roman Joost
I get some nasty pango and libgtk problems after upgrading: Setting up libgtk2.0-common (2.2.0-2) ... Updating the IM modules list for GTK+-2.2.0.../usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0: relocation error: /usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0: undefined symbol: g_printf dpkg: error processing libgtk2.0-com

Re: Lilo warning causing problems

2003-01-22 Thread Felipe Martínez Hermo
El Tuesday 21 January 2003 13:19, Seneca escribió: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:44:41PM +0100, Felipe Mart?nez Hermo wrote: > > I have just installed a new Debain box and configured a new > > kernel. I run Lilo and it says: > > > > Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return d

RTCW on debian

2003-01-22 Thread Alexey Chetroi
Dear All, Is anybody running return to castle wolf. linux binaries on debian? I'm having problem launching single player game, after start I just see black square and nothing else. Console stops after: ...loading 'scripts/ui.shader' ...loading 'scripts/ui_hud.shader' ...loading 'scripts/ui_noteb

Re: ssh and tcpwappers

2003-01-22 Thread Markus Wutzke
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:25:04PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > sshd: host.allowed.here Should work. Check if sshd has TCP Wrapper support. ldd /usr/sbin/sshd should list libwrap.so.0 => /lib/libwrap.so.0 (0x40018000) If you build OpenSSH from scratch, use --with-tcpwrapper

Re: ssh and tcpwappers

2003-01-22 Thread Markus Wutzke
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:25:04PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > sshd: host.allowed.here Should work. Check if sshd has TCP Wrapper support. ldd /usr/sbin/sshd should list libwrap.so.0 => /lib/libwrap.so.0 (0x40018000) If you build OpenSSH from scratch, use --with-tcpwrapper

Re: ssh and tcpwappers(solved)

2003-01-22 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:20:33PM +0100, Markus Wutzke wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:25:04PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > sshd: host.allowed.here > > Should work. > > Check if sshd has TCP Wrapper support. > > ldd /usr/sbin/sshd > > should list > > libwrap.so.0 => /li

Re: RTCW on debian

2003-01-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:14:18PM +0200, Alexey Chetroi wrote: > Is anybody running return to castle wolf. linux binaries on debian? Yep, runs fine here. Wish I could be of more help. -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: autofs vs amd: Is there a preference?

2003-01-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Heironimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:07:41PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: >> I'm looking at my automount situation and wondering. Is one going >> away? Which is the "way to go" for automounting, amd or autofs? > >I think that

Re: USB-Netzwerkkarte beim Anschließen konfigurieren

2003-01-22 Thread Christian Kohlmeyer
Thank you for your help! It was exactly, what I searched. Sorry, that I wrote in german language in an english newsgroup. Have a nice day. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Do all mirrors in mirrors_full contain all distributions?

2003-01-22 Thread Lloyd Zusman
I'm trying to understand the use of the `mirrors_full' file in the `netselect-apt' utility, and I realize that there's a gap in my knowledge. I couldn't locate the information to fill this gap in any documentation that I've been able to find, so I'm asking here. Is each and every site listed in t

Re: Hp 840c

2003-01-22 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:32:16AM +, Chris Lale wrote: | Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: | >Hello again, | > | >I'm using Debian / KDE 2.2.2 at my desktop for 3 weeks now, and I like it | >very much, except that I can't print. What stuff / wich packages do I have | >to install to get my HP 840c pri

Re: Installing Debian on an iPAQ

2003-01-22 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On 2003.01.21 17:56 David Z Maze wrote: "Darryl L. Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anybody have experience doing this? Can anybody point me to some > information on doing so? Back when I was playing with one, general advice was that you only wanted to try to put Debian on it if you had a lo

Linux partition question

2003-01-22 Thread debian parisc
Hello, although I've been reading this list for a few months now I haven't actually installed in on a i386 pc (although I have installed it on a HP Unix server - well smooth). I'm now read to install on my home PC, to ensure that my wife doesn't divorce me I need to make sure that I get it rig

umount hdb?

2003-01-22 Thread Nori Heikkinen
i seem to have screwed something up. i made a mount point for (the home partition of) my second hard drive, /mnt/mikan, added it to /etc/fstab, and mounted it. all was well. now i decide to move /mnt/mikan to /. i do so. i get many errors. now /mikan has some of the files it should have, but

Re: exim4 sources

2003-01-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:18:44PM -0500, David H. Clymer wrote: > >| Is exim4 included in testing or unstable packages? > >No, unfortunately. The maintainer is really behind on that package -- >exim4 has been stabl

Galeon snapshot and file download

2003-01-22 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi I have installed galeon snapshot on my Sid box and its very pretty. Unfortunately whenever I try to download a file it pops up the box to choose where the file gets saved and whatever I do it errors with: a folder was chosen when a file was expected And wont download Thanks Pat

Cannot open SCSI driver

2003-01-22 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello! I am running woody and I have a cdrom and a cdwriter. I want to write cds using the cdwriter reading from the cdrom. Both are ATAPI devices, so I have compiled the kernel, 2.4.18, with the following options: a) scsi generic support enabled b) scsi cdrom support enabled c) ATAPI cdrom sup

cups foomatic problem

2003-01-22 Thread Thomas H. George,,,
My system is Debian Testing with a 2.4.20 kernel. An Epson Stylus Color printer is on usblp0. I used apt-get install to install cupsys, cupsomatic-ppd and foomatic-bin. Three drivers were listed for the printer. I tried each in turn with the commands lpadmin -p lp -E -v usb:/dev/usblp0 -

I'm a -- MARK --'ed user.

2003-01-22 Thread Narins, Josh
I know I had help figuring this out a couple years ago, but I don't remember, and it's impossible to google (the dashes are stripped if you try). On my console, on a woody 486, I see, regularly... -- MARK -- [ 30 or so seconds pass] -- MARK -- And I am quite sure I do not like feeling like a --

Re: Burning a CD without ide-scsi

2003-01-22 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 14:02, Colin Ellis wrote: > You need to add the following to your lilo.conf: > > append="hdd=ide-scsi" > > (or whatever hd device your IDE burner is.) > > Add this, run lilo, reboot and check the ide-scsi module gets loaded. > > This _should_ be all you need to do to ge

Re: attempt to access beyond end of device

2003-01-22 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Hi all, > Yesterday i left the PC running all night, When i woke up i found a bunch of those >messages in my console > i had them before while i was doing a "find ./ -name foo" but ignored them, I really >don't feel comfortable. > > Can anyone point me to the right direction ?? > I don

RE: Can't get sound to work (CMIxxxx)

2003-01-22 Thread Jay
Thanks Bob, I'll try that... ~-Original Message- ~From: Bob Nielsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Nielsen ~Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 8:56 PM ~To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~Subject: Re: Can't get sound to work (CMI) ~ ~ ~At least some of the Debian kernel-image packages (I r

NGPT and "Classic" Threating

2003-01-22 Thread Philipp
Dear Debian Users,     i think i am forced to install NGPT (Next Generation Posix Threating) on one of our servers, because i am missing performance and i hope that will solve the problem. Now i have a couple of questions:     1) I cannot find a package NGPT. i am using debian woody at the m

Re: Linux partition question

2003-01-22 Thread Gee Law
Hi, Debian (and don't see why other distros can't) can boot beyond the 8GB boundary. I have a 20GB NTFS partiton as my first, then the linux partitions come after that (/boot, /, /home, swap). My motherboard (Intel/Dell LX) doesn't support booting past 8GB/large hard drives IIRC. A Promise Ult

Re: Linux partition question

2003-01-22 Thread Donald Spoon
debian parisc wrote: Hello, although I've been reading this list for a few months now I haven't actually installed in on a i386 pc (although I have installed it on a HP Unix server - well smooth). I'm now read to install on my home PC, to ensure that my wife doesn't divorce me I need to make

problems with CDRW drive mounting CD-data

2003-01-22 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
So my *newest* machine's motherboard died over the weekend, and I'm trying to cannibalize it to make my old machine a bit better. Among the things I've done is to take the 52x24x52 CD-RW drive, DVDROM drive, and hard drive out and place them in my old machine. Current setup is: Primary IDE Control

Re: umount hdb?

2003-01-22 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > orange:~# df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda5 93M 93M 0 100% / Free up some space on your / partition, and you should be closer to your goals. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

RE: umount hdb?

2003-01-22 Thread Colin Ellis
eek! You ran out of room on /dev/hda5! It's probably best to do a rescue boot and move some of your /tmp space to / and /var (this looks too small). It's the easiest option but not ideal. Colin Ellis Solution City Ltd http://www.solution-city.com -Original Message- From: Nori Heikkine

Re: Galeon snapshot and file download

2003-01-22 Thread Gee Law
this came up on the gtk-gnome list. iirc there's nothing you can do, save compiling your own from cvs. you just gotta wait for the next snapshot. the latest mozilla-snapshot is very pretty (xft!!) gee. __ nobody's perfect __ On 2003.01.22 15:11 Pat Colbeck wrote: Hi I have installed galeon sna

RE: minimal impact kernel upgrade

2003-01-22 Thread Narins, Josh
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 05:20:25PM +, Simon Tod wrote: > > The current kernel I'm using on my laptop - "unname -r" gives just > > 2.4.19 without any extensions (?) - doesn't support APM. > Are you sure? :-) > > All I'm really interested in doing is and "apt-get install > > kernel-image-2.4.1

Re: OT: functional languages

2003-01-22 Thread Eric E Moore
"Eric G. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The C and Scheme functions are essentially identical. Well, one important difference is that the scheme standard requires that the language support an infinite number of tail calls. (define (countdown x) (cond ((<= 0 x) (write x) (newlin

Re: Linux partition question

2003-01-22 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting debian parisc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > although I've been reading this list for a few months now I haven't > actually installed in on a i386 pc (although I have installed it on a HP > Unix server - well smooth). I'm now read to install on my home PC, to > ensure that my wife d

dependency troubles in sid

2003-01-22 Thread James Hughes
Hi, I can't install or remove any packages with apt-get. Installing produces errors along the lines of the following: Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 74553 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gftp-gtk 2.0.13-1 (using .../gftp-gtk_2.0.14-1_i386.deb) .

Re: Cannot open SCSI driver

2003-01-22 Thread Gee Law
google is your friend! http://www.google.com/search?q=Cannot+open+SCSI+driver&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0 a couple of interesting threads described similar problems. from what i gather from a quick peek, it's a symlink issue. this is what my setup looks like: gee@debian:~$ ls -l /de

Re: laptop environment detection

2003-01-22 Thread Thomas Hood
> I've looked at switchconf, whereami, netenv, guessnet, intuitively, > divine, laptop-net, and laptop-netconf (are there any others). ... What is needed is a program that * triggers on events (perhaps including a timer) to do location redetection * Detects the current location * Modifies the c

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Hal Vaughan [Tue, Jan 21 2003, 11:39:12AM]: > comments. You're right. Truth is truth, even if it may hurt. I guess I hit > a vein of truth and hurts. Maybe you haven't noticed, but you accuse this > person of only whinning, while your response is nothing more than excuses of > w

Getting only ISO-8859-15 fonts installed

2003-01-22 Thread Franck Routier
Hi, I would like to have a system with only euro compatible fonts installed. x-window-system-core package depends on ISO-8859-1 fonts, so these are always installed. So even if I install the transcoded packages, users will be presented with a list of fonts that not necessarly support their loc

Re: attempt to access beyond end of device

2003-01-22 Thread Mohammed Sameer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Once upon a time Shaul Karl wrote @ Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:46:46 +0200 > > > > Hi all, > > Yesterday i left the PC running all night, When i woke up i found a bunch of those >messages in my console > > i had them before while i was doing a "find ./ -na

apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't downgrade to stable

2003-01-22 Thread Mohammed Sameer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a mixed system (stable+unstable) and wanted to downgrade to stable. here's my /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 1001 and /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Default-Release "stable"; However # apt-get dist-upgrade

[HELP] - kernel panic 2.4.18 on Dual-PIII

2003-01-22 Thread Rodrigo Otavio Weymar Fonseca
Hi, I sent this message yesterday, but I am not sure it reached the debian-user list. I am sorry by multiples copies. Rodrigo -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:48:55 -0200 (BRST) From: Rodrigo Otavio Weymar Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian user lis

Re: Linux partition question

2003-01-22 Thread Tom Pfeifer
This could be an issue if your motherboard was more than say 4 or 5 years old (pre 1998 or so) and/or if you were running an older release of Windows or Linux. Win98 can boot from anywhere on that drive and so can Debian stable and testing as long as the motherboard BIOS contains the INT13 extensi

Re: I'm a -- MARK --'ed user.

2003-01-22 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 16:40, Narins, Josh wrote: > I know I had help figuring this out a couple years ago, but I don't > remember, and it's impossible to google (the dashes are stripped if you > try). You can google for it (Query: debian syslog "--MARK--"). One result: http://lists.debian.o

Help needed :: debmirror

2003-01-22 Thread Shree Raman
Hi!! I am trying to maintain a debian mirror at my place. But the problem is that the network pipe is not that big right now. I have tried it using "debmirror" but I am finding it tough now. The updation process stops in between with the some error message. dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages

Re: NGPT and "Classic" Threating

2003-01-22 Thread Mohammed Sameer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Once upon a time Philipp wrote @ Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:45:21 +0100 > Dear Debian Users, > > > i think i am forced to install NGPT (Next Generation Posix Threating) > on one of our servers, because i am missing performance and > i hope that will solve

two sound card

2003-01-22 Thread Gabriele Persia
Hi, I have a soundblaster 128 pci and the onboard-via 82c686 ac97 codec. I've installed "woody" with onboard sound disabled and sb is working fine. Then I've 1) re-enabled the via codec (sb-"emulation" disabled) 2) removed es1371 modules (rmmod -r) 3) succesfully "modprobed" via82cxxx_audio modu

Problems with own 2.4.18

2003-01-22 Thread Michael Schlottke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I compiled and installed my own kernel from source (2.4.18). Now there's following problem: The system can't find my second realtek 8139 ethernet card... I still have kernel 2.2 installed and booting with it gives following: card 1 (just to name

RE: Cannot open SCSI driver

2003-01-22 Thread James Miller
The CD-Writing-HOWTO helped me out alot. Snippet from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/CD-Wri ting-HOWTO.html Sect. Description Module SCSI IDE PP BLOCK Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL...

Re: I'm a -- MARK --'ed user.

2003-01-22 Thread Larry Holish
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:40:24AM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote: > > I know I had help figuring this out a couple years ago, but I don't > remember, and it's impossible to google (the dashes are stripped if you > try). > > On my console, on a woody 486, I see, regularly... > > [ 30 or so seconds pa

Re: dependency troubles in sid

2003-01-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:10:06AM -0500, James Hughes wrote: > I can't install or remove any packages with apt-get. Installing > produces errors along the lines of the following: > > Reading changelogs... Done > (Reading database ... 74553 files and directories currently > installed.) > Preparin

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't downgrade to stable

2003-01-22 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:15:53PM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > I have a mixed system (stable+unstable) and wanted to downgrade to stable. > > here's my /etc/apt/preferences > > Package: * > Pin: release a=stable > Pin-Priority: 1001 >

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 11:14 am, you wrote: > #include > > * Hal Vaughan [Tue, Jan 21 2003, 11:39:12AM]: > > comments. You're right. Truth is truth, even if it may hurt. I guess I > > hit a vein of truth and hurts. Maybe you haven't noticed, but you accuse > > this person of only whinnin

Re: NGPT and "Classic" Threating

2003-01-22 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 16:45, Philipp wrote: > 3) I dont think its possible to deinstall the old threating package > first because of dependencies. how can i (with apt or dselct, or > whatever) force a reinstall of a specific package ? apt-get --reinstall install Alternatively, aptitude le

Brute force reinstall

2003-01-22 Thread Nicos Gollan
Hi all... I recently ran into some, uhm, minor hard disk problems that sent my /usr/share to kingdom come, along with /home, but that's another story. Failing to find a simple way to reinstall packages with data in /usr/share or plain and simple all packages, I reinstalled the whole system. (OK

Re: exim4 sources

2003-01-22 Thread David H. Clymer
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 07:08, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > There's an exim-4.10 package on > ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/debian/cistron/ > > It has been built without LDAP and SQL support though, since I > don't need it. And remember exim v3 and v4 have a completely > different synta

Share printer

2003-01-22 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Hello again, My HP 840 is working fine now (thanks for it) nd now I want to share it with windows XP. I tried some things but I can't get it work. Here's my smb.conf file: workgroup = Meijer server string = Debian load printers = yes printcap name = /etc/printcap printing = cups log file = /v

RE: [HELP] - kernel panic 2.4.18 on Dual-PIII

2003-01-22 Thread Colin Ellis
The 'up' in 2.4.18 (up) stands for uni-processor. You will most definitely need the SMP kernel :) I've never used a multiprocessor machine with linux, but it'd certainly be a start to get the correct kernel. Colin Ellis Solution City Ltd http://www.solution-city.com -Original Message-

Re: I'm a -- MARK --'ed user.

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Benedetto
>>> Narins, Josh writes: Josh> I know I had help figuring this out a couple years ago, but I don't Josh> remember, and it's impossible to google (the dashes are stripped if you Josh> try). Josh> Josh> On my console, on a woody 486, I see, regularly... Josh> Josh> -- MARK -- Josh> [

Re: I'm a -- MARK --'ed user.

2003-01-22 Thread Jens Kubieziel
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:40:24AM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote: > -- MARK -- > And I am quite sure I do not like feeling like a -- MARK --'ed person. kubi@QBI050102:~$ man syslogd [...] -m interval The syslogd logs a mark timestamp regularly. The default inter- v

Signature lengths (was Re: I'm a -- MARK --'ed user.)

2003-01-22 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 11:38, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 16:40, Narins, Josh wrote: [***SNIP!!!***] > > --- > >--- This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of > > the designat

RE: [HELP] - kernel panic 2.4.18 on Dual-PIII

2003-01-22 Thread Rodrigo Otavio Weymar Fonseca
Hello Colin, I have tested the 2.4.18smp also and I got the same type of errors. But, are there problems in using a up kernel in a smp hardware ? I thought the only problem in not using a smp kernel in a smp hw was the loss of performance. If someone doesn`t use a smp kernel, or bett

Re: Hp 840c

2003-01-22 Thread Gilberto Garcia Jr.
In the portuguese list of debian, a guy told to me to install turboprint www.turboprint.de there are 2 versios (free e full), but both are funcionally. and this one is better than cups because you can print at 12pps , so, you can get more ink economics. []´s Iced Sun - Original Message ---

Re: Error while running apt-get update

2003-01-22 Thread Jack O'Quin
Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:32:23PM +0100, Joshua SS Miller wrote: > > You have to much info for the apt-get cache to handle. Up the size of > > Cache-Limit. I have my set very high. > > > > joshua@sunlap:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf > > APT::Default-Release "

GNOME == bloatware?

2003-01-22 Thread Steve Juranich
I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice this, as I'm running a stock sid box. But I've got a machine with 256Mb ram, but GNOME is bringing this system to a crawl. I open up the system monitor, and I see that the main offenders are X (65 Mb, totally expected), Galeon (40 MB, it didn't used to

RE: [HELP] - kernel panic 2.4.18 on Dual-PIII

2003-01-22 Thread Colin Ellis
Try append="noapic" to turn off power management. -Original Message- From: Rodrigo Otavio Weymar Fonseca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 January 2003 17:54 To: Colin Ellis Cc: debian user list Subject: RE: [HELP] - kernel panic 2.4.18 on Dual-PIII Hello Colin, I have tested

Re: Help needed :: debmirror

2003-01-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:58:37PM +0530, Shree Raman wrote: > It leaves the whole mirror in an inconsistent state. Restarting the > process means processing all Packages.gz, Contents-i386.gz, etc. for > each stable, testing & unstable for i386 architecture, which consumes > a lot of time. Take

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 01:33 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 01:52:40AM -0500, Hal Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 January 2003 12:31 am, Kent West wrote: > > > John & Peg Pickard wrote: > > > > I would STRONGLY recommend trying Mandrake. While I ha

Re: how to determine hd partitioning?

2003-01-22 Thread Fraser Campbell
On January 20, 2003 02:32 pm, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > Only problem is... the disk is a 40GB drive, and this older machine can > only handle drives up to 32GB. While I can see the partitioning and > access a good portion of the disk, I cannot get a large chunk of the > data off it that I n

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't downgrade to stable

2003-01-22 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Simon Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:15:53PM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi, >> I have a mixed system (stable+unstable) and wanted to downgrade to stable. >> >> here's my /etc/apt/preferences >> >> Package

Re: Nautilus problems in latest upgrade of Sid

2003-01-22 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 19:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I did an aptitude upgrade a few minutes ago & got my self in sync with the latest >debs in Unstable. > > 2 problems : > 1. Nautilus refuses to start. > Trying to launch it from the command line spews this error : > > nautilus:18756): Gtk-WA

Re: restart / shutdown by normal user

2003-01-22 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Carlos Alberto Pereira Gomes wrote: > * Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20-01-2003 22:13]: > > In the current (default) settings restarting & > > shutting down is only allowed for the root user; > > How can I change that so normal users can shut down > > (restart) ? > Some t

Re: how to determine hd partitioning?

2003-01-22 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 22 January 2003, 01:19 PM -0500): > On January 20, 2003 02:32 pm, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > > Only problem is... the disk is a 40GB drive, and this older machine can > > only handle drives up to 32GB. While I can see the partitio

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 11:40, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I wonder -- are the people that start with Debian people who are new to Linux, > but used to Unix or sys admin/programming on other systems, or are they just > at the "user" (or just above) level? I did my first ever install of a Linux distro 13

Re: Share printer

2003-01-22 Thread Gabriele Persia
Alle 18:25, mercoledì 22 gennaio 2003, Willem-Jan Meijer ha scritto: > Hello again, > > My HP 840 is working fine now (thanks for it) nd now I want to share it > with windows XP. I tried some things but I can't get it work. Here's my > smb.conf file: ... you don't need samba: win2k/XP can print to

dosemu probs

2003-01-22 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello, I've tried installing dosemu - but as my apt-get didn't find any I did use another dosemu .. not really working Now I found the dosemu of debian - because it keeps erroring it seems stuff is still there even though I tried to remove it; how can I make sure the complete dosemu stuff current

Re: GNOME == bloatware?

2003-01-22 Thread Craig Dickson
Steve Juranich wrote: > I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice this, as I'm running a stock > sid box. But I've got a machine with 256Mb ram, but GNOME is bringing > this system to a crawl. I open up the system monitor, and I see that > the main offenders are X (65 Mb, totally expected), Gal

Re: GNOME == bloatware?

2003-01-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:05:20AM -0800, Steve Juranich wrote: > So I'm wondering if I've got some binaries that aren't optimized for my > system somehow, or this is just the state of GNOME. If so, I'm going > to take a serious second look at ditching the whole 'desktop > environment' altoget

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > My point was how Mandrake is focused on making everything as easy as > possible to install and use -- so it's possible for the "average Joe" > to go to Best Buy, or any other store that sells Mandrake, buy a box, > take it home, instal

RE: GNOME == bloatware?

2003-01-22 Thread Charlie Reiman
> -Original Message- > From: Steve Juranich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 10:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: GNOME == bloatware? > > > I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice this, as I'm running a stock > sid box. But I've got a machine with 256

Re: GNOME == bloatware?

2003-01-22 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Steve Juranich said on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:05:20AM -0800: > sid box. But I've got a machine with 256Mb ram, but GNOME is bringing > this system to a crawl. I open up the system monitor, and I see that > the main offenders are X (65 Mb, totally expected), Galeon (40 MB, it > didn't used to

Re: Brute force reinstall

2003-01-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 08:27 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: > Hi all... > > I recently ran into some, uhm, minor hard disk problems that sent my > /usr/share to kingdom come, along with /home, but that's another story. > Failing to find a simple way to reinstall packages with data in > /usr/share or

Re: GNOME == bloatware?

2003-01-22 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Steve Juranich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Wednesday, 22 January 2003, 10:05 AM -0800): > I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice this, as I'm running a stock > sid box. But I've got a machine with 256Mb ram, but GNOME is bringing > this system to a crawl. I open up the system monitor, and

Re: Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:00:28AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:03:00AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > > Question about false positives(/usr/share/doc/ directories that don't > > correspond to a package): Are they a bug or is there nothing wrong with > > them? On my sys

Re: Compiling gnucash 1.7.7 for Woody?

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Wohler
"Michael D. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would this have the desired effect? Can anyone tell me if GnuCash > 1.7.7 requires dependencies, or versions of them, that aren't > available at all in Woody? Well you could try "apt-get build-dep gnucash" and see... -- Bill Wohler <[EMAIL P

Re: Problems with own 2.4.18

2003-01-22 Thread nate
Michael Schlottke said: > Does anybody know, what my mistake could be? there are two 8139 drivers in the 2.4.x tree. The 8139 and the 8139too, I would try the other driver, depending on what your using now. I think the normal 8139 is only available if you have 'experimantal options' turned on. n

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