Re: Xawtv

Wayne Sitton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >ok this is another plea for help. I've got an AverTV Studio tv >tuner/fm radio/capture card. I know it is supported because when I >boot into Knoppix from a knoppix cd the card works perfectly. > >Under my Debian Sid installation, I get a picture, but no

Re: Install : Xserver not found

Hello - _ r a r o h _ - (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Nov 1 08:15:12 deba gdm[598]: gdm_server_spawn: Xserver not found: > /usr/bin/X11/X -deferglyphs 16 -nolisten tcp > Nov 1 08:15:12 deba gdm[590]: deal_with_x_crashes: Running the > XKeepsCrashing script > Nov 1 08:15:19 deba gdm[590]: Fail

can you help me?

debian?, it seemed like you might have some christian values from what i saw on a forum on the net. i am not completely illiterate with computers, but still could use some help in finding a way, if possible to restrict my search on the net, so that my computer will not accept certain words that i

Re: can you help me?

On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 07:11, Joel Goodin wrote: > debian?, > it seemed like you might have some christian values > from what i saw on a forum on the net. Some of us do. Not Debian as an organisation, except insofar as the ideal of free software is compatible with Christian ideas of community. Ot

Re: RP Debian Font guide for beginners plz ...

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:42:40AM -0500, e-bone said > Hi, > I cant figure out how to use the "smartlist" archiver. > Either that or only ~ 10 messages are archived. > > Can someone repost the "Debian Font Guide for beginners ..." email ? > I would really be interested in seeing it > you cou

upgrade->dead system, help.

Hi, Sorry I have very little info on this...no logs or anything:( Running SID, with a custom 2.4.22 kernel, ext3 file system. HD was checked with the diagnostic utility from IBM, including surface (advanced) check and was fine. Did an update via dselect yesterday and after that the whole system

mozilla doesn't open last page visited (new window)

I have the preferences set up to open last page visited but for some reason it always opens the home page. this is happening for quite some time, not sure which version, but definitely few 1.4 and current 1.5-2 pacakge (unstable). erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mozilla mail freezes on start

last mozilla 1.4 worked OK, now that I upgraded to 1.5-2 when I open mail window it just freezes (all mozilla windows are completely frozen, not updated at all). I have an IMAP server (imaps) and few nntp servers configured. I can connect to IMAP server (cyrus) using other clients - so far I t

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I used to be pretty happy with my newsserver (news.cis.dfn.de), until I started with Debian. I can't seem to get all messages from there; for no good reason I'd know about. Could anybody direct me to a newsserver (free - available from outside the confines of an ISP) carrying all messages from thi

Re: Can't install networking.

On Friday 31 October 2003 02:11, Mark Healey wrote: > When installing there was no networing setup. [...] > How do I get this to work? > > Asus A7V8X mobo with > Broadcom 4400 onboard lan [...] Mark: I just read this thread. I had a similar problem (with a different NIC) a couple of month

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:40:01 +1300, cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'll make *one* exception - MS Project is actually quite a > well-thought-out piece of software. The only M$ one I know of. ..it is good looking, for serious work you'll wanna use it as a fron

Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start

On Saturday 01 November 2003 04:43, Kent West wrote: > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > >Ok Sold. I'm game but I need to get stable "stable" enough to get PPP > >working. I wouldn't worry about the stability of "unstable" - I am a complete newcomer to Debian and my mosty-unstable system is far more stable t

Re: Slightly OT

Hello Uwe Dippel (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I used to be pretty happy with my newsserver (news.cis.dfn.de), until > I started with Debian. I can't seem to get all messages from there; > for no good reason I'd know about. > > Could anybody direct me to a newsserver (free - available from outs

linux 2.6, df: `/mnt/nfs': Value too large for defined data type

Hello, I'm running Linux 2.6.0-test9-mm1, and having some trouble with df and nfs mounts. It prints: df: `/mnt/nfs': Value too large for defined data type I'm running Sarge currently, and I tried updating to the unstable version of coreutils, but that didn't solve the problem. I had noticed earli

Re: Sendmail trouble with relaying

On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 00:58, John Hasler wrote: > Erik Dörnbach wrote: > > How can I make sure the only hosts allowed to send in the name of > > "aaa.com" belong to a certain network/IP range? Guess I missed out a > > feature or something? > > That is exactly what Sender Permitted From is about.

D-link DFE-530tx

Hello, I have to install a new computer. I install Debian Woody (3.0r1) from boot-CD (CD1 -- NON-US). Everything works fine except for one thing, I can't get my ethernet card to work. I found on the net several people with similar or the same problem, but I don't find an answer. So, here it is (ag

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I put this following into ~/.bash_profile: # to get rid of blanking of console: setterm -blank 0 but I was never able to find out were in /etc to put it for a global effect rather than just in account configurations. Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: upgrade->dead system, help.

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, wil wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry I have very little info on this...no logs or anything:( > > Running SID, with a custom 2.4.22 kernel, ext3 file system. > HD was checked with the diagnostic utility from IBM, including > surface (advanced) check and was fine. > > Did an update via d

dpkg --get-selections

I've got a machine with a freshly installed woody and wanted to clone the installed software from a running system. I did as seemingly is common lore: > > On source machine: > > > > dpkg --get-selections >selections.txt > > > > On destination machine: > > > > (make sure sources.list is the same) >

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

On Saturday 01 November 2003 12:03, Kurt Sys wrote: > Hello, > > I have to install a new computer. I install Debian Woody (3.0r1) from > boot-CD (CD1 -- NON-US). Everything works fine except for one thing, I > can't get my ethernet card to work. I found on the net several people with > similar or t

Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start

- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 21:43 Subject: Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > >Ok Sold. I'm game but I need to get stable "stable" enough to get PPP > >worki

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

- Original Message - From: "Haines Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 05:37 Subject: Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24 > > I placed the order for the 7 CD woody 3.0r1 -i386 on Sept 20, > > 2003. How could you have a newer versio

Re: dpkg --get-selections

> I've got a machine with a freshly installed woody and wanted to clone > the installed software from a running system. I did as seemingly is > common lore: > > > > On source machine: > > > > > > dpkg --get-selections >selections.txt > > > > > > On destination machine: > > > > > > (make sure sour

question about Qt package needed

--- Start of forwarded message --- An application requires Qt 3.02 headers and libraries. Well, there are some 40 packages on my CD that have "qt" in their name. I went to the packages.debian.org and seached for Qt, but still too much, without anything looking quite right. First a general

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

Hello Kurt Sys (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have to install a new computer. I install Debian Woody (3.0r1) from > boot-CD (CD1 -- NON-US). Everything works fine except for one thing, I > can't get my ethernet card to work. I found on the net several people > with similar or the same problem,

Solved?: Only lilo was able to boot a 2.6-test2 + initrd.

>> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:48:40 -0700 (PDT), James Horey wrote: >> >> --- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:58:50 -0700 (PDT), James >> > Horey wrote: >> > >> > > mount: /dev2/root2 is not a valid block device >> > > mount: /dev2/root2 is not a valid block device >

Enquiries

Hi my name is kelvin from singapore. I had a question to make and that is does Debian OS accepts some windows applications like microsoft office pro, designing applications? Regards, Kelvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

I'm a newbie and would like help configuring x and kde

I'm a total newbie to debian and been using redhat for sometime now and it's worked fine. I have tried knoppix for sometime too and love the package management of debian and been thinking of switching but don't know exactly how to get kde/gnome, X setup and working because redhat basically does

Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

I installed debian from cdrom, but now want to use apt-get (actually, aptitude) to get on-line packages. To do this I ran netselect-apt woody in the /etc/apt directory, and as a result built a /etc/apt/sources list that had a US and a non-US site uncommented. OK, so next I want to get the sudo pa

Re: can't start KDE as user

On Saturday 01 November 2003 04:07, paul wrote: > A dist-upgrade last night broke my formerly sid system.  I was getting > seg-faults from almost everything including bash. Hello, if you run sid, you should really be able to use the debian bug tracking system. Your problem was probably caused by #

tasksel on testing - unmet dependencies for Desktop

Plain upgrade von Woody to something more stable than unstable using apt-get dist-upgrade went smoothly, but left me without much on the desktop. So I issued another # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade #tasksel resulted in: The following packages have unmet dependencies: evolution: Depends: lib

RE: I'm a newbie and would like help configuring x and kde

To install KDE, u need to type "apt-get install x-window-system kde" from CLI and then, to get it running type "startkde" (this is presuming you have you monitor and graphics card drivers installed). Hope this worlks Tom -Original Message- From: Geoffrey Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Se

Re: Can't install networking.

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:23:07 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 02:17 GMT, Mark Healey penned: >> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:03:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >>>More pertinently, what part of the general advice given to you several >>>posts ago frustrated the bejeezus out of y

How to test a hard disk?

Dear list, I have the following question: I have an old hard disk that I want to check. What can I do? Which log files should I check for error messages? (I only have ssh access to the machine, no console). I look at /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog. Is it enough? TIA, Mihalis. -- 15:55:

Re: Can't install networking.

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:27:29 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 03:26 GMT, Mark Healey penned: >> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:08:05 -0900, Ken Irving wrote: >> >>>On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 06:17:52PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:03:59 -0700, Monique Y. Herman

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 05:41:33AM -0500, Haines Brown said > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 07:26:40AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey said Be careful trimming attributions, you don't want to be held responsible for something I said ;-) > > 3) get the non-free binary-only nvidia drivers. The "nvidia-glx-src" > >

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:03:54PM +0100, Kurt Sys said > Hello, > > I have to install a new computer. I install Debian Woody (3.0r1) from boot-CD > (CD1 -- NON-US). Everything works fine except for one thing, I can't get my > ethernet card to work. I found on the net several people with similar o

A butchered Apache2 Installation

I accidentally / stupidly butchered my Apache2 installation. I can neither install apache2-mpm-worker over the old install or remove it - I've tried apt-get remove..., apt-get -f install and dpkg. Can I uninstall it manually? Or somehow repair it. The error message from "apt-get remove apache

Re: Enquiries

Kelvin Lee wrote: Hi my name is kelvin from singapore. I had a question to make and that is does Debian OS accepts some windows applications like microsoft office pro, designing applications? Regards, Kelvin -- In one word NO. Although you can use other applications to enable

[ot] Linux gender in French

Hi All, Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? Thanks Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Dedicated FreeBSD,Debian and RedHat Servers e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Donations made to Debian, FreeBSD t: +44 7919 373537 | and Slackware t: 1-888-327-6330 | email:

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

Quoting Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:03:54PM +0100, Kurt Sys said > > Hello, > > > > I have to install a new computer. I install Debian Woody (3.0r1) from > > boot-CD (CD1 -- NON-US). Everything works fine except for one thing, I can't > > get my ethernet card to wor

How to fix: glibc installed over libc6 broke system

I did a real dumb thing without thinking. I grabbed a .rpm of glibc 2.3.9 from SuSE, converted it to a .deb with alien and installed it. Of course I forgot that libc6 is the debian way of handeling this dependency (see locales; unstable) Yeah it was VERY late. Any way it broke the entire system.

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:04:25PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:17:52AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > My .muttrc highlights my own posts (bright cyan) in index view, and > > notes posts in response to or mentioning my name (easier for me than >

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:20:30AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:36:16AM -0600, Ron Jr wrote: > | On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 07:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:14:15AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > | > > On Tue, Oct 28,

Re: question about Qt package needed

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:02:58AM -0500, Haines Brown said > First a general question. Is there some way to determine, without prior > knowledge, what packages need to be downloaded? None of the packages > on the debian site said anything like, "general Qt" support, or the For a library "foo", th

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:31:04AM -0500, Haines Brown said > I installed debian from cdrom, but now want to use apt-get (actually, > aptitude) to get on-line packages. To do this I ran netselect-apt > woody in the /etc/apt directory, and as a result built a > /etc/apt/sources list that had a US an

Re: How to test a hard disk?

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:57:18PM +0200, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos said > Dear list, > I have the following question: > > I have an old hard disk that I want to check. > What can I do? > > Which log files should I check for error messages? > (I only have ssh access to the machine, no console). > I lo

Re: tasksel on testing - unmet dependencies for Desktop

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:12:17PM +0800, Uwe Dippel said > Plain upgrade von Woody to something more stable than unstable using > apt-get dist-upgrade went smoothly, but left me without much on the > desktop. So I issued another > > # apt-get update > # apt-get upgrade > #tasksel > > resulted in

Re: Enquiries

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:48:59PM +0800, Kelvin Lee said > Hi my name is kelvin from singapore. > I had a question to make and that is does Debian OS accepts some windows > applications like microsoft office pro, designing applications? There is a program called "wine" which can run some Windows

Networking Linux through a Win98 gateway

Hello list,   I was wondering, because I've never been able to do this, if or how you can have a Linux computer access the Internet via a Win98 gateway PC. The gateway runs 602LanSuite for its routing/firewall services. Note that there are numerous WinXP machines behind the Win98 machine that

Re: no sound with kernel-image-2.6.0-test9-1-386...deb

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:57:16PM +, Robin Gerard said > Hello, > > I downlaoded the kernel-image-2.6.0-test9-1-386_2.6.0-test9-1_i386.deb > and I installed it successfully. Everything works fine, except the sound. > ( I run also the kernel-image-2.4.20 and the sound is ok with this kernel )

Re: restarting a debootstrap install ...

on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:14:22PM -0500, e-bone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm trying to install debian from a KNOPPIX cd, > using debootstrap and chroot. > > I'm just curious. If debootstrap goes south for whatever reason ... > (when trying to install sarge it couldn't find one of the files e.

Re: PAM rejecting valid username/passwd ???

Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:31:19:19:32-0600] scribed: > It all started after rebooting to correct a scsi module problem ;< > > My logon and email fetching has been working *without* incident for many > months. > > Now, my user (mds) can no longer ssh into a remote debian syste

Re: restarting a debootstrap install ...

On Wednesday October 29 at 12:14pm e-bone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An unrelated quetion: > when using apt-cache show or aptitude is there a way to figure out > which release (woody, sarge, etc) a version is associated with ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy gaim gaim: Installed: 1:0.70

Re: question about Qt package needed

> On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:02:58AM -0500, Haines Brown said > > First a general question. Is there some way to determine, without prior > > knowledge, what packages need to be downloaded? None of the packages > > on the debian site said anything like, "general Qt" support, or the > > For a libra

Re: How to fix: glibc installed over libc6 broke system

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:19:06AM -0600, John Foster said > I did a real dumb thing without thinking. I grabbed a .rpm of glibc > 2.3.9 from SuSE, converted it to a .deb with alien and installed it. Of > course I forgot that libc6 is the debian way of handeling this > dependency (see locales; u

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:19:48PM -0800, Daniel L. Miller said > csj wrote: > >Real world case: scribus (probably the best GPL'ed or better DTP > >app). I never did find out about this. If it doesn't work, perhaps you should file a wishlist bug on the package asking for support. > But doing th

Re: A butchered Apache2 Installation

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:47:21PM +0100, John Orford said > > I accidentally / stupidly butchered my Apache2 installation. > > I can neither install apache2-mpm-worker over the old install or remove it - > I've tried apt-get remove..., apt-get -f install and dpkg. > > Can I uninstall it manual

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

> > OK, so next I want to get the sudo package and run: > > > > # apt-get install sudo > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.br.debian.org > > woody/main Packages > > > > (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.br.de

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Thanks list for all the information on SquirrelMail. I decided since installing blosxom from testing was straight-forward, I'd do the SquirrelMail upgrade that way as well. So, a quick "apt-get install squirrelmail/testing" and SM1.4.2 is up and running. I did lose the funky SquirrelMail logo, but

hotplug netwotk interfaces

Hi Is it somehow possible to enable a kind of hotplug with the debian interfaces system? If i configure my eth0 device like: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp and i have no network cable pluged in while im starting my laptop then it tries to fetch an ip at startup and if there is no connection it

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 10:23:38AM -0500, Haines Brown said > > apt-get update has the *exact* same error? update should try to go out > > on the network and get the missing package lists from your debian > > mirror. > > Well, no, at least not now when I try it. I was only looking at the > end of

Re: upgrade->dead system, help.

wil wrote: Hi, Sorry I have very little info on this...no logs or anything:( Running SID, with a custom 2.4.22 kernel, ext3 file system. HD was checked with the diagnostic utility from IBM, including surface (advanced) check and was fine. Did an update via dselect yesterday and after that the wh

Re: How to fix: glibc installed over libc6 broke system

On Saturday 01 November 2003 16:10, Rob Weir wrote: > "dpkg-deb -X libc6_from_debian_not_suse.deb > /place/you/mounted/your/broken/system" dpkg can install packages in a chrooted environment: dpkg --root=/path/to/your/system -i libc6_from_debian.deb Regards Jakob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

On Saturday 01 November 2003 16:23, Haines Brown wrote: > Well, no, at least not now when I try it. I was only looking at the > end of all the response, for I can't seem to copy/paste from an > xterm. However, this time did an eshell in emacs and saved the buffer > that resulted from the apt-get up

Re: How can I stop the console from blanking

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:39:09PM -0500, stan wrote: > I'm setting up a machine that will rum umatended, and print some > information on several console sessions. In testing, I find thta the > console blanks afyer some period of time, even if daya is being writtten to > it :-( > > How can I fix t

Re: Debian MSN clients can't connect

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:33:56PM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:24:21 + > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've downloaded kopete and gaim0.71 as well but I've got to sort out > > some broken dependencies before I can try compiling them on woody. > > > > Cheers, >

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 November 2003 7:12 am, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? (Disclaimer: I'm not a native Francophone; but this is the experience I've had with colloquial usage of "Linux" in F

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:48:25AM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > "Le Linux" is typically used as masculine, but I've seen it, less often, > used as feminine, "la Linux". I'm not aware that it is "officially" > anything, but to me as a French-speaker, it "feels" more like a > masculine noun.

NVIDIA driver install

The kernel header installation went very well. So that is AOK. The nvidia driver installation and I are having a problem commuciating. The NVIDIA source was placed in /install/nforce. It is a .run file provided by nvidia and provides several drivers for all nvidia chipsets. So I cd /install/nforce

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:12:31PM +, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? I think it's masculine as in "le linux". Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Slightly OT

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:52:55PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > I used to be pretty happy with my newsserver (news.cis.dfn.de), until I > started with Debian. I can't seem to get all messages from there; for no > good reason I'd know about. > > Could anybody direct me to a newsserver (free - availab

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

Le Samedi 1 Novembre 2003 15:12, Rus Foster a déclamé : > Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? Masculine (ex: "Un Linux est plus stable qu'un Windows"). Don't ask me why. -- Christophe Courtois - Ostwald, Alsace, France http://www.courtois.cc/ - Clé PGP : 0F33E837

Re: print command

At 2003-10-31T19:50:17Z, Vivek Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times.. Ooh! My turn: $ yes '*' | head -n 60 | xargs echo | sed 's/ //g' I'm sure that's optimizable somehow, but I haven't really looked at it yet. -- Kirk Stra

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

Le Samedi 1 Novembre 2003 17:48, Wesley J Landaker a déclamé : > "Le Linux" is typically used as masculine, but I've seen it, less > often, used as feminine, "la Linux". I'm not aware that it is > "officially" anything, but to me as a French-speaker, it "feels" more > like a masculine noun. (I'm

libc6 2.3 and libdb1-compat

Ok, I'm trying to upgrade libc6, but I'm getting some surreal error messages: TheMachine:/home/ab# dpkg -i libc6_2.3.2-9_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package libc6. (Reading database ... 70550 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.2-9 (using libc6_

Re: upgrade->dead system, help.

Hiya, Thanks for the tip but I wonder if it is the kernel, this kernel has been running stable for weeks...why would it suddenly crap out after an upgrade/install of some new/updated packages. A bit more on the 2.4.18, as i mentioned that one does go through the complete boot but it couldn't get t

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

> > Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Packages > > Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:3128 (127.0.0.1). - connect=20 > > (111 Connection refused) > > Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Release > > Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:3128 (127.0.0.1). - connect=20 > > (111

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:14:56PM +0100, Kurt Sys wrote: > Quoting Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:03:54PM +0100, Kurt Sys said > > > > > > I have to install a new computer. I install Debian Woody (3.0r1) from > > > boot-CD (CD1 -- NON-US). Everything works fine excep

Re: NVIDIA driver install

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 10:37:09AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey said > The kernel header installation went very well. So that is AOK. > The nvidia driver installation and I are having a problem commuciating. The > NVIDIA source was placed in /install/nforce. It is a .run file provided by > nvidia and provid

Re: Kernel panic, desperate help needed.

This may be a longshot, but are you using a wireless networking card? I get the same kp when using linux-wlan-ng with some netgear NICs under heavy load. -Brent A. Loonstra wrote: > For the second time during our nightly backup our kernel crashes > completely. Since this is a production machine

Re: Xawtv

On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 11:32, Wayne Sitton wrote: > ok this is another plea for help. I've got an AverTV Studio tv tuner/fm > radio/capture card. I know it is supported because when I boot into > Knoppix from a knoppix cd the card works perfectly. > > Under my Debian Sid installation, I get a pic

I want to only download package

Hi I want to only download package which is already installed my debian So much time is needed that all installed package is typed for example apt-get --reinstall install aalib1 abiword-common abiword-gnome acme ... How to do it more easier ? Sorry, My english writing is very terrible

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

Jakob, a little light is begging to shine. In my reading I did not see anything about apt-cdrom, and so had to guess what had to be added to the config file. I guessed, wrong, it seems. > >   Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Packages > >     Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:3128 (127.0.0.1).

Re: How can I stop the console from blanking

> On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:39:09PM -0500, stan wrote: > > I'm setting up a machine that will rum umatended, and print some > > information on several console sessions. In testing, I find thta the > > console blanks afyer some period of time, even if daya is being writtten = > to > > it :-( > >=20

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:47:14PM +1300, cr wrote: > On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 08:43, Pigeon wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:40:01PM +1300, cr wrote: > > > I suppose I could go all the way back to Edlin. > > > > I still use ed... > > ed - is that the DOS full screen editor?Vastly superio

Re: Can't install networking.

On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 05:49 GMT, Kent West penned: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> >>I've never used apt-cache, but a quick look at the man page suggests >>that perhaps you hadn't yet generated the cache, so searching on it >>probably wasn't very helpful. Looks like the original poster assumed >>th

Re: libc6 2.3 and libdb1-compat

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:11:39PM +0100, Alexander Borghgraef said > Ok, I'm trying to upgrade libc6, but I'm getting some surreal error > messages: Does installing both of them at the same time with apt or dpkg work? -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I wan

Re: Can't install networking.

On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 13:54 GMT, Mark Healey penned: >> >>That simply means that you're running the linux kernel, version >>2.4.18-bf2.4, and your machine name is utonium (is this related to the >>powerpuff girls?). > > Yes. Cool! My machines tend to be super mario bros. characters. >>Where is

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:23:27PM -0500, Haines Brown said > > > > Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Packages > > > Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:3128 (127.0.0.1). - connect=20 > > > (111 Connection refused) > > > Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Release > > > Could

Re: I want to only download package

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 05:37:39PM +, koh youngman said > > Hi > > I want to only download package which is already installed my debian > So much time is needed that all installed package is typed > > for example > apt-get --reinstall install aalib1 abiword-common abiword-gnome acme ... If

Installing kernel 2.4 in Woody

I'm installing Woody on a Pentium Pro. I've done a net install, but have not run tasksel yet. The net install leaves me with kernel 2.2. I'd like to have the 2.4 kernel becasue I need the capability to mount a subdirectory, which according to the man page is available in 2.4 but not 2.2. Befo

Re: upgrade->dead system, help.

Hi, Backing up is always a wise thing, won't argue there:) But i didn't do anything drastic, as i mentioned in another reply this kernel has been running stable for weeks/months. I didn't change a thing except for running a dselect update and letting it install the packages which needed updating.

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

Karsten M. Self wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > In that situation, mutt's > > set ignore_list_reply_to = yes # fix broken mailing list software > > option is what you need! > > [...] > All the more reason why reply-to munging is harmful in > the first place. > > But in a balance of

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:19:33AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > This has the unfortunate effect that reply-to is just completely > useless. It was made useless when the original list munged it. But > two wrongs do not make a right. Three do. :-) I thought that was two wrongs don't make a right,

Cardbus eth0: "no route to host" after sid upgrade

Hi, after a vacation, I upgraded sid on my laptop. After pulling in 3 week's worth of upgrades, I lost ethernet connectivity, and for the life of me can't figure out what went wrong. Nothing changed in the network's configuration. I have a cardbus ethernet card in my laptop. It is connected to a

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:25:42PM -0500, ScruLoose said > The worst part is that I've heard a rumour saying the DFE-530TX comes > with various different chipsets, so if yours is from a different > batch/week/moodswing than mine, it may not be via-rhine at all. I don't > actually _know_ this, but I

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

On Saturday 01 November 2003 18:38, Haines Brown wrote: > Jakob, a little light is begging to shine. In my reading I did not see > anything about apt-cdrom, and so had to guess what had to be added to > the config file. I guessed, wrong, it seems. > > > >   Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main P

Re: How to test a hard disk?

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:57:18PM +0200, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos wrote: > Dear list, > I have the following question: > > I have an old hard disk that I want to check. > What can I do? man badblocks - use the non-destructive read-write test even if you don't care about destroying the data on the d

Re: Can't install networking.

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 05:54:12AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > I should mention that I had to download this from Broadcom. I have a > CD with a source RPM and a .tar.gz. On an earlier attempt I tried to > compile it from source but after I expanded the .tar.gz I couldn't > extract resulting .tar.

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