setting xterm title with -T doesn't work

2006-03-06 Thread Andras Lorincz
Hi, When starting xterm I would like to set the title with -T "string" option, but it has no effect. Instead appears the title with the hostname and current path. Why does xterm ignore the -T option?

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 23:44:01 +0100 Tore Ericsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would much appreciate any idea (else than complete system > reinstallation) how to correct this fatal error. > > Background > == > Unfortunately I have made a grave mistake after an interrupted > Synaptic updat

poff script problem

2006-03-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
If a user account is added to the dip group that user on reboot can use pon dsl-provider. That same user though cannot use poff dsl-provider, it has to be used by root. I just found this out so those using roaring penguin with dsl connections may want to take notice. Probably a good workarou

Re: poff script problem

2006-03-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:12:25AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > If a user account is added to the dip group that user on reboot can use > pon dsl-provider. That same user though cannot use poff dsl-provider, it > has to be used by root. I just found this out so those using roaring > penguin w

php4-ftp / ftp.so

2006-03-06 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I just migrated a bunch of websites from an old SLES9 server to a new Debian Sarge server, and I ran into a problem. Sarge doesn't have the php4-ftp module - I searched for it on the debian site too - it's not in sid or experimental either. How do I make the ftp functions work in apache

Re: php4-ftp / ftp.so

2006-03-06 Thread Mark Lijftogt
Hi Hans, I looks like that you have change the directory structure during the migration. A plain "no such file or directory" notice says enough. Make sure that /home/www/web3/web/ is realy there, and with a little luck the mkdir error will vanish in to thin air aswell. ,Mark Hans du Plooy

Re: User And Group create failures - sarge

2006-03-06 Thread Marlon v/d Linde :: Clue
Ok guys, Found the problem to this behaviour... The Debian::AdduserCommon module (from adduser-3.63) uses "nscd -i group" to invalidate the group name service cache when a new group is added. Well, it should. Unfortunately, it expects a file /var/run/nscd.pid to exist: my $nscdpid = "/var/

Re: Re: system hangs after 10 minutes

2006-03-06 Thread Hans-Jorg.Puch
Title: Meddelande Thanks for replying! In the meantime (since november) I had re-installed SUSE-Linux which ran without showing the hanging-behaviour. After reinstalling Debian and trying with a different monitor the problem showed up again.   What log-files should I have a look on?   How

Re: NVIDIA Freeze

2006-03-06 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Keats wrote: hello, i ve tried all i can do but whatever i do, if i use the driver "nvidia" it freeze my computer. i m tired of doing hard reboots after tests thanx if there is any suggestion (WW) Open ACPI failed (/proc/acpi/event) (Device or resource busy) (II) No APM support in BIO

resolution:1440x900

2006-03-06 Thread hegyi . jozsef
Hi, I had a dual-boot system on my laptop( XP and SUSE 10). Last week I deinstalled SUSE, and installed Debian.For 3 days I have not been able to set the resolution to 1440x900. I`am very disappointed. Can you help me? Regards, Jozsef _

Re: php4-ftp / ftp.so

2006-03-06 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 10:53 +0100, Mark Lijftogt wrote: > Hi Hans, > > I looks like that you have change the directory structure during the > migration. A plain > "no such file or directory" notice says enough. > > Make sure that /home/www/web3/web/ is realy there, and with a little > luck the

Re: User And Group create failures - sarge

2006-03-06 Thread Marlon v/d Linde :: Clue
Ok guys, Found the problem to this behaviour... The Debian::AdduserCommon module (from adduser-3.63) uses "nscd -i group" to invalidate the group name service cache when a new group is added. Well, it should. Unfortunately, it expects a file /var/run/nscd.pid to exist: my $nscdpid = "/var/

Gnome desktop environment removed on Upgrading using synaptic

2006-03-06 Thread Abhishek Verma
Hi all, I have Debina Unstable running on my system. I tried to upgrade the system using synaptic from an official debian mirror. When I looked at the list of packages to be removed/installed/upgraded, I found that gnome-desktop-environment was to be removed. I thought the new version might h

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Try purging the package and then reinstalling it, removing does just like you say, it doesnt delete the configuration files but purging does, try dpkg --purge xserver-xorg Or you can allso try out apt-get -f ... the -f switch is --fix-broken (it is usually used to fix broken dependencies but just

Re: ERP & accounting software

2006-03-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/03/06 18:47), Bernard Fay wrote: > I need suggestion for ERP and accounting softwares running on Linux and > if it could be package for Debian it would be a plus. It would be for a > small to medium business. You may want to check out: http://www.jazzerp.org/ http://tinyerp.com/ The latt

Re: Gnome desktop environment removed on Upgrading using synaptic

2006-03-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:38:19PM +0530, Abhishek Verma wrote: > Hi all, > > I have Debina Unstable running on my system. I tried to upgrade the > system using synaptic from an official debian mirror. When I looked at > the list of packages to be removed/installed/upgraded, I found that > gnom

nautilus able to access windows machines

2006-03-06 Thread Abhishek Verma
Hi, Yet another issue. Now that I have upgraded nautilus, I am unable to access windows machines using the smb protocol. It flashes an error saying invalid location even though the location exists and can be accessed from other machines. Also, I am able to ping that machine. Could someone pl

Re: sudo doesn't set HOME

2006-03-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tadeusz Bak wrote: On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: On Sarge since sudo 1.6.8p7-1.3 it is. Hugo, I am sorry, but I am not sure what do you mean. Does sudo 1.6.8p7-1.3 set the HOME variable on your system, or it doesn't and this is intentional? If the later is the case what is the

Re: ERP & accounting software

2006-03-06 Thread david robert
just check here   http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/tools.htmClive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On (02/03/06 18:47), Bernard Fay wrote:> I need suggestion for ERP and accounting softwares running on Linux and> if it could be package for Debian it would be a plus. It would be for a> small to medi

Re: Sudden sound performance problem

2006-03-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Adam Porter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been running Debian full-time on my desktop for over a year now, with a combination of testing and unstable (mostly testing). At the moment I'm running 2.6.15, compiled with Debian's default config except for turning on a cou

Re: php4-ftp / ftp.so

2006-03-06 Thread Mark Lijftogt
Hans du Plooy wrote: I'm still getting one error: Warning: ftp_close() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given in /home/www/web3/web/testftp.php on line 33 Ah.. debugging.. not so much fun for us non-coders. The error msg says enough though. ftp_close() should contain the connectio

XML parser

2006-03-06 Thread Deephay
Hi all,     are there any XML parser library packages for C and C++? thx!   Deephay

Random crashs under debian testing

2006-03-06 Thread Yannick Patois
AS: Really sorry if you get this message twice. I first posted it 04.03.2006 10:53, but saw that that my original message had not been distributed over usenet outside of my provider. So I post it again hoping for better luck. Hi, Since a few weeks (looks like to me latest KDE upgrade, but could

Using setenv DISPLAY

2006-03-06 Thread Haines Brown
I'm running sarge, logged in as user using text log in and then startx. For no apparent reason, I could no longer use sudo to start gtk apps without "cannot open display error". I start by checking what my DISPLAY value is, but encountered an anomaly: $ echo $DISPLAY :0.0 $ sudo echo $DI

Re: nautilus able to access windows machines

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
Abhishek Verma wrote: Hi, Yet another issue. Now that I have upgraded nautilus, I am unable to access windows machines using the smb protocol. It flashes an error saying invalid location even though the location exists and can be accessed from other machines. Also, I am able to ping that mac

Re: php4-ftp / ftp.so [solved]

2006-03-06 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 13:28 +0100, Mark Lijftogt wrote: > Hans du Plooy wrote: > >Warning: ftp_close() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given > >in /home/www/web3/web/testftp.php on line 33 > > > > > > > Ah.. debugging.. not so much fun for us non-coders. > The error msg says enough thoug

Re: Using setenv DISPLAY

2006-03-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 08:08:35AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > $ echo $DISPLAY > :0.0 > > $ sudo echo $DISPLAY > :0.0 > That seemed OK, but when I did: > $ sudo env | grep DISPLAY > [nothing returned] > Why do I get inconsistent results? In the first case, the > value of D

Re: sudo doesn't set HOME

2006-03-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:21:05AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > 1.6.8p7-1.3 does not set some ENV variables because it was > deemed this was a security risk. As a result it functions > differently than previous versions and you have to fiddle > with sudoers to get it to behave as it did before.

Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work

2006-03-06 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1141639478, Andras Lorincz wrote: > Hi, > > When starting xterm I would like to set the title with -T "string" > option, but it has no effect. Instead appears the title with the > hostname and current path. Why does xterm ignore the -T option? What window manager are you using? Are you 100% s

Re: poff script problem

2006-03-06 Thread John Hasler
Kevin Mark writes: > I use pon and poff for my dialup(not dsl). I do not need root permission > for either. From what I read in /usr/bin/poff, it finds the ppp process > and 'kill's it. Not sure where the problem maybe. Unfortunately, Poff _does_ need root permission when you are running PPPOE. --

Re: NVIDIA Freeze + not an nvidia problem ?

2006-03-06 Thread Keats
hello i ve tried to do a : dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg it ask me few questions but after the "dri" question, it freezes it's not due to my answer, i ve tried "yes" and "no" and it's doing the same... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work

2006-03-06 Thread Andras Lorincz
> Hi,>> When starting xterm I would like to set the title with -T "string" > option, but it has no effect. Instead appears the title with the> hostname and current path. Why does xterm ignore the -T option?What window manager are you using?Are you 100% sure xterm is the terminal being used? How ar

Re: NVIDIA Freeze + not an nvidia problem ?

2006-03-06 Thread Keats
hello i ve tried to do a : dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg it ask me few questions but after the "dri" question, it freezes it's not due to my answer, i ve tried "yes" and "no" and it's doing the same... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work

2006-03-06 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:04:38AM +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote: > When starting xterm I would like to set the title with -T "string" option, > but it has no effect. Instead appears the title with the hostname and > current path. Why does xterm ignore the -T option? It doesn't. Your shell prompt i

Festival MIF-SCIENCES Havana

2006-03-06 Thread Festival MIF-SCIENCES
Title: Dear Colleagues/Estimados colegas: Dear Colleagues/Estimados colegas: We are pleased to send you the Web Site of the Movie and Scientific Video Festival MIF-SCIENCES in HAVANA, to be held in the Comodoro Hotel, Havana City, Cuba, from june 6 to 11 of 2006./Nos complace enviarles e

USB 802.11g wireless adapter for Debian

2006-03-06 Thread Andrew Archibald
Can anyone recommend an 802.11g USB wireless adapter which is supported by the Linux kernel? I am running the latest Debian testing on i386. Currently I use a device supported by ndiswrapper & the windows driver but this situation isn't ideal. For example I have to reinstate the kernel module ever

What IRC is the easy to set up on Debian?

2006-03-06 Thread Chuck Payne
Hi, I have a small group of friends and we are wanting to set up an irc server for us, I am wanting to know what irc is the easy to set up and has dcc working by default. Also what does it take to get jabber working. Thanks, Chuck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: XML parser

2006-03-06 Thread Niall Donegan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deephay wrote: > Hi all, > > are there any XML parser library packages for C and C++? thx! libxml2 and libxml2-dev are probably what you need. The C library is fully functional, and there is another project underway to get them up and running with

Re: apt-proxy-import help

2006-03-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Johan Daine [Sat, Mar 04 2006, 08:18:47AM]: > Hi everyone, > > I am making some tests with apt-proxy. > apt-proxy is working perfectly. I have been purging gpm, removing the > 2006/03/04 08:16 CET [-] [apt_pkg] No Packages files available for > security backend > 2006/03/04 08:16 CET [

Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Craig M. Houck
Hey; What is any easy to use program to generate thumbnails from a 'full sized' image? I have tried many programs found using apt-cache search BUT either I am to stoopid to figure them out or they really don't do what I want. Fore xample: convert image.JPG -resize 10% images.jpg complains. THA

Re: Gnome desktop environment removed on Upgrading using synaptic

2006-03-06 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 05:29:08AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: >On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:38:19PM +0530, Abhishek Verma wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have Debina Unstable running on my system. I tried to upgrade the >> system using synaptic from an official debian mirror. When I looked at >> the list

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Michael Marsh
On 3/6/06, Craig M. Houck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is any easy to use program to generate thumbnails from a 'full sized' > image? convert or mogrify is probably the easiest. > I have tried many programs found using apt-cache search BUT either I am to > stoopid to figure them out or they

Re: Installing fonts

2006-03-06 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 3/5/06, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > > > > You put the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/win98 for all users if > > you have root access or put it in ~/.fonts and then do > > dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. > > Doesn't "dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig" also need root access

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:22:50AM -0500, Craig M. Houck wrote: >Hey; > >What is any easy to use program to generate thumbnails from a 'full sized' >image? > >I have tried many programs found using apt-cache search BUT either I am to >stoopid to figure them out or they really don't do what I want.

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread chouck
Stii having problems ... convert -resize 10x10% DSCF0134.JPG DSCF0134.jpg convert: no decode delegate for this image format `DSCF0134.JPG'. cp DSCF0134.jpg dscf0134.jpg mogrify -scale 10x10% dscf0134.jpg mogrify: no decode delegate for this image format `dscf0134.jpg'. On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 10

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Steve Block
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:37:30AM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: On 3/6/06, Craig M. Houck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is any easy to use program to generate thumbnails from a 'full sized' image? convert or mogrify is probably the easiest. I have tried many programs found using apt-cache s

Re: What IRC is the easy to set up on Debian?

2006-03-06 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 06.03.2006 at 09:59 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote: > I have a small group of friends and we are wanting to set up an irc > server for us, I am wanting to know what irc is the easy to set up and > has dcc working by default. Also what does it take to get jabber working. apt-get install dan

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Michael Marsh
On 3/6/06, Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The options are most definitely NOT supposed to come before the input > file. This changed in version 6.x to make the ImageMagick syntax more > consistent. The old behavior still works in certain situations, but > there are no guarantees. Thanks

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Michael Marsh
On 3/6/06, chouck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stii having problems ... > > convert -resize 10x10% DSCF0134.JPG DSCF0134.jpg > convert: no decode delegate for this image format `DSCF0134.JPG'. > > cp DSCF0134.jpg dscf0134.jpg > mogrify -scale 10x10% dscf0134.jpg > mogrify: no decode delegate for th

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Steve Block
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 11:03:26AM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: On 3/6/06, Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The options are most definitely NOT supposed to come before the input file. This changed in version 6.x to make the ImageMagick syntax more consistent. The old behavior still works in

Re: What IRC is the easy to set up on Debian?

2006-03-06 Thread Chuck Payne
Dave Ewart wrote: On Monday, 06.03.2006 at 09:59 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote: I have a small group of friends and we are wanting to set up an irc server for us, I am wanting to know what irc is the easy to set up and has dcc working by default. Also what does it take to get jabber working.

Re: What IRC is the easy to set up on Debian?

2006-03-06 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 09:59 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote: > I have a small group of friends and we are wanting to set up an irc > server for us, I am wanting to know what irc is the easy to set up and > has dcc working by default. Also what does it take to get jabber working. I tried a few different

Re: Installing fonts

2006-03-06 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _L.V.Gandhi_, on 03/06/2006 10:42 AM,typed: On 3/5/06, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: You put the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/win98 for all users if you have root access or put it in ~/.fonts and then do dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. Doesn't "dpkg-recon

Re: sudo doesn't set HOME

2006-03-06 Thread Willie Wonka
Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:21:05AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom > wrote: > > 1.6.8p7-1.3 does not set some ENV variables because it was > > deemed this was a security risk. As a result it functions > > differently than previous versions and you have to fiddle > > with sudoers to get

Improperly Configured Screen ?

2006-03-06 Thread SPELYA
I have just installed Debian, but my system does not boot properly under Linux.  The following error message box appears when booting: Failed to start X server (your graphical interface).  It is likely not set up properly.  Would you like to view the X Server output to diagnose the p

Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work

2006-03-06 Thread Gnu-Raiz
>On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:04:38AM +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote: >> When starting xterm I would like to set the title with -T >>"string" option, >> but it has no effect. Instead appears the title with the hostname >>and >> current path. Why does xterm ignore the -T option? > >It doesn't. Your sh

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:22:50 -0500 "Craig M. Houck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey; > > What is any easy to use program to generate thumbnails from a 'full > sized' image? > > I have tried many programs found using apt-cache search BUT either I > am to stoopid to figure them out or they really

Re: Improperly Configured Screen ?

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
SPELYA wrote: I have just installed Debian, but my system does not boot properly under Linux.  The following error message box appears when booting: Failed to start X server (your graphical interface).  It is likely not set up properly.  Would you like to view the X Server

Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work

2006-03-06 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:41:43AM -0600, Gnu-Raiz wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:04:38AM +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote: > >> When starting xterm I would like to set the title with -T > >>"string" option, > >> but it has no effect. Instead appears the title with the hostname > >> and current

Re: USB 802.11g wireless adapter for Debian

2006-03-06 Thread Gnu-Raiz
> "Andrew Archibald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled once on a fine day: >Can anyone recommend an 802.11g USB wireless adapter which is >supported by the Linux kernel? We had this talk about pci cards a little while ago, it should apply to USB also as the main difference is the way its connect

Re: aptitude --target target sarge xxx doesn't limit to sarge

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel B.
Paul E Condon wrote: Think OP was trying to use "sarge", not "stable". Right. > I think apt does not recognize "sarge" or "woody" or "etch" etc. Does anyone know why? (Is it a bug in APT tools? Something wrong in my local mirror? Something else?) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

IPS HLBR 1.0 released (off-topic)

2006-03-06 Thread Eriberto
IPS HLBR - Version 1.0 can detect malicious traffic using regular expressions Version 1.0 of Hogwash Light BR, released march 5th 2006, brings two interesting new features. The first one is the ability of using regular expressions to detect intrusion attempts and e-mails with virus or phishing. T

Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work

2006-03-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 3/6/06, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gnome, Fluxbox, and KDE have no control over or issue with the '-T' option.Most distributions, if not all, configure their default shell (usuallybash) to step on the title of xterm windows. I don't have the problem, presumably because the following

Re: getting apt-zip to work

2006-03-06 Thread The Quibbler
On Sunday 05 March 2006 12:20 pm, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 07:56:21AM -0500, The Quibbler wrote: > >I'm getting an empty list. The info file doesn't seem very clear on how > >to use it. The fetch script is only 850 bytes. When I run it I get an > >empty tar file. > > > >I tr

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Craig M. Houck wrote: Hey; What is any easy to use program to generate thumbnails from a 'full sized' image? I have tried many programs found using apt-cache search BUT either I am to stoopid to figure them out or they really don't do what I want. Fore xample: convert image.JPG -resize 10% im

Re: Upgrading from slink on 486 w/ 32 Mb ram and 3c509tp NIC

2006-03-06 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! > > The sarge hardware probe doesn't find the nic though. Debian site > > doesn't seem to have the old version iso's for a gradual upgrade > > process. Anyone able to advise? Sorry, got into this list late and lost the original post! Old version iso's "for a gradual upgrade" ca

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
Andrei, > You could try getting the .deb for xserver-xorg and linux-image... and > install them manually with dpkg -i > > Just a thought > Andrei > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough: Yes, that is probably true regarding my situation. I try my best. Further, I be

Re: Improperly Configured Screen ?

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
SPELYA wrote: I identified that I am using GRUB and X Windows System Version 6.9.0 Now, with my limited knowledge of Linux/Unix, here is what I've done: * I switched to the /etc/init.d/ directory using the "cd" command * I listed the files using the "ls" command * There I found t

Re: postgresql-common 42 fails to upgrade

2006-03-06 Thread Michael Schurter
Andrew Cady wrote: On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 04:10:07PM -0600, Michael Schurter wrote: I have a Debian Etch machine that I keep up to date. [...] Setting up postgresql-common (42) ... dpkg: error processing postgresql-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error ex

Re: installing Debian on an oldworld Mac

2006-03-06 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 6-mrt-2006, at 20:13, petereasthope wrote: I've just read ten recent messages about support for boot floppies and conclude that I should not expect them to work soon. Currently, is there any way to install Debian on an oldworld Mac, other than by CD? You could use bootx to start an instal

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
Olafur, When I try to remove xserver-xorg the Debian system tells that I have to reinstall it first. If I try to reinstall it, I am told to first remove it (see earlier posting). In both cases the reason is the ugly inconsistent configuration. Two examples of this are the results of your propos

Courier

2006-03-06 Thread Gilberto Villani Brito
Hi, I have a mail server with qmail and squirrelmail using courier-imap (version 4.0.6). When I erase one message, my file maildirsize is updated, but if I erase many messages at the same time, the file maildirsize is not updated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Courier

2006-03-06 Thread Gilberto Villani Brito
Hi, I have a mail server with qmail and squirrelmail using courier-imap (version 4.0.6). When I erase one message, my file maildirsize is updated, but if I erase many messages at the same time, the file maildirsize is not updated. How can I resolve this??? PS: Sorry, for the first message, I sent

Problems with new testing kernel package

2006-03-06 Thread Angelo Bertolli
After installing kernel 2.6.15 on my laptop, my laptop suddenly won't boot from that kernel. It doesn't even get to init. It seems to not be able to find the gzip module on startup. I wrote down the errors since all I get is BusyBox when I boot: ... some hardware detection stuff here ... Begi

932c

2006-03-06 Thread Michael J Shannon
My deskjet has a flashing cartridge indicator.  I have removed them, and cleaned them up, yet nothing I do will get rid of the indicator.  The print queue says the print file is in error.  Any help will be appreciated.                            [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Environment Variables for sudo

2006-03-06 Thread Timothy Cowlishaw
Hi All, am having a bit of a problem with setting environment variables on my web server. I need to set the following, for all users, including root. i have added the following to /etc/profile, /etc/bash.bashrc, / root/.profile and /root/.bashrc: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/java/j2sdk/bin

Re: aptitude --target target sarge xxx doesn't limit to sarge

2006-03-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:47:45PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > >Think OP was trying to use "sarge", not "stable". > > Right. > > > I think apt does not recognize "sarge" or "woody" or "etch" etc. > > Does anyone know why? (Is it a bug in APT tools? Something wrong in my >

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Matthias Julius
Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The options are most definitely NOT supposed to come before the input > file. This changed in version 6.x to make the ImageMagick syntax more > consistent. Consistent with what? Not many tools are expecting non-option arguments before options (I can't th

Re: Environment Variables for sudo

2006-03-06 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Timothy Cowlishaw wrote: Hi All, am having a bit of a problem with setting environment variables on my web server. I need to set the following, for all users, including root. this works fine for normal users (and for root when using su, which i had disabled), but apparently not for root

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Kai Sandsengen
I don't see the origin of your problem (just signed up) but it might be the same I had. I have just signed up to day and are not familiar with debian, neither can I tell you what to do, but only tell what I had to do. Installed the «testing» on my hp laptop very easylie and are working, ther

Re: Gnome desktop environment removed on Upgrading using synaptic

2006-03-06 Thread Jason Clinton
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 15:38 +0530, Abhishek Verma wrote: > But, now my system has no desktop environment, and when I try to install > gnome-desktop-environment, it says that it can't install since > gnomemeeting is uninstallable. When I tried to install gnomemeeting, it > says that it can't inst

Re: Environment Variables for sudo

2006-03-06 Thread Timothy Cowlishaw
On 6 Mar 2006, at 22:02, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: (First, is that as typo? (spurious space in PATH)) I would assume that sudo merely executes the program, and does not start a new shell (unless you ask it to), thus my assumption is that it's your env, merely executed with root's

Compilation problems with libxalan

2006-03-06 Thread Matthias Julius
Hi, I am trying to build AnyMeal (http://anymeal.sourceforge.net). When running make I get following error: , | In file included from /usr/include/xalanc/XPath/XPathProcessorImpl.hpp:39, | from xmlDocument.cpp:27: | ../xalanc/PlatformSupport/XalanMessageLoader.hpp:29:29: err

Re: Built-in Network Port not detected in Debian

2006-03-06 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:58:50PM +0300, Salman wrote: > I am trying to install debian on my wife's computer. It already has > Windows XP installed and running on the first partition and used to have > Mandrake 10 on another partition. Both Windows XP and Mandrake 10 > recognized all hardware c

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Steve Block
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:55:41PM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote: Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The options are most definitely NOT supposed to come before the input file. This changed in version 6.x to make the ImageMagick syntax more consistent. Consistent with what? Not many tool

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
Monday 6 March 2006 23:03 Kai Sandsengen wrote: > I don't see the origin of your problem (just signed up) but it might be > the same I had. Kai, In the ultimate sense, we may have the "same" problem, that is, such a problem that may be resolved by a complete Debian reinstallation. Now since my

Re: Improperly Configured Screen ?

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
SPELYA wrote: Kent, As recommanded I added "exit 0" at the beginning of the gdm file using the command "nano gdm" from root, and it did work. Now I can boot not using the recover option, and I get a prompt line ending with $ (user environment, I guess) instead of a prompt line with # (root env

Re: Improperly Configured Screen ?

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
SPELYA wrote: Here is what I just found on X.Org Foundation Website. Look at the caption : "I keep getting the message: "failed to initialize core devices" on their Website But does it mean I have to start over the whole installer process via Internet (a few hours), and if so how can I tweak p

Re: USB 802.11g wireless adapter for Debian

2006-03-06 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Andrew Archibald wrote: Can anyone recommend an 802.11g USB wireless adapter which is supported by the Linux kernel? I am running the latest Debian testing on i386. Currently I use a device supported by ndiswrapper & the windows driver but this situation isn't ideal. For example I have to reinst

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
Tore Ericsson wrote: My hope is that some experienced Debian user may see the key issue (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg00604.html) and understand how to correct the malconfiguration that came about after my fatal mistake, It's a stab-in-the-dark, but I'd try using aptitude

Re: Improperly Configured Screen ?

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
SPELYA wrote: Kent, As recommanded I added "exit 0" at the beginning of the gdm file using the command "nano gdm" from root, and it did work. Now I can boot not using the recover option, and I get a prompt line ending with $ (user environment, I guess) instead of a prompt line with # (root env

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
Tuesday 7 March 2006 00:05 skrev Kent West: > Tore Ericsson wrote: > >My hope is that some experienced Debian user may see the key issue > >(http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg00604.html) and understand > >how to correct the malconfiguration that came about after my fatal > > mistake, >

Re: aptitude --target target sarge xxx doesn't limit to sarge

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel B.
Paul E Condon wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:47:45PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: ... I think apt does not recognize "sarge" or "woody" or "etch" etc. ... why? ... ... I think it is a design flaw, more than an implementation bug. Why does it seem to be a design flaw

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
Tore Ericsson wrote: Tuesday 7 March 2006 00:05 skrev Kent West: Tore Ericsson wrote: My hope is that some experienced Debian user may see the key issue (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg00604.html) and understand how to correct the malconfiguration that came about after

Re: Compilation problems with libxalan

2006-03-06 Thread Mladen Adamovic
Matthias Julius wrote: Hi, I am trying to build AnyMeal (http://anymeal.sourceforge.net). When running make I get following error: You probably have AnyMeal related problem so the better idea is to use anymeal mailing list or forums. Most probably you are using different version of Xalan-C

Re: XML parser

2006-03-06 Thread Mladen Adamovic
Deephay wrote: are there any XML parser library packages for C and C++? thx! Both Sax and Dom parser's are available for C/C++. Google it. -- Mladen Adamovic http://home.blic.net/adamm http://www.shortopedia.com http://www.froola.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
> The only two suggestions I'd have then is to try reinstalling whatever and I have no means of 'reinstalling whatever' except the netinstall CD, I'd appreciate other suggestions than what seems impossible, thanks for bothering anyhow :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: key bind paste from ?

2006-03-06 Thread Brian Clark
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 01:23:11AM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 05:31:12PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > > What I decided to look for, without success, is a way to press a > > key sequence and it have it paste a password at the current cursor > > position in my aterm when con

Re: key bind paste from ?

2006-03-06 Thread Andrew Cady
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 06:42:04PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 01:23:11AM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 05:31:12PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > > > > What I decided to look for, without success, is a way to press a > > > key sequence and it have it

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Marty
Tore Ericsson wrote: Olafur, When I try to remove xserver-xorg the Debian system tells that I have to reinstall it first. If I try to reinstall it, I am told to first remove it (see earlier posting). In both cases the reason is the ugly inconsistent configuration. Two examples of this are the

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