Re: linux-image-2.6-* dependency issues [was Re: Business card iso]

2007-05-12 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:11:48AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 06:37:47PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > ~$ apt-cache policy linux-image-2.6.20-1-686 linux

Re: 32 & 54 bit shared libraries -- how to?

2007-05-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 08:54:48AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > SteveM wrote: > > All the machines on my network mount /usr/local/lib/... using NFS. This > > has > > worked well for me until I added 64 bit boxen. 64bit perl chokes on 32bit > > c

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-12 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto � wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 06:04:09PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> The same can be said about package managers. While we all most likely >> agree that apt is a superior package manager, there are those that think >> RPM is by far better,

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-12 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 11 May 2007 18:13:59 +0200 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Celejar wrote: >>> On Thu, 10 May 2007 19:59:56 +0200 >>> Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>

Re: epiphany-browser and iceweasel do not start

2007-05-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:01:22PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2007 22:45 schrieb Sven Arvidsson: > > On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 19:18 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > epiphany-browser comes up, but then it most likely crashes during > > > rendering of the

XFCE will not manage desktop

2007-05-12 Thread Masatran, R. Deepak
I started using XFCE. But after I configured it, it will not manage the desktop. I turn on "Allow XFCE to manage the desktop" in Desktop Settings, but it turns off automatically. Kindly suggest a solution. Also, 430 megabytes of memory are in use on the computer, which is probably due to XFCE. Thi

Re: [OT] Screen (was Affecting Inst. Change)

2007-05-12 Thread william pursell
Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/11/07 19:36, s. keeling wrote: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 05/11/07 12:49, s. keeling wrote: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: How do you limit the number of batch jobs that can run at any one time? (If the "job limit" of a queue is 4 and you submit 20 j

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-12 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 11 May 2007 11:40:20 +0200 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Celejar wrote: >>> On Thu, 10 May 2007 11:40:01 +0200 >>> Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-12 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 11 May 2007 18:42:26 +0200 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Celejar wrote: >> [snip] Yes, I consider the USA my country too. I have dual nationality, so I

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 5/12/07, Dallas Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/11/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:37:07PM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > On 5/10/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas C

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 07:32:36AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > How do you list all the available packaes with apt-get? aptitude in interactive mode has several ways of listing packages. > And all the packages for the console? Views -> New Debtags Browser go to 'interface - commandline' . But you n

Re: CD/DVD Drive Problems (Etch 4.0)

2007-05-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:40:54PM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > I fooled around with apt-cdrom and tried to re-add the dvd, but > didn't > seem to work. I tried manually re-mounting the hde device to > /media/cdrom and that did seem to work -- but it was mounted only for > the duration of the

Re: schroot leaving sessions

2007-05-12 Thread shame
Did you find a satisfactory solution to this problem? I also have the nasty build up of sessions using schroot. Using schroot -e --all-sessions does clear out the sessions but I can't find a way to automate this. I tried adding this to a launcher on my panel ([i]schroot -e --all-sessions && dc

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 16:55:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/09/07 15:54, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > It always struck me as odd that the gospels could not agree on whether > > Josef and Maria had to go Bethlehem for a census or if they had been ^ ^ Interesting how I sli

Re: huge log files

2007-05-12 Thread JAMIE LARTER
Hello, I'm sure you've fixed it long by now, but just to close the thread with a possible solution. If you've activated Bandwidth Monitoring in webmin, and your logs are getting filled with BANDWITH_IN: and BANDWIDTH_OUT: entries, check here: less /etc/shorewall/start Here, you may find: ru

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:33:45AM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: > > Oh well. Well, in that case, I stand by my original position: I do > not want to get used to depending on decoders if I can't have some > degree of assurance they'll be available later. > [For one meaning of decode] The US gover

Ffmpeg and Ipod

2007-05-12 Thread hackarre
Hello everyone! I'm quite new in Debian, I used to use Ubuntu. Everything is great but the problem is to convert my videos to the ipod format. I've heard about many programs doing that function, such as thinliquidfilm, avi2palm... OK but all of them need ffmpeg configured to enable xvid and some m

Re: epiphany-browser and iceweasel do not start

2007-05-12 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Samstag, 12. Mai 2007 00:19 schrieb Sven Arvidsson: > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 22:01 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > good observation, thanks. I did what you suggested and it looks to me > > like the problem comes out of libxul. NS_RegistryGetFactory () is calling > > itself many times before the c

Re: Ffmpeg and Ipod

2007-05-12 Thread Magnus Pedersen
hackarre wrote: Hello everyone! I'm quite new in Debian, I used to use Ubuntu. Everything is great but the problem is to convert my videos to the ipod format. I've heard about many programs doing that function, such as thinliquidfilm, avi2palm... OK but all of them need ffmpeg configured to enab

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/07 03:48, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 16:55:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/09/07 15:54, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...] > >>> It always struck me as odd that the gospels could not agree on whether >>> Josef and Mar

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/07 02:58, Joe Hart wrote: > Celejar wrote: >> On Fri, 11 May 2007 11:40:20 +0200 >> Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Celejar wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2007 11:40:01 +0200 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ron John

Re: [OT] Screen (was Affecting Inst. Change)

2007-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/07 02:51, william pursell wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 05/11/07 19:36, s. keeling wrote: >>> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 05/11/07 12:49, s. keeling wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How do you limit t

Re: epiphany-browser and iceweasel do not start

2007-05-12 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Samstag, 12. Mai 2007 09:04 schrieb Mike Hommey: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:01:22PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2007 22:45 schrieb Sven Arvidsson: > > > On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 19:18 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > > epiphany-browser comes up, bu

Re: GRUB duplicates kernel entries in menu.lst

2007-05-12 Thread Raffaele Morelli
That is not what he is saying you get for your example. Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 (Single User Mode) Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 (Single User Mode) Debian

Re: epiphany-browser and iceweasel do not start

2007-05-12 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Samstag, 12. Mai 2007 12:11 schrieb Rainer Dorsch: > Am Samstag, 12. Mai 2007 09:04 schrieb Mike Hommey: > > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:01:22PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2007 22:45 schrieb Sven Arvidsson: > > > > On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 19:18

Problems with cdrdao

2007-05-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On my laptop, when I do: $ cdrdao scanbus , I get the following output: Cdrdao version 1.1.9 - (C) Andreas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SCSI interface library - (C) Joerg Schilling Paranoia DAE library - (C) Mon

Re: GRUB duplicates kernel entries in menu.lst

2007-05-12 Thread Raffaele Morelli
you mean you get multiple entries for the recovery mode of the *same* kernel? e.g. three recovery mode entries for 2.6.18-4 Yes. or are you just worried about multiple kernel entries in general. That is controlled by the "howmany=" statement in menu.lst. A No, I frequently try differen

Re: Ffmpeg and Ipod

2007-05-12 Thread hackarre
El ds 12 de 05 del 2007 a les 11:35 +0200, en/na Magnus Pedersen va escriure: > hackarre wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > > > I'm quite new in Debian, I used to use Ubuntu. Everything is great but > > the problem is to convert my videos to the ipod format. I've heard about > > many programs doing th

I had the same problem and I fixed it.

2007-05-12 Thread chadjensen
I had the same problem just barely and I fixed by going to the "users and groups" section and giving permissions to the user. It must be a bug in an update or something that wipes out the users permissions. users and groups->highlight user->"properties" and change it from there. chad -- To UN

Re: default email program

2007-05-12 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 12 May 2007 04:25, Jesus Arocho wrote: > On Friday 11 May 2007 18:08, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > > Nigel Henry wrote: > > > On Friday 11 May 2007 23:26, Jesus Arocho wrote: > > >> I am using debian etch. When I click on an email link on a web site > > >> the system will try to launch evo

after compiling the kernel 2.6.18 bash error message & no X Window

2007-05-12 Thread csanyipal
Hello! My system is Debian Etch. After I downloaded the new linux-source-2.6.18, compiled it and installed the new custom kernel, I get error messages on console prompt when logged in: -bash: id: command not found -bash: [: : integer expression expected and after gdm login I get error message

Re: epiphany-browser and iceweasel do not start

2007-05-12 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:27:46PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (...) > When I copy the xulrunner directory additionally > to /mnt/hda1/usr/share/xulrunner epiphany-browser comes up and runs. > > I am even more surprised about that than about the not working relative link. >

Re: suggestions for window manager

2007-05-12 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/5/10, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: There are a lot of window managers available (too many to download and test them all over a slow dial up link) and I'm looking for suggestions. Here's what I want: low-resource: box only has 64 MB available. Most of the time, x apps

Re: Ffmpeg and Ipod

2007-05-12 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hackarre wrote: > El ds 12 de 05 del 2007 a les 11:35 +0200, en/na Magnus Pedersen va > escriure: >> hackarre wrote: >>> Hello everyone! >>> >>> I'm quite new in Debian, I used to use Ubuntu. Everything is great but >>> the problem is to convert my vid

Re: linux-image-2.6-* dependency issues [was Re: Business card iso]

2007-05-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 09:01:38AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Is it a bug of l-i-2.6-* that it doesn't depend on the latest kernel > (i.e. 2.6.20-3). AIUI, that package should always depends on the > latest 2.6 kernel, but apparently, it doesn't http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport

Re: I/O Wait and CPU Usage

2007-05-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:43:50PM -0400, Grok Mogger wrote: > I have a question about the "wa" fields in vmstat, top, and the > like. I and someone else I know have both read a great deal > about its meaning, and have come to two different conclusions. > Here are our interpretations. Could so

Re: Etch AMD64 fun and excitement

2007-05-12 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 = The Intel wireless card should work fine if it's the 2200 or 3945 model. I personally use the 3945 model under AMD64 Debian. = Yes, it is the 3945. Did you have to use the Intel driver, or did it come already in the stock kernel? =

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 05:07:20AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Each gospel is only telling the part of the story that he sees as > relevant to his audience. > I like to think of the Gospels as akin to getting the same news story from CNN, the NYT, FoxNews and the BBC (and I don't mean when they

Re: iceape (mozilla browser) and CSS of gallery website

2007-05-12 Thread KS
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/11/07 16:33, H.S. wrote: >> Hello, > >> If I try to enlarge the fonts (CTRL+Wheel) in iceape of this website: >> http://gallery.menalto.com/ > >> the menus, or those little gray background windows, on the right hand >> jump into the middle of the page after a few magnif

Re: Solved

2007-05-12 Thread csanyipal
Hello! On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:58:31PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: > My system is Debian Etch. > > After I downloaded the new linux-source-2.6.18, compiled it and > installed the new custom kernel, I get error messages on console prompt > when logged in: > -bash: id: command not found > -bash:

Re: epiphany-browser and iceweasel do not start

2007-05-12 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Samstag, 12. Mai 2007 13:04 schrieb Mike Hommey: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:27:46PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: (...) > > > When I copy the xulrunner directory additionally > > to /mnt/hda1/usr/share/xulrunner epiphany-browser comes up and runs. > > > > I am even more sur

Re: Announce: DebianArt

2007-05-12 Thread cga2000
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 03:42:38PM EDT, André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira wrote: >Can you test? Please register and put your artworking :D I had no problems navigating and displaying the artwork on this web site with the ELinks text-mode browser and ImageMagick. Nice job. >Thanks to Vales

Re: I had the same problem and I fixed it.

2007-05-12 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:25:49PM +0200, chadjensen wrote: > > I had the same problem just barely and I fixed by going to the "users and > groups" section and giving permissions to the user. It must be a bug in an > update or something that wipes out the users permissions. users and > groups->

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. > I've installed the "Etch" - Official Beta amd64 version. > > After installing, I noticed that the Internet browsers were taking a > really long time to pull up

Re: iceape (mozilla browser) and CSS of gallery website

2007-05-12 Thread KS
Joe Hart wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/11/07 16:33, H.S. wrote: >>> Hello, >>> If I try to enlarge the fonts (CTRL+Wheel) in iceape of this website: >>> http://gallery.menalto.com/ >>> the menus, or those little gray background windows, on the right hand >>> jump into the middle of the page

More Iceweasel strangeness

2007-05-12 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; Very often when I click on a link on a web page or in an email Iceweasel will give me a 404 that purports to be from the server on the remote host. But, if I paste the same url into Opera it pops right up with the page. Then if I go back to Iceweasel and click the GO button or do a re

Re: [GENERAL] postgres upgrade

2007-05-12 Thread Ray Stell
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:36:45AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Meanwhile, can I just use pg_dumpall to pull from 8.1 and then reload > into 8.2? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ.html#item3.6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Dallas Clement
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. > > I've installed the "Etch" - Official Beta amd64 version. > > > > After installing, I noticed t

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Dallas Clement
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 13:56 +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On 5/12/07, Dallas Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/11/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:37:07PM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > > On 5/10/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: More Iceweasel strangeness

2007-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/07 08:26, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > Very often when I click on a link on a web page > or in an email Iceweasel will give me a 404 that > purports to be from the server on the remote host. > > But, if I paste the same url into O

postgres upgrade

2007-05-12 Thread Tom Allison
I'm trying to upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2. Apparently the upgrade I just ran through installed a second database on my server. I was hoping that the debian configuration would migrate this for me. I recall there was once a time when it would ask you about moving data from old to new databases.

Re: Etch AMD64 fun and excitement

2007-05-12 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 May 2007, Curt Howland was heard to say: > I think I will try getting/compiling the latest module from Nvidia > themselves, to see if there is any difference. The card is > specifically listed as compatible, this "hang the machine" behav

Re: I had the same problem and I fixed it.

2007-05-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:50:14AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:25:49PM +0200, chadjensen wrote: > > > > I had the same problem just barely and I fixed by going to the "users and > > groups" section and giving permissions to the user. It must be a bug in an > > update or

Etch installation hangs at net-drivers on Portege 3020

2007-05-12 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi, all: I'm trying to install Etch on an old Portege 3020 (which had Woody on it at one point). The boot and root disks work just fine, but then it just hangs when I get to the net-drivers-1 disk. It either hangs immediately (so that Alt-F4 no longer works to show me the log) or at some percen

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. > > > > Interestingly, if I

Re: More Iceweasel strangeness

2007-05-12 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/07 08:26, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; Very often when I click on a link on a web page or in an email Iceweasel will give me a 404 that purports to be from the server on the remote host. But, if I paste the same ur

Re: Etch installation hangs at net-drivers on Portege 3020

2007-05-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 10:26:09AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hi, all: > > I'm trying to install Etch on an old Portege 3020 (which had Woody on it at > one point). The boot and root disks work just fine, but then it just hangs > when I get to the net-drivers-1 disk. It either hangs immedia

Re: Ffmpeg and Ipod

2007-05-12 Thread Mark Grieveson
> > > Do I need any special repostory with a better version of ffmpeg? > > > Thank you for your attention. > > > > Take a look here perhaps: > > > > http://debian-multimedia.org/index.html > > > > /Magnus > I added deb http://mirror.home-dn.net/debian-multimedia sarge main to >my repostories up

Re: I had the same problem and I fixed it.

2007-05-12 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 10:23:03AM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: > It is because he is posting through the forum at debianhelp.org. Of > course, since there is no note there indicating that the posting go > through to a mailing list and context would be helpful. The best thing > would be for

Re: [GENERAL] postgres upgrade

2007-05-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:36:45AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2. > > Apparently the upgrade I just ran through installed a second database > on my server. > > I was hoping that the debian configuration would migrate this for me. > I recall there was once a t

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. > > > I've installed the "Etc

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-12 Thread Nick Jacobs
Florian Kulzer-3 wrote: > > As far as I understand udev, it should always use the lowest free lpX > node for a new printer. > That's just the problem, it doesn't always. If it did that consistently, nobody would have had a problem when upgrading from devfs/hotplug. It looks to me as though we h

sound and no sound

2007-05-12 Thread chadjensen
Hello all, I have a machine. One user logs in (using gnome) and has sound. The second user logs in (also using gnome) and does not. When the second user double-clicks on the volume applet he gets the following error: The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This

Re: [OT] Screen (was Affecting Inst. Change)

2007-05-12 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 05/11/07 19:36, s. keeling wrote: > > > > machines though. OSF/1 wasn't originally available for non-Ultra > > processors. > > Ultras? UltraSPARCS? I may have used the wrong name. What's the ca. '96 DEC processor line for workstations/small servers? -

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 08:18:10AM -0700, Nick Jacobs wrote: > > > Florian Kulzer-3 wrote: > > > > As far as I understand udev, it should always use the lowest free lpX > > node for a new printer. > > > That's just the problem, it doesn't always. If it did that consistently, > nobody would have

Re: exporting a variable to global shells

2007-05-12 Thread cga2000
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:33:12PM EDT, Bob McGowan wrote: > 3. in the parent script, where you use your script, change it to be: > > HTTP_proxy=$(getproxyip) .. you can take it one tiny step further by using an array: . child: cz=($c0 $c1 $c2)/* .. $c4 .. etc.

Re: iceape (mozilla browser) and CSS of gallery website

2007-05-12 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 KS wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: http://gallery.menalto.com/ >> >> With my test (with iceweasel and konqueror), it depends on how large you >> make the text. If it goes beyond a certain level, yes the windows move. >> The way I see it, it is poor web

Re: Problems with cdrdao

2007-05-12 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 12 May 2007, Rodolfo Medina wrote: On my laptop, when I do: $ cdrdao scanbus , I get the following output: Cdrdao version 1.1.9 - (C) Andreas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SCSI interface library - (C) Joer

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Dallas Clement
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 16:15 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Dallas Clement
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 10:40 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > > I'm getting terrible DNS look

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Thilo Six
Kushal Kumaran wrote the following on 12.05.2007 10:26: > This is not really a solution, just a workaround, but have you tried > installing a local DNS cache? pdnsd requires no configuration to set > up. pdnsd is neat. thanks. bye Thilo -- i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE - some friend of mine gpg ke

Re: I/O Wait and CPU Usage

2007-05-12 Thread Grok Mogger
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:43:50PM -0400, Grok Mogger wrote: I have a question about the "wa" fields in vmstat, top, and the like. I and someone else I know have both read a great deal about its meaning, and have come to two different conclusions. Here are our interpr

Re: Re: debconf problem in foomatic-filters

2007-05-12 Thread Felix Lechner
Florian, Thank you for the helpful pointers. Further examination showed an inconsistency in the debconf database. The template "foomatic-filters/gspath" was reserved by "foomatic-filters/textfilter" (the user defined by debconf-communicate). Deleting the entry manually in /var/cache/d

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 23:02:11 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 04:01:39AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > Actually, sort of. The issue was that someone pointed out that the > Bible "redefined" pi to be 3. My point was that if people want to > criticize the Bibl

Dansgardian Antivirus Fuctionality

2007-05-12 Thread David Baron
I more than occasionally get a big warning on bootup about dansgardian virus database not being up-to-date. I have an up-to-date clamav working on my box. Is there a way to set dansguardian to make use of clamd rather than its own stuff? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Updated Sid today, xorg cannot find "nvidia" driver

2007-05-12 Thread Michał Wróbel
First of all, I'd like to emphasize that I haven't read all the posts related to this problem thoroughly, since there is probably more than one reason of such behavior. Anyway, I wanted to report that I am using nvidia-glx-legacy and after I have upgraded my Debian Sid today, my Xorg refused to st

Re: Strange aptitude problem

2007-05-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 19:08:54 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Does anyone have a package installation command that will reproduce > this on up-to-date unstable? I think I may have a fix, but through > various stupidities I lost my test case and can't confirm it. I currently see the following

Re: Updated Sid today, xorg cannot find "nvidia" driver

2007-05-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
Michał Wróbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, I wanted to report that I am using nvidia-glx-legacy and > after I have upgraded my Debian Sid today, my Xorg refused to start > up after reboot. The log message was exactly the same as quoted below. Do you have any special reason for using the l

Re: Updated Sid today, xorg cannot find "nvidia" driver

2007-05-12 Thread Michał Wróbel
Andrei Popescu wrote: > Michał Wróbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Anyway, I wanted to report that I am using nvidia-glx-legacy and >> after I have upgraded my Debian Sid today, my Xorg refused to start >> up after reboot. The log message was exactly the same as quoted below. > Do you have any sp

[solved] Re: Problems with cdrdao

2007-05-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Sat, 12 May 2007, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> On my laptop, when I do: >> >> $ cdrdao scanbus >> >> , I get the following output: >> >> - >> Cdrdao version 1.1.9 - (C) Andreas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> SCSI interface

SSH daemon doesn't accept incoming connections

2007-05-12 Thread Kirill Kuvaldin
Hello, I'm experiencing fairly weird issue when my linux box (running Debian 4.0 powerpc) with the SSH server (SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-9) has stopped accepting incoming connections from a moment of time without any obvious reason. Any attempts to establish a connection fail before I'm bein

Re: sound and no sound

2007-05-12 Thread amp
[quote]No, but when you push the reply button a blank screen comes up. I just figured that the reply would be attached to the thread so I didn't need to reply with the same subject line and context. Sorry I am kind of new on this forum so a little slack would be nice. chad[/quote] I just regi

Clamd nicely

2007-05-12 Thread David Baron
Is there a way (and would it be desirable) to "nice" clamd? Probably best in the init.d script. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SSH daemon doesn't accept incoming connections

2007-05-12 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kirill Kuvaldin escribió: > Hello, > > I'm experiencing fairly weird issue when my linux box (running > Debian 4.0 powerpc) with the SSH server (SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3p2 > Debian-9) has stopped accepting incoming connections from a moment of > time with

Re: I dont want to receive mail from Cron.

2007-05-12 Thread Semih Gokalp
Thanks for reply Sven. Yes,of course i know configure freshclam cron but you know i can configure minute,hours,day,month,day of week and user.I can't see about mail configuration parameters in freshclam cron file(/etc/cron.d/clamav-freshclam) ? it seems like below: 8 */2 * * *clamav [ -x /u

In case of troubles with a well known forum

2007-05-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
Hi all, I just subscribed to the debianhelp forum and posted a reply to the latest "offender". According to my experiment the trick is to not write anything in the subject line and, of course, quote some context (though I haven't found a way to quote e-mail-style). The result is not perfect, but u

Re: I dont want to receive mail from Cron.

2007-05-12 Thread Semih Gokalp
Ok.I removed "&& /usr/bin/freshclam >/dev/null" in freshclam cron files and solved my problem. -- Iyi calismalar.Basarilar... Semih Gokalp Istanbul/Turkiye

Re: SSH daemon doesn't accept incoming connections

2007-05-12 Thread Franck Joncourt
Maybe there is something around : > > debug1: An invalid name was supplied > > A parameter was malformed > > Validation error wrong username. -- Franck Joncourt http://www.debian.org http://smhteam.info/wiki/ GPG server : pgpkeys.mit.edu Fingerprint : C10E D1D0 EF70 0A2A CACF 9A3C C490 534E 75C

Re: Clamd nicely

2007-05-12 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 11:20:08PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > Is there a way (and would it be desirable) to "nice" clamd? Probably best in > the init.d script. Just modify it according to your needs? Other option would be to open a wishlist bug against the package to discuss it with the responsib

Re: I dont want to receive mail from Cron.

2007-05-12 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 12:10:57AM +0300, Semih Gokalp wrote: > Ok.I removed "&& /usr/bin/freshclam >/dev/null" in freshclam cron files and > solved my problem. Bad idea. I'd choose one of the following options: a) dpkg-reconfigure the clamav-freshclam package and choose to not run freshclam auto

Re: I/O Wait and CPU Usage

2007-05-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 13:59 -0400, Grok Mogger wrote: > Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:43:50PM -0400, Grok Mogger wrote: > >> In this interpretation, "wa" is really like "blocked" CPU time. > >> The CPU has processes that are not really doing anything, > >> because they

Re: iceape (mozilla browser) and CSS of gallery website

2007-05-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 17:33 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > If I try to enlarge the fonts (CTRL+Wheel) in iceape of this website: > http://gallery.menalto.com/ > > the menus, or those little gray background windows, on the right hand > jump into the middle of the page after a few magnification s

dircolors on white background

2007-05-12 Thread Paul Scott
Has anyone got a set of values for dircolors that is readable on an xterm, etc. with white background. The standard set of colors is fine on a black background but very hard to read on a white background. TIA, Paul Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: I/O Wait and CPU Usage

2007-05-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Grok Mogger wrote: I have a question about the "wa" fields in vmstat, top, and the like. I and someone else I know have both read a great deal about its meaning, and have come to two different conclusions. Here are our interpretations. Could someone please tell me which interpretation is rig

Re: dircolors on white background

2007-05-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 12 May 2007 15:21:35 -0700 Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone got a set of values for dircolors that is readable on an > xterm, etc. with white background. The standard set of colors is fine > on a black background but very hard to read on a white background. > > TIA, >

Re: I dont want to receive mail from Cron.

2007-05-12 Thread Semih Gokalp
Thanks Sven for reply. My freshclam cron files like below: 8 */1 * * *clamav [ -x /usr/bin/freshclam ] i only removed "&& /usr/bin/freshclam >/dev/null" so cron is still running.I looked syslog and its contain the fallowing message: May 13 00:08:01 server /USR/SBIN/CRON[1644]: (clamav) CM

Re: I dont want to receive mail from Cron.

2007-05-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 01:31:59AM +0300, Semih Gokalp wrote: > Thanks Sven for reply. > > My freshclam cron files like below: > > 8 */1 * * *clamav [ -x /usr/bin/freshclam ] > > i only removed "&& /usr/bin/freshclam >/dev/null" so cron is still > running. The *cron* is still running. But

Re: GRUB duplicates kernel entries in menu.lst

2007-05-12 Thread Stephen Cormier
On May 12, 2007 07:27:05 am Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > That is not what he is saying you get for your example. > > > > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 > > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 (Single User Mode) > > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 > > D

Re: More Iceweasel strangeness

2007-05-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; Very often when I click on a link on a web page or in an email Iceweasel will give me a 404 that purports to be from the server on the remote host. But, if I paste the same url into Opera it pops right up with the page. Then if I go back to Iceweasel and click

etch - X doesn't start, video mode not supported

2007-05-12 Thread Tim Johnson
Hi I just installed etch, and x doesn't start, the monitor says video mode not supported. I chose to power off the computer at this point. I presume the method to correct this will to restart in text mode, and edit xorg.conf for the proper video mode for the monitor. 1)Will choosing "recovery

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