Re: CD has not been seen in debian40r3 console

2008-05-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 14, 3:10 pm, Juha Tuuna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >  > I do not mount cd rom successfully. It seems that CD has not been seen >  > in debian40r3 console, but when the cd rom icon can be seen on the >  > desktop after lunch X window by startx. How can I see cd ou

Re: After update perl ,apt-cacher won't work

2008-05-14 Thread 刘建才
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:28:15 +0800, 刘建才 wrote: > > Hi, > > I updated My Debian 4.0 server yesterday,but forget exactly which > > package upgraded,only remember perl related things, then apt-cacher > > didn't work ,after i referenced the line 12 in > > /usr/share/perl5/HTTP/Date.pm,Every thing

Re: LVM upgrade: Device '/dev/dm-0' has been left open

2008-05-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:27:37PM +0300, ?? wrote: > > I have LVM setup on dm-crypt. > > After yesterday's upgrade of lvm (lenny), I am getting this message on boot: > > Found volume group evg using metadata type lvm2 > Device '/dev/dm-0' has been left open > Device '/d

Re: After update perl ,apt-cacher won't work

2008-05-14 Thread Nicolas KOWALSKI
刘建才 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just Thanks a lot for the reply,A Strange thing is I can't receive > my own letter from the mailing list,so Yesterday I tried three ways > to send my mail,Could you please tell me how many of the last mails > you received,If not three,then From which mail box You

Alsa configuration

2008-05-14 Thread Bernd Kloss
Etch Hello, former AUDACITY-problem turned out on "how to configure alsa properly for recording". Starting alsamixer within text-console MIC and CAPTURE are on. Soundhardware seems to be working: I can hear the MIC-signal over speakers. Trying to record with arecord -d 10 -f cd -t wav test

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/5/14 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 13/05/2008, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I now _miss_ the ads in gmail, as they are almost always >> relevant to what I'm reading. > > While Google got the relevance right of putting Matlab ads when I'm > reading the Octave

Re: LVM upgrade: Device '/dev/dm-0' has been left open

2008-05-14 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Johann Spies wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:27:37PM +0300, ?? wrote: I have LVM setup on dm-crypt. After yesterday's upgrade of lvm (lenny), I am getting this message on boot: Found volume group evg using metadata type lvm2 Device '/dev/dm-0' has been left open D

Re: 64bit vs i386

2008-05-14 Thread kj
Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/13/08 22:15, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: You may also not be able to access all your RAM, Sure, on the 80486 or early Pentia. But everything since then has PAE. The OS will be able to address all your memory, MySQL, for example won't. If you're going to run LAMP, and you

Re: LVM upgrade: Device '/dev/dm-0' has been left open

2008-05-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:57:27AM +0300, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: > Did it start occuring the last days, after you upgraded LVM? Are you > running lenny also? I only noticed it on a new laptop on which I installed lenny in the past two weeks. Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoo

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/13/2008 09:01 PM, Steve Lamb wrote: [...] Hate to break it to you but I use FOSS all the time for my private and personal use as well as my professional use. There is code I have that will not ever be redistributed and as such you, nor anyone else, has right to that source because y

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
Actually, with Summer of Code, I think that google contributes more to FOSS software than almost any other entity that I can name. Maybe their specific patches to the linux kernel they keep to themselves, but they more than make up for it in paying for developers to write code that will benefit lot

Re: Debian with Vista

2008-05-14 Thread Jonathan Kaye
John P Loes, MD wrote: I give up. Strawberries with ketchup? Anchovies with peanut butter? Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

5.1 surround sound with NVidia4

2008-05-14 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Hi all, I have working sound system, but I hear only two out of my 5.1 channels. Any idea how to make them all working? Any links related to the topic are also welcome. I googled around, but I couldn't find a solution. I hear sound from the front left, right and subwoofer speakers during mp3

Re: Debian with Vista

2008-05-14 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Jonathan Kaye wrote: John P Loes, MD wrote: I give up. Strawberries with ketchup? Anchovies with peanut butter? Jonathan More like Chocolate Mousse with mustard :p. -- Best Regards Peter Hugosson-Miller This email has been scanned by the DefenderSoft Email Threat Protection. For more informa

sendmail - dns lookup problem

2008-05-14 Thread Viktor Matys
Hello, I have sendmail installed on several servers of different customers. When I run sendmailconfig on some server I get message: WARNING: local host name (;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I? As we can see there in brackets is an er

sendmail - dns lookup problem

2008-05-14 Thread Viktor Matys
Hello, I have sendmail installed on several servers of different customers. When I run sendmailconfig on some server I get message: WARNING: local host name (;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I? As we can see there in brackets is a

X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-14 Thread Uwe Dippel
I can't get into any of my sessions, whatever I do. The machine starts up and shows kdm, as it has been doing for some years. Only, whenever I logon, as any user, or any session (kde, gnome, xfce), it starts, then some scrambling of the screen, and back I am at login applet. The only one that work

Mouse click acting strange after Lenny updates

2008-05-14 Thread Nigel Henry
Hi Folks. I found I hadn't updated my Lenny install for nearly 2 months, and after a 3 day dialup session in downloading, and installing 800Mb of updates, the mouse has started to act a bit strange. It was ok after the updates, but after a reboot, and logging in to KDE, If I click on a desktop

Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Uwe Dippel wrote: I can't get into any of my sessions, whatever I do. The machine starts up and shows kdm, as it has been doing for some years. Only, whenever I logon, as any user, or any session (kde, gnome, xfce), it starts, then some scrambling of the screen, and back I am at login applet. Th

Re: Alsa configuration

2008-05-14 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 14 May 2008 10:36:53 +0200 Bernd Kloss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > former AUDACITY-problem turned out on "how to configure alsa properly > for recording". > > Starting > alsamixer > within text-console MIC and CAPTURE are on. > Soundhardwa

test mail, please ignore

2008-05-14 Thread Ivan Glushkov
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Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?

2008-05-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:59:08PM -0400, Jack Dodds wrote: > In hours per day, the biggest function of our Debian system is to access > the Internet. The absence of a FOSS implementation of Flash is a huge > gap. I have installed the closed source Flash 9 player and Firefox > plugin on some of t

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:29:39PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/13/08 20:21, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > [snip] > > > > I have a 9" bw monitor. I get along just fine with icewm. I'm sure > > But isn't that 9" monitor a VT520? > No. The VT520 I measure as 12" diagonal. I have a bw 9" monit

Re: HTMLVIEW to read mutt HTML email from browser

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:53:56PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:06:55PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:41:11AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I've never had to wait for lynx to start up, even on my 486. I just hit > > "v

test2, please, ignore

2008-05-14 Thread Ivan Glushkov
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Re: where did www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ go?

2008-05-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-05-14 04:39, Joey Hess wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> I don't suppose that new version of (was it ssh) in Sid that warns of >> connections with weak keys will be backported to Etch as a security fix? > > Yes, ssh in etch will be updated.

Re: CD has not been seen in debian40r3 console

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:30:23AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On May 14, 3:10?pm, Juha Tuuna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > What about: > > mount /media/cdrom0 > Hi, this is the output, > > $ su -c 'mount -t iso9660 /media/cdrom0 /cdrom' > Password:

test3 mail, please ignore

2008-05-14 Thread Ivan Glushkov
please ignore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian with Vista

2008-05-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:06:52PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > John P Loes, MD wrote: > > I give up. Strawberries with ketchup? Anchovies with peanut butter? > Jonathan The grub loves them. :-) -- Chris. == "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the

Problems with SPAM on a Debian with Postfix, amavis and spamassasin

2008-05-14 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. I have setup Debian Etch with Postfix, Amavis and Spamassasin. My problem is that a LOT of SPAM mail gets trough the system. I have taken a look at the headers of the SPAM mail, and they score between 0.232 to 2.354 and I have set the sa_tag2_level_deflt and 7.5. I have followed this guide i

Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi list, Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes irresponsible during three or four seconds. First I experiment it with swiftfox, then I used Firefox (iceweasel) 2 and the problem didn't go out. Then I switch to iceweasel 3 from experimental, and I see this again. I don't know how c

howto: romanian alphabet - special characters?

2008-05-14 Thread Bogdan Marian
Hey, I'm on KDE and even if i switch to Romanian Layout, i dont't get those special characters on OpenOffice. Do i need to install some special fonts or smth? I have already installed Linux Libertine fonts but still... Anyone can help please? Thx, -- Bogdan MARIAN Java Software Developer Tim

Re: Problems with SPAM on a Debian with Postfix, amavis and spamassasin

2008-05-14 Thread Kim Christensen
Rico Secada wrote: > Hi. > > I have setup Debian Etch with Postfix, Amavis and Spamassasin. My > problem is that a LOT of SPAM mail gets trough the system. > > I have taken a look at the headers of the SPAM mail, and they score > between 0.232 to 2.354 and I have set the sa_tag2_level_deflt and 7

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:57:43PM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: > Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes irresponsible during > three or four seconds. I think you mean nonresponsive, but I love the comment that firefox/iceweasel is irresponsible. Perhaps its web designers who are ir

Spamassain sa-update fails

2008-05-14 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. I tried to use the sa-update Debian script for Spamassasin to download the latest set of rules. I get the following error: Can't locate Net/DNS.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/share/perl5 /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/s

Re: 64bit vs i386

2008-05-14 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:31:40AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Sure, on the 80486 or early Pentia. But everything since then has > PAE. Perhaps, but as I understand it PAE is basically a segmentation hack (remember overlays in the real 386 days?) which adds a layer of indirection to memory acces

Re: Spamassain sa-update fails

2008-05-14 Thread Kim Christensen
Rico Secada wrote: > Hi. > > I tried to use the sa-update Debian script for Spamassasin to download > the latest set of rules. > > I get the following error: Can't locate Net/DNS.pm in @INC (@INC > contains: /usr/share/perl5 /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 > /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr

Re: Spamassain sa-update fails

2008-05-14 Thread Bogdan Marian
Rico Secada wrote: Hi. I tried to use the sa-update Debian script for Spamassasin to download the latest set of rules. I get the following error: Can't locate Net/DNS.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/share/perl5 /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:57:43PM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: > Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes irresponsible > during three or four seconds. If you mean "unresponsive," I've often found that firefox is unresponsive during heavy I/O, especially disk I/O. There are settings

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Kim Christensen
Javier Barroso wrote: > Hi list, > > Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes irresponsible during > three or four seconds. [snip] > I didn't install any plugin recently (only tamper data and developer > extension installed on my iceweasel) Please double-check that you haven't got

Re: sendmail - dns lookup problem

2008-05-14 Thread Kim Christensen
Viktor Matys wrote: > Hello, > > I have sendmail installed on several servers of different customers. > When I run sendmailconfig on some server I get message: > > WARNING: local host name (;; connection timed out; no servers could be > reached) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I? > > As

Re: sendmail - dns lookup problem

2008-05-14 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:16:13PM +0200, Viktor Matys wrote: > WARNING: local host name (;; connection timed out; no servers could be > reached) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I? I run postfix, not sendmail, but wanted to suggest that you check your /etc/hosts file to ensure that there

Re: Where does apt store its arch?

2008-05-14 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:31:59PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > It's built into apt using the configuration variable COMMON_ARCH > (apt-pkg/init.cc:36), which is set by "configure" from the output of > "dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH" (configure.in:91). Thank you! This was very helpful

Re: Spamassain sa-update fails

2008-05-14 Thread Rico Secada
On Wed, 14 May 2008 17:04:07 +0200 Kim Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rico Secada wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > I tried to use the sa-update Debian script for Spamassasin to > > download the latest set of rules. > > > > I get the following error: Can't locate Net/DNS.pm in @INC (@INC > > c

Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. What are your recommendations on using tune2fs to turn off the forced HD check on a server that needs to be available as much as possible? If the forced check is shut off, should one run some manual check? Also I don't have physical access to the machine only SSH. Best regards Rico. -- T

Re: Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Ramiro Caire
Rico Secada wrote: Hi. What are your recommendations on using tune2fs to turn off the forced HD check on a server that needs to be available as much as possible? If the forced check is shut off, should one run some manual check? Also I don't have physical access to the machine only SSH. Best r

Re: sendmail - dns lookup problem

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 08:11:13AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:16:13PM +0200, Viktor Matys wrote: > Best-practice for a mail server is to run a caching name server to > minimize DNS timeouts. If you're not already doing so, you might want to > consider that. You migh

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Javier Barroso
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:57:43PM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: > > Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes irresponsible > during > > three or four seconds. > > I think you mean nonresponsive, but I love t

Re: Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:27:47PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > What are your recommendations on using tune2fs to turn off the forced > HD check on a server that needs to be available as much as possible? > > If the forced check is shut off, should one run some manual check? Also > I don't have phy

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Javier Barroso
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:57:43PM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: > > > Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes irresponsible > > during three or four seconds. > > If you mean "unresponsive," I've often found t

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Javier Barroso
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Kim > > Please double-check that you haven't got "Tamper Data" enabled when you > experience these irresponsible (sic, couldn't resist...) moments of > browsing. I disabled both, but I'm sure tamper was off when it occurs > > > This extension can be pretty heavy o

Re: Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 14 May 2008 17:27:47 +0200 Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > What are your recommendations on using tune2fs to turn off the > forced HD check on a server that needs to be available as much as > possible? > > If the forced check is shut off, should one run some manual check

Re: Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-05-14 17:32, Ramiro Caire wrote: > Rico Secada wrote: >> Hi. >> >> What are your recommendations on using tune2fs to turn off the forced >> HD check on a server that needs to be available as much as possible? >> >> If the forced check is shut o

Inconsistent state in util-linux

2008-05-14 Thread Rob Wright
Greetings. Tried to use aptitude this morning to install the update for openssh/openssl. Saw that there were a few upgrades that were needed so I thought I'd just do a dist-upgrade. Everything seemed ok, except now I'm stuck with util-linux in an inconsistent state, and I don't know quite know

Re: After update perl ,apt-cacher won't work

2008-05-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:34:03 +0800, 刘建才 wrote: > in between, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:28:15 +0800, 刘建才 wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I updated My Debian 4.0 server yesterday,but forget exactly which > > > package upgraded,only remember perl related things, then apt-cacher >

the document "Sound in Debian GNU/Linux"

2008-05-14 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Folk, This document, "http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux#Some_applications_.28OSS_applications.29_produce_no_sound_in_AL"; in revision 1.2, 27th November 2007 states, "... Rename the file instead: # mv /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.conf.obsolete Now run alsaconf aga

Re: mac grapher for linux

2008-05-14 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm forwarding this to the d-science list, where this stuff is often > discussed. > > On 13/05/2008, Jimmy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone here ever used the "Grapher" application that all Macs co

difficulties updating Etch

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
I'm having trouble updating Etch: I get various errors during the update phase of aptitude. Sometimes its just "some files failed to download"; I guess it timed out or something. I'm on dialup. How to prevent absolute timeouts but allow (encourage) aptitude to re-issue requests. Sometimes I get

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Jean-Louis Crouzet
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:57:43PM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes irresponsible during three or four seconds. I think you mean nonresponsive, but I love the comment that firefox/iceweasel is irresponsible. Perhaps its

Re: mac grapher for linux

2008-05-14 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Jordi" == Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know we have more options, but I can't remember what they > are. There's a pretty big graphics package that I think > had to do with KDE. I seem to recall the maintainer had a > female name, but it looks lik

Re: Inconsistent state in util-linux

2008-05-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:06:03 -0500, Rob Wright wrote: > Greetings. Tried to use aptitude this morning to install the update for > openssh/openssl. Saw that there were a few upgrades that were needed so I > thought I'd just do a dist-upgrade. > > Everything seemed ok, except now I'm stuck wi

Re: Inconsistent state in util-linux

2008-05-14 Thread Rob Wright
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 11:34:12 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:06:03 -0500, Rob Wright wrote: > > Greetings. Tried to use aptitude this morning to install the update for > > openssh/openssl. Saw that there were a few upgrades that were needed so I > > thought I'd just do a dis

Re: Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 08:57:58 am Raquel wrote: > I guess that I'm having trouble understanding what the problem is. > On my servers, e2fsck is only run when the machine is rebooted and > then only after it's been rebooted 30 or 40 times (or whatever the > number is). I think by default it's X

Re: replacing pxe.linux.0

2008-05-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-05-13 16:48:51, schrieb Benjamin Schmidt: > Sounds like installing from CD is some very old guru-task and possible > no more "provided" ;) Right! -- And there are people talking about Debian on BlueRay Media! I have the 50 GByte one which would be enough for Lenny+2 too. Hmmm, maybe I am

Re: [OT] Ogg-Player and SSH client for Symbian S60 3rd Generation

2008-05-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Eduardo, Am 2008-05-13 08:14:01, schrieb Eduardo M KALINOWSKI: > I don't know about SCP/SFTP, but there is a port of putty for Symbian: > http://s2putty.sourceforge.net/ Thanks for the link... downloaded! Now I need a scp/sftp which let me up/download stuff to my Website. Editing HTML

Re: [OT] Comcast, Verizon and Google censoring the internet?

2008-05-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Pi, I have had this problem too I have solved this piggy problem by installing a script "dontfoolme.php" which serv the images and if the request does not come from inside my Webspace I send piggy images back... If you use in the HTML pages the full path for the images, you can run SED ove

Re: Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 08:27:47 am Rico Secada wrote: > What are your recommendations on using tune2fs to turn off the forced > HD check on a server that needs to be available as much as possible? Don't. If your machine is truly available as much as possible, the odds of it running into a fsck

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-14 Thread Micha
On Tue, 13 May 2008 21:09:02 -0500 (CDT) Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 13 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > For what is worth, after a good deal of trial periods I went for Ion > > and scrapped everything else. Simply fantastic. Granted, I didn't just > > want to o

Re: Mouse click acting strange after Lenny updates

2008-05-14 Thread Nigel Henry
There's a bit more info below, while trying to find out what is going on here. On Wednesday 14 May 2008 14:09, Nigel Henry wrote: > Hi Folks. I found I hadn't updated my Lenny install for nearly 2 months, > and after a 3 day dialup session in downloading, and installing 800Mb of > updates, the mo

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:32:22PM +0200, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: > FF is just a memory & cpu hog, I used to have a machine working OK with > my own optimized kernel but QT and xfce4 + FF are just eating all and I > swap like crazy... The recommendation I collected is just add few more > add-

firefox (etc??) probs

2008-05-14 Thread michael
Slightly OT, but wondering if 'strace' experts here can here: A colleague running FC8 (Fedora) seems to have intermittent problems starting firefox, particularly from the Gnome menu bar, but also probs starting openoffice. I did an `strace -f` and compared to my nicely working firefox (FC7) and th

Re: CD has not been seen in debian40r3 console

2008-05-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 00:30:23 -0700, lovecreatesbea... AT gmail DOT com wrote: [...] > Hi, this is the output, > > $ su -c 'mount -t iso9660 /media/cdrom0 /cdrom' > Password: > mount: /media/cdrom0 is not a block device > $ dd if=/dev/hdc bs=256 count=1 | hd > dd: opening

Re: Image Viewers(Was: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome)

2008-05-14 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Micha wrote: As for image viewer, IIRC what xv is like you may like feh. These days I use gqview though. I browsed feh's web site and it looks like it might be something I'd like. I'll take it for a spin when I get home later. One of the main features I look for is plen

usb not found on initial boot

2008-05-14 Thread Russell Gadd
I have a bootup problem with a USB stick I have a USB stick which is permanently plugged in (for backup purposes). When the PC first boots the stick is never discovered, but if I wait a few minutes and reboot, it generally gets discovered and mounted with an icon on the desktop. I'm using Etch. I

Re: Image Viewers(Was: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome)

2008-05-14 Thread Arvind Marathe
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2008, Micha wrote: > >> As for image viewer, IIRC what xv is like you may like feh. These days I >> use gqview though. > > I browsed feh's web site and it looks like it might be something I'd like. > I'll t

Re: the document "Sound in Debian GNU/Linux"

2008-05-14 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 18:21, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Folk, > > This document, > "http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux#Some_applicatio >ns_.28OSS_applications.29_produce_no_sound_in_AL" in revision 1.2, 27th > November 2007 states, > "... Rename the file instead: # mv /etc/m

Re: Self Certification

2008-05-14 Thread Siva Mylswamy
Hi, I would be grateful, to receive some information regarding Self Certification for my hardware. Thanks Siva

how to get a printer to work??

2008-05-14 Thread charliesdad
I have etch. After 4 months I still can't get the printer to work. It is a HP DeskJet 722C. I have installed pnm2ppa from disk 9. I use gnome and had it print a test page. The printer started, printed one funny character and hung. I went to /etc and set up the values in the config file. It now dies

Re: how to get a printer to work??

2008-05-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
charliesdad wrote: I have etch. After 4 months I still can't get the printer to work. It is a HP DeskJet 722C. I have installed pnm2ppa from disk 9. I use gnome and had it print a test page. The printer started, printed one funny character and hung. I went to /etc and set up the values in the con

Re: how to get a printer to work??

2008-05-14 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed May 14 2008 01:01:28 pm charliesdad wrote: > I have etch. After 4 months I still can't get the printer to work. It is > a HP DeskJet 722C. I have installed pnm2ppa from disk 9. I use gnome and > had it print a test page. The printer started, printed one funny > character and hung. I went to

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/14/08 08:02, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:29:39PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/13/08 20:21, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> [snip] >>> I have a 9" bw monitor. I get along just fine with icewm. I'm sure >> But isn't that

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/14/08 02:49, Mumia W.. wrote: [snip] > > Oh, and by the way, one of those "people" might be Google. Would we be > smiling if Google abandons its opensource efforts and throws its weight > behind proprietary software and Microsoft's TCPA? Nah.

Re: mac grapher for linux

2008-05-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi lists, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > I'm forwarding this to the d-science list, where this stuff is often > discussed. > > On 13/05/2008, Jimmy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Has anyone here ever used the "Grapher" application that all Macs come with? >> It is a very nice piece of softw

Sendmail and HostStatus handling

2008-05-14 Thread NFN Smith
I run sendmail 8.13.8-3 on an etch box, and am having a small problem with configuration of HostStatus that seems to be related to how sendmail is implemented in Debian. If I set DAEMON_HOSTSTATS="No"; in sendmail.conf, then sendmailconfig deletes /var/lib/sendmail/host_status, as described in

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:24:24PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:31:15PM -0400, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:03:59PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:40:45AM -0400, Kevin Mark wro

Re: Blue movies - literally!

2008-05-14 Thread andy
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: andy wrote: I am attempting to play a video file, but the image is just varying shades of blue. I had this once before and logged out and back in, which cleared it temporarily. However, now it has come back again. This is despite the mediaplayer I am using - kaffeine o

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:50:58PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/14/08 08:02, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:29:39PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 05/13/08 20:21, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> [snip] > >>> I have a 9" bw monitor. I get along just fine with icewm. I'

gpg trust paths

2008-05-14 Thread Richard Hector
The wiki page for the recent OpenSSL vulnerability offers a perl script for checking keys, and a gpg signature for that script, and a key id for that signature (that of Florian Weimer) I can import the key as shown, and show that the script was indeed signed by that key. However, gpg warns me tha

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Javier Barroso wrote: > Somebody with the same problem ? Any workarround ? I'm on dialup. Its normal for me to wait for iceweasel to grab a page and display it. Well, firefox load pages fast, but sometimes It takes various seconds while I can't click any link / bookmark or google

Re: Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:27:47PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: What are your recommendations on using tune2fs to turn off the forced HD check on a server that needs to be available as much as possible? If the forced check is shut off, should one run some manual check? Also

Re: Image Viewers(Was: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome)

2008-05-14 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Arvind, On Thu, 15 May 2008, Arvind Marathe wrote: You might also try xzgv. Out of the viewers I've tried so far I think I like xzgv the best. After only five to ten minutes of tinkering I'm already able to navigate to the next/previous image, zoom in and out, etc. as quickly as I can in xv

Re: Inconsistent state in util-linux

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:34:12PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:06:03 -0500, Rob Wright wrote: > /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm is not part of Debian. Get rid of > it and the proper module at /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm will be used. > Running "aptitude install

Re: how to get a printer to work??

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:36:25PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Wed May 14 2008 01:01:28 pm charliesdad wrote: > > I have etch. After 4 months I still can't get the printer to work. It is > > a HP DeskJet 722C. I have installed pnm2ppa from disk 9. I use gnome and > > had it print a test page. Th

Re: bash doubt

2008-05-14 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:21:07AM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > >> i=$i+1 > > This syntax is broken. Any of these alternatives will work: > >- let i=$i+1 >- let i+=1 >- i=$(( i + 1 )) > > Basicall

Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-14 Thread Andrew Reid
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 07:47, Uwe Dippel wrote: > I can't get into any of my sessions, whatever I do. > > The machine starts up and shows kdm, as it has been doing for some years. > Only, whenever I logon, as any user, or any session (kde, gnome, > xfce), it starts, then some scrambling of the sc

update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread John Fleming
I'm trying to install linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 using apt-get. I recently made the recommended change in /etc/kernel-img.conf to include: postinst_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub postrm_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub When I run the apt-get install, the configuration fails with the error about "C

Re: update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed May 14 2008 18:43:14 John Fleming wrote: > I'm trying to install linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 using apt-get. I recently > made the recommended change in /etc/kernel-img.conf to include: > > postinst_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub > postrm_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub > > When I run the apt-get inst

Re: update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:43:14PM -0400, John Fleming wrote: > I'm trying to install linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 using apt-get. I recently > made the recommended change in /etc/kernel-img.conf to include: > > postinst_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub > postrm_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub > > When I run

Re: update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
John Fleming wrote: I'm trying to install linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 using apt-get. I recently made the recommended change in /etc/kernel-img.conf to include: postinst_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub postrm_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub When I run the apt-get install, the configuration fails with

Re: Inconsistent state in util-linux

2008-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:34:12PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:06:03 -0500, Rob Wright wrote: > > > /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm is not part of Debian. Get rid of > > it and the proper module at /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm will be

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