Re: updated iceweasel firefox now hijacked from homepage to ads!

2007-02-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 00:28:14 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > > With my latest upgrade on sid to iceweasel 2.0.0.2+dfg-1. i now have my > firefox opening up to > some hijacked web site called > http://firefox/ > which is a advertising site and it tries to popup open > http://ads1.revenu

Re: Apache2 won't remove.

2007-02-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 21:34:32 +, pChan -- wrote: > I am trying to remove apache2. But before that, I did something stupid. I > "rm apache2" in /etc/init.d > > So now, if I try to remove apache2-mpm-worker... > sd-6340:/etc/init.d# apt-get remove apache2-mpm-worker > Reading Package Lists...

Re: Apache2 won't remove.

2007-02-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:21:30 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 07:12:09PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 21:34:32 +, pChan -- wrote: > > > I am trying to remove apache2. But before that, I did something stupid. I >

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:48:40 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:11:36PM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My boss gave me a Dell Latitude D810 to use for work so I didn't have to > > use my privately owned Acer Ferrari 4000 anymore. First thing I did was > > i

Re: aptitude and /etc/apt/apt.conf.d

2007-03-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 14:49:43 -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > Hello, > > Does aptitude read /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*? I have seen a few scripts > that seem to rely on that, yet it doesn't seem to be the case for me. > > If I, for example, > > echo 'Aptitude::Recommends-Important "false";'>>\ >

Re: apt-get update success but with errors

2007-03-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 13:03:02 +0100, Jonas Geiregat wrote: > Hello, > > At the end of the 'apt-get update' I get the follow output: > > Fetched 74.6kB in 6s (11.3kB/s) > > Reading package lists... Done > W: GPG

Re: Installing vim 7.0

2007-03-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:39:42 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm a long time RH/Fedora sysadmin/user and have decided to use Debian > 3.1r5 on my server at home. I downloaded the bootable Network CD > (180MB) and then via the config after boot I installed additional > pa

Re: Thoughts on zsh? (was Re: vim like completion in bash?)

2007-03-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 23:58:42 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:20:54PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > cga2000 wrote: > > > .. and as everybody will no doubt have noticed, ss/tt is one keystroke > > > less than ss/*t* (not to mention the fact that the '*' is shifted and a

Re: Etch

2007-03-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:10:32 +0100, pinniped wrote: > > Well, your MUA is your responsibility - don't complain when it doesn't > behave the way you want. The 'subject' is mutable so you should expect it > to change in this forum. I have somebody called Immanuel Kant on the phone for you. He

Re: tzdata package for Sarge - Daylight Savings Change

2007-03-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 20:41:42 -0500, Michael Lueck wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >Well, the article is incorrect. > > > >glibc (2.3.2.ds1-22sarge5) stable; urgency=low > > And it seems I have it... > # dpkg -l|grep libc > ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sa GNU C Library: Shared librari

Re: Open Office writer formatting question

2007-03-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:53:34 -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:01:15PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > > > What I would like to do is make a booklet, that is to say "letter" > > sheets folded in the middle to make 5.5x8.5 pages. > > > > Can someone point me to instr

threading (was: Worse than useless replies)

2007-03-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:52:02 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:27:10PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: [ snip: dicussion on how and why to quote properly ] > > Patrick, I just thought you should know all of your responses have > > shown up as new thre

Re: Shorewall logging to stdout

2007-03-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:34:20 -0300, Cassiano Leal wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > >Cassiano Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Hi! > >> > >>I have two shorewall installations, and it seems to have a quite > >>annoying habit of logging to the stdout. > > > ># /etc/sysctl.conf - Configurat

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in black diamonds in mozilla

2007-03-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:59:07 -0500, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > In Debian Etch Mozilla browser (Iceape), I notice that sometimes > accented characters are not displayed properly. They are shown as > question marks in black diamonds. For example, on this web page (CNN): > http://www.time.com/tim

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in black diamonds in mozilla

2007-03-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:47:10 -0500, H.S. wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:59:07 -0500, H.S. wrote: > >>Hello, > >> > >>In Debian Etch Mozilla browser (Iceape), I notice that sometimes > >>accented characters

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 13:10:13 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: [...] > And let me guess - there's no way to automatically determine what > encoding a given message may contain, and the mutt mail client > probably cannot switch encodings on the fly. The charset should be given in the header of th

Re: ACL support via NFS

2007-03-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 16:17:30 +, Marco De Vitis wrote: > On 09/03/2007 17:00, Marco De Vitis wrote: > > >I'll now see if I can make it by installing the more recent rsync from > >backports, it's just one version behind the Etch one. > > Sigh! Also the 2.6.8 version from backports does not

Re: ACL support via NFS

2007-03-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 20:33:51 +, Marco De Vitis wrote: [...] > I built from the latest official stable rsync sources from the official > rsync home page, if this means "upstream". > Could I build and install the Debian Etch/Sid sources on Sarge? How > should I proceed? You can download

[OT] Re: AIOT: American Idol for OT??

2007-03-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 16:54:12 -0500, John - wrote: > I'm still a newbie at Debian (I started when Woody was in Testing), > and I owe a lot both to this list, and also to several of the OT > activists, one of whom gave me invaluable help off-list when I first > posted here. And I surely approve o

Re: Sad...

2007-03-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 20:30:52 +0100, agentace wrote: > > I installed debian on a PowerEdge 850 flawlessly in October of 2005 using a > Testing NetInst CD. It's sad that the SATA support for this machine has > since been removed, as I'm now attempting to install debian on another > machine w

Re: Sad...

2007-03-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 22:42:13 +0100, Ben Humpert wrote: [...] > Like i said, your client can't handle it correctly. It should notice > "oh, its HTML, lets rewrite it into plain text". You dont have to use > the right software, just use intelligent software. Perhaps you insert > a line break if

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:33:04 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/13/07 01:16, Joe Hart wrote: > [snip] > > > > Since you know so much about PDF files, let me ask you another > > question. Does PDF have DRM capabilities built in? > > They can

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:31:29 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > > As for acroread goes, it has turned into a huge package. The version in > > my apt-cache shows 7.0.9, which is not the newest version, and it's a > > whopping 22911748 bytes. I imagine that 8.0 is even bigger

DRM stupidity (was: Bug in acroread?)

2007-03-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:51:34 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > It is furthermore possible to write custom plug-ins which impose > > additional restrictions. For example, we once got a reprint-PDF for an > > article that we had published in a sci

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:51:09 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: [...] > Can you point me to a link where I can get the source for PDF? The DRM > information and all? IMO, Arcoread is just a marketing tool for Adobe > so that people will buy Acrobat. Very similar to Wordpad (until > recently) being abl

Re: smtp through a ssh tunnel to exim4 or other MTA

2007-03-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 10:29:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:21:33 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez said, > "Do you have ssh access to P[machine belonging to ISP]? > Were you planning on tunneling?" > > This is my configuration for sending mail from home. > SSH is not needed o

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 16:34:36 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: [...] > I agree, yet I get berated when I point out that Debian does not support > acroread because it is proprietary to Adobe. Go figure. It is probably not worth to harp on this much longer, but as far as I remember it you received some

Re: daylight savings time

2007-03-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:38:27 -0500, chris dunn wrote: [...] > I'm living in the Turks & Caicos Islands (in the sunny Caribbean). > > Running Debian Testing which is kept up to date. > > "zdump -v America/Grand_Turk | grep 2007" gives me : > > 117:America/Grand_Turk Sun Apr 1 04:59:59 200

Re: libc6 (?) related conflicts involving emacs21 and other packages

2007-03-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 15:08:15 -0500, Charles Blair wrote: >This is an attempt to supply more detail on a problem reported in > another recent post. > > I have installed a dual-boot of etch and Windows XP on a recently > purchased HP machine that has a SATA hard disk (i386). > > Re

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:12:07 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > s. keeling wrote: > > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Kent West wrote: > >>> Joe Hart wrote: > Michelle comes up with some strange figures. I suppose > it comes from her anti-American attitude. On the other hand, her Debian >

Re: A silly question about tar

2007-03-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:59:01 -0500, Adam Porter wrote: > I've read the man page, googled this list and the rest of the Net, but I > still can't figure out why this doesn't work: > > $ tar xjf *.tar.bz2 > tar: beryl-core-0.2.0.tar.bz2: Not found in archive > tar: beryl-manager-0.2.0.tar.bz2: No

Re: daylight savings time

2007-03-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 07:57:33 -0500, chris dunn wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:52:09 +0100 > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > [ quoting Chris Dunn ] > > > I'm living in the Turks & Caicos Islands (in the sunny Caribbean). > > > > > >

Re: daylight savings time

2007-03-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:01:34 -0400, Marty Landman wrote: [...] > Here's what I tried, but the date is still showing an hour too > early... help please. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get update > [snip] > Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Release > Get:1 ftp://ftp.nerim.ne

Re: libc6 (?) related conflicts involving emacs21 and other packages

2007-03-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 21:42:08 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: > I am sorry that I have not yet figured out how to set up an e-mail > connection from my beginning > debian system, so I am copying things off the screen. No problem; I just wanted to make sure whether there was the possibility of typo

Re: libc6 (?) related conflicts involving emacs21 and other packages

2007-03-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 18:56:25 -0600, Charles Blair wrote: >Thanks for your continuing help. In response to "aptitude keep-all" > and to > "aptitude install -fsD" I got a long list of packages that "have been > kept back". > No single item in the list seemed enlightening. > > The second

Re: How to install PHP5 using aptitude?

2007-03-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 13:38:22 -0700, Kelly Jones wrote: > I actually had tried installing it anyway but no go: > > # aptitude install php5 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Reading task descrip

Re: nvidia-glx in experimental

2007-03-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 14:38:12 +0100, Tomek wrote: > Hi. > > I'm willing to install the nvidia-glx package. I would like to install the > package > that is in experimental section but the package there depends on non-existent > virtual package (nvidia-kernel-1.0.9746). > > Is it possible to in

Re: Unable to change tty /dev/tty1

2007-03-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 12:53:29 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mr. Suhas Ghosh wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am using Debian Sarge 2.4.27. My root file system is read only. > > Now after login I am getting a error like this: > > Unable to change tty /dev/t

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 17:10:56 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > On 2007-03-04 @ 19:43:57 (week 09) Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > I think this might be related to the framebuffer driver. > > Agreed. > > > You can try to "modprobe vesafb" (or whatever fb module i

Re: broken upgrade of postfix_2.3.7-3

2007-03-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:17:06 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Pardon the thread hijack, but for several versions now the postinst script > hasn't been able to start Postfix on my box. I get > > > Stopping Postfix Mail Transport Agent: postfixpostfix/postfix-script: fatal: > usage: postfix start (or

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:52:31 +0100, Nik wrote: [ discussion about some other Linux distribution snipped ] > Before you make sweeping comments, please do a little research. > Unless you havn't noticed, people also post here with problems > dist-upgrading - does this also mean that 75% of Debia

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 06:36:01 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:48:13PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:11:07 -0400 > > Carl Fink wrote: > > > > > I just can't handle the absurdly-long release cycle any more. > > > > I'm not sure a release cycle is

Re: Unable to change tty /dev/tty1

2007-03-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 02:25:06 -, Mr. Suhas Ghosh wrote: > Hi, > Thank you very much Joe and Florian for your response. > Actually this is part of a Embedded system. So my total > root file system will be in flash which is read only. > So I can not make root read write. > I have another RW r

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 22:03:38 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: [...] > Bottom line, keep KDE off your machine :). I like the smiley there... >Seriously, I still don't > understand why removing kde-desktop pulled off avahi-daemon. I went > back into th

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:07:06 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:32:29 +0100 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...] > > > The fact that your working network connection was broken by installing > > and then removing avahi-daemon, on the other hand, sou

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:31:39 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: [...] >The strange thing is I **think** avahi-daemon was installed > **before** KDE desktop was put on the machine. What I find strange is > that Aptitude removed it when it wasn't installed as part of KDE. That part is easy: Apt

Re: You mean like 'chvt' ?

2007-03-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 23:47:09 +0100, pinniped wrote: > You mean like 'chvt' ? Context, melonfarmer, do you speak it? -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch

2007-03-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:11:18 -0700, Dave Stephenson wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been running a current version of Etch for a few months. My > internet download speeds are in the range of 10 - 15 kB/s. Until > recently I blamed it on my ISP, SignalPeak, which has been having > troubles, Rece

Re: web browser choices

2007-03-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 16:00:16 -0300, Cassiano Leal wrote: [...] > Yes, it is in the video card, but it's accessed through the /dev/fb* > 'files', in the same way that /dev/hda1 is in my HDD and yet it is accessed > through that 'file'. Which video card is it? (see the output of "lspci") Wh

nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)

2007-03-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 07:24:25 -0700, Dave Stephenson wrote: [...] > The network interface is integrated into the Asus M2N-e motherboard > > from lspci: > 00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2) > > from ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:F3:86:8C:92 >

Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)

2007-03-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 22:17:35 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 07:24:25 -0700, Dave Stephenson wrote: > > [...] > > > The network interface is integrated into the Asus M2N-e motherboard > > > > from lspci: > > 00:08.0 Bridge: nVidi

Re: disk device mapping on etch

2007-03-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 05:35:39 +0900, HIDEO MORITA wrote: > I installed etch and it works very fine. But I have only one problem. > > My machine (cpu:D940,chipset:ICH7) has inner four sata disk. > > Sata emulation is separate IDE as there is Solaris. > > I have added sata controller card (Sili

i810 graphics problem (was: Second Install not going so well)

2007-03-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 13:17:29 -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: [...] > Well there were a few differences in terms of what I was asked during > the install. I'm guessing that the problem I'm having now has to do > with the display drivers. Last time the install couldn't sense what > the adapter was and

Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working

2007-06-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 12:39:48 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: [...] > Both machines have Etch up to date. > > The laptop has /dev/dsp, the affected desktop does not. Perhaps this device is > needed by alsa for the affected applications? I tried to create the device > with > > # cd /dev; ./MA

Re: ipw3945d starts but not detecting the hardware...

2007-06-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 07:32:15 +0200, bejnet wrote: > > I compiled from scratch - getting tar of ipw3945-1.2.1.tgz, > ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2.tgz and ipw3945d-1.7.22.tgz. > > [b]# ps | grep ipw[/b] > 3961 pts/000:00:00 ipw3945d > > [b]# lsmod | grep ipw[/b] > ipw3945 174016 1 > i

Re: /dev/pts/

2007-06-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:02:29 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'd like use write and talk(d) in jail env. > When an user is logged, his don't have any tty (tty: not a tty). > > I assume it's a /proc/ problem. > > In /proc/self/fd/ every users had a symblic links to own pts > > How c

Re: backports

2007-06-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 10:25:05 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > $ gpg --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg --keyring > > /usr/share/keyrings/debian-backports-keyring.gpg --check-sig 16BA136C > > pub 1024D/16BA13

Re: Iceweasel and Icedove not showing main window

2007-06-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:23:34 +0300, Fabrice Colliot wrote: > Hi, > After upgrading from testing to unstable my mozilla apps are not showing > their main window. > The processes are running, icedove even ask me for my email password but > their's nothing else. > > I tried to remove old .mozilla

Re: Aptitude can't upgrade Apt!

2007-06-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please keep the discussion on the list. There is a "reply-to-list" extension available for Thunderbird, or you can use "reply-to-all" and then remove the other email addresses (except debian-user). ] On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 13:26:26 -0500, Richard Thomas wrote: > [ citing an old message: ] >

Re: pb with locales

2007-06-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 17:32:46 +, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > When I try to install a package a receive the following warning. I am > using the french language and the qwerty keyboard. > > bela# dpkg-reconfigure locales > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please

Re: Aptitude slow package initialization

2007-07-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 08:08:29 -0700, Arthur Barlow wrote: > I'm running unstable on a x86 machine. About a month ago Aptitude > recommended uninstalling itself, which I overrode for awhile then one day > decided to let it do it, thinking I could reinstall it. Well, I was wrong. > There was

Re: Iceweasel and Icedove not showing main window

2007-07-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:46:31 +0300, Fabrice Colliot wrote: >> >> Do you see any error messages if you run icedove from an X terminal? You >> should also check ~/.xsession-errors. > > Nothing in the terminal or in the .xsession-errors [...] > n75:/home/fabrice# apt-cache policy icedove > icedo

Re: backports

2007-07-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 11:35:19 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: [ snip: discussion about how to check keys for unofficial repositories ] > This works fine for backports.org and debian-multimedia.org. Unfortunately, > the > keyring from debian-unofficial.org is not signed in the same way: > > $ gpg --

Re: weird aptitude behavior

2007-07-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 14:11:48 -0400, Matt Miller wrote: [...] > I turned off recommends as dependencies with > Aptitude::Recommends-Important "false"; > in /etc/apt/apt.conf > and when I aptitude -s install mediawiki I still get x11-common and > other unneeded x libs wanting to install... > I

Re: Error trying to run apt-get

2007-07-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please stop top-posting. ] On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 14:16:11 -, Adam wrote: > Hi, > > That doesn't work either, everything I do first tries to upgrade > debianutils, which fails on this passwd package the same way. > Originally I was attempting to upgrade the kernel when I got this > error.

Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script

2007-07-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 07:23:12 +0100, andy wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: >> andy wrote: >> >>> mencoder: command not found >>> >>> I'm wondering if I need to explicitly set my path in the script file in >>> order to call this function. >> >> Uhm, mencoder, when installed, lives in /usr/bin/menco

Re: Error trying to run apt-get

2007-07-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 21:54:55 -, Adam wrote: > On Jul 2, 3:00 pm, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > It seems like you want to upgrade from Sarge to Lenny in one fell swoop, > > skipping Etch. I would go to Etch first, after reading the release notes > > carefully. Other

Re: backports

2007-07-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 09:55:20 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: [...] > It seems that this is an outstanding debian-keyring bug dating from 16 Feb > 2005: > #295527 "horribly outdated"[1]. > > A bug reply mentions a local updated, unofficial version by Roland Stigge: > debian-keyring_2006.10.11_all.d

Re: dpkg: error processing texlive-common (--configure)

2007-07-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:40:09 -0400, H.S. wrote: > > In Debian testing, I am getting this error after an upgrade: > > - > Setting up texlive-common (2005.dfsg.3-1) ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-common.postinst: line 118: > /

Re: Postscript conversion

2007-07-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 16:38:25 +1000, Will Parkinson wrote: > Just wondering if anybody knows how to convert a color postscript document > to a black and white one? I need to send it though a hylafax and the > quality is better if everything is black and white. You can use ghostscript with the

Re: Playing SMIL File

2007-07-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 22:11:16 -0500, Sam Leon wrote: > Does anyone know how to play a smil slideshow in linux? I can get the > audio but not the pictures in mplayer. It is some kind of realmedia format > I think. Helix-player, available as a Debian package for i386 and powerpc, is capable o

Re: backports

2007-07-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
ything else fails then you can use db.debian.org for manual key retrieval. [ snip: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net works better, but not 100%. This might happen because it uses round robin DNS to connect you to a different keyserver every time. ] > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > The "ultimately t

Re: digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove

2007-07-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 12:44:00 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > On Debian Testing, if I try to upgrade digikam, aptitude wants to remove > digikamimageplugins and kipi-plugins (the actual output is further below). > Now, how do I know why these removals are necessary? Add the "-D" option to get

Re: disable saving persistent net rules

2007-07-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:01:27 +, Kent Tong wrote: > Hi, > > How can I prevent udev from saving the MAC address of eth0 into the > persistent net rules file? I am using Debian Etch. I think you have to make sure that the interface is named reliably using some other property. If I understand

Re: install: client-error-not-possible

2007-07-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 20:30:26 +0400, Николай Трубников wrote: > Subject: install: client-error-not-possible > Package: install > Severity: important > > *** Please type your report below this line *** > A print error occurred. Error message received from system: > > cupsdoprint -P 'HPLaserJet1

aptitude "why" command (was: digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove)

2007-07-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 20:23:03 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:55:48PM +0200, Florian Kulzer was heard to say: > > BTW, I just discovered that aptitude has recently learned a nifty new > > trick, the "why/why-not" command: [...] > You sho

[OT] Re: aptitude "why" command (was: digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove)

2007-07-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 12:38:46 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 08:30:36PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 20:23:03 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > > > > You can thank this list for the feature, I got the ide

Re: Enabling SFTP under Debian 4.0r0

2007-07-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 02:24:52 -0500, ArcticFox wrote: > On Jul 6, 2007, at 11:54 PM, Kent West wrote: > > ArcticFox wrote: [ snip: sftp does not work from Apple box to Debian server, while ssh does work. ] > > You might "tail /var/log/auth.log" for clues. > > All that tells me is there was a

Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working [SOLVED]

2007-07-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 19:49:55 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: [...] > I've now discovered why /dev/dsp disappeared - /dev/dsp is deleted when I run > alsaconf! This might be related to unreproducible bug #406738: alsa-utils: > Running alsaconf stops sound card from working[1]. Not quite the same beca

Re: Enabling SFTP under Debian 4.0r0

2007-07-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 11:49:28 -0500, ArcticFox wrote: > On Jul 7, 2007, at 6:50 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] >> I agree with Kent that it is better not to allow remote root logins. > > Unless you guys have a suggestion that'll let me run root commands as a > norm

Re: Errors Upgrading to Latest 'sarge'

2007-07-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 16:13:15 -0700, Aikins, Ronald (Ron) (CIV) wrote: > I'm currently running 'sarge' & am trying to upgrade to the latest in > sarge before upgrading to 'etch'. The problems I'm having doing this > make me reluctant to try & jump straight to etch before I get this > install wor

Re: Cannnot authenticate debian archive packages

2007-07-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please do not top-post. ] On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 14:31:56 +0530, Bhasker C V wrote: > Hi all, > > I have similar problem. > The only thing is that instead of installing from DVD, i put the DVD > images on to a server which loop-back mounts the DVD. I have added > the local server address to t

Re: mutt folder browser broken?

2007-07-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
Hi Andrew, On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 17:41:13 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Anyone else seeing weird behavior with the mutt folder browser? > > mine no longer shows the message count (imap mailboxes) or mbox file > size. just shows a 0. and there is no "new message" "N" shown > either. buf

Re: creating a local mirror and package authentication

2007-07-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 17:07:02 +0530, Bhasker C V wrote: > Questions by Florian Kulzer > > > How did you add the mounted DVD image to your sources.list? Did you > > use > > "file:" URIs? > > man sources.list | egrep 'deb(-src)? file' >

Re: mutt folder browser broken?

2007-07-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 08:06:40 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:46:16AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > > > On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 17:41:13 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > Anyone else seeing weird behavio

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 14:16:53 -0400, Zach wrote: > On 7/8/07, Graham Williams wrote: [...] >> Unless you have a specific reason to stay with tetex, might be best to >> just go with the flow. My observation is that the transition, left to >> apt-get, works just fine. > > Ok and will all my comm

Re: where is tzconfig ?

2007-07-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 09:22:27 +, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hello, > > I am having some weird issue with my oldstable debian machine. It > seems I do not have any timezone software coming from libc6. For > instanceI get: > > $ sudo apt-get install -t sarge-backports libc6 timezoneconf > Rea

Re: where is tzconfig ?

2007-07-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:48:01 +, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On 7/9/07, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 09:22:27 +, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I am having some weird issue with my oldstable debian machine. It &

Re: [OT] gob.mx = IE6 only!

2007-07-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 07:39:57 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Octavio Alvarez wrote: >> On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 05:33:46 -0700, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>> Tried to register at this site: >>> http://www.trabajaen.gob.mx/servlet/CheckSecurity/JSP/jobsite_g/alta_usuarios_nuevos.jsp?estado=0 >>> >>> Com

Re: [OT] gob.mx = IE6 only!

2007-07-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 09:03:28 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > I tried iceweasel 2.0.0.1+dfsg-2 ( I am behind in my Sid upgrade...) and > user agent string "IE 6.0 WinXP". > > However, non functionality of buttons only showed up *after*

Re: Opera is faster, but...

2007-07-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 12:06:35 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > On an unrelated matter I installed Opera on Sid. > > It *is* faster than iceweasel. > > But because it hasn't got the ease of the adblock extension, that turns out > to be a wash. Privoxy does a decent job of filtering ads,

Re: USB-stick crashes

2007-07-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 13:45:59 -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > I just did a dist-upgrade (testing, amd64) and now the system will not read > a usbstick. > > I get the following error in kde, during automatic mount: > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1, missing > codpage

Re: where is tzconfig ?

2007-07-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 13:48:36 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > ... > > maybe apache2) which I guess pulled the dependencie. Is there a way to > > see which package require a newer libc6 than the one in sarge ? > > Aptitude can do this with the command > > aptitude

Re: where is tzconfig ?

2007-07-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 14:05:01 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 13:48:36 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: [...] > > aptitude search '~i~Dlibc6~V2.5' [...] > It seems to me that this will find all installed packages > whose ver

Re: lpd: cron.daily found errors, run checkpc for details

2007-07-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 09:08:59 +0200, Kees de Koster wrote: > I'm running Debian Testing on a server, after the update on last Friday > I get from logcheck the error 'Jul 7 06:58:00 minidragon lpd: > cron.daily found errors, run checkpc for details.' > > If I run checkpc I get the message 'Warn

Re: (sftp) Received message too long 540096314

2007-07-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 17:31:12 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks, > > On my server I using debian stable. > > When I try do sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED], I can insert the password but I see: > > Received message too long 540096314 > > How can I resolve this problem? http://www.snailbook.com/faq/

Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working [REALLY SOLVED]

2007-07-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:30:15 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: [...] > Problem solved. alsaconf runs the obsolete command "update-modules" which > modifies /etc/modprobe.d/sound and /etc/modprobe.conf if present. According to > the update-modules man page the existence of /etc/modprobe.conf will cause

Re: where is tzconfig ?

2007-07-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 17:20:51 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: [ snip: We are trying to figure out how to search for packages that depend on specific versions of other packages. ] > The following seems to work: > > $ aptitude search '~i~D(libneon~V0\.25)' > i A librpm4 > $ aptitude search '~

Re: Non-free repo on DVD!

2007-07-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 19:23:56 +0100, José Santos wrote: > I'm trying to make a DVD with the non-free etch repository because i > don't have internet on my old toshiba laptop. > So i found this scrip on the web: [...] > but it just doesn't work, i gives me this output: > > wget: invalid option

Re: [debian-user] Subject Confusion

2007-07-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:24:48 -0600, Ted Hilts wrote: > Please see the original email (further down) sent yesterday to the list. > > Would someone like to explain how my ORIGINAL email to the Debian List > turned into the following: [ snip: one of the follow-up messages to the ORIGINAL email ]

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