Re: packages with configuration prompt twice

Daniel B. wrote: > All. (Everything that I've installed recently and that has interactive > configuration has prompted twice.) What does 'debconf-show debconf' say? -- see shy jo msg31714/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

Narins, Josh wrote: > Sounds like your debconf priority got set to "critical" ? Nope, he said that dpkg-reconfigure debconf asked nothing. dpkg-reconfigure temporarily forces the priority to low so you should alawys see all questions when running it. I asked for a DEBCONF_DEBUG log in private mail

Re: packages with configuration prompt twice

Daniel B. wrote: > * debconf/showold: true This is your problem. You should dpkg-reconfigure debconf and turn it off. (or 'echo set debconf/showold false | debconf-communicate') -- see shy jo msg31757/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Safety of Upgrading Unstable

Brian Nelson wrote: > David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I've been following debian-devel and debian-user looking for > >> problems people have had with upgrading unstable and haven't seen that > >> many (a few regarding kde / libfam issues). > > > > This is probably the best way to f

seeking feedback on linux-wlan-ng-2.4.20-foo modules packages

Hi, I am the maintainer of linux-wlan-ng for debian and have started making precompiled modules packages available in unstable for the precompiled debian kernels. After some success, and a stupid mistake that broke them all and that I think I have fixed, I have now had one report that the modules p

Re: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

Carlo U. Segre wrote: > whiptail: error while loading shared libraries: libslang.so.1-UTF8: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory > > Perhaps a dependency is wrong but I don't understand the "-UTF8" on my > other working machines there is no such library. Seems to me you may

Re: automatically removing dependencies with packages?

Ray Kohler wrote: > Is there a way to automatically remove all dependencies of a package > (that aren't otherwise needed)? If I install a big package with dozens > of dependencies and I decide I don't want it, I don't like to root out > all of its dependencies by hand. I could do this on FreeBSD

Re: Anacron vs cron

Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Thank you for the information. On investigation, it appears my kernel > does not have support for APM. It is time to grab another kernel > image or compile my own. For the moment, I've hardcoded the return > value and anacron will start. We will see if it actually doe

Re: [unstable] terrible gnome 2.2 performance problems

Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote: > Since I upgraded to gnome 2.2 (I never used gnome 2.0 on that machine), > my graphical environment became so slow I am about to start reinstalling > from scratch my system if it doesn't get solved soon. Have you tried turning off the anti-aliased fonts stuff? I ha

vim and gqip spaces after periods

Can someone tell me how to make vim, when reformatting text that includes periods with gqip, not put two spaces after the period? It seems to do this when the period is at the end of the line. Happens for queston marks too. Like if I copy and gqip this paragraph, I get the below: | Can someone t

Re: Very few packages selected during install

Jason Pepas wrote: > I have observed the following behavior with debian woody (3.0) installs: > > - if you say "no" to tasksel, a very very minimal set of packages are > installed. > - if you say "yes" to tasksel, but don't select any packages, a bunch more > packages are installed than the abov

Re: [unstable] terrible gnome 2.2 performance problems

Troy Arnold wrote: > I have an LCD as well. When I first fired up gnome2 it looked > *horrible* the anti-aliasing was nowhere near as nice as what I was > used to with qt. However, experimenting with the settings did the > trick. Fonts are absolutely sharp now. > > Desktop_Preferences->fonts

Re: Very few packages selected during install

Colin Watson wrote: > Hm. Maybe it would be useful if tasksel output a status line saying > "tasksel: installing standard-priority packages" when the -s flag is > given? That way people would have a mental hook they can grab hold of > for what's going on, and a quick look at the man page later will

Re: Problem with Mysql - Perl 5.8

Debian User wrote: > Need some advice here, I installed Perl 5.8.0 on my Debian box, on top > of the Debian Perl package 5.6.1 > > Perl seems to work, but I tried to install the DBD::mysql bundle and am > running into errors telling me mysql_config cannot be found. It's really not a good idea t

Re: bash: common history across multiple sessios ???

Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Regarding the former, I am speaking of the general sense, in which I > frequently change terminal sessions, and I know that I typed out some > complex string in last couple of days, but I'm really not interested in > foraging all open sessions to find that one (1) exquis

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

Colin Watson wrote: > the new safe signals implementation has caused some problems which mean > that the next upstream release will allow them to be turned off. Argh. Do you know if that is a compile-time switch or a run-time switch? I've had some very fun debugging sessions based on perl's signa

Re: apt-src question

Simon Eilting wrote: > hope this is the correct place to ask. Why is it, that when I install a > package with apt-src, and do an apt-get -u upgrade after that, that the > package is to be 'upgraded' to another package of the exact same > version from the debian server? Isn't it only supposed to

Re: SpamAssassin weightings - am I missing something?

Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Quick Spamassassin question: > > I've got SpamAssassin 2.43 installed, and it's working well. > > However, I noticed the two lines quoted below in the altered body of > some spam that it caught recently: > > SPAM: EXCUSE_16 (-0.3 points) BODY: I wonder how ma

Re: Comments on security, Re: recover lost root password

Satish Iyer wrote: >I am new user of Debian Gnu/Linux. Perhaps when you were installing Debian you didn't bother to read the following message which was prominently displayed for you: problemBox(_("NOTE: The default LILO configuration is not secure enough against local attacks. A user with

Re: about matrix text editing

awk does beat shortest possible perl here though. -- #!/usr/bin/perl -ie_one_down_pass_it_around,-:_bottles_of_beer:_on_the_wall:99 for(($t,$a,$b,$i)=split/:/,$^I;$i;print){$_="-$i$a$b,-$i$a,-Tak$t".--$i."$a$b ";s/(-1_.*?e)s/$1/g;y/_-/ \n/} Joey Hess, JAPH pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mozilla: goto top/bottom of webpages ???

Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 01:09:16PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Being a long term unix user I have always used [home] and [end] for > > top and bottom of file. (On terminals that supported those keys.) > > But with some recent update I find that those keys take me to > > begi

Re: about matrix text editing

Youichi Mano wrote: > The default character of delimiter seems to be space, so > this does not work well. The default delimiter is \s+, any amount of any whitespace. -- see shy jo pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Changing X resulution (Ctrl-Alt-+/-), only using a command-line tool ???

Mark Janssen wrote: > I know I can change the X11 resolution using the Ctrl-Alt-(Numerical+/-) > buttons. However, on my Happy Hacking keyboard, and my laptop I don't > have a numerical keypad, and the regular + and - buttons don't work in > this regard. > > Does anyone know a tool or program to c

Re: Fluxbox with and without Debian menus

Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > Now I know I installed the Debian menu packages (and KDE 2 is using the > Debian menu mixed into the KDE menu), and there isn't anything installed > on my laptop that is not on my desktop. Are you sure you have the debian menu package installed on your desktop? > Why

Re: testing migration

Hall Stevenson wrote: > I *believe* you can configure debconf to NOT overwrite existing config > files, automatically overwrite them, or prompt you before doing so. debconf is a system for asking questions. It has nothing to do with config files. It does not modify config files. Any package in

Re: testing migration

Richard Kimber wrote: > Actually, this is ambiguous, because "local changes must be preserved" can > both mean "backed up" (which is what happened in my xinetd case) and > "remain active", which is what I think should happen. The rest of the section clarifies it pretty well I think. -- see shy j

Re: Debian Boot Process

Kris wrote: > Ok I am trying to do some fancy stuff and need to know how the debian 2.4.18 > boot process works. Ok ouch I will compare. If for example I wanted to > know the step by step process of an msdos system I would say something like > > It loads the kernel in msdos.sys and io.sys > then

Re: [plex86] setup: "user whiptail doesn't exist"

Eike Lantzsch wrote: > I'm sure I didn't enter "whiptail" nor "whiptail:" in any dialog. > But anyway, your answer put me back on track. > dpkg-reconfigure didn't work because plex86 wasn't completely > installed. In /var/cache/debconf/config.dat were two "value:"- > entries which are supposed to c

Re: (OT) low-power home server

Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Tom Allison wrote: > > Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > >> [..] a new box to replace it, which should be small and > >> silent, and consume as little electricity as possible > > > > Start with VIA's cyrix chips. [..] I'm not sure, but I think > > the NIC's come with one built

Re: GTK/debconf/Gnome warnings with apt-get install

Charlie Zender wrote: > The packages _do_ install fine, but apparently many of them would > prefer to use a Gnome/GTK method to be configured. Well, no, apprrently you have told debconf that you want it to use gnome. > I always do the upgrades as root, and root's environment has > DISPLAY=:0 > wh

Re: [ot] Linux stdio question, howto find fopened files

Walter Tautz wrote: > please retain the CC to rbutterworth > > > Subject: Linux stdio question. > > On non-linux unix systems, one can reference __iob[] > to find all currently fopen()ed files > (e.g. when forking a new process one would generally > want to flush their buffers first, or perhaps

Re: No "File -> Save" in gimp

This is a really amusing thread. Try the following: Pop up the context menu of a drawing (or use the triangle upper-left). Now, pin it up by clicking on the dashed line. Now you have a "context" menu that is pinned. Close the image window it came from. Open up several others. Try using the pinned w

Re: More on spam

Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:48:49AM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > If one more person starts a "what's with the spam?" thread ... > > ... I'm going to start aggressively killfiling and probably eventually > just unsubscribe. There's more complaining about spam than ac

Re: booting from a usb mass storage zip drive

Rob Benton wrote: > PROCESSES: > root15 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW 02:46 0:00 > [usb-storage-0] > root16 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW 02:46 0:00 > [scsi_eh_1] These are kernel threads, that's why they're low-numbered processes just above 1 (init), have their name

Re: Debconf complains of database corruption; apt system wedged

Joseph Barillari wrote: > > "JDB" == Joseph Barillari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JDB> Hi. After a nasty crash during a dist-upgrade, I discovered > JDB> that /var/lib/dpkg/status was missing (fsck must not have > JDB> been able to save it). I restored a copy form /var/backups

Re: debian-installer-demo not working

Andrea Tasso wrote: > hi all, I tried debian-installer-demo, but it does not work, it stops just after the > language selection screen, I > mean the next one opens, but when you ask to load modules, that is the only way to > go on, it does not. > any experience ? That's as far as this demo goes

Re: Sarge netinst: CD-RW Sony CRX175A1

Dani wrote: > I installed a Samsung SC-148B CD driver in my secondary master and tried > the installation. Guess what. I had exactly the same problem. It seems > not to be something of the CD or CD-RW driver. Might it be the > motherboard? Maybe it would help if you tried to get it working aft

Re: restarting a debootstrap install ...

Undortunatly one of the things we've found when working on the Debian Installer project is that debootstrap is not particularly idempotent. If it fails it's best to delete every file it wrote to the disk, with the possible exception of the apt cache, before starting again. Otherwise you'll likely g

Re: restarting a debootstrap install ...

Karsten M. Self wrote: > Thanks, noted. > > If the installation gets to the point of package selection and > installation, however, it's possible to restart and continue from this > point? Yes. > At what point in the process can one simply restart? Technically, probably about after you get 50%

Re: Problem unravaling mixed system

Colin Watson wrote: > > strace -o /tmp/trace dpkg -i doc-linux-text_2003.10-1_all.deb > > > > and attach output. There are some errors at the end but I am afraid > > this is way beyond my level of expertise (this is actualy the first time > > I have used strace). > [...] > > write(8, "\37\213\10\

Re: Actiontec Problem Restated

Hugo Espuny wrote: > Well, at least you're not alone. I have the _exact_ same problem with a > brand new USB Wisecom wireless card prism2.5 based. As we don't get > solution from the linux-wlan-ng mail list, i make cc of this messege to > Joey, just in case he is able to point us in the right di

Re: exim and relaying -- for ONE user

ed email traffic, and so reduce the effectiveness of various rumoured evil government projects. And you get cool headers: Received: from dragon.kitenet.net (as5800-82-86.access.naxs.com [216.98.82.86]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN &quo

Re: exim and relaying -- for ONE user

will trillich wrote: > could you be a little less specific? (just kidding. ;) > > "You set up your server to support TLS"... at which point i > start slamming the oven door on my head again. Really, it's not that hard. apt-get install -tls. They set up certs for you. I went the extra mile to set

Re: RPM and db3

Paul M Foster wrote: > I had the same problem, and I searched the archives back for six months, > and this is about the answer given every time. > > I gotta tell ya, folks, this is a lame answer. You've deliberately > included a _broken_ package in Debian, which is just dumb for the most > technic

Re: gpg key in memory

Benedict Verheyen wrote: > is it possible (like with ssh) to have gpg ony ask you your passphrase > once and then remember it for the duration of a session? > This would be handy if one is writing a lot of emails and you don't want > to bother every single time to type your passphrase. > I chose qu

Re: gpg key in memory

Vineet Kumar wrote: > > quintuple-agent, the new gpg-agent is supposed to be better but is not > > in deban yet. > > I've never used it, but is this the same one you're talking about? > > doozer:~% apt-cache policy quintuple-agent No, it's gpg-agent that is not in debian yet. Probably should hav

Re: gpg key in memory

Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Op di 11-02-2003, om 01:38 schreef Joey Hess: > > Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > > I only have 1 key pair. When i read the gpg manual it didn't suggest to > > > keep more than 1 key pair ( or i didn't see it). I always thought you &g

Re: kernel-package

Richard Hector wrote: > You mean the section on the --initrd flag? Yes, I read that. It isn't > explicit about whether it creates the initrd image itself, or gets the > install script to do it or whatever. > > I assume it does just work without my further intervention, though I still > don't know

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

Brian Nelson wrote: > What if you want to honor a package's "Recommends" field with apt-get? > That'll take some extra effort that isn't necessary with aptitude. Or > what if you want to automatically remove the dependencies a package > pulled in when you delete that package? Pretty tricky to do

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

Steve Lamb wrote: > About the only thing I miss from apt proper is apt-cache search. > Supposedly there is a way for aptitude to search names and descriptions but I > have not stumbled on it yet. It works much like mutt with ~l sequences to tell it what field to look in. /~mJoey Hess /~dsom

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

Steve Lamb wrote: > Nono, I meant from the command line with aptitude search. If I do > "apt-cache search browser www" I get all packages which have both browser and > www in their name or description. If I try "aptitude search browser www" I > get packages that match either www or browser.

Re: What to do with a core dump

Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Cool. Here is what it said: > > $file core.11377 > core.11377: ELF 32-bit LSB core file Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, > SVR4-style, from 'soffice.bin' > > However, GDB said it was not in executable format and that it did not recognize > the file type. You n

Re: Verisign and spam blocking

Bill Moseley wrote: > Sorry if this is old news. > > One more reason not to like Verisign: > > http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/16/0034210.shtml?tid=126&tid=95&tid=98&tid=99 > > So Verisign added DNS wildcards for .com and .net -- No wonder I started > getting more spam lately -- my checks fo

Re: Verisign and spam blocking

To follow up on this, thanks to the quick work of Lamont Jones, Debian unstable will, in about 15 minutes, include a bind patched as follows: * New upstream release. Closes: #211373 * Remove RFC's from package, per policy. * Make com and net zones delegation-only by default. I understan

Re: debconf error

Martin Wegmann wrote: > Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Format/822.pm line 57, <$__ANONIO__> line 3807. This strongly suggests that your debconf cache, /var/cache/deconf/*.dat, is badly corrupted. > E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf install

Re: DnsMasq: Happy Happy Joy Joy

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The docs aren't very prescriptive and the new versign-blocker isn't > documented at all, so here's what I did. > > 1. If you're running Woody or Sid, you'll have dhcp-client. DnsMasq recommends > resolvconf, and dhcp3-client or dhcpcd or ... It's a whole kettle of fish.

Re: MS mail bombs

Ron Johnson wrote: > Ummm, the pop server that stores your email until you press what- > ever key in your MUA that fetches the email from pop..net > down to your PC. Why would I trust my ISP with something as important as my email? -- see shy jo pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ACPI gnome applet for battery

David Fokkema wrote: > Well, what is a lot? I think I can confirm this. It takes a constant > 3.0% on my 2.8Ghz, which would be about 17% on my previous 500Mhz > laptop. I would consider that a lot, yes. > > Maybe a bug report? The kernel's acpi implementation in /proc is very slow. I am not clea

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:52:12AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 08:26:32AM +1200, cr wrote: > > > I appreciate that dselect is only part of the install process, albeit the > > > largest part timewise if one uses it. > > > > You don't have to, though. >

Re: fetching older packages?

Colin Watson wrote: > > Is there a way to mark things on "hold" via the apt tools? > > I don't think so. aptitude hold packagename > > It seems like apt-get respected dselect "hold" last time I used it ... > > or was I mistaken? > > Um, I can never remember :) I don't remember (don't use apt-g

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

cr wrote: > I appreciate that dselect is only part of the install process, albeit the > largest part timewise if one uses it. What makes it frustrating is that, > while working through the huge list of apps in dselect (which isn't the most > intuitive piece of software ever written ;)it's

Re: fetching older packages?

Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I've been using dselect for a few years now and never really had a > problem with it ... occasionally using apt command-line tools when > necessary ... > > Seems like a lot of people don't care for dselect. What do you find > wrong with dselect, and why do you like apti

Re: Licensing requirements ???

Chris Spencer wrote: > That's correct. You must purchase a MySQL license to use it in this > fashion. Apache, PHP, and Debian are all fine. No purchase is > required. > > > What are the repercussions to my client, as a result of this model? > > Buy MySQL. Make the product. Sell the product.

Re: Licensing requirements ???

Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 19:12 GMT, Chris Spencer penned: > > > > This is to say if your client makes changes to apache or PHP they > > *MUST* make those changes available at no cost to everyone. > > > > Nitpick (though I think it was implied by the rest of your post):

Re: A ? for all you old time linux users

Chris Cioffi wrote: > That said, I'm considering doing some benchmarks with OpenSSL. I keep > hearing that _maybe_ compiling OpenSSL for you specific platform will > have Big Performance Yeilds(tm). Though actually putting that idea into > production will have to wait until my systems are so

Re: A ? for all you old time linux users

Brian Nelson wrote: > > 1. glibc, because it is THE library that all programs rely on > > For a while (since version 2.2.2-3), Debian's glibc was compiled with no > optimizations at all. Is this still true? Yes, and I suppose it will be until someone works out how to fix all the breakage turni

Re: ifup/ifdown are not idempotent

Christian Jaeger wrote: > - when removing an ethernet card from a pc laptop, the interface goes > away (but does not trigger ifdown). When reinserting it, the > interface does not come back. (One has to manually issue "ifdown > eth0; ifup eth0"). If you're using ifupdown to manage pcmcia inter

Re: Well (or poorly) hung video cards (was Re: lousy browsers)

Karsten M. Self wrote: > I've seen cards in various states: > > - Hung but fully resettable -- both X11 and console can be used again. > > - Hung, resettable in graphics mode only -- a X11 session can be > started, but console mode is fuxnored. Generally I'll start an X > session to

Re: Modem Ring Event

Hugh Saunders wrote: > I use a debian woody box as a dialup router for a small LAN it is not > practical to leave the link up 24-7 but sometimes when i am not at > home it would be usefull to get data from a machine that is at home. > is there a simple way to configure it so that when the modem[int

Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot

Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:51:33PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > echo expert >~/.dselect.cfg > > Holy schnikes, Batman! Why isn't this obviously documented? YM in the man page? Well, it is. You can also use dselect --expert of course. -- see shy jo

Re: Modem Ring Event

Tom Cook wrote: > Can it SMS me the DHCP'd address too? It can run arbitrary scripts after catching the ring event, so if you can write a script that can do that, it can run it. -- see shy jo msg08184/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: install-info fails for many packages

Jan Tomasek wrote: > on my workstation (unstable) I'm having troubles with many packages it > started with tar (I reported bug report to it ... but problem is propably > somewhere else) and today last was recode. > > It output messages similar to this: > > | Setting up recode (3.6-7) ... > | inst

Re: Why is my load average 3.00?

Andrew Perrin wrote: > On a new box I just built, the load average has been 3.00 for a couple of > days now, with really no significant work being done. You probably have three processes in uninteruptable sleeps ("D" state in ps output). This could be due from anything to a linux kernel bug to har

Re: Tasksel: remove packages?

Q. Gong wrote: > Is it possible to use tasksel to select a task and remove all the packages > in the selected task? Thanks in advance. No, but you can do it in aptitude -- find the task in the set of tasks at the bottom of aptitude's list, and hit '-' with the task title highlighted. Although this

Re: Pine again?

Travis Crump wrote: > cd /good/directory/; apt-get source pine; cd pine-; > fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us; dpkg -i ../pine*deb Or if you're using unstable: apt-get install apt-src apt-src install -i pine And to track new versions of the source as they come out: apt-src update apt-src upgra

Re: How can I make root filesystem read-only?

Oliver Elphick wrote: > For example, /etc must be in the root filesystem and mount writes to > /etc/mtab That particular case is easy to workaround, just link /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts. Don't do this if you use lookback mounted filesystems a lot though, as it screws that up. I have a system with

Re: /var/log/setuid.today wierdness in cluster

dave mallery wrote: > tens of thousands of entries running thru the /dev directory. these > nodes develop 20+mb files per day. > > i can't find documentation on what program writes these files. man > setuid only documents the library call. It's generated by the checksecurity program. You migh

Re: perl-formatted sig

Nori Heikkinen wrote: > format STDOUT = > +-+ > ~ | @< | ^< | > $name, $fortune > ~ | @< | ^

Re: /var/log/setuid.today wierdness in cluster

dave mallery wrote: > the problem with wtmp is that it shows (without a decoder ring) that > there are thousands of logins per day on tty1 thru 6. that's odd on a > cluster node on a private network behind a server behind a firewall. > also no node has a keyboard! i can eliminate the file, but w

Re: Why sid instead of sarge??

Ron Johnson wrote: > # apt-get -t testing --build source pan The apt-get source command does not support pinning, even the simple -t kind. FWIW, apt-src does get it to work, but only if you use the package/testing form. Both also support using the package=version form if you know the exact version

Re: several packages failing -- is debconf broke?

John Covici wrote: > I have had two packages fail on an upgrade -- here is the output from > the postinst script (I put set -v and set -x in it). Please, set DEBCONF_DEBUG=. in the environment, export it, and post a log. Include the version of debconf you are using. -- see shy jo msg16996/pgp

Re: several packages failing -- is debconf broke?

John covici wrote: > debconf (developer): <-- [11;80][10;1800]VERSION 2.0 > dpkg: error processing foomatic-bin (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 20 > debconf (developer): <-- [11;80][10;1800]VERSION 2.0 > dpkg: error processing locales (--configu

Re: Fake start-stop-daemon called, doing nothing--Wha???

ZephyrQ wrote: > >I try to run that command, but get an error: > > > > Warning: Fake start-stop-daemon called, doing nothing It sounds to me like you got a debian system installed that has the fake start-stop-daemon command used by debootstrap when bootstrapping the system. That is supposed to b

Re: several packages failing -- is debconf broke?

John covici wrote: > Maybe the debug code in debconf is doing this? No, it's certinaly not. -- see shy jo msg17455/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why make-kpkg? What and Where is apt-src?

Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > and then copying the new bzImage to /boot, running lilo and rebooting. > One set of instructions seems to indicate I can still use this approach > using apt-src after I have downloaded pcmcia-cs.tar.gz to /usr/src and > unpacked it. However, apt-src is unknown on my

Re: faster boot sequence

Jason Majors wrote: > I've started a project http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/oggcastd/ to play > Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files in my car. The box I use boots automatically when > it gets power, but it still takes almost 30s after I turn the key to get > sound. > How can I speed up the boot process?

Re: faster boot sequence

sean finney wrote: > also, i don't remember how 'experimental' it is to date, but the linux > kernel has some kind of hardware suspend feature (where the running kernel > dumps it's state/memory to a swapfile) that you might be able to use. of > course not only do i not remember how to use it, i do

Re: Replacing gnu tools in woody with busybox

Rajkumar S wrote: > Is it possible to replace all gnu tools in woody with busybox. I am > removing packages from LAS knoppix > to make it still smaller. One idea is to remove all the hefty gnu tools > and replace it with busybox. but understandably, when I tri

Re: Harassment

Bijan Soleymani wrote: > I definitely did not harass you on purpose. I simply replid to a message > in this thread and sent a copy to you as well. Then I got your C-R > message and replied to that. Then I was bombarded by 100s of copies of > my response to your C-R challenge. Moral of this story:

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

Dave Carrigan wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:18:00PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 06:53:15AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: > > > Not all your history, sadly. Branches and tags are lost. > > > > Is this still true? Recent versions of cvs2svn claim to have fixed this. >

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

Rob Weir wrote: > Sure. The beautiful thing about arch is that it's designed around > sets of changesets. Think of a changeset as a super-patch, that > tracks file renames and symlinks and permissions. > There's no real clear upgrade path from CVS. Subversion has cvs2svn, > which is undergoing

Re: Poor performance with 1GB of RAM

J. Zidar wrote: > I've found out that the processes were fetchmaild and run-parts. > > I remember once trying to make a script that would check and download my mail > once connected (I'm using dialup) and I've always thought that is not working > (the script) but I came to realize that is almost

Re: --purge when package already gone ?

Christophe Courtois wrote: > Slrn is gone a long time ago on my small server, but cron.weekly > complains it is not there. I could rm the script, but that's not 'clean'. > I'd like to do a 'apt-get remove --purge', but apt-get doesn't want to. > Any way through the standard tools ? > (And how

Re: Things changing overnight

Jamin W. Collins wrote: > Sounds like a bug either way. Bugs #22284, #36789, #51974, #62567, #74789, in fact. The first is worth a read. -- see shy jo pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: rms on debian

Bijan Soleymani wrote: > I mentionned Dosemu, which is in contrib. Does dosemu depend on non-free > software? You can use it to run free dos programs. There are many free > dos programs. dosemu is in contrib because it depends on an implementation of DOS, to boot. While there is a free implementa

Re: rms on debian

David Fokkema wrote: > What about freedoom.sourceforge.net? Promising but incomplete. With the 0.1 release it may actually be to the point where it's playable. If someone packaged it doom might be able to move out of contrib. -- see shy jo pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dpkg in woody -- signed, unsigned

ben wrote: > i've lurked the list, scoured the archives, but still can't find a > decisive cure for the signature deal with dpkg in woody. it's becoming a > huge pain to have to --force-bad-verify every deb i apt-get. there has > to be a better way, and i've obviously missed finding it. please,

Re: VIA CPU's

Ron Johnson wrote: > The primary design goal of these x86 CPUs is low power usage. In > fact, they just released a *passively cooled* 733MHz CPU. And? I have a 867 mhz transmeta cpu in my laptop. No fan. No heat issues. I think their newer models go up to 1 ghz. -- see shy jo pgp0.pgp Des

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

Steve Lamb wrote: > That's just it, I don't like C indenting any more, period. It isn't > "someone else's style" that is the problem, it is the fact that it is the > antithesis of how I've grown to like to code. Lemme put it this way: > > C: > if foo > bar; That's bad style unless you h

Re: Official Exim 4 package

Rob Weir wrote: > Not to interdict in this rather pointless discussion, but package names > basically serve as the 'primary key' within the Debian archive. If you > start uploading packages with the exact same name, but have some other > header that differs, you need to modify most everything that

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