Re: switching from woody to unstable/testing

2004-01-12 Thread Russell Shaw
Goran Christiansson wrote: Dear All, I am a newbie to Debian, and I ran into problems today. I did just like it says here below, but when I reboot I do not come further than LI of LILO. After googleing a bit I found that this was a well known problem, and that it can be solved using a boot disk.

[ADMIN] Cluster in users home

2004-01-11 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I just installed pgsql on debian. Can i have initdb create the database cluster in my home directory and have it all owned by russell instead of postgres? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ifup/ifdown

2004-01-11 Thread Russell Shaw
Michael D Schleif wrote: Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004:01:11:14:37:42+1100] scribed: snip / netstat -rn gives: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U40 0

Re: Ifup/ifdown

2004-01-11 Thread Russell Shaw
Matt Perry wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Russell Shaw wrote: The problem is that when i put http://127.0.0.1/ or http://192.168.0.1/ into mozilla, it goes thru the dialup isp instead of going direct to my own system. It seems more like a mozilla problem. In mozilla: Edit|Preferences...|Advanced

Re: Apache

2004-01-11 Thread Russell Shaw
Wayne Topa wrote: Russell Shaw([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Nitebirdz wrote: I think some confusion comes from mozilla 1.2.1. When i enter http://127.0.0.1/, then a dialog says: connection refused when attempting to connect to 211.27.82.52. This happens when i'm offline (no ppp

Re: downloading mail?

2004-01-10 Thread Russell Shaw
0debian user wrote: I have a PPP dialup (56k modem) account to the net and get a dynamic IP. I am not always connected. I would like to be able to send mail outside (i can send mail locally fine) to other domains besides my localhost. Ideally I could send message and they would be queued and

Re: Apache

2004-01-10 Thread Russell Shaw
Nitebirdz wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:08:55PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, I just installed apache-1.3 from debian-unstable. In /etc/httpd.conf, i put: ServerName 192.168.0.1. When i put http://192.168.0.1/ in mozilla, the address isn't found. What should i check now? Russell

Ifup/ifdown

2004-01-10 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, In /etc/network/interfaces (debian-unstable), i have: auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 netstat -rn gives: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask

Re: kernel 2.4.8 doesn´t recognize a 80GB disk

2004-01-10 Thread Russell Shaw
Julio León wrote: I´ve recently bought a seagate ST380011A 80GB ( 7200 rpm ) and installed it in my AMD K7 ( Athlon ) 2.0 GHz and re-installed debian pre3.0 ( hsu from june 2002 ) using the bf24 option - kernel 2.4.8 - but it didn´t recognize the disk partitions. Actually, linux identifies the

Re: localhost - /etc/hosts?

2004-01-10 Thread Russell Shaw
Michael B Allen wrote: Doesn't Debian have an /etc/hosts file? SquirrelMail needs to resolve 'localhost'. What's the correct way to do this on Debian? In /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.1 mypc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: How to find new url's for sources.list?

2004-01-10 Thread Russell Shaw
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Greg Madden: On Saturday 10 January 2004 04:04 pm, tripolar wrote: Recently when doing apt-get update I get failures from deb http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib I chose that mirror when I did the install because it

Re: Ifup/ifdown

2004-01-10 Thread Russell Shaw
Akira Kitada wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:37:42PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, In /etc/network/interfaces (debian-unstable), i have: auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 How do i get

Re: Woody/stable: kernel-source-* kernel-headers-* ?!? Confused.

2004-01-10 Thread Russell Shaw
s. keeling wrote: Could someone please 'splain to me what goes with what here? I've updated to 3.0r2. The plan so far is: (i) Install kernel-image-2.4.18-686 (ii) Go for updated kernel sources and re-build. I see there's kernel-source-2.4.18 and: kernel-headers-2.4.18 - Header files

Re: localhost - /etc/hosts?

2004-01-10 Thread Russell Shaw
Michael B Allen wrote: Michael B Allen wrote: Doesn't Debian have an /etc/hosts file? SquirrelMail needs to resolve 'localhost'. What's the correct way to do this on Debian? In /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.1 mypc Ok. Strange my install didn't have it. Creating it was enough

[PHP] Total NewB Q

2004-01-09 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I'm using debian-unstable. I just installed apache-1.3 and php4. I don't know where else to ask. I made a php test file (phpinfo.php), containing: ? phpinfo(); ?, and put it in ~/public_html. When i try to see it by putting: http://127.0.0.1/phpinfo.php into mozilla 1.2.1, mozilla changes it

[PHP-INSTALL] Total newB Q

2004-01-09 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I'm using debian-unstable. I just installed apache-1.3 and php4. I don't know where else to ask. I made a php test file (phpinfo.php), containing: ? phpinfo(); ?, and put it in ~/public_html. When i try to see it by putting: http://127.0.0.1/phpinfo.php into mozilla 1.2.1, mozilla changes it

Re: mozilla lockup

2004-01-09 Thread Russell Shaw
Dave Howorth wrote: I've been running mozilla on woody for quite a while now without any problems, but it's just started locking up for no apparent reason and I'm looking for help to fix it. It starts normally and I can browse web pages or view mail but when I try to view the source of a page or

Re: problem with two same 3c905c-tx ethernet cards, but no problem with only one

2004-01-09 Thread Russell Shaw
vincent de bossoreille wrote: I am configuring my firewall under Debian .0r2 kernel 2.4.18 When it is only one card intalled, I can go the Web and surfing as I want, and so on. for that, the module is 3c59x into the kernel and PPPs modules (using pppoe protocol) for the ADSL modem Fast 908 with

Re: Kernel Problem: cs5530_set_xfer_mode(UDMA2)

2004-01-09 Thread Russell Shaw
Kevin Boergens wrote: Hi! I've got a nasty problem with my kernel (2.4.18-bf2.4) on Woody I discussed a long time about it in de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware, but no solution was found, maybe someone over here can help, it looks like a Debian problem: My southbridge is a National Semiconductor

Re: Re: Missing package on mirror

2004-01-09 Thread Russell Shaw
On 2004-01-09, Russell Shaw penned: Hi, I did: apt-get update from unstable, then: apt-get install php4-pgsql [snip] What do i do now? Wait. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=202393 If you generally use dselect or aptitude, you can use '=' to put the package

Apache

2004-01-09 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I just installed apache-1.3 from debian-unstable. In /etc/httpd.conf, i put: ServerName 192.168.0.1. When i put http://192.168.0.1/ in mozilla, the address isn't found. What should i check now? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Missing package on mirror

2004-01-08 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I did: apt-get update from unstable, then: apt-get install php4-pgsql It gives: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded php4-pgsql 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 554 not upgraded. Need to get 38.3kB

Re: Show and hide window help(modified source code)

2003-12-13 Thread Russell Shaw
george carter wrote: You can probably tell by the source code I would like to show a window, have a loop count and hide that window. It shows the window but doesn't hide it. Any ideas? Eventually I would like to have this happen and then call another function, but little by little. Any help

Re: plotting question

2003-12-12 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I must insert in my application 2 graphic types: 1) X-Y Axis to plot points in realtime (or with delay). 2) A timeline scrolling (seconds) from left to right that plots points. Could be sufficient using Canvas/Drawing in Gnome/GTK (do you know examples?) or is it

Re: gtk frame buffer problems

2003-12-08 Thread Russell Shaw
divya seshadri wrote: Hi, The permissions are OK.. and the frame buffer is working. If I dump something to /dev/fb0 the penguin on the LCD gets ver written. But gtk demo says cannot open display device. Do you have any other suggestions? Divya. Step thru it with gdb/ddd.

Re: gtk frame buffer problems

2003-12-07 Thread Russell Shaw
divya seshadri wrote: Hi, I have GTK with linux-fb cross compiled for arm linux with an LCD display. My problem is that even though the frame buffer is working fine, when I run the gtk demo it says cannot open device '/dev/fb0'. The device is present and working. Any ideas?? Check permissions.

Re: New to GTK; some beginner questions.

2003-12-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Amit BHATNAGAR wrote: Hi all. I am considering using GTK+ to develop an app for Solaris 8, and I could use some help in answering some of my questions that would allow me to make a decision on whether or not to use GTK+. I have searched the FAQ online docs, however if any of my questions have

Re: Destroying a Dialog Box....

2003-11-30 Thread Russell Shaw
Hari Prasad Nadig wrote: within a dialog box called 'popup', I've this cancel button in the action area.. button = gtk_button_new_with_label (Cancel); g_signal_connect (G_OBJECT (button), clicked, G_CALLBACK (close_dialog), (gpointer) popup); gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX (GTK_DIALOG

Re: Widget Update before gtkmain()

2003-11-30 Thread Russell Shaw
Pisanu Prasertnopakun wrote: Hello list, I write a long gtk code and can't wait till gtkmain() to update my widget. How can I update my widgets immeadiately before gtkmain()? I read from FAQ of GTK.ORG.. they told about g_main_context_iteration(), but I don't really understand how. Thanks in

Re: Messed up my GTK really, really bad

2003-11-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Bruce Ferrell wrote: OK gang, go ahead and laugh. In the long and torturous path to getting an application going on my system, I have meesed up my GTK tool chain something feirce. Somewhere along the line, I'managed to create a situation where gtk+2.09 from source thinks glib-2.2.3 is

Re: problem with pangox - and also with pkg-config !

2003-11-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Alain D'eurveilher wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install GTK2.2.4 on my woody, and i already install the demendencies requiered, and glib, atk, pango. Now, running ./configure of gtk, I've got : - configure: error: pangox Pango backend is required for x11 target - I've made a

Re: Intalling GTK-+ on Debian woody / Installer GTK-+ sur Debian Woody

2003-11-24 Thread Russell Shaw
Alain D'eurveilher wrote: Hi all, I just want to know if it is possible to install in an easy way GTK-+ on my woody ? using for example : # apt-get install gtk-+ (etc..) or other installation tools. Or if i absolutely need to follow the instruction on the gtk website ? apt-get install libgtk2.0-0

Re: stopping signals

2003-11-16 Thread Russell Shaw
dave walters wrote: Greetings: I have a spin button with a callback function invoked by the value_changed signal. The callback func has a gtk_spin_button_set_value(). When this executes it causes the spinner to emit the value_changed' signal which invokes the callback which executes

Re: Problems building gtk+-2.2.4

2003-11-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Aitor Garcia wrote: Hello everybody: I am having problems building gtk+-2.2.4 Installation order followed: 1 pkgconfig-0.15.0 2 glib-2.2.3 3 pango-1.2.5 4 atk-1.2.4 5 gtk+-2.2.4.tar.gz All the programs have been built using configure, make and make install with no options. This

Re: Getting gtk+ to find my private copy of libgobject-2.0.so

2003-11-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Michael Terry wrote: Hello, list. I am trying to compile GTK+ CVS, and have run into a problem with it linking against my system's version of GLib instead of my private copy of a compiled GLib CVS. That fault's exactly the same as mine (just posted on [EMAIL PROTECTED])

[Lesstif] X docs

2003-11-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I've been writing a CAD program in gtk+ and want to convert to lesstif. I need to read everything about xlibs and motif/lesstif. A lot of books on amazon are 10 years old. Are these still useful? ___ Lesstif mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why is gtk install so difficult?

2003-10-21 Thread Russell Shaw
Steve Grimaud wrote: Hi, I'm sorry, but the statement below by Reuben hits the nail on the head for the user. ... I tried building a program from source (jpilot) on RH9 (shrike). I encountered a problem with not finding GTK+ 2.0.0 or higher (although I believe it's somewhere on my

Re: why is gtk install so difficult?

2003-10-20 Thread Russell Shaw
Tara Milana wrote: On 2003.10.19 06:23 Sven Neumann wrote: As outlined in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103708 your problem to compile gdk-pixbuf is a version incompatibility with your binutils and you can hardly blame the GTK+ developers for this. Hi, I just upgraded to the

Re: why is gtk install so difficult?

2003-10-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Michael Torrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As outlined in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103708 your problem to compile gdk-pixbuf is a version incompatibility with your binutils and you can hardly blame the GTK+ developers for this. Perhaps this should be in the

Re: why is gtk install so difficult?

2003-10-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any version incompatibilities should be handled in the relevant configure.ac. We are talking about incompatibilies between the linker and installed libraries. This is completely out of the realm of GTK+. You could make an autoconf

Re: why is gtk install so difficult?

2003-10-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You could make an autoconf macro to check the ld.so version from ldconfig -V. And how would I know that the user has libraries installed that are linked with a different and incompatible linker? The problem is not that GTK+ would

Re: why is gtk install so difficult?

2003-10-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Paul Davis wrote: I don't recall the specific error, but to test that libraries work, an autoconf macro can compile and run a small program using a specific library to see if it works. Autoconf macros can be specific to each platform and/or test for all known implementations of ld to get a version

Re: Glade 2 passing data to signal handlers

2003-10-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Joe Scaduto wrote: Hey I am a newbie to GTK+ 2 and Glade 2. I have been playing around with GTK and I understand the concept behind signals and events. My problem arised when I decided to use Glade 2 and wanted to connect a 'clicked' signal for a 'modal' 'dialog' window 'button'. When

Re: Glade 2 passing data to signal handlers

2003-10-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Joe Scaduto wrote: On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 06:01, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe you need: g_signal_connect((gpointer) okLoginButton, clicked, G_CALLBACK (on_okLoginButton_clicked), GTK_OBJECT (loginDialog

Re: Glade 2 passing data to signal handlers

2003-10-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Joe Scaduto wrote: On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 11:24, Russell Shaw wrote: Yes, but it will be over-written next time you generate the code. Most users don't use this generated code and use gladelib xml which is less intrusive on your program. Thanks I appreciate the help.I found what the problem

Re: Glade 2 passing data to signal handlers

2003-10-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Dave Reed wrote: On Saturday 18 October 2003 11:24, Russell Shaw wrote: Joe Scaduto wrote: On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 06:01, Sven Neumann wrote: Russell Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe you need: g_signal_connect((gpointer) okLoginButton, clicked, G_CALLBACK

Re: Key pressed and modifier

2003-10-06 Thread Russell Shaw
gtk gtk wrote: Hi! I'm a new user of gtk/gdk and I can't cope with the following problem. I need to handle the event controlm. Here is the way I connect this signal to my widget: SIGNAL_CONNECT(GTK_OBJECT(my_widget), key-press-event,

Re: Key pressed and modifier

2003-10-06 Thread Russell Shaw
gtk gtk wrote: Hi! I'm a new user of gtk/gdk and I can't cope with the following problem. I need to handle the event controlm. Here is the way I connect this signal to my widget: SIGNAL_CONNECT(GTK_OBJECT(my_widget), key-press-event,

Re: auto-dependency usefulness?

2003-10-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Bryce Schober wrote: When I first looked at the auto-dependency stuff at http://make.paulandlesley.org/autodep.html, I was pretty excited, but now I'm not so sure. What I'd really like is this: lib/ foo.h foo.c src/ main.c In this scenario, foo.h declares a library function defined in

Re: Problem Installing exim

2003-09-28 Thread Russell Shaw
ARYAN AMERI wrote: Hi there: I am running a mixture of sarge/sid and am trying to install exim. apt-get install exim seems to fetch and install it OK, but it is not able to set it up, I receive the following error message:

Exim (was Re: spam software)

2003-09-27 Thread Russell Shaw
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:24:55AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: | Paul Johnson wrote: | On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:28:49AM -0400, Vivek Kumar wrote: | | Thanks.. I got it. I was reading the docs and it seems there is no | configuration/install help for sendmail

Re: Exim (was Re: spam software)

2003-09-27 Thread Russell Shaw
Ross Boylan wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:43:13PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: ... all From and Reply-To headers only on mail that is sent out the smtp transport to my dialup isp. However, exim3 doesn't let you rewrite envelope addresses on per-transport rewrites. The only other option is to use

Re: Lots of scary segfaults

2003-09-27 Thread Russell Shaw
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Hi all! Last night, the cronjob on my main server reported this: ... So, there is a segfault there too, but I guess this really doesn't imply there is a trojan, but that this is a consequence of the same problem as above. Any ideas? fsck the disk. Find a specific program

Re: Lots of scary segfaults

2003-09-27 Thread Russell Shaw
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Thanks for the quick response! On Saturday 27 September 2003 16:21, Russell Shaw wrote: fsck the disk. OK! However, physical access to this computer is a complex issue, and to run fsck on the / and /usr partitions (which are the most obvious places to look), I can't

Re: OpenOffice.org Margins?

2003-09-27 Thread Russell Shaw
Robert Tilley wrote: I am moving some documents from M$ Word to my home computer that uses Debian Linux. The document in question was saved in the RTF format from Word and then re-opened in OOo Writer. The issue with the document is margin-spacing. I wish to have a document-wide left and

Re: kernel painic, failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k

2003-09-27 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kmod : failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k VFS : cannot open root device 305 or 03:05 Pleace append a correct root= boot option kernel panic; VFS:unable to mount root fs on 03:05 Hello, this is the message when I try to boot up with my compiled 2.4.21 kernel, I did not

Re: Disabling USB devices?

2003-09-27 Thread Russell Shaw
Phil Edwards wrote: A machine is running sid with a 2.4.20 kernel, and has some very power-hungry USB devices plugged into it. The devices themselves don't have power switches, but we'd really like to be able to turn them off and save power. Why not just unplug them? We could, but the physical

Re: spam software

2003-09-26 Thread Russell Shaw
Paul Johnson wrote: Please reply on list. Please do not top post. http://learn.to/quote/ On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:28:49AM -0400, Vivek Kumar wrote: Thanks.. I got it. I was reading the docs and it seems there is no configuration/install help for sendmail ?? Is there any docs/help for

Cron

2003-09-26 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I set this with crontab -e : 3 * * * * /usr/bin/mailfilter ; /bin/echo Mailfiltering | /usr/bin/mail -s mai 1 * * * * /bin/echo Date is `date`. | /usr/bin/mail -s cron root ### I should get mail every minute, but it doesn't work. If i try: /bin/echo Date is `date`. | /usr/bin/mail -s cron

Re: Cron

2003-09-26 Thread Russell Shaw
Travis Crump wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, I set this with crontab -e : 3 * * * * /usr/bin/mailfilter ; /bin/echo Mailfiltering | /usr/bin/mail -s mai 1 * * * * /bin/echo Date is `date`. | /usr/bin/mail -s cron root ### I should get mail every minute, but it doesn't work. If i try: /bin/echo

Re: kdm

2003-09-09 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi! i have a problem in woody: I installed it in a ibm thinkpad A31, but xfree (4.1.0) wasn't working because the video card (radeon M6) is not supported, so i went to xfree86.org and download 4.3.0 version, and installed it (with Xinstall.sh). All is working ok,

Re: Upgrade to 'testing

2003-09-09 Thread Russell Shaw
Jianan Huang wrote: Hi folks, I am now running 'stable' which I installed from a CDROM created online. Now I intend to upgrade to 'testing'. What's the easiest way to go about it? Can I upgrade online by downloading some approriate packages or do I have to create a 'testing' CDROM?

Re: CUPS gone mad

2003-09-09 Thread Russell Shaw
Christophe Courtois wrote: Hi, I'm going crazy. Thanks for any idea how to solve this mess: * Although it worked perfectly some times ago When trying to print something from Gimp or KDE, Cups creates hundred thousands of files (000) in /var/spool/cups/. These are almost all 34796 bytes

Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-09 Thread Russell Shaw
Russ Cook wrote: Thanks for the continued help. Attached are the results of 'whereis python' and 'ls -l /usr/bin/python'. The symlink points to python2.3. And yet, the zope pre-removal script encounters errors in python1.5, which makes me think it is explicitly seeking and calling routines from

Re: Help - I'm going mad!!! /bin/bash: --gnu: command not found

2003-09-08 Thread Russell Shaw
Dr. David Kirkby wrote: Can anyone throw any light on the situation below? I'm just about fed up trying all manner of things to build a configure.ac that generates no error messages from autoreconf, configure or make. 'autoreconf' runs without any errors and generates a configure script. The

Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-08 Thread Russell Shaw
Russ Cook wrote: Hi Russell, I ran apt-get update, then apt-get install python. I did not specify a version. The system stated I am already at the latest version. I then ran apt-get install --reinstall --fix-broken zope. The log looks the same. If you still have a log of the session I sent

Re: kdm

2003-09-08 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi! i have a problem in woody: I installed it in a ibm thinkpad A31, but xfree (4.1.0) wasn't working because the video card (radeon M6) is not supported, so i went to xfree86.org and download 4.3.0 version, and installed it (with Xinstall.sh). All is working ok,

Re: Mozilla and Print

2003-09-08 Thread Russell Shaw
Jerome Lacoste wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 20:59, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:28:22PM -0400, Rodrigo Gesswein wrote: Hello! I have installed Debian 3.0r1 and Mozilla 1.4, but when I try to print a html page, CPU goes to 100% and nothing happend, I must kill mozilla

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Fn and Ctrl-Alt-Bksp switch to blank screens in X

2003-09-08 Thread Russell Shaw
Edward Ho wrote: Recently I've installed Woody on my Dell CPt laptop (Mobile P2-400). The installation was started from scratch using the bf2.4 floppy+http (not from cdrom), so I'm sure my system has the latest stable release. Since GUI is required for my engineering work, I used apt-get to

Re: dpkg fails after removing some packages

2003-09-07 Thread Russell Shaw
Benedict Verheyen wrote: Op zo 07-09-2003, om 04:45 schreef Russell Shaw: apt-get update apt-get install -f base-files Nope, that doesn't work. Apt-get downloads the packages, then says (Reading database...) and shortly afterwards, i get the E: Subprocess /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly. I

Re: where is netscape 4 in testing?

2003-09-07 Thread Russell Shaw
Alexander Mikhailian wrote: I recently upgraded to testing and found out that netscape 4 is missing in the list of packages. Where can I get a working version of netscape 4 for testing? Netscape is based on mozilla, so install that instead. Mozilla has options to stop pop-up ads, but netscape has

Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-07 Thread Russell Shaw
Russ Cook wrote: Hi Russell, Thanks for the continued help. I tried the command you suggested, and the result is in the attached script file. Still no luck. On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Russell Shaw wrote: Russ Cook wrote: Russell, The sources.list file was OK, but it referenced a local mirror

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

2003-09-07 Thread Russell Shaw
Jon Haugsand wrote: * Russell Shaw dpkg --audit or dpkg --yet-to-unpack dpkg --audit The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems configuring them the first time. The configuration should be retried using dpkg --configure package or the configure menu option

Re: Install a dfiferent network card on debian 3.0

2003-09-07 Thread Russell Shaw
momo momo wrote: Have been trying to install a different NIC, a Tulip card. Tried running /usr/sbin/base-config This does not reconfigure the NIC Would appreciate it if someone can point me in the right direction. Make sure the card driver is available as a module or is built into the kernel.

Build tools

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, What version of the build tools are needed for dia-0.91? The latest ones cause problems (autoheader, aclocal, automake, autoconf, etc). I'm modifying configure.in a bit. ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Build tools

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, What version of the build tools are needed for dia-0.91? The latest ones (2.57) cause problems (autoheader, aclocal, automake, autoconf, etc). I'm modifying configure.in a bit. ~/SRC/dia-0.91: autoheader configure.in:403: error: m4_popdef: undefined macro: AC_Dest autoconf/status.m4:844:

Re: Build tools

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, What version of the build tools are needed for dia-0.91... Fixed. ___ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http

Re: How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Thanks Russell! I did not know about the reference you quoted. But... I did not explain well enough! I do NOT want to remove the kernel-image package because it will remove my kernel which works very well. I just want him not to try to reinstall, because it is already

Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Russ Cook wrote: Please help. I tried to upgrade my system, after a long period of stable operation. During the upgrade attempt, use apt-get dselect-upgrade, Zope failed to upgrade, due to pre remove script failure. Zope is currently installed at 2.3.3-1 level, trying to upgrade to 2.6.1-10.

Re: how to fix broken package

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
john john wrote: Hi, I messed up my xserver-xfree86 package. I had already installed this package and then I had some X driver issues so I went into the directories, and deleted a couple of files ie. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules stuff. You probably broke another package. dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/modules

Re: how to fix broken package

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: john john wrote: Hi, I messed up my xserver-xfree86 package. I had already installed this package and then I had some X driver issues so I went into the directories, and deleted a couple of files ie. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules stuff. You probably broke another package. dpkg -S

Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Russ Cook wrote: Russell, I did as you suggested, but it made no difference in the errors I received. I scripted the output of apt-get, which I have compressed and attached. Can you make sense of this? The errors seem to occur in /usr/lib/python1.5/* and /usr/lib/zope/lib/python/* Thanks for

Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Russ Cook wrote: Russell, The sources.list file was OK, but it referenced a local mirror for apt-move, which wasn't valid yet. I corrected that, and ran 'apt-get update' again, and then ran apt-get install -t testing zope, as you recommend. Attached is that script file. The errors are

Re: How stable is SiD ?

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Johan Kullstam wrote: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:27:47PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: Can anyone advise on starting to use SiD as resource for my Debian Workstation ? Doesn't it have to many issues left open, broken dependencies etc. If you have to ask,

Re: dpkg fails after removing some packages

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hello, i reinstalled a local broken server using my own desktop backups. It's a mixed testing/unstable system. All went well but when i tried to remove some packages, something went wrong with dpkg. It seems linked to base-files. dpkg is version 1.10.10, base-files 3.0.10

Re: woody newbie help

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
mnicolet wrote: Hello I am a newbie to Linux, but not to the *NIX world. I allways tried Debian distros. But I had no time to go too far. Now I installed woody ( bf2.4 ). All went ok exception of 1) My Debian box has a generic two button serial mouse. Using some utility ( don´t remember which one

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Vikki Roemer wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:14:02PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: In same directory: dpkg-source -x metalog_0.7beta-3.dsc cd metalog_0.7beta dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot cd .. dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb Ok, I did all that, but when I try to run dpkg -i, I get

Re: Why held back? Command ...

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've a bunch of machines on unstable ... one is holding back a lot of stuff on update/upgrade ... is there a command/switch that will tell me what dependency is holding things up? ... I'll just kill it off if it's non critical, as it's holding up postgres, openoffice, php

Re: GNU ftp crack and config.{sub,guess}

2003-09-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Paul D. Smith wrote: I'm still waiting for _ANY_ kind of response here. Doesn't anyone know or care about config.guess or config.sub anymore? From automake manual: config.guess config.sub These programs compute the canonical triplets for the given build, host, or target architecture. These

Re: OT: Howto get assembly of linux or windows executables ?

2003-09-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Elizabeth Barham wrote: Joris writes: I'm currrently learning assembly and I'd like to get more used to it - is there a way to get to see the assembly of a compiled program, what program(s) do I need for that gcc is able to show the assembly it generates with the -S option and leaves the result

Re: Which release

2003-09-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Mario Vukelic wrote: On Fre, 2003-09-05 at 19:53, Joey Harrison wrote: My preference would be to have the most recent packages, but also somewhat tested, so should I use testing? I'v run stable, testing and unstable. In you case, I would start with stable. Most software in Linux is so mature

Re: How to tell apt-get or dpkg to forget about a package?

2003-09-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian Users! I use make-kpkg to create a new kernel-image for Knoppix and install it using dpkg. The install will go all the way except for a Failed-config because he is trying to create an initrd.img on /boot and cannot because there is no /etc/fstab around. There

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

2003-09-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Jon Haugsand wrote: * Russell Shaw Hmm, I still have problems: apt-get install -t testing xfree86-common xbase-clients xserver-xfree86 xlibs Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Sorry, xfree86-common is already the newest version. Sorry, xbase-clients is already the newest

Re: deb from source

2003-09-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:19:49AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: Ok, i started again, but i still get the md5sum error. Could the downloaded debian package be in error? With the errors you're getting, this seems unlikely. I've downloaded it twice from the bottom of this page

Re: Help on Glib and pango installations.

2003-09-04 Thread Russell Shaw
nkb wrote: Hi. Beginner's question. I'm trying to install gtk2.2.3. I downloaded and installed glib-2.2.3. When installing pango-1.2.5, it reports an error that says Glib 2.1.3 or better is required. But I just installed successfully [without error] my glib 2.2.3! So, how do I check and confirm

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-09-04 Thread Russell Shaw
TR wrote: ATI Radeon 7500 64B/Dual Head I use Woody with a backported X 4.3.0. My Radeon 7500 works fine. I haven't tried it with the standard woody X though. I have a Radeon 9800 (128mb ddr), no luck in finding what would work for it. Does anyone know of any developments? I'm using a radeon 7000

Re: Problems installing Debian on PIII using Adaptec 2400A RAID 5array as boot drive

2003-09-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Derek Chew En-Hock wrote: Hi Everyone, been using Debian for about 7 months now and loving every minute of it... so far, I managed to install Debian on more than 10 machines (some my own, some in the office and some for friends whom I'm trying to encourage to use Linux) and so far besides some

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Vikki Roemer wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 04:27:36PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: You would need to setup a /etc/apt/preferences file, add testing to yor sources.list, and use pinning. Even so libc6 (upgrade) will be a depend on anythig from Testing. For what you want, it may be safer/easier to

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

2003-09-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Jon Haugsand wrote: * Russell Shaw E: Sorry, broken packages I think by setting up apt-get pinning or something, these dependancies can be downloaded and installed automatically. However, i haven't figured that out, so i resolve these problems manually (it doesn't happen very often). Some

Re: CUPS alternative?

2003-09-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Christoph Simon wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:53:24 -0400 Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any workable alternatives to CUPS? Any alternatives that folks actually RECOMMEND using? It would be great to run a somewhat leaner print system... lpd or lprng are still the best solutions.

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