How to fix: glibc installed over libc6 broke system

2003-11-01 Thread John Foster
I did a real dumb thing without thinking. I grabbed a .rpm of glibc 2.3.9 from SuSE, converted it to a .deb with alien and installed it. Of course I forgot that libc6 is the debian way of handeling this dependency (see locales; unstable) Yeah it was VERY late. Any way it broke the entire

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:04:25PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:17:52AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: My .muttrc highlights my own posts (bright cyan) in index view, and notes posts in response to or mentioning my name (easier for me than

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:20:30AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:36:16AM -0600, Ron Jr wrote: | On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 07:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:14:15AM +, Colin Watson wrote: | On Tue, Oct 28, 2003

Re: question about Qt package needed

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:02:58AM -0500, Haines Brown said First a general question. Is there some way to determine, without prior knowledge, what packages need to be downloaded? None of the packages on the debian site said anything like, general Qt support, or the For a library foo, the

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:31:04AM -0500, Haines Brown said I installed debian from cdrom, but now want to use apt-get (actually, aptitude) to get on-line packages. To do this I ran netselect-apt woody in the /etc/apt directory, and as a result built a /etc/apt/sources list that had a US and a

Re: How to test a hard disk?

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:57:18PM +0200, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos said Dear list, I have the following question: I have an old hard disk that I want to check. What can I do? Which log files should I check for error messages? (I only have ssh access to the machine, no console). I look at

Re: tasksel on testing - unmet dependencies for Desktop

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:12:17PM +0800, Uwe Dippel said Plain upgrade von Woody to something more stable than unstable using apt-get dist-upgrade went smoothly, but left me without much on the desktop. So I issued another # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade #tasksel resulted in: The

Re: Enquiries

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:48:59PM +0800, Kelvin Lee said Hi my name is kelvin from singapore. I had a question to make and that is does Debian OS accepts some windows applications like microsoft office pro, designing applications? There is a program called wine which can run some Windows

Networking Linux through a Win98 gateway

2003-11-01 Thread Nathan Stanley
Hello list, I was wondering, because I've never been able to do this, if or how you can have a Linux computer access the Internet via a Win98 gateway PC. The gateway runs 602LanSuite for its routing/firewall services. Note that there are numerous WinXP machines behind the Win98 machine that

Re: no sound with kernel-image-2.6.0-test9-1-386...deb

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:57:16PM +, Robin Gerard said Hello, I downlaoded the kernel-image-2.6.0-test9-1-386_2.6.0-test9-1_i386.deb and I installed it successfully. Everything works fine, except the sound. ( I run also the kernel-image-2.4.20 and the sound is ok with this kernel ) My

Re: restarting a debootstrap install ...

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:14:22PM -0500, e-bone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm trying to install debian from a KNOPPIX cd, using debootstrap and chroot. I'm just curious. If debootstrap goes south for whatever reason ... (when trying to install sarge it couldn't find one of the files e.g.)

Re: PAM rejecting valid username/passwd ???

2003-11-01 Thread Michael D Schleif
Michael D Schleif [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:10:31:19:19:32-0600] scribed: It all started after rebooting to correct a scsi module problem ; My logon and email fetching has been working *without* incident for many months. Now, my user (mds) can no longer ssh into a remote debian system:

Re: restarting a debootstrap install ...

2003-11-01 Thread Johann Koenig
On Wednesday October 29 at 12:14pm e-bone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An unrelated quetion: when using apt-cache show or aptitude is there a way to figure out which release (woody, sarge, etc) a version is associated with ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy gaim gaim: Installed: 1:0.70-2

Re: question about Qt package needed

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:02:58AM -0500, Haines Brown said First a general question. Is there some way to determine, without prior knowledge, what packages need to be downloaded? None of the packages on the debian site said anything like, general Qt support, or the For a library foo,

Re: How to fix: glibc installed over libc6 broke system

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:19:06AM -0600, John Foster said I did a real dumb thing without thinking. I grabbed a .rpm of glibc 2.3.9 from SuSE, converted it to a .deb with alien and installed it. Of course I forgot that libc6 is the debian way of handeling this dependency (see locales;

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:19:48PM -0800, Daniel L. Miller said csj wrote: Real world case: scribus (probably the best GPL'ed or better DTP app). I never did find out about this. If it doesn't work, perhaps you should file a wishlist bug on the package asking for support. But doing this

Re: A butchered Apache2 Installation

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:47:21PM +0100, John Orford said I accidentally / stupidly butchered my Apache2 installation. I can neither install apache2-mpm-worker over the old install or remove it - I've tried apt-get remove..., apt-get -f install and dpkg. Can I uninstall it manually?

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
OK, so next I want to get the sudo package and run: # apt-get install sudo Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Packages

Upgrade to SquirrelMail 1.4.2

2003-11-01 Thread BruceG
Thanks list for all the information on SquirrelMail. I decided since installing blosxom from testing was straight-forward, I'd do the SquirrelMail upgrade that way as well. So, a quick apt-get install squirrelmail/testing and SM1.4.2 is up and running. I did lose the funky SquirrelMail logo, but

hotplug netwotk interfaces

2003-11-01 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi Is it somehow possible to enable a kind of hotplug with the debian interfaces system? If i configure my eth0 device like: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp and i have no network cable pluged in while im starting my laptop then it tries to fetch an ip at startup and if there is no connection it

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 10:23:38AM -0500, Haines Brown said apt-get update has the *exact* same error? update should try to go out on the network and get the missing package lists from your debian mirror. Well, no, at least not now when I try it. I was only looking at the end of all the

Re: upgrade-dead system, help.

2003-11-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
wil wrote: Hi, Sorry I have very little info on this...no logs or anything:( Running SID, with a custom 2.4.22 kernel, ext3 file system. HD was checked with the diagnostic utility from IBM, including surface (advanced) check and was fine. Did an update via dselect yesterday and after that the

Re: How to fix: glibc installed over libc6 broke system

2003-11-01 Thread Jakob Lell
On Saturday 01 November 2003 16:10, Rob Weir wrote: dpkg-deb -X libc6_from_debian_not_suse.deb /place/you/mounted/your/broken/system dpkg can install packages in a chrooted environment: dpkg --root=/path/to/your/system -i libc6_from_debian.deb Regards Jakob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Jakob Lell
On Saturday 01 November 2003 16:23, Haines Brown wrote: Well, no, at least not now when I try it. I was only looking at the end of all the response, for I can't seem to copy/paste from an xterm. However, this time did an eshell in emacs and saved the buffer that resulted from the apt-get

Re: How can I stop the console from blanking

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:39:09PM -0500, stan wrote: I'm setting up a machine that will rum umatended, and print some information on several console sessions. In testing, I find thta the console blanks afyer some period of time, even if daya is being writtten to it :-( How can I fix this?

Re: Debian MSN clients can't connect

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:33:56PM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:24:21 + Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I've downloaded kopete and gaim0.71 as well but I've got to sort out some broken dependencies before I can try compiling them on woody. Cheers, Gaim

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Wesley J Landaker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 November 2003 7:12 am, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? (Disclaimer: I'm not a native Francophone; but this is the experience I've had with colloquial usage of Linux in

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:48:25AM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: Le Linux is typically used as masculine, but I've seen it, less often, used as feminine, la Linux. I'm not aware that it is officially anything, but to me as a French-speaker, it feels more like a masculine noun. Do some

NVIDIA driver install

2003-11-01 Thread Hoyt Bailey
The kernel header installation went very well. So that is AOK. The nvidia driver installation and I are having a problem commuciating. The NVIDIA source was placed in /install/nforce. It is a .run file provided by nvidia and provides several drivers for all nvidia chipsets. So I cd

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:12:31PM +, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? I think it's masculine as in le linux. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Slightly OT

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:52:55PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: I used to be pretty happy with my newsserver (news.cis.dfn.de), until I started with Debian. I can't seem to get all messages from there; for no good reason I'd know about. Could anybody direct me to a newsserver (free - available

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Christophe Courtois
Le Samedi 1 Novembre 2003 15:12, Rus Foster a déclamé : Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? Masculine (ex: Un Linux est plus stable qu'un Windows). Don't ask me why. -- Christophe Courtois - Ostwald, Alsace, France http://www.courtois.cc/ - Clé PGP : 0F33E837

Re: print command

2003-11-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-31T19:50:17Z, Vivek Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any other command to print any character say * 80 times.. Ooh! My turn: $ yes '*' | head -n 60 | xargs echo | sed 's/ //g' I'm sure that's optimizable somehow, but I haven't really looked at it yet. -- Kirk Strauser

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Christophe Courtois
Le Samedi 1 Novembre 2003 17:48, Wesley J Landaker a déclamé : Le Linux is typically used as masculine, but I've seen it, less often, used as feminine, la Linux. I'm not aware that it is officially anything, but to me as a French-speaker, it feels more like a masculine noun. (I'm French)

libc6 2.3 and libdb1-compat

2003-11-01 Thread Alexander Borghgraef
Ok, I'm trying to upgrade libc6, but I'm getting some surreal error messages: TheMachine:/home/ab# dpkg -i libc6_2.3.2-9_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package libc6. (Reading database ... 70550 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.2-9 (using

Re: upgrade-dead system, help.

2003-11-01 Thread wil
Hiya, Thanks for the tip but I wonder if it is the kernel, this kernel has been running stable for weeks...why would it suddenly crap out after an upgrade/install of some new/updated packages. A bit more on the 2.4.18, as i mentioned that one does go through the complete boot but it couldn't get

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Packages Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:3128 (127.0.0.1). - connect=20 (111 Connection refused) Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Release Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:3128 (127.0.0.1). - connect=20 (111 Connection

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

2003-11-01 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:14:56PM +0100, Kurt Sys wrote: Quoting Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:03:54PM +0100, Kurt Sys said I have to install a new computer. I install Debian Woody (3.0r1) from boot-CD (CD1 -- NON-US). Everything works fine except for one

Re: NVIDIA driver install

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 10:37:09AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey said The kernel header installation went very well. So that is AOK. The nvidia driver installation and I are having a problem commuciating. The NVIDIA source was placed in /install/nforce. It is a .run file provided by nvidia and provides

Re: Kernel panic, desperate help needed.

2003-11-01 Thread Brent Miller
This may be a longshot, but are you using a wireless networking card? I get the same kp when using linux-wlan-ng with some netgear NICs under heavy load. -Brent A. Loonstra wrote: For the second time during our nightly backup our kernel crashes completely. Since this is a production machine

Re: Xawtv

2003-11-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 11:32, Wayne Sitton wrote: ok this is another plea for help. I've got an AverTV Studio tv tuner/fm radio/capture card. I know it is supported because when I boot into Knoppix from a knoppix cd the card works perfectly. Under my Debian Sid installation, I get a

I want to only download package

2003-11-01 Thread koh youngman
Hi I want to only download package which is already installed my debian So much time is needed that all installed package is typed for example apt-get --reinstall install aalib1 abiword-common abiword-gnome acme ... How to do it more easier ? Sorry, My english writing is very terrible

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
Jakob, a little light is begging to shine. In my reading I did not see anything about apt-cdrom, and so had to guess what had to be added to the config file. I guessed, wrong, it seems.   Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Packages     Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:3128 (127.0.0.1). -

Re: How can I stop the console from blanking

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:39:09PM -0500, stan wrote: I'm setting up a machine that will rum umatended, and print some information on several console sessions. In testing, I find thta the console blanks afyer some period of time, even if daya is being writtten = to it :-( =20 How can

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:47:14PM +1300, cr wrote: On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 08:43, Pigeon wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:40:01PM +1300, cr wrote: I suppose I could go all the way back to Edlin. I still use ed... ed - is that the DOS full screen editor?Vastly superior to edlin,

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 05:49 GMT, Kent West penned: Monique Y. Herman wrote: I've never used apt-cache, but a quick look at the man page suggests that perhaps you hadn't yet generated the cache, so searching on it probably wasn't very helpful. Looks like the original poster assumed the cache

Re: libc6 2.3 and libdb1-compat

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:11:39PM +0100, Alexander Borghgraef said Ok, I'm trying to upgrade libc6, but I'm getting some surreal error messages: Does installing both of them at the same time with apt or dpkg work? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 13:54 GMT, Mark Healey penned: That simply means that you're running the linux kernel, version 2.4.18-bf2.4, and your machine name is utonium (is this related to the powerpuff girls?). Yes. Cool! My machines tend to be super mario bros. characters. Where is there?

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:23:27PM -0500, Haines Brown said Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Packages Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:3128 (127.0.0.1). - connect=20 (111 Connection refused) Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Release Could not connect to

Re: I want to only download package

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 05:37:39PM +, koh youngman said Hi I want to only download package which is already installed my debian So much time is needed that all installed package is typed for example apt-get --reinstall install aalib1 abiword-common abiword-gnome acme ... If you

Installing kernel 2.4 in Woody

2003-11-01 Thread Jack Dodds
I'm installing Woody on a Pentium Pro. I've done a net install, but have not run tasksel yet. The net install leaves me with kernel 2.2. I'd like to have the 2.4 kernel becasue I need the capability to mount a subdirectory, which according to the man page is available in 2.4 but not 2.2.

Re: upgrade-dead system, help.

2003-11-01 Thread wil
Hi, Backing up is always a wise thing, won't argue there:) But i didn't do anything drastic, as i mentioned in another reply this kernel has been running stable for weeks/months. I didn't change a thing except for running a dselect update and letting it install the packages which needed updating.

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-11-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Karsten M. Self wrote: Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: In that situation, mutt's set ignore_list_reply_to = yes # fix broken mailing list software option is what you need! [...] All the more reason why reply-to munging is harmful in the first place. But in a balance of evils, it's

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:19:33AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: This has the unfortunate effect that reply-to is just completely useless. It was made useless when the original list munged it. But two wrongs do not make a right. Three do. :-) I thought that was two wrongs don't make a right,

Cardbus eth0: no route to host after sid upgrade

2003-11-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, after a vacation, I upgraded sid on my laptop. After pulling in 3 week's worth of upgrades, I lost ethernet connectivity, and for the life of me can't figure out what went wrong. Nothing changed in the network's configuration. I have a cardbus ethernet card in my laptop. It is connected to a

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:25:42PM -0500, ScruLoose said The worst part is that I've heard a rumour saying the DFE-530TX comes with various different chipsets, so if yours is from a different batch/week/moodswing than mine, it may not be via-rhine at all. I don't actually _know_ this, but I've

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Jakob Lell
On Saturday 01 November 2003 18:38, Haines Brown wrote: Jakob, a little light is begging to shine. In my reading I did not see anything about apt-cdrom, and so had to guess what had to be added to the config file. I guessed, wrong, it seems.   Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main

Re: How to test a hard disk?

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:57:18PM +0200, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos wrote: Dear list, I have the following question: I have an old hard disk that I want to check. What can I do? man badblocks - use the non-destructive read-write test even if you don't care about destroying the data on the disk,

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 05:54:12AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: I should mention that I had to download this from Broadcom. I have a CD with a source RPM and a .tar.gz. On an earlier attempt I tried to compile it from source but after I expanded the .tar.gz I couldn't extract resulting .tar.

Re: How can I stop the console from blanking

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:16:59AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: I put this following into ~/.bash_profile: # to get rid of blanking of console: setterm -blank 0 but I was never able to find out were in /etc to put it for a global effect rather than just in account

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
Rob, I think it's comming along: If so, apparently the following is wrong/insufficient:=20 =20 Acquire { Retries 0; // I added this next subsection: http=20 { Proxy http://127.0.0.1:3128;; Proxy::http.us.debian.org DIRECT; // Specific per-host setting

Re: libc6 2.3 and libdb1-compat

2003-11-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Alexander Borghgraef wrote: Ok, I'm trying to upgrade libc6, but I'm getting some surreal error messages: TheMachine:/home/ab# dpkg -i libc6_2.3.2-9_i386.deb You can't just install libc6 by itself. You must install at least three all at one time. (Or maybe just two if you don't use

Re: Installing kernel 2.4 in Woody

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 01:06:01PM -0500, Jack Dodds said I'm installing Woody on a Pentium Pro. I've done a net install, but have not run tasksel yet. The net install leaves me with kernel 2.2. I'd like to have the 2.4 kernel becasue I need the capability to mount a subdirectory, which

Re: How can I stop the console from blanking

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:16:59AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: I put this following into ~/.bash_profile: =20 # to get rid of blanking of console: setterm -blank 0 =20 but I was never able to find out were in /etc to put it for a global effect rather than just in account

kernel-2.6.0-test9 / nfs warning

2003-11-01 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi all, just a new qustion for using 2.6.0-test9: dmesg shows: nfs warning: mount version older than kernel util-linux-2.12 is installed and recompiled witin 2.6.0 Any idea? Ciao Elimar -- what IMHO then? IMHO - Inhalation of a Multi-leafed Herbal Opiate ;) --posting from

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

2003-11-01 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:25:42PM -0500, ScruLoose said The worst part is that I've heard a rumour saying the DFE-530TX comes with various different chipsets, so if yours is from a different batch/week/moodswing than mine, it may not be via-rhine

kernel-2.6.0-test9 / sensors

2003-11-01 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi all, just a new qustion for using 2.6.0-test9: I want to use the i2c modules. $ lsmod | grep i2c i2c_dev10112 - i2c_sensor 2688 - i2c_viapro 6668 - i2c_core 24516 - $ grep -i sensor /usr/src/linux/.config # I2C Hardware Sensors

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

2003-11-01 Thread Lawrence Houston
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:25:42PM -0500, ScruLoose said The worst part is that I've heard a rumour saying the DFE-530TX comes with various different chipsets, so if yours is from a different batch/week/moodswing than mine, it may not be via-rhine at

Re: How can I stop the console from blanking

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:40:52PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: --and pigeon, where do you suggest he place that command so that it has global effect upon bootup? See my other post today... :-) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here:

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:08:46PM +0100, Christophe Courtois wrote: Le Samedi 1 Novembre 2003 17:48, Wesley J Landaker a d?clam? : Le Linux is typically used as masculine, but I've seen it, less often, used as feminine, la Linux. I'm not aware that it is officially anything, but to me as a

SOLVED Re: mozilla doesn't open last page visited (new window)

2003-11-01 Thread Erik Steffl
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 00:38, Erik Steffl wrote: I have the preferences set up to open last page visited but for some reason it always opens the home page. this is happening for quite some time, not sure which version, but definitely few 1.4 and current 1.5-2 pacakge (unstable). right

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Mark Healey
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 17:53:27 +, Pigeon wrote: Go ahead and install Debian, without worrying about getting the NIC working yet. Use the machine that you're posting from to go to http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/kernel-source-2.4.22.html and download the .deb of kernel-source-2.4.22. Then

Re: Kernel panic, desperate help needed.

2003-11-01 Thread A. Loonstra
Brent Miller wrote: This may be a longshot, but are you using a wireless networking card? I get the same kp when using linux-wlan-ng with some netgear NICs under heavy load. -Brent No sorry, I'm using a simple realtek 8139 NIC, and yes I know it's cheap but the 3coms I had before gave me way

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Mark Healey
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 10:35:05 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 13:54 GMT, Mark Healey penned: That simply means that you're running the linux kernel, version 2.4.18-bf2.4, and your machine name is utonium (is this related to the powerpuff girls?). Yes. Cool! My machines

Re: dpkg --get-selections

2003-11-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 06:44, Christian Schnobrich wrote: I've got a machine with a freshly installed woody and wanted to clone the installed software from a running system. I did as seemingly is common lore: On source machine: dpkg --get-selections selections.txt On destination

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 08:31, Haines Brown wrote: I installed debian from cdrom, but now want to use apt-get (actually, aptitude) to get on-line packages. To do this I ran netselect-apt woody in the /etc/apt directory, and as a result built a /etc/apt/sources list that had a US and a non-US

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
You have to update the local cache with what is available on the remote site... apt-get update apt-get install sudo Should really do: apt-get update apt-get upgrade First and foremost...! OK, I removed the references to cdrom in my /etc/apt/sources.list, and things run more

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Jakob Lell
On Saturday 01 November 2003 19:49, Haines Brown wrote: ... I did as you said, literally (commented out just the two proxy lines), and it may have gone better. This time I piped the output, so know I captured the entire file. It starts with a lot of this: Err cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0

Re: PAM rejecting valid username/passwd ???

2003-11-01 Thread Michael D Schleif
Michael D Schleif [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:11:01:08:58:14-0600] scribed: Michael D Schleif [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:10:31:19:19:32-0600] scribed: It all started after rebooting to correct a scsi module problem ; My logon and email fetching has been working *without* incident for many

Re: How can I stop the console from blanking

2003-11-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 13:16, Haines Brown wrote: I put this following into ~/.bash_profile: # to get rid of blanking of console: setterm -blank 0 but I was never able to find out were in /etc to put it for a global effect rather than just in account configurations. Look at

Re: restarting a debootstrap install ...

2003-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
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

Problems installing perl ImageMagick module on testing machine

2003-11-01 Thread stan
I'm in desperate need to get teh perl ImageMagick module isntalled on a testing amchine to test some scripts. If I try to install it from dselect I get a missing dependacy. If I try to build it from CPAN the build dies horibly :-( Help! How can I get a working version of this? -- They that

Problems building Gaim

2003-11-01 Thread John Peter
I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing. I edited my sources.list to reflect unstable sources( also added stable ), main, contrib and non-free Then I did : apt-get update apt-get build-dep gaim and I get the error: E: Build-Depends dependency for gaim cannot be satisfied

Re: Slightly OT

2003-11-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:52:55PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: I used to be pretty happy with my newsserver (news.cis.dfn.de), until I started with Debian. I can't seem to get all messages from there; for no good reason I'd know about. Could anybody direct me to a newsserver

Re: How to test a hard disk?

2003-11-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos wrote: .. I have an old hard disk that I want to check. What can I do? Which log files should I check for error messages? (I only have ssh access to the machine, no console). I look at /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog. Is it enough? what are

Re: Adding scsi devices ???

2003-11-01 Thread lorian
Last night, he added a SCSI cdrom and tape drive to the system. He insists that the AIC-7980 controller lists the devices during post. ^^^ =20 What does the underlined expression mean? Are there some

Re: Problems building Gaim

2003-11-01 Thread Ralph Alvy
John Peter wrote: I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing. I edited my sources.list to reflect unstable sources( also added stable ), main, contrib and non-free Then I did : apt-get update apt-get build-dep gaim John I am also very new to Debian, but I'm not sure I

Re: How can I stop the console from blanking

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:03:13PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:16:59AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: I put this following into ~/.bash_profile: =20 # to get rid of blanking of console: setterm -blank 0 =20 but I was never able to find out were in /etc

2 questions: network card and internal speaker volume

2003-11-01 Thread Vikki Roemer
Hi! I have 2 questions. First, how do I turn up the volume of the internal speaker? My second question is a little more complicated. I just put in a new motherboard, and everything is working fine except the onboard nic. It uses the same chipset that the old MB's onboard nic had (sis900), and

Disable a Flat Screen

2003-11-01 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I'm wondering if there is a method to disable a built in flat screen (on a laptop). I'm thinking of something like dpms. Win32 know a method (i don't kniw how) but when my laptop stands around doing nothing the screen never shuts down in linux mode. Is there a method/tool/XFree86 extension

Re: hotplug netwotk interfaces

2003-11-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:41:57PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: Hi Is it somehow possible to enable a kind of hotplug with the debian interfaces system? Please read new Thomas Hood's guides. (This is not my writing.) http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-gateway.en.html

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 November 2003 12:11 pm, Haines Brown wrote: You have to update the local cache with what is available on the remote site... apt-get update apt-get install sudo Should really do: apt-get update apt-get upgrade

Re: Disable a Flat Screen

2003-11-01 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Raffaele Sandrini wrote: Hi I'm wondering if there is a method to disable a built in flat screen (on a laptop). I'm thinking of something like dpms. Win32 know a method (i don't kniw how) but when my laptop stands around doing nothing the screen never shuts down in linux mode. Is there a

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread David P James
On November 01, 2003 09:12, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? I'd say it's masculine for a couple of reasons. First, it just sounds better as le Linux compared to la Linux. Second, it has a consonant ending and such words are

Re: X Window System will not start

2003-11-01 Thread Hoyt Bailey
HIP HIP Three cheers for all: I installed the kernel headersthe NVIDIA driver read the manual fixed XF86Config-4. Then startx And wounder of wonders KDE poped up. Of course I thought that I had purged it. Well if SNAFU is the way things are I'll live with it. Thanks to All You Really helped;

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:13:02PM -0500, David P James wrote: On November 01, 2003 09:12, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? I'd say it's masculine for a couple of reasons. First, it just sounds better as le Linux compared to

Re: Problems building Gaim

2003-11-01 Thread Ralph Alvy
But gaim is already available as a binary for you. No need to compile it if you just apt-get update apt-get install gaim Ralph Alvy wrote: John Peter wrote: I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing. I edited my sources.list to reflect unstable sources(

Re: Xawtv

2003-11-01 Thread techlists
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 01:11, Cristian Gutierrez wrote: Wayne Sitton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ok this is another plea for help. I've got an AverTV Studio tv tuner/fm radio/capture card. I know it is supported because when I boot into Knoppix from a knoppix cd the card works perfectly.

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Wesley J Landaker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 November 2003 9:54 am, Tom wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:48:25AM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: Le Linux is typically used as masculine, but I've seen it, less often, used as feminine, la Linux. I'm not aware that it is

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread David P James
On November 01, 2003 20:28, Tom wrote: I don't have a high degree of confidence in this statement, but I would guess things that cause action seem masculine, and words that receive action seem feminine. You know, the whole Freudian nine yards. Things that jut out vs. things that recede,

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