Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

Thanks once more for the support! The problem is now solved. On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 10:20 AM David Wright wrote: > On Tue 28 Aug 2018 at 09:48:06 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote: > > > # dpkg -P sendmail-base > > (Reading database ... 1562548 files and directories c

Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

Thanks for the reply again. On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 9:41 AM David Wright wrote: > On Tue 28 Aug 2018 at 09:14:36 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote: > > > # apt remove sendemail > > Oops. > > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree > > Readin

Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

Firstly, thanks for the reply! On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 9:04 AM David Wright wrote: > On Mon 27 Aug 2018 at 12:38:42 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm having trouble installing/removing sendmail in Debian Sid (well, > > aptosid -- http://

Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

Hi everyone, I'm having trouble installing/removing sendmail in Debian Sid (well, aptosid -- http://www.aptosid.com -- actually). I tried to install and it failed: https://pastebin.com/Qu2jRqsn 'apt -f install' did not fix it, nor did 'dpkg --configure -a'. Since it was not essential (and did

Re: stretch not booting

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Luis Finotti <luis.fino...@gmail.com> wrote: [snip] > Any suggestions would be appreciated... > > > Never mind. The screen just went red and opening up to check the video cable I just broke the trackpad (which was secured only by tape). (

Re: stretch not booting

Thanks for your continued help! On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 6:46 AM, Brian wrote: > > GRUB does its job but it appears the problem occurs when control is > handed over to the init system. > > At the GRUB menu edit the linux line to add systemd.unit=rescue.target > or

Re: stretch not booting

> No. I get stuck again. > > You were able to type these commands? What do you mean by "stuck"? After > pressing ENTER do you get anything on the screen? What do you see? Yes, I am able to type those and boot starts, but gets stuck in the middle. No HD activity and Ctrl+Alt+Del (or any other

Re: stretch not booting

> Let me know if I can provide anymore info or if this gives you any idea of > > what is wrong... > > At the GRUB menu hit "c" and type > > set root=(hd0,msdos1) > linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 > initrd /initrd.img > boot > > and hit the ENTER key. > > Do you boot into the OS? No. I get

Re: stretch not booting

Thanks for the reply! On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed 17 May 2017 at 13:41:03 -0400, Luis Finotti wrote: > > > I've installed stretch from a DI RC3 image (from here: > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/

stretch not booting

Dear all, I've installed stretch from a DI RC3 image (from here: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/) a couple of weeks back on an old Dell Inspiron Mini 1018. The install went without a problem and I could reboot just fine. I then updated it, installed

Re: gtk key theme

OK, I think I've figured it out. It seems that Firefox (and other GTK programs, like Chromium) are still reading .gtkrc-2.0. Adding the key theme line to it fixed my problem.

gtk key theme

Running Sid (and KDE), it seems that I cannot get GTK key theme "Emacs" to work. I used to have a file .gtkrc-3.0 with the line: gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" which gave me Emacs style key bindings on applications like Firefox. It stopped working recently, as apparently a new version of GTK

Re: Re: apt stuck at Reading database

Yes, without success, but thanks for the suggestion! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: apt stuck at Reading database

Dear all, I've been trying to fix this problem, but have not found a solution yet. (I've also asked at the aptosid list without success.) Before I resigned myself to a reinstall, I thought I'd post the output of strace apt-get dist-upgrade (I killed the process a few seconds after it got

apt stuck at Reading database

Dear all, I had a power failure while I was away and when I came back the boot failed, asking to run fsck manually, which I did. *Many* errors where fixed and I could reboot to what it seems to be a normal session, except I cannot dist-upgrade or upgrade (I'm on sid, BTW):

Re: VPN routing on Sid

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Pascal Hambourg pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org wrote: Luis Finotti a écrit : When I first started using the VPN service, I could not SSH to my desktop from outside the network anymore. After a lot of googling, I found out a solution (https://forums.openvpn.net

Re: Re: VPN routing on Sid

On 13/11/14 11:10, Luis Finotti wrote: Ah, that worked! Could you explain the 192.168.29.0/24 syntax though? I'm having a hard time finding what it means. (Is it a range 0 to 24?) The /24 means that only the first 24 bits of the address are significant for matching purposes. So

VPN routing on Sid

I'm having problems connecting to my desktop (running actually aptosid, which is virtually simply Debian Sid with a different kernel and a few extra tools and customizations). Here is the situation: my desktop is connected to a VPN service. (The router to which the desktop is connected is not,

Re: VPN routing on Sid

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Igor Cicimov icici...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/11/2014 6:17 AM, Luis Finotti luis.fino...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having problems connecting to my desktop (running actually aptosid, which is virtually simply Debian Sid with a different kernel and a few extra tools

pinning not working

Hi, I am trying to install KDE 4.2 on lenny. (I made backups and am aware that things might go bad. I wanted to try it anyway.) So, I followed theshttp://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html#contente instructions: http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html#content Here are the

Disabling Print Screen key

Hi, My Print Screen key is too close to BackSpace, so I keep pressing it by accident. I use KDE, and this makes KSnapshoyt pop up. (In fluxbox, it sends the content of the terminal to the printer.) I checked the key assignments of KDE, and I found no shortcut for the PrtSc key, and even

Re: Disabling Print Screen key

Hi, First, thanks for the reply! My system (Debian 3.1, KDE 3.3.2) does not exhibit this behavior by default. I can enable (and disable) it by going into the KDE Control Center: K- Control Center- Regional Accessibility- Keyboard Shortcuts- Command Shortcuts- Graphics- More Applications-

Re: Disabling Print Screen key

Dear Davide (and all), Thanks for the reply! On 7/31/07, Davide Mancusi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Found it. It is in (err... sorry, non-English KDE) Regional Accessibility - Input Actions (?) - Preset Actions - PrintScreen. If you look for gestures in Control Center, it will pop up

Re: Disabling Print Screen key [Solved]

Hey Mumia, Davide, and all, On 7/31/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/31/2007 04:18 PM, Luis Finotti wrote: [...] On the other hand, I still don't see why the key wasn't disabled by the xmodmap -e command... Is that a bug?? What about this: xmodmap -e keycode 111

Re: kdm changing fonts?

Hi, On 1/22/07, Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 22, 2007, at 5:05 PM, Luis Finotti wrote: I don't quite understand the dpi option there... What does it refer to? (dpi=dots per inch, right? dpi = dots per inch. Think of it as the inverse or inches per dot. If a screen

kdm changing fonts?

Hi, I recently installed Etch in a Lenovo T60. Since I had to get the ATI drivers to work, I did a minimal install before adding a display manager (kdm). After I had X up and running with the proper driver, and properly configured (with KDE), I installed KDM. Now, if I login via KDM, the

Re: kdm changing fonts?

Dear all, On 1/22/07, Rob Bochan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 22 January 2007 15:07, Luis Finotti wrote: ... GDM also makes the fonts larger, but XDM works... Does any one know what is going wrong? Is that a bug? I'd like to be able to turn off the computer from within KDE

Re: kdm changing fonts?

Dear Andrei. On 1/22/07, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:07:44 -0500 Luis Finotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GDM also makes the fonts larger, but XDM works... Does any one know what is going wrong? Is that a bug? I'd like to be able to turn off the computer

Re: kdm changing fonts? [Solved]

Dear all, Check the [X-:*-Core] section of /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc... I noticed the same effect myself and make sure the line now reads: ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp -dpi 100 which cleans things up nicely in my case. This indeed fixed it. Thanks Rob! Luis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

No sound with KDE

Hi, I've recently upgraded from Sarge to Etch. Most things went smoothly... But, I just realized I have no sound anymore. I noticed that alsa was not installed anymore (I'm pretty sure it was installed with Sarge), so I installed alsa, alsa-utils, alsa-tools, alsa-oss. Ran alsaconf,

Re: No sound with KDE

Dear Igor, On 11/26/06, Igor Guerrero Fonseca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this: sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-sound-base :::Saludos::: Thanks for the suggestion... It didn't work though. Thanks, Luis

Re: No sound with KDE

Hi, On 11/26/06, M-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hate to ask this, but did you reboot the computer after you did all these things. I know that sounds very other O/Sish, but it will restart certain processes that might then pick up on the changes you've made. Charlie OK, I tried it now,

Re: No sound with KDE

Hi, KDE does have some strange issues at the moment. An example is that on one of my laptops, kcontrol is empty but Lost and Found contains all the links for kcontrol. So maybe there is more to this than just that? Or maybe your problem is tied to this? But it's just a guess. I am not sure

xhost (was: SSH = X11 forwarding?)

Hi, Greg Norris wrote: On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:43:47AM -0400, Antonio Paiva wrote: Ryan, You probably need to run xhost address of server on the client machine. Someone suggest this virtually every time the topic comes up. It's exceptionally bad advice... DON'T DO IT!!!

Re: su and X question

Zen Garden wrote: I used to have te same problem. It is because root cannot access to the X server. Here the sollution: user$ xhost + (press enter) [snip] This seems to be a security risk... sux seems to be a better idea... (Or so I heard.) :-) HTH, Luis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: thunderbird - kmail

Gregory Seidman wrote: } 1) Reply to list support }In thunderbird, It is either Reply or Reply to All. Does kmail do a } better job in this regard or is it as lame as thunderbird? There is a ticket in bugzilla against Thunderbird for exactly this, and it has recently been fixed.

Re: kudos to authors of kompose

Hi, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I just discovered this great little program called kompose which is a task manager for KDE. It just made my day! If you are a KDE user and usually open a lot of windows while working, kompose is just for you. Good bye Alt+Tab, Welcome Win+Tab :-) hth raju

Re: xterm color

Hi, Piyush Garyali wrote: How in the world do I get colors to display in xterm? when I do ls --color all I get is mono with bold. Long shot, but to what is TERM set? I could not get colors in emacs (in a terminal) with TERM=vt100, but I can with TERM=linux and others. You can also try

[Fwd: Re: Cmdline mail client that talks to remote SMTP server?]

Steve Lamb wrote: Matt England wrote: Does any such thing exist? I do not believe so. People will tell you that you need something heavy to do something that is so relatively simple. Nevermind the gui clients have been doing it for years. Do I effectively need to write some PHP,

Re: CD Writer Issues

Hi, Matt Townsend wrote: Hi. Brand new debian installation. Sarge (stable)? What kernel? I'm a little puzzled that I can't seem to burn a CD. On boot the /var/log/messages confirms that there's a DVDRW on hdc and a CDRW on hdd. Yet when I go to the File Manager-Go-CD Creator, drop a file

Re: CD Writer Issues

Dear Matt, First, sorry I sent the message to your address instead of the list... Yet again, my fingers were faster than my brain. We should keep this in the list though. I'm sending to your address again, since you replied directly to me, but let me know (privately) if you rather I

Re: c-cedilla problem

Hi, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello! This problem had appeared many times in the past, as I can see brownsing the archives (user and user-portuguese), but no one of these solutions works in my case. This is my problem: I am running sarge + gnome 2.8. I have a qwerty keyboard and in Desktop

Re: package error after debfoster

Hi, Lars Staun Knudsen wrote: Hi I cleaned out my system with debfoster, but unfortunately the package menu is stuck. I earlier remembered a way to force at package out with dpkg. But man or google can't make me remember.. # aptitude purge menu Reading Package Lists... Done

Re: package error after debfoster

Hi, Lars Staun Knudsen wrote: Luis Finotti wrote: I am not at my Debian machine, so I can't double check, but I think you need dpkg --force-purge. (Careful with that! Check the man page. Search force-thing.) # dpkg --force-purge menu dpkg: unknown force/refuse option `purge' I

Re: gtk file picker and firefox

Hi, Nic wrote: Here's the instructions again to provide some context: following in nsFilePicker.js which is located in the app's components directory. After making the change you have to re-register the components which is easily accomplished by disabling then re-enabling an extension and

Re: only root can access the camera

Hi, ochnap2 wrote: I think you have to add your user to the camera group. I added my user to the camera group, but I'm still unable to access de camera... :( Did you logout and login again? I think you have to for the change to take effect... HTH, Luis P.S.: I'm sorry for sending my

Re: ghost MB of memory

Hi, roberto wrote: On 2/15/06, Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i cheked the BIOS setup: the video shared memory is not set; hence the problem is only about this module 'highmem' in the kernel; hence i realized the only one solution is to recompile... if any other way,

Re: [Way OT] #!/bin/bash changes working directory

Dear all, Roland wrote: /bin/sh exists for compatability with the legacy Bourne shell and does not provide bash-specific features. In APP 1 I had a ~bash_cmd_rc file with some output in the BASH_ENV, and it is ignored by /bin/sh, even if /bin/sh is a softlink to /bin/bash on my machine.

[Way OT] #!/bin/bash changes working directory

Dear all, I realize that this should be way off topic, so sorry about that... I've been working on a bash script, but when I run something like: --- #!/bin/bash echo $(pwd) I always get $HOME, not the current working directory. I'd need to continue in the working

Re: [Way OT] #!/bin/bash changes working directory

Dear David, Do you have some sort of cd $HOME type statement in your .bashrc or .bash_profile or .profile file (or similar)? I have --- AUTOHOME=$PWD # Clean up stupid automounter directory case $PWD in $AUTOHOME*) cd $HOME${PWD#$AUTOHOME} ;; esac

Re: [Way OT] #!/bin/bash changes working directory

Dear Wesley, The script you've shown works fine, just the way you want. Nothing in there is going to change the working directory. For example: $ pwd /home/wjl/tmp $ cat EOF test.sh #!/bin/bash echo $(pwd) EOF $ chmod a+x test.sh $ ./test.sh /home/wjl/tmp If you think you're

Re: [Way OT] #!/bin/bash changes working directory

Dear Jan, Hm, this is a bit redundant - it's not necessary to wrap pwd into process substitution and echo the results... (...) Thanks for the comment! It was just something to show the change... Besides, the snippet is procuding the desired result here ($pwd, not $HOME). AFAICT, bash

Re: [Way OT] #!/bin/bash changes working directory

Hi Jan, Thanks for the reply again! open(/home/finotti/.bashrc, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 There it is. From the bash manpage I gather that a non-interactive bash doesn't read _any_ startup files, except for any file that is mentioned in the environment variable $BASH_ENV. Does this

Re: [Way OT] #!/bin/bash changes working directory

Dear Michael, You could change #! /bin/bash to #! /bin/bash --norc That does answer my question, but it did not work, likely because I have $BASH_ENV set to my .bashrc.. Thanks! Luis

Re: [Way OT] #!/bin/bash changes working directory

Dear Wesley, On 1/5/06, Wesley J. Landaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 05 January 2006 13:16, Luis Finotti wrote: I have --- AUTOHOME=$PWD # Clean up stupid automounter directory case $PWD in $AUTOHOME*) cd $HOME${PWD#$AUTOHOME

Re: acrobat shortcuts

Hi, roberto wrote: Hi, using acrobat reader i encounter the following problem: ~:$ acroread Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged then acrobat reader starts correctly but i can not use any of the shortcuts like Ctrl+O, Ctrl+W and so on, so useful on a laptop, not to

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

Dear Basajaun and all, Basajaun wrote: [snip] Well, you could try the old link trick. First of all locate the biggest directory(ies) residing in /, e.g. du -sh /* then, move that directory and all of its contents to a bigger partition, where space is not a problem, e.g. cp -R /big_dir

Re: Problems Mounting Digital Camera

Adam Mercer wrote: On 01/06/05, Romulo Sousa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I'm trying to mount my Sony DSC-P93 in order to trasfer my pics to my box. (... I remember I could mount it in another box running Debian. Could please somebody help me to fix it? Is the usb-storage module

Re: .bash_profile not sourced on login [Solved]

Dear all, Rogério Brito wrote: On May 08 2005, Luis R Finotti wrote: Sorry for not mentioning it. It was under X... I guess in that case I don't have a login shell. So what would be the proper place to set variables for terminals running in X? I think that the best option would be to give

Re: apt-get deprecated?

Dear all, Just my experience: On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Jules Dubois wrote: On Saturday 30 April 2005 07:19, Lee Braiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] (...) If one uses aptitude from the start, it is a drop-in replacement. If one doesn't, some real work is required, and then it's again a drop-in

Re: graphical console problem

Dear Ming and all, Thanks for the reply, Ming.  I really appreciate your help. I put video=sisfb:mode:none in the append part of lilo.conf and it did work (back to text mode), but now the computer try to fit more lines than it fits in the screen, in the sense that there are lines below what

graphical console problem

Hi, I am running Debian on my laptop and after an upgrade, it tries to enter in graphical console mode. On boot I get: sisfb: Using MMIO qeue mode the screen goes blank and it enters in graphic mode (with the penguin on the screen), but it's all fuzzy. I can't use the text consoles

Re: recompiling the kernel with APM support

--- Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You must also, in addition to modifying the kernel command line, insert the apm module. # echo apm /etc/modules -Roberto Great, Roberto! That just did the trick! Thanks. Also, thanks to Keeling and Greg. Keeling: I did not quite follow

recompiling the kernel with APM support

Dear all, I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.4.3 to 2.4.18-k7 (I'm running a 1.2GHz Athlon) and now my computer won't turn off the power with shutdown -h. (I did the apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-k7 way.) The old kernel did turn off the power. After I little research, it seems that I

Re: e-mail from local host

Thanks Magnus and Juan (again -- I owe you two!). I greatly appreciate your help. My best, Luis --- Juan Nin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you should have a FQDN hostname (fully-qualified domain name) the remote SMTP server rejects you connection, because your machine identifies itslef as

kernel update

Dear all, It seems that my kernel is a rather old version: - % uname -a Linux debian 2.4.3 #2 Sat Mar 31 11:29:19 CST 2001 i686 unknown - It seems that the newer versions are 2.4.16 or later. I thought apt-get update/upgrade would upgrade the kernel, but

Re: kernel update

Thanks Juan, Clive and Alistair! I successfully updated my kernel. I took the most immediate way (with just apt-get and updating lilo: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-386) and everything seems to working. (Now the Alsa drivers are another story...) :-) I noticed that I do not have a source

e-mail from local host

all the headers. -- Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from finotti by debian with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BSPil-0001dK-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 24 May 2004 17:23:07 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Luis Finotti [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dual-boot after crash

. correct path to kernel 2. correct path to initrd (if needed) 3. correct path to your XP (if you want boot XP too) GoodLuck. Luis Finotti wrote: Hi, I recently had some problems with my computer and had to reinstall Windows XP. After I done that, I don't get the LILO screen

Re: dual-boot after crash

Sorry about the last message sent incorrectly... As I was saying, I still have some problems. X (running gnome) froze. For a while the virtual consoles were working, but then I started getting error messages and they froze too. I posted the error messages (from var/log/) at

dual-boot after crash

Hi, I recently had some problems with my computer and had to reinstall Windows XP. After I done that, I don't get the LILO screen with boot options anymore. It starts XP automatically. I checked and the Windows XP C: drive is the size of the original partition, so I think my Linux partition is