Re: How to upgrade to 2.4.23 (or .18) kernel

2004-01-23 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 23 January 2004 02:01 pm, brfg3 at yahoo wrote: I have Debian3 rc2. After installing from the CD, the command uname -r shows a 2.2 kernel. I want to use a 2.4 kernel for USB and IPTables support. I made two attemps to install a debian kernel image from two different tutorials and

Re: 8139too Module

2004-01-27 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 07:24 pm, Timothy Paling wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 19:36, Timothy Paling wrote: Producing this listing shows that 8139too is not in the list. modprobe simple reports that it cannot find the module. How do I proceed further? I've located the source for the module

Re: Cloning

2004-01-29 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 29 January 2004 08:00 am, Pedro Hernandez wrote: Hello all! I'm about to install Debian on 12 computers (i*86). They will use the same setup regarding software, but the hardware differs somewhat between them. I would like to know if there is possible to, for example, install and

Re: Font Mystery

2004-02-04 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 04:43 pm, Hervé Piedvache wrote: Steven, Did you also loosed the Fixed[Sony] and Fixed[Jis] fonts ?? Since I have updated from Woody to SID ... I have the same trouble of you, and I also loosed those fonts but only under KDE ... I can choose them with xemacs

Re: Home Mail Server

2004-02-19 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:49 am, Peter A. Cole wrote: - Original Message - From: Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:37 PM Subject: Re: Home Mail Server On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:23:22PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote:

Re: apt-get update error

2004-02-19 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 19 February 2004 10:21 am, Deboo wrote: I'm using debian woody. After reading an article in LG on apt (Issue 86 - Debian APT, part2), I wanted to try using some package from testing and I did as per the artile, putting 2 new lines for testing and unstable in sources.list. But after

dpkg-dist

2004-02-23 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I have some configuration files in my /etc/pam.d that have the dpkg-dist suffix. Is is safe to copy the dpkg-dist version over the current version? Once I copy over the dpkg-dist version and rename the current version, would this confuse the package manager? Thanks, John -- To

Re: IBM eServer x series 206 RH-to-Debian migration

2006-11-09 Thread John Schmidt
/DebianChrootInstall for doing a chroot install. I have never done this, but it might be a useful method for getting Debian installed with minimal interruption to your current system. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: inserting mouse module in bootup

2006-11-27 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 27 November 2006 08:03, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: I would like to insert a mouse module somewhere in the kernel boot up. I am currently typing modprobe mousedev to enable the mouse and therefore X, too. Is there a config file for this? Thanks. Sam Install the program modconf

Re: Replacing Gnome with KDE

2006-11-27 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 27 November 2006 17:55, Arlie Stephens wrote: I made the mistake of selecting 'workstation' when installing etch. It managed to do the X installation correctly, without needing to be rescued manually, which is way better than I've seen from earlier debians. That's the good news. The

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 07 December 2006 11:16, Nate Bargmann wrote: Since there is a lot of knowledge on this list, I thought I'd aske here. This may be trivial, but I'm not even sure how to search for what I want to do. I have a directory of files that are created daily using filename-`date

chroot testing of apache installation with multiple fqdn

2007-11-02 Thread John Schmidt
instead of the actual machine name/routeable address while still allow apache to start up regardless of where the initial apache installation was done? Thanks for any insight into this matter. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Intel Deluxe PC Camera

2007-11-03 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 04 November 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: It looks like the driver module that I need is spca501. There is a source package for Etch: spca5xx-source What is the best way to compile this? I generally just use stock kernels and the modules that come with them so I am unfamiliar

Re: Intel Deluxe PC Camera

2007-11-04 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 04 November 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: Well, I tried to follow the above instructions, but... I didn't have the kernel headers for my 2.6.16 kernel and they do not seem to be available in the Etch repository. I took this as a sign that it was time to upgrade my kernel and upgraded

Re: ssh port not opening

2007-11-05 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 05 November 2007, John O Laoi wrote: On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ssh-agent is *not* the program that allows ssh connections. That is sshd. It should be started with /etc/ini.d/ssh start as root. Is there no output when you do that? Anything in the

Re: ssh port not opening

2007-11-05 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 05 November 2007, John O Laoi wrote: # dpkg --get-selections | grep ssh openssh-client install openssh-server deinstall # Thanks to everyone for your help. Maybe I should remove ssh and reinstall? aptitude

Re: Driver loaded, now, how do I access the camera? (WAS: Re: Intel Deluxe PC Camera )

2007-11-06 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 06 November 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: So my drivers seem to be loaded. Now, how do I access the camera, so that I can capture an image to be processed? I am currently thinking of using opencv through either C/C++ or Python. How would I access the camera to generate an image

Re: rsync question

2007-11-09 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 09 November 2007, John O Laoi wrote: Also, I get confused sometimes on the effects of a trailing slash on source and target arguments. Check for a ~/Documents/Documents/ directory or something. You are all correct. There is a ~/Documents/Documents/. I must be using it

Re: Kppp

2007-11-11 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 11 November 2007, Darko wrote: Charlie wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Darko shared this with us all: --} Andrew Sackville-West wrote: --} On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 06:43:28PM +0100, Darko wrote: In a terminal as root do: adduser whoever you are dialout Consider using pon

kppp groups

2007-11-11 Thread John Schmidt
If you are trying to use the kppp program, you need to be part of the dip group: -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip 1211176 2007-10-15 07:16 /usr/bin/kppp John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No sound with video

2007-11-15 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 15 November 2007, Ralph Katz wrote: On 11/15/2007 11:50 AM, Tom Ashley wrote: I'm stumped and need help with configuring my computer for sound with video. I can play CD's and listen to audio streams but get no sound with video feeds (CNN, MSNBC, You Tube, etc.). I've searched

Re: backup/restore

2007-02-15 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 15 February 2007 14:28, Casey T. Deccio wrote: I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The caveat is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all other hardare is

Re: sparse matrix computation package

2007-03-07 Thread John Schmidt
looking for similar thing - iterative solver Ask on the debian-science list. -- Look at petsc and hypre both available in debian. In our project we have used both to solve big sparse systems of equations on over 1000 processors. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Is that all there is to it??

2007-03-13 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 14:19, Jim Hyslop wrote: OK, so I installed Sarge on my machine. The other day, I decided to upgrade to Etch. I modified the sources file, changing stable to etch, and ran `apt-get --ignore-hold dist-upgrade`. After sorting out one minor issue with inetd, apg-get

internal lan configuration and web address issues

2007-03-16 Thread John Schmidt
. Outside of my LAN, I can access the webserver just fine using the registered hostname. Is there a way to configure things so that machines on my LAN can access the web server using the registered name. Would this require that I do DNS on my machines? Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: internal lan configuration and web address issues

2007-03-16 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 16 March 2007 14:18, John Schmidt wrote: Hi, I have a home DSL connection with a static IP assigned. The DSL modem is fed into one a ipcop firewall with port forwarding for port 25 and 80 directed to my webserver/mailserver in my DMZ zone. Machines in the green zone of my LAN

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread John Schmidt
a cable plugged in for your ethernet connection. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 19:45, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:32:26PM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:39, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea where to start. Currently I have

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 20:19, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:05:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 20:44, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/21/07 19:39,

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 20:24, Michael Pobega wrote: Also, I forgot to ask. Would it be safe to remove networking from /etc/init.d, and just switch to using ifupdown? I would just install ifplugd and configure it and see if it doesn't help alievate the time delay that occurs if you don't

Re: Tunnel iceweasel?

2008-03-27 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Rich Healey wrote: Joost Witteveen wrote: On 24/03/2008, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:46:56AM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote: On 23/03/2008, Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to tunnel an iceweasel

recommended network/server layout for website, email, and backup hosting

2007-01-11 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I would like to host several low traffic web sites at my home with some older computers (400 Mhz P2) that I have laying around. I would like to get some recommendations on effective ways of setting up my set of computers that would provide a web server, and email server and back up

Re: how manage pasword with ldap

2007-01-19 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 19 January 2007 01:54, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, I am looking for a simple example or doc, for authentification via ldap. I have a lab with 20 machines where the students can use anyone at anytime, so I want to centralise the authentification ( login and password). something

Re: ldap + pam howto?

2007-01-30 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 10:04, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hi, I am using Testing, and I want to setup the debian way an LDAP + pam authentication system for system users. Would you know a recent howto talking about that? I dont need generic howto, I am interested in the debian specific

Re: Fonts problem on Debian Etch

2007-02-01 Thread John Schmidt
enable bitmapped fonts by default: Yes No I selected: No I then logged out, and restarted the xserver just to be sure, and my fonts were significantly improved. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

PII fast enough for firewall

2007-12-02 Thread John Schmidt
of changing the firewall to a debian box running shorewall, and was wondering if I could tweak the firewall/router to not slow things down appreciably like the ipcop box is doing. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: PII fast enough for firewall

2007-12-03 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 02 December 2007, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 09:22:44PM -0700, John Schmidt wrote: Hi, I have a 15K Mbs connection (up/down) to my house (fiber to the home). ---^^^ I've never seen this. Do you mean 15 Gbps or what? Regards, Andrei Oops, big

changing hwclock's timezone

2007-12-13 Thread John Schmidt
is too big for ntp to work? 2. Do I have to set the time via the hwclock? If so, how do I do that? I didn't have him check the bios to see what the time is reporting there. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: PII fast enough for firewall

2007-12-22 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 02 December 2007, John Schmidt wrote: Hi, I have a 15K Mbs connection (up/down) to my house (fiber to the home). I have a Buffalo router that connects to my WAN and then one of the LAN ports on this router connects to my IPCOP firewall that is running on a PII -- 400 MHz box

build dependency removal

2008-01-01 Thread John Schmidt
, but since I am installing in a chroot, I wasn't sure how pbuilder would work in a chroot. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-04 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 04 January 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 09:12:19AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: On Jan 4, 2008, at 7:38 AM, Larry Irwin wrote: I would not buy a used tape drive. They're finicky mechanical devices and you really want a warranty. Every time I've bought

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-08 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have a 2GB Sandisk Cruzer USB drive that I removed the U3 garbage from. I formatted the disk as FAT in a friend's WindowsXP machine. Now, any Windows machine can read and write to the disk, and my Fedora desktop can read and write to it as a

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-22 Thread John Schmidt
users of Debian Support for Debian users who speak English. (High-volume mailing list.) This list is not moderated; posting is allowed by anyone. Posting address: debian-user@lists.debian.org Read the line that says, Support for Debian users who speak English. How about getting a clue! John

Re: fonts messed up

2006-08-23 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 07:41, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi after a recent upgrade (unstable) all my fonts are almost complitely messed up. I cannot use KDE since almost everything text is missing, and also gnome is barely usable (most text disappear from menus and terminal in general)...

Re: LDAP howto?

2006-10-04 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 17:28, Ishwar Rattan wrote: Pointers to good LDAP-howto for server coniguration details. -ishwar This is where I started: http://people.debian.org/~torsten/ldapnss.html John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: automounting usb-storage 2

2006-10-04 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 13:37, Bernd Kloss wrote: Hello, I read the thread contributed by Florian e.al.. I have the same/similar problem (etch/KDE3.5.4) Plugging in USB-device the automounter pops up with tree options: open in new window play with kaffeine do nothing Choosing new

Re: wired or not wired, that's the question

2006-10-04 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 16:16, wimpunk wrote: Hi, I'm running debian testing on my laptop and I have a question about choosing a configuration. I use my laptop on wired and wireless environments. At this moment I switch manually but I want to get it done automaticly: if there's a wire

Re: How to PIN a package?

2006-10-16 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 16 October 2006 00:26, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: Hi all, I didn't get any answer. Is it a really stupid question? (or I missed the replay?) Please help me: I need to PIN a package, but the documentation doesn't help. Regards Mirto Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: Hi all, I

Re: routing only certain traffic through vpn?

2006-10-19 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 19 October 2006 12:31, Matt Price wrote: On 10/19/06, Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:03:20 -0400 Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i'm wondering whether it's possible to route only

Re: dial on demand ... dials by itself !!

2003-01-03 Thread John Schmidt
a dial-up. I discovered this by using tcpdump, e.g. tcpdump -vvv -i any and comparing the output of this with the logs in /var/log/syslog which would record the time of any dial-up. I posted this to debian-user, you can search the archives under the subject finding network activity John

Re: RAID EXT2-fs error

2003-01-22 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 11:31 pm, Michael Kahle wrote: I am trying to install a Debian testing box with root on RAID 1 following the instructions given at http://karaolides.com/computing/HOWTO/lvmraid/ I am working on setting up a system with this configuration. I decided to work step

Re: Upgrading to KDE 3.1

2003-01-30 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 12:39 pm, Jeetu Golani wrote: Hey ppl, I have KDE 3.0.4 running at the moment, had installed the debs of this. I wanna upgrade to KDE 3.1. I've read that an apt-get upgrade doesn't do the trick and causes problems. Would appreciate if someone here could tell me

compiling modules-scyld-source

2003-02-14 Thread John Schmidt
-source-2.4.20 and need to figure how the Debian way for compiling the contents of modules-scyld-source. Do I need to recompile the kernel or can I just get away with compiling the modules that I am interested in. What is the proper way to set up the symlinks for /usr/src/linux? Thanks, John

firewall -- best practices

2003-02-18 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I have a couple of old machines that I will be installing Debian on them. I would like to dedicate one of the machines to a firewall, and the other machine to a mail server. I have a dsl line with a static IP (with the router acting as a firewall) and several other debian machines that

Re: /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf and others

2003-02-20 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 20 February 2003 8:58 pm, J.F.Gratton wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 22:27, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: /etc/modules is used by Debian to manually add modules the user/sysadmin wishes to load at boot time. After adding them, you then run 'update-modules' as root, which reads

How to burn a CD -- Helpful page

2003-02-21 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I found the following website very helpful when it came to burning a couple of CDs: http://www.cpqlinux.com/cdrw.html John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg error -subprocess paste killed by signal

2003-02-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 21 February 2003 9:16 pm, Carla Schroder wrote: howdy, I'm running Libranet 2.7, which is woody 3.0 lots of nice extras. My troubles started with upgrading KDE 3.05 to 3.1. I didn't want to, I wanted Quanta, and it needed KDE 3.1. So I says well, OK. I started with apt-get

compiling for different architectures

2002-10-17 Thread John Schmidt
. This is the first time I have compiled from the debian source and want to find out the correct way to do things. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wtf? (long and frustrated)

2003-03-11 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 10:48 am, Glenn English wrote: Many thanks to all of you for the compassion and the information. The little sucker is making pictures now - I learned a lot about X in the past couple days. Next step is getting it to realize there's an Ethernet connector in it's

Re: 'gcc logjam'

2003-03-13 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 13 March 2003 8:14 pm, Matt Price wrote: hi everyone, I've noticed frequent references in this list to the 'gcc logjam'. Now, I know gcc is the C compiler, and that more or less everything in Debian is dependent on it... ut I don't know much else. Can anyone tell me what the

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-11-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 21 November 2002 10:42 am, Kent West wrote: Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:04:30PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | On Wednesday 20 November 2002 21:06, Kent West wrote: | I'm just curious; do other folks (particularly real developers, | not just

new installation -- install lilo after making boot floppy

2002-12-03 Thread John Schmidt
that was just running Debian and on a mac 68K and powerpc, but don't have any experience with lilo in a dual boot situation. I don't want to render my bosses windows 98 setup unusable if I can certainly help it. Any guidance would be very much appreciated. Thanks, John Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

2002-12-09 Thread John Schmidt
Try this for the #modeminit: # modeminit '' 'ATZ' OK ATZ OK ATM0 the ATM0 turns off the sound completely. # modeminit '' ATZ I am not sure about the redialing thing. Don't know if it has anything to do with some ip6 hosts lookup??? Just taking a wild guess. I hope someone will correct me

Re: Help with login/environment: bash_profile, bashrc, xdm

2002-12-10 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I don't run either gdm or xdm, but do run kdm. For kdm, there is a file in /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession. At the top of this file, it had: #!/bin/sh I changed this to #!/bin/bash --login and now when I fire up an xterm equilavents inside of kde, all the shells are login shells and my

finding network activity

2002-12-15 Thread John Schmidt
tools that may tell me what is initiating tcp connections and forcing pppd to start up. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fwd: Re: finding network activity

2002-12-16 Thread John Schmidt
to block this query. I am running ipmasq with a 2.4.19 kernel which uses iptables. I just have the default setup. I am ignorant about the rules that are used, but I guess this is a good time to learn about them and how to add one. Thanks, John Schmidt On Sunday 15 December 2002 12:45 pm, John

Re: intel 7.0 compilers; rpm malfunctioning

2002-12-19 Thread John Schmidt
, the performance was no better than using gcc. In fact the optimizations they did to the code also helped gcc. We didn't find that the Intel compilers would yield any benefit. Your mileage will vary though. Good luck John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Lilo fails with sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xfe00 (LVM2)

2006-02-08 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 12:57, Chris Carr wrote: Thanks Clive - but I've heard that grub is really bad with LVM2. In fact, the latest Debian Etch installer still explicitly removes the option to install grub when it detects that / is on an LVM2 volume. It is not / that is the problem but

Re: custom network intefaces during boot for Debian

2006-02-16 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 16 February 2006 08:42, John Davis wrote: Hello Here is a script modification for /etc/init.d/networking in Debian so that your list of network interfaces can be reconfigured during boot. Why would you like to have a script like this? Well, in my case, I have a laptop with a lan

Re: udev problem

2006-02-17 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 16 February 2006 23:37, Deephay wrote: Hi all, I have a problem with udev here: every time when I was booting the computer, the udev always show some lines like this on the console: udevd_even: run program /.../.../ failed (these lines goes a little bit fast and I cannot

Re: Testing, could not start kdeinit. check your installation since yesterdays updates

2006-02-19 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 19 February 2006 05:15, Magnus Pedersen wrote: I am seeing this on two machines. It dosn't matter if I use kdm or startx, I get that error in a small window just before the kde-splasscreen. And my syslog is filled with dbuserrors like this: Feb 19 12:29:35 localhost hcid[6842]:

Re: Lost X server after dist-upgrade

2006-02-20 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 20 February 2006 12:36, jerry wrote: to KDE but I can't. I suspect the problem is that root and myself don't have valid .Xauthority files but I can't figure out how to repair it. I would appreciate any advice on how to get back to using KDM for login and getting X server access

clusters

2002-04-25 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, This may be a silly question, but is anyone using Debian to manage a beowulf cluster? I am sure the answer is yes. What tools are available to manage the cluster, such as queue system, cloning nodes, etc? Any particular gotchas that need to be considered? Thanks, John Schmidt [EMAIL

dma errors

2006-07-19 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I have two IDE drives connected together using lvm. The drives are quite new, the motherboard is quite old. I put a single ext3 partition on top of lvm which is used for temporary large data sets. I get the following error messages from dmesg: EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal EXT3-fs:

Re: 2.6.15 boot problems

2006-02-23 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 23 February 2006 21:41, Bradley Alexander wrote: I have a 1.2 GHz Athlon, which I am trying to upgrade from 2.6.15 from 2.6.14. I compiled both kernels by hand, using the Debian way (make-kpkg). With 2.6.14, it boots, however with 2.6.15, I get the initial portion of the boot

Re: 2.6.15 boot problems

2006-02-24 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 24 February 2006 08:25, Bradley Alexander wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 22:29 -0700, John Schmidt wrote: Yes, as I understand it reiserfs has some attribute issues with 2.6.15. I heard that it will be fixed in 2.6.16. Someone has posted a work around but it may be hard to do

Re: Error rebooting after upgrade from 2.6.12-i36 to 2.6.15-i686

2006-02-24 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 24 February 2006 04:37, Arnau Rebassa Villalonga wrote: Hi all, I've installed a new Dell poweredge 850 server with SCSCI disks formated as ext3 from a netinstall, it run smoothly and installed the 2.6.12-i386 kernel image. After the aptitude dist-upgrade, I upgraded the

cleaning up audio recording

2006-02-24 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I have managed to transfer some tape recordings to my computer. The recordings are from a seminar speaker. There is a great deal of noise on the recordings both from the audio equipment and from general background noise. Are there any good packages out there that would allow me to clean

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-05 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 05 March 2006 00:47, Paul Johnson wrote: On Saturday 04 March 2006 22:29, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: steef wrote: Michael M. wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:20, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: I am very certain that Dell does sell

Re: Release cycle

2006-03-10 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 10 March 2006 21:23, David Berg wrote: I don't know if there's a good way to ask this question, and am very tempted to just hit cancel now... I'm curious to know when etch might freeze. Now, before you all jump on me and tell me its ready when its ready, let me clarify. I'm not

Re: udev blacklisting?

2006-03-15 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 17:34, Tim Bates wrote: I have a DVB card that stupidly uses the same PCI ID as the bttv cards. Loading the bttv module causes a hard lock. I need to prevent this module being auto loaded by udev. In the past when hotplug was used, I simply added bttv to the

Re: 2.6.16 hangs at boot

2006-03-29 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 16:25, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Maybe someone has a suggestion here. Problem: In Sarge I normally run the -ck kernel patches from Con Kolivas. He just came out with 2.6.16-ck1 and -ck2. When I boot that system the boot stops solid in the grep stmnt in

Re: Network interface sanity

2006-04-02 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 02 April 2006 19:32, Andreas Ehn wrote: Hi, I have a laptop with one wired ethernet interface (eth0) and one wireless interface (eth1). I'm using ifupdown. When the computer is not connected to a wired network, while starting up, it is associated with my wireless network and

Re: load order of network interfaces

2006-04-12 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 12:14, Ivan Longhi wrote: hello, I have 2 alpha machines identical. they have 2 net interfaces on board (Digital DS21143 Tulip loaded by module tulip0 and tulip1) and 1 net interface on a pci slot (RealTek RTL8139 loaded by module 8139too). The strange thing is

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links in linux-headers-2.6.12-1-amd64, k7,...?

2005-09-03 Thread John Schmidt
On Saturday 03 September 2005 01:10 am, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi I have tried for some time to compile modules with module-assistant. Both alsa and nvidia fail with the comment: Too many levels of symbolic links. Similar description to the following message.

Turning on direct rendering with an ATI card

2006-05-10 Thread John Schmidt
the machine just to be sure that kernel modules are loaded. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Turning on direct rendering with an ATI card

2006-05-10 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 09:39, John Schmidt wrote: Hi, I am trying to turn on direct rendering using the Xorg (from unstable, along with the linux-image-2.6.16-1-k7 from unstable) ATI driver with no success. The machine is at a remote location which makes the problem a bit tougher to debug

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-05 Thread John Schmidt
and will continue to do so. John Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is ASUS A8V Deluxe OK for Linux?

2005-09-16 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 16 September 2005 02:50 pm, Dirk wrote: Hi! I'm planning to buy a ASUS mainboard with the following chipset: Chipset VIA K8T800Pro and VIA VT8237 It's the A8V-Deluxe Does anyone know if this MB has problems with Linux (or the other way?) Before I had the P5RD1-Deluxe

downgrading g++-4.0 using snapshot.debian.org

2005-09-20 Thread John Schmidt
to use the power of snapshot.debian.org and the package manager to make short work of downgrading various packages. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backing up installed packages.

2005-09-22 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 22 September 2005 12:57 pm, R. Clayton wrote: I keep a list of installed packages around so I can easily populate a new disk (or repopulate a mashed-up disk) by doing something along the lines of $ apt-get install $(cat installed-packages-list) I use a daily cron job along the

Re: Newbie Hostname Change

2005-09-23 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 23 September 2005 09:50 am, Sean Whitton wrote: Hi, My friend installed Debian on his computer and I'm supposed to be admining it as a server. THings are going well (except I keep mistyping shutdown and killing the server), but there is one problem: the hostname. He typed Ask4

Re: Sound card (Intel AC'97) not detected by udev

2005-09-27 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 05:17 am, Luís Neves wrote: Hi! I just reinstalled Sarge on my laptop (HP Pavilion zt3000) using the Sarge CD after more than a year running Sarge updated from woody and I got some problems that didn't exist before. My audio card module is detected and installed

Re: Want to move from root LVM/LILO to LVM/Grub

2005-09-30 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 30 September 2005 05:03 pm, Jason Martens wrote: Hey all, I kind of got myself into a pickle. I just installed Debian Sarge on a new server, and I used the expert mode for installation. That all went fine, and I created one large partition for LVM, and created a root partition

Re: Securing SSH: Does disabling password authentication work?

2005-10-04 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 03 October 2005 02:39 pm, Steve Block wrote: On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:24:27PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Steve Block wrote: I'm afraid you didn't read at all, did you? Start from the top of the thread and read again, and you'll see that my question had nothing to

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-16 Thread John Schmidt
On Saturday 15 October 2005 08:50 pm, Marc Shapiro wrote: Duncan Anderson wrote: I agree with Rob. Obviously 200 dollars is a neglibible sum if you live in the first world, but spare a thought for people in places where a P1 with a 1GB hd is something amazing, even with Win98 on it.

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-21 Thread John Schmidt
this command as root: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 This will then try reconfiguring the desktop and should do the mouse detection step again. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: slow starting MTA

2005-11-23 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 01:12 am, roberto wrote: hello i have kernel 2.6.8-2-386 currently installed and when i boot not being connected to the network the booting process stops for at least 3 or 4 minutes showing: . Starting MTA: . and then it goes on correctly, but it is

Re: different networks, same computer (map mapping ?)

2004-11-01 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 01 November 2004 03:19 pm, H. S. wrote: I would like a laptop to work in two kinds of networks automatically if possible. At home, I am running a DHCP server and if the laptop is connected to my switch(CAT5 cable to eth0) and booted up, it looks for and gets an IP address (it is

Re: Sarge install problems with Adaptec 7902 controller

2004-11-04 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 04 November 2004 09:41 am, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Hi, I am trying to install sarge on a HP Workstation with a Seagate SCSI disk on an Adaptec 7902 Ultra 320 SCSI adapter. However, the installer fails to detect the hard disk at all. There was no such problem when installing

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