mysql / logrotate startup error, sql server questions

2006-08-23 Thread David Baron
Getting this: /etc/cron.daily/mysql-server: /etc/cron.daily/mysql-server: line 26: /etc/mysql/debian-log-rotate.conf: No such file or directory run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/mysql-server exited with return code 1 I recall seeing something in the changelogs awhile back but since I am not actively u

Configuring Prelink

2006-08-23 Thread David Baron
I am trying to use prelink. The cache file is a year old and incorrect. I changed the /etc/default/prelink to prelinking "yes". The cron.daily script (or any other wet-run) yeilds: /etc/cron.daily/prelink: /etc/cron.daily/prelink: line 53:  6925 Aborted                 /usr/sbin/prelink -a $PRE

Re: Double-clicking Windows .exe's (was "What apps work in Wine")

2006-08-23 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 07:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > you can't double click an exe, you have > to run it with wine, ie "wine game.exe". there is a way to make it so that > you can double click exe files, but that way makes your system vulnerable > to windows virii, so you should really sti

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

2006-08-23 Thread cr
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:39, Steve Lamb wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I tried Mepis for a while. It was fine for the 1st six months or so, > > but once the testing and unstable got out of sync, I had more and more > > problems adding packages when I had to. > > I just got it because it had an

Re: module ABI major version doesn't match....

2006-08-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 19:46:29 -0700, Z F wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I recently upgraded Debian/unstable and X stopped working (on two > machines). The error message is: > > module ABI major varsion (0) doesn't match the server's version (1) > Failed to load module "i810" (module requirement

Re: Letter of enquiry on inheritance payment.

2006-08-23 Thread Mihira Fernando
Dr.Ade Martins. wrote: [snip] > Yours faithfully, For: Central Bank Of Nigeria (CBN). Dr. Ade Martins. International Remittance Department. Private email: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Good god! the central bank of Nigeria is using yahoo email addresses!! Ace. -- Random Quotes From Megas XLR Coop: You

Re: Problems with new kernel (SW RAID1+LVM)

2006-08-23 Thread Mumia W.
On 08/23/2006 01:43 AM, Kim Christensen wrote: [...] 0 logical volume(s) in volume group "raid" now active umount: /dev: not mounted umount: devfs: not mounted mount: unknown filesystem type 'devfs' [...] It looks like devfs, which has been deprecated for a while, has been removed from the k

forcedeth: too many iterations [...] in nv_nic_irq

2006-08-23 Thread Dave Ewart
I've been seeing the error: Aug 18 21:24:59 titan kernel: eth-gig1: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq. in the logs when there is heavy network traffic on my Sarge/amd64 system. The error is produced by the kernel module forcedeth for the on-board gigabit ethernet controller. Suggestions I

Re: forcedeth: too many iterations [...] in nv_nic_irq

2006-08-23 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 23.08.2006 at 10:13 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > I've been seeing the error: > > Aug 18 21:24:59 titan kernel: eth-gig1: too many iterations (6) in > nv_nic_irq. > > in the logs when there is heavy network traffic on my Sarge/amd64 > system. The error is produced by the kernel mo

Re: Sid: Really strange network address stuff

2006-08-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/08/06 17:42), Curt Howland wrote: > DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1 > DHCPREQUEST on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 > DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 > bound to 192.168.1.16 -- renewal in 432000 seconds. > ~ # ifconfig > ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:F9:FD:26:AB > inet addr:169.

apache2 conf

2006-08-23 Thread Brent Clark
Hi all Today i seem to be fighting with Apache2. I need to have a cgi-bin for /home/images/cgi-bin But I keep getting premature script. This is my current conf ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ServerAlias abc.com ServerName abc SuexecUserGroup images images

Re: Problems with new kernel (SW RAID1+LVM)

2006-08-23 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 08:43:13AM +0200, Kim Christensen wrote: > Hi list, > > I have installed Debian Sarge on an IBM xSeries 306 and am using RAID1 > with LVM on my two disks. However, when recompiling the kernel to > 2.6.17.9 and using modules for

Re: Problems with new kernel (SW RAID1+LVM)

2006-08-23 Thread Kim Christensen
On 8/23/06, Mumia W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 08/23/2006 01:43 AM, Kim Christensen wrote: > [...] > 0 logical volume(s) in volume group "raid" now active > umount: /dev: not mounted > umount: devfs: not mounted > mount: unknown filesystem type 'devfs' [...] It looks like devfs, which has

Re: HP DL320 G4 and USB problem

2006-08-23 Thread George Borisov
jef e wrote: > > We have a batch of HP DL320 G4's hanging around that have some funky USB > hardware that give the kernel fits. Basically, it appears to be HP's > virtual keyboard that keeps reregistering itself over and over again. > > However, we are still faced with the USB issue - apparently, t

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

2006-08-23 Thread Matt Johnson
- Original Message From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, 23 August, 2006 1:32:52 AM Subject: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!) Steve Lamb wrote: >> Furthermore (not to you Hal) I find it mildly Ironi

Re: Problems with new kernel (SW RAID1+LVM)

2006-08-23 Thread Kim Christensen
On 8/23/06, Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Looks like you still use initrd-tools which will not work for kernel version >=2.6.17 since it uses devfs which is depricated i think since 2.6 and was now removed. you can either use initramfs-tools or yaird Thanks, that makes even more sense

Stiff asks, great programmers answer

2006-08-23 Thread Brent Clark
Someone posted this on the TPA mailing list. Someone e-mailed some programming related questions to some of the greatest programmers (this is debatable) around: Linus Torvalds - The Linux kernel author Dave Thomas - Author of the „Pragmmatic Programmer", „Programming Ruby" and other great boo

Re: mysql / logrotate startup error, sql server questions

2006-08-23 Thread Miles Fidelman
David Baron wrote: Getting this: /etc/cron.daily/mysql-server: /etc/cron.daily/mysql-server: line 26: /etc/mysql/debian-log-rotate.conf: No such file or directory run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/mysql-server exited with return code 1 I recall seeing something in the changelogs awhile back but sinc

Re: Debian support for Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet NIC?

2006-08-23 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 11:13:07AM -0400, Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: > Hi, > > Wow, it's great that your Marvell NIC worked with Sarge right out of the box, > but I'm not as lucky. Googling shows that a lot of people has similar > problems as I do...

Re: this is plain weird - very slow access for non-microsoft browsers

2006-08-23 Thread George Borisov
kevin bailey wrote: > > Everything works fine - except the browsers on the MAC and the Linux box > are not getting some sites. It could be a DNS problem; I would start by comparing the DNS server settings on all 3 machines. Hope this helps, -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd signature.asc

Re: Sid: Really strange network address stuff

2006-08-23 Thread Scott Reese
Curt Howland wrote: > > I have no idea where this 169.254.185.184 is coming from. Until > 2.6.17, the DHCP server address of 192.168.1.16 was all that ever > showed up. > > The 192.168.1.1 gateway and WAP show up just fine in the arp cache, > routing still seems to work just fine. > Greetings:

[solved] Debian support for Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet NIC?

2006-08-23 Thread Yu,Glen [Ontario]
Hi, I must thank you all who gave me suggestions on what to do. It was indeed the sky2 module that was required. Even though I *thought* I tried it, I guess I just didn't do it right the first time, but last night I tried it again, loaded the module, up'd the interface and success!!! Once again

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

2006-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Johnson wrote: > - Original Message From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, 23 August, 2006 > 1:32:52 AM Subject: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin > Laden Take Over List!) >

User can't see scanner!

2006-08-23 Thread Christof Hurschler
Hi, user is a member of the groups scanner and saned, but still can't see the device epson:libusb:002:002 Epson Expression 1640XL which can bee seen and used by root. This is a Debian-Testing system I don't know which device the rights need to be changed of, can somone help me out here? Than

Re: Installing Etch: how to select KDE instead of GNOME?

2006-08-23 Thread Mirto Silvio Busico
First of all, thanks to you all. I've tried "installgui acpi=off tasksel/first=kde-desktop" The installation starts without complaining, but kde is not installed. Searching with synaptic, there is no metapackage called kde-desktop. I mispelled something? There is any documentation about the boot

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

2006-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Matt Johnson wrote: > Excuse me? You are joking, right? Relevant opinion from only certain > nationalities on this list? You've lost me here, lads. Perhaps you could > exlain this clearly. Just as I wrote. It is ironic that someone from Brazil, which is notorious for it's black-hacker commu

Re: Sid: Really strange network address stuff

2006-08-23 Thread John Hasler
Curt Howland wrote: > I have no idea where this 169.254.185.184 is coming from. Until 2.6.17, > the DHCP server address of 192.168.1.16 was all that ever showed up. You may have zeroconf installed (one of the desktop packages recommends it for no good reason). Purge it. -- John Hasler -- To U

fonts messed up

2006-08-23 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
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)... any clue please? -- +---

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

2006-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Katipo wrote: > Nothing, even remotely close to the volumes generated by Americans and > their contracted bodies in Korea and China. > They hire out entire ISPs for the purpose. Which would be China and Korea's problems respectively and does not excuse Brazil's ills. > ...and to counterbalanc

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

2006-08-23 Thread Matt Johnson
- Original Message From: Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, 23 August, 2006 2:18:56 PM Subject: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!) Matt Johnson wrote: >> Excuse me? You are joking, right? Relevant opinion fr

Debian & ATI Radeon X300 don't mix?

2006-08-23 Thread Yu,Glen [Ontario]
Title: Debian & ATI Radeon X300 don't mix? Hi, Now that my NIC is working, it's time that I bring up the next issue with my new PC: the ATI video card.    When I bought this PC, I had SuSE on my mind (which is what I used to use on my old PC and my laptop), but I started to like using Debia

Re: fonts messed up

2006-08-23 Thread Mark Willson
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:41:41 +0200 > From: Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian User Mailing List > Subject: fonts messed up > > Hi > > after a recent upgrade (unstable) all my fonts are almost complitely > messed up. > > I cannot use KDE since almost everything text is missing,

Debian in my Packard Bell

2006-08-23 Thread Abraham Tena
Hi, I'm a newbie in linux stuffs, I am studing a Computer Engineering but I have to admit that I don't know too much about linux, so, I have bought a lap and I want to install Debian, I would like to know wich package of Debian to install, my lap is a Packard Bell Easynote V7900 with procesor Intel

now for ssh

2006-08-23 Thread debian
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 02:05:22PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > If the Windows computer has MS-Office (specifically 2003), you can open > MS-Word, click on Help/"About Microsoft Office Word", then "System > Info", then "System Summary"/Components/Network/Adapter, and get the > gateway in this way.

Re: Debian in my Packard Bell

2006-08-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 05:14:17PM +0200, Abraham Tena wrote: > Hi, I'm a newbie in linux stuffs, I am studing a Computer Engineering but I > have to admit that I don't know too much about linux, so, I have bought a > lap and I want to install Debian, I would like to know wich package of > Debian t

Re: now for ssh

2006-08-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 05:20:17PM +0100, debian wrote: > > Any ideas how I can get ssh to work. From this site it used to be > that I could ssh to my home machine no bother. But, whatever it is > they have configured in their firewall, I can no longer do this. > (Usually I use a web based ssh c

Re: Error opening security policy file

2006-08-23 Thread Marco
Mathias Brodala ha scritto: Could you help me to fix this error message? What is the SecurityPolicy file? Maybe a reinstall of „xserver-common“ is enough? The mentioned file belongs to that package. Hi Mathias, I have try to reinstall the xserver-common package but this package don't

Courier IMAP POP on Debian Sarge

2006-08-23 Thread Renato Otranto Jr.
Hello, I am configuring courier imap/pop on a debian sarge and it must authenticate against an Active Directory, through authdaemon ldap module. I am trying to connect the pop server in several ways: 1) using the courierauthtest 2) using the telnet localhost 25 command 3) using a email client f

Re: startx failed after I installed x-window and kde-core

2006-08-23 Thread JerryKwok
2006/8/22, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: JerryKwok wrote: > I just installde the Debian Sarge basic system and > x-window-system,kde-core,nvidia driver,and startx but failed(either > root or common account). > > Section "Device" > Identifier"NVIDIA Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440]" >

Re: Xorg and fonts problem :-(

2006-08-23 Thread Marco
Jochen Schulz ha scritto: Marco: I have installed Debian Etch on my notebook. Using the Etch installer beta? Then you should probably file a bug report. Hi! No, I have first installed Sarge and after I have upgraded my linux box to Etch with apt-get dist-upgrade command When

Re: Incorrect version of xserver-xorg in unstable

2006-08-23 Thread Kent West
Drew Parsons wrote: An upload of xserver-xorg 1:1.1.1-3 was incorrectly made to unstable today. The intended target was experimental. The correct current version for unstable is 1:1.0.2-9. The chief binary package affected is xserver-xorg-core. Other affected packages are xdmx, xdmx-tools, xn

Re: Error opening security policy file

2006-08-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 17:56:11 +0200, Marco wrote: > Mathias Brodala ha scritto: > >>Could you help me to fix this error message? > >> > >What is the SecurityPolicy file? > > > >Maybe a reinstall of ???xserver-common??? is enough? The mentioned file > >belongs to that package. > > > Hi Mat

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

2006-08-23 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 07:49:18AM +1200, cr wrote: > On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:39, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > I tried Mepis for a while. It was fine for the 1st six months or so, > > > but once the testing and unstable got out of sync, I had more and more > > > problems adding pa

Re: fonts messed up

2006-08-23 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Mark Willson wrote: Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:41:41 +0200 From: Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User Mailing List Subject: fonts messed up Hi after a recent upgrade (unstable) all my fonts are almost complitely messed up. I cannot use KDE since almost everything text is missi

Re: Error opening security policy file

2006-08-23 Thread Marco
Florian Kulzer ha scritto: The bug is known and still open: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=362246 If you have an "old" installation then you will still have the SecurityPolicy file which came from the xserver-common package. This package is currently only in Sarge. Etch and Sid

Re: Debian in my Packard Bell

2006-08-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Abraham Tena wrote: > All data sheet is here, > http://support.packardbell.com/es/item/?sn=654100590239&g=1400 > I would like some help to install and configure debian, I would apretiate > it a lot. Sorry, there seem to be official drivers (probably from the sf.net tree) on http://www.intel.com/su

Re: Debian in my Packard Bell

2006-08-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Abraham Tena wrote: > All data sheet is here, > http://support.packardbell.com/es/item/?sn=654100590239&g=1400 > I would like some help to install and configure debian, I would apretiate > it a lot. If you need modem, you will probably have to buy (like, for money -- not much, something around $20

Re: Annoying iptables console logging

2006-08-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 19.08.06 17:18, Hentai Pantsu wrote: > At first i played with syslogd by tweaking syslog.conf, which in > despair led me to edit it to a single line: > *.* /dev/null this only means that all messages will be send to /dev/null. That does NOT mean they won't be sent to other places. One message c

warnings from kbuildsycoca

2006-08-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
My ~/.xsession-errors is full of warnings from kbuildsycoca Some of the warnings are pasted below. Is there any fix available? thanks raju * warnings from kbuildsycoca kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/share/applications/glabels.desktop' specifies undef

Re: Annoying iptables console logging

2006-08-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >> Since that didn't worked i KILLed both syslogd and klogd. I still kept >> getting msgs to console. > > they are not sent by syslog process. They are sent by kernel. Chmm, nazdar Matúši, I thought that "k" in sysklogd means, that sysklogd should manage kernel messa

Re: Debian in my Packard Bell

2006-08-23 Thread Lubos Vrbka
I am not sure about wireless driver Intel Pro/3945ABG seems to be supported by driver from http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/, but I am not sure if it is in Debian yet. Otherwise, you can be certainly poorly served by ndiswrapper (with Windows drivers). i can confirm that the ipw3945 driver works f

Problem with identity in Korganizer

2006-08-23 Thread Andreas Berglund
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! After I changed "Full name:" and "Email address:" in Korganizers Main Configuration I keep getting the message "You are not the organizer of this event. Editing it will bring your calendar out of sync with the organizers calendar. Do you really w

Re: cron and GMT time?

2006-08-23 Thread Jim Jarocki
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 08:31:32AM -0500, Jim Jarocki wrote: thanx for the pointer, but that looks ok too: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/: grep UTC /etc/default/rcS # Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT), and UTC=no if not. UTC=no [EMAIL PROTECTED]/: so, is the *hardware* clock actually

Re: startx failed after I installed x-window and kde-core

2006-08-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 23:53:10 +0800, JerryKwok wrote: > 2006/8/22, Kent West wrote > >JerryKwok wrote: > >> I just installde the Debian Sarge basic system and > >> x-window-system,kde-core,nvidia driver,and startx but failed(either > >> root or common account). > >> > >> Section "Device" > >>

Re: Debian & ATI Radeon X300 don't mix?

2006-08-23 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Now that my NIC is working, it's time that I bring up the next issue with my new PC: the ATI video card.When I bought this PC, I had SuSE on my mind (which is what I used to use on my old PC and my laptop), but I started to like using Debian from work. With that said, I did not have comp

Re: warnings from kbuildsycoca

2006-08-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > My ~/.xsession-errors is full of warnings from kbuildsycoca > > Some of the warnings are pasted below. Is there any fix available? Just ignore them. Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [

Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
Steve Lamb wrote: Matt Johnson wrote: Excuse me? You are joking, right? Relevant opinion from only certain nationalities on this list? You've lost me here, lads. Perhaps you could exlain this clearly. Just as I wrote. It is ironic that someone from Brazil, which is notorious for

Re: fonts messed up

2006-08-23 Thread Mark Willson
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 23 17:50:30 2006 > Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:47:45 +0200 > From: Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Mark Willson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: fonts messed up > > > actually I am using the nvidia binary driver (already

Re: Annoying iptables console logging

2006-08-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 23.08.06 12:59, Matej Cepl wrote: > Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > >> Since that didn't worked i KILLed both syslogd and klogd. I still kept > >> getting msgs to console. > > > > they are not sent by syslog process. They are sent by kernel. > > Chmm, nazdar Matúši, I thought that "k" in syskl

SOLVED! Re: Sid: Really strange network address stuff

2006-08-23 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 23 August 2006 10:27, Scott Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > You may have zeroconf installed (one of the desktop packages > recommends it for no good reason). Purge it. Sure enough, zeroconf was installed. It is now purged

Re: fonts messed up

2006-08-23 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Mark Willson wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 23 17:50:30 2006 Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:47:45 +0200 From: Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mark Willson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: fonts messed up actually I am using the nvidia binary driver (al

Re: fonts messed up

2006-08-23 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Mark Willson wrote: Another setting that had an effect was turning anti-alias on for all fonts and sizes (in ~/.fonts.conf). Maybe worth toggling your setting as an experiment. that's my .fonts.conf, anti-alias should already be on, am I right? none true

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

2006-08-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip nice Start Trek story] LOL, that just made my day :))) Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Xorg and fonts problem :-(

2006-08-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Marco: > > No, I have first installed Sarge and after I have upgraded my linux box > to Etch with > apt-get dist-upgrade command It probably would have been better if you had uses aptitude (it's the recommended way for upgrades since woody->sarge), but I don't know whether that would have saved y

Why all the futzing with boot loaders

2006-08-23 Thread Rich Johnson
I was perfectly happy running LILO with potato and woody. Then sarge installs with the GRUB bootloader. All right, I can deal. Now apt-get dist-upgrade _removes_ a working GRUB and installs a non- working LILO; it doesn't update the MBR. My first question: - Can anyone tell me why there's a

Re: Why all the futzing with boot loaders

2006-08-23 Thread Rich Johnson
On Aug 23, 2006, at 2:54 PM, Rich Johnson wrote:[...snip...]My second question: - After the LILO ''upgrade'', attempts to install lilo have my system unbootable, can anyone tell me how I bolixed things up and walk me through a recovery process?  (step 1: how to obtain an bootable floppy with ext3,

Suggestion for offtopic-list

2006-08-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
Hello everybody, Sorry if it has been discused before, but ... I see a significant percent of the traffic on this list being due to off-topic threads. And some contributors are complaining about the unnecessary traffic. Why not simply create a debian-offtopic list? Andrei -- If you can't expla

[newbie]: own boot/root cd with grub : ide problem

2006-08-23 Thread Stephane Durieux
Hello,As a newbie (not really a developper) I want to make my own boot/root CD.So I have made a custom kernel, an initrd to be loaded by the boot loader and a root  tree.The ramdisk contains device /dev/hdc (my cdrom), unfortunately when  I  boot  pivot_root fails  telling pivot_root: noc such fil

Kernel oops in updated Woody 2.4.19 kernel

2006-08-23 Thread Scott Gifford
Hello, I'm running a Debian Woody system. I recently updated the kernel to the latest Debian-packaged kernel-source-2.4.19. This morning, the server crashed with a kernel oops. The function it crashed in is "may_ptrace_attach", one of the functions affected by the recent upgrade. I've included

Re: Debian & ATI Radeon X300 don't mix?

2006-08-23 Thread Marco
Yu,Glen [Ontario] ha scritto: Hi, Now that my NIC is working, it's time that I bring up the next issue with my new PC: the ATI video card. When I bought this PC, I had SuSE on my mind (which is what I used to use on my old PC and my laptop), but I started to like using Debian from work. With

Re: Debian & ATI Radeon X300 don't mix? (errata corrige)

2006-08-23 Thread Marco
Yu,Glen [Ontario] ha scritto: Hi, Now that my NIC is working, it's time that I bring up the next issue with my new PC: the ATI video card. When I bought this PC, I had SuSE on my mind (which is what I used to use on my old PC and my laptop), but I started to like using Debian from work. With

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

2006-08-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 03:22, Matt Johnson wrote: > - Original Message > From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Wednesday, 23 August, 2006 1:32:52 AM > Subject: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over > List!) > > Steve

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 > gene

Re: Xorg and fonts problem :-(

2006-08-23 Thread Marco
Jochen Schulz ha scritto: Which problem exactly? Is it just some error messages in your log file without any apparent effect? Hi, Yes I have just some error messege on my screen and in my log file, but I would want a clean installation. I don't already installed KDE, GNOME, I just only config

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

2006-08-23 Thread Owen Heisler
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 21:51 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip nice Start Trek story] > > LOL, that just made my day :))) > > Andrei Yeah, that was impressive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Annoying iptables console logging

2006-08-23 Thread Matej Cepl
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > those messages are printed by kernel to the current console(s). > 'dmesg -n' configures messages of which level to print to the console(s). > They all are still send to kmsg, where syslogd,syslog-ng or klogd read > them from. Aside from installing syslog-ng how to c

Re: fonts messed up

2006-08-23 Thread Mark Willson
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:22:36 +0200 > From: Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian User Mailing List > Subject: Re: fonts messed up > > actually if I try to use vesa or nv I get the error: > > (EE) module ABI major version (0) doesn't match the server's version (1) > (EE) Failed to l

Re: Xorg and fonts problem :-(

2006-08-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Marco: > Jochen Schulz ha scritto: > > >Which problem exactly? Is it just some error messages in your log file > >without any apparent effect? > > Yes I have just some error messege on my screen and in my log file, > but I would want a clean installation. Then I suggest just trying to remove all p

Re: Minimum to start NFS client

2006-08-23 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 11:27:05PM +0200, Andreas Rippl wrote: > Also, are the various daemons (portmap, mountd etc) running properly? Portmap is running, but mountd isn't part of nfs-common, it's part of nfs-kernel-server. Since I only want to run the client, should I have to run the server too?

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

2006-08-23 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello, First of all, I would like to say that I am a very happy user of Debian, and always received a lot of kind help from the members of this list. If I can manage myself in running Debian the way I do, is due to the support I obtain continuosly from this list. I apologize very much if I was ru

Re: Debian-Etch Update 08/19/2006 - AA/Font issues?

2006-08-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Mumia W. wrote: On 08/20/2006 07:33 AM, Justin Piszcz wrote: [...] Nothing short of running the gnome-settings-daemons seems to fix it, and then after I run that, it messes up my mouse speed, keyboard repeat rate and also X DPMS settings, what a pain! Open the kons

ATI Mobility Radeon M6 LY - 3D Accel, glx, OpenGL, and all that fun stuff

2006-08-23 Thread Jacob
Yea, so I have this ATI Mobility Radeon M6 card that is supposed to be able to do direct rendiring, etc, but I just cannot get it to work. So far, I have tried these areas to near perfection, and yet nothing has worked yet. Here are the instructions I've tried: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/s

make menuconfig segfault

2006-08-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Back in 2003 make menuconfig always segfaulted unless I used a ncurses tarball and used that: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/12/msg04950.html Now, 3 years later, it still happens: /usr/src/linux-2.6.17Wed Aug 23-14:00:31HDC1# make menuconfig scripts/kconfig/mconf arch/i386/Kcon

Re: Minimum to start NFS client

2006-08-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 01:19:23PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 11:27:05PM +0200, Andreas Rippl wrote: > > > Also, are the various daemons (portmap, mountd etc) running properly? > > Portmap is running, but mountd isn't part of nfs-common, it's part of > nfs-kernel-serve

Re: Debian-Etch Update 08/19/2006 - AA/Font issues?

2006-08-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Mumia W. wrote: On 08/20/2006 07:33 AM, Justin Piszcz wrote: [...] Nothing short of running the gnome-settings-daemons seems to fix it, and then after I run that, it messes up my mouse speed, keyboard repeat rate and also X D

Re: fonts messed up

2006-08-23 Thread Justin Piszcz
Yes, read my e-mail on how to fix. 1) fonts.conf needs to be fixed 2) xrdb cmd On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Mark Willson wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 23 17:50:30 2006 Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:47:45 +0200 From: Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mark Willson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debi

Re: apache2 conf

2006-08-23 Thread Mumia W.
On 08/23/2006 04:28 AM, Brent Clark wrote: Hi all Today i seem to be fighting with Apache2. I need to have a cgi-bin for /home/images/cgi-bin But I keep getting premature script. [...] If you mean "premature end of script headers," then your script is dying or for whatever reason not emitti

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon

2006-08-23 Thread Angelina Carlton
Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, Hi Marcelo.. > First of all, I would like to say that I am a very happy user of Debian, > and always received a lot of kind help from the members of this list. If > I can manage myself in running Debian the way I do, is due to the > support

Re: Suggestion for offtopic-list

2006-08-23 Thread Angelina Carlton
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everybody, > > Sorry if it has been discused before, but ... > > I see a significant percent of the traffic on this list being due to > off-topic threads. And some contributors are complaining about the > unnecessary traffic. > > Why not simply cr

Troubles burning CD-ROMS

2006-08-23 Thread Travis Crook
Hi all, I'm having a bit of trouble burning CD-ROMS. I'm running Debian Etch. When I try with Nautilus (put in a blank disc, the window pops up offering three options: I choose Make Audio CD), it goes through the process of "Creating disc image" with no issues, but then I get an error tha

Re: Debian-Etch Update 08/19/2006 - AA/Font issues?

2006-08-23 Thread Mumia W.
On 08/23/2006 04:23 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote: Here it is, the secret sauce! XRESOURCES="$HOME/.Xresources" echo "Xft.dpi: 96.00" > "$XRESOURCES" echo "Xft.hinting: 1" >> "$XRESOURCES" echo "Xft.hintstyle: hintmedium" >> "$XRESOURCES" xrdb -merge "$XRESOURCES" No more gnome stuff for me! Ju

problems after upgrade

2006-08-23 Thread Fred J.
Hi I am running debian/testing with kernel 2.6.15 In my /etc/sources.list I have basically 2 lines, Deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free Deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing/ testing/security-updates main contrib non-free   The box ha

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Marc Shapiro wrote: > But I DO know that blaiming EVERY INDIVIDUAL Brazilian for the mess that > YOU feel exits in their country's networks is just a bunch of BUNK! Are > YOU responsible for everything that U.S. polititians in Washington > (D.C., not state) say? Are YOU responsible for the SPAM t

Re: make menuconfig segfault

2006-08-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Back in 2003 make menuconfig always segfaulted unless I used a ncurses > tarball and used that: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/12/msg04950.html > Now, 3 years later, it still happens: ...and still (google says I commented in Sun, F

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon

2006-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Angelina Carlton wrote: > Again, Marcelo, please do not feel the need to apologize, you are only > echoing the same thing many of us feel: we want to to keep this list > focused one Debian, simple as that. Then here's a pop quiz. Why is it in the years that this list has existed there pretty

Baxk on the off-topic (was Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon))

2006-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Marc Shapiro wrote: >> But I DO know that blaiming EVERY INDIVIDUAL Brazilian for the >> mess that YOU feel exits in their country's networks is just a >> bunch of BUNK! Are YOU responsible for everything that U.S. >> polititians i

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 17:19, Steve Lamb wrote: > Marc Shapiro wrote: > > But I DO know that blaiming EVERY INDIVIDUAL Brazilian for the mess that > > YOU feel exits in their country's networks is just a bunch of BUNK! Are > > YOU responsible for everything that U.S. polititians in Washington

Re: Baxk on the off-topic (was Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon))

2006-08-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 17:35, Ron Johnson wrote: > Let's remember people, that the focus of this thread is laughing at > those stupid Oregonians who can't pump their own gas. You can pump your own gas, that's fine, but remember, NJ and BC also have mini-serve, and in BC, mini-serve competes

Re: Incorrect version of xserver-xorg in unstable

2006-08-23 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 11:15 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Drew Parsons wrote: > > >An upload of xserver-xorg 1:1.1.1-3 was incorrectly made to unstable > >today. The intended target was experimental. The correct current > >version for unstable is 1:1.0.2-9. > > > Thanks for the notice, Drew. Unfortu

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 23 August 2006 17:19, Steve Lamb wrote: >> Marc Shapiro wrote: [snip] > I'm of the world opinion, which is more or less why I want out. You can agree with Jacques Chirac, I'll have the correct opinion. > :o) - -- R

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