Re: Pendrive corrupted filesystem

2006-05-15 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 11:49:49AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 06:56 -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: [...] A side note/tip: It can be good to mount these types of drives with -o sync. I've pulled out my usb flash drive by mistake before it was really done because

Re: Problem with T-bird (was Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 ))

2006-05-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:37:20AM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:26:07PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: After reading how much you like T-bird, I installed it and tried it. However, it does not let me use sendmail as the outgoing email

Re: gimp and printing

2006-05-15 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 06:12:24PM +0200, LeVA wrote: snip I can only select Default Printer (there is nothing else), and the command name (lp -s-oraw) is wrong too, I don't have the lpr printer spooler installed. Others are working on the GIMP problem, so I'll talk about the 'lp foo'

Can I stay in testing without going etch?

2006-05-15 Thread Joseph Smidt
I want to run testing for I like keeping farely leading edge software on my computer. When they freeze etch can I just change my repo's from etch to testing and keep getting new software, or do I have to wait for the etch freeze to be over before testing goes back to being what testing currently

Re: Problem with T-bird (was Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 ))

2006-05-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:37:20 -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:26:07PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: After reading how much you like T-bird, I installed it and tried it. However, it does not let me use sendmail as the outgoing email method.

Re: Can I stay in testing without going etch?

2006-05-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Joseph Smidt wrote: I want to run testing for I like keeping farely leading edge software on my computer. When they freeze etch can I just change my repo's from etch to testing and keep getting new software, or do I have to wait for the etch freeze to be over before testing goes back to being

Re: Validating AVI files

2006-05-15 Thread Christoph Nenning
Am Montag, 15. Mai 2006 06:42 schrieb Ron Johnson: Hi, Does anyone know of a CLI tool for validating that AVI files are correct, i.e., no skipped frames, no garbage, no audio drift, etc? I've Googled, but haven't found anything exactly like I want. I've tried the tools in avifile-utils but

Re: ibm t40, refuses to boot on cd

2006-05-15 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 01:36:48AM +0200, Baron Christophe wrote: (I am not on this list, only on the french one, you would be kind answerring at my own adress also). I am trying to install Sarge or Etch on a t40 2373-7CG. I'd stick with sarge unless you're already comfortable with how

Re: My visit to google has been censored

2006-05-15 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 05:59:41PM -0700, formless void wrote: Hi My Dear Debianist, Where I can find a debian package which prevents firefox browser to reload the pages that I visited? Are you talking about using a cached copy of the page? I would use 'squid' (package of same name) for

Re: Can I stay in testing without going etch?

2006-05-15 Thread Chris Howie
Joseph Smidt wrote: I want to run testing for I like keeping farely leading edge software on my computer. When they freeze etch can I just change my repo's from etch to testing and keep getting new software, or do I have to wait for the etch freeze to be over before testing goes back to being

Re: perldoc messed up curses

2006-05-15 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 09:31:20PM -0400, Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hi everyone, I am using Debian Testing on a IBM Thinkpad A21e. After installing the package perl-doc, I find that many curses applications seem to behave very strangely some times. For exmaple, emacs (I use emacs -nw which is

Re: Pendrive corrupted filesystem

2006-05-15 Thread Chris Howie
Owen Heisler wrote: On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 06:56 -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: [...] A side note/tip: It can be good to mount these types of drives with -o sync. I've pulled out my usb flash drive by mistake before it was really done because without option sync cp and mv would return as soon as

Re: Etch hangs on startup at: waiting on root file system ?

2006-05-15 Thread rusi pathan
Replace initramfs-tools with yaird and then do any kernel upgrades. mustard lee wrote: I put together a brand new Etch install today, which was working flawlessly for the first few boots. I think I may have done an apt-get upgrade prior to the last reboot and now its hanging on the startup

X freezes after switching back from a VT

2006-05-15 Thread Chris Howie
I've installed debian in a server environment using testing. (Spare the use-stable-for-servers rhetoric, it's a test server.) Kdm starts fine, but if I switch to a VT and then back to X, only junk shows up on the screen, and X does not respond to CTRL+ALT+anything, meaning the box is locked.

Re: smp kernels and xorg

2006-05-15 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
El Lunes, 15 de Mayo de 2006 21:01, Grant Thomas escribió: On 5/13/06, Luis Fernando Llana Díaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Usually after you install a new kernel through apt-get or aptitude, your boot loader will get updated to show the new kernel and the old kernel. At least it does for

Re: X freezes after switching back from a VT

2006-05-15 Thread Chris Howie
Chris Howie wrote: The output of `lspci -v` is attached. Or not. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a---? C++(+++)$ UL P$ L+++ E--- W++ N o++ K? w--$ O M- V- PS--(---) PE++ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5? X- R(+)- tv-(--) b- DI+

Re: Can I stay in testing without going etch?

2006-05-15 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 01:01:36PM -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote: I want to run testing for I like keeping farely leading edge software on my computer. When they freeze etch can I just change my repo's from etch to testing and keep getting new software, or do I have to wait for the etch freeze to

Re: Can I stay in testing without going etch?

2006-05-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 03:49:07PM -0400, Chris Howie wrote: Joseph Smidt wrote: I want to run testing for I like keeping farely leading edge software on my computer. When they freeze etch can I just change my repo's from etch to testing and keep getting new software, or do I have to wait

Re: a postfix problem

2006-05-15 Thread Bill Smith
Danny wrote: On May 15 06, bill thought of the following : I am just trying to set up postfix on a newly installed sarge machine. I have edited the main.cf, I am well accustomed to using postfix, but have not so much experience with debian. When I do a postfix reload after editing I get

scroll wheel stops working after KVM-switch

2006-05-15 Thread nicals wahlgren
Using unstable, scroll wheel works fine. But each time I am shifting between computers and back to debian scrolling is not working. Doing modprobe -r psmouse modprobe psmouse gets scrolling back. Any ideas on how to keep scrolling working without having to do modprobe? /N -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Another Newbie Troubles with Debian

2006-05-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/05/06 12:58), Dov Oxenberg wrote: Actually that is what I was trying to convey in my previous post...I press the enter key and the system does it's thing, and when all is said and done, I don't have a desktop. Maybe I am asking the wrong questionafter logging in, whether as the

Re: Problem with T-bird (was Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 ))

2006-05-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:02:03PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:37:20 -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:26:07PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: After reading how much you like T-bird, I installed it and tried it.

Re: scroll wheel stops working after KVM-switch

2006-05-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:32:13PM +0200, nicals wahlgren wrote: Using unstable, scroll wheel works fine. But each time I am shifting between computers and back to debian scrolling is not working. Doing modprobe -r psmouse modprobe psmouse gets scrolling back. Any ideas on how to keep

Thunderbird insists on using galeon browser

2006-05-15 Thread jlquinn
Hi, all. I use thunderbird and firefox currently for email and web. At one point, I used to use galeon, but have since switched. The gnome desktop preferred application setting is set to firefox, and there aren't any setting I saw inside thunderbird itself to choose a browser. However,

Re: Thunderbird insists on using galeon browser

2006-05-15 Thread Paul Scott
jlquinn wrote: Hi, all. I use thunderbird and firefox currently for email and web. At one point, I used to use galeon, but have since switched. The gnome desktop preferred application setting is set to firefox, and there aren't any setting I saw inside thunderbird itself to choose a

Re: Anyone having X problem updating from testing to unstable.

2006-05-15 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 5/7/06, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/6/06, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 15:11:17 -1000, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: On 5/5/06, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg69To7 [...]

Re: Webbased bookmark managers

2006-05-15 Thread Guido Heumann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, I would like to install a webbased bookmark manager on my server, any comments appreciated. Here is my list of requisites to such a program: 1. Open Source (of course) 2. Using SQL databse for data storage (PostgreSQL preferred) 3. Does not simply use

Marvell Yukon gigabit ethernet card

2006-05-15 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi all, Last year I purchased a new amd64 system: an AOpen XC cube EZ482, where I have been trying to install Debian for a long time. Still no luck with Debian testing amd64 net install, from April 13th 2006. So rather than keep trying out daily images and wasting CDs, I'm asking here before

Spanish USB keyboard on boot

2006-05-15 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi, As I explained in my previous mail, I have tried installing Debian testing for amd64, the latest daily build I had lying around: April 13th. The first menu (which prompts me to hit ENTER to continue installation, I would think it is grub) does not recognize my USB keyboard with Spanish

Installing HylaFAX....

2006-05-15 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Once again THANK YOU for all your help, I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate it. Now that I have my Debian box up and running, nice desktop and all, I was under the impression the distro comes "prepackaged" with HylaFAX fax server. The HylaFAX web site is not too clear on how to

Re: Installing HylaFAX....

2006-05-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Dov Oxenberg wrote: Once again THANK YOU for all your help, I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate it. Now that I have my Debian box up and running, nice desktop and all, I was under the impression the distro comes prepackaged with HylaFAX fax server. The HylaFAX web site is not too

[OT] Re: Problem with T-bird (was Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 ))

2006-05-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 13:49:56 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:02:03PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:37:20 -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: [...] It's so wonderful to have your mail take up no

Re: Validating AVI files

2006-05-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 21:30 +0200, Christoph Nenning wrote: Am Montag, 15. Mai 2006 06:42 schrieb Ron Johnson: Hi, Does anyone know of a CLI tool for validating that AVI files are correct, i.e., no skipped frames, no garbage, no audio drift, etc? I've Googled, but haven't found

Re: Validating AVI files

2006-05-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 17:26 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 21:30 +0200, Christoph Nenning wrote: Am Montag, 15. Mai 2006 06:42 schrieb Ron Johnson: Hi, Does anyone know of a CLI tool for validating that AVI files are correct, i.e., no skipped frames, no garbage, no

Re: Installing HylaFAX....

2006-05-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/05/06 18:18), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Dov Oxenberg wrote: Once again THANK YOU for all your help, I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate it. Now that I have my Debian box up and running, nice desktop and all, I was under the impression the distro comes prepackaged with

Dealing with duped messages [Re: Installing HylaFAX....]

2006-05-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Clive Menzies wrote: On (15/05/06 18:18), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: P.S. I know that Clive reads the list. I don't think you need to CC him. (I don't to speak for him, but I know that I already get plenty of email every day without people CCing me on list postings). Thanks Roberto, it

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-05-15 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 08:27:09AM -0400, Stephen wrote: Formless Void, you would have more respect if you stopped arguing, as you seem to argue for arguments sake. Whats sounds like a troll, and smells like one, usually is one. The trick is to ignore him until he either goes away or learns to

Re: Dealing with duped messages [Re: Installing HylaFAX....]

2006-05-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/05/06 18:53), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Clive Menzies wrote: Thanks Roberto, it doesn't really bother me 'cos read by thread in mutt makes it's pretty trivial to delete duplicates as I zap through the posts from various debian lists. I really must get the appropriate line in my

invalid action operation

2006-05-15 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
Hi! I've got the following showing up each boot: debian udevd[14626]: add_to_rules: invalid ACTION operation debian udevd[14626]: add_to_rules: invalid rule '/etc/udev/rules.d/050_hal-plugdev.rules:5' - it has been like this since the update the 10th of May I think it was. I am using a

Megaraid HP Proliant ML330

2006-05-15 Thread Grant Thomas
I have a question regarding hardware RAID on a Megaraid controller. Using a netinstall etch CD, the installer recognizes my Hardware raid controller and the disks in it, but not the HW array. I have initialized a RAID 1 array in the setup utility provided after the machine posts. During boot,

Newbie video configuration -- Monitor and video settings

2006-05-15 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I am about to install Debian once again. I made a mistake originally in the video setting. I have a Sony SDM-S73 TFT LCD Color 17 inch monitor which, it says, fully complies with the DDC Plug Play standards with Nvidia GeForece 2 AGP card for 3D Accelaration. What precisely

Re: Etch hangs on startup at: waiting on root file system ?

2006-05-15 Thread mustard lee
lostson wrote: On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 21:02 +1000, mustard lee wrote: I put together a brand new Etch install today, which was working flawlessly for the first few boots. I think I may have done an apt-get upgrade prior to the last reboot and now its hanging on the startup with the

Re: Urgent! -- New Debian 3.1R2 install -- Nvidia card not recognized: fuzzy desktop, 640X480 resolution

2006-05-15 Thread charles norwood
On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 19:13 +1000, Arafangion wrote: Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: My installation is such a mess that I've decided to start from scratch. Problem is I don't know where I went wrong. Did I download the right CD's? Thank you all again. Benjamin The CD's

dhcp, router and debian

2006-05-15 Thread Alle Meije Wink
Hi, I have installed a D-Link DI-524 wireless/ethernet router between my cable modem and my PC. It worked fine on the first 5 (or so) sessions, but now when I start up debian, the startup item `ATM' takes ages to finish (it says `exim4' in the end) and I have no internet connection in

Re: Etch hangs on startup at: waiting on root file system ?

2006-05-15 Thread mustard lee
rusi pathan wrote: Replace initramfs-tools with yaird and then do any kernel upgrades. mustard lee wrote: I put together a brand new Etch install today, which was working flawlessly for the first few boots. I think I may have done an apt-get upgrade prior to the last reboot and now its

Re: LVM2 snapshot question

2006-05-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 13:56 -0500, Grant Thomas wrote: snip On 5/13/06, Alex Malinovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's one of the greatest strengths of LVM in my opinion. (Second only to pairing it with xfs and allowing growing the filesystem without unmounting.) Doesn't Reiser allow

Re: dhcp, router and debian

2006-05-15 Thread Grant Thomas
On 5/15/06, Alle Meije Wink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have installed a D-Link DI-524 wireless/ethernet router between my cable modem and my PC. It worked fine on the first 5 (or so) sessions, but now when I start up debian, the startup item `ATM' takes ages to finish (it says `exim4' in

Re: Marvell Yukon gigabit ethernet card

2006-05-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 23:56 +0200, Alex Fernandez wrote: Hi all, --snip-- The problem is the Marvell Yukon 88E8053 gigabit Ethernet card, integrated on the motherboard. I have seen many bug reports about this card, dating from 2004; discover-data, debian-installer, the kernel itself -- given

RE: Re: Marvell Yukon gigabit ethernet card

2006-05-15 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Just my $.02 worth but I tried toinstall the most recent release on an HP DC7600 with an integrated Broadcom NetXtreme GBE adapter and the installer could not bring up this hardware either. Subject: Re: Marvell Yukon gigabit ethernet card From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: Re: Installing HylaFAX....

2006-05-15 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Thanks for yet another invaluable piece of information! I think this list is restoring my faith in humanity :-) IncidentallyDov,Isuggestedsutorootearlier;nowyou'rebeginning togetintoallthis,you'dbewisetousesudo. #aptitudeinstallsudo thenonceinstalleddo $mansudo

Re: Installing HylaFAX....

2006-05-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Dov Oxenberg wrote: Thanks for yet another invaluable piece of information! I think this list is restoring my faith in humanity :-) Just wait until we have another good drawn out flame-fest. :-) -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description:

Re: Megaraid HP Proliant ML330

2006-05-15 Thread Grant Thomas
This may not be of assistance to the Megaraid question I have, but installing the system on one of the drives listed in the installer installs to just one drive. Even though HW RAID in active, it only access the individual disk. I tried to use software RIAD in it's place, but after I made the

Screen refresh rate

2006-05-15 Thread Rocky Ou
Hey list, Can any one tell me how to cofigure my screen refresh rate please? I did some googling but can not find the solution. I'm using sarge 3.1. Thanks a lot! Rocky

Re: lots of Permision denied errors (Prev: Re: symlink errors while installing java)

2006-05-15 Thread Barry Hawkins
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:59:06AM -0400, justin alcon wrote: i am having the exact same problem that this guy was having, i see lots of people have this problem but i find no solutions, please help.

strange whiteglass cursor behaviour in Xorg with mozilla thunderbird

2006-05-15 Thread Nick Lidakis
I will do my best to describe the problem (feature?) I witness when using the whiteglass cursor theme under Xorg. I have been using the the whiteglass cursor since it first became available (Xfree 4.0?) in Debian unstable, but have always noticed one annoying aspect: When using the whiteglass

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