Re: soporte HP PAVILION TX1000

2008-01-03 Thread Gerard Robin
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 07:21:35PM -0600, Douglas Flores wrote: From: Douglas Flores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: soporte HP PAVILION TX1000 X-Spam-Virus: No X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on liszt.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-

Re: 3rd SATA scrambles drive order? "Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . ."

2008-01-03 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:52:29AM -0600, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > Someone else said using IDs in fstab only works with ext2/3, obviously > tune2fs > does, and I use ReiserFS. What then? from man mount: It is possible to indicate a block special device using its volume label or UUID (see th

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/08 20:30, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > One of the threads over at [EMAIL PROTECTED] has gone OT (for them) into > discussing backup media. The concensus there seems to be that tape > (e.g. DLT) is still the best for long-term storage (e.g. archi

undefined symbol for pango_language_get_default in lenny upgrade

2008-01-03 Thread Mauricio Lin
Hi all, After upgrading my dist from etch to lenny I got problems with GTK applications. When I try to run any GTK application the following error is displayed in the terminal: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: pango_language_get_default For example, this erro

Re: microfocus

2008-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/08 20:07, Chris Parker wrote: > Has anyone ported Microfocus Cobol to Debian? It is presently running > on a SCO system. I see that it is available for Suse and Red Hat, why > not Debian? Linux is Linux, all the distros use glibc, ncurses,

Re: DVD driver

2008-01-03 Thread hce
On 1/4/08, Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, hce shared this with us all: > >--} but the > >--} mplayer could not play with them, either from the -R disk or from the > >--} harddisk. > > Sounds like the copy is crook? Because it should be able to play from the hard > drive if

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-03 Thread Raquel
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 18:56:01 -0800 Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 21:30:57 -0500 > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One of the threads over at [EMAIL PROTECTED] has gone OT (for them) > > into discussing backup media. The concensus there seems to be > >

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-03 Thread Raquel
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 21:30:57 -0500 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the threads over at [EMAIL PROTECTED] has gone OT (for them) > into discussing backup media. The concensus there seems to be that > tape (e.g. DLT) is still the best for long-term storage (e.g. > archives) be

Re: 3rd SATA scrambles drive order? "Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . ."

2008-01-03 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Thursday 03 January 2008 13:02, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/03/08 11:52, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > > Someone else said using IDs in fstab only works with ext2/3, obviously > > tune2fs does, and I use ReiserFS. What then? I'm interested in thre > > "Maybe" part, since UUIDs won't work for my situat

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: One of the threads over at [EMAIL PROTECTED] has gone OT (for them) into discussing backup media. The concensus there seems to be that tape (e.g. DLT) is still the best for long-term storage (e.g. archives) because CD/DVDs fade rather quickly while ha

tapes best for backup?

2008-01-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
One of the threads over at [EMAIL PROTECTED] has gone OT (for them) into discussing backup media. The concensus there seems to be that tape (e.g. DLT) is still the best for long-term storage (e.g. archives) because CD/DVDs fade rather quickly while hard drives get "bit rot" over the years and sinc

dell 6850

2008-01-03 Thread Chris Parker
I just recently got a new Dell Poweredge 6850 with 14 disk array and 132t Tape library. Does anyone have any experience with this server? Are there any issues/problems to be aware of? It is planned to be a virtualization platform. Hopefully getting away from win2k3 on a few boxes. An Oracle dat

microfocus

2008-01-03 Thread Chris Parker
Has anyone ported Microfocus Cobol to Debian? It is presently running on a SCO system. I see that it is available for Suse and Red Hat, why not Debian? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DVD driver

2008-01-03 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, hce shared this with us all: >--} but the >--} mplayer could not play with them, either from the -R disk or from the >--} harddisk. Sounds like the copy is crook? Because it should be able to play from the hard drive if the copy is all right? -- Registered Linux User:- 32952

Re: AC3D and libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

2008-01-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:48:20 +, I.E.Broadbent wrote: > This is slightly OT as it's about setting up AC3D .. but the error I'm > getting is a library error > > Error-start > ac3d: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: > cannot open shared object file: No such

Re: PREEMPT kernel with nvidia

2008-01-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 00:31:26 +1000, Paul Andreassen wrote: > On Wednesday 02 January 2008 02:44, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 23:25:47 +1000, Paul Andreassen wrote: > > > Is it possible to have a PREEMPT kernel while using the closed source > > > nVidia driver? > > > > > >

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:39:11 -0500, dave N wrote: [...] > Question: In the menu.lst grub file, how would I use > the label assignment in the line: > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=/dev/sdc2 ro I think this should be OK: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=LABEL=your_root_label ro I

Re: PAM failure?

2008-01-03 Thread Craig Hurley
On 03/01/2008 21:55, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Be specific. Is it an empty file or is it the default Etch file with > everything commented-out? The /etc/scurity/limits.conf file should be > owned root.root with permissions -rw-r--r-- > > Doug. > > ~# ls -lA /etc/security/limits.conf -rw-r-

Re: Java swing gui designer???

2008-01-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hal Vaughan thresholddigital.com> writes: > > On Thursday 03 January 2008, Margiolas Christos wrote: > > Hello any advise for a good java swing designer? > > Either independent app either eclipse plugin.. > > Margiolas Christos > > Eclipse has a Visual Editor. > Netbeans also has one, a

Re: PAM failure?

2008-01-03 Thread Craig Hurley
On 03/01/2008 21:54, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > By what user is this script run. The pam documentation for the limits > module says that root is not affected by this limit. > ~# ls -lA /etc/cron.d/script -rw--- 1 root root 190 Jan 2 18:23 /etc/cron.d/script The contents of /etc/cron.d/s

Re: [half solved] sources list not found repository debian

2008-01-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:04:15PM +0100, Micaela Gallerini wrote: > 2008/1/2, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:01:42PM +0100, Micaela Gallerini wrote: > > > 2007/12/31, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > > > > This doesn't sound like an insult

Re: PAM failure?

2008-01-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:04:34PM +, Craig Hurley wrote: > On 03/01/2008 16:10, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >Find out what script it is and read it. See what this setrlimit is. > > Hi Doug, > > Here's the script. It's very basic; it recreates a folder if it has > been accidentally deleted.

Re: PAM failure?

2008-01-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:48:39PM +, Craig Hurley wrote: > On 03/01/2008 20:13, Jeff D wrote: > > do you have anything specific listed in: > > > > /etc/security/limits.conf > > > > > > There's nothing in /etc/security/limits.conf. > Be specific. Is it an empty file or is it the default

Re: Terminal issues in fresh install

2008-01-03 Thread Peter Smerdon
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > btw, my locale(1) outputs: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] locale > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_PAPER="en_US.

Re: Fluxbox 1.0 -- issue with transparent icons on toolbar

2008-01-03 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
październik roku pamiętnego 2007, prawdopodobnie 30. Wielka mądrość na czytelników linux.debian.user spłynęła, gdy tako rzekł(a) Miroslaw Zalewski: > Or is it known issue and I have to switch back to Fluxbox 1.0rc3 for > some time to have things working? That was proper way. I recently updated Flu

Re: PAM failure?

2008-01-03 Thread Craig Hurley
On 03/01/2008 20:13, Jeff D wrote: > do you have anything specific listed in: > > /etc/security/limits.conf > > There's nothing in /etc/security/limits.conf. Regards, Craig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mouse & keyboard probs under X [WAS: usb mouse problems: etch/gnome/metacity]

2008-01-03 Thread Adam Porter
michael wrote: > Okay, I spoke too soon :( > The mouse just ''froze'' on me again (as in I could move it but clicking > did nothing) - had to ALT-TAB (to 'nothing' then again to get current > apps)... That doesn't sound like a hardware problem. See if you can figure out what apps are running whe

Re: Is everyone's system "apt-get -qq update"ing every day?

2008-01-03 Thread Adam Porter
Joey Hess wrote: > Adam Porter wrote: >>return 1 > >> if check_stamp $UPDATE_STAMP $UpdateInterval; then >>if apt-get -qq update 2>/dev/null; then > >> As you can see, I haven't enabled the perodic updates in apt.conf, but >> the check_stamp function returns true if the interval is s

Re: PAM failure?

2008-01-03 Thread Jeff D
Craig Hurley wrote: Hello, When looking at /var/log/auth.log PAM seems to be logging a large amount. For example, every 30 minutes cron runs a script as root. It appears to me that each time the script is run, PAM adds 4 entries to auth.log, recording a the session open and close along with

Re: what's the hold up on making the 3.1r7 and 4.0r3 iso's?

2008-01-03 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Thursday 03 January 2008 02:57:27 Rick Thomas, vous avez écrit : > Franz Pop wrote: > > This is a known issue that _has_ already been fixed, but only when new > > images will be built, which has been delayed because of hardware > > issues > > with the machine that does that. > > Is this the reas

Re: Any knowledge base that can use with Emacs?

2008-01-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 3, 2008 10:14 AM, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you know any knowledge base that can use with Emacs? Don't they all thanks to the miracle of cut and paste? -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: [half solved] sources list not found repository debian

2008-01-03 Thread Micaela Gallerini
2008/1/2, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:01:42PM +0100, Micaela Gallerini wrote: > > 2007/12/31, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > This doesn't sound like an insult. Based on the package management > > > knowledge base you have demonstrated in

Re: 3rd SATA scrambles drive order? "Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . ."

2008-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/08 11:52, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 02 January 2008 23:40, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Jan 2, 2008 9:37 PM, Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Is there something I can do about this? To make the new drive be sdc, I >>> me

Java swing gui designer???

2008-01-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I've been using Netbeans and it works well both in Debian unstable and XP Pro, on an amd64 machine. Just make sure your JDKs are the same... -- Fica bem, porta-te mal. Be well, misbehave. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: GNOME desktop troubles

2008-01-03 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
Dan H wrote: 2. For some reason, Gnome doesn't let me log out any more. And the startup window of the Gnome desktop just stays there, with "Nautilus" at the bottom. Starting applications etc. works. This may have started with my recent language experiments. UPDATE: Gnome /does/ log me out about

Any knowledge base that can use with Emacs?

2008-01-03 Thread Paul Csanyi
Hello! Do you know any knowledge base that can use with Emacs? -- Regards, Paul Csanyi http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java swing gui designer???

2008-01-03 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 03 January 2008, Margiolas Christos wrote: > Hello any advise for a good java swing designer? > Either independent app either eclipse plugin.. > Margiolas Christos Eclipse has a Visual Editor. It's a plug in that should be easily downloaded through the Software Updates item on th

Re: 3rd SATA scrambles drive order? "Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . ."

2008-01-03 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Wednesday 02 January 2008 23:40, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008 9:37 PM, Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there something I can do about this? To make the new drive be sdc, I > > mean? > > Why not mount by filesystem label instead of device name? The > filesystem label do

gdm and network-manager issues

2008-01-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Just returned back to debian (been using Ubuntu for a while) and dist-upgraded to sid (as is my habit). All works but I have two annoying things I don't know how to fix. 1. When I boot up I see this: Starting gdm starting avahi starting dchp D-buss daemon starting hald starting MD monitoring

Re: Java swing gui designer???

2008-01-03 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:21:27 +0200 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > Hello any advise for a good java swing designer? > > Either independent app either eclipse plugin.. > > Margiolas Christos > > I have used Netbeans. Get it from netbeans.org. It is already available as

Re: Java swing gui designer???

2008-01-03 Thread David Baron
> Hello any advise for a good java swing designer? > Either independent app either eclipse plugin.. > Margiolas Christos I have used Netbeans. Get it from netbeans.org. This is a first rate, complete IDE. Going the way of Eclipse, now has C++ and Ruby modules as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Any good todo manager?

2008-01-03 Thread Emre Sahin
Rick Dooling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jan 3, 2:20 am, Allan Wind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I use vim with todo.txt file for personal tasks, and enable folding for >> this file so I only see the top-level tasks by default. > > Same goes for contact management. Vim + text file. Less is

Re: PAM failure?

2008-01-03 Thread Craig Hurley
On 03/01/2008 16:10, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Find out what script it is and read it. See what this setrlimit is. Doug. Hi Doug, Here's the script. It's very basic; it recreates a folder if it has been accidentally deleted. #!/bin/bash vpath="/path/to/folder" if [ $# -ne 0 ] ; then

Re: GNOME desktop troubles

2008-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/03/08 10:12, Dan H wrote: >> 2. For some reason, Gnome doesn't let me log out any more. And the >> startup window of the Gnome desktop just stays there, with >> "Nautilus" at the bottom. Starting applications etc. works. This >> may have started with my recent language experiments. > > UPDAT

Java swing gui designer???

2008-01-03 Thread Margiolas Christos
Hello any advise for a good java swing designer? Either independent app either eclipse plugin.. Margiolas Christos

SOLVED: Reconfiguring package configuration interface (was Re: Terminal issues in fresh install)

2008-01-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
OK, my questions on mutt and the en_US.UTF-8 package have been answered pretty thoroughly (thanks, all!), but nobody's touched on my other question. Just to get the answer into the archive for the sake of others who may have the same question (or to remind myself in a couple years...) now that I'v

Re: PAM failure?

2008-01-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:26:20PM +, Craig Hurley wrote: > > When looking at /var/log/auth.log PAM seems to be logging a large > amount. For example, every 30 minutes cron runs a script as root. It > appears to me that each time the script is run, PAM adds 4 entries to > auth.log, record

Re: Any good todo manager?

2008-01-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:03:00PM +0800, H.H. Ding wrote: I use my palm zire for todo and other pim stuff. Even without the palm, you could use one of the X palm apps. They're intended to let you edit your data then sync to the palm, but you don't __need__ to sync to the palm. Doug. -- To

Re: su and administrator password fails in gnome

2008-01-03 Thread Rick Dooling
On Jan 3, 2:10 am, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then your system is rather unusual, to say the least. The following > programs are 1755 on my system: > > /bin/su > /bin/mount > /bin/umount > /bin/ping > /bin/ping6 > > Not having /bin/su suid root is probably Rick's problem. > Thanks,

Re: su and administrator password fails in gnome

2008-01-03 Thread Rick Dooling
On Jan 3, 9:40 am, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, just not noticing rws amongst all the rwx's. Use ls --color, and they jump out at you. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNOME desktop troubles

2008-01-03 Thread Dan H
> 2. For some reason, Gnome doesn't let me log out any more. And the > startup window of the Gnome desktop just stays there, with > "Nautilus" at the bottom. Starting applications etc. works. This > may have started with my recent language experiments. UPDATE: Gnome /does/ log me out about a minut

GNOME desktop troubles

2008-01-03 Thread Dan H
Hello, being a purely shell and fvwm user myself I'm really out of my depth trying to get those new-fangled clickable desktop thingies to work right. But I'm trying to do it for others (who are permanently threatening me to want a M$-based computer). 1. I can't get the desktop environment to u

Re: kernel config for AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester

2008-01-03 Thread Bernd Prager
On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:58:28 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/03/08 09:42, Bernd Prager wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am running kernel 2.6.23.12 and compiled with SMP on. > > Home-rolled or built-by-Debian? Home-rolled > Are you

Re: kernel config for AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester

2008-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/08 09:42, Bernd Prager wrote: > Hi, > > I am running kernel 2.6.23.12 and compiled with SMP on. Home-rolled or built-by-Debian? Are you sure SMP is enabled? What does "uname -v" say? > Unfortunately the kernel doesn't recognize my dual co

Re: Any good todo manager?

2008-01-03 Thread Rick Dooling
On Jan 3, 2:20 am, Allan Wind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use vim with todo.txt file for personal tasks, and enable folding for > this file so I only see the top-level tasks by default. Same goes for contact management. Vim + text file. Less is more. Worse is better. This article gives tips o

(OT) Plaxo Address Book Service for Sale

2008-01-03 Thread David Baron
I just saw a headline that Plaxo is for sale. They provide on-line addressbook services, ecards, blogs, etc., with Outlook and Outlook-express toolbars. When I still used OE and windows, that toolbar somehow crippled by internet so I took it off. I do have addresses stored on Plaxo and one can

Re: 3rd SATA scrambles drive order? "Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . ."

2008-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/08 08:05, Stuart Gall wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Wilson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have a computer with an Intel mainboard (I"ll look up the >> exact model later if it matters) running Etch. >> >> / is an 80G

kernel config for AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester

2008-01-03 Thread Bernd Prager
Hi, I am running kernel 2.6.23.12 and compiled with SMP on. Unfortunately the kernel doesn't recognize my dual core processor: $ dmesg | grep -i cpu CPU has 2 num_cores Processor #0 (Bootup-CPU) SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs PERCPU: Allocating 34344 bytes of per cpu data Initializing CPU#0

Re: su and administrator password fails in gnome

2008-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/08 02:07, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-01-03 05:07 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On my system, all the non-symlinks in /bin are 755 root:root. > > Then your system is rather unusual, to say the least. The following > programs are 1755 on

Re: GNOME desktop internationalization?

2008-01-03 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2008/1/3, Dan H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > for KDE there are tons of "kde-i18n-xx" language packages. Is there anything > similar for the GNOME desktop? Or is it all built in and I just have to > generate the appropriate locale... let's see... > Hi, look, http://www.gnome.org/i18n/ wer

Re: PREEMPT kernel with nvidia

2008-01-03 Thread Paul Andreassen
On Wednesday 02 January 2008 02:44, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 23:25:47 +1000, Paul Andreassen wrote: > > Is it possible to have a PREEMPT kernel while using the closed source > > nVidia driver? > > > > I've compiled the stable kernel 2.6.18 and the backported kernel 2.6.22, >

Re: 3rd SATA scrambles drive order? "Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . ."

2008-01-03 Thread Stuart Gall
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a computer with an Intel mainboard (I"ll look up the exact model later > if it matters) running Etch. > > / is an 80G SATA on SATA1. > /data is a 500G SATA drive on SATA2. > > I've never had any trouble with th

PAM failure?

2008-01-03 Thread Craig Hurley
Hello, When looking at /var/log/auth.log PAM seems to be logging a large amount. For example, every 30 minutes cron runs a script as root. It appears to me that each time the script is run, PAM adds 4 entries to auth.log, recording a the session open and close along with 2 other failures.

Custom Debian CD - Problem with APT-CDROM and GPGV

2008-01-03 Thread Keyser Söze
Hi, I'm trying to generate a custom install CD based on Etch. I've set up a local repository with reprepro, and I've installed and adapted simple-cdd to my needs. Everything was working just fine until I decided to include signatures (Release.gpg files). Now here's the problem. When

Re: Wodim Woes - Correction

2008-01-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:47:56AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 09:24:43PM -0600, Adam Porter wrote: > > Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > > wodim --scanbus finds a cdrw device at 0,0,0 but > > > > > > wodim -v dev=0,0,0 data.iso goes crazy and says it is trying to acces

Custom Debian CD - Problem with APT-CDROM and GPGV

2008-01-03 Thread Keyser Söze
Hi, I'm trying to generate a custom install CD based on Etch. I've set up a local repository with reprepro, and I've installed and adapted simple-cdd to my needs. Everything was working just fine until I decided to include signatures (Release.gpg files). Now here's the problem. When

Re: upgrading in sid

2008-01-03 Thread David Fox
On 1/2/08, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You didn't say what libraries they are or what packages they come from > (use dpkg -S to find the latter out). But on my system the only 64-bit dpkg -S /lib64 returns libc6-amd64 for all the libraries in /lib64. So I ended up removing tha

Re: Wodim Woes

2008-01-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 09:24:43PM -0600, Adam Porter wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > > > wodim --scanbus finds a cdrw device at 0,0,0 but > > > > wodim -v dev=0,0,0 data.iso goes crazy and says it is trying to access > > /dev/hda and then /dev/hdb > > > > My system is lenny with a linux-imag

Re: Wodim Woes

2008-01-03 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Thomas H. George wrote: wodim --scanbus finds a cdrw device at 0,0,0 but wodim -v dev=0,0,0 data.iso goes crazy and says it is trying to access /dev/hda and then /dev/hdb My system is lenny with a linux-image-2.6.22-3-686 kernel. What is wrong and how can I fix it. Tom George I think you

Workaround for bug 44477: xserver-xorg: "Xorg crashes with nvidia proprietary driver (during allocation)"

2008-01-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, In trying to solve my mouse foibles (previous post) I upgraded xserver-xorg-core on my Sid box. That upgrades xorg to 7.3. Starting X with the proprietary Nvidia driver 9631 one runs into bug 44477. The answer that was given to that bug ("don't use that driver") gets tiresome: I don't u

Re: Galeon R.I.P?

2008-01-03 Thread joseph lockhart
--- Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Andrew Sackville-West > wrote: > ... > > > I can control my system, I can't control my > clients' computers, so > > > I want a minimum of possible errors on their > computers. > > > > > > I would not want to make it easy f

Re: mutt and utf-8 (was: character encoding)

2008-01-03 Thread Patter
On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:20:10 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 13:50:59 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > [...] > >> I've found that if I generate an utf-8 locale it messes up the little >> arrows in mutt's index. > > Sometimes the locale settings do not get passed on to mutt c

Re: Errors from repositories

2008-01-03 Thread Michael D. Norwick
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-9944.html http://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt I get this error quite a lot with http://cs.wisc.edu. Waiting, or doing apt-get update several times seems to straighten it out. I also, out of habit only use the mirrors on the official debian download lis

Moving from WEP to WPA

2008-01-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi I have a relatively old (P3) Compaq Evo N600C laptop which I picked up from somewhere, in which I have installed a circa-2002 PCMCIA Buffalo 802.11a/b wireless LAN card which uses the orinoco driver in the kernel. I know that this combination of kernel, machine and laptop work since it's been w

Re: mouse & keyboard probs under X [WAS: usb mouse problems: etch/gnome/metacity]

2008-01-03 Thread michael
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 12:41 +, michael wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 21:36 -0600, Adam Porter wrote: > > cs wrote: > > > > > actually after using KDE for an hour today, the keyboard froze too... > > > playing with the control centre somehow reset it such that keyboard > > > started accepting

Re: Configuring laptop interfaces The Debian Way?

2008-01-03 Thread robin putters
On 1/3/08, John Stumbles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to set up a laptop with both wired and wireless interfaces. > Apart from difficulties in getting the wireless to work I'm a bit > surprised by the way even the wired setup works. If I boot up the laptop > when the wired ethernet is di

Re: mouse & keyboard probs under X [WAS: usb mouse problems: etch/gnome/metacity]

2008-01-03 Thread michael
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 21:36 -0600, Adam Porter wrote: > cs wrote: > > > actually after using KDE for an hour today, the keyboard froze too... > > playing with the control centre somehow reset it such that keyboard > > started accepting USB input again > > > > it seems (under Gnome) openning many

AC3D and libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

2008-01-03 Thread I.E.Broadbent
This is slightly OT as it's about setting up AC3D .. but the error I'm getting is a library error Error-start ac3d: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Error-end ..despite the fact that I've installed the

Configuring laptop interfaces The Debian Way?

2008-01-03 Thread John Stumbles
I'm trying to set up a laptop with both wired and wireless interfaces. Apart from difficulties in getting the wireless to work I'm a bit surprised by the way even the wired setup works. If I boot up the laptop when the wired ethernet is disconnected it spends quite a long time looking for a DHC

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-03 Thread dave N
--- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:24:07AM -0800, Andrew > Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:24:07AM -0500, dave N > wrote: > > If you wait long enough (at least 30 seconds, > maybe a couple minutes, > > I

Re: Any good todo manager?

2008-01-03 Thread Magnus Therning
On 1/3/08, Allan Wind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You may get answers or better ones if you shared with us what "good" > means to you: > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > I use vim with todo.txt file for personal tasks, and enable folding for > this file so I only see the to

mutt and utf-8 (was: character encoding)

2008-01-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 13:50:59 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: [...] > I've found that if I generate an utf-8 locale it messes up the little > arrows in mutt's index. Sometimes the locale settings do not get passed on to mutt correctly, depending on how mutt is started. I think the best test is

GNOME desktop internationalization?

2008-01-03 Thread Dan H
Hello, for KDE there are tons of "kde-i18n-xx" language packages. Is there anything similar for the GNOME desktop? Or is it all built in and I just have to generate the appropriate locale... let's see... --D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

boot problems with the compiled kernel 2.6.23

2008-01-03 Thread tharanga Wijethilake
hi all, I compiled the kernel 2.6.23 and did it in several ways but at each time end up in getting the following error at the boot time. Check root = bootarg cat /cmdline or missing module or devices; cat /proc/modules ls dev ALERT /dev/sda4 does not exist Dropping to shell BusyBox.. and th

Re: Any good todo manager?

2008-01-03 Thread Allan Wind
You may get answers or better ones if you shared with us what "good" means to you: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html I use vim with todo.txt file for personal tasks, and enable folding for this file so I only see the top-level tasks by default. Request Tracker (RT) is what I us

Re: latest radeon driver and full screen video

2008-01-03 Thread Romain JACQUET
Romain JACQUET a écrit : ... I have made some visuals to summarize the problem. 1. I display a video on the second screen. The video is 4:3 ratio (resolution 320x240). I see a correct display (see http://romainjacquet.free.fr/screenshot3.png) but all the screen is not used. I'm

Re: su and administrator password fails in gnome

2008-01-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-01-03 05:07 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > On my system, all the non-symlinks in /bin are 755 root:root. Then your system is rather unusual, to say the least. The following programs are 1755 on my system: /bin/su /bin/mount /bin/umount /bin/ping /bin/ping6 Not having /bin/su suid root is