Re: /etc/X11/Xorg.conf is d ifferent in Lenny, ¿wher e can i add the module record?

2009-02-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 16:04:00 +0100, Carlos Gutierrez wrote: Hi, if you think that you can't help me, i would like find mailing lists or forums where somebody can help me (please tell me!). I need to add the module record in xorg.conf, but the archive has changed. In debian (the

Re: request to try something with midori

2009-02-17 Thread Ink Bottle
--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Chris Burkhardt ch...@mretc.net wrote: I recompiled swfdec-mozilla with debugging symbols and sent a backtrace to your bug report. The problem is somewhere with swfdec-mozilla or libwebkit, because epiphany-webkit with swfdec has the same issue. As you may have

Re: Ruby 1.8.6 Source and Apt-Get Upgrade

2009-02-17 Thread subsorama
On 17 Feb 2009, at 16:25, subsor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am hoping to get some advice with a problem I have gotten myself into; I upgraded my packages using apt-get yesterday and have found an issue with my installed (source built) version of Ruby 1.8.6. I am wondering if the update

Re: mediawiki-extension -- README?

2009-02-17 Thread John W Foster
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 18:28 +0100, spa...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install extensions using the 'mediawiki-extensions' package. There does not appear to be a 'README' in the package http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/mediawiki-extensions/filelist ... and after searching the

Yet another RAID admin question

2009-02-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
I have successfully identified and decommissioned a failing RAID partition -- my RAID1 was then running properly with only one of its two twinned partitions. Every timr I booted, I got a message complaining that it was deficient. The drive with the failing partition was indeed defective, and

Re: IPMI problem compiling linux 2.6.28.5 in Debian Way

2009-02-17 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 16:02:37 Adrian Chapela wrote: I downloaded the sources from www.kernel.org. But my problem starts with 2.6.28. I can compile this version but now it is impossible. Then I downloaded 2.6.28.5 and it is the same. This morning I have been changing some packages from

Re: Yet another RAID admin question

2009-02-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com [2009.02.17.1747 +0100]: But I understand these partitions are marked in some way to identify them as RAID members, and that these marks are used at boot time to asssemble the RAID. What do I have to do to make sure that after I have removed

Re: Debian Lenny 5 on Inspiron 1525

2009-02-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Martin Kenneth Lopez wrote: Hi everybody, I just get Lenny 5 stable, but I don't know if anybody else have a problem with the wifi, Lenny doesn't recognize the wifi card not even with ndiswrappers any help will be appreciated, I already try everything. It's hard to help if you

Re: Can't update Testing system

2009-02-17 Thread JoeHill
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 09:18:55PM -0500, JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com was heard to say: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libsox-fmt-base_14.2.0-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_sndfile.so', which is also in package

Re: Debian Lenny 5 on Inspiron 1525

2009-02-17 Thread Michael Lansche
Hi Kenneth, Martin Kenneth Lopez kenneth at tektonlabs.com writes: Hi everybody, I just get Lenny 5 stable, but I don't know if anybody else have a problem with the wifi, Lenny doesn't recognize the wifi card not even with ndiswrappers any help will be appreciated, I already try

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:25:31 +0100, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: HI, There are many and many programming languages (mainly : C,C++,java, Shell, Perl, python, php). which learn and use, in which circonstances use that language instead of the other. In many situations we can use anyone, but

Re: Older Debian Linux version hangs when detecting hardware

2009-02-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 07:06:28AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/17/2009 02:03 AM, Martin Willcocks wrote: [snip] Error message? None, the installation simply hung. In the bottom right of the screen is a spinning disk graphic that stopped spinning about 30 seconds into the third part

How to adjust margins in xpdf reader?

2009-02-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
How can I adjust the top and side margin at my pleasure in xpdf reader? I couldn't find this issue in the xpdf man page. Thanks for any help Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:29:09 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/10/2009 07:58 PM, ow...@netptc.net wrote: Original Message From: m...@allums.com To: ron.l.john...@cox.net Subject: Re: Which programming Language Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:32:26 -0600 [snip] The Motorola 68000

Re: where can i find gmake

2009-02-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 10:08:31 abdelkader belahcene wrote: where can i find gmake, it is not a package by itself I thought gmake was what GNU Make installed as on the BSDs. Since Debian is Linux, you probably just want make. You might want to 'ln -s make /usr/bin/gmake' if some script

etch/EVMS upgrade to lenny

2009-02-17 Thread Oliver Dr. Muth
Hi Since lenny dropped support for EVMS I guess it would be fatal to just dist-upgrade an etch system that is based on EVMS volumes. However, I could not find anything on this issue in the release notes. Should I file this as a bug against the release notes? ;-) Or am I mistaken here? Is there

Re: How to adjust margins in xpdf reader?

2009-02-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 06:57:46PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: How can I adjust the top and side margin at my pleasure in xpdf reader? I couldn't find this issue in the xpdf man page. I've never found a direct way. I do it two ways: 1. Since I run on old hardware, some boxes are able

make - doesn't find header file but file is available

2009-02-17 Thread Benjamin Schmidt
Hello community Maybe this is one of the beginner questions answered more than a thousand times without becoming visible in google search ;) Some projects to compile with gcc/make come with the script ./configure. They are easy for me to build. But what I have now is a project without it.

hyphenation

2009-02-17 Thread Ivan Petrov
I've noticed, that the automatic hyphenation doesn't work at my openoffice 2.4.1 on Debian Lenny (KDE if it is important). In service - parameters - language options automatic hyphenation is switched on. There are modules for hyphenation in /usr/share/myspell This is written in

Re: Iceweasel blocking pop-ups

2009-02-17 Thread Dennis Wicks
Jonathan Kaye wrote the following on 02/17/2009 12:55 AM: tyler wrote: Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com writes: Greetings; I turned off the popup blocker in IW but it seems to still be blocking them. I tried it in Iceweasel 3.0.6-1 and it doesn't work at all, even with the popup blocker turned

Re: Lenny upgrade Report

2009-02-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 04:15:15AM -0600, P. Lane wrote: [...] Appaerently with exim4 you must accept the maintainers new config file even if you don't want to. Otherwise it leaves the DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF in the config which causes the error whitch cascades I had the same problem a couple

[OT] Linux on the London Tube?

2009-02-17 Thread Richard Lyons
I saw this ad on the tube recently, and was disappointed to find it wasn't inviting people to migrate from the dark side http://the-place.net/penguin/migrate.jpg But maybe we should... richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: make - doesn't find header file but file is available

2009-02-17 Thread H.S.
Benjamin Schmidt wrote: Hello community Maybe this is one of the beginner questions answered more than a thousand times without becoming visible in google search ;) Some projects to compile with gcc/make come with the script ./configure. They are easy for me to build. But what I have now

Re: [OT] Linux on the London Tube?

2009-02-17 Thread Paulo Brito
lol!! That's funny! 2009/2/17 Richard Lyons rich...@the-place.net I saw this ad on the tube recently, and was disappointed to find it wasn't inviting people to migrate from the dark side http://the-place.net/penguin/migrate.jpg But maybe we should... richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-17 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 02/16/2009 07:05 PM: On 02/16/2009 06:50 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: dgwicks:~# unzip -v UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP. It doesn't look like it has changed in the past five years, which makes me think it might be something else

Re: [OT] Linux on the London Tube?

2009-02-17 Thread Jamie White
If only it was a Linux ad! On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Paulo Brito paulorsbrito.lis...@gmail.comwrote: lol!! That's funny! 2009/2/17 Richard Lyons rich...@the-place.net I saw this ad on the tube recently, and was disappointed to find it wasn't inviting people to migrate from the dark

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, Wow. Even your 2.4 kernel is old!! I never received a kernel update, although I did frequent apt-get update/upgrade. And I don't want to update to a newer debian version, because that machine has onle 24mb RAM and who knows how well a new version of postgres or the kernel will cope with

Re: [OT] Linux on the London Tube?

2009-02-17 Thread Sholem Aleichem
I liked that. Shame it wasn't for a GNU/Linux system. Not sure London underground adverts would do much good though. On Tuesday 17 February 2009 7:31:57 pm Jamie White wrote: If only it was a Linux ad! On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Paulo Brito paulorsbrito.lis...@gmail.comwrote: lol!!

Re: xen virtual network(solved)

2009-02-17 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Freddy Freeloader wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to create both frontend and backend networks in xen. By that I mean a publicly available network for internet access and a virtual network for communication between guests only that has no internet or other network access. Here's what

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2009 01:34 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: [snip] Is there any way to use libc6-i586? I don't think that there currently is such a beast. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [OT] Linux on the London Tube?

2009-02-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 07:34:54PM +, Sholem Aleichem wrote: On Tuesday 17 February 2009 7:31:57 pm Jamie White wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Paulo Brito paulorsbrito.lis...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/2/17 Richard Lyons rich...@the-place.net I saw this ad on the tube

Re: [OT] Linux on the London Tube?

2009-02-17 Thread Sholem Aleichem
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 7:43:37 pm Richard Lyons wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 07:34:54PM +, Sholem Aleichem wrote: On Tuesday 17 February 2009 7:31:57 pm Jamie White wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Paulo Brito paulorsbrito.lis...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/2/17 Richard

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Is there any way to use libc6-i586? I don't think that there currently is such a beast. But after all, where does that libc6-i686 package come from? I installed Debian-3.1 on that machine, and when asking apt to install something, it should look into Sarge's online repositories - and as far as

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2009 01:50 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Is there any way to use libc6-i586? I don't think that there currently is such a beast. But after all, where does that libc6-i686 package come from? I installed Debian-3.1 on that machine, and when asking apt to install something, it should look

Re: Lenny upgrade: Failed to load modules ati and typ1 when starting X. No drivers available

2009-02-17 Thread S D
--- On Tue, 2/17/09, pavlos.paris wrote: Try the following 1) inside GNOME/KDE open a terminal and run xvidtune and tune the settings as you wish. Then click on show button, this will print on the terminal the setting to be used in xorg.conf. Weird, when I try to run (as root)

Re: [OT] Linux on the London Tube?

2009-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
2009/2/17 Richard Lyons rich...@the-place.net I saw this ad on the tube recently, and was disappointed to find it wasn't inviting people to migrate from the dark side http://the-place.net/penguin/migrate.jpg But maybe we should... It strikes me that a sticker bearing, say, Get your ticket

Re: [OT] Linux on the London Tube?

2009-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
Oops... 2009/2/17 Sam Kuper sam.ku...@uclmail.net It strikes me that a sticker bearing, say, Get your ticket freedom at www.debian.org [...] s/ticket freedom/ticket to freedom/

Re: Lenny upgrade: Failed to load modules ati and typ1 when starting X. No drivers available

2009-02-17 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:08:26 -0800 (PST) S D sund...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 2/17/09, pavlos.paris wrote: Try the following 1) inside GNOME/KDE open a terminal and run xvidtune and tune the settings as you wish. Then click on show button, this will print on the terminal

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Clemens Eisserer
You're stressing out over nothing. It's obvious: your PC is a 586. lib6-686 is designed for 686+; thus, don't install lib6-686. What the hell could be more obvious?? That was my question after all. I would like to install autossh, but apt detects some dependencies, including some

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Clemens Eisserer wrote: That was my question after all. I would like to install autossh, but apt detects some dependencies, including some package named libc6. The package libc6 seems to suggest libc6-i686, at least that what I understood from your descriptions. The big question is, will

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Clemens Eisserer
It's just a Suggest, so it won't be installed, unless you ask for it. So simply don't. The original command output shows that only libc6 libedit2 libkeyutils1 libkrb53 libncurses5 libssl0.9.8 locales openssh-client will actually be installed. All other packages are just suggestions, that

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2009 02:19 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Clemens Eisserer wrote: That was my question after all. I would like to install autossh, but apt detects some dependencies, including some package named libc6. The package libc6 seems to suggest libc6-i686, at least that what I understood

power off without acpi

2009-02-17 Thread Engi Zoltán
Hi everybody, How can I shutdown my computer without acpi? In the grub menu, I have next line: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64 root=/dev/hdc6 ro acpi=off So, I can switch off acpi, but after shutdown -h now command the computer doesn't switch off. I get next message: Sytem halted. I don't want

[SOLVED] Re: Lenny upgrade: Can't mount mdadm RAID drive under kernel 2.6.26

2009-02-17 Thread S D
--- On Tue, 2/17/09, S D sund...@yahoo.com wrote: The issue was solved by: # rm -rf /var/lib/mdadm/CONF-UNCHECKED # update-initramfs -ut -k 2.6.26-1-686 See /usr/share/doc/mdadm/README.upgrading-2.5.3.gz for more details. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Lenny upgrade: Failed to load modules ati and typ1 when starting X. No drivers available

2009-02-17 Thread S D
--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Pavlos Parissis p_pav...@freemail.gr wrote: You don't need root access in order to run that command. True, but if I run it as a regular user, it gets even funnier: $ which xvidtune /usr/bin/xvidtune $ `which xvidtune` Please install the program before using $

Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo
Hi all, my first day on the list, usually, I use fedora, since fedora 1 (today's release is 10). Now, I'm trying Lenny. Downloaded netinst AMD64 but no GUI. Now, installing fglrx. Is there any short install guide (like http://www.fedorafaq.org/) you can suggest for a debian newbie? Thanks a

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/18 Khristian Alexander Schönrock der.ko...@gmail.com: Adrian Levi escreveu: This will let you reuse your existing partitions. That's the problem. I'm selecting the manual partitioning, but it doesn't list the existing partitions. The installer simply defaults to the screen shown in

Re: Belkin 54g Wireless Desktop Network Card

2009-02-17 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:19:50 + Martin Sewell mar...@martinsewell.com wrote: I'd be most grateful for any advice on how to get the following working with Debian 2.6.18-6-486. Belkin 54g Wireless Desktop Network Card model no. F5D7000 version 1133uk We need the chipset information

Re: etch/EVMS upgrade to lenny

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/18 Oliver Dr. Muth samweis2...@yahoo.de: Hi Since lenny dropped support for EVMS I guess it would be fatal to just dist-upgrade an etch system that is based on EVMS volumes. However, I could not find anything on this issue in the release notes. Should I file this as a bug against

Re: dvips update

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/17 Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com: Does anyone know how I can update, in Etch, my old dvips(k) 5.95a with the newest lenny dvips(k) 5.96.1? Otherwise I'll have to full-upgrade to lenny... Thanks for any help Rodolfo Add lenny sources to your sources.list aptitude update

Re: Debian VPN IPSEC interface

2009-02-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 02:04:43PM +0100, Martin Hilpert wrote: i need the ipsecX device for doing the routing stuff with quagga and for Firewall rules I am not sure about quagga, but I used use ipsecX for firewall rules as well, but if you check out iptables there are new(? old by now)

error after testing update

2009-02-17 Thread Rick Pasotto
I updated a bunch of packages to the new testing today. I'm now getting the following error: Feb 17 15:02:28 niof spamd[25754]: Use of uninitialized value $NetAddr::IP::Util::n2d_format in sprintf at ../../blib/lib/NetAddr/IP/Util.pm (autosplit into

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2009 03:00 PM, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: Hi all, my first day on the list, usually, I use fedora, since fedora 1 (today's release is 10). Now, I'm trying Lenny. Downloaded netinst AMD64 but no GUI. Now, installing fglrx. netinst might not have a GUI installer? (The Lenny GUI

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread H.S.
Hello, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: Hi all, my first day on the list, usually, I use fedora, since fedora 1 (today's release is 10). Now, I'm trying Lenny. Downloaded netinst AMD64 but no GUI. Now, installing fglrx. Is there any short install guide (like http://www.fedorafaq.org/)

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I don't think Debian defaults to a GUI install, although there is one. Check the F-keys at the boot prompt. Lenny just became stable, the mirrors might be shaky. debian.org has manuals for instalations per architecture, those are extensive and suffice for newbies to the *nix world, so they'll

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 21:58:20 H.S. wrote: Coming from Fedora, it may be no useful to know that there is no runlevel (init x) command in Debian as there is in Fedora. Most common use for me of these commands was to restart the gui. In debian, almost all such services are controlled

Serious Error in Lenny Stable: X Server doesn't works when i reboot eight or nine times

2009-02-17 Thread Carlos Carrero Gutierrez
Hi, i have installed the DVD-1 Lenny stable (15 feb), and it works well. But when i try to reboot the computer eight times (more or less), the OS doesn't start anymore. I switch on the computer, i choose my partition, username and password, ok. Now, it appears (translated to english): There is a

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2009 03:58 PM, H.S. wrote: Hello, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: Hi all, my first day on the list, usually, I use fedora, since fedora 1 (today's release is 10). Now, I'm trying Lenny. Downloaded netinst AMD64 but no GUI. Now, installing fglrx. Is there any short install guide

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-02-17 23:07 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 17 February 2009 21:58:20 H.S. wrote: Coming from Fedora, it may be no useful to know that there is no runlevel (init x) command in Debian as there is in Fedora. Most common use for me of these commands was to restart the gui. In debian,

Re: Upgrading to Lenny 2.6.26: serverworks OSB4 IDE problem

2009-02-17 Thread Tim Day
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 13:26 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: Don't know, maybe you can try to build a custom kernel with CONFIG_PATA_SERVERWORKS (it is disabled in the Debian kernel) which seems to be the PATA driver for your IDE controller. Yes that did the job; thanks for the tip. Instructions at

I can't mount pendrives or hard disks

2009-02-17 Thread Carlos Carrero Gutierrez
The message is *option invalid trying to mount anyname*. Curiously, one hard disk works, but the rest no. What could i do? i am using Debian lenny (i know that i am posting it in ubuntu too, but the systems are similars) Thank you very much, I appreciatte your help.

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/17/2009 03:58 PM, H.S. wrote: Other than this, you will find this list very helpful. Searching google usually gives pretty good hits too. Coming from Fedora, it may be no useful to know that there is no runlevel (init x) command in Debian as there is in Fedora.

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-17 Thread Khristian Alexander Schönrock
Adrian Levi escreveu: 2009/2/18 Khristian Alexander Schönrock der.ko...@gmail.com: Adrian Levi escreveu: This will let you reuse your existing partitions. That's the problem. I'm selecting the manual partitioning, but it doesn't list the existing partitions. The

Re: I can't mount pendrives or hard disks

2009-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2009 04:24 PM, Carlos Carrero Gutierrez wrote: The message is *option invalid trying to mount anyname*. Curiously, one hard disk works, but the rest no. What could i do? i am using Debian lenny (i know that i am posting it in ubuntu too, but the systems are similars) Are you doing

Re: Lenny upgrade: Failed to load modules ati and typ1 when starting X. No drivers available

2009-02-17 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:06:48 -0800 (PST) S D sund...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Pavlos Parissis p_pav...@freemail.gr wrote: You don't need root access in order to run that command. True, but if I run it as a regular user, it gets even funnier: $ which xvidtune

Are squeeze daily CDs being produced yet?

2009-02-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On the cdimage daily builds page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/ there is mention of Lenny and Sid, but no mention of squeeze. Is that a bug? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Lenny upgrade: Failed to load modules ati and typ1 when starting X. No drivers available

2009-02-17 Thread S D
--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Pavlos Parissis p_pav...@freemail.gr wrote: [pparis...@spartacos][~]$ id -a uid=1000(pparissis) gid=1000(pparissis) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),34(backup),40(src),44(video),46(plugdev),1000(pparissis) [pparis...@spartacos][~]$ which xvidtune

Are squeeze weekly CDs being produced yet?

2009-02-17 Thread Rick Thomas
Same sort of thing for the weekly page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ It mentions Lenny as if it were still testing. Rick On Feb 17, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On the cdimage daily builds page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/

Restoring file permissions from package database?

2009-02-17 Thread Oliver Schneider
Hi, is there any way in Debian (4.0 or 5.0) to restore the file permissions - mainly of files inside /etc/ - from the cached packages or the package database or so? The only other chance I see - without reinstalling - would be to install all those packages into a dummy installation (e.g. in a

Re: Restoring file permissions from package database?

2009-02-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:45:30AM +0100, Oliver Schneider wrote: is there any way in Debian (4.0 or 5.0) to restore the file permissions - mainly of files inside /etc/ - from the cached packages or the package database or so? The only other chance I see - without reinstalling - would be to

source device options for /etc/crypttab in Lenny?

2009-02-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
I'm just reading Lenny's release notes and have come to the section that discusses device renaming. I have root=LABEL=root so after an upgrade I should be able to boot. However, I have some directories mounted with cryptsetup. In Etch's cryptsetup and crypttab man pages I don't see any

Re: KDE

2009-02-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 02:40:59 Jimmy Johnson wrote: Thanks Boyd, you have confirmed my findings and I will stick to doing my mini installs and not installing desktop meta-packages. I've found that generally works best for me, but I still just use meta-package + extras when I'm installing

Re: Older Debian Linux version hangs when detecting hardware

2009-02-17 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 16 February 2009, Martin Willcocks wrote: I have an older Debian Linux version that came with Corel WordPerfect 8, and it had been working satisfactorily on my somewhat ancient 170MHz Pentium computer system with 128Mb RAM, but Lilo stopped working about a year ago. Despite several

Re: testing or unstable?

2009-02-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-02-17_13:02:38, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I've been using Debian for more than three years now, but always using the official DVDs of the most current stable version: first Sarge, and then Etch. Recently, many times I've been needing to use a testing/unstable Debian version for many

Re: testing or unstable?

2009-02-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 07:02:38 Rodolfo Medina wrote: I've been using Debian for more than three years now, but always using the official DVDs of the most current stable version: first Sarge, and then Etch. Recently, many times I've been needing to use a testing/unstable Debian version

emacs and terminus, proggy and ttf-inconsolata fonts

2009-02-17 Thread H.S.
Hello, This is on Testing. In Emacs if I left-click the mouse button with the Shift key pressed, I get the Font Menu from which I can select some of the preset fonts (fixed, courier, etc.). I want to try terminus, proggy and ttf-inconsolata fonts. I can set terminus font by setting the Basic

Re: IPMI problem compiling linux 2.6.28.5 in Debian Way

2009-02-17 Thread whollygoat
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:02:37 +0100, Adrian Chapela achapela.rexist...@gmail.com said: Thomas Preud'homme escribió: On Tuesday 17 February 2009 12:31:45 Adrian Chapela wrote: Hello, I am compiling Linux Kernel 2.6.28.5. Where did you get the sources ? I first thought it

label swap partition

2009-02-17 Thread marcslists
I'm trying to prepare my etch system for upgrade, and am converting to labels in fstab. I tried to label my swap partition (which is swap type in part table) by doing mkswap -L rootswap /dev/hda1 (the current dev name of my swap partition) but swapon -L rootswap says it can't find the label. i

Re: Are squeeze weekly CDs being produced yet?

2009-02-17 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/2/18 Rick Thomas rbthoma...@pobox.com Same sort of thing for the weekly page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ It mentions Lenny as if it were still testing. Rick On Feb 17, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On the cdimage daily builds page

Re: Older Debian Linux version hangs when detecting hardware

2009-02-17 Thread Martin Willcocks
Hi Greg and Douglas: Many thanks for the additional information about diagnostics and the older Debian Linux. There is probably a hardware issue with one of the floppy drives that is somehow corrected once Windows 98 has fully booted, but which still affects booting from a floppy disk. I

Re: Older Debian Linux version hangs when detecting hardware

2009-02-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:23:29PM -0700, Martin Willcocks wrote: Hi Greg and Douglas: Martin, don't cc me; I subscribe to the list. floppy drives that is somehow corrected once Windows 98 has fully booted, but which still affects booting from a floppy disk. I did try You can probably

[OT]: Label printer

2009-02-17 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Hi, I need a label printer. I was looking at this one: BROTHER Label Printer NB P-Touch QL-500A Has anyone used it ? Or can you give me information on a label printer that you use under debian? Thank you. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Are squeeze weekly CDs being produced yet?

2009-02-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:48:41AM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: 2009/2/18 Rick Thomas rbthoma...@pobox.com Same sort of thing for the weekly page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ It mentions Lenny as if it were still testing. Rick On Feb 17, 2009, at

Re: Can't update Testing system

2009-02-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:30:37PM -0500, JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com was heard to say: Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 09:18:55PM -0500, JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com was heard to say: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libsox-fmt-base_14.2.0-1_i386.deb

Is there a way to recover network-manager wep keys without network manager

2009-02-17 Thread Micha Feigin
I moved to wicd some time ago from network manger and I have a wep key to a network I used to work with some time ago tucked away with network-manager that is no longer installed. Is there a way to recover that key? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: etch/EVMS upgrade to lenny

2009-02-17 Thread Oliver Dr. Muth
Hi Adrian thanks for the quick reply. Are the partitions Native EVMS or are they normal partitions accessed through the /dev/evms/ mount points? Most of them are native EVMS, because I occasionally used the snapshot function. They are EVMS on LVM2 on a software RAID. I could probably convert

Re: label swap partition

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/18 marcsli...@gmail.com: I'm trying to prepare my etch system for upgrade, and am converting to labels in fstab. I tried to label my swap partition (which is swap type in part table) by doing mkswap -L rootswap /dev/hda1 (the current dev name of my swap partition) but swapon -L

Re: etch/EVMS upgrade to lenny

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/18 Oliver Dr. Muth samweis2...@yahoo.de: Hi Adrian thanks for the quick reply. Are the partitions Native EVMS or are they normal partitions accessed through the /dev/evms/ mount points? Most of them are native EVMS, because I occasionally used the snapshot function. They are EVMS

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