RE: Gnome xml parsing error only allows one login

2006-06-13 Thread Allen Williams
:23PM -0400, Allen Williams wrote: When I select Gnome as my desktop environment, I get an XML parsing error dialog, with no close button but a window decoration that lets me close it. When I close it, the system just hangs, and I have to CTL-ALT F1 to get a console window and kill the X

RE: Gnome xml parsing error only allows one login

2006-06-13 Thread Allen Williams
. -Original Message- From: Allen Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 9:01 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Gnome xml parsing error only allows one login Thanks. I'll run through this this evening. -Original Message- From

RE: Can't find libselinux1

2006-06-12 Thread Allen Williams
allways have access to the lates packages), read the man page for apt-cdrom and perhaps some web pages about how apt works (recomend perhaps by starting at wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Packaging_Tool :-) ). Oli Þann 2006-06-11, 19:16:01 (-0400) skrifaði Allen Williams

unauthenticated packages

2006-06-12 Thread Allen Williams
and find no corporate or national secrets, or even a good stash of movies;-), but I don't know why these packages don't authenticate. Thanks Regards, Allen Williams (321)258-1272 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Gnome xml parsing error only allows one login

2006-06-12 Thread Allen Williams
When I select Gnome as my desktop environment, I get an XML parsing error dialog, with no close button but a window decoration that lets me close it. When I close it, the system just hangs, and I have to CTL-ALT F1 to get a console window and kill the X process. The error is: XML parsing error:

RE: Failed to install man pages, then debootstrap fails, and the house falls in

2006-06-11 Thread Allen Williams
have existing data. -Original Message- From: Allen Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 1:18 PM To: 'Allen Williams'; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Failed to install man pages, then debootstrap fails, and the house falls in Hello? Anyone

Can't find libselinux1

2006-06-11 Thread Allen Williams
into this pkgcache so apt-get can get to it. When I do an apt-cache add, it says unimplemented, and the documentation says that's for source packages, anyway. Thanks Regards, Allen Williams (321)258-1272 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Failed to install man pages, then debootstrap fails, and the house falls in

2006-06-11 Thread Allen Williams
find, but there are bound to be some gurus out there (or even someone who had a hand in writing this Debian installer). TIA, allen -Original Message- From: Allen Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 10:51 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Failed

Failed to install man pages, then debootstrap fails, and the house falls in

2006-06-10 Thread Allen Williams
debconf version information, is it installed? Then there's a message debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed illegal seek also, there's an error: dpkg: unknow user 'root' in statoverride file and dpkg fails. Any ideas? TIA Thanks Regards, Allen Williams (321)258-1272 [EMAIL

FW: Base system install- eval: 3: Syntax error: newline unexpected (expecting ))

2004-11-17 Thread Allen Williams
I sent this out this morning and it Reply'd only to the person who had responded instead of the the list (sorry, Paul, I meant it to go to the list). -Original Message- From: Allen Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 9:16 AM To: Paul E Condon Subject: RE

RE: Base system install- eval: 3: Syntax error: newline unexpected (expecting ))

2004-11-17 Thread Allen Williams
Well, I didn't see this until after the last post. I'll get in sync here in a second! And, thanks for the response. - snip - Are you using 'net install' (the name given to the new install system) I think so... in your attempts to get started? If not, you should

RE: Base system install- eval: 3: Syntax error: newline unexpected (expecting ))

2004-11-17 Thread Allen Williams
: Syntax error: newline unexpected (expecting )) On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 05:20:58PM -0500, Allen Williams wrote: Well, I didn't see this until after the last post. I'll get in sync here in a second! And, thanks for the response. ... I am downloading these images, one at a time, from

Base system install- eval: 3: Syntax error: newline unexpected (expecting ))

2004-11-16 Thread Allen Williams
Trying to install sarge (woody doesn't have the support for my intel 1000M ethernet card), plain vanilla x86 hardware: Linux system was previously installed. I've tried four or five different releases of sarge, with different dates, and searched email archives and Google and found (almost)

RE: Mouse Jumps/ Moves Erratically

2004-06-27 Thread Allen Williams
On Saturday 26 June 2004 23:31, Allen Williams wrote: -Original Message- [...] This is not a fix, but it might serve as a work-around. If you're not using gpm, install it and reconfigure it and X to play nice together. Then when your mouse goes screwy, just restart gpm and see

RE: broken nvidia package, is there a work around?

2004-06-26 Thread Allen Williams
If you can make it work as Joris says, so much the better, because then debian will manage it. I finally just did a manual install using kernel 2.6.6, sarge, and nVidia 5336 drivers. I'm not too worried about doing that with something that *ought* to be as static and featureless as a device

Mouse Jumps/ Moves Erratically

2004-06-26 Thread Allen Williams
I have a not-strictly-PS/2 mouse, as I have just found out by tracing the cable. This is a Logitech USB mouse (well, trackball, actually) with a PS/2 adapter that goes into a KVM switch (Omniview 2-port KVM switch). The KVM switch connects a Linux and a Windows machine. When I reboot, the mouse

RE: kernel 2.6.7

2004-06-26 Thread Allen Williams
My understanding is it's out and ready to go- I'm still on 2.6.6. -Original Message- From: DGLU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Antonio Rodriguez Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 3:29 PM To: Debian Users List Subject: kernel 2.6.7 What is the status of 2.6.7 in sid? Does any one

RE: Mouse Jumps/ Moves Erratically

2004-06-26 Thread Allen Williams
seem to work better when I move it slower, but still not right and we are talking *real* slow here. Thanks;) -Original Message- From: Thomas Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 1:44 PM To: Allen Williams; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mouse Jumps/ Moves

RE: Mouse Jumps/ Moves Erratically

2004-06-26 Thread Allen Williams
Erratically Allen Williams wrote: (undeclared snippage in the following) The KVM switch connects a Linux and a Windows machine. But with Linux, however, if you boot with Linux selected on the KVM, it is OK, but if you switch to Windows and back again, the Linux mouse is all screwed up

X, video card,monitor, refresh rates, etc.

2004-06-22 Thread Allen Williams
Can't get X to work. Using a Micro-Star video card built on the nVidia GeForce FX chipset with an Optiquest Q110 monitor. The specs on the monitor are: Fh=30-97 khz, Fv=50-160 hz, with resolutions up to 1600x1200. Couldn't find a specific nVidia GeForce FX driver, so am using the nv generic

RE: X, video card,monitor, refresh rates, etc.

2004-06-22 Thread Allen Williams
(for future reference; trying to learn the intricacies of Debian Linux)? Thanks, Allen -Original Message- From: dodol garut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:05 PM To: debian Subject: Re: X, video card,monitor, refresh rates, etc. --- Allen Williams [EMAIL

sarge install: Install base system bombs and disk errors (?)

2004-06-20 Thread Allen Williams
When I get to this stage in the installation, the system *appears* to hang- when I check the alt-F3 console, there are two error messages: modprobe: failed to load module floppy eval: 3: Syntax error: newline unexpected (expected )) Also, is there a good reference on using logical partitions,

RE: sarge install: Install base system bombs and disk errors (?)

2004-06-20 Thread Allen Williams
20, 2004 1:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sarge install: Install base system bombs and disk errors (?) On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:08:59 -0400, Allen Williams wrote: and, on console alt-F4, I am getting these error messages: June 20 00:58:56 (none) syslog.warn klogd: hdc: media

RE: sarge install: Install base system bombs and disk errors (?)

2004-06-20 Thread Allen Williams
with either of these would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Allen -Original Message- From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 3:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sarge install: Install base system bombs and disk errors (?) Allen Williams wrote

RE: sarge install: Install base system bombs and disk errors(?)

2004-06-20 Thread Allen Williams
, and I couldn't begin to unravel the mysteries of why net-install worked and why the usual CD installation failed. Greg On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 16:37, Allen Williams wrote: OK, fixed that problem, but, with sarge, I still get the following errors (same as original problem): modprobe

RE: sarge install: Install base system bombs and disk errors(?)

2004-06-20 Thread Allen Williams
and disk errors (?) Allen Williams wrote: This is a brand new system- no data to worry about, but would like to get the system installed. Given a brand new system, don't think my hardware is dying, but, of course, anything is possible. -Original Message

RE: sarge install: Install base system bombs and disk errors(?)

2004-06-20 Thread Allen Williams
: Gregory Pierce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 9:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: sarge install: Install base system bombs and disk errors(?) On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 20:20, Allen Williams wrote: Greg, Thanks for the help. What do you mean, you used jigdo? I

RE: sarge install: Install base system bombs and disk errors(?)

2004-06-20 Thread Allen Williams
Sorry...:( from now on... -Original Message- From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 9:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sarge install: Install base system bombs and disk errors(?) Gregory Pierce wrote: On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 20:20, Allen