d behavior with
mozilla out of a debian package that you don't get when you install
directly from upstream, sounds like a good reason to file a bug.
They can't fix it if they don't know about it.
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things it
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> And i can't find samba-2.2.8a in the installable packages, which comes
> with this source.
>
> Any idea to solve this problem ?
Contact the samba folks and get them to fix this repository? Use a
different samba d/l repository which is set up correctly, if one
exists?
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Narrative description:
http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html
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;s done receiving from
fetchmail, and then quits?
Confused, I am.
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"As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I
have become civilized." - Chief
ar, your question gets asked pretty frequently.
See http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#apt-howto . . .it has a
brief bit explaining how to solve your problem.
You may also want to read:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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> %xxx#
Except the original poster asked about 2.2.20, not 2.4.20.
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ux-usb/
Click on lists for access to the linux-usb-users list.
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"As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I
have become civilized." - Chief Luth
ouble, I'd bet. Right about when it ran depmod in order to
build the dependency file for modprobe to use.
So what about all the rest of the stuff I typed; was it helpful?
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On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 13:08:39 +0200
"Esben Laursen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: "Chris Metzler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 23:50:06 +0200
> >"Esben Laursen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
on than you've given. Specifically,
what version of gcc did you use (the output of linux/scripts/ver_linux
would provide lots of info, but the gcc version you're using is probably
enough). Also, and especially, what architecture are you on, and did
you specify that architecture in your ker
ve questions, of course. I use
xmms for just about everything except playing CDs; for that, I use
grip. But that's just me; you're likely to get as many different
answers to this question as there are people who listen to stuff on
their machines.
I hope all this helps in some way. BTW,
be
extra picky about the heatsink/fan that you use. You might with stores
that build systems with XP 2500+ CPUs to see what cooling systems they
typically use.
Good luck,
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be others if you were aggressive about
sub-partitioning. For example, if /var/mail were its own partition,
mounted at either /var/mail or /var/spool/mail depending on what a
particular distro did, I would think that'd work.
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ces options, or through
adding a "Workspace Switcher" applet to your panel and configuring its
preferences. Viewports, OTOH, are not supported by metacity, the
default window manager for Gnome 2. If you switch to sawfish, you
may be able to get them back, I dunno.
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fonts, both so that I'm not constantly having to research the same
things over and over and also in case it's a help to anyone else.
If I've got something wrong, I definitely wanna know.
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p://lists.debian.org/search.html
and searched the archives of this mailing list for the last week and found
this immediately:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200307/msg00588.html
You may also find this to be of use:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questi
to provide a smooth upgrade for those who had apt-howto installed
} before the package was splited and may be removed after that.
.. . .with a similar message for the versions in testing or unstable.
So it was done for the APT HOWTO for a specific reason. I dunno
what other documentation pack
Oops.
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 12:02:23 -0400
Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> No, I don't know that it is stated anywhere; but it's an obvious
> conclusion of the way in which testing is built. See
>
> http://www.debian.org/devel/testing
>
> It&#
mes there are exceptions.
> The page states of testing "This area contains packages that
> are intended to become part of the next stable distribution." I am
> interested in what packages are part of the next stable release. This is
> what I will be showing friends and
bite the bullet
and run sid. Choosing one of these options also brings you the bonus
that you'll get security updates more quickly, as testing is the last
place for security updates to appear (since testing won't see security
updates to packages until the updated versions are
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
This may or may not be your problem, but take a look at this thread:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200305/msg00207.html
To check, move your call for
uals/reference/reference.en.html
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html
.. . .which should help you answer your question (especially the
latter one).
Also, regarding security updates, you may wish to subscribe to the
debian-security-announce mailing list.
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"gettext" in stable and testing, and was moved into "gettext-base"
in unstable. So it looks like you're installing gettext out of
testing (ver 0.10.40-8), when you've installed gettext-base out of
unstable (or something like that). So you might try purging
both packages
ct between XP and the beautiful Debian.
Configure your bootloader to do just that. My personal preference
is for grub; this should help you to understand grub:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4622
Please also read:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 19:35:01 -0400
Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Chris Metzler([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
>>>
>>> man gpm
>>>
>>> <- quote on ->
>>>
>>> -t name
>>>Set the mouse type
in the shoes of the person to whom you're
replying . . .no, it wouldn't. I don't use gpm; gpm wasn't installed
when I did my initial install; none of the installation docs referred
me to gpm; I never even heard of it until joining this list a few
months ago. I learned how to get my
portant; volunteer on the things that
*I* think are important instead!"
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"As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I
have become civilized." - Chief
wever, that one big reason that Knoppix/Libranet/etc.
can have smoother installation than Debian itself is *because* the army
of Debian developers are taking care of most all the other issues involved
in producing a well-functioning distribution. This leaves Libranet, for
example, t
You might also find these interesting:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200305/msg02043.html
http://cvs.debian.org/debian-installer/
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ll sorts of hardware support that you
probably *don't* need.
See
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html
for a tutorial on compiling and installing kernels on Debian machines.
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umping in to ALSA? The message
suggests a driver/module that isn't present. Like OSS, ALSA relies
on soundcore; is that in? What does lsmod say? What does the
alsa portion of your /etc/modules.conf look like?
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, your last attempt
to get X to start properly) would have been logged in
/var/log/XFree86.0.log. What does that say? If it's a huge
file, making it available somewhere else and then providing a
link (rather than posting to the mailing list) is a good idea.
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1);
b) look for an unofficial backport to stable, e.g. at
http://www.apt-get.org/ . . .note that if there's a python 2.2
backport available, it will probably be a backport to *woody*,
rather than potato. In other words, you'll probably still have
to upgrade to the current stable version
at be significant? Or am I barking up the wrong
tree as usual?
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e to put it?
man -k modules
man 5 modules
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for "cd writer linux" are
targeted at Red Hat, but they make clear that it's SCSI emulation,
through the ide-scsi kernel module, that you're after.
This document, aimed at Debian users, should help you:
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still around), the script will instead
bomb when it tries to run lilo on the floppy.
Am I right about these? Are these bug-report worthy?
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"As a child I understood
fference in performance. Now, I haven't done this experiment
myself; if you've seen a difference in performance, than you have.
But without such a difference in performance, I can't see how it's
worthwhile, even if it's cheap. Cheap useless stuff is still useless
stuff.
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 21:36:54 -0400 (EDT)
Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I like my HP laserjet 1200SE, which meets all your criteria. Fast,
> cheap, postscript, parallel.
This is my printer as well, and I concur.
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On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 03:41:04 -0400
Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Chris Metzler wrote:
>> On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 00:53:00 -0500
>> Hanasaki JiJi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>Any news on when gnome2 and/or gtk2 will be in sarge? sarge recently
is?
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/www.debian.org/distrib/packages
and search package directories for the packages you want, looking only
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instead being mostly constrained by I/O speed), I eagerly await your
numbers from a battery of real-world tests.
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On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 17:07:02 -0400
Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 08:24:09 -0400
>Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> No. The kernel is built *and* then a .deb file containing the kernel
>> is built, which you can then inst
correctly.
>
> Is this correct?
No. The kernel is built *and* then a .deb file containing the kernel
is built, which you can then install using "deb -i".
Please read http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html
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martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> also sprach Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.06.06.0952
> +0200]:
>> I'm coming in late to this thread; but as I understand it, you get
>> the usual errors compiling th
nd it, you get
the usual errors compiling the kernel with gcc-3.3; but when you
compile your kernel with gcc-2.95, it gripes about the athlon
switch. Is that right? If so, what keeps you from compiling your
kernel with gcc-2.95 but not specifying athlon?
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g on here?
Yeah. Take a look at:
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html
section 2.2. It's the *development* library package that you
need, I think.
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boot, discover IDs it with no problem,
loads the correct module, passes along the correct i/o addy and irq,
etc. If you're not using discover, you may wanna give it a try.
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I just don't
> remember what got updated yesterday. I've uninstalled Nautilus and
> reinstalled it. I've run dpkg-reconfigure nautilus. No change. No icons,
> no right-click on desktop.
OK, you've uninstalled, reinstalled, and reconfigured. But is it
running? Is it sta
w
Debian *should* do it; it also shows that this debate (about how
Debian *should* do it) has occurred before; so there's not much
point in having that debate again here."
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e it
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bombs there. If the file *is* present but lilo itself
is not (say, you had lilo once upon a time, but replaced it with
grub; but the /etc/lilo.conf is still around), the script will instead
bomb when it tries to run lilo on the floppy.
Am I right about these? Are these bug-report worthy?
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/dev/scd0
brw-rw1 root cdrom 11, 0 Aug 27 2002 /dev/scd0
stax:/usr/bin-805> dir /usr/bin/cdrdao
-rwsr-xr-x1 root root 532292 Oct 15 2002 /usr/bin/cdrdao*
Does anyone have a clue why I'm getting these warning messages? What
have I missed?
Thanks much.
Please help!
A suggestion: in general, when you've got a question, it's a good idea
to try doing a simple web search, or search of this mailing list's
archives. In particular, your question gets asked pretty frequently.
See http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#apt-howto .
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 08:59:15 -0400
Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:01:27 +0200
>"gabriel meier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have some strange Problems with my user login here:
>> An
itself.
>
> I would be greatful for every idea you have.
Check and see if your root filesystem is being mounted noexec. If that's
it, see "man mount" for an explanation of that flag.
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Life's easier when I don't go behind the package manager's back.
When you make your copy of 2.4.18-bf2.4, give it your own
append-to-version. The package manager will then see it as
a differently named package.
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On Fri, 30 May 2003 17:54:21 -0400
Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Chris Metzler wrote:
>> .. . .which are not depended on by anything in testing. I don't know
>> why libparted1.4 and libparted1.6 are both in testing right now,
>> because libparted1.4 look
iteup for "-f" says:
} It is possible that a system's dependency
} structure can be so corrupt as to require manual intervention
} (which usually means using dselect(8) or dpkg --remove to elimi-
} nate some of the offending packages).
i.e.
different
button settings, to find out whether any package in testing contains
those three files. Looks like they've all been incorporated into the
"perl" package.
I confirmed this by going into aptitude, looking under upgradeable
packages, going to "perl", and
uff
in that box. This sort of thing happens from time to time, especially
when it involves upgrades to stuff like perl or python (which also
happened recently). There's a certain extent you can minimize it
manually, as per above; otherwise, you just gotta tough it out. If
it gets just too a
mailing list's
archives turned up:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200305/msg03360.html
A lot of people have reported problems like this; switching to 2.95
has usually done the trick.
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files are always on the
> saem ide chain so YMMV.
I'll check that out, thanks muchly.
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and got a bunch of pages. Most
seemed to indicate that a (fairly simple) kernel source tweak was all
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Hi. Thanks for the quick reply.
On 01 Apr 2003 23:39:34 -0500
James D Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 20:35, Chris Metzler wrote:
>
>> When this occurred, I decided to try and fix it manually by setting
>> the icon theme through gnome-
utilize its default theme properly. However, I've poked around what
nautilus docs there are, and I'm not finidng anything. Can anyone point
me in the right direction?
Thanks very much for your help,
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I would naively think is a very common user situation.
What am I missing here? Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks.
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