error with auctex on Debian - request for reproduction

2014-01-04 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi, Is there anyone out there who can check http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/151696/journal-of-statistical-software-class-breaks-preview-in-auctex and tell me whether it is reproducible? I heard from someone on the AUCTeX list, who could not reproduce it, so it may be Debian specific.

[SOLVED] Re: dpkg error

2009-04-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi Javier, On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Javier Barroso wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Faheem Mitha fah...@email.unc.edu wrote: [snip] It seems like /var/lib/dpkg/available is corrupt ? Does aptitude update help ? If not, 'dpkg --clear-avail' , could help. Thanks for the reply. I got

dpkg error

2009-04-16 Thread Faheem Mitha
and adminstering Debian since 2001, and don't recall having ever seen an error like this before. Please CC me on any reply. Thanks. Regards, Faheem Mitha. merlin:/home/faheem# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree

network problem with router

2007-07-22 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I'm having some odd networking problems with my router, The D-Link DGL-4300 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006TIA02/002-4711104-7484852). Incoming ssh connections through the router using port forwarding to two different machines with different network cards and different

Re: two network cards on a server

2007-04-19 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:18:10PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:31:33:8C inet addr:152.3.172.111 Bcast:152.3.173.255 Mask:255.255.254.0 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:31

Re: two network cards on a server

2007-04-19 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Alex Samad wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:15:25PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:06:47PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: /sbin/route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface

two network cards on a server

2007-04-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi everyone, I've got a server on which there are two network cards. One of the network cards has been configured, and has been running satisfactorily for a while. I recently plugged in the other network card and started using it for a different IP address. However, I've been having

Re: two network cards on a server

2007-04-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:20:49PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: Hi everyone, I've got a server on which there are two network cards. One of the network cards has been configured, and has been running satisfactorily for a while. I recently

Re: two network cards on a server

2007-04-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Well, there is your problem. Having two physical interfaces on the same subnet is generally a bad idea: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/01/msg01633.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-firewall/2005/03/msg00073.html You have to really

Re: two network cards on a server

2007-04-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Well, there is your problem. Having two physical interfaces on the same subnet is generally a bad idea: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/01/msg01633.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-firewall/2005/03/msg00073.html You have to really

Re: two network cards on a server

2007-04-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 06:28:29PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: Just to be clear, the interfaces are both of the form 152.3.172.*. If for example they were reconfigured so that one was of the form 152.3.171.* and the other was of the form

Release.gpg keys on security.debian.org are currently blank

2006-08-30 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi, Release.gpg keys on security.debian.org are currently empty files. This only seems to be causing problems on one machine, but does anyone know what is going on here, and how long it might be before it is fixed? Faheem. --

problem with switch

2006-08-06 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hello everyone, I've recently encountered an odd problem with a switch and a Dell PC running Debian. I'm using it on a cable modem. When I plug the machine directly into the cable modem, I can get on the net (the cable modem uses DHCP as per usual). However, when I plug the machine into the

Re: problem with switch

2006-08-06 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 02:33:35PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: Hello everyone, I've recently encountered an odd problem with a switch and a Dell PC running Debian. I'm using it on a cable modem. When I plug the machine directly into the cable

wireless network card

2006-07-23 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I'm currently visiting Salt Lake from out East (Chapel Hill, NC), through the middle of this coming week. I've been trying to find locally a wireless network card that works with Linux to install on my host's laptop. The cards available at the local retail outlets seem to only

creating and serving temporary files with apache

2005-10-20 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I'm fairly new to apache administraction, so I apologise in advance if this an obvious question. I am running Apache, which is running some CGI scripts, which allow a web client (browser) to upload data, process it, and then return the process results to the client in the form

UPS for servers?

2005-09-24 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi, I'm looking for a UPS to hook up to a rack containing three servers. I'm not precisely sure of the power consumption, but could find some hard numbers if it became necessary. I want something that will keep all three servers up for at least 1 hr. The rack is a 6U. I want a UPS whose

Re: problems with basic lvm commands on Debian

2005-08-28 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Allan Wind wrote: On 2005-08-25T23:10:05-0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/mapper# pvdisplay /dev/hda2 No physical volume label read from /dev/hda2 Failed to read physical volume /dev/hda2 How does the disk partition look like (fdisk)? Maybe

problems with basic lvm commands on Debian

2005-08-25 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I must be missing something obvious, but I'm having problems with basic commands on Debian Sarge, using lvm2. I installed lvm2 and dmsetup. I'm using the stock Debian kernel 2.6.8-2-386. I can do basic manipulations using /dev/hda1, but not with /dev/hda2. This is on a very

Re: comments about hardware

2005-07-21 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote: One dual core opteron compared to two single core opterons: Each opteron has a memory controller built in that does dual channel memory support. A dual core opteron still only has one memory controller and hypertransport to the chipset. The

comments about hardware

2005-07-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, My bioinformatics research group at Duke is buying a server, which will mostly be used as a server, particularly for web based services. The idea here is that a user will submit a request for some bioinformatics calculation via a web interface (often using Python or R or

Re: comments about hardware

2005-07-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Ed Tomlinson wrote: Hi, Dual core support is not distro specific. It depends on the kernel used. I believe that debian, with a recent (2.6.12.3+) kernel should be fine. Do you have any personal experience in using this? I'm concerned about stability issues. Also,

bash completion does not work over ssh except as root

2004-09-12 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I have noticed that bash completion only works on a remote machine I have sshed into, if I log in as root. This is obviously a case of something not being sourced correctly, but I am not sure what the problem is. Can anyone tell me how to solve this, or if not, confirm the problem?

Re: bash completion does not work over ssh except as root

2004-09-12 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Stefan O'Rear wrote: -- BEGIN DATA BLOCK -- # enable bash completion in interactive shells if [ $PS1 -a -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then . /etc/bash_completion fi -- END DATA BLOCK -- You need that or the equivilent in /etc/bash.bashrc or ~/.bashrc (it is commented out by

Re: bash completion does not work over ssh except as root

2004-09-12 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Stefan O'Rear wrote: I don't really know - I have it in both and it works everywhere. You are right. Once I enable it in .bashrc, it works over ssh, contradicting the comment. I'll file a bug. In woody + unstable libc, gcc. Don't follow you. What is the relevance of libc

recommendation for digital camera

2004-07-06 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I know this question has been asked before, but the answer is constantly changing.:-) So, I'm looking for a digital camera with the following (tentative) requirements. I'm happy to have these requirements questioned. 1) A cost of $500 or under. 2) Needs to work well with Debian

Re: help with python bug

2004-06-08 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, John Hasler wrote: Faheem Mitha writes: Can anyone help me with a seemingly Debian-specific Python bug, Debian bug no. 252517 (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252517 ) Firstly, can anyone reproduce the problem on Sarge or unstable? I cannot

Re: help with python bug

2004-06-07 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, John Hasler wrote: Faheem Mitha writes: Can anyone help me with a seemingly Debian-specific Python bug, Debian bug no. 252517 (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252517 ) Firstly, can anyone reproduce the problem on Sarge or unstable? I cannot

help with python bug

2004-06-05 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, Can anyone help me with a seemingly Debian-specific Python bug, Debian bug no. 252517 (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=252517 ) Firstly, can anyone reproduce the problem on Sarge or unstable? Secondly, can anyone suggest a solution or workaround? I have tried

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-06-05 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 29 May 2004 15:54:48 +0200, Kai Grossjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Faheem Mitha wrote: Bob Proulx makes good points elsewhere in this thread. Whether you like the indentation as syntax feature is really a matter of taste. Personally, I am

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-26 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Fri, 21 May 2004 20:33:14 -0400, richard lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That makes two votes for Python (the other was off-list). I've had it in mind to find time to investigate Python -- so I'll have a go at that. Make that 3 votes. :-) I recently started learning Python. I like it. It

Re: lookit does not start on bootup

2004-04-15 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 20:03:36 -0500, dircha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Faheem Mitha wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. It is possible that this is the problem, and I'll investigate it. S1 does seem rather low. First I'll need to learn the recommended way to manipulate runtime links in Debian. If I

Re: lookit does not start on bootup

2004-04-15 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 20:59:20 -0400, S.Squarepants [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While there may be a tool for it (I really don't know), that isn't the best way to do it IMHO. What would you do if you ending up sitting at a Fedora or Slackware box in the future that is missing the same tool?

Re: Intel Pro/100 VE

2004-04-15 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanx to all who responded to this thread. The problem I feel is now resolved and I will explain how I did it for documentation purposes. the suggestion by Faheem, though I'm sure it works, I did not take it because I did not know enough about

Re: Intel Pro/100 VE

2004-04-11 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 11:12:05 -0400, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey peoples, I have been trying to get debian to work and have been very unsuccessful. I just got a Toshiba M35-s320 laptop and have been trying to install the network adapter with the 3.0r2 disk image. I did some

Re: lookit does not start on bootup

2004-04-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 00:58:55 -0500, S.Squarepants [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no idea if this will help you or not, but I once had a problem with some other things that failed to work prior to the network being up. I doubt that's the case here, but it still might rely on something else

Re: lookit does not start on bootup

2004-04-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 15:19:39 -0500, dircha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recall that lokkit never worked for me either. That prompted me just to learn how to use iptables manually, so I never figured out why lokkit was failing. After bringing it up manually, try: # iptables -L to be sure

lookit does not start on bootup

2004-04-04 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I have a minor but annoying problem with lokkit. It does not start at bootup. The runlevel look normal eg. etc/rc0.d/K99lokkit etc/rc1.d/K99lokkit etc/rc2.d/S01lokkit etc/rc3.d/S01lokkit etc/rc4.d/S01lokkit etc/rc5.d/S01lokkit etc/rc6.d/K99lokkit but I get errors at bootup which

slrn drawing characters problem in Konsole

2004-04-03 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I'm running sarge. I recently noticed (I don't reboot my machine very often and only discover breakage when I reboot) that the red threading in slrn was now replaced by red blocks. I'm not sure what the problem is, but it seems likely the problem was with Konsole and/or X 4.3, since

Re: Mouse behavior with kernel 2.6.X ( running 2.6.4 and 2.6.3 on another machine)

2004-03-21 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 04:02:46 +0200, Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 02:35:22PM +, n.v.t n.v.t wrote: Hi, I'm struggling witht his for a while. I have been running 2.6. But I don't like the mouse behavior at all. It's *to* fast compared to 2.4. How can I

Re: Debian on Dell

2004-03-08 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 10:15:06 +0100, Marc Koenders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The config you are contemplating makes me turn green in envy. Well, it is just going to be my office machine. I'm not paying for it, neither is it mine. Left to myself I would have used an independent vendor anyway. In

Re: Debian on Dell

2004-03-06 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, I just started a job at Duke. I've been told to put together a machine quote for my office. I want to run Debian on it. I tried to persuade my employer to use Monarch, but was told I have to use Dell. I'm not sure of the best way

Debian on Dell

2004-02-25 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I just started a job at Duke. I've been told to put together a machine quote for my office. I want to run Debian on it. I tried to persuade my employer to use Monarch, but was told I have to use Dell. I'm not sure of the best way to go about putting together a machine from Dell

checking whether partition mounted as ext3

2004-01-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, Just wondering if anyone knows of a easy and definitive way to determine whether a specific mounted partition is ext2 or ext3, and if ext3, whether is mounted as ordered data or journal. Currently, I look at the boot messages, but they are not always clear. Thanks in advance.

Re: Linux compatability for IBM desktop machines

2004-01-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 12:59:29 -0500, Mark Roach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 14:38, Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, I am writing to ask whether anyone has any Linux experience with something similar to the two desktop machines described at [...] From the descriptions

Re: Linux compatability for IBM desktop machines

2004-01-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:55:09 +0530, Sanjay Chigurupati [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, About the desktops, 1) check what NIC its using: netgear normally has linux drivers available 2) soundcard : which make is it? 3) Intel : which model? 4) Nvidia Quadro 4: might be available ( check their

Re: Linux compatability for IBM desktop machines

2004-01-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 06:56:56 -0600, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, I am writing to ask whether anyone has any Linux experience with something similar to the two desktop machines described at (http://www.unc.edu/cci/index/ccishop/departmental.html) See http

Re: checking whether partition mounted as ext3

2004-01-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 18:00:51 -0500, Paul Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:51:28 -0700, Doug Holland wrote: On Sun 18 Jan 2004 1:16 pm, Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, Just wondering if anyone knows of a easy and definitive way to determine whether a specific mounted

Re: Can't make xconfig for kernel 2.6.test9

2004-01-16 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:31:34 -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 05:25:45PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: | Hi, | | I seem to have a problem doing make xconfig on the kernel-2.6.test9 | sources | obtained from sarge. I suspect qt

Linux compatability for IBM desktop machines

2004-01-15 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I am writing to ask whether anyone has any Linux experience with something similar to the two desktop machines described at (http://www.unc.edu/cci/index/ccishop/departmental.html) See http://www.unc.edu/cci/index/ccishop/fullconfiguration.html for more detail. Our department

Re: problems with rsa authentication (for use with mpich)

2003-10-13 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:01:41 -0400, Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In your case it is the key contained in ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub (or id_rsa.pub, if you use RSA authentication) from the host on which the login attempt will originate. Is it actually necessary to use the key? In other

Re: apt

2003-10-13 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:28:30 +0200, wjl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, since today I have a strange behaviour of apt 0.5.14 in unstable: when trying to install a package or doing an 'apt-get dist-upgrade', I get: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done

Re: problems with rsa authentication (for use with mpich)

2003-10-12 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 06:13:34PM +, Faheem Mitha wrote: Dear People, I am trying to enable rsa authentication for use with mpich. However, I am having some problems. Let us say I have two hosts, foo and bar. I'm trying to log in from foo

Re: problems with rsa authentication (for use with mpich)

2003-10-12 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Faheem Mitha wrote: The only file in that directory is known_hosts. I'm not sure why keys would enter into this at all anyway. As I understand it, the whole idea is to just stick the trusted hosts into .rhosts, and you're away. You want

problems with rsa authentication (for use with mpich)

2003-10-11 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I am trying to enable rsa authentication for use with mpich. However, I am having some problems. Let us say I have two hosts, foo and bar. I'm trying to log in from foo to bar using rsh passwordless authentication. I added foo to the file .rhosts in my home directory on bar. I also

rsh authentication (Re: problems with rsa authentication (for use with mpich))

2003-10-11 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 18:13:34 + (UTC), Faheem Mitha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear People, I am trying to enable rsa authentication for use with mpich. However, I am having some problems. Sorry. That should have been rsh authentication

Re: touchpads in Linux

2003-09-21 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:47:21 -0700, Wendell Cochran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subsequent discussion in [EMAIL PROTECTED] reached the lout's boss, who firmly disavowed bias against Linux. Just then two late-comers to the discussion asked why all the fuss; just plug in a Cirque, they told me,

touchpads in Linux

2003-09-19 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear people, I'm trying to find a good touchpad (as a standalone device) to use with Linux in the place of a regular mouse. After spending quite a lot of time surfing the web, I am more confused than ever. The best general reference I found http://www.tifaq.org/mice/touchpads.html The main

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

2003-08-14 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 07:26:28 +0200, Xavier Maillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since ages, I wanted to replace CVS here. I firstly tried to find out all the most interesting candidates for this. I have now a list of 2 items: subversion and tla. I tried to setup tla but didn't achieve

Re: apt and changelogs

2003-08-14 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 19:36:26 -0400, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 04 August 2003 20:54, Hugh Saunders wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:10:19PM -0500, Matt Peter wrote: or install apt-listchanges It fails for me, with this: The following information may help to resolve

pam authentication (Re: setting up an openafs server on Debian)

2003-07-28 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi, Thanks for your helpful reply. On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Todd Pytel wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:06:37 -0400 (EDT) Faheem Mitha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does a tutorial for AFS server installation on Debian exist anywhere? My impression is no. There's a decent write-up in the docs

Re: setting up an openafs server on Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, David Z Maze wrote: (It'd be interesting to know what your actual goals are here. You're probably not going to be able to use your disk to randomly add volumes to the cs.unc.edu cell. I've found it useful to set up a personal cell before on the AFS is better than NFS

setting up an openafs server on Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Faheem Mitha
Jul 2003 15:45:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Faheem Mitha [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: some simple openafs questions Dear People, I'm ashamed to admit that I have been administering openafs clients on Linux for over two years, but still lack a basic understanding of how openafs

Re: X sudden brokenness

2003-06-25 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 01:32:58 -0500, Stephan Sauerburger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Laugh.. I solved it. Somehow, my XF86Config-4 must have been replaced after the last apt-get upgrade. I noticed it was having trouble loading GLcore; that's when I changed it to nvidia in the Modules section.

Re: [tir@igidr.ac.in: Problems with xlibs.]

2003-05-30 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 29 May 2003 22:16:04 +0530, Tirthankar C. Patnaik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lewis:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: xlibs 1

re: New Creating Custom Kernels newbiedoc

2003-03-26 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your feedback. Just one more. I think that you need tk*-dev in section 2.2, not just tk*, to do make xconfig, since this amounts to doing a compilation. Faheem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

re: New Creating Custom Kernels newbiedoc

2003-03-26 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your feedback. 1) The pcmcia option merits special mention, since by default it is turned on (at least for the kernels I have used) and you explicitly need to turn it off if you aren't using it, otherwise the compilation will halt

Re: New Creating Custom Kernels newbiedoc

2003-03-26 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:43:32 -0500 (EST) Faheem Mitha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your feedback. Just one more. I think that you need tk*-dev in section 2.2, not just tk

Re: New Creating Custom Kernels newbiedoc

2003-03-25 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:38:55 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A new version of Creating Custom Kernels With Debian's Kernel-Package System is available at: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html I'm interested in feedback, especially about mistakes or

gmane.org (was Re: default editor)

2003-03-19 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 21:15:28 -0800, Will Yardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ Tried to post to linux.debian.user, but apparently this doesn't work at the moment, unfortunately. ] Try the public access newsserver gmane.org. For more information see the web page of the same name. The group

Re: gmane.org (was Re: default editor)

2003-03-19 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:04:25 + (UTC), Faheem Mitha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 21:15:28 -0800, Will Yardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ Tried to post to linux.debian.user, but apparently this doesn't work at the moment, unfortunately. ] Try the public access newsserver

Re: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:46:46 -0500, Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was recently a question about which .deb added GIF capability to the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the correct answer. The man page for apt-cache says: search search performs a full

Re: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:04:40 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 02:20:21 + (UTC) Faheem Mitha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the correct answer. The man page for apt-cache says: search search

Re: buy or build computer?

2003-03-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
they think from two earlier threads on debian-user which I started. 1) On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 From: Faheem Mitha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: buying a computer (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200107/msg00318.html) 2) On 25 Feb 2002 From: Faheem Mitha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: hardware

adding mime support for viewing ps.gz attachments

2003-03-08 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, /usr/lib/mime/packages/gv has only the following lines application/postscript; /usr/bin/X11/gv %s; test=test -n $DISPLAY; description=postscript application/ghostview; /usr/bin/X11/gv %s; test=test -n $DISPLAY application/pdf; /usr/bin/X11/gv %s; test=test -n $DISPLAY However, gv

Re: kernel-package gcc configuration etc. (Re: How do I do a sid upgrade and not get the gcc 3.2 stuff?)

2003-02-25 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 25 Feb 2003 02:14:41 +0100, Mario Vukelic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 21:03, Faheem Mitha wrote: So, you can still compile kernels with it, though I agree that there might be some problems if everything insists on calling gcc. Set the env variable then Hmm. Does

kernel-package gcc configuration etc. (Re: How do I do a sid upgrade and not get the gcc 3.2 stuff?)

2003-02-24 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:53:15 -0500, John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to do a sid upgrade and it keeps trying to give me the gcc 3.2 compiler, but I want to stay with the 2.95 -- the new ones are broke and don't compile kernels properly. gcc 2.95 will still be on your system.

Re: Hen and egg with tktable-dev

2003-02-22 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 22 Feb 2003 17:12:27 +0100, Svenn Are Bjerkem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, want to install tktable and tktable-dev and use tk8.4-dev tktable-dev need tk8.3-dev tk8.4-dev provide tk-dev tk8.3-dev conflict tk-dev So if I want tktable-dev I have to deinstall tk8.4-dev with which I want

Re: dpkg cache broken after system crash

2003-02-22 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 21:21:47 +0100, Marcio Rosa da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: brain:~ 4 # apt-get install linuxdoc-tools Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libsp1 sp The following NEW packages will be

[OT] volunteer work

2003-02-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I've marked this OT, but really it is probably less OT than many posts that have appeared on this mailing list recently. :-) I was wondering if any people on this group do volunteer work using their knowledge/expertise with Debian/Free Software to help deserving causes. I'm

problems setting up ppp connection with ispwest

2003-02-02 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, Anyone with experience setting up a ispwest ppp account on Debian? I thought I would give them a try since they offer a 15 day free trial account, but I'm having problems getting set up with pppconfig. My current ISP worked right out of the box with PAP. I suppose they support PAP,

Re: Help debugging package problems (again)

2003-02-02 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 17:43:29 -0800 (PST), Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [back to list] On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Faheem Mitha wrote: ii libc6 2.3.1-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data As I am sure hordes of people will shortly tell you, you

Re: [apt] Disabling upgrade to insecure packages

2003-01-13 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 18:15:46 +0100, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 15:46:36 +, Faheem Mitha wrote: Really? This is not what the apt_preferences man page says. In particular Each package may be pinned to a specific version and each Packages file has

Re: [apt] Disabling upgrade to insecure packages

2003-01-12 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:12:40 +0100, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 06:05:47 +, Faheem Mitha wrote: On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:04:37 +0100, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if one could put on hold a particular version of a package (given

Re: [apt] Disabling upgrade to insecure packages

2003-01-12 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:12:40 +0100, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 06:05:47 +, Faheem Mitha wrote: On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:04:37 +0100, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if one could put on hold a particular version of a package (given

Re: Home LAN email setup. Do you love yours?

2003-01-12 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 07:10:46 -0800 (PST), Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Searchable Archives? I should find a better method of archiving messages, but haven't needed that yet (since Eudora is fine with large folders). A system that auto-archived old read messages into a searchable

Re: [apt] Disabling upgrade to insecure packages

2003-01-11 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:04:37 +0100, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:36:27 -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: There is nothing (that I know of) in the packaging system to know which packages are secure and which are not. You would need to put the package on hold

Re: USB Mouse not working

2003-01-05 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 00:20:59 -0800 (PST), suresh kumar sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have been trying to install a logitech optical mouse on my laptop through USB,but it does not work I have loaded input,usbcore,usb-uhci,and hid modules .I get light on the mouse and when I check dmesg

Re: ntpd; local clock reference 127.127.1.0

2003-01-01 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 18:43:19 -0500, Brenda J. Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:51:45PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: I have a dial-up system that is going to be a server for my home network. I want my inside machines to sync to seal (the ss20) and seal to sync to

Re: MS Intellimouse Explorer

2002-12-23 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:08:52 -0500, Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I liked the idea of Knoppix and downloaded it to try. I noticed that my Intellimouse Explorer (USB/optical) does not work however. Side to side motion moves the mouse up and down (up and down does nothing) and

Re: MS Intellimouse Explorer

2002-12-23 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 02:52:52 + (UTC), Faheem Mitha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:08:52 -0500, Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I liked the idea of Knoppix and downloaded it to try. I noticed that my Intellimouse Explorer (USB/optical) does not work however. Side

Re: many packages need to be upgraded

2002-12-15 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 21:20:06 -0500, Michael Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 02:04 +, Colin Watson wrote: In the case of gcc-2.95: gcc-2.95 (2.95.4.ds13-11woody1) stable; urgency=low * Upload to woody-proposed-updates: - Fix profiling for arm. - Fix

Re: strange problem compiling source rpms

2002-12-13 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:31:18 -0700, Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --mP3DRpeJDSE+ciuQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Faheem Mitha [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-12-12 21:57:35 +]: rpm is trying to mkdir /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES, of course this fails

Re: strange problem compiling source rpms

2002-12-12 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:37:58 -0500, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Faheem Mitha wrote: No. Am I supposed to create it? Isn't this something that should be done automatically, by a postinst script of whatever? If I am supposed to create it, I think it should be documented. The directory

strange problem compiling source rpms

2002-12-11 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I recently tried to install a source rpm (as root) on a Debian system. I got laplace:/home/faheem# rpm -Uvh plugger-4.0-17.src.rpm error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES But this works on my home computer Chrestomanci:/home/faheem# rpm -Uvh plugger-4.0-6.src.rpm

Re: X problem: mouse pointer shifted

2002-12-11 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:06:27 +0100, Jens Grivolla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a problem on my Acer TM210 laptop with integrated ALi (Trident) graphics (sorry, I don't have the exact name, it doesn't seem to show anywhere) on XFree86 4.2.1.1, but also on older versions. Regularly,

Re: strange problem compiling source rpms

2002-12-11 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:53:27 -0800 (PST), nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Faheem Mitha said: Dear People, In case anyone is wondering, I am trying to install the src rpm in order to compile it, an operation I had earlier successfully done on my home computer. I am no RPM expert

Re: apt error, Dynamic MMap ran out of room

2002-11-29 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:36:02 -0500 (EST), Walter Tautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing ifplugd (NewFileVer1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages E: The

Re: apt error, Dynamic MMap ran out of room

2002-11-29 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:36:02 -0500 (EST), Walter Tautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing ifplugd (NewFileVer1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages E: The

commercial scientific programs on Debian

2002-11-28 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I was wondering whether how well (or at all) some commercial scientific programs run on Debian, say Sarge. Specifically, I was wondering about Gauss, Mathematica, Matlab, SAS, Splus. I think that Mathematica runs ok, but I'm not sure about the others. I suppose in most cases these

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