Recurring warning when updating: AGAIN!

2010-05-30 Thread JW Foster
Below is a snip from the update of my Debian 'testing' system. I see that there are again warnings that seem to be unresolved regarding gconf2. I have been pondering if this should be filed as a bug report as it is recurring though it does seem to be relative to some specific upgrade I'm not sure

Evony Age II does lot load: why?

2010-05-26 Thread JW Foster
Evony Age II does lot load on Iceweasel. It stalls at 27% every time. when I first started playing there was no issue. However when I tried to use the Facebook connect (which did not work) it started freezing the loading process at 27%. Anyone playing this game? Any tips. It does work fine on a

Trunk version of linux-image ISSUE

2010-04-17 Thread JW Foster
I', sent this previously but so far no reply. Can anyone tell me how to get rid of this issue. I did an update the trunk version of linux-image was installed as the upgraded version. A few weeks later I tried to install the newer regular version after a few attempts it finally installed grub

Linux-image testing

2010-03-31 Thread JW Foster
Can anyone tell me the difference between the trunk version the other version. I installed the trunk version it seems to be running well but the last update tried to install the other version in testing. Why? it does not install, craps out with a lot of errors.?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

testing upgrade issues with OpneOffice

2010-03-31 Thread JW Foster
I,m getting this error message for several days now. E: Couldn't configure pre-depend openoffice.org-java-common for openoffice.org-report-builder, probably a dependency cycle. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Testing upgrade Failures:

2010-03-26 Thread JW Foster
I just tried to do an upgrade on testing I,m getting several errors. First snip of output is regarding unknown types. I have no idea what this is but I seen it before. SNIP- Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... Processing triggers for

Google Earth kills system

2010-02-04 Thread JW Foster
I built Google Earth as instructed in the installer. It starts OK then as soon as the browser pops open both the mouse my keyboard freeze up I have to reboot. It seems to open the browser a popup with tips. I,m able to kill the tips,if I leave the curser in the browser screen, but in seconds

Unknown media type error message????

2010-02-04 Thread JW Foster
I get these with most every installation using any installer. Running testing latest update this has been going on for some time. Anyone know how to get rid of the errors? Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-msi-hessian' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-msi-mdf' Unknown media type in

Linux kernel image udev updates in testing

2010-02-03 Thread JW Foster
I'm getting this error message when I try to update udev in my testing system. --- Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 423096 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace udev 149-2 (using

MySQL server from backports.org issue

2009-12-16 Thread JW Foster
Maybe I can get a response with more info. I upgraded to MySQL-server 5.1.1 from stable using the backports.org apps in my sources.list pinning them . I also upgraded all of MySql as well. I did not realize there was any difference until I tried to upgrade the backports installation I can not do

ATI All-In-Wonder Cards: work with Linux?

2009-12-16 Thread JW Foster
I want to use my Linux box as a set top box to watch TV to watch streaming videos off the internet as well. I want to use the cards ATI All-In-Wonder or the VisionTek cards with same chipset. the one I have interest in is the HD 3650. Is there anyone successfully using these cards with Debian

MySql-sever 5.1.3 from BPO ISSUES

2009-12-14 Thread JW Foster
I have recently installed the 5.1 versions from back-ports Lenny since the installation the systems works from a reboot but I can not manually stop or start the server, therefore I cant do the updates as they are posted from BPO. I read the installation material in regards to the new users

RE: Evolution mail; Dumb question but I need answer

2009-08-20 Thread JW Foster
I want to be able to forward some e-mails from evolution in Debian Lenny: WITH the images in them as inline: Is there a way to do this? I get some pretty funny stuff from my friends want to send it to other friends, but every way I try the images get scragged out of the nessage. Yes most of them

Does anyone else consider this a bug?

2009-06-08 Thread JW
rid of it. Problem is I keep forgetting this aspect :-) I find it extremely annoying but before I file a report I want to make sure other folks don't consider this a feature JW -- -- System Administrator - Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com

Need an Etch compatible eSATA PCI card

2008-08-28 Thread JW
Does anyone know of a brand/model of eSATA card (PCI-Express, or at least PCI) that works with Etch? I'm having trouble finding documentation since almost everything focuses on internal SATA and RAID. I don't need RAID - just an eSATA connector for external drives. JW

Re: Fwd: ssh-keygen

2008-08-19 Thread JW
to be concerned about - I'm sure you can understand the implications. Based on all of the above information, I have decided I don't want to use DSA keys. JW -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt: The following packages have been kept back:

2008-08-02 Thread JW
to be upgraded. How can I find out the *reason* why a package is kept back? This is all on a default Etch system - nothing peculiar about it, no unstable or backported or third party repos used, no special pinnings setup. Thanks, JW -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008-06-22 Thread JW
to pay thousands of dollars, why don't you find a n existing FOSS program that's as close as possible to what you need, and pay someone - rent-a-coder, if all else fails - to make the program do what you want? JW -- -- System Administrator - Cedar Creek Software http

correct Debian way to log iptables to seperate file

2008-06-18 Thread JW
is for those logs (which are not worthy of their kernel.warning status) to go to their own file. Google searching has turned up dozens of possible options, all of which seem like rather untidy hacks. What's the right way to do it? JW -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Commercial support for Debian?

2008-05-13 Thread JW
to sell myself as an uber-geek to work for another admin. So I don't want to hire someone like myself - I need a real expert. FYI I already know about http://www.debian.org/consultants/#US - I am hoping for a referral. JW -- -- System Administrator - Cedar Creek

Debian on Sun LDoms?

2008-04-04 Thread JW
in an LDom - Sun only specifies that Linux can be used. Has anyone tried this with Debian? Anyone know if it's possible, or have any other information about it? Thanks, JW -- -- System Administrator - Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com

Re: Debian on Sun LDoms?

2008-04-04 Thread JW
On Friday 04 April 2008 13:40:14 Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/04/08 11:59, JW wrote: I'm testing out a Sun T1000 with LDoms and want to try running Debian in a guest domain. I'm not able to find any information about running Debian under LDoms with google, although I did find some pages talking

Re: about wireless card installation

2006-05-29 Thread jw
Antonio Rafael C. Paiva wrote: jw wrote: I have a problem to setup my wireless card(Zyxel Zyair G-220). Below are the steps I have done following the driver manual and research from Internet: 1. download kernel source code(I used 2.6.16) 2. download driver and firmware, zd1211 3. compile

about wireless card installation

2006-05-28 Thread jw
but not working. If I run iwevent it reported the following periodically: 03:53:24.412160 wlan0 New Access Point/Cell address:Not-Associated Please give me a hand jw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing?

2004-10-08 Thread JW
a little at a time rather than wait till there's dozens of updates to install. If anyone has advise on how to keep a Testing system secure, I'd really like to hear it. Thanks for your time, JW P.S. If anyone has a link to some favorite documentation on Debian package handling

Re: New user Q: Best way to stay up to date on testing?

2004-10-08 Thread JW
DR If anyone has advise on how to keep a Testing system secure, DR I'd really like to hear it. DR DR If security is really an issue to you: lots of websites exist on how to make DR a linux system secure, involving very strict SSH settings, firewalls, etc. DR DR For the average user (such

Installing packages as a non-root user (yes, I have permissions)

2002-06-09 Thread JW
how I can get around this? Yes, it really is necessary for the user to be able to use dpkg, in my particular case. Thanks. JW -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fakeroot and lilo errors (was: Re: Installing packages as a non-root user)

2002-06-09 Thread JW
On Sunday 09 June 2002 03:02 pm, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach JW [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.06.09.2155 +0200]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-get install python2.2 try: fakeroot apt-get install python2.2 Thanks, that works great with a little PATH modification, which I needed to do anyway

Anyone have a copy of /etc/mailname?

2002-06-09 Thread JW
Everytime I start emacs I get the following annoying warning: No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default... What is this file -- could someone mail me a copy? Thanks. JW -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Install emacs without install X?

2002-05-29 Thread JW
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm trying to install emacs on a server and I get the following: jw:/# apt-get install emacs21 Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following extra packages will be installed: emacsen-common libfreetype6 libjpeg62 libpng2

Could someone send me /etc/apt/source.list from sid?

2002-05-28 Thread JW
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm using debotostrap in a chroot environtment and for some reason apt-setup installs a sources.list for stable instead of sid (and does the same for woody too). When I convert it to sid I get a whole bunch of 404 errors. I don't currently

apt giving locale errors from perl

2002-05-28 Thread JW
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, ANy time apt runs I get error message from perl about locale settings, for example the following: Setting up console-tools (0.2.3-23.3) ... perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:

Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!

1999-06-16 Thread JW Park
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 05:05:39 +, you wrote: On Tuesday, June 08, 1999 at 23:26:35 -0600, Craig McPherson wrote: Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BE MORE SIMPLE X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.02b14) X-UIDL: d2077d16c3127d4bf73a47a47027a8d9 As one Debian newbie to

Re: PCI modem

1999-06-10 Thread JW Park
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:11:32 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: [snip] there are several PCI modems usable under linux, i believe. Find below how to do it ***INSTALLATION OF V90 PCI LUCENT VENUS BASED MODEM*** [snip] I am delighted to have this

Re: Disk geommetry, was Re: Kernel Upgrade: Why?

1999-05-01 Thread JW Park
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:57:35 -0500 (CDT), sombody wrote: And the data on the outer side passes the heads much faster than the data on the inner side. But then, there is much more data on the outer side, and a piece of data on the outer side will go round in the same amount of time as a piece

Re: IRQ and PS/2

1999-04-29 Thread JW Park
with it, even under Linux. JW

Re: question regarding hardware conflict and linux

1999-04-11 Thread JW Park
On 10 Apr 1999 08:02:58 -0500, you wrote: My modem is ActionTec ISA x2. You can download firmware upgrade from their web site to V.90 or something like that. Only $60 u if you can actually find one.

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-04 Thread JW Park
On Sun, 4 Apr 1999 10:42:58 -0700, you wrote: Gary Singleton wrote: [..] As an aside, this person sends .doc files regularly too; luckily we're not susceptible to their evils. Don't get mad: get even. I think public needs to be educated on the issue but the marketing effort has been weak

Re: No LILO Boot after Re-Install Windoze95

1999-03-31 Thread JW Park
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:34:04 -0500, you wrote: It seems like I remember reading somewhere once that the solution was to boot using the Windows Rescue/Reboot disk and go to command prompt and do an fdisk /mbr and then re-install lilo. You have to reinstall LILO but at different place. Look at

Re: Convert FAT32 to FAT16 with windows 98.

1999-03-31 Thread JW Park
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 22:48:21 -0800, you wrote: One responder asked why would you not want to leave it fat32. My experience is that lilo will not work on the mbr of a fat32 drive, huh??? Then I must be hallucinating right now. LILO do work with mbr of hdd with fat32 partition.

Re: CD-R/RW Question

1999-03-26 Thread JW Park
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 15:44:25 -0500 (EST), you wrote: Also, does linux handle the cd-rw's? If so, are they worth the extra money to get? IMO, no. A CD-RW blank costs upwards of 30$ while a CD-R blank costs 1$ to 1.80$ so you would need to blank a disc about 30 times before it's worthwhile

Re: CD-R/RW Question

1999-03-26 Thread JW Park
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999 12:39:29 -0800 (PST), you wrote: I have also been told that the 2x and 4x drives only will write ONCE at that speed without powering down the computer (and therefore the drive) to let it cool down. But you can burn forever at 1x. Anyone had this problem? 4x ? maybe, but

Re: german distributors of Debian 1.3 CD-ROM?

1997-07-09 Thread Philipp JW Grau
On 8 Jul 1997, Martin Steigerwald wrote: I read in a thread here I dont find now something about a bookstore called Lehmann which distributes it with a printed manual. Anyone got the address of that bookstore or an ISBN-number of the thing? There will be a CD a soone as the 1.3.1 Version is

Re: mgetty pppd dialin

1997-04-23 Thread Philipp JW Grau
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Stephen Davey wrote: There is an entry in the /etc/mgetty/login.config for /AutoPPP/ but it just seems to be ignoring it AFAIK there must be an Define in the Makefile, but I am not familiar with mgetty as a Debian package From the Makefile: # If you want to auto-detect

Re: KDE/KDM

1997-04-10 Thread Philipp JW Grau
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote: hello Does anyone have kde/kdm working on there computer ... I downloaded the red hat package and tryed to install it but it errored out ... if any one has kde working I would appreciate info on how you got it working... Yes i got it running, what

Re: Netscape Communicator 4.0b3 status (fwd)

1997-04-07 Thread Philipp JW Grau
On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Gary Lee wrote: Where can I find the 4.0b3 Netscape? home.netscape.com and its mirrors... I suppose ;-) cu philipp -- - Ph. Grau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technische FH Wildau

Re: How do they burn CD's?

1997-02-18 Thread Philipp JW Grau
If you are locking for a nice GUI to burn your own CD's you can use X-CD-Roast, it has a lot of options, I found it very usefull for me! http://www.rz.fh-muenchen.de/home/ze/rz/services/projects/xcdroast/e_overview.html It's a really long URL, isn't it? su philipp --