Re: kde BUG

2008-03-02 Thread Jamin Davis
Andrius wrote: in KDE if to choose color scheme digital CDE letters in forms are invisible - white color. (Using Lenny). It's probably better to log this bug with KDE bugs @ http://bugs.kde.org/ rather than here on a list ;-) -- Jamin @ Home @ Chester UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

2008-03-02 Thread Jamin Davis
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: snip This is not something I would give to a user that has no dedicated support. e.g: you could install that to your firends. Provided that you provide support for their computers. But not to someone who's supposed to independently handle everything with the system. Are

Re: internet

2008-03-02 Thread Jamin Davis
Jakub Daniel wrote: I am experiencing problems with my connection to internet from HP compaq 6715s laptop. problem is: When i try to pick a bcm43xx drivers during the installation it tells me that it couldnt find any device (meaning the ethernet card)... I would appreciate any info on how to

Re: Etch: PAM unable to resolve symbol

2008-03-02 Thread Jamin Davis
Jerome BENOIT wrote: The idea is to have a second passwd file. I set it to mimic LDAP. I would try this out but I still don't know what package paw_pwdfile.so is from? How have you installed it - I can't find it in the Debian archive -- either that or I'm being thick! -- Jamin @ Home @

Re: 8139cp 0000:03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip

2008-03-02 Thread Jamin Davis
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: and the blacklisting won't work if the module is in your initrd! You at least need to run update-initramfs and you would probably be advised to unpack one to make *sure* it's not in there... Good point. But if the blacklist did work there'd be no need to check

Re: Etch: PAM unable to resolve symbol

2008-03-01 Thread Jamin Davis
Jerome BENOIT wrote: As the below hints gives no results, I understood that the messages may come from elsewhere. By commented, I found that it is pam_pwdfile.so pwdfile=/etc/bunch/passwd was the one which outputs the messages. Is there any alternative ? pam_unix.so? I haven't a clue where

Re: usbcore and ndiswrapper for toshiba laptop

2008-03-01 Thread Jamin Davis
diane mittnik wrote: snip The relevant info: # modinfo ndiswrapper modinfo: could not find module ndiswrapper # modprobe usbcore FATAL: Module usbcore not found # modprobe ndiswrapper FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found Try a 'depmod -a' as root. Then try the modprobe's again. Just a

Re: Usermount

2008-03-01 Thread Jamin Davis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that's the conclusion I came to. The maintainer is no where around as far as I can see. Anybody know of other graphical front ends to mount ?? Krusader for KDE will allow you to mount / umount (as root if necessary). Great two-pane filemanager (like a

Re: 8139cp 0000:03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip

2008-03-01 Thread Jamin Davis
stephane lepain wrote: For your problem you could try placing 8139too into /etc/modules That might see that your 8139too driver gets loaded first. Incidentally comment any references to 8139cp that you run across. HTH Adrian After one day of trying to dig up a solution for my problem. I

Re: vertical scroll on my touchpad not working

2008-03-01 Thread Jamin Davis
Manu Hack wrote: I've installed debian amd64 on a Toshiba laptop A215-S7413. I failed to get the touchpad vertical scrolling to work (basic functions work fine). Here is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section Module Loadsynaptics EndSection snip I recently installed a laptop with MEPIS

Re: kadmin ktadd and F_WRLCK

2008-03-01 Thread Jamin Davis
Monika Strack wrote: I have a big problem with kerberos5 ktadd. I create a new principal host/myhost.mydomain. This works ok. Then I want add it to the krb5.keytab, but ktadd hang. I have make a strace of kadmin and found that fcntl64(5, F_SETLKW, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0,

Re: Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2008-02-26 Thread Jamin Davis
Michael Habashy wrote: I do not want to kill this to death but..on a good system: mach1:/bin# ls -l bash -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 769368 2006-12-11 17:28 bash No one knows how to force a fresh copy of the base debian setup?? with overly impacting my present system ??? to take care of the

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-26 Thread Jamin Davis
Dan H. wrote: I know cygwin, and it is on my to-be-installed list. I can't live without find and grep and xargs and... well, a lot of good grep will do me in a world full of Word documents.. ;-) There was a .DOC to text filter prog, Antiword that could be used in a pipe with grep ;) --

Re: How to install KDE 4 to lenny?

2008-02-24 Thread Jamin Davis
Andrius wrote: how to install KDE 4 to lenny from iso disc image? Assuming you mean the demo KDE 4 live cd you can't. KDE 4 is in experimental, there's some doc on http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html which explains how to install it on a lenny/unstable system. I compiled

Re: exim4 uid=debian-exmi

2008-02-24 Thread Jamin Davis
Alex Samad wrote: for some reason when i do a ps -ef | grep exim I always get back that exim is running as uid = 102, not a name but a numerical. Whilst trying to investigate this I noticed there was no location to set the uid. I just thought that this was rather strange. I read somewhere

Re: Cannot remove thttpd

2008-02-23 Thread Jamin Davis
Peter Robinson wrote: Stopping web server: invoke-rc.d: initscript thttpd, action stop failed. dpkg: error processing thttpd (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Starting web server: thttpd. Errors were encountered while processing: thttpd You could either

Re: bash crashes on tab completion of usernames (with nss-ldap)

2008-02-21 Thread Jamin Davis
Richard A Nelson wrote: Does the libnss_ldap version swap that caused this also correspond to when libnss_ldap also switched to the newer libldap libraries ? Yep - on my stable box: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldd /lib/libnss_ldap-2.3.6.so libldap_r.so.2 = /usr/lib/libldap_r.so.2

Re: famd

2008-02-21 Thread Jamin Davis
Paul Cartwright wrote: I switched to the alt-F1 text login, and looked for processes running owned by me. All that I saw was famd. I did a pkill famd, went back to my KDE login screen ( ctrl-alt-F7) , put in my password, and voila, I was logged in. Is famd necessary? is famd causing this?

Re: Etch: PAM unable to resolve symbol

2008-02-21 Thread Jamin Davis
Jerome BENOIT wrote: yesterday I updates my Etch boxes. Since then PAM produces errors messages, in the /var/log/syslog file there a lot of line similar to these ones: Feb 20 01:37:01 rainbow CRON[18708]: PAM unable to resolve symbol: pam_sm_acct_mgmt snip Some PAM library or other is

Re: remote xterm font

2008-02-20 Thread Jamin Davis
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Is there a way to dump my local xterm setup ? It's probably in your ~/.Xresources file or maybe /etc/X11/app-defaults/xterm - you can use xrdb to dump (xrdb -query) and merge from file (xrdb -merge) on the remote machine. Jamin -- Jamin @ Home @ Chester UK -- To

Re: bash crashes on tab completion of usernames (with nss-ldap)

2008-02-19 Thread Jamin Davis
Alex Samad wrote: ls ~altab Ah, that is what I missed before... tab completion of user names not directory entries yeah only on username expansion I got exactly the same problem - been hunting round for a couple of days for the cause. I get it with groupname expansion too (with chown

Re: Adobe SVG viewer plugin

2007-08-27 Thread Jamin Davis
Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The same happened with my guest account. But, when I logged in to an XFCE session with the guest account, all went well. Logging back to Gnome the same thing happened (except that the EULA message wasn't displayed, since I accepted it). And the

Re: Adaptec 2120S on etch

2007-08-26 Thread Jamin Davis
Chris Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I unsterstand that I need to do: enable CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y and CONFIG_SCSI_AACRAID={y,m} to get Adaptec 2120S to work on etch. Please can someone point me in the right direction to do this. I have PCs running Sarge and Etch. I do not normally

Re: Adobe SVG viewer plugin

2007-08-26 Thread Jamin Davis
Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a strange problem with the SVG viewer plugin from Adobe [1]. I use XFCE. I installed the plugin, then went to test it. An EULA was displayed, I accepted it, and from then on, SVG graphicvs were displayed correctly. However, my wife uses

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-26 Thread Jamin Davis
Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's a little unreasonable to expect them to have a list of the ID strings of every single niche browser someone might happen to be using. So they should just send standards-compliant html when in doubt, not start preaching at us. Nor should they link

Re: graphics driver issues

2007-08-26 Thread Jamin Davis
sworoc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip it appears that the nvidia module is running from the output above, but when I attempt to start X, I get the following: (EE) Failed to load module nvidia (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module nvidia (module does not exist, 0) (EE) No

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-26 Thread Jamin Davis
David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There may be good reason for it still in terms of security. /boot doesn't need to be mounted on a running system. I'm not sure if that adds a lot of security though. I'm thinking no. To alter any of the kernel files you'd need root privileges, and

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-26 Thread Jamin Davis
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole disk, there no room left over if you want to add another swap partition, whereas you can add as many swap files as your heart desires, whenever you need them. After reading this thread I

Re: Firefox entry prediction crashes

2007-08-17 Thread Jamin Davis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I enter URLs or Google search terms in the text boxes near the top of an Iceweasel window, it drops down a menu of guesses as to what I'm going to type next. I could do without its guesses. Especially because snip Perhaps an option in an

Re: How to fix Language error

2007-08-16 Thread Jamin Davis
Jan Willem Stumpel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: update-locale LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 This stores the locale value in /etc/defaults/locale (instead of /etc/environment). I get this from time to time and just run a 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'. This runs update-locale as well as locale-gen for your

Re: Google checking my system?

2007-08-16 Thread Jamin Davis
Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08/15/2007 06:39 PM, Steven wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:56:16 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: thought it was odd that google, or iceweasel, needed to know anything. Of course the entry was dropped when I terminated iceweasel. I've noticed similar behavior for

Re: nslookup from behing router/modem

2007-08-16 Thread Jamin Davis
Samuel Bächler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ less /etc/resolv.conf search nameserver 158.152.1.58 nameserver 158.152.1.42 In Switzerland I would say the dog is buried here (how to say in English?): Here marks the spot? :) I use Demon, the second entry from Michael's

Re: Subscribing to a large set of bugs

2007-08-16 Thread Jamin Davis
(too much coffee!) FORMAIL=/usr/bin/formail SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail :0c * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ^Subject: CONFIRM.* { :0 | $FORMAIL -brt -I From: Jamin Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \ $SENDMAIL -t } I have wanted to do this for a while myself - just looked at the exim log and it seems to work. Woo

Re: Setfont

2007-08-03 Thread Jamin Davis
Loeghmon T. Nejad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a minimal installation of Debian Etch (with xserver-xorg-core installed) that gives me an error message when I run the script -at the bottom of this email. The message says, I think you are missing the 'kbd' package which contains setfont and