When I did an "aptitude dist-upgrade" yesterday, aptitude decided to
automatically uninstall dhcp3-client, because it was marked as
automatically installed, and unused. This left me without a dhcp
client. Does anybody know what's changed in the past week or so that
may have caused this (so that I c
Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 January 2006 18:47, Ken Bloom wrote:
>
>>Steve Witt wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, [utf-8] José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello.
>>>>How do I change the fqdn of a c
Ralph Kutschera wrote:
> Hi List!
>
> I have a 4-in-1-CardReader and an external hard disk connected to my
> PC via USB. Ok, hotplugging would work if I could trust that same card
> slots or disk would be mapped to the same scsi devices always. However,
> depending upon when i turn on/off the ex
Steve Witt wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, [utf-8] José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>> How do I change the fqdn of a computer ?
>> No matter what I do, hostname -f keeps telling
>> "localhost.localdomain", other
>> computers with the same configuration give the right hostname.
>> Tha
/DVD images for AMD64 can be downloaded from
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/sarge-amd64/
although most AMD64 machines are quite new, so you might have better
success using an installation image with a newer kernel. This image can
be found at http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/amd64/
-
CD and the external monitor, but if I don't boot up that way, then I
haven't gotten it to put out an image on the external port yet.
How can I fix this?
[1] http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/Main/Compaq_Presario_v2310us
--Ken Bloom
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I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an
and O do?
They decide which one is going to have the original name, right now.
i.e. if you hit I, the the new one will be called and the old
one will be called .dpkg-old, and if you start the program
without changing anything (which is very likely to happen as most of the
programs wi
Lars wrote:
> Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
>
>
>>>AFAIK bind8 doesn't support DDNS.
>>>
>>>
>>>
ii bind9-host 9.2.4-1Version of 'host' bundled with BIND 9.X
ii dhcp3-server 3.0.1-2DHCP server for automatic IP address
>>>
>>>
>>>Why do you have different bind versions
500 ftp://ftp.nerim.net unstable/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
--Ken Bloom
(Please make sure that you send a copy of your reply to my email
address. I hope I got the headers right, but I'm not all that
confident that I did.)
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eds to be patched (and hasn't, as-of
4:2.0+a38-1). You can find a patch for cdrecord in bug #267273.
--Ken Bloom
Hint: the cdrecord build will fail if you have a /usr/src/linux directory
or /usr/src/linux symlink. Move that out of the way before you build.
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On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:51:24 +, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:09:45 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> In general I would run WITH the patches, since powers greater than I
>> have decided they would be a good idea. Debian certainly is something
>> greater t
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 07:30:11 +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> * Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040713 06:49]:
[SNIP]
>> And why doesn't installing konqueror or just any graphical application
>> depend on the installation of a working X server anymore?
>
> Because you don't need a local running X se
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 19:00:20 +0200, stan wrote:
> Yesterday on Slashdot there was a pointer to an article on improving
> Mozilla, and Friefox with plugins. One of these was called BugMeNot, and
> is supposed to provide "accounts" for sites susch as the New York Times
> that require registration.
>
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:10:13AM -0400, Danny O'Brien wrote:
>> We updated the kernel this weekend using apt-get update followed by
>> apt-get . However, uname-a delivers the following response:
>>
>> Linux mail 2.4.18-686 #1 Sun Apr 14 11:32:47 EST 200
On 2004.05.09 19:41, Ken Bloom wrote:
'm trying to edit my Gnome MIME settings in such a way that if I click a
link to a .tex file in Galeon, I can make the file open in gvim.
Whenever I click a .tex file, I get the ordinary "What do you want to do
with this file?" dialog box,
On Sat, 01 May 2004 23:50:05 +0200, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Sat, May 01, 2004 at 07:31:07PM +0200, micha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> First, i'm not on the list, so please cc to me.
>>
>> I saw exactly the same problem on a friends laptop, when he trtied to
>> upgrade to testing.
>> Maybe i
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:10:21 +0200, Jan Pfeifer wrote:
> hi,
>
> I had problems trying to use the (non-free) nvidia kernel module
> generated from nvidia-kernel-source and I found out that the device
> files /dev/nvidia[ctl|0|1] were not created by any of the nvidia*
> packages, and are also not
On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 07:20:06 +0200, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> 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, b
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:40:14 +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
>
> Caoilte O'Connor (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>> On Saturday 27 March 2004 02:36, Olle Eriksson wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 09:25, Caoilte O'Connor wrote:
>
Whenever I'm doing something CPU intensive my mouse
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:50:16 +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I upgraded my unstable system from kernel 2.4.25 to 2.6.4.
> I still have a couple of minor problems.
>
> 1. After the kernel has booted and init is running when modprobe is
> trying to insert drivers it is complaining all the ti
On 2004-03-21, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 21 Mar 2004, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>> For some time there have been errors processing procps. Using aptitude I'm getting:
>> --
>> (Reading database ... 82789 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Pre
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:30:15 +0100, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Raiz-mpx wrote:
>> After reading Debian Weekly News for March 16th, it mentions that;
>> "This release features the new partitioner that supports automatic
>> partitioning and LVM and uses [43]grub as boot-loader on i386."
>>
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 18:41:00 +0100, Micha Feigin wrote:
> Is there a package with c++ references in one form or another?
>
> I found quite a lot of c references but could locate anything proper on
> c++.
>
> Thanx
Use one of the libstdc++*-doc packages.
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On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 13:10:10 +0100, quirin wrote:
> felix: did you have any trouble with that so far?
>
>> On Saturday 13. March 2004 12:03, Felix C. Stegerman wrote:
>>
>> I managed to get it installed properly by doing this:
>> # dpkg --ignore-depends=libxft-dev -r libxft-dev
>> # apt-get ins
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:40:17 +0100, Paul Boyle wrote:
> I have a pci ati rage 128 and can't seem to be able to get direct
> rendering to work. I have kernel 2.4.24 install
> ed and using X11 4.2.1.1. I have configured XF86Config-4 so that it
> loads the required modules, glx and dri. The
> relev
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 19:51:25 +0100, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 08:36:14AM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:50:13 +0100, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> Yeah, probably there. I just tried as root and the scanner worked. So,
> it is a question
On 2004-03-14, jjluza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Le dimanche 14 Mars 2004 03:04, Robert Tilley a écrit :
>> I wish to use a combination of kernel 2.6.4 with udev. The udev
>> documentation specifies using a kernel with the HOTPLUG configuration
>> option TRUE.
>>
>> Where can I find this option?
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:50:13 +0100, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:17:59PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 03:20:07 +0100, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>> > Installed udev and lost my mouse, stick and scanner. I found the mouse
>
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 11:40:17 +0100, Michael Graham wrote:
> Ken wrote:
>> I also had to manually modprobe sd_mod before my usb mass storage
>> devices (my digital camera) would show up. It seems that hotplug
>> missed that module. After I proved that worked, I put sd_mod in
>> /etc/modules
>
> Th
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:10:05 +0100, Jason A Whittle wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:08:52PM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:30:18 +0100, Jason A Whittle wrote:
>> > Everything seems to be working fine, but my terms are all at the default
>> > re
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:20:20 +0100, David Baron wrote:
> Tried to do this, using webmin. Set it up a root at midnight each day. Anacron
> is run daily.
>
> Has not executed.
The only cronjobs that are anacron'ed by default are the
ones that are run in the /etc/cron.monthly, /etc/cron.daily, and
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 03:20:07 +0100, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> Installed udev and lost my mouse, stick and scanner. I found the mouse
> when I started looking around and placed "misc" between /dev and
> /psaux. But I haven't figured out yet where the stick and the scanner
> could possibly be. Anot
efault getty has (which
makes it take a while to re-spawn a new getty after logout).
--Ken Bloom
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On 2004-03-09, Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:11:19AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
>> After installing kernel 2.6.3 (which works great) I am unable to load
>> my memory stick. I have browsed all mount -t vfat /dev/sd* /mnt
>> without success. It used to
On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:11:06 +0100, Kent West wrote:
> Ken Bloom wrote:
>
>>I've observed on my machine over the last several months that it takes an
>>inordinately long time after I log off of one of my machine's virtual
>>consoles before the getty restarts,
On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:11:06 +0100, Kent West wrote:
> Ken Bloom wrote:
>
>>I've observed on my machine over the last several months that it takes an
>>inordinately long time after I log off of one of my machine's virtual
>>consoles before the getty restarts,
I've observed on my machine over the last several months that it takes
an inordinately long time after I log off of one of my machine's
virtual consoles before the getty restarts, prints /etc/issue and is
ready to accept logins again. Occasionally, I get a situation where
init reports the getty as
I recently (last week) figured out how to configure my computer's ATI
Rage 128 card to work with DRI and use 3D acceleration. I have a
problem now that if I let xscreensaver launch and start doing
screen savers, eventually one of the OpenGL screensavers will
completely lock up my screen (I can't Ct
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 05:30:11 +0100, Phillipus Gunawan wrote:
>
>
>> Its not the computer that shut down but the gnome configuration manager
>> that was sent the kill signal probably because X died for some reason
>> and gdm shut it down on logout.
>> Are you running a firewall? (very recommended
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 03:40:12 +0100, Carl Fink wrote:
> When can we expect to see the updated kernel in stable? How about
> testing?
>
> (If anyone says "When it's ready," I will be mildly irritated.) --
> Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading
> http://www.j
Something in the past few days broke MatLab on my sid box. (Perhaps it was
something I dist-upgraded - anybody have any ideas?)
Previously, whatever way I wanted to launch matlab it behaved the same.
Now, if I try to launch MatLab from the Enlightement Menu or from XRun run
from the Enlightenment
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:00:19 +0100, Micha Feigin wrote:
> I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload
> it I get a message:
> umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy I made sure no file is open from
> there but nothing helps. How do I see what is using that mount point
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:20:22 +0200, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:34:52AM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> For example imagine you make "cat" suid...
>
> Then someone can do:
> cat /bin/rm /bin/cat
Interesting attack in theory, but it doesn't work.
the correct command is cat
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:10:06 +0200, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 12:40, Vineet Kumar wrote:
>> * Joseph Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031014 03:35]:
>> > While I'm a huge Firebird fan, IE was better at some tasks (yes, they
>> > are non-standard HTML tasks, but what can you do when
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I suppose this has been asked before on the list, so please pardon me.
>
> I wish to install Debian and take advantage of its package management
> system. However I read that one mustn't try the stable release of Debi
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 18:10:09 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> Short summary:
>
> MozillaJRE Works?
> == 1.2.1-2.bunk
> j2re1.3 YES 1.2.1-2.bunk j2re1.4 unknown
> 1.3-5 j
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 03:50:11 +0200, David Corbin wrote:
> I have a production system, that I do NOT want to migrate to
> testing/unstable. But, I would like to upgrade one particular package
> (spamassassin, in this case) to a more recent version.
>
> What is the recommended way of doing this? S
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 06:40:11 +0200, Christian Lynbech wrote:
> I am currently spending quite some time at work travelling back and
> forth between Denmark and Sweden.
>
> I have a laptop that I bring with me and a screen and keyboard at the
> office in Sweden that I can hook up to.
>
> Now the f
Sometime in the past few days, my modem /dev/ttyS4 changed its
permissions from 660 to 640 without my intervention. My first question:
is there any kind of security package on debian that might have done
this as a cronjob? I don't use devfs.
When asking on #debian, a user suggested that I check
On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 15:10:11 +0200, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:49:04PM -0700, Ken Bloom wrote:
> } How do I compile the LUFS kernel module from its official debian package
> } to run on a debian stock kernel (in this case 2.4.20-3-686)
>
> apt-get install
How do I compile the LUFS kernel module from its official debian package
to run on a debian stock kernel (in this case 2.4.20-3-686)
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On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 02:40:15 +0200, j2 wrote:
> Ok, i tried to install a .deb with dpkg -i filename.deb and ran into a
> problem that i was lacking flex. So i did "apt-get install flex" and
> then i get
>
> cookiemonster:/root/Download/SMS/gnokii-0.5.2# apt-get install flex
> Reading Package List
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:00:14 +0100, Paul Johnson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:46:13PM -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote:
> > They work for me too, however, won't updated packages overwrite
> > (replace) the supplemental ones I
H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:59:04PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > > I didnt realise that, what are its bad points... i guess it could make
> > > dependencies a bit tricker.
> >
> > The way redhat does it means you have to distinguish between installing
> >
> mdevin sez:
> } Is there some way that I can use the Sun Linux install binary and
> } convert it to a deb so that when Blackdown releases theirs, my system
> } will automatically upgrade to their version? Actually, Blackdown has a
> } binary install version for 1.4.1 beta but no deb package. Is i
You should consider discussing universites whose departments use linux in
their labs. For example, I attend UC Davis and have taken computer classes
in three departments: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and
Mathematics. Each of these departments' labs run Unix variants exclusively:
Compute
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