install jdk-1_5_0_04-linux-i586.bin fails with too many arguments

2005-07-03 Thread Randall J. Parr
I am trying to install the Sun JDK 1.5.0_04 on sarge (moving on to testing) and it fails as below. # sh jdk-1_5_0_04-linux-i586.bin ... ... Creating jdk1.5.0_04/jre/lib/javaws.jar Creating jdk1.5.0_04/jre/lib/deploy.jar dirname: too many arguments Try `dirname --help' for more

After recent upgrade (testing) Mozilla 1.7.8 will not load pages bcs of PSM

2005-07-02 Thread Randall J. Parr
After a recent upgrade of a Debian workstation (built as sarge, now tracking testing), Mozilla 1.7.8 started refusing to load a lot of Java related pages with a messages about PSM -- This document cannot be displayed unless you install the Personal Security Manager (PSM).

OpenOffice on Debian Cut/Paste problems

2005-01-06 Thread Randall J. Parr
I am new to Debian (but not Linux). I recently installed sarge testing on a workstation. I upgraded the KDE to 3.3.1 from unstable. By and large things work well. I am having a problem with OpenOffice 1.1.x calc. When copy, then paste a spreadsheet cell, calc inserts a cell in the current column.

Re: advice on updating kernel image

2004-11-15 Thread Randall Smith
Justin Guerin wrote: On Wednesday 10 November 2004 11:20, Randall Smith wrote: Hi, I need some advice on updating my kernel. I currently have kernel 2.4.25-1 installed from the initial sarge installation and would like to upgrade to the current kernel version (2.4.27). The machine is a DELL

advice on updating kernel image

2004-11-10 Thread Randall Smith
to boot and I am concerned that if I upgrade the kernel using aptitude install kernel-imagexxx, I will not be able to boot. I'm not a linux newbie, but I'm not very knowledgeable of the boot process. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Need direction on alsa/oss sound.

2004-10-25 Thread Randall Smith
got frustrated and quit (for now). I'm generally confused about sound on linux oss/alsa/esd/arts... Can someone recommend a good source to help me understand it better? Thanks. Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

why swsusp not compiled?

2004-08-03 Thread Randall Smith
Can someone tell me why swsusp and pmdisk are not compiled with the 2.6 kernel? I'd like to have this feature on my laptop, but don't like the idea of keeping up with a custom kernel. Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

swsusp and pmdisk not working with 2.6.7

2004-07-18 Thread Randall Smith
After upgrading to kernel 2.6.7, both pmdisk and swsusp quit working. pmdisk complains about a bad signature on boot and swsusp hangs while loading the image. Anyone else had problems with these? Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

udev - where is my device?

2004-07-11 Thread Randall Smith
put the device in my pon script and I was able to connect. But when I rebooted, all of the devices disappeared. I think that when I plug in the phone, udev should create a device somewhere. Where does it create it? Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: udev - where is my device?

2004-07-11 Thread Randall Smith
Randall Smith wrote: I'm connecting my samsung A620 phone to my computer via USB to use the internet access. When I connect it, the cdc_acm module loads. From what I've gathered from searching is that it should create a device called ttyACM0 in the device directory. I can't find it. I did

jewel for lcd users

2004-07-05 Thread Randall Smith
Found a jewel for lcd users I'd like to share xset dpms force off It turns off your lcd backlight. Moving the mouse turns it back on (on my machine). Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

getting started with LISP

2004-06-16 Thread Randall Smith
I'd like to learn LISP. Can someone tell me how to get it installed / get started on Debian? What packages do I install, etc? Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: recent order

2004-06-01 Thread Randall Parker
Title: today only You've heard about I-G-F pill.s on TV, in the news, and online. I-G-F-2 is a powerful erecti0n enhancing product that will create erecti0ns so strong and full that over time your man muscle will actually grow as a direct result! Learn how to get a Huge Johnson! Easy? You bet

Re: recent order

2004-05-31 Thread Randall Parker
Title: today only You've heard about I-G-F pill.s on TV, in the news, and online. I-G-F-2 is a powerful erecti0n enhancing product that will create erecti0ns so strong and full that over time your man muscle will actually grow as a direct result! Learn how to get a Huge Johnson! Easy? You bet

gnome terminal uses much cpu

2004-05-25 Thread Randall Smith
knees. xterm doesn't have this problem. I know that gnome terminal has many more features, but is there no way around the sluggish inefficiency? Anybody else have this problem? Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

jython install

2004-05-24 Thread Randall Smith
If you have installed Jython, maybe you can help. I just installed Jython using apt-get install jython. I'm not a Java programmer. When I fire up the interpreter and type 'import java', I get an import error saying the module can't be found. Any help? Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: jython install

2004-05-24 Thread Randall Smith
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 02:28:58PM -0500, Randall Smith wrote: | If you have installed Jython, maybe you can help. | | I just installed Jython using apt-get install jython. I'm not a Java | programmer. When I fire up the interpreter and type 'import java', I | get

Re: jython install

2004-05-24 Thread Randall Smith
Randall Smith wrote: If you have installed Jython, maybe you can help. I just installed Jython using apt-get install jython. I'm not a Java programmer. When I fire up the interpreter and type 'import java', I get an import error saying the module can't be found. Any help? Randall This also

Re: jython install

2004-05-24 Thread Randall Smith
Randall Smith wrote: If you have installed Jython, maybe you can help. I just installed Jython using apt-get install jython. I'm not a Java programmer. When I fire up the interpreter and type 'import java', I get an import error saying the module can't be found. Any help? Randall Thought

xdm works but startx fails

2003-08-15 Thread Randall Hansen
'startx' ('startx log'). The differences are all in the 'drmOpenDevice' section. Can anyone tell me why this is happening and/or how to fix it? TIA, Randall --- begin xdm log --- (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xe800,0x100

Re: sylpheed-doc package broken?

2003-03-28 Thread Randall Hansen
something? Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sylpheed-doc package broken?

2003-03-27 Thread Randall Hansen
, of course). So I have the docs, but the bug remains. Should I send a bug report to the package maintainer? TIA, Randall OUTPUT: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install sylpheed-doc -s Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED

making 'su' keep user environment?

2003-03-20 Thread Randall Hansen
Folks ~ When I 'su' to root on my machine, my bash user environment (aliases, path, etc.) gets replaced by root's login environment. How can I change this so my user environment remains only for 'su' while leaving root's login environment alone? TIA, Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: making 'su' keep user environment?

2003-03-20 Thread Randall Hansen
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:16:51 -0800 deFreese, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Randall Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] How can I change this so my user environment remains only for 'su' Use su - Thanks for the reply, but I've tried that and it doesn't work

Install XF86_SVGA server?

2001-07-25 Thread Mike Randall
Hello, I'm a Linux newbie and am attempting to install XF86 with Debian 2.2r3. I get this error message when running the configuration utility: *** The server required by your card is not installed! Please abort, install the SVGA server as /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA and run this program again.

CPAN updating Perl version

2001-06-14 Thread Randall Hansen
what the implications are. It seems that CPAN is its own mini-package manager, and it's conflicted with Debian's. Do apt-get et. al. still think that Perl 5.005 is my current version? How would I convince them otherwise? TIA Randall

3ware and Debian

2001-05-15 Thread Randall Svancara
of disks. Randall

[debian-users] 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles

2001-04-19 Thread Randall Hansen
new to all this. All the documents I've read recently make the process look pretty easy, once you've got the correct module. I've tried, without success, looking for a pre-compiled module, but I'm sure I don't know the best places to look. Any advice? Much appreciated. Randall P.S. I subscribe

[debian-users] bride of 3Com 3c900 NIC troubles

2001-04-19 Thread Randall Hansen
present on my machine. Furthermore, is there anything else I need to do to get a working 'net connection? Done: bring up interface, nameservers; doing: gateway. Thanks again, Randall

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1907

1999-11-04 Thread george randall
take me off your mailing list. At 10:23 PM 11/2/99 -, you wrote: Content-Type: text/plain debian-user-digest Digest Volume 99 : Issue 1907 Today's Topics: Xserver tune up tool [ Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: debian installation

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1907

1999-11-04 Thread george randall
At 10:23 PM 11/2/99 -, you wrote: Content-Type: text/plain debian-user-digest Digest Volume 99 : Issue 1907 Today's Topics: Xserver tune up tool [ Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Re: debian installation woes [ Nick Phillips

Quicktime Streaming

1999-09-23 Thread Randall Barth
How can I get Quicktime streaming working across an ip masquerading gateway to my ISP over PPP? I've tried using Apple's proxy, but the program aborts with a segmentation fault. I'm running stock slink. Are there any loadable kernel masquerading modules available for Quicktime streams? Thanks,

Re: upgrading to slink

1998-12-03 Thread David Randall
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: I see no upgrade notes for slink. That's right, it is not released yet. For hamm, these upgrade notes reside in .../hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386/README-upgrade Usually, I just use dpkg to install whatever packages I want from the

InfoMagic Debian 1.2 Installation

1996-12-22 Thread Randall E. Price
Well I received my InfoMagic Debian 1.2 and installed it over my Debian 1.1 and it seemed to be broken so I installed it fresh and now X11 is dead. Everytime I try to start X11 with xstart I get the following messages after X11 fails to finish comming up: PEX extension module not loaded XIE

Re: InfoMagic Debian 1.2 Installation

1996-12-22 Thread Randall E. Price
Bruce Perens wrote: I think you might also have to install xext. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 Thank you both; SO far adding the modules for pex and

Re: InfoMagic Debian 1.2 Installation

1996-12-22 Thread Randall E. Price
Bruce Perens wrote: I think you might also have to install xext. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: InfoMagic Debian 1.2 Installation

1996-12-22 Thread Randall E. Price
The error message for pppd is: Sorry - PPP driver version 0.0.0 is out of date Thanks Randy Randall E. Price wrote: Bruce Perens wrote: I think you might also have to install xext. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public

PPPd Problems with 1.2 CD-ROM

1996-12-22 Thread Randall E. Price
After loading Debian 1.2 from the new InfoMagic CD-ROM I can no longer use pppd. I am getting the following message: Sorry - PPP driver version 0.0.0 is out of date Any ideas? Thanks Randy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: InfoMagic Debian 1.2 Installation

1996-12-22 Thread Randall E. Price
Shaya Potter wrote: Shaya; Thanks for the help. X11 is now working, but PPPd is still broken. I get this message when I start it: Sorry - PPP driver version 0.0.0 is out of date. Thanks, Randy On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Randall E. Price wrote: Bruce Perens wrote: I think you might

The fuckin list request address is busted out.

1996-09-27 Thread Randall Shutt
REALLY hate posting to the list about this, but since listname-request is fuckin broken, I have no choice. Thanks -- === Randall Shutt

Re: XFree86 3.1.2F plans?

1996-08-30 Thread Randall Shutt
not totally stomping all over everything again, and also not having unaccounted for files? Thanks -- === Randall Shutt RaveNet Systems, Inc. ===

Sendmail problems?

1996-08-28 Thread Randall Shutt
-- === Randall Shutt RaveNet Systems, Inc. ===

Previous sendmail post

1996-08-28 Thread Randall Shutt
that would have been offered. -- === Randall Shutt RaveNet Systems, Inc. ===

DPKG Remapping table

1996-08-25 Thread Randall Shutt
alot. -- === Randall Shutt RaveNet Systems, Inc. ===

Re: Suck doesn't download news

1996-08-13 Thread Randall Shutt
NNS server for NT. I moved on to a regular innd and it worked fine. But honestly I prefer this modified Tiny News perl script. Check out the Tiny-News Howto -- == = Randall Shutt = = RaveNet Systems, Inc = ==

Re: Nearly perfect!

1996-08-09 Thread Randall Shutt
on the server side. -- === = Randall Shutt = = RaveNet Systems, Inc= ===

Re: rename a machine

1996-08-05 Thread Randall Jones
On Mon, 5 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me how to _Permanently_ change the hostname on my machine ??? ... Where is this info written ? file: /etc/hostname edit this file to change your hostname. You might also want to add an entry in /etc/hosts for your

Re: LILO and W95

1996-08-01 Thread Randall Jones
On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, nathan work wrote: ok, i just loaded linux after w95 for the first time. i know very little about linux or unix for that matter and i'm having a real problem - 95 will not 'recognize' LILO, and boots right into 95. i didn't have this problem with 3.1. what i need is

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