Kontakt zu usern im Saarland und Baden-Wuertenberg bez Softwarepatentdemo in Strasbourg

2003-09-10 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hi Tut mir leid so ne Art spam hier loszulassen, aber ich habe Probleme mit bestimmten LUG's in Kontakt zu kommen (z.B. Offenburger LUG) ich bin Mitglied des Strasbourger Lug, und wir suchen Kontakt zu deutschen Usern/Usergruppen in der nähe Strasbourg um die Demo gegen Softwarepatente die in

building a new debian system from a running system

1998-07-08 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i did just receive a new disk, and thought it would be fine to install another system on it to try it out. It's a while that i want to take a closer look to debian, but the rather clumsy install procedure (can't boot from CD...) with an awful lot of disquettes that go all time broken made

latest beta ISO image?

1998-07-10 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am now trying to download unsuccessfully the latest ISO-image of the hamm distribution could anyone with a good link or may be already here in Europe make it available to me? ciao bboett == acount at earthling net

installing debian from a running linux system

1998-09-18 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, got a new disk for my slackware linux system, and wanted to give debian a try on my production system is there any way i can avoid having to boot through disquette? i am having trouble with my floppy-device and since i already have a running linux system, i want to install the new

newbie help....

1998-09-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, just switched to debian anmd run into some problems... - first of all i want my favourite mailreader back: pine. the problem is, that the version for thesrc and diffs is 3.96 and i want to sue as before 4.03... now when i try to build pine by hand i get the following message: 05:34:36

Re: Java and Linux

1998-09-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
I'm doing some java development in linux and I was wondering if anyone had some good tools to suggest. I have tried xemacs with jde, but I wasn't impressed (xemacs is blotted and slow). I've been using plain depends on the machine... ;) old fte ever since. I've heard that kaffe is suppose

newbie help(2): ghost changes my hostname??!!

1998-09-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
i have written: - when the bandwith on our ethernet sinks due mainly to a very slick M$-proggy, my brand new debian system looses its system name (at least i noticed this every time the network was out for several minutes...) the name beeing replaced by a '-f' that's quite annoying since it

newbie help(3): no isolatin with debian-less???

1998-09-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, me again is it normal that standard debinized less isn't able to cope with isolatin texts? How does it come? or do i have installed the wrong package? ciao bboett == acount at earthling net http://erm6.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett

newbie help: spourious messages in var/log/messages

1998-09-24 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, another one from me. noticed an annoynace in messages: lots of messages of the following type: Sep 20 09:27:40 yoda syslogd 1.3-3#26: restart. Sep 20 09:47:40 yoda -- MARK -- Sep 20 10:07:40 yoda -- MARK -- Sep 20 10:27:40 yoda -- MARK -- Sep 20 10:47:40 yoda -- MARK -- Sep 20 11:07:41

newbie help: configuring rdate....

1998-09-24 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, each day since i switched to debian, i fond now in the inbox of root messages of rdate failing to connect to a ntp host i specifyed at installation now i couldn't find the location where this call was initiated, thus i do not know how i could correct the errors ciao bboett

newbie help: how do i configure IP services/daemons of my machine?

1998-09-24 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am a previous slackware user, and used to edit wildly in config files now i administer also a redhat machine, and they have a runlevel editor and other tools to configure a machine... now is there a special way to administer a debian machine? Especially is there something to respect

xntp problem....

1998-10-01 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, my debian2.0 system has complete crippled time date Thu Oct 1 15:54:33 MST 1998 whilst my DCF77 module beneath reports: 00:54 an since its after midnight its the 2 Oct how do i get the system to show the correct time??? and is there a way to connect the xntpd to this DCF77

[HELP:]howto hamm-slink + dpkg problems

1998-10-02 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i didn't find any README in the slink directory, so how does the upgrade work (and the maintenance...) do i simply install the packages of the slink directory? In fact i would like to have packages like gnome easily installed and maintained through dselect... and that seems possible only

completely strange system time....

1998-10-08 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i recently installed a debian system, and since then have a completely strange system time: my clock reports: 09:13:43 yoda:~$ date Thu Oct 8 09:14:23 MST 1998 and a correctly working host: 16:17:21 erm6:~$ date Thu Oct 8 16:17:29 CEST 1998 that's a bit strange how do i get it

Re: completely strange system time....

1998-10-09 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Your time zone is wrong. Run tzconfig (as root) on the misbehaveing host ok set it to Europe/Paris (i am in Strasbourg...) Also, check your logfiles. Xntpd cannot make large adjustments and refuses to i stop/started the daemon, and it reports no failures: Oct 9 11:46:50 yoda xntpd[25663]:

HELP:pgp5 doesn't work

1998-10-16 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am still trying to get pgp5 to work the selftests work, i can encrypt a file with pgp, i can decrypt it using my key, i can list the available keys etc. now i added the key of a friend, receivend an encrypted attachmet to a mail, when trying to decrypt i get the message couldn#t

HELP: no xterm after slink upgrade!!!

1998-10-29 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, wanting to use stuff like gnome enligthement etc, i put the unstable distrib into the apt source lists, running dselect took a while to make the upgrade and now things like xterm, xsetroot etc. are missing!!! i tryed to reiinstall the xbase package, but it is reportd to be there i i

anyone got X running on the new Medion Laptop?

2003-10-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello put up an unstable debain on my brand new Medion laptop and there seems no way to get X working... i got XF86config files from other people having this laptop but running under Suse, rEdhat or Mandrake and who have no problems i even tryed to copy over the config file knoppix

why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?

2003-10-24 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, seems there's no way to get X running under debian on my new Medion laptop i tryed so far Mandrake, Suse, Redhat and Knoppix and none had the slightes problem to set up at least the vesa X server i still try to install debian (usntable) on the laptop, and discover

Re: why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?

2003-10-24 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:15:09PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Why not actually read the prompts given to you by debconf? It's really hard to screw that up... cause the config file generated by it doesn't work otherwise i wouldn't have tried other config files... -- ciao bboett

Re: why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?

2003-10-24 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:15:09PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Why not actually read the prompts given to you by debconf? It's really hard to screw that up... cause the config file generated by it doesn't work otherwise i wouldn't have tried other config files... -- ciao bboett

Re: why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?

2003-10-28 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:39:15PM -0200, klaus imgrund wrote: Xfree 4.2 will not work with nvidia FX cards.You'll need the nvidia drivers installed.To install those you'll need at least the kernel headers for your which crash my comp... kernel installed and probably also the source.Don't

other users of the medion MD40100?

2003-10-30 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i am in search of other users of the new Aldi notebook MD 40100, i have begun to regroup the hints i had to extract onto http://www.inforezo.org/~bboett/md40100/ (that link is also submitted since 4 days to the linux-laptop site but doesn't show up... ) and am searching other

how to format a flpooy with debian??????

1999-01-15 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am having lots of troubles with disquette-errors and i found no way to format (low level possibly) a floppy no fdformat no initfd nothing. is this normal is there any way i can format those damn things??? mdformat doesn't do the job: the floppy's remain unwritable

Re: how to format a flpooy with debian??????

1999-01-15 Thread Bruno Boettcher
First of all, can you read the files on that floppy? more or less... mdir a: and so on (mtools package) yep And to format it you need to use superformat ah yeahhh great thanks a lot, that did it!!! ciao bboett == acount at

recent pine.deb and samba-2.0.deb?

1999-01-20 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, as i look, the potato archives i access are empty or copies of slink now i am searching the package to debianize the pine compilation, and i search also the samba2.0 debs any location i may find that? ciao bboett ==

Re: slashdot poll

1999-02-10 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: As someone who has recently come to use Debian from a year or two of RedHat experience, I can say that the non-X-based nature of dselect can be a distinct advantage when you're trying to configure a server machine and if the dselect process shuts

Help: how to set the default X server???

1999-02-12 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, regularly when updates of the X system are made, my Laptop looses his X server, because a strange little Program replaces the link i am used to set on it (/usr/X11R6/bin/X is, as an old Slackware user a link to the right server), furher i use a server that comes from the redhat

Re: GNOME 0.99.8 debs anywhere?

1999-02-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Try www.jimpick.com (or ftp.jimpick.com). It's the site maintained by the Debian GNOME maintainer. maybe i searched not enough but the last deb's i found there were for the .30 version of gnome ciao bboett == acount at earthling

upgrading slink - potato

1999-02-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am trying to upgrade to potato... first question, to stay on the safe side, in sources.list the line concerning potato should come before or after the slink line? then selecting some gnome stuff i get: gnome-gnometris depends on libaudiofile-cvs0 libaudiofile-cvs0 does not appear to be

how to use: postgresql-dump??

1999-02-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i did just, as it seems, manage to upgrade to potato first things that do not work anymore: the postgres DB... with a message to use postgresql-dump to make the upgrade... now when i launch this proggie, i get the following: postgresql-dump -t log The PostgreSQL database format has

where get libaudiofile-cvs0 and libesd-cvs0 debs???

1999-02-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
the title says it all... ciao bboett == acount at earthling net http://erm6.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett === Unsolicited commercial email is NOT welcome at this email address To

Re: Debian/RedHat at our university

1999-03-04 Thread Bruno Boettcher
It might help a little, if there would be some ready made 'installation sets' (like 'single workstation', 'internettet workstation', 'server') with ready assembled collection of packages? There is so huge number of packages available that it isn't so easy to find out in the beginning what to

compiling a new kernel ....

1999-03-10 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i did just upgrade my laptop to potato, noticed that an old 2.2.1 kernel was running and launched compile... but it aborted with the message: erm7:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg binary ... (cd debian/tmp-source/usr/src/; tar zcf kernel-source-2.2.3.tar.gz kernel-source-2.2.3;\ rm

HELP: using (PCMCIA)-modem....

1999-04-26 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am using a slightly upgraded slink (its in fact potato before they went to glibc2.1) on a laptop, i am using regularly a xircom combo card (CEM-28) as ethernet controler, yesterday i thzought i might try out the modem part, and surprise it doesn't work. in fact, modem set up

Re: HELP: using (PCMCIA)-modem....

1999-04-27 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, John Pearson wrote: Probably mainly, you're running getty on /dev/ttyS3. Getty provides the login prompt that a user dialling in (or connecting directly) to /dev/ttyS3 would see; once it's running it owns the port, and you may well not be able to open it with kermit. i

HELP slink upgrade: netscape: locale `C' not supported

1998-11-12 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i did just managed to get a working (almost ;) slink distrib, but now netscpae (not installed through dpkg tho, but the version installed with dpkg has the same problem) tells me: /usr/local/netscape/netscape netscape: locale `C' not supported. Perhaps the $XNLSPATH environment

problems with locate

1998-11-20 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, just noticed a thing (i looked into the FAQ but didn't find it) there's a strange thing about locate, or the updatedb it never expires, meaning that the database is correctly build every day, it even seems to have a reasonable size (approx 10Mo), but when invocing locate on any file i

HELP: best place to place binfmt_misc directives?

1998-11-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, wanted to set up again some of the misc binary modules capabilities on slackware init i had a rc.local where to put such stuff where do i put it in debian? BTW wouldn't it be neat if the packages beeing susceptible to propose such services had a switch to set this functionality on

Re: HELP: best place to place binfmt_misc directives?

1998-11-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
It is not clear to me exactly what you mean, but you can edit /etc/modules nope, i know how to load a module... its the stuff like this i don't know where to put: echo ':DOSWin:M::MZ::/usr/local/bin/wine:' register echo ':Java:M::\xca\xfe\xba\xbe::/usr/local/java/bin/javawrapper:' register

HELP: debian mirrors are corrupt

1998-11-26 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am trying to install slink onto my laptop, but actually this fails due that all mirrors around me (ftp.info.iut-tls3.fr, ftp.inka.de etc) have wrong Package-files (ex: xfonts-bas... vs xfnt-base...) I am trying since yesterday to get a working computer (without having to revert to hamm)

configuring X for a laptop...

1998-12-01 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i looked at the laptop site referenced from the linux.org pages, looked into the database, found a config file for my chipset, tryed it without success... before that i tryed to use the different X-configurators is know of, but with all i had a problem: what do i tell them when it comes

HELP: jikes libstdc++.so.2.8 probs

1998-12-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i solved the problems with dselect and apt thank to the foobar_debs.tar.gz package but my favourite java compiler reports the same problem... jikes: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info what can i do to get this solved?

how do i move all users from slakware to debian?

1998-12-22 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am just moving our server on a new machine running debian, unfortunately i do not know exactly on how to passon easily my users from the old slackware machine to the new one, the new one having shadow passwords thus i assume i can't just copy the old passwd file to the new location...

getting à Tn B loopi puppet cam to work?

2007-05-06 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! running through a store i came across that webcam disguised as a dog-puppet (http://www.t-nb.com)... and bought it without much thinking about drivers... now at home i would like to get it working, but alas i can't get anything out of it... in the syslog i only see that some device was

a CAD program for building a house?

2006-11-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! i am battling with an architect and a construction engeneer, and both are most of the time unable to give me the informations i want, and both don't give me some sort of digital version of the plans of my house... nevertheless i need some inforations and thus have decided to draw up

Sound problem with videoplayers

2007-07-25 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello i am running an amd64 system, and recently saw that vlc and mplayer are available now for this platform... tried, but they play without sound xmms plays fine, so i ran an strace on it, and mplayer stops at open(/dev/snd/controlC0, O_RDONLY)= 5 close(5)

wildcards and NFS...

2007-10-26 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello want to dispatch music from one computer through my house so i exported the mp3 directory by nfs. the problem is that most other comps in the house go by DHCP... so i added the following line to the /etc/exports /home/bboett/mp3/ 192.168.0.*(ro,insecure,root_squash,subtree_check) but

how to get the raw1394 modules for 2.6.24 kernel?

2008-02-15 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i just wanted to make again a try to see if somewhat there was a way to fetch some films from my camera, but as far as i see the prerequisite needed by kino is missing i tried to load the requested raw1394 module, but as far as i can see it, there's none on my system...

how to get pulseaudio working?

2008-02-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello am trying to get the replication of audio working, no success so far... i read through the docu at the pulseaudio pages, which i can't really apply since i am running gnome, and as it seems gnome allready starts up a pulseaudio daemon on the laptop i use for the tests, all seems fine,

recommended webcam?

2007-11-21 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello i want to play around with ip-telephony and thus need a webcam, i have an old thing that does 340x280 which is enough to see thatthere is indeed somebody but the quality is simply awful, so what webcam are there that are easy to get working under debian with more appropriate resolution and

debian package for sleep to disk?

2007-11-22 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello i am in the process of setting up a new laptop, and am at the moment searching without a success how to implement a hibernate functionality there's surely a package in debian offering this, but i seem to hit the wrong keywords so if someone could point me into the right direction!

getting a printer published.....

2007-12-17 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello! i have a network printer on my LAN that uses a peculiar driver, i configured one machine to be able to talk to it, so far so good, the printer works properly now iwante the other machines to access that printer through my server, and there nohing goes i used the local

Re: getting a printer published.....

2007-12-17 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 11:31:24AM +, Patter wrote: You may need to adjust the BrowseAddress option to include the server's indeed, despite the documentation @LOCAL isn't enough, i had to add @IF(eth0) to get it work... thanks! -- ciao bboett

Re: getting a printer published.....

2007-12-18 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:20:01AM +, Patter wrote: @IF(eth0) to get it work... Ah, so @LOCAL is loopback only ... TFM doesn't mention that. yep, that's why i bikered about the docu -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED]

HELP: cvs problem

1999-07-19 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, asked in the cvs newsgroup but nobody answers. and i am really stuck... due to a bug, i checked out an old version and modifyed it to match the regular version without the bug, but now i am stuck i would like to have this new version in place of the old one, but even when i try

HELP: cannot get serial info: inapropriated ioctl for device?????

1999-07-20 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, since some weeks i have lost the usage of the pcmcia modem... it coincides with the upgrade to potato. i rebuild a kernel (2.2.10 with the serial patch preconized by pcmcia package due to a bug in the kernel code), but nothing helps, i can't get access to the modem, trying with kermit

HELP: problem with serial ports....

1999-08-19 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i have the following problem, i can't acces the serial ports on my portable... support of the serial ports (dump) is compiled in the kernel, setserial gives back the right info, i can connect to the serial port using kermit, but nothing goes through, and after i made an echo to the port or

HELP: xv: can't load library 'libX11.so.6'

1999-08-30 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am running a just updated potato and when trying to run xv i get the following message: 16:30:51 yoda:~$ xv xv: can't load library 'libX11.so.6' with locate libX11.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1 and the rest works perfectly (xterm, netscape, eeyes etc...)

HELP: how to access /dev/dsp despite gnome?

1999-08-31 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i just want to make some tests with the mbrola package which needs access to the /dev/dsp device, but gnome blocks it. Which entity of gnome does this, and is there a way to remove the control of gnome over this device temporarily? -- ciao bboett

HELP: need driver for epson LX 1050 matrix printer...

1999-09-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i just got a grip on an old matrix printer (epson LX 1050) put it at the back of my computer. Printing ascii only works fine, but when trying to print postscript or anything else, horror appears i tryed the different epson printerdrivers from the magicfilter package, but none does the

HELP with potato:scp problem....

1999-09-10 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i ran recently into the following problem: scp jSim.jar inforezo.u-strasbg.fr:java Executing /usr/bin/ssh1 for ssh1 compatibility. command-line line 0: Bad configuration option. Connection lost. so what's wrong here -- ciao bboett

HELP: best way to open a cvs server??

1999-09-15 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i have to open a cvs-project to people outside my site, i looked at the documentation of cvs and found the pserver functionality, but also this is marked as a security breach for the system thus i tryed using regular accounts with /bin/false as shell, but this wont work either... Is

can i use truetype fonts?

1999-05-18 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, a friend send me some fonts taken out of his windows system, for me to be able to view some web pages he converted for me from a word-document... now he send me true type fonts (suffix .ttf) and i looked a bit around but noticed that nowhere on my system were such fonts, mkdontdir

printing true type fonts????

1999-05-18 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, thanks to all that helped me set up true type fonts, it works nice, netscape shows now the correct fonts. But now i wanted to print those pages, unfortunately it seems that ghostscript doesn't know anything about those fonts is there a way to tell it to use also the truetype fonts?

no way to print documents that use true type fonts??

1999-05-19 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, yesterday i asked help for setting up truetype fonts for my X server, using xfstt worked like a charm, i read the FAQ but nowhere is spoken about gs, and as it seems this program is now causing trouble, i view my documents using netscpape and they all appear as they should, but when it

autologout problems...

1999-05-20 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, in some way on my system is activated a sort of autologout which shut down shells which are idle for 60 min now while this feature is desirable, in some cases it is not i am used to have an xterm open with a ssh connection to my server running on it a mail client (mutt, if that

help /var is filling up!!!

1999-05-21 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, on a machine i administer i have a 100M partition for var, and since some time now it fills up blocking the mail transfer done wtih qmail if i look into this partiton i see that the logs take 60M of place, which seems excessive... now where do i configure logrotate to specify less

Re: help /var is filling up!!!

1999-05-21 Thread Bruno Boettcher
You really should find the real problem before you try changing logging. Try something like the command 'find /var -xdev -size +5000k -print'. This will print out the names of all files more than 5MB (there probably shouldn't be any). Then look into the file and see if right found

HELP: can't access serial port???

1999-05-28 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am still trying to get my Xircom CEM-28 pcmica-card modem to work, without success at the moment, and the problem is really strange: cat /var/run/stab Socket 0: Xircom CEM28 Ethernet/Modem 0 network xirc2ps_cs 0 eth0 0 serial serial_cs 0 ttyS3 4

potato probs...

1999-06-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, migration to potato went fine with a little prob: Setting up slib (2c5-3) ... ERROR: In procedure gsubr-apply in expression (scm-error (quote misc-error) #f ...): ERROR: Could not find slib/require.scm in (/usr/share/guile/site /usr/share/guile/1.3 /usr/share/guile .) dpkg: error

XF86Config for Trident 3DImage975???

1999-06-25 Thread Bruno Boettcher
as the title says does anybody has a working config file for this card? XF86Setup segfaults, and with the result of xf86configure i get only a splitted screen in 640x400 i am using potato thus i have XFree3.3.x -- ciao bboett

overriding package dependencies ?

1999-07-13 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am using some packages like jikes, the java extensions to postgres etc all this packages need absolutely the jdk now i would like to cope myself with the jdk (BTW i have the jdk1.2 installed, which isn't in the distrib yet...) but i didn't found a way to tell dselect to not install

ssh2 install prob in potato??

1999-07-13 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, since some time now i do not get a clean install on my laptop due to this error: Unpacking ssh2 (from .../ssh2_2.0.13-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh2_2.0.13-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/man/man3/zlib.3.gz', which is also in package

inapropriated postgres package pre-install script?

1999-07-13 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, it now the third machine where i have to do the manipulation by hand, and when forgotten it is realy a pain each time i launch a dselect there's the horror of the possibility of an upgrade of the postgres DB often on launching the upgrade the thought comes arg did i do a

HELP: cvs problem!

1999-07-14 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i already asked on the newsgroup for cvs but got no response, perhaps my problem is too stupid, but in any case i really need help: i am using regularly cvs for my projects, now for the first time the usefulness appeared clearly: an unfound bug creeped in the development that made itself

how to get cvs working in potato?

1999-07-16 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, since i upgraded to the latest potato cvs doesn't work anymore, every request is solded by a Permission denied, but the permissions are ok: 13:22:23 yoda:~$ erm1 10:09:33 erm1:~$ cd /usr/local 10:09:43 erm1:/usr/local$ ll -d cvsroot drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Jan 8 1999

stop gnome-session to record xterms?

1999-07-16 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i have the folowing problem: i can't log graphically on my computer unless i log into it on the console and edit the .gnome/session file by hand, because it is full of calls to xterms in a way that lets the windowmanager crash before the setup of the windowmanager is complete, blocking the

lost X in woody.....

2000-07-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, did just upgrade to latest woody, restartet my laptop and no X gdm, or startx complain about wrong ownership of a socket anybody else experiencing this, or any hint on how to solve it? -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL

a mgetty.conf for elsa-microlink?

2000-07-10 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i just bought a elsa-microlink modem for receiving faxes, installed it but it doesn't want to work i asked some friends to try to send me a fax, i even tryed to send a fax through a locally installed fax, the modem beeing triggered by the answer_fax- script nothing helps, mgetty

how to reconfigure a package? (debconf)

2000-09-06 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, due to some bug, when debconf starts up the enter key is devalidaded, so upgrading of my machine is impossible i wanted to change the setting for debconf... but couldn't figure how to force reconfiguration of a package -- ciao bboett

anybody got everybuddy running?

2000-09-12 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, normally i use gnome-ICQ but since at least one of my friends uses AIM... i needed a client for that now i installed everybuddy onto my woody and all that happens after the windows pops up are tons of messages like this one: LIBICQ ICQ_SetDebug(3)Server told us to go away. LIBICQ

gnome-session calls also kde in woody????

2000-09-15 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i have just upgraded a laptop from really early potato to latest woody this laptop is used by several persons, and naturally there was no consens on which desktop-manager to use, so some users use kde, some others use sawfish+gnome now kde works fine, but when calling

Re: Debian box sick... hda lost interrupt Unknown vector 67

2000-10-16 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 12:06:48PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: No, no ideas. But I'm suffering from very similar problems. It's a network with 19 new computers, which tend to break down as often as once a day. All of them have Asus motherboards, some have Pentium III others have AMD K6 3D.

Re: gnomeicu and remote gnome panel

2000-10-25 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 10:16:20AM +0400, Alexey Kakunin wrote: But I have gnome session and gnome panel started on machine B. As I know, it is not matter for CORBA where is the server: on local machine or in the net. So, how can I say to gnomeicu, started on machine A to use gnome panel (or

where's esdctl???

2000-10-25 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i just made another upgrade of my woody but still for some reason esd is present, so the package is still present and is updated, but esdctl and in fact all utilities around esd disappeared.. what happenened to them? in fact i only need esdctl to let my at scripts be able to

Re: gnome-name-server

2000-10-30 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:07:01PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe, i believe it has something to do with the corba link to gnome programs. I might be wrong, please correct me :-) nope you are correct, each CORBA object can conenct through the orb to other objects, it has several ways to

Re: gnome-name-server

2000-10-30 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:00:56PM -0500, Debian Ghost wrote: hi, Hehe, I feel like I just stepped into the star ship ent:) What is a CORBA and what is an orb? :D ehm yeah how to say it shortly and clearly.. CORBA is what is called a middle ware, a service layer that lays between different

HELP:woody problems: no sessions after gdm/corrupted xmodmap??

2000-11-07 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello! made an dist-upgrade yesterday, and now typing in the login at gdm, the login is accepted, but returns immediately to gdm, all keys i was used to get through alt-sequences are away... real strange BTW i am starting x from startx-script... and i had to do an ldconfig to get the xterm

HELP:woody:lost X completely: no default font 'fixed'.....

2000-11-07 Thread Bruno Boettcher
just made an update just in case the problem solved from itself... its getting worse.. the server stops with: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' just above i have the mesg: Warning: 'fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc. Entry deleted

setting up netenv??

2000-11-09 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i have installed netenv on my laptop, but this thing does not work instead of copyiing the requested file to the /etc/netenv/netenv file, it writes a file of size 0 i have to copy by hand the requested files and restart the pcmcia system to get it work. So its me doing

reactivating qmail sendqueue????

2000-11-20 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i have the following problem: i have qmail installed on a laptop, several messages were send while offlogged next time the laptop was onlogged, the queue wasn't reactivated and send down (how to do this? the line of the FAQ doesn't work... (svc -a /var/run/qmail, svc no such command,

where's plperl?

2000-11-22 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, parsed through the documentation of postgres, and found out that it is possible to use perl as procedural language inside of postgres tryed it out, and no such language i looked through dselect lists and couldn't find that one i installed all that seemed to have something

Re: where's plperl?

2000-11-22 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 12:07:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The perl way to communicate to a database is called the DBI(db interface) module, available at your nearest CPAN mirror. yeah, that's if you want to write a perl-script that addresses a DB... DBI is a very popular module. i

HELP:apache: dl-close.c:122: _dl_close: Assertion `new_opencount[0] == 0' failed

2000-11-22 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! since last upgrade apache isn't working anymore, i get : apache: dl-close.c:122: _dl_close: Assertion `new_opencount[0] == 0' failed in error-log i am running on woody so yes i know, its unstable but what's going wrong and what's the fix? -- ciao bboett

hosts for rdate?

2000-11-25 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am searching for some hosts for time updating of my hosts where can i find the listings of hosts offering this service? i am in France BTW, so any host network-near Strasbourg would be fine... -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL

HELP: woody-apache corrupt and non working...

2000-11-27 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, first update to woody i made some days ago trashed apache, but after reinstalling it completely (removed apache+php, installed apache+php) the machine resumed functionality... next machine i updated today... same: after the upgrade apache isn't working, tryed the same... nothing, the error

HELP: japanese chars and mutt?

2000-04-05 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, from time to time i receive messages from japanese relations, and often among islatin chars are parts in japanese encoding... is there any way to view these as japanese signs unsing mutt and thus the pager of it? -- ciao bboett

HELP: strange things happens with X....

2000-04-11 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i still have the very annoying problem that xdm fires up by default on my machine but still does not accept any input from the keyboard, in fact it is as if the keyboard was suppressed: impossible to get back to a console i have to log into the machine from another one and kill the

HELP: proc mounts itself on /dev????

2000-04-13 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i have a machine that is in a strange state since i conjunctily upgraded to a 2.3.99-3 kernel and a second ethernet card /dev is destroyed on every reboot, and what may be found inside seem to be parts of /proc, /proc beeing empty. thus the kernel stops booting remaining in single

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