Debconf complains of database corruption; apt system wedged

2003-10-25 Thread Joseph Barillari
processing: debconf As tons of other stuff depends on debconf, I can't progress without it. Any suggestions on how to fix this would be appreciated. Best, --Joe -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Debconf complains of database corruption; apt system wedged

2003-10-26 Thread Joseph Barillari
JDB == Joseph Barillari [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JDB Hi. After a nasty crash during a dist-upgrade, I discovered JDB that /var/lib/dpkg/status was missing (fsck must not have JDB been able to save it). I restored a copy form /var/backups, JDB and threw away a file from /var/lib

fixing info: dir: No such file or directory

2003-11-02 Thread Joseph Barillari
it would be much appreciated. best, --Joe P.S.: Please _do_ cc: me. It makes it easier to find the follow-ups. -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux commands

2003-07-19 Thread Joseph Barillari
Internet access to Linux commands? (I have not G found any at Debian and Redhat sites.) I'm not sure what you mean by that. G 2. Gnome, KDE, X interfaces do not appear - How to invoke them? Try typing 'startx' at the shell prompt. best, --Joe -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org

CUPS renders but hangs with Compaq IJ750

2003-08-27 Thread Joseph Barillari
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Re: Setting progs at a runlevel

2003-02-15 Thread Joseph Barillari
JE == Jeff Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JE As a RH refugee, I'm used to running the 'setup' program to enable/disable JE program startups at runtime. For Debian, am I correct in cd'ing to the JE /etc/rcX.d dir and moving SXXprogram to KXXprogram to disable it? JE If so, is

Re: What the heck did emacs do with my email?

2003-03-18 Thread Joseph Barillari
to lock a mailspool before appending messages to it?) --Joe -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Transferring Digital Camera Images

2003-03-23 Thread Joseph Barillari
THG == Thomas H George [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: THG I have a Sony DSC-S75 digital camera which has a usb port. The manual THG states the images are stored in JPEG format and the accompanying THG software for Windows installs the camera as an additional hard drive so THG the

Re: X over ssh

2003-03-30 Thread Joseph Barillari
PJ == Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PJ On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 06:22:06PM +0200, Michael Naumann wrote: I'm a bit clueless now. Hopefully anybody can help me out here. I have two machines m1 and m2 (both woody) connected. I can ssh -X successfully from m1 to m2

Re: file splitting

2003-04-01 Thread Joseph Barillari
unbreakable). I think the Freenet project (freenetproject.org) does this with its datastore. It's open-source, so you could probably adapt its code for (2) and (3). --Joe -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Galeon 1.3.4

2003-06-06 Thread Joseph Barillari
of gnome default. Try running gnome-keybinding-properties or gnome-keyboard-properties. --Joe BM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to BM [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of BM unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

ALSA module snd-detect missing

2002-12-19 Thread Joseph Barillari
Hi. The alsaconf package in unstable uses a module called snd-detect to detect installed sound cards: (from /usr/sbin/alsaconf) snip DETECTFILE=/proc/asound/detect snip # Autodetection (if detect module is present) autodetect() { AUTODET=false modprobe snd-detect /dev/null 2 /dev/null [

Re: ALSA module snd-detect missing

2002-12-19 Thread Joseph Barillari
c == csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c At Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:52:50 -0500, c Joseph Barillari wrote: The alsaconf package in unstable uses a module called snd-detect to detect installed sound cards: c [...] c Just to be sure, what version of alsaconf are you talking

Re: ALSA module snd-detect missing (not found; but issue now moot)

2002-12-20 Thread Joseph Barillari
c == csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c At Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:52:50 -0500, c Joseph Barillari wrote: The alsaconf package in unstable uses a module called snd-detect to detect installed sound cards: c [...] c Just to be sure, what version of alsaconf are you talking

Re: Galeon 1.3.4

2003-06-05 Thread Joseph Barillari
/README.ExtraPrefs.gz I don't know about the specific examples you mentioned -- but some of the features I used disappeared between 1.2 and 1.3. --Joe -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X Server fails to notice loaded agpgart module

2003-06-29 Thread Joseph Barillari
to track down the problem would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, --Joe (XF86Config-4 and XFree86.0.log attached below) -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org --8---cut here---start-8--- ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server

X Server fails to notice loaded agpgart module

2003-06-29 Thread Joseph Barillari
Via Apollo Pro KT266 chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe000 Any suggestions on how to track down the problem would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, --Joe (XF86Config-4 and XFree86.0.log attached below) -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org --8---cut here

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-07-06 Thread Joseph Barillari
would quit with the message GL_EXT_bgra not supported - bailing out. --Joe -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Package to OCR from Image of Text, tips?

2003-07-13 Thread Joseph Barillari
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Re: No space left on device

2003-07-14 Thread Joseph Barillari
to delete the apt cache. You could probably move some things around, too -- move /home to /usr/home, and symlink it to /home. Finally, you could use GNU parted to rearrange the partitions. --Joe -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

`which` and infinite recursion

2002-06-22 Thread Joseph Barillari
Howdy. I just switched from Red Hat to Debian and was wondering why any invocation of `bash` or `which` caused the forking of hundreds of processes and (eventually) the complaint: /bin/bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable I investigated my .bashrc, and found that the offending line was