Failed to open the X11 display!

2011-03-15 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello everyone, From my workstation (Ubuntu 10.04.2), I try to start an application running on my server but this application requires X Window System. My server does not have a GUI. So I did ssh -X ip_address_of_server. The server is Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). When I start the application and

Re: Failed to open the X11 display!

2011-03-15 Thread Bernard Fay
I compared the sshd_config files from two servers, one from which I can start an application requiring a GUI and the one from my problematic server. Both are identical. I am even more puzzled now as I would expect at least one diffirence. Thanks, On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Bernard Fay

parsing problem

2010-12-09 Thread Bernard Fay
Hi, I have long strings to parse which have permanent and variable information. Somewhere in the strings we have something like Handle: 0x12a7 . Handle is permanent and 0x12a7 is variable. I wish to be able to extract the variable part (0x12a7) and assign it to a variable. Does

Re: parsing problem

2010-12-09 Thread Bernard Fay
gmail joao.miguel.c.ferre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 11:33 -0500, Bernard Fay wrote: Hi, I have long strings to parse which have permanent and variable information. Somewhere in the strings we have something like Handle: 0x12a7 . Handle is permanent and 0x12a7

amd64 does net detect my wired and wireless nic at installation

2010-07-19 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello everyone, When I try to install amd64 (Debian 5.05) on my new laptop, a Lenovo x201 tablet. I wish to use amd64 because I have 8GB for RAM and I think 64-bit is now the way to go. The installer does not detect neither my wired or wireless NIC. The installer gives me a list of network

Re: amd64 does net detect my wired and wireless nic at installation

2010-07-19 Thread Bernard Fay
]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2d13] (rev 02) On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Wolodja Wentland wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:32 -0400, Bernard Fay wrote: When I try to install amd64 (Debian 5.05) on my new laptop, a Lenovo x201 tablet. I wish to use amd64

Re: SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length

2010-02-22 Thread Bernard Fay
Yes, I imported the CA certificate in my browser. At this point, I don't know if there is a problem with the certificate or the setup of Apache. thanks, On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.comwrote: On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:14:36 -0500 (EST), Bernard Fay wrote: I

SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length

2010-02-20 Thread Bernard Fay
Hi, I create a CA certificate and site certificate according to http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/618. I set it up in Apache under Debian Lenny. When I try to access the site, I receive the following message: Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to

Re: Can't retrieve online quotes with gnucash

2009-07-28 Thread Bernard Fay
at 05:14:01PM -0400, Bernard Fay wrote: Hi, Using GNUcash version 2.2.6 with Debian 5.0, I have the following message when I try to get online quotes for US stock exchanges: Unable to retrieve quotes for these items: NYSE:C NYSE:BAC NYSE:F NYSE:AIG NYSE:HAR

Can't retrieve online quotes with gnucash

2009-07-27 Thread Bernard Fay
Hi, Using GNUcash version 2.2.6 with Debian 5.0, I have the following message when I try to get online quotes for US stock exchanges: Unable to retrieve quotes for these items: NYSE:C NYSE:BAC NYSE:F NYSE:AIG NYSE:HAR NASDAQ:NOVL Continue using only the good quotes? So far, when I

Re: grub won't but XP

2009-07-12 Thread Bernard Fay
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Masood masood...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Steve Reilly sfrei...@roadrunner.comwrote: Bernard Fay wrote: title Windows XP rootnoverify(hd2,0) chainloader +1 makeactive if im not mistaken the rootnoverify

Re: grub won't but XP

2009-07-12 Thread Bernard Fay
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:42 AM, thveillon.debian thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Bernard Fay wrote: On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Masood masood...@gmail.com mailto:masood...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Steve Reilly sfrei...@roadrunner.com

grub won't but XP

2009-07-11 Thread Bernard Fay
Hi, I have a dual boot system divided between Windows XP and Lenny. Lenny is the king of my computer. But sometimes I still need to use Windows. Since I setup Lenny on my box, grub does not boot Windows XP. I have a hard time to find out why. Here is what we can find in menu.lst regarding

Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' in mysql

2009-06-03 Thread Bernard Fay
Hi, I installed MySQL in Lenny. When I try to login in with mysql -u root -p, I receive : ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) I tried to reset the password of root by adding skip-grant-tables in my.cnf then restart mysql. I could login in with

Fwd: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' in mysql

2009-06-03 Thread Bernard Fay
-- Forwarded message -- From: Bernard Fay x...@videotron.ca Date: Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:00 PM Subject: Re: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' in mysql To: paul.le...@quadensemble.co.uk Thanks for your reply, Paul. Yes, I tried without the -p switch and it didn't work

Fwd: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' in mysql

2009-06-03 Thread Bernard Fay
...@barbnet.comwrote: *From:* Bernard Fay [mailto:bernard@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, June 03, 2009 2:59 PM *Subject:* Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' in mysql Hi, I installed MySQL in Lenny. When I try to login in with mysql -u root -p, I receive : ERROR 1045 (28000): Access

Fwd: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' in mysql

2009-06-03 Thread Bernard Fay
in mysql.user... Bern On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Bernard Fay x...@videotron.ca wrote: As fas as I understand it, there is no need to say update mysql.user set ... because we have to say use mysql first. So the update command should know the table user is part of mysql. Right? I really believe

how to change /media/disk to /media/usbdisk

2008-01-14 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello, I use Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon with Gnome. When I insert a USB stick it is automatically mounted on /media/disk. I need to have it mounted as /media/usbdisk. How can I change this behavior? As far as I know gnome-volume-manager is responsible to mount it but I can't find a relation to

Re: how to change /media/disk to /media/usbdisk

2008-01-14 Thread Bernard Fay
Thanks Brian for your reply, But my next question now is : Right click in what? Bernard On Jan 14, 2008 1:57 PM, Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14-Jan-08, at 12:56 PM, Bernard Fay wrote: When I insert a USB stick

Lost menu

2007-04-02 Thread Bernard Fay
Hi, A while ago, I installed CrossOver from Codeweavers which appeared in my menu Applications of Gnome. Since an updated those menu for CrossOver are gone. In Alacarte Menu Editor, I can see those menu as visible but I don't actually see them. What might be wrong? Thanks -- Bernard It is

exim4 and mail queue

2006-11-04 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello, How can I remove a message in the mail queue of exim4? Thanks, Bernard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

keyboard preference freezing gnome

2006-06-28 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello, Since an upgrade a little while ago, everytime I try to make a modification in the keyboard preferences, gnome freezes. So far, I have no clue why and I have to constantly change my keyboard layout to switch between English and French for my work. There is only one thing I have found and

Re: phpGroupWare and MySQL

2006-03-09 Thread Bernard Fay
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 22:35 -0500, Matthias Julius wrote: Bernard Fay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to reconfigure phpgroupware and YET to give a password to the root MySQL user but I got the same result so I created the DB by hand and without password. I guess there is a problem

Re: phpGroupWare and MySQL

2006-03-08 Thread Bernard Fay
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 23:06 -0500, Matthias Julius wrote: Bernard Fay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to create the DB either with the script of manually. When trying the manual method it keeps telling the following: # mysql -u root -p Enter password: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access

Re: phpGroupWare and MySQL

2006-03-08 Thread Bernard Fay
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 09:41 -0500, Matthias Julius wrote: Bernard Fay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But is this root user the MySQL db admin name defined at the installation of phpGroupWare? If yes then something went wrong at the installation because I gave a password to this user. Try

Re: LVM problem

2006-03-07 Thread Bernard Fay
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 15:21 -0500, Andrew Cady wrote: On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 06:24:34PM -0500, Bernard Fay wrote: For any LVM commands I run I receive the following message: Incorrect metadata area header checksum and/or Volume group mapper doesn't exist Either your metadata

phpGroupWare and MySQL

2006-03-07 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello group, I can't get the db working. I am at Step 1 - Simple Application Management. This step keeps telling me Your Database is not working! Make sure that your database is created and the account permissions are set. I tried to create the DB either with the script of manually. When

Re: ERP accounting software

2006-03-07 Thread Bernard Fay
I want to give a try to sql-ledger but ... where is the documentation? thanks, Bernard On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 18:57 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Bernard Fay wrote: Hello group, I need suggestion for ERP and accounting softwares running on Linux and if it could be package for Debian

LVM problem

2006-03-05 Thread Bernard Fay
For any LVM commands I run I receive the following message: Incorrect metadata area header checksum and/or Volume group mapper doesn't exist Someone knows why and how it could be fixed? I run Debian etch with kernel 2.6.12-1-386 and lvm2 version 2.01.04-5. TIA, Bernard -- To

ERP accounting software

2006-03-02 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello group, I need suggestion for ERP and accounting softwares running on Linux and if it could be package for Debian it would be a plus. It would be for a small to medium business. TIA, Bernard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Can't access archive

2006-02-21 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello group, Does someone know why I can't access snapshot.debian.net today? I receive the following error while trying to access it: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /archive/2005/11/30/debian/pool/main/x/xorg-x11/ on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was

Old packages

2006-02-14 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello group, Where can I find old version of packages? I use a Matrox P750 video card and the oldest xorg version supported is 6.8.2. The upgrade installed 6.9.0 which is to recent for the Matrox driver therefore I need to downgrade xserver-xorg. Thanks, Bernard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

[RESOLVED] Re: Can't ?find device with cdrecord on Etch

2006-02-04 Thread Bernard Fay
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 17:08 +0300, Vitaliy Ischenko wrote: В Сбт, 04/02/2006 в 09:31 +0200, Simo Kauppi пишет: On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 09:45:47PM -0500, Chinook wrote: Bernard Fay wrote: Hello group, I seems to have a problem to identify my devices (a DVD writer and a CD writer

Can't find device with cdrecord on Etch

2006-02-03 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello group, I seems to have a problem to identify my devices (a DVD writer and a CD writer) when using cdrecord -scanbus. Do I have to load specific modules or do something to find my devices? I tried to load ide-scsi.o and sg.o without good succes to identify my devcies The actual output is

Debian on Toshiba Satellite Pro M70

2005-11-25 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello Group, My office provided me with a M70 laptop. I plan to install Debian on it. I would like to know if anyone had a chance to installed Debian or other Linux distros on this laptop and how succesful the installation went. Are there any particularities for the installation? Thanks, Bernard

No contacts in Evolution

2005-10-25 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello, I just reinstalled Debian Sarge without erasing my home partition. Once every thing was installed, I logged in and started Evolution. Every thing in Evolution is ok except the contacts region is greyed out and I cannot see any of my contacts. I tried to create a new contact thinking that

Debian and webcams

2005-10-12 Thread Bernard Fay
I will need a webcam in a near future. I would like to know about successes and failures with different webcams. Are there models with official Linux drivers available? Does someone can give me some suggestions? Thanks, Bernard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Can't start OpenOffice anymore

2005-09-26 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello group, When I try to start OOo, I have the following error: The program 'soffice.bin' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'. (Details: serial 83 error_code 1 request_code 143

Can't start OpenOffice

2005-07-24 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello all, When I try to start openoffice, I can see on the panel Starting OpenOffice but it eventually close after a few seconds. If I try to start it through a terminal, it shows the following message: Xlib: sequence lost (0x1 0x69) in reply type 0x0!. The message appears repeatedly in

LVM error

2005-07-20 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello, I have installed Debian Sarge on a system with 2 sata drives and LVM. For every LVM command I run, I have the error: Incorrect metadata area header checksum Does someone know the meaning of this error and how to fix it? Thanks, Bern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

undesired modules

2005-05-21 Thread Bernard Fay
modules loaded if they are not in /etc/modules? Maybe there is something I don't understand about modules. -- Bernard Fay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Wrong block device when trying to mount a usb flash drive

2005-05-14 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello, When I try to mount my flash drive I got the following message: mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device Then I asked myself if I had the right device. While trying to find what could be the right device, I found that maybe my system got the wrong usb driver by taking a

Sound problem: Sorry, no mixer ...

2004-10-28 Thread Bernard Fay
I was able to load the driver snd_cs4236 for my sound card on my Thinkpad 600E laptop but when I tried to open the Volume Control under Gnome it poped an error saying: Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found I use Sarge with a custom 2.6.8.1 kernel with the following sound options: #

Re: Thinkpad 600E and usb mouse

2004-10-19 Thread Bernard Fay
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 07:25, Richard Lyons wrote: On Tuesday 19 October 2004 02:33, Mike M wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:10:53PM -0400, Bernard Fay wrote: Hello everyone, I have a Logitech MX700 usb mouse attached to my thinkpad but I can't get it to work. I thought

Thinkpad 600E and usb mouse

2004-10-18 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello everyone, I have a Logitech MX700 usb mouse attached to my thinkpad but I can't get it to work. I thought that the module usbhid and usbmouse would have been enough but no that doesn't make it work. Do I need a cheese.ko to get it to work or what? Any advise? Thanks, Bernard -- To