Re: exim4 problem delivering locally

2010-09-14 Thread Mumia W
You should be able to deal with that situation with the exim4 mini-wizard, try 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'. Or you can edit the file produced by that program, /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf (not a mistype) and /etc/mailname and run update-exim4.conf as suggested in the configuration

exim4 problem delivering locally

2010-09-12 Thread Mumia W
Hello. I've configured exim 4.72 in Debian Squeeze to send mail externally though a smarthost, but now local sending of mail doesn't work as I expect. My machine is host-1.mydomain.local. How do I get exim to send all mail for *.mydomain.local to host-1.mydomain.local? In other words, I want

Re: aptitude forces full-upgrade

2010-01-04 Thread Mumia W..
Javier Barroso javibarr...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/02/2010 04:49 PM, Mumia W.. wrote: I just upgraded Squeeze, but I had to use apt-get rather than aptitude because aptitude wanted to force me to install a lot of new programs (do a full-upgrade). [...] I'm not sure, but maybe aptitude wants

Re: aptitude forces full-upgrade

2010-01-04 Thread Mumia W..
Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de On 01/02/2010 04:49 PM, Mumia W.. wrote: I just upgraded Squeeze, but I had to use apt-get rather than aptitude because aptitude wanted to force me to install a lot of new programs (do a full-upgrade). [...] The difference between safe-upgrade and full

aptitude forces full-upgrade

2010-01-02 Thread Mumia W..
I just upgraded Squeeze, but I had to use apt-get rather than aptitude because aptitude wanted to force me to install a lot of new programs (do a full-upgrade). I specifically entered the command aptitude safe-upgrade; however, it wanted to install a lot of extra packages--many more than

Keymap not loaded at boot time (Squeeze)

2009-12-14 Thread Mumia W.
Hello Debian users. After upgrading Squeeze, I couldn't help but notice that the Caps Lock key wasn't working. After a little investigation, I discovered that the keymap isn't loaded at boot. If I load the keymap (loadkeys /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz) manually, Caps Lock comes back, but when

Re: Missing mountavfs after compiling avfs from Sid

2009-04-19 Thread Mumia W..
On 04/18/2009 09:35 PM, Mumia W.. wrote: Hello. I'm using Debian Etch, but I want the avfs package which is in Sid, so I downloaded the source from Sid and built it, but I can't mount the filesystem because the mountavfs command is missing. [...] That happened because I had forgotten

Missing mountavfs after compiling avfs from Sid

2009-04-18 Thread Mumia W..
Hello. I'm using Debian Etch, but I want the avfs package which is in Sid, so I downloaded the source from Sid and built it, but I can't mount the filesystem because the mountavfs command is missing. The instructions in /usr/share/doc/avfs/README.avfs-fuse say to use the mountavfs command,

OT: welcome back (was Re: Running app full-screen)

2008-10-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/13/2008 09:04 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I think (its been many years since I tried) that most if not all X apps will accept a --geometry setting on the command line. Once you get that right, there's a file (I forget the name) in your home directory that maps Xresources (that may be the

Re: how to put another distro's stanza in menu.lst

2008-10-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/13/2008 08:59 PM, H. S. wrote: [...] Now, if understand this right, with that rootnoverify stuff in Debian grub, that entry will lead me to FC9's grub, correct? In that case, I still don't have the grub.conf in FC9's grub. How do I go about getting that? grub-install seemed not to work in

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/13/2008 11:30 PM, Carl Fink wrote: [...] This sounded really promising. I was going to try it. But now the stupid computer won't boot past setting the system clock in Linux. Still works fine in Windows. Time to reinstall again, I suppose. This is becoming stupid. I sincerely hope

Re: how to put another distro's stanza in menu.lst

2008-10-13 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/13/2008 09:38 AM, H.S. wrote: Hello, I just installed Fedora Core 9 alongside Debian. During the installation I did not update grub and chose not to install grub since I wanted to retain my Debian grub configuration. I have done this before. I just change Debian's grub to put in the

Re: compiling the 2.26.6 kernel on debian.

2008-10-11 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/10/2008 02:28 PM, Michael Habashy wrote: Guys and Gals - I tried to compile the kernel on 2.26.6. I did NO modification to the kernel just generic. I get the following error: Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods That's harmless. then it is followed by a lot of :

Re: iptables script - where to put it?

2008-10-10 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/10/2008 09:04 AM, tyler wrote: Hi, I'm trying to learn how to firewall my laptop. I think I've got an appropriate, simple iptables script, but I can't figure out where to put it. Google provides lots of conflicting advice. I think it's supposed to go in /etc/init.d/? What do I need to do

Re: System Hangs

2008-10-09 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/09/2008 02:20 AM, chinna p wrote: Hi, I'm using Debian Etch stable 32 bit on Pentium- 4 2.4 GHz, 512 MB RAM . Frequently i'm facing one problem, Display is simply crashing . No mouse/keyborad responce . Other than rebooting no other solution presenlty. Did any body know possible

Re: How do I prevent Grub from getting automagically updated?

2008-10-07 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/07/2008 04:09 PM, Aniruddha wrote: Every time a new kernel gets installed, my menu.lst gets updated. Problem is, that it always points to the wrong hard drive. Therefor I would like to stop Grub from updating automagically. How can I achieve this? You can add a boot stanza after the

Re: Looking for a lazy gui

2008-10-01 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/30/2008 10:20 PM, John O'Hagan wrote: Hi Debianistas, I recall stumbling upon a program in the Debian archive which was a simple GUI - a customisable row of buttons and text-boxes - and which could be hooked up to any script, as a shortcut to actually writing a gui (which i can't do).

Re: Importing bookmark file

2008-10-01 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/01/2008 04:29 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: I'm trying to install my ubuntu firefox bookmark file into 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-486 iceweasel. I copied it into /etc/iceweasel/profile after renaming the original file. the problem is iceweasel is ignoring the new file and still showing the

Re: iptables LOG

2008-10-01 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/01/2008 03:05 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: Out of interest, will dmesg -n X survive a reboot? Or is there another config option for this? No, it wouldn't survive a reboot. You can place the command in /etc/init.d/rc.local. You can also modify /etc/sysctl.conf. Kernel.printk is the value

Re: iptables LOG

2008-09-30 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/29/2008 02:03 PM, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: I set iptables rule for logging. # iptables -I INPUT -m limit --limit 15/minute -j LOG --log-level 4 --log-prefix firewall: It's logging in warning level. And my logs goes to kern.log file. It's for now, but more over, this logs are flooded

Re: Setting Multiple Shell Variables from One Run of awk

2008-09-30 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/30/2008 01:48 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: Right now, I have a shell script that does the following: hostname=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS=.}{print $1}'` domain=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS=.}{print $2}'` top0=`echo $NEWDEV |awk 'BEGIN{FS=.}{print $3}'` top1=`echo $NEWDEV |awk

Re: Problem compiling 2.6.26 kernel

2008-09-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/28/2008 02:49 PM, Arthur Barlow wrote: I did check the settings in .config. Both BLK_DEV_IDE and BLK_DEV_IDEDISK are set to y. As for the ATA/SATA settings, they were not set, but my disk is an older one and should not care, but I tried setting them and trying again, and I got the

Re: how to install package using apt-get in folder other than /usr

2008-09-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/29/2008 10:07 AM, Kruti wrote: Hi.. Can someone help me regarding how to install a package in any user defined folder other than /usr using apt-get? I don't think this is possible. You can however download the file using wget and install the .deb using dpkg-deb. Why do you want to do

Re: Music/Audio CDROMs, DVDs, Etch kernel Security Update.

2008-09-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/29/2008 07:44 AM, D Bray wrote: The following is a record of a problem we had here with a debian Etch Security Update that we performed on 26 Aug. 2008. It has now been resolved. The culprit seems to have been the linux-image-2.6.18-5-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch6_i386.deb kernel package.

Re: Problem compiling 2.6.26 kernel

2008-09-28 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/27/2008 10:42 PM, Arthur Barlow wrote: I have used Debian for many years and I have always used the kernel-package program that is included with Debian to compile new kernels. I have an older Athlon PC that has the Reiserfs 3.6 on it. After I do the make-kpkg --revision= ##

Re: RAMDISK:Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0 ... (etch)

2008-09-27 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/27/2008 09:34 AM, Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, my box works fine since about two years with etch, and this morning I installed cupsys, hplip ... I rebooted the machine and I got: -8 input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as

Re: cmake and Scribus 1.3.5 on Debian testing

2008-09-23 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/23/2008 05:08 PM, John Culleton wrote: [...] I continue on with the cmake follies. I got through the Jpeg, tiff, png etc. stumbling blocks but now I am hung up on python. Here is the error message: --- CMake Error at

Re: palm syncing woes

2008-09-20 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/20/2008 08:01 AM, Neil Watson wrote: Hello Folks, The dance I've had to perform with jpilot and my Z22 that involves the correct order and timing of activating sync on both the Palm and jpilot is getting frustrating. It always takes me multiple tries to successfully sync. I did some

Re: Is Novel Suse not friendly to real linux world? and how about Red hat and Debian?

2008-09-19 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/19/2008 12:58 AM, Sebastian Günther wrote: * Star Liu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [19.09.08 06:46]: 4. Do Debian has the danger of IP lawsuits created by microsoft? I would say no, and just because there is no money to get from Debian. Remember this is just about money... No, it's about

Re: SSH/SSHD local LAN only

2008-09-19 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/19/2008 12:32 PM, Lubos Vrbka wrote: well, if i understood the question correctly, this should do. put to file /etc/hosts.allow: ALL:ALL put to file /etc/hosts.deny: sshd: .your.domain.com allowed_ip_addresses allowed_networks allowed_hostnames you can put more or less anything on the

Re: /var/log on tmpfs

2008-09-18 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/18/2008 03:16 AM, Lubos Vrbka wrote: hi guys, i have set my /var/log to be on tmpfs (i have ssd and want to avoid logs being written on it). the problem is, that for example syslogd complains that /var/log/news/* files are missing. indeed, there is no news subdirectory in /var/log. the

Re: Setting proxy server addres on non graphics interface Debian-etch

2008-09-18 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/18/2008 12:42 PM, Oscar Corte wrote: Hi: I recently installed Debian basic configuration with no gdm) I'd like to use lynx in order to access the Internet but I don't know where to set the prosy server. View /etc/lynx.cfg and search for HTTP_PROXY. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: common-process-args does not allow arguments in STARTUP variable

2008-09-08 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/08/2008 01:40 AM, Marco Clocchiatti wrote: in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/20x11-common_process-args at line 36: STARTUP_FULL_PATH=$(/usr/bin/which $1 || true) please change $1 with $0, because startup function does not allows arguments. for example, a konq.desktop such the

Re: Emacs has hard time with big text files

2008-09-05 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/05/2008 07:19 AM, Martin wrote: When I open big text file (46M in this case) emacs take long time for moving cursor and editing. It takes 3-4 seconds to process every key press. Is this only my case or is emacs in general sluggish with big files? Martin How much RAM do you have? What

Re: Do Debian's users care about the AGPL?

2008-09-03 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/03/2008 12:34 AM, Chris Burkhardt wrote: Mumia W. wrote: I care. The AGPL is dangerous to Opensource. It is too aggressive and too restrictive. As Opensource becomes more dominant, software-as-a-service (SAAS) will become the primary way for people to make money through software

Re: Do Debian's users care about the AGPL?

2008-09-03 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/03/2008 08:42 PM, Chris Burkhardt wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Your idea of user is strange to me. Why? They're the ones using the software to provide the service. The person is using the service not the software. If they were using the software they would be running it on their

Re: Do Debian's users care about the AGPL?

2008-09-02 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/02/2008 05:52 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: Sometimes I get the feeling that Debian's users and Debian's developers live in separate worlds. There's currently a long thread in d-legal over the AGPL. One DD has expressed reservations towards the AGPL to the point where she has decided

Re: how to restrict developers in /var/www/html directory...??

2008-09-02 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/02/2008 03:18 PM, Michael Habashy wrote: i would like to restrict developer access to the /var/www/html directory. I currently have a number of websites in that directory[] Remove users A, B and C from the www-data group. Make the files world-readable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Sound volume user specific?

2008-08-31 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/30/2008 02:25 PM, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: Hi, Is it possible to control sound volume on each user account independently? So when user A logs in and changes the sound volume (with gnome alsa mixer) to max it won't affect user's B settings. It is desktop debian (sid) machine, ALSA,

Re: Sound volume user specific?

2008-08-31 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/31/2008 01:00 PM, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: [...] Thanks to few other responses I know I can use alsactl; I tried as a mere user (not a root) and it allows me to store / restore the settings; ie /usr/sbin/alsactl -f /home/userA/.alsa-config store /usr/sbin/alsactl -f

Re: Debian 4.0 Etch apache-perl File does not exist: ... /server-info

2008-08-31 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/31/2008 05:24 PM, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: I have a Debian 4.0 Etch virtual machine and have installed apache-perl. I would like to be able to obtain server information by browsing to /server-info. [...] My guess is that mod_info.c isn't loaded (or compiled in). 'locate

Re: console font corruption after exiting xorg

2008-08-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/28/2008 11:35 AM, Scott Edwards wrote: I'm having similar problems on two different machines. For now I'll focus on the laptop running stable on a g4 ppc CPU. After I switch to a console screen, or exit from xorg, the console font is corrupted. I can see what I type, but you cannot make

Re: Iceweasel Suddenly Killed

2008-08-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/29/2008 01:42 AM, Zaki Akhmad wrote: Hello I am using Iceweasel as my web browser. The problem starts as I installed mozilla-noscript add on.Previously I have twitterfox and downthemall addon and they work fine. But now, iceweasel suddenly stop, dissapear. What's wrong? Where's the log

Re: Iceweasel Suddenly Killed

2008-08-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/29/2008 03:22 AM, Zaki Akhmad wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When does Iceweasel stop and disappear? If it disappeared when you installed mozilla-noscript, that should be expected. Restart iceweasel. If iceweasel won't start after

Re: Cron Not Working On Etch

2008-08-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/29/2008 11:29 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I recently had a system drive crash on a Sarge system, so when I put in a new drive, I installed Etch (also figuring that will make upgrading to Lenny easier). Everything seems to have gone well, except for one point: Cron is not behaving well.

Re: Lilo Can't Boot vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64

2008-08-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/29/2008 02:03 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: dist-upgrade installed vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64, ran mkinitrd and lilo which reported two warnings (mbr on different harddrive, assuming LBA32 addressing) but no fatal problems. Attempted boot to new kernel ended in kernel panic. I confess the

Re: Changing icon theme crashes Nautilus

2008-08-27 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/27/2008 06:30 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: I'm not exactly sure how it happened, but now whenever I attempt to change the icon theme from the standard Gnome set, Nautilus locks up. [...] Please see this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/08/msg02046.html Isn't this list

Re: Gnome hosed--theme crashing!

2008-08-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/25/2008 09:12 PM, ZephyrQ wrote: PauL Lane wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:38:00PM -0500, PauL Lane wrote: Hello, have you recently upgraded libxml2? I had the same problem. Try; $ dpkg -l libxml2 If it comes back; ii libxml22.6.27.dfsg-3 GNOME XML library Try downgrading

Re: debian sound and audio drivers. - explained - please ???

2008-08-21 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/21/2008 08:25 PM, Michael Habashy wrote: Can anyone direct me to a FAQ about Debian Audio and Sound drivers?? [...] Although these documents are ancient, they may provide some useful information. Install the doc-linux-text package and read these:

Re: udev and kernel (testing)

2008-08-21 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/21/2008 06:44 PM, Glenn Becker wrote: Hello all - I am running a testing box. Recently (end of last week, maybe?) I did an update, one of the packages that -wanted- to update was udev; however, later in the installation process I was dumped to a debconf screen that indicated the new

Re: Pendrive not mounted when another usb device is plugged in

2008-08-18 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/17/2008 07:34 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: For some reason, although the umts device is mapped to /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/sda comes to be `busy'. So, if I add in fstab another line: /dev/sdb/mnt/sdbvfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 , I can mount the pendrive on /mnt/sdb.

Re: Misbehaving Miro

2008-08-16 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/15/2008 05:31 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe it's autostart? System-Preferences-Sessions Well, although NOT currently running, miro was listed as 'currently running' in the Current Session tab. I removed it, and

Re: weird find error on fresh etch system

2008-08-13 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/13/2008 12:16 AM, Zach Uram wrote: I just installed Debian 4.0 and whenever I use find on / I see: find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for ./proc/sys/net: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earli er results may have failed

Re: X11 Server on an 64 bit Alpha Processor such as a 4000 Series Dec/Compaq/HP Server

2008-08-13 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/13/2008 09:10 PM, Robert Garron wrote: It has been written that if I cannot locate a specific package to report a bug that I should write this mail list for advice So the issue is, I have a number of Alpha Servers (4000/4100 Class) which I have loaded with different Video Cards (all

Re: What is the best way to manage 3rd party debs?

2008-08-12 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/12/2008 03:42 PM, Aniruddha wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 22:49 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: If 3rd party deb doesn't contain 'Replaces' field, dpkg will refuse any try to break any file owned by existing packages. That sounds good, but what about a deb created by checkinstall?

Re: New Debian Install Blackscreen

2008-08-09 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/08/2008 09:57 PM, Taahir wrote: I am a fairly new linux user, and have recently installed Debian on its own hard disk in what will eventually become a dual-boot system. The Windows drive is currently not connected, so that isn't a factor. My graphics card is an nvidia 8800 gts. My

Re: [OT] change middle mouse button to side button

2008-08-07 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/07/2008 08:03 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, In IW keeping the middlemousebutton pressed centers the scroll position on the location of the middle click. Fine. But my mouse uses a press of the second wheel as middlemouse button. That is complicated and I want to use instead the side

Re: Upgrading necessary, but maybe not

2008-08-07 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/07/2008 07:27 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: ... so having a Debian Etch with a 2.6.25 kernel? Doesn't it sound strange? Thanks Rodolfo No, it's not at all strange. I'm running Etch with 2.6.26. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-07 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/07/2008 04:55 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: And I think Aptitude works very well and couldn't wait to ditch dselect for it. Different strokes and all that. I've had the displeasure of being dumped into Synaptic on Ubuntu and friends. I'll take Aptitude every time, thank you very much. -

Re: when debian run out of memory

2008-08-07 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/07/2008 10:18 PM, hhding.gnu wrote: Hi list, When debian run out of memory, I can only ping the host and can't ssh to the host. It seems oom-killer is running but memory is still exhaust. What should I do then? Only reboot can solve the problem? Can I protect oom-killer from kill the

Re: Fwd: Re:how to make a boot disk and ...

2008-08-06 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/06/2008 02:46 AM, darren naidoo wrote: Date: Mon Aug 04 03:30:19 PDT 2008 From: darren naidoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re:how to make a boot disk and ... --- ...Which important directories to tar/gzip. Want to make a custom system image on dvd for me.

Re: Replacing hda - Easiest Way?

2008-08-05 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/04/2008 05:52 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: I know nothing about what's on the MaxBlast CD, but I'm betting it's Windows-only. Stick with rsync is my advice. Rick I'm genuinely curious. Why is rsync better than cp -a? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Replacing hda - Easiest Way?

2008-08-05 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/05/2008 11:13 AM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: On 2008-08-05 02:55, Mumia W.. wrote: I'm genuinely curious. Why is rsync better than cp -a? [...] For a one-time copy only, cp and rsync should take about the same amount of time. rsync is more advanced for synchronizing directories

Re: Replacing hda - Easiest Way?

2008-08-05 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/05/2008 11:41 AM, Shachar Or wrote: On Tuesday 05 August 2008 03:55, Mumia W.. wrote: I'm genuinely curious. Why is rsync better than cp -a? 1. the -x option. 2. the ability to stop the transfer and resume. 3. the -P option. 4. the verbosity. 5. while using rsync, you are learning

Re: Wiki

2008-08-02 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/02/2008 11:34 PM, sadeq zabihi wrote: Hello Dear I am tring to install a wiki software on Debian (server) on my network. But I dont know which wiki software is better for my project (it is not a big project) and how i can install it on debian server. It it is possible for you please

Re: installing a package from lenny on an etch machine...

2008-08-01 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/01/2008 12:17 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: [...] As you can see, the doc package installed OK, but the server package needs a later version of some basic C libraries. I'd rather not upgrade the Etch machine to Lenny right now. And I really don't want to get into running an Etch Machine with

Re: Sometimes only 1 desktop and no window border in KDE

2008-07-30 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/30/2008 05:35 AM, Anton Liaukevich wrote: Anton Liaukevich wrote: Sorry. I'm novice at Linux. Please, explain how to use ulimit correctly and what is corefiles. I have run killall kwin command in konsole x-terminal but: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ killall kwin kwin: no process killed Then I

Re: Sometimes only 1 desktop and no window border in KDE

2008-07-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/29/2008 05:41 AM, Anton Liaukevich wrote: Thank you. Actually problem is in kwin. When KDE works good pgrep kwin outputs process IDs of loaded kwins, otherwise 'pgrep kwin' outputs nothing. After I run kwin command KDE begins to work good (4 destops and border of the windows appears).

Re: [OT perhaps] Any way to restore Iceweasel 2 behavior in the Navigation bar?

2008-07-27 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/26/2008 09:55 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello: Hello. I mostly like Firefox/Iceweasel 3 but I hate what they've done to the navigation bar. [...] [Bug 424557] Allow AwesomeBar to default search only urls (or history/titles/bookmarks/tags):

Re: Sometimes only 1 desktop and no window border in KDE

2008-07-27 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/27/2008 10:33 AM, Anton Liaukevich wrote: I have been using Lenny for several weeks yet (with KDE 3.5). For first two week all was Ok but then such a bug appeared: 1) In the KDE panel only one desktop available (but I have 4 desktops). 2) All windows I open have no border! [...] It

Re: 2.6.26 Kernel

2008-07-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/26/2008 11:48 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: Does anyone know if UDF 2.50 will be supported by .26? I've read that it is, but http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_26 doesn't seem to have anything about it. It would seem so. I have 2.6.26 installed, and this is at the top of

Re: Greetings and question

2008-07-24 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/23/2008 06:37 PM, Juan Ignacio wrote: Hi [...] Hi Juan. Why isn't [gtk-qt-engine] in the repositories? I want this package because Firefox looks so awful. [...] Others showed you how to grab gtk-qt-engine from Sid. However, it's much less risky to just install a theme into Firefox.

Re: How to fix resolv.conf?

2008-07-24 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/24/2008 01:42 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: [...] . Now, suppose I want the following ppp connection log output: local IP address 151.82.24.152 remote IP address 10.6.6.6 primary DNS address 193.70.152.25 secondary DNS address 193.70.192.25 . In /etc/resolv.conf I suppose I have to put

Re: apt upgrade sarge - etch udev error can't get past it. Ideas?

2008-07-22 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/22/2008 04:26 PM, Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, I am upgrading an old server to etch to be able to use new sata drives. I followed the release notes. You only need a kernel upgrade for that. I first did apt-get upgrade then I did apt-get install initrd-tools then i installed

Re: The (New?) xorg configuration system

2008-07-22 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/22/2008 07:05 PM, Celejar wrote: Hi, Hello Celejar. My xorg.conf files used to have sections such as these: [... sections snipped ...] My current xorg.conf doesn't. I seem to recall reading on this list that current xorg.conf's are simpler, but where did all the configuration options

Re: synaptic problem?

2008-07-22 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/22/2008 01:54 PM, Stackpole, Chris wrote: [..] Anyway, looking at the file menu for synaptic, it has a Add downloaded packages and the hover text says Add packages downloaded with the 'Generate package download script' feature to the system. I have never used this before, so this may

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-21 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/21/2008 03:17 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: The only place I can find in France that has Etch DVD's available, wants payment via paypal, and Visa. I have neither, only my local banks Carte Bleue. [...] So get a paypal account. Anyway, you only need the first CD-ROM of Debian to install the

Re: [Debian-User] Gtk fonts on non desktop (non gnome) X environment.

2008-07-17 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/17/2008 10:19 AM, Javier Vasquez wrote: Hi, I use fluxbox, with no desktop (no kde, no gnome no xfce, ...). But I have the problem of not being able to configure the fonts for the gtk guis [...] Try launching the gnome-settings-daemon; it may improve the font size immediately; if not,

Re: clean way to package 3rd party software

2008-07-17 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/17/2008 01:35 AM, Carsten Aulbert wrote: Hi all, Hello Carsten. in our scientific collaboration we are currently using a big pile of software which comes bundled with its own installer (pacman). Since doing a full repackage, of all subcomponents is currently out of the question I

Re: auto update headers

2008-07-16 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/16/2008 11:30 AM, Preston Boyington wrote: why is it that after a round of updates via aptitude i have to go in and install things like linux-headers afterwards? how can i tell it to automatically update them along with the kernel? i was under the impression that if i had them

Re: Passing a module parameter to a compiled-in driver

2008-07-15 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/14/2008 10:18 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, Hi. http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Hardware%2C_driver_status#NVIDIA I want/need to pass swncq=1 to the sata_nv driver, but it's compiled-in, not a module. How do I do that? The best I've come up with from Google-fu is (from the lilo

Re: Passing a module parameter to a compiled-in driver

2008-07-15 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/14/2008 10:18 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: [...] I want/need to pass swncq=1 to the sata_nv driver, but it's compiled-in, not a module. How do I do that? The best I've come up with from Google-fu is (from the lilo prompt): linux sata_nv=swncq=1 Am I missing something?

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-15 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/15/2008 01:56 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:17:28 -0500 Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Mumia, serious Linux O/S meant for serious and knowledgeable people. Here, That precludes me from using it then; I'm neither serious nor knowledgeable. :-) :-) I

Re: Using apt to install only one package

2008-07-15 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/15/2008 02:55 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: The new Dr. Who is just all *wrong*. How so? If Tom Baker were dead, he'd be spinning in his grave. LOL (Followups should go to debian-curiosa[at]lists.debian.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/14/2008 04:18 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: I'm not suggesting that they're the same, I'm suggesting that by making backports official it would be self defeating (why not just update stable?) and complicate things for developers (now they have two stable packages to follow). There's a time and

Re: Using apt to install only one package

2008-07-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/14/2008 02:15 PM, andy wrote: Hi I am running Lenny/Testing and with the recent package updates a new set of kernel headers was installed which has completely screwed my nVidia driver settings. I had to reboot into 2-6-24 rather than the 2-6-25 in order to get GDM to work. [...]

Re: flashblock and noscript extensions want root access?

2008-07-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/14/2008 06:29 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: I never see those messages when I update plugins in Iceweasel from my own account. So I think there's an everyone uses Administrator-mode Windows bug somewhere in Seamonkey. The Noscript FAQ discusses this. For Seamonkey, Noscript must be

Re: Flash in Etch?

2008-07-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/14/2008 02:03 AM, Jeff Soules wrote: Hi all, Hello. [...] Then I attempted to manually install gtk+2.0 in the latest versions as from [2], which in turn requires a new Glib and a new Pango. [...] Not if you use gtk+2.10. I was able to get gtk+2.10 compiled and installed onto Etch

Re: i386 or amd64?

2008-07-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/14/2008 02:33 AM, Peet Grobler wrote: I'm not exactly sure why you'd want to run an i386 system on 64-bit architecture. 64-bit is so much faster. Why not make the most of the processor? [...] He has said so many times. He does not want to download a hundred megabytes of packages

Re: Firefox not showing in Applications menus

2008-07-12 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/12/2008 10:40 PM, Bret Busby wrote: Firstly, I have (or, I understood that I have) both Firefox and Iceweasel installed. I wanted to try Firefox (separate to Iceape and Iceweasel), to find whether it had greater stability and security than Iceape and Iceweasel. [...] I recommend

Re: Blurry fonts in printed invoices

2008-07-11 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/10/2008 10:37 PM, Celejar wrote: [...] http://lizzie.freehostia.com/newegg-pdf.jpg That is a mess. I see the same problem when printing to an actual printer, to a CUPS-PDF virtual printer, and when using IW's native print-to-file functionality. Is there any other information I can

Re: apt upgrade to testing breaks?

2008-07-11 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/11/2008 11:26 AM, Peet Grobler wrote: I'd like to upgrade my etch notebook to testing, simply to have newer packages available. This machine is not visible on the internet, and I'm the only user, so security is not such a huge issue. Attempting to do this though - apt says it'll uninstall

Re: xbindkeys alternative?

2008-07-11 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/11/2008 12:07 PM, Memnon Anon wrote: Hi I try to get xbindkeys working. Not successfully, as you may guess. It seems to me that xbindkeys always needs a modifer key pressed, i.e. shift, alt, control ... [...] You could try any of these: keylaunch, hotkeys, idesk, or bbkeys. The

Re: apt-get install without starting?

2008-07-11 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/11/2008 07:26 PM, David Barrett wrote: Is there any way to apt-get install ssh without having it automatically start sshd? Same for lighttpd. Basically, I'm making great progress in my bootable QEMU image script: I don't know of a way, but you can firewall-off the ssh port before

Debian sweetness: safe libimlib2

2008-07-11 Thread Mumia W..
For the last few days, I've been wanting to install pypanel, but I didn't want to install a vulnerable version of the library onto my Ubuntu Hardy system because of CVE-2008-2426 ¹. This bug has been fixed upstream, but the fix hasn't made it into Hardy yet; however, I booted back into

Re: Sarge, Bind9 (9.2.4-1sarge3) and DNS cache poisoning..

2008-07-10 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/09/2008 09:52 PM, John Elliot wrote: Hi, We have a couple of Sarge servers running bind9(9.2.4-1sarge3) that appear to be vulnerable to the DNS cache poisoning issue(Looks like port randomization was only introduced in bind9.3?) - As the servers cannot be upgraded at this time to etch,

Re: Missing Edgeport USB driver in recent kernels

2008-07-10 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/09/2008 10:16 PM, Don wrote: [...] kali:/home/don# insmod -v io_edgeport insmod: can't read '-v': No such file or directory kali:/home/don# insmod io_edgeport -v insmod: can't read 'io_edgeport': No such file or directory [...] # cd /lib/modules/2.6.25.4-mine/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/ #

Re: how to package?

2008-07-10 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/10/2008 04:19 PM, Jan Brosius wrote: Hi, I have the source of the program maxima. I would like to make a debian package of it. Is there any place where I can find documentation about making debian packages? Thanks for any help Jan Install 'debian-policy' and read the

Re: Blurry fonts in printed invoices

2008-07-09 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/09/2008 07:52 PM, Celejar wrote: Hi, I've recently been having a great deal of trouble getting my browsers to save invoices as PDF's. The fonts for the personalized part of the page are illegibly blurry, [...] I haven't seen that. Could you mock-up some samples for others to test

Re: GPG error: http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG A70DAF536070D3A1

2008-07-09 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/09/2008 01:08 PM, Chris Morley wrote: Hi, this morning i was unable to run apt-get update on any of my etch boxes. I run 'apt-get update' and it throws an error: W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG

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