Re: can't start KDE as user

The first thing I would try is deleting .(or renaming) .kde in your home directory. Then start kde. If it still fails to login then check /var/log/ XFree86.0.log and post the relevant messages if you still need help. Good luck. regards, Darryl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't start KDE as user

Paul Scott wrote: Arne Goetje wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 November 2003 11:07, paul wrote: A dist-upgrade last night broke my formerly sid system. I was getting seg-faults from almost everything including bash. I have the sane problem with user logins

Re: Crash in fork.c on everything = install hosed

Malcolm Box wrote: Hi, I'm running unstable, and did an apt-get dist-upgrade this evening. The result was a crash in dpkg with the following error message: apt-get: ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fork.c:132: __libc_fork: Assertion `({ __typeof (self->tid) __value; if (sizeof (__value) == 1)

thunderbird problem: library not found

mozilla-thunderbird installed without problem (sid), but doesn't start (nothing). >From the command-line I get: $/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/mozilla-thunderbird-bin /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/mozilla-thunderbird-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libxpcom.so: cannot open shared object f

esd defies XMMS on sid

XMMS runs perfectly well; so does esd. Only, when running esd, XMMS freezes until it is being killed. Running esd also gets echo /usr/share/sounds/phone.wav > /dev/audio stuck FYI: I updated today, no changes Any help available ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

gpilot on unstable

Hi, Has any one managed to get gpilot to sync with a USB palm on unstable? I cant get it to sync, it used to crash but thats now sorted out. At one stage it actually did sync ... but not anymore. Cheers Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when

Re: kernel-2.6.0-test9 compile issue

Karol Czachorowski wrote: By the way, anyone using 2.6.0-testX on VIA686[AB] chipset? I have some troubles with IDE preformance. Karol I'm running 2.6.0-test9-mm1 on a KT400, and I haven't noticed any particular strain during heavy I/O. At the moment, my system is under light load and yet can still

Re: Bootsplash in Debian

On Monday November 3 at 04:34pm Damien Solley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:22, Johann Koenig wrote: > > On Monday November 3 at 03:37pm > > Damien Solley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Kernel is 2.4.22 from ftp.kernel.org with Con Kolivas' -ck2 patch > > > (includ

OT: Hard drive backup plan

My /dev/hda hard drive is on the way out, and I just wanted to run my backup plan past you all, to minimise any pain if/when it's replaced... My setup is as follows: Running Debian woody with a few backported newer packages. 40G /dev/hda split between an ext3 root partition (about 20Gb), a swap

Re: chat-class room package

> before releasing under GPL, besides the obvious note about it in the > code. Make sure all developers agree that the code is released under the GPL. > If there is any developer or anyone interested, please let me know, to > prepare a tar.ball and make it available for download. > Thanks. > TR

gpilot on unstable

Hi, Has any one managed to get gpilot to sync with a USB palm on unstable? I cant get it to sync, it used to crash but thats now sorted out. At one stage it actually did sync ... but not anymore. Cheers Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when

Re: Bootsplash in Debian

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:22, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Monday November 3 at 03:37pm > Damien Solley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Kernel is 2.4.22 from ftp.kernel.org with Con Kolivas' -ck2 patch > > (includes bootsplash). I've got 512MB main memory with 1MB accessible > > to the BIOS while bo

Re: Slow linux.bin

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 04:16, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 08:48, - _ r a r o h _ - wrote: > > Hallo, > > > > installed woody with booting from floppy - it takes 4 minutes to read > > the floppy. I hear the movement of the floppy some 20 seconds ... > > > > Any idea how to fix ? > > 4 mi

Re: Bootsplash in Debian

On Monday November 3 at 03:37pm Damien Solley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kernel is 2.4.22 from ftp.kernel.org with Con Kolivas' -ck2 patch > (includes bootsplash). I've got 512MB main memory with 1MB accessible > to the BIOS while booting. I use the 845patch to allocate a further > 10MB RAM to

Re: Bootsplash in Debian

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 02:50, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Damien Solley wrote: > > > > Thanks for you answer, Nicolas. > > It seems that it may indeed be a framebuffer error. Although I had > > assumed my kernel framebuffer was working correctly (because I am > > getting 1024x768x8 console) there is

wvdial execute error

Hi all, I recently upgraded to sarge but wvdial returns this error everytime I try to execute it. wvdial: Symbol '_ZTV6WvFile' has different size in shared objectt, consider relinking. Can anyone help? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: can't start KDE as user

Arne Goetje wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 November 2003 11:07, paul wrote: A dist-upgrade last night broke my formerly sid system. I was getting seg-faults from almost everything including bash. I saved my home and etc directories and a few other files and

Re: can't start KDE as user

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 November 2003 11:07, paul wrote: > A dist-upgrade last night broke my formerly sid system. I was getting > seg-faults from almost everything including bash. > > I saved my home and etc directories and a few other files and > re-installe

Re: print command

At 2003-11-02T07:17:12Z, Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm sure that's optimizable somehow, but I haven't really looked at it yet. > yes '*' | head -n 80 | tr -d '\n' Very good. Thanks! -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[OT] Software RAID Rumours

Hi All, Somewhat off-topic, but I just need a little advice. I have read the Linux Software-RAID HOWTO and the Multi-Disk HOWTO and I've successfully (in the past) installed RAID 1 systems with boot, root and swap on RAID. Now I have a slightly different situation that I haven't been able to find

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations -easier

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, David Purton wrote: > > > What are debian users recommendations for backups? ... > > > We are a small business and back up about 15GB on a weekly basis, with > > > daily differentials inbetween. > > > > get a similar/identical tape drive ... so all your old archives > > sti

Re: Partitioning

on Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:41:10AM +0100, Marco Cecconi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, I've been having this question on my mind for a bit now: what is > the best practice to partition a hard drive under Unix, and in > particular under Linux? At work I try to separate different > functional

Re: Slow linux.bin

* - _ r a r o h _ - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-02 10:09]: > Hallo, > > installed woody with booting from floppy - it takes 4 minutes to read > the floppy. I hear the movement of the floppy some 20 seconds ... > > Any idea how to fix ? > WAG - bad sectors or sectors going bad on the floppy - t

Re: Partitioning

on Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:03:07AM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 07:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Alvin Oga wrote: > [snip] > > > lots of various reasons for doing lots of various partitions schemes > > Hi, > > if you have lots of logs

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 at 01:25 GMT, Paul Johnson penned: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:19:09AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> Not sure what you mean about treating employees/customers to a >> universal environment. They do expect a universal envi

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

on Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:53:54AM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Our ancient tape drive died and we need to get a new backup system > happening. > > What are debian users recommendations for backups? > > We are a small business and back up about 15GB on a weekly basis, with > d

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, David Purton wrote: > Our ancient tape drive died and we need to get a new backup system > happening. > > What are debian users recommendations for backups? > > We are a small business and back up about 15GB on a weekly basis, with > daily differentials inbetween. get a si

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 05:33:25PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, David Purton wrote: > > > Our ancient tape drive died and we need to get a new backup system > > happening. > > > > What are debian users recommendations for backups? > > > > We are a small business and back u

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:41:58AM -0800, Tom wrote: > Remember when you were 15 and got a beer? You went and drank it in some > dumb place, made a huge deal about it, told your friends stories about > it, and generally did a lot of immature stuff.

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:19:09AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Not sure what you mean about treating employees/customers to a universal > environment. They do expect a universal environment -- windows 2000. That would be a pretty good example o

OT Tape backup recomendations

Our ancient tape drive died and we need to get a new backup system happening. What are debian users recommendations for backups? We are a small business and back up about 15GB on a weekly basis, with daily differentials inbetween. cheers dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you, O LORD, k

chat-class room package

I would like to give under GPL to the community a chat-class room written in php a while ago that we developed. Now, none of the creators is a professional programmer, we are just mathematicians, so I am sure that there is plenty of room for improvement. It is a combination of bash scripts to recyc

Re: print command

Vivek Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times.. The Bash-specific solution already proposed: for (( i=0; i<80; ++i )); do echo -n '*'; done; echo has the advantage that, since "echo" is an internal command, the entire loop

Re: Line editors

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 12:23:13PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Look into rlwrap, which wraps pretty much anything with libreadline > functionality. Very cool. It's even smart enough to echo on password > prompts; I mostly use it with xboard on

Re: Problems installing perl ImageMagick module on "testing" machine

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:20:46PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 05:20:30PM -0500, stan wrote: > > I'm in desperate need to get teh perl ImageMagick module isntalled on > > a "testing" amchine to test some scripts. > > > > If I try to install it from dselect I get a missing

Re: install local deb file

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 06:50:59PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > In any case, the dpkg -i does not work. I'll give the > specifics: > > # dpkg -i /storage/debs/libdvdcss2.deb > dpkg: error processing /storage/debs/libdvdcss2.deb (--install): > cannot access archive: No such file or directory

Re: Network unreachable

On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 09:50, Jeffrey Barish wrote: > Marshal Wong wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 20:21, Jeffrey Barish wrote: > > > >>When I use the kernel that I built from the source for 2.4.18-686, I get > >>the message: > >> > >>sendto: Network is unreachable > >> > >>when I try to ping ano

Re: I want to only download package

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 11:01:33PM +0200, Mehmet AK wrote: > i need a auto firewall scripts under Linux with iptables . can You help me > where i can find this scripts. What do you mean? Also, please, when you're asking a general question, it's best

Re: Network unreachable

On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 03:20, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 05:03, Marshal Wong wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 01:41, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 03:28, Marshal Wong wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 20:21, Jeffrey Barish wrote: > > > > > When I use the kernel th

MBone

Does anyone have any information on MBone on where or how I can join? After some struggling I finally got all the software I think I need to participate including mrouted, sdr, vic, rat, wbd, and nte. I have successfully setup a conference between local computers, but I haven't crossed any subnet

Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start

- Original Message - From: "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 11:02 Subject: Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start > - Original Message - > From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PR

Re: kernel-2.6.0-test9 compile issue

On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 11:17:04 -0600 David Meiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I am running a system where my main hdd is an external SCSI HDD > on an Adaptec AIC7881-U. In the 2.4.xx series kernel, I haven't had any > problems compiling, installing, or booting this hard drive. Recently, I

Re: package purging and app configuration

> Wouldn't you also need to delete ~/.dingrc? Jerome, you are quite right. I had relied on the list file and didn't realize that it omitted configuration files. Once I got the clue, sure enough, the file was there, and the script problem was obvious and easily fixed. Thanks. Haines -- To UNSU

Re: install local deb file

> > How does one use aptitude to install a local deb file? > > There may be a way to convince aptitude to do this, though i don't know > of one. It seems to me you may just be using the wrong tool for the > job. > > Is there some compelling reason not to use dpkg for your situation? > > dpkg --

Re: install local deb file

> On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:15:06PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > I've spent some time pouring over apt-HOWTO, and just don't > > understand. I want to use aptitude to install a local .deb file. I > > place it in my /storage/debs. > > > > In the HOWTO, it said to do this: > > > > deb file:/

Re: Hyper Threading

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003, at 00:18 +0100, Werner Mahr wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Montag, 1. Dezember 2003 11:41 schrieb Marco Cecconi: >^ > Is my KMail broken? Marco's clock is. ;) His clock is set forward about one month into the fu

POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

Is there a POP3 mail fetcher that wouldn't download messages twice when the POP3 connection may sometimes stall (so that the messages couldn't be deleted from the server)? If there is such a fetcher written in Perl based on Mail::POP3Client, this would be a good solution. Thanks in advance for an

Re: Partitioning

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:13:17PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > wsa (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > Alvin Oga wrote: > > > >> /boot is NOT needed ... - /boot was needed in the old days to > >> guarantee that the > >> boot kernel was occupying the 1st 1024 cylinders > >> > > So where do

Re: Problems installing perl ImageMagick module on "testing" machine

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 05:20:30PM -0500, stan wrote: > I'm in desperate need to get teh perl ImageMagick module isntalled on > a "testing" amchine to test some scripts. > > If I try to install it from dselect I get a missing dependacy. Try updating? perlmagick has been installable in testing for

Re: print command

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:28:33PM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > * Vivek Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031031 20:50]: > > Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times.. > [..] > > Is there any short command ?? > > for x in seq 1 80 ; do echo -n \* ; done > > Works in bash,

Re: upgrade->dead system, help.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I am encountering this problem as well. I have been able to narrow it down to the kernel itself. If I use a debian standard kernel (2.4.22 or 2.6.0-test9) it boots fine. if I use a kernel I compiled myself (This kernel worked fine before

Re: Hyper Threading

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Montag, 1. Dezember 2003 11:41 schrieb Marco Cecconi: ^ Is my KMail broken? - -- MfG usw Werner Mahr GPG-Key-ID 44B53C40 Registered-Linux-User: 303822 (http://counter.li.org) ICQ-Nr. 317910541 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Driver installation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom OK >dpkg -i /cdrom/kernel-package (for example or should I use the >complete file name) I think the complete. Just try. If you get an Error, try the other :-) - -- MfG usw Werner Mahr GPG-Key-ID 44B53C40 Registered-Linu

Re: upgrade->dead system, help.

Hmmm...interesting...i was starting to think it was all my doing while all i really did was the usual update. Sofar i haven't been able to figure it out..at all. I've made a completely new 2.4.22 kernel, and the exact same thing happened, freeze after the INIT: version 2.85 booting message. None

gnome-session, sawfish problems on Apple Powerbook

Hi, I'm using xfree86 4.3.0 on a PowerBook 17" laptop running Debian testing distro. I can't seem to get gnome-session to run. It just hangs and I have to kill X manually. It doesn't work from gdm or kdm either. I also have tried running it manually from an xterm. gnome 2.2 is installed. Ha

Re: kernel-2.6.0-test9 / nfs warning

On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 20:07:03 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Hi all, > > just a new qustion for using 2.6.0-test9: > > dmesg shows: > nfs warning: mount version older than kernel > > util-linux-2.12 is installed and recompiled witin 2.6.0 > > Any idea? > Has been this way since test0. A n

fixing info: dir: No such file or directory

Hi. After a rather nasty cold reboot+fsck, my /usr/share/info/dir and /usr/share/info/dir.old files were corrupted. I deleted them on the assumption that I could use gen-dir-node to regenerate them (as described here (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1999-04/msg00383.html)), but then I noticed tha

Re: Partitioning

Hello wsa (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Alvin Oga wrote: > >> /boot is NOT needed ... - /boot was needed in the old days to >> guarantee that the >> boot kernel was occupying the 1st 1024 cylinders >> > So where do the kernels go when you don't have a /boot partition? > I'm now using a

Re: install local deb file

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:15:06PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > How does one use aptitude to install a local deb file? There may be a way to convince aptitude to do this, though i don't know of one. It seems to me you may just be using the wrong tool for the job. Is there some compelling rea

Re: install local deb file

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:15:06PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > I've spent some time pouring over apt-HOWTO, and just don't > understand. I want to use aptitude to install a local .deb file. I > place it in my /storage/debs. > > In the HOWTO, it said to do this: > > deb file:/storage debs\

Re: [users@httpd] httpd user and user directory permissions dilemna

On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, David Christensen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] & [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > I am running Apache 1.3.26 on Debian 3.0r1 (Woody). I would like to > enable user ~/public_html directories, but have two security goals which > I cannot solve simultaneously: > > 1. Apache should run as t

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 07:37:59PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:20:21AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:26:35AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:13:02PM -0500, David P James wrote: > > > > On November 01, 2003 09:12, Rus Foster

Re: package purging and app configuration

> > Interesting, but I'm still stuck. I didn't see now to change the start > > up script to get around the problem. So I did the following in an > > attempt to start with a clean slate: > >=20 > ># aptitude purge ding > >deleted /var/...archives/ding > >check in /var/lib/dpkg/info to ma

Re: upgrade->dead system, help.

Last friday I had the same exact problem. I'll tell you if I guess a solution. Cesar - wil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Sorry I have very little info on this...no logs or anything:( Running SID, with a custom 2.4.22 kernel, ext3 file system. HD was checked

Re: Partitioning

So where do the kernels go when you don't have a /boot partition? I'm now using a seperate /boot partition but it's full now. So is it possible to change this? Alvin Oga wrote: /boot is NOT needed ... - /boot was needed in the old days to guarantee that the boot kernel was occupying the 1

source.list won't stat

I have the following lines in my /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main deb http://www.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian $(ARCH)/ When I run Aptitude update, they won't stat. Haines Brown --

Re: Can't install networking.

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:14:46PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > >On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 12:06:21 -0800 (PST), > >"Mark Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > >>On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 17:53:27 +, Pigeon wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Go ahe

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:20:21AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:26:35AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:13:02PM -0500, David P James wrote: > > > On November 01, 2003 09:12, Rus Foster wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > Just trying to work out in French

Problem with wvdial

Hi, I've installed a laptop for somebody who uses it to dial in to his ISP via IRDA/cellphone using wvdial. This was working fine until (presumably) a few days ago when wvdial was updated. Calling the startup script now results in the error: wvdial: Symbol `_ZTV6WvFile` has different size in s

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:05:54PM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > The main point is, I think, that regularity is a fiction, but we keep > trying to attain it because it makes communicating easier. Gender in > language has nothing to do with men and women. It's a convenient > fiction employed to dete

install local deb file

I've spent some time pouring over apt-HOWTO, and just don't understand. I want to use aptitude to install a local .deb file. I place it in my /storage/debs. In the HOWTO, it said to do this: deb file:/storage debs\ But when I run aptitude update, it says the line is malformed. How does one

Crash in fork.c on everything = install hosed

Hi, I'm running unstable, and did an apt-get dist-upgrade this evening. The result was a crash in dpkg with the following error message: apt-get: ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fork.c:132: __libc_fork: Assertion `({ __typeof (self->tid) __value; if (sizeof (__value) == 1) asm volatile ("movb

Re: package purging and app configuration

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 11:02:34AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ding.list is a file that is part of the ding .deb > > package. > > > > if you look at it, it will tell you where all the files that > > ding installed are. > > > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ding.postinst is the post-ins

Installation doesn't recognise my extended partition

I am trying to install Debian (version 3.0) for the first time. I already have another Linux system installed on logical partitions within an extended partition (on an Athlon system), and have created a new logical partition to install Debian into. But when I run the installation CD, it sees but

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

* Christophe Courtois ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > As there is almost no logic, this normal. And it changes from language to > language: when speaking German I always wonder which gender to use for > half of words - and they have three genders... :-( > When learning Latin, I had to learn ma

Problem with patched 2.4.20 kernel

After making one modification (not at all relevant) to an existing kernel, it will not compile, giving this message: net/network.o(.text+0xd147): In function `rtnetlink_rcv': : undefined reference to `rtnetlink_rcv_skb' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 I cannot find an appropriate reference in the con

Re: kernel-2.6.0-test9 / sensors

Elimar Riesebieter wrote: Hi all, just a new qustion for using 2.6.0-test9: I want to use the i2c modules. $ lsmod | grep i2c i2c_dev10112 - i2c_sensor 2688 - i2c_viapro 6668 - i2c_core 24516 - $ grep -i sensor /usr/src/linux/.config

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 07:26:52PM +0100, Christophe Courtois wrote: > Le Dimanche 2 Novembre 2003 07:20, Bijan Soleymani a d?clam? : > > > Hmmm... what exactly does the word "Linux" sound like in French? > > The Li is kind of like Lee, > > the nux is kind of like nooks. > > It seems that people

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 07:26:52PM +0100, Christophe Courtois wrote: > Le Dimanche 2 Novembre 2003 07:20, Bijan Soleymani a déclamé : > > > Hmmm... what exactly does the word "Linux" sound like in French? > > The Li is kind of like Lee, > > the nux is kind of like nooks. > > It seems that people

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

El Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:49:43PM +0100, Kurt Sys escribió: > If I try a hard way: > for i in * ; do modprobe $i ; done > I get for all modules (including via-rhine.o, tulip.o, etc.): > 'Modprobe: Can't locate module xxx.o' Better if you try like this ... for i in *; do modprobe `basename $i .

Tracking packages without having them installed

After I do an apt-get upgrade on my desktop, I keep the DEBs I downloaded to use on other machines or when I start over. I find I must have everything I am interested keeping up-to-date on *any* machine must be installed on the desktop (an example is pcmcia-source and pcmcia-cs). Is there a wa

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 07:36:36AM +0800, csj wrote: > I've stumbled upon the free (BSD-style license) shooter Cube > . Have any frag freaks here > tried it? It seems fast enough for my mediocre video card. Just > wondering why there isn't a Debian package for i

Re: D-link DFE-530tx [SOLVED]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 04:38:09PM +0100, Kurt sys wrote: (I believe it's customary to add "solved" to the subject for this type of follow-up to make it easier for people searching the archives.) > Things seem to work now. In case someone else has also the same or a > similar problem: > I instal

RE: Backup Package names currently installed

> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 10:12, Michael Dominok wrote: > > dpkg -l |grep --extended-regexp > --regexp='^[uirph]c|^[uirph]i'|awk {' > > print $2 "=" $3'} >/tmp/p_list > I have to correct myself. Just noticed that packages with long names > could get chopped this way. > A better way of getting a p_lis

httpd user and user directory permissions dilemna

[EMAIL PROTECTED] & [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am running Apache 1.3.26 on Debian 3.0r1 (Woody). I would like to enable user ~/public_html directories, but have two security goals which I cannot solve simultaneously: 1. Apache should run as the user when reading user pages and running user CGI sc

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 02:50:46PM +0100, Kurt Sys wrote: > ScruLoose wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:14:56PM +0100, Kurt Sys wrote: > >>Quoting Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >>>This usually means the module is already loaded, or in the case of the > >>>Debian install kernels, that the

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

Le Dimanche 2 Novembre 2003 07:20, Bijan Soleymani a déclamé : > > Hmmm... what exactly does the word "Linux" sound like in French? > The Li is kind of like Lee, > the nux is kind of like nooks. It seems that people speaking only English can't pronounce the 'u' the way we use it - does not seem

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

Le Dimanche 2 Novembre 2003 16:56, Hugo Vanwoerkom a déclamé : > Christophe Courtois wrote: > > Le Dimanche 2 Novembre 2003 03:42, Wesley J Landaker a déclamé : > >>a native French speaker, and although I've got *fairly* good inuition > >>into a word's gender, I still make mistakes! ;) > > Don't w

Re: restarting a debootstrap install ...

Karsten M. Self wrote: > Thanks, noted. > > If the installation gets to the point of package selection and > installation, however, it's possible to restart and continue from this > point? Yes. > At what point in the process can one simply restart? Technically, probably about after you get 50%

Re: Network unreachable

Marshal Wong wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 20:21, Jeffrey Barish wrote: When I use the kernel that I built from the source for 2.4.18-686, I get the message: sendto: Network is unreachable when I try to ping another machine on my network. Using ifconfig, I noticed that eth0 had no IP address a

Re: weird network behavior - SID upgrade's fault?

Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: Hi all, [snip] As tacky as it is, I have to answer myself. Just one more restart of the SID box was the cure for all. Ah well, it's SID, and its advantages are outweighing such misdemanor by far. If anyone cares to share his/her thoughts about the area where the glitch

Re: Disable a Flat Screen

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:04:36PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > On Sunday 02 November 2003 01:59, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I'm wondering if there is a method to disable a built in flat screen (on > > > a laptop). I'm thinking of something like d

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 at 10:33 GMT, Paul Johnson penned: >> > >> > I've heard that one of the original justifications for the GNU >> > software project was to enable software professionals to have >> > something to use and hold as they moved from one employer to >> > another, something that was not

Cube -- was Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

csj wrote: I've stumbled upon the free (BSD-style license) shooter Cube . Have any frag freaks here tried it? It seems fast enough for my mediocre video card. Just wondering why there isn't a Debian package for it. Looks interesting, but I can't get it to play. Ju

Re: Line editors

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:22:24AM +0800, csj wrote: } On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 17:13:01 +, } Pigeon wrote: } } [...] } } > ed is /bin/ed - the *nix equivalent of Edlin... I use it for } > simple/repetitive edits (like sticking "> " at the beginning of } > each line of something I'm going to quote)

Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start

- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 23:09 Subject: Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > >- Original Message - > >From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To

kernel-2.6.0-test9 compile issue

Hello, I am running a system where my main hdd is an external SCSI HDD on an Adaptec AIC7881-U. In the 2.4.xx series kernel, I haven't had any problems compiling, installing, or booting this hard drive. Recently, I decided to give the 2.6.0-test series a try, so I downloaded the source (via apt

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 02:28:23AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 07:44:59PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > Linux will get you through times of no money better than money will > > get you through times of no Linux... :-) > > That's the wisest thing I've heard all week. (And I've b

Re: stability of libc6-i686?

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:33:34 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > Unstable has a new package available: libc6-i686. Apparently > libc6 optimized for the 686 architecture. Now, this sounds > attractive to me, but the package warns of commercial apps > potentially blowing chunks. IBM's jdk is spec

Line editors

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 17:13:01 +, Pigeon wrote: [...] > ed is /bin/ed - the *nix equivalent of Edlin... I use it for > simple/repetitive edits (like sticking "> " at the beginning of > each line of something I'm going to quote) and/or where I don't > want to lose the context of what I'm working

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