mySQL startup error -detailed

2004-08-11 Thread Justin Cassidy
Here is the details of what happens when I -x /etc/init.d/mysql start limesky:/var/lib/mysql# bash -x /etc/init.d/mysql start + test + test -x /usr/sbin/mysqld +++ dirname /etc/init.d/mysql ++ cd /etc/init.d ++ pwd -P ++ basename /etc/init.d/mysql + SELF=/etc/init.d/mysql + CONF=/etc/mysql/my.cnf

Re: [Debian-user] Woody to Sarge?

2004-08-11 Thread Thomas Adam
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:04:03PM +0530, Didar Hussain wrote: Also, how long should I wait after Sarge goes Gold. Should I just s/woody/sarge/g and do I recommend you use the names 'stable', 'testing', 'unstable' in sources.list, so that you don't have to change it for the codenames. Stable

Re: Switching between KDE and Gnome - How?

2004-08-11 Thread Stefan Nicolai O'Rear
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:35:34AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:04:36AM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote: Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have both KDE and Gnome on my Sarge. I have both kdm and gdm display managers. You really only need one or

Re: [Debian-user] Woody to Sarge?

2004-08-11 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:40:33 +0100 Thomas Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:04:03PM +0530, Didar Hussain wrote: Also, how long should I wait after Sarge goes Gold. Should I just s/woody/sarge/g and do I recommend you use the names 'stable', 'testing', 'unstable' in

Re: [Debian-user] Woody to Sarge?

2004-08-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:04:03PM +0530, Didar Hussain wrote: I've got a couple of servers running Woody. Now, when Sarge comes along in a few weeks, how do I upgrade? Read the fine release notes. They document how upgrades should be performed. Also, how long should I wait after Sarge

embedded development vs. GPL (was: Re: Sarge Release?)

2004-08-11 Thread Nate Duehr
On Wed, August 11, 2004 5:58, James said: Let's face it, most of linux's problems are a result on not being about to recruit a sufficient talent pool of low level embedded developers. Most of those that do convert (after a convoluted learning path) end up at a proprietary shop that puts linux

Re: smtp exim4

2004-08-11 Thread John Thomas Langton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Thomas Langton) wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I installed debian sarge, exim4, and qpopper recently, everything was great, as long as I login at the server mail works fine. However as soon as I try to use a mail client from another machine, it doesn't

Re: smtp exim4

2004-08-11 Thread John Thomas Langton
I realized that I was flying through the exim4-config too fast to realize a default had changed from previous versions (or maybe I just forgot). Doing dpkg--reconfigure exim4-config I saw the setting for listening for smtp connections, and the default is 127.0.0.1 (or localhost). You can set

Re: [Debian-user] Woody to Sarge?

2004-08-11 Thread Thomas Adam
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:52:22PM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: on a non-critical computer/server before using it on everything. Heh. apt-get upgrade ^^^ This step really isn't necessary, though. Everything in it and more gets covered in the next one. That's where you're wrong.

Re: smtp exim4

2004-08-11 Thread John Thomas Langton
David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Wednesday 11 August 2004 03:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone could at least point me in the right direction, i.e. how to enable smtp connections, what logs to focus on (exim's seem to be way to terse to be

Re: [Debian-user] Woody to Sarge?

2004-08-11 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Thomas Adam: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:04:03PM +0530, Didar Hussain wrote: Also, how long should I wait after Sarge goes Gold. Should I just s/woody/sarge/g and do I recommend you use the names 'stable', 'testing', 'unstable' in sources.list, so that you don't have to

Re: [Debian-user] Woody to Sarge?

2004-08-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:40:33PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:04:03PM +0530, Didar Hussain wrote: Also, how long should I wait after Sarge goes Gold. Should I just s/woody/sarge/g and do I recommend you use the names 'stable', 'testing', 'unstable' in

3ware woes

2004-08-11 Thread Stephen Tait
At long last, we've finally got a RAID card for the office file server! It's a lovely 3ware 9000 series with 8 SATA ports, and looks very lovely indeed. But I can't get it working for the life of me. I use two 3ware 8000's at home (one under Debian, one under Gentoo), and have had zero problems

Re: smtp exim4 qpopper

2004-08-11 Thread John Thomas Langton
nevermind, it was a simple setup issue resolved by doing dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config andon the section where it asks what to listen to incoming smtp requests on (the default is 127.0.0.1 which means it will accept nothing but requests on that machine) I set it to blank, which means it

Re: Switching between KDE and Gnome - How?

2004-08-11 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:46:17AM -0700, Stefan Nicolai O'Rear wrote: You should have a file /etc/X11/default-display-manager. It contains the filename of the display manager (xdm/kdm/gdm/etc...). Changing it should work. (Me, I set it to /bin/false so I get a console login...) I think I

Re: embedded development vs. GPL (was: Re: Sarge Release?)

2004-08-11 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:54:33 -0600 (MDT) Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, August 11, 2004 5:58, James said: Let's face it, most of linux's problems are a result on not being about to recruit a sufficient talent pool of low level embedded developers. Most of those that do

Re: unresolved kernel symbols

2004-08-11 Thread Tong
Thanks Kevin for the reply. On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:13:23 -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: I am experiencing unresolved kernel symbol problem when compiling my pctel modem driver. The compilation and installation was ok. When trying to load the module, I get: % insmod -f pctel Using

Re: [Debian-user] Woody to Sarge?

2004-08-11 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:55:33 +0100 Thomas Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:52:22PM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: apt-get upgrade ^^^ This step really isn't necessary, though. Everything in it and more gets covered in the next one. That's where

problem to connect by ssh in graphic mode session

2004-08-11 Thread vjimenez
How i take control to my server with ssh in graphic mode, what command i need to use? my computer and my server used debian thank you for all your help -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smtp exim4

2004-08-11 Thread John Thomas Langton
David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Wednesday 11 August 2004 03:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone could at least point me in the right direction, i.e. how to enable smtp connections, what logs to focus on (exim's seem to be way to terse to be

Re: My last post was 2 hours ago

2004-08-11 Thread Tong
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 01:18:00 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:46:07PM -0700, Tong Sun wrote: and I haven't seen it yet. This one spammed us just fine. ;) I suggest you resend your original post. ;-) tried and didn't work. This hit and miss game has driven me nuts. :-)

Re: smtp exim4 qpopper

2004-08-11 Thread John Thomas Langton
nevermind, it was a simple setup issue resolved by doing dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config andon the section where it asks what to listen to incoming smtp requests on (the default is 127.0.0.1 which means it will accept nothing but requests on that machine) I set it to blank, which means it

Re: Sarge not printing

2004-08-11 Thread Tong
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:56:27 -0300, Filipi Vianna wrote: so it was working at one point? I'm changing from slackware to debian. And when I was using slackware those procedures had always worked. And the apsfilter test page does print perfectly, from apsfilter SETUP. what does lpq say?

Re: modem/isapnp trouble SOLVED

2004-08-11 Thread Ross Boylan
I solved this by deactivating my script that was attempting to set the isapnp manually. The modem did end up at ttyS0 (vs the old ttyS2), so I adjusted /etc/ppp/peers/provider accordingly. Interestingly, my soundcard (isapnp Soundblaster) also seems to have ended up using new resources; at least

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-11 Thread Joris Huizer
John L Fjellstad wrote: John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: help set Interesting. I've used linux for almost ten years now, and never actually realized that there is a help command... Actually tried man set earlier (before man bash)... Always learning something new... It's built in in -

Re: Piped package list

2004-08-11 Thread Tong
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:42:10 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: I seem to recall seeing once that one of the package tools (dpkg, apt, or another, I don't remember) could save a package list that could later be piped as input to return a system to an identical list of packages with one command. Am I

Re: [Solved] Switching between KDE and Gnome - How?

2004-08-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:13:38AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:46:17AM -0700, Stefan Nicolai O'Rear wrote: You should have a file /etc/X11/default-display-manager. It contains the filename of the display manager (xdm/kdm/gdm/etc...). Changing it should work.

Re: Sarge not printing

2004-08-11 Thread Filipi Vianna
Filipi, are you using cups as printer driver? No. Why? When I use ghostscript and lpd the cups is not necessary. I guess... Regards, -- Filipi Vianna Laboratório de Mecânica Computacional (DEMM) Faculdade de Engenharia - PUC-RS telefone: (51) 3320-3500 ramal: 4053 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Sarge not printing

2004-08-11 Thread Curt
Filipi Vianna filipi at em.pucrs.br writes: I'm using a Linux box with sarge, with the following characteristics: lpr - BSD lpr/lpd gs-esp - Ghostscript apsfilter a2ps Everything were set up the same way I always did. The apsfilter test works fine, the test page was printed. I did

Re: gcc error - solved

2004-08-11 Thread Martin Wegmann
Hi, On Wednesday 11 August 2004 17:49, Florian Ernst wrote: [] Hm, sounds like http://bugs.debian.org/263426 and http://bugs.debian.org/264835 should tell more, despite the different version. So if your system is more unstable than testing try updating binutils. thanks, that solved the

Re: Configuration DB

2004-08-11 Thread Jason Rennie
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:09:08AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: The debconf database is nothing more than a temporary cache of answers gotten from the user. Debconf will regenerate this data by asking any questions it needs to. If the Debian designers had this attitude, everything would go into

Re: My last post was 2 hours ago

2004-08-11 Thread Philippe Marzouk
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:31:39PM -0400, Tong wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 01:18:00 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:46:07PM -0700, Tong Sun wrote: and I haven't seen it yet. This one spammed us just fine. ;) I suggest you resend your original post. ;-) tried

installing ndiswrapper module for 2.6.7-1-686

2004-08-11 Thread Brian Samek
Using ndiswrapper for a wireless card with a windows driver on debian requires two steps. 1. installing the ndiswrapper tools 2. installing the ndiswrapper module Unfortunately, there is no source package for the 2.6.7-1-686 kernel that is automatically installed if the 2.6 option is selected

Re: Configuration DB

2004-08-11 Thread Jason Rennie
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 08:05:53PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:51:23PM +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote: It is not enough to simply backup /etc, as some packages automatically generate config files from the debconf info (xfree86 being one). Any package that

Networking not working after dist-upgrade

2004-08-11 Thread Jason D. Berg
I just ran `apt-get dist-upgrade` after about a month of not updating my system. Everything went fine until a reboot when my networking stopped working. My wireless networking card got switched from eth1 to eth2 and eth2 got switched to eth1. No biggy, I thought. I just ran ifup eth2 and got

Re: Networking not working after dist-upgrade

2004-08-11 Thread Patrick Donker
Jason D. Berg wrote: I just ran `apt-get dist-upgrade` after about a month of not updating my system. Everything went fine until a reboot when my networking stopped working. My wireless networking card got switched from eth1 to eth2 and eth2 got switched to eth1. No biggy, I thought. I just ran

Re: my Testing installation enters an endless reboot loop

2004-08-11 Thread Michael Doyle
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 16:31, Joey Hess wrote: Michael Doyle wrote: Beginning sometime in the past week, something has changed in Testing so that my installations flip out and reboot themselves within ~ 1 minute of booting. If I run the current RC 1 installer,the base installation enters

[OT] sysadmin job in SF Bay Area

2004-08-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
Hey everyone, I apologize for this OT message, but this may be of interest to many readers of this list. My company (http://www.wavemarket.com/) is looking to hire a sysadmin in Emeryville, CA (SF Bay Area). I've recently been advocating a migration from old redhat to Debian, and hiring a

LUGs in Nova Scotia?

2004-08-11 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Are there any Linux User Groups in Nova Scotia, Canada? I'm in Truro, but I'd be surprised if there was one here. I often go to Halifax though, which is a big enough city that I'd expect there to be a LUG there. Thanks! Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development

mysql : cannot login with other users than root

2004-08-11 Thread george roman
hi, i have some troubles with my mysql-server. i cannot login with other users than root. this is the error camin9:/home/george# mysql -u dan -p Enter password: ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: YES) i've try to add this user with phpMyAdmin and also from

Replacing an ethernet card

2004-08-11 Thread diego
I have a box in production that gives some problems with the ethernet card it has installed because of its driver is not fully supported... so I want to have it replaced with a different model, but I really can NOT afford having it unavailable too much time, so the question is: Which files

Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

2004-08-11 Thread Mike Ward
I was just wondering, really. Has anyone had any luck installing Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable? It seems like a sin or something indeed, but I'm doing some web dev stuff, so it would make testing on IE6 much easier, plus it'd just be rather amusing to run IE6 on linux. Well, I think so,

Re: LUGs in Nova Scotia?

2004-08-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:28:50PM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote: Are there any Linux User Groups in Nova Scotia, Canada? I'm in Truro, but I'd be surprised if there was one here. I often go to Halifax though, which is a big enough city that I'd expect there to be a LUG there.

Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

2004-08-11 Thread Patrick Donker
Mike Ward wrote: I was just wondering, really. Has anyone had any luck installing Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable? It seems like a sin or something indeed, but I'm doing some web dev stuff, so it would make testing on IE6 much easier, plus it'd just be rather amusing to run IE6 on linux.

RE: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

2004-08-11 Thread Scott Thompson
I haven't tried it, but there are instructions for getting IE6 working with WINE on this website. http://frankscorner.org -Original Message- From: Mike Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 4:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Internet Explorer 6 on

Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

2004-08-11 Thread Patrick Donker
Mike Ward wrote: I was just wondering, really. Has anyone had any luck installing Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable? It seems like a sin or something indeed, but I'm doing some web dev stuff, so it would make testing on IE6 much easier, plus it'd just be rather amusing to run IE6 on linux.

Re: Replacing an ethernet card

2004-08-11 Thread Thomas Adam
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:52:50PM +0200, diego wrote: Which files should I backup before it all, so that if hardware autodetection or manual configuration fails I can leave everything related to the network as before? /etc/network/* /etc/resolv.conf -- Thomas Adam -- Frankly, Mr. Shankly,

Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

2004-08-11 Thread Mike Ward
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:44:36 -0500, Scott Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I hadn't found that yet. Unfortunatly I think my problem is a bit deeper: When I try to wine ie6setup.exe, it runs for a moment and then tells me that the cluster size on this system isn't supported. I also tried

RE: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

2004-08-11 Thread Scott Thompson
Of course, if you want to spend some cash and run a bunch of other Microsoft and other business software, Crossover Office http://www.codeweavers.com supports IE6. It's $40. -Original Message- From: Mike Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 5:02 PM To:

Re: embedded development vs. GPL (was: Re: Sarge Release?)

2004-08-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:54:33AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: On Wed, August 11, 2004 5:58, James said: Let's face it, most of linux's problems are a result on not being about to recruit a sufficient talent pool of low level embedded developers. Most of those that do convert (after a

Re: Obsessed with a clean system

2004-08-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:33:49AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:28:24AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:04, Tong Sun wrote: Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean system? No. Drives are cheap, but my time is not. I have

Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

2004-08-11 Thread Joris Huizer
Mike Ward wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:44:36 -0500, Scott Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I hadn't found that yet. Unfortunatly I think my problem is a bit deeper: When I try to wine ie6setup.exe, it runs for a moment and then tells me that the cluster size on this system isn't

RE: LUGs in Nova Scotia?

2004-08-11 Thread arlen
How can I leave a fellow Bluenoser in need... Check out http://nslug.ns.ca Sincerely, Arlen Carlson On 11-Aug-2004 Michael D. Crawford wrote: Are there any Linux User Groups in Nova Scotia, Canada? I'm in Truro, but I'd be surprised if there was one here. I often go to Halifax though,

Debian and Fedora

2004-08-11 Thread Mingzhai Sun
Hello everyone, I am new in debian, actually I never used it. I tried to install once but failed. Now I am using Fedora 2. But I need a more stable system, I don't want to update my system every two days. I need a neat, stable system. I need to run matlab 6.1 and labview 6.1. Please give

Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

2004-08-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:44:18PM +0200, Patrick Donker wrote: Mike Ward wrote: I was just wondering, really. Has anyone had any luck installing Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable? It seems like a sin or something indeed, but I'm doing some web dev stuff, so it would make testing on

Re: Configuration DB

2004-08-11 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Jason Rennie said... On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:09:08AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: The debconf database is nothing more than a temporary cache of answers gotten from the user. Debconf will regenerate this data by asking any questions it needs to. If the Debian designers

Re: Obsessed with a clean system

2004-08-11 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:32:12AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:33:49AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:28:24AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:04, Tong Sun wrote: Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean system?

Re: [OT] sysadmin job in SF Bay Area

2004-08-11 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Vineet Kumar wrote: Hey everyone, I apologize for this OT message, but this may be of interest to many readers of this list. For future reference, there is a debian-jobs list now. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/

Re: Configuration DB

2004-08-11 Thread John Hasler
Cameron Hutchison writes: As I see it, if debconf is asking you the questions again, *it* is not regenerating the data, but *you* are. Debconf is not a registry. /etc is the configuration data repository. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To

Re: Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib

2004-08-11 Thread boo
Hi, en_GB.UTF-8 is perfectly working for me, without Gdk warnings. Up-to- date unstable system. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8

SMART Self-Test Reports UNC Errors on Dell Latitude D800 Hitachi Travelstar DK23FB

2004-08-11 Thread Michael G. Morey
All, I've installed and run the smartmontools package backported to Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 from http://www.backports.org, and have run the short and extended Offline self tests. The results are as follows: smartctl version 5.32 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany) (SOLVED!)

2004-08-11 Thread Paul Yeatman
SOLUTION: On my system to get Flash to play, the esd process needs to be running with the -as argument (set to 5 in my case) and the dsp wrapper value for Mozilla (or Firefox) needs to be none (as can be set by 'dpkg-reconfigure mozilla'). EMBELLISHMENT: I finally found a config that I'm really

Packages needed for Cups Foomatic printer

2004-08-11 Thread Tong
Hi, I'm trying to install my HP PSC 1210 usb printer. I was able to do it in previous Debian installation, but this time, I am having difficulties doing it... When I used the web-based cups printer setup, I can't find the driver Foomatic + hpijs (recommended) when choosing a driver

Re: Re: rick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-08-11 Thread Steve Kleiser
Greetings, The problem has been solved. After noticing that the resulting burned CD-RW was readable and bootable on other PCs, and after comparing the boot blocks of both the burned and purchased CDs were very similar, Janet (my wife) suggested that the CDROM drive (of the PC on which I

Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

2004-08-11 Thread Gregory Pierce
Mike, I don't know if this has already been suggested, but you can emulate the whole Windows XP (or any other brand of WIndows) environment with a proprietary package called VMware. Unfortunately, it does a cost a small sum, ~$200. I actually bought it recently thinking that it would be fun to

Mouse stopped working

2004-08-11 Thread Don
My mouse stopped working earlier today. It will work if I boot into Win2K or if I boot up using the Knoppix CDROM, but not with my recent (week ago) install of Testing/Sarge with kernel 2.6.7. It had been working fine without any problem for the past week until today when I had to reboot

Re: Debian and Fedora

2004-08-11 Thread Jason Rennie
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:32:06PM -0500, Mingzhai Sun wrote: I am new in debian, actually I never used it. I tried to install once but failed. Now I am using Fedora 2. But I need a more stable system, I don't want to update my system every two days. I need a neat, stable system. I need to

Re: Mouse stopped working

2004-08-11 Thread Thomas Adam
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:34:40PM -0500, Don wrote: said, I've tried rebooting multiple times with this Debian Linux, with Win2K, and with Knoppix this afternoon, with only the mouse in Debian Linux NOT working. If it is a stock kernel, try: modprobe psmouse mousedev and re-start X, to

Re: Packages needed for Cups Foomatic printer

2004-08-11 Thread Jason Rennie
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:51:33PM -0400, Tong wrote: Here are all the relevant packages that I have installed: cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-hpijs foomatic-filters foomatic-gui hpijs libcupsimage2 libcupsys2-gnutls10 libusb-0.1-4 I'm no

kernel-source package?

2004-08-11 Thread Ryan Vilim
what exactly does the with debian patches entail in the kernel-source-2.6.7 package (what was put in/taken out). I had heard that the debian hackers were stripping the kernel of the bytecode in it, so is this a castrated version for those who must be pure GPL? -- Ryan Vilim

Re: Mouse stopped working

2004-08-11 Thread Don
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 07:40 pm, Thomas Adam wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:34:40PM -0500, Don wrote: said, I've tried rebooting multiple times with this Debian Linux, with Win2K, and with Knoppix this afternoon, with only the mouse in Debian Linux NOT working. If it is a stock

Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

2004-08-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:39:37PM -0400, Mike Ward wrote: I was just wondering, really. Has anyone had any luck installing Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable? It seems like a sin or something indeed, but I'm doing some web dev stuff, so it would make testing on IE6 much easier, plus

Re: Mouse stopped working

2004-08-11 Thread Thomas Adam
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:56:53PM -0500, Don wrote: I did the modprobe and now have mouse action. Thanks a million Thomas for the immediate and accurate response!!! You're welcome. If you want to make it permenant for each boot, add the two module names to /etc/modules -- Thomas Adam --

CID fonts questions

2004-08-11 Thread Tong
Hi, I have a simsun font registered both as truetype and CID font: $ grep -i simsun /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/CIDFnmap /SimSun-Regular (simsun.ttf) /Adobe-GB1-Unicode ; But when I tried to use the CID font, I get the following error: $ gs file.sample.cc.SimSun-Regular.ps ESP

Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

2004-08-11 Thread John Summerfield
Gregory Pierce wrote: Mike, I don't know if this has already been suggested, but you can emulate the whole Windows XP (or any other brand of WIndows) environment with a proprietary package called VMware. Unfortunately, it does a cost a small sum, ~$200. I actually bought it recently thinking

Re: Debian and Fedora

2004-08-11 Thread John Summerfield
Jason Rennie wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:32:06PM -0500, Mingzhai Sun wrote: I am new in debian, actually I never used it. I tried to install once but failed. Now I am using Fedora 2. But I need a more stable system, I don't want to update my system every two days. I need a neat, stable

OT: Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

2004-08-11 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 13:12, John Summerfield wrote: As for the advisability of running Internet Exploder at all, see the recent advice at slate.msn.net. Slate is _owned_ by Microsoft, and for those who don't wish to check, the advice is use firefox. Actually, I think this is something

Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

2004-08-11 Thread Peter O
On August 11, 2004 08:31 pm, Gregory Pierce wrote: Mike, I don't know if this has already been suggested, but you can emulate the whole Windows XP (or any other brand of WIndows) environment with a proprietary package called VMware. Unfortunately, it does a cost a small sum, ~$200. I

Installing a new version of XFree86

2004-08-11 Thread H. A. Sujith Shastry
I have Debian 3.0rc2. I've installed XFree86(4.1) and I'm using the fbdev driver, because my video card is not supported. But my video card is supported in newer versions of XFree86(4.2 onwards), so I need to upgrade. How do upgrade XFree86 (and related packaged) without breaking (or upgrading)

Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable

2004-08-11 Thread Gregory Pierce
Thanks for the correction John. I guess I was using emulate in a loose, imprecise way. You do indeed have to have a license for Windows which is set up on a virtual machine on your linux box. GP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

mutt script-fu help

2004-08-11 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Debianista, my lug now rejects gpg sig. how do I do the following whith mutt. tell it to use the 'ascii gpg sig' when I mail to list xyz? I did this: Send-hook '~C mono-devel' 'my_hdr Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' to set a return path, so there must be something similar to set ascii gpg sig.'

Re: 3ware woes

2004-08-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 14:06, Stephen Tait wrote: At long last, we've finally got a RAID card for the office file server! It's a lovely 3ware 9000 series with 8 SATA ports, and looks very lovely indeed. But I can't get it working for the life of me. [...] Well, 3ware 9XXX isn't in the

Re: Obsessed with a clean system

2004-08-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 11:33, William Ballard wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:28:24AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 10 August 2004 22:04, Tong Sun wrote: Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean system? No. Drives are cheap, but my time is not. I have a ridiculous

sysadmin job in SF Bay Area

2004-08-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
Hey everyone, My company (http://www.wavemarket.com/) is looking to hire a sysadmin in Emeryville, CA (SF Bay Area). I've recently been advocating a migration from old redhat to Debian, and hiring a similarly-minded sys admin would go a long way in the right direction. You can see the posting

Building 2.6.7 kernel on sarge

2004-08-11 Thread Steve Witt
I've just installed sarge on an x86 machine and have got it basically working. I selected the 2.4.25 kernel as part of the debian-installer installation. I'm now trying to compile a 2.6.7 kernel using the debian-source-2.6.7 package in sarge using kernel-package -- the normal Debian way of

Re: mutt script-fu help

2004-08-11 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Kevin Mark: my lug now rejects gpg sig. Tell them they're idiots. how do I do the following whith mutt. tell it to use the 'ascii gpg sig' when I mail to list xyz? set pgp_create_traditional=ask-no Then say yes when you're mailing them. -- Any technology distinguishable

Re: Building 2.6.7 kernel on sarge

2004-08-11 Thread Steve Witt
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Steve Witt wrote: I've just installed sarge on an x86 machine and have got it basically working. I selected the 2.4.25 kernel as part of the debian-installer installation. I'm now trying to compile a 2.6.7 kernel using the debian-source-2.6.7 package in sarge using

I'm a moron

2004-08-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
I apologize; that second mailing was intended for debian-jobs. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- http://www.anti-dmca.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [OT] sysadmin job in SF Bay Area

2004-08-11 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:55:23PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Vineet Kumar wrote: Hey everyone, I apologize for this OT message, but this may be of interest to many readers of this list. For future reference, there is a debian-jobs list now. Oh, don't tell

Re: sysadmin job in SF Bay Area

2004-08-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Vineet Kumar wrote: Hey everyone, My company (http://www.wavemarket.com/) is looking to hire a sysadmin in a) you already posted this previously ... b) some/most of the debianite's is at the debian meeting in oakland probably 5-10 miles away -- why aren't you

So you think you are (or wanna be) a hacker

2004-08-11 Thread John Summerfield
I found this interesting article: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7990 As I have a pretty clear view of my limitations as a C coder I thought I'd take a look. See how you score on the examples here: http://www.nostarch.com/frameset.php?startat=hownotc So set the ball rolling, here is a

VMware and QEMU (was Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable)

2004-08-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 07:31 pm, Gregory Pierce wrote: you can emulate the whole Windows XP (or any other brand of WIndows) environment with a proprietary package called VMware. My new favorite toy is QEMU, which is a system emulator built around a CPU emulator ala Bochs, except that

Re: So you think you are (or wanna be) a hacker

2004-08-11 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:59:36AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: I found this interesting article: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7990 As I have a pretty clear view of my limitations as a C coder I thought I'd take a look. See how you score on the examples here:

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Re: So you think you are (or wanna be) a hacker

2004-08-11 Thread Stefan Nicolai O'Rear
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:23:21PM -0700, William Ballard wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:59:36AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: configfile = malloc(strlen(getenv(HOME)) + 20); sprintf(configfile,%s/%s,getenv(HOME), cfgfile); The length of HOME could increase between invocations.

Re: 8139too eth mod problems

2004-08-11 Thread Leonardo Marques
Problem Solved! I just get a kernel clean, without any change (.tar.bz2), and recompiled from scratch using my conf file, and the module 8139too.c worked fine, without any problems. I think the problem is when i changed my old kernel to support pci, for

Re: mutt script-fu help

2004-08-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:30:28PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Kevin Mark: my lug now rejects gpg sig. Tell them they're idiots. hehe. I'm on 2 lists that see gpg sig as 'attachments' in the .pif, .exe catagory. why they can allow verification and privacy options is beyond

How to dist-upgrade?

2004-08-11 Thread askar
Hello! I want to upgrade from Woody to Sarge. As I understand the necessary commands are: 1) apt-get update 2) apt-get upgrade 3) apt-get dist-upgrade But do I have to change my sources.list? Is changing stable into testing enough? Thanks, askar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: embedded development vs. GPL

2004-08-11 Thread John Summerfield
Jacob S. wrote: snip You mean like Actiontec did with their Dual-PC modem[1] where you can download the GPL'd source code for the firmware[2]? I thought it was a nice solution. The product works great and Linux hackers can modify it to their heart's content. [1]

Re: [OT] sysadmin job in SF Bay Area

2004-08-11 Thread John Summerfield
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Vineet Kumar wrote: Hey everyone, I apologize for this OT message, but this may be of interest to many readers of this list. For future reference, there is a debian-jobs list now. OTOH the audience here is larger, and I'm happy to have notices

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