Re: Gwebdec

En/La David R. Litwin ha escrit, a 12/06/05 06:04: > Hello you Useful Persons: > Dear David, I realise you're new to Debian so here are some tips. 1. When someone replies to your query, please don't write to her/him directly but rather reply back to the list. That way everyone benefits from the ex

Gnome-panels work again #!!@!!#

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Re: Newbie cannot start graphical desktop

On Saturday 11 June 2005 11:45 pm, j Mak wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed Sarge and everything went ok. but > when i log in, there is no graphical interface appears > anywhere only the command line. How can i start gnome > or kde or any other grahical desktop. > > Thanks alot > > jozsefmak > >

Re: Gwebdec

David R. Litwin wrote: > I'm trying to install gwebdec, a programme that mimics webshots > (designed for windows). > > Now, it gives instructions on how to install it. I downloaded the file > gwebdec-0.24.1.tar.gz > then > attempted to

Re: Gwebdec

En/La David R. Litwin ha escrit, a 12/06/05 06:04: > Hello you Useful Persons: > > I'm trying to install gwebdec, a programme that mimics webshots > (designed for windows). > > Now, it gives instructions on how to install it. I downloaded the file > gwebdec-0.24.1.tar.gz >

Re: Console Login

Robert Wolfe wrote: > Hi alL! What would I need to get both of my Debian 3.1 boxes to boot > to a console mode login prompt instead of going to a GUI login after > booting up? > > As stated at the beginning of this thread, remove any login managers you have installed; "aptitude purge wdm gdm xdm

Gwebdec

Hello you Useful Persons: I'm trying to install gwebdec, a programme that mimics webshots (designed for windows). Now, it gives instructions on how to install it. I downloaded the file gwebdec-0.24.1.tar.gz then attempted to implement the instruction it gives on how to install it. They are thus:

Re: sarge: gdm login screen: font too small

I don't have that file, not even /etc/X11/xdm directory. Do I really need to install xdm package to adjust it? I thought we are talking about gdm here. -jd On 6/12/05, B. L. Jilek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > john doe wrote: > > I did a standard installation, somehow the font on gdm login screen

Re: Top posting

Paul Johnson wrote: > Modern mail readers include > reply-to-list as a basic part of standard functionality these days > (No, OE and Lotus Notes are not modern). Neither is Thunderbird. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5

Re: Top posting

Hubert Chan wrote: (Yes, I'm top-posting here, because it seems to be the most appropriate for this type of message. I usually bottom-post/interpolate.) Jim, your message is a perfect example of why people need to trim quoted text if you bottom-post. You have included 74 lines of quoted text,

Newbie cannot start graphical desktop

Hi, I've just installed Sarge and everything went ok. but when i log in, there is no graphical interface appears anywhere only the command line. How can i start gnome or kde or any other grahical desktop. Thanks alot jozsefmak __ Do You Yahoo!? Ti

Re: Top posting

Paul Johnson wrote: http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting#Why_bottom-posting_also_isn.27t_the_answer On Saturday June 11 2005 5:02 pm, Jim Hall wrote: BTW, we solved the problem of accidently sending replies to individuals by using a "Reply-To:" in the header with the lists address. Not exactly a "pur

Console Login

Hi alL! What would I need to get both of my Debian 3.1 boxes to boot to a console mode login prompt instead of going to a GUI login after booting up? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting default desktop environment

Ms Linuz wrote: > Lee Braiden wrote: > > >>On Saturday 11 Jun 2005 22:58, Strake wrote: >> >> >> >>>I recently installed Debian but gnome is my default desktop >>>environment. How do I change it to KDE? >>> >>> >> >>apt-get install kde kdm :) >> >>If you're happy with that, you can then purge

Re: i think I switched to Etch without knowing it

Bob Proulx wrote: APT does not know or care about any "Debian version" that you seem to be trying to make up. It does not exist. Don't try to create one. I guess these guys didn't hear the news: algernon:/home/marty# dlocate debian_version base-files: /etc/debian_version algernon:/home/mart

Re: sarge: gdm login screen: font too small

john doe wrote: > I did a standard installation, somehow the font on gdm login screen is > so small it's almost unrecognizable. But once I login, all the fonts > are in reasonable sizes. Anyone else has a similar problem? I searched > around and couldn't find any answer. The gdm.conf file never > e

Re: Programming Backwards (was Re: Top posting (a different point of view))

On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 18:51:18 -0400 John Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think I do actually write my programs backwards .. from how it > > will look to the enduser. > > That's top down development vs. bottom up development. > > Using top down development, you never have any working code.

Adding a rescue system to a HD only computer.

Can you add a rescue system to a Grub menu? To avoid those nasty kernel panic errors. Any thoughts on a easy rescue method? ( I have a diskless HP evectra, HD only. ) I hoped a USB key would work but it does not have a boot from usb device option in the BIOS. -- Dan Hunt Saint Brieux Saskatchewa

Re: Preventing apt from storing too much locally

On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 02:35:07AM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > Dir::Cache::archives > > This contains references to pkgcache and srcpkgcache. You can turn > these off if you wish, in favour of using apt-proxy, or apt-cacher or > whatever. > > But I'd be more inclined to run: > > apt-get {auto,}

Re: debian sources to debian binaries.

On Saturday 11 June 2005 07:56 pm, nuno romano wrote: > When trying to build binary .deb packages from debian > sources I get the following warning:(the same with > gtkhtml3) > > dpkg-deb: parse error in file `fltk-1.1.6/ > /DEBIAN/control´ > near line 8 > missing package name > > I

Re: debian sources to debian binaries.

nuno romano wrote: When trying to build binary .deb packages from debian sources I get the following warning:(the same with gtkhtml3) dpkg-deb: parse error in file `fltk-1.1.6/ /DEBIAN/control´ near line 8 missing package name I did : dpkg-deb --build fltk-1.1.6/ ,after a

Re: i think I switched to Etch without knowing it

Marty wrote: > So what you are saying is consistent with the others -- apt does not "know" > or "care about" the "Debian version." I knew this to be true with dpkg, > but not apt. APT does not know or care about any "Debian version" that you seem to be trying to make up. It does not exist. Don'

sarge: gdm login screen: font too small

I did a standard installation, somehow the font on gdm login screen is so small it's almost unrecognizable. But once I login, all the fonts are in reasonable sizes. Anyone else has a similar problem? I searched around and couldn't find any answer. The gdm.conf file never explicitly specify screen r

Re: debian sources to debian binaries.

nuno romano wrote: > When trying to build binary .deb packages from debian > sources I get the following warning:(the same with > gtkhtml3) > > dpkg-deb: parse error in file `fltk-1.1.6/ > /DEBIAN/control´ > near line 8 > missing package name > > I did : dpkg-deb --build flt

Reply-To Munging - Please, Not Again! (was Re: Top posting)

On 6/11/05, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, we solved the problem of accidently sending replies to individuals > by using a "Reply-To:" in the header with the lists address. Not exactly > a "pure" solution, but it works. Did you open this can o' worms on purpose, or do you just not kno

apache2 + mod_chroot + wordpress?

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Re: Top posting

(Yes, I'm top-posting here, because it seems to be the most appropriate for this type of message. I usually bottom-post/interpolate.) Jim, your message is a perfect example of why people need to trim quoted text if you bottom-post. You have included 74 lines of quoted text, and almost *none* of

Re: Top posting

http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting#Why_bottom-posting_also_isn.27t_the_answer On Saturday June 11 2005 5:02 pm, Jim Hall wrote: > BTW, we solved the problem of accidently sending replies to > individuals by using a "Reply-To:" in the header with the lists > address. Not exactly a "pure" solution, but i

Re: Preventing apt from storing too much locally

--- Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can see a number of files in /var/cache/apt on each machine; is > there a way to prevent as much as possible of this stuff from being > cached? man apt.conf You're looking for: Dir::Cache::archives This contains references to pkgcache and srcpkgcach

Preventing apt from storing too much locally

Hello, I have a number of machines all pointed at an apt-proxy. Since any package downloaded from any of them will be available there on my local network, I would like to avoid keeping copies on every machine. I can see a number of files in /var/cache/apt on each machine; is there a way to preve

debian sources to debian binaries.

When trying to build binary .deb packages from debian sources I get the following warning:(the same with gtkhtml3) dpkg-deb: parse error in file `fltk-1.1.6/ /DEBIAN/control´ near line 8 missing package name I did : dpkg-deb --build fltk-1.1.6/ ,after applying the p

Re: Firefox no print issue

Almut Behrens wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:47:14PM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: No matter what I do, this prints on the first page. Each line starts at the end of the previous one (meaning they're staggered). <>setpagedevice %!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%Pages: (atend) %%BoundingB That "<>setpagedevice"

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Re: knoppix -> sarge possible?

Is it possible to "upgrade" my Knoppix 3.8.1 (on CD) to sarge without a clean install? DON'T DO IT! No one would recommend it! When I first started, I had a lot of trouble with installing Debian (my problem - It's easy now!). So I installed Knoppix (easy), changed my sources.list to the mai

Re: knoppix -> sarge possible?

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 05:54:04PM +0200, Fernando Cacciola wrote: > Hi people, > > Is it possible to "upgrade" my Knoppix 3.8.1 (on CD) to sarge without a > clean install? > Yes, it is possible, _but_ no one on this list can say, _with_ _certainty_, what problems _you_ will encounter in doing

Re: Top posting

Wim De Smet wrote: Hi, Okay, since we're talking about etiquette: You're not supposed to send mails on a public mailing list to people directly (only send to the person and the mailinglist if they specifically request a CC). Sometimes the thread goes offtopic and it becomes a personal discussion

Re: Remote administration of a server

Robert Brockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, s. keeling wrote: > > > And if anyone can get at your console, they can CTRL-ALT-Backspace to > > get to a logged in shell prompt. They may not still have your ssh-add > > No they can't. A session managed by a display manager does no

Re: Programming Backwards (was Re: Top posting (a different point of view))

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:51:51 -0400, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I would hate to write a backwards compiler to compile your >> backwards programs. > I think I do actually write my programs backwards .. from how it > will look to the enduser. That's top down development vs. botto

Re: knoppix -> sarge possible?

Fernando Cacciola wrote: Hi people, Is it possible to "upgrade" my Knoppix 3.8.1 (on CD) to sarge without a clean install? TIA Fernando Cacciola It is possible to do so. But in the end you will end up spending more time by taking this route. Unless you have a solid reason as to, why yo

mplayer is unable to play some wmv files

Usually, I can play .wmv files with mplayer. But it is not able to play certain wmv files, for reasons that I am unaware of. The image looks garbled up when I run mplayer. I have tried aviplay, xine, mplayer, kplayer and none of them work. I have already installed w32codecs. I am using Sid. C

Re: Console Login

Thx ppl, it boots into console mode now! -- No place like ~/

Re: Setting default desktop environment

Lee Braiden wrote: >On Saturday 11 Jun 2005 22:58, Strake wrote: > > >>I recently installed Debian but gnome is my default desktop >>environment. How do I change it to KDE? >> >> > >apt-get install kde kdm :) > >If you're happy with that, you can then purge gnome stuff with apt-get --purge

Re: Console Login

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:20:19PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Mr Mike: > > > > another alternative is to edit your /etc/inittab and change your > > default runlevel to something other than gui with network... then if > > you need gui, just do init 5 at the cli.. > > That won't work with D

Re: knoppix -> sarge possible?

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 05:54:04PM +0200, Fernando Cacciola wrote: > Hi people, > > Is it possible to "upgrade" my Knoppix 3.8.1 (on CD) to sarge without a clean > install? > > TIA > > Fernando Cacciola Why? If you want Sarge, just use the Sarge installer. Many of the reasons that people for

Re: Setting default desktop environment

On Saturday 11 Jun 2005 22:58, Strake wrote: > I recently installed Debian but gnome is my default desktop > environment. How do I change it to KDE? apt-get install kde kdm :) If you're happy with that, you can then purge gnome stuff with apt-get --purge remove (or use a package management front

knoppix -> sarge possible?

Hi people, Is it possible to "upgrade" my Knoppix 3.8.1 (on CD) to sarge without a clean install? TIA Fernando Cacciola -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:39:44PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 05:46:50PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > But I am still curious how reilient aptitude is to disasters like > > disk-space shortage, and whether there is any way fo finding and > > repairing the packages tha

Setting default desktop environment

I recently installed Debian but gnome is my default desktop environment. How do I change it to KDE? -- No place like ~/

Re: huge log files

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:35:09PM +0200, claudio wrote: > Jun 8 17:40:52 localhost kernel: BANDWIDTH_IN:IN=eth0 OUT= > MAC=00:01:02:e1:b3:63:00:0f:34:7c:3d:84:08:00 SRC=212.199.26.28 > DST=172.21.183.241 LEN=1480 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=251 ID=1104 > PROTO=47 Looks like your firewall is logging

Re: kernel panich VFS unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,1)

Craig Russell wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 09:54:09PM -0400, Craig Russell wrote: ok- taking these suggestions (and I concur, grub is a lot easier) I still have the same problem with the kernel panic. / is on /dev/hda1 swap on /dev/hda2; grub recognizes

Re: Sudden constant spoofing of my address

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:25:22PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > I didn't follow this entire discussion from the beginning, so maybe it's been > said already, but if all these spoofed address messages result in you > receiving a bunch of "undeliverable" returns, why not filter on the word > "und

Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 05:46:50PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > But I am still curious how reilient aptitude is to disasters like > disk-space shortage, and whether there is any way fo finding and > repairing the packages that were damages or misconfigured as a result. dpkg -l | grep -v ^ii will

dvds burnt in k3b won't show up on mac os x

I've burnt several DVDs using k3b. They'll show up alright under linux but not on my Mac OS X system. Does this ring any bells with you? I don't know where to start debugging this. -- Alex Polite http://flosspick.org

Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 08:37:24PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:46:22PM +0100, peter colton wrote: > > did you clear var out for apt. > > apt-get clean > > apt-get autoclean > > I would vote for apt-get autoclean here. 'clean' removes all package > files. 'autoc

Re: Console Login

Mr Mike: > > another alternative is to edit your /etc/inittab and change your > default runlevel to something other than gui with network... then if > you need gui, just do init 5 at the cli.. That won't work with Debian. Debian boots everything already in runlevel 2. J. -- I am on the pay

Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 07:00:31PM +0100, peter colton wrote: > On Saturday 11 June 2005 17:20, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:46:22PM +0100, peter colton wrote: > > > On Saturday 11 June 2005 16:49, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > After 18 hours of upgrading on my very slow 100 MHz

Re: kernel panich VFS unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,1)

Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 09:54:09PM -0400, Craig Russell wrote: ok- taking these suggestions (and I concur, grub is a lot easier) I still have the same problem with the kernel panic. / is on /dev/hda1 swap on /dev/hda2; grub recognizes the new kernel and it is

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

On Saturday June 11 2005 12:07 pm, Olle Eriksson wrote: > On Saturday 11 June 2005 03.39, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Friday June 10 2005 2:45 pm, Olle Eriksson wrote: > > > More importantly, I think it would be difficult to use > > > bottom-posting with html mail or rtf text or whatever it is > > >

Re: CD's won't play

On Saturday June 11 2005 5:37 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Unable to mount the selected volume. The volume is probably in a > format that cannot be mounted. How do I get my CD's to play? First, make sure the analog audio cable is connected from your CDROM to your sound device. Second, don't m

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

On Saturday June 11 2005 3:21 am, Joe Potter wrote: > Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: > > Joe Potter wrote: > We are talking about how one should post in this mail-list. We have > a very high volume list, and most have other things to do besides > read the list on a continual basis. I argue that this d

DEBIAN ON PHONE

SOMEONE INTRESTED IN MAKING DEBIAN FOR MOBILE PHONER? CONTACT ME [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Linux and integrated ES1869 audio controller

[[I also posted this message to gmane.linux.sound, but since that newsgroup seems pretty dead, I'm also posting it here]] Linux is unable to see my "sound card" I'm running Debian 3.1, "Sarge" on an old Compaq Presario 5220. The so-called "sound card" is one of those damnable integrated ES1869 a

Re: Firefox no print issue

On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:47:14PM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > > No matter what I do, this prints on the first page. Each line starts at > the end of the previous one (meaning they're staggered). > > <>setpagedevice > %!PS-Adobe-3.0 > %%Pages: (atend) > %%BoundingB That "<>setpagedevice" is not su

[OT] Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

Tom Waits. On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 06:22:27PM -0500, John Carline wrote: > What a crock of snobbish BS! > > snobbish > adj : befitting or characteristic of those who inclined to social >exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people >considered inferior [syn: {

Re: Top posting

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 10:06:11PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: > Lech Karol Paw?aszek wrote: > >On Thursday 09 of June 2005 22:13, Mike Ward wrote: > >[...] > > > >>Afterall, I honestly never had heard of 'top-posting' before until > >>now, but just this gentle reminder means that at least one occa

Re: Top posting

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 03:44:04PM -0400, Jin Juku wrote: Answer: Because it makes conversations difficult to follow. > I guess I really am a newbie, because I have no idea what this > top-posting business is supposed to mean ... we're not supposed to > send new, clean messages to the list ...?

Re: locale

Colin a écrit : CoolFox wrote: did you try to reconfigure your locale settings with dpkg-reconfigure locale ? That's suppose to be "dpkg-reconfigure locales". Yes I tried it and the output is: dpkg-reconfigure locales perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check t

Re: Console Login

Paul E Condon wrote: >On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 12:36:30PM -0400, Strake wrote: > > >>I just installed sarge but it always boots into a graphical >>environment and even when I kill it with ctrl+meta+backspace it starts >>again. How do I boot into console mode? >> >> > >There are three display

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

On Saturday 11 June 2005 03.39, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Friday June 10 2005 2:45 pm, Olle Eriksson wrote: > > More importantly, I think it would be difficult to use > > bottom-posting with html mail or rtf text or whatever it is called. > > Only in inadequate mailers. Mutt, gnus, kmail and likely

Re: gnome panel is back! was; Re: gnome-panel .. gone .. #@!!!!

James Miller wrote: > mymachine:/home/user# apt-get -f install gnome-panel > It all woiks! Nyuk nyuk nyuk. Yea! -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Replaced Mouse, X broken

Perfect. Replaced the USB mouse with a old serial mouse. Thanks for the tip, I was stuck. -- Dan Hunt Saint Brieux Saskatchewan Canada

Re: Console Login

On 06/11/2005 11:36:30 AM, Strake wrote: I just installed sarge but it always boots into a graphical environment and even when I kill it with ctrl+meta+backspace it starts again. How do I boot into console mode? -- No place like ~/ You shouldn't have to remove your GUI's or login managers.. Som

Re: Console Login

Strake writes: > But I still want to be able to start them with startx, i dont want them > to be gone. Startx and a display manager such as kdm are two different ways of starting X. If you use startx you don't need a display manager. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:46:22PM +0100, peter colton wrote: > did you clear var out for apt. > apt-get clean > apt-get autoclean I would vote for apt-get autoclean here. 'clean' removes all package files. 'autoclean' only removes files that cannot be downloaded anymore. So autoclean would k

Re: sarge r0a hangs on Tyan Thunder K8W

I am forwarding this to debian-boot and setting MFT, as it is more appropriate there. -Roberto On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 07:19:33PM +0100, debian wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a Tyan Thunder K8W board > (http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8w_spec.html) > with a single opteron 246 as I remem

sarge r0a hangs on Tyan Thunder K8W

Dear all, I have a Tyan Thunder K8W board (http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8w_spec.html) with a single opteron 246 as I remembered starting a dual processor board with one Pentium pro in dim and distant days being a good way to allow room for later expansion of power. Board has an nvidi

Re: defoma/ghostscript/fontconfig/cups mess

On Jun 10 2005, Kirill wrote: > The system is the latest x386 sid, first installed back in 2001 from a woody > prerelease CD. All fonts are displayed just fine on screen in KDE. In KWord > letter spacing is bad for some fonts, specifically Times New Roman. If you intend to generate postscript and/

Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

On Jun 11 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Will try again. But ... Is it possible to resume the broken upgrade? Yes, it is. But besides the hint given by the previous poster, it would be nice if you could purge some unneeded packages, install both debophan and debfoster and remove unneeded packages/li

Sarge Installation: partman fails with SATA378 TX2Plus

Hi all, I'm trying to install Debian on a new Sager 9880 notebook, but the install is consistently failing with "No partitionable media were found." I've tried both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, getting the same result. The 2.4 kernel successfully configures my network, but the 2.6 kernel fails

Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

On Saturday 11 June 2005 17:20, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:46:22PM +0100, peter colton wrote: > > On Saturday 11 June 2005 16:49, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > After 18 hours of upgrading on my very slow 100 MHz Pentium, > > > it ended up producing an unending stream of > > > > >

Re: Console Login

Thx, it works now! On 6/11/05, Angelina Carlton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:20:43PM -0400, Strake wrote: > > But I still want to be able to start them with startx, i dont want > > them to be gone. > > > > you still will be able to startx, kdm, gdm are only *logon manag

Re: Console Login

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:20:43PM -0400, Strake wrote: > But I still want to be able to start them with startx, i dont want > them to be gone. > you still will be able to startx, kdm, gdm are only *logon managers* they allow you to graphically logon to your computer. Removing them will leave you

Re: Sarge->Etch: so far so good

On Jun 11 2005, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:15:32AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > > Like many others on this list I am tracking "testing" which is now Etch > > rather than Sarge. It would be nice to receive regular reports on how > > the transition is going. > > Good to hea

Re: Console Login

But I still want to be able to start them with startx, i dont want them to be gone. On 6/11/05, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 12:36:30PM -0400, Strake wrote: > > I just installed sarge but it always boots into a graphical > > environment and even when I kill it

Re: Console Login

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 12:36:30PM -0400, Strake wrote: > I just installed sarge but it always boots into a graphical > environment and even when I kill it with ctrl+meta+backspace it starts > again. How do I boot into console mode? One way is to remove the display manager package that is installe

Re: lilo message

On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 02:15:03PM -0400, Steve Å wrote: You're confusing the filesystem directory /boot, where the kernel image and the boot loader configuration are, and the lilo line "boot=", which tells lilo, where the boot sector should be written. Then by boot sector could be written to hd

Re: Console Login

Strake wrote: I just installed sarge but it always boots into a graphical environment and even when I kill it with ctrl+meta+backspace it starts again. How do I boot into console mode? Remove your session manager (gdm, kdm, xdm etc.) or temporarily disable it by moving or turning off its init s

Console Login

I just installed sarge but it always boots into a graphical environment and even when I kill it with ctrl+meta+backspace it starts again. How do I boot into console mode? -- No place like ~/

Re: Error Reading Package Lists

Strake: > > Thx, it worked. I think I'll go download sarge now :D You don't need to download an installation CD and reinstall from scratch. Just edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and change entries with 'woody' to 'sarge'. Then run 'aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade'. You might want to read

Re: locale

CoolFox wrote: > did you try to reconfigure your locale settings with > dpkg-reconfigure locale ? That's suppose to be "dpkg-reconfigure locales". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Eliminating upgrade confusion

Colin Ingram wrote: > Colin wrote: >> Nah, I can't buy this argument. When I look to see what entries I can >> put >> in my sources.list file, I actually take a web browser and look at the >> directory it comes from. In the "dists" directory, I can see that >> "testing" and "stable" are links to

Re: CD's won't play

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Re: Sarge->Etch: so far so good

En/La Maurits van Rees ha escrit, a 11/06/05 16:16: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:15:32AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > >>I'm happy to report >>that as of 11:00 CEST I have had no problems whatsoever. > > > Good to hear. > > >>It would be a great service if anyone encountering problems write t

Re: gnome panel is back! was; Re: gnome-panel .. gone .. #@!!!!

James Miller wrote: > mymachine:/home/user# apt-get -f install gnome-panel > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > gnome-menus gnome-panel-data libwnck16 > Recommended packages: > gnome-applets > The following NEW p

Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:46:22PM +0100, peter colton wrote: > On Saturday 11 June 2005 16:49, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > After 18 hours of upgrading on my very slow 100 MHz Pentium, > > it ended up producing an unending stream of > > > > multilog: warning: unable to write to /var/log/svscan/current.

gnome panel is back! was; Re: gnome-panel .. gone .. #@!!!!

mymachine:/home/user# apt-get -f install gnome-panel Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: gnome-menus gnome-panel-data libwnck16 Recommended packages: gnome-applets The following NEW packages will be installed: gnome-m

Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

On Saturday 11 June 2005 16:49, Hendrik Boom wrote: > After 18 hours of upgrading on my very slow 100 MHz Pentium, > it ended up producing an unending stream of > > multilog: warning: unable to write to /var/log/svscan/current. pausing: out > of disk space > > The installation log file (made using

Re: Eliminating upgrade confusion

On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 06:01:51AM +, s. keeling wrote: > > I kinda, sorta, almost, like the idea of forcing users to define their > chosen distribution (potato, woody, sarge, etch) in their > /etc/apt/apt.conf > Elsewhere on this list I saw a suggestion that I think is a good, more gentle w

woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

After 18 hours of upgrading on my very slow 100 MHz Pentium, it ended up producing an unending stream of multilog: warning: unable to write to /var/log/svscan/current. pausing: out of disk space The installation log file (made using script on another partition) also contains complaints that othe

Re: Top posting

Kent West wrote: >Chris Bannister wrote: > > > >>On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 07:51:22PM -0500, Kent West wrote: >> >>[..] >> >> >> >> >>>No offense intended to anyone. This email is the property of the owner >>>and all unauthorized uses are strictly forbidden without express written >>> >>>

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