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Re: Setting IP address not working

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 22:12, Kent West wrote: ... > > I can't understand why your /etc/network/interfaces file is being > ignored. It makes no sense to me. Maybe the permissions on the file? It is not being ignored - the ifupdown script is using it, but getting the error message back from the

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:34:28PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 06:52:00 -0700 > "Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > XFCE calls it the "Mini Command Line". KDE calls it something else > > which > > I am most likely misremembering as "Launch Bar". It is not th

Re: Am I hacked?

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 07:07:59AM +0200, Laurent CARON wrote: > Login ID sashroot has uid == 0. > --WARN-- [pass002w] UID 0 exists multiple times (2) in /etc/passwd. > --WARN-- [pass012w] Home directory /root exists multiple times (2) in > /etc/passwd. > > can you please post & copy of /etc/passw

Re: Sarge SM security question

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 06:10:55PM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > SquirrelMail has released a security patch. Will that eventually show up > in a Sarge security update? As a new user of "stable" (previously > testing), I have no experience with security updates. Tnx - John So the upstream autho

Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

On 6/15/05, Luiz Emediato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I used dselect in order to upgrade from version 3.0 to 3.1. > I let dselect do it by its own: 956 new upgrade packages were > download but when it tries to install them many errors appear > specially about libc6 C++ and also errors

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 06:52:00 -0700 "Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > XFCE calls it the "Mini Command Line". KDE calls it something else which > I am most likely misremembering as "Launch Bar". It is not the panel at the Alt-F2, or "run command". Actually, I am not certain that it

Re: Setting IP address not working

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 18:46, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > RTNETLINK answers: Cannot assign requested address > > Google turns up a few instances of this error message, as well as the > earlier "SIOCSIFADDR: File exists". Many of them seem to be associated > with vserver, whatever that is. It se

dma_intr - please help me troubleshoot this error!!

Hi all, My Sarge installation went alright and also I installed apache, php4, samba, postfix, mysql packages but when I reboot I get the following error. Toill now I have used only Ext3 file system this time I dared to use ReiserFS is it a problem with ReiserFS??? Could someone please tell me ho

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:54:46 +0100 (BST) Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Lee Braiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's debatable, actually. It could be argued that, since desktop > > environments *do* share libraries etc, they reduce redundancy and > > therefore > > memory and

Re: Am I hacked?

Michal Sedlak a écrit : Hi all, I am nearly sure that my server was hacked, but I want to be sure. Can anybody say me if it is true. Here is tiger script output. Do you have any ideas how to repair it {no mkfs funny stuff please} There are some line interesting. I have one for every critical

Software support for Belkin UPS?

Just plugged in my P57281 Belkin 375VA battery backup. I can see it being detected in /var/log/messages. The connection is USB, while upsd for instance is stated to work with a "serial" (presumably RS-232C) connection. Sarge seems to contain only one package that can detect a Belkin UPS, nut.

Re: what is using my swap

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 22:22:06 -0700 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > Processes are swapped opportunistically by GNU/Linux. Both swap and > cache are used to optimize system performance. The links you provided are a worthwhile read. But I think the OP is asking if there is a method to determine which p

Re: Using Cedega

Hi all, I ran the file (jedi.academy_1.01-multilanguage-2.run) from the link posted here. Unfortunatelly I couldn't run the game cuz there were some errors regarding wine (I've read the README and try to remove wine...but it still didn't work): *** when i run the program: " $ ./jasp Invoking /

Re: Firefox no print issue [SOLVED]

Almut Behrens wrote: OK, seriously, I'm getting the impression that, for whatever reason, your printer somehow got inadvertendly misconfigured to no longer use ESP technology. This impression of yours turns out to be the entire solution to the problem. Somehow the setting had been changed. I

Re: annoying iptables messages

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 04:13 pm, Jan C. Nordholz wrote: > Hi! > > > I'm trying to rid myself of annoying iptables messages that are clogging > > up the console and dmesg. To my firewall script I've added: > > Well, dmesg just reads the kernel's debugging ringbuffer, where _every_ > printk() the

Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

Just used aptitude update aptitude dist-upgrade to upgrade from the unstable archive. Worked like a charm without any hitches. Brian

[Resolved] Re: How to capture bootup messages?

Colin Ingram wrote: Greg wrote: It matters because if Paulo or anyone else is not using udev then they want be affected by the udev/bootlogd init script bug. Mainly because they want have /etc/init.d/udev on their system which umounts /dev/pts so bootlogd can no longer work. I can't bel

Re: Help: keybbbbbboard problem with 2.6.8 kernel

-- Original Message --- From: "Marc Marais" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:19:22 +0800 Subject: Re: Help: keybboard problem with 2.6.8 kernel > -- Original Message --- > From: Robe

Re: FW: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 15 June 2005 12:52 pm, Michael Martinell wrote: -Original Message- From: Joerg Rossdeutscher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:15 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! ! AFAIK dselect gets

Re: Building a boot disk with initrd

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Diesis wrote: > I'm stuck with this... > I have a Debian Woody system with root on raid, and I wish to upgrade it. > First of all, I wish to build a set of boot floppies that could be used > for booting and restart the complete system without troubles. if it is truly a work

Sarge SM security question

SquirrelMail has released a security patch. Will that eventually show up in a Sarge security update? As a new user of "stable" (previously testing), I have no experience with security updates. Tnx - John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Migrated OT: Top posting

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:36:42PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > > >Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>What is the difference between a duck? > >> > >>(Which I _still_ don't get.) > >> > >> > >And that, I believe, is the point. Kinda like one hand clapping

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

Craig Russell wrote: Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: Help me please! I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to Sarge and it is a DISASTER. HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO US ! ! ! (Reading database ... 70119 files and directories currently installed.) Removing xserver-rage12

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

Greg wrote: Paulo M C Aragão wrote: Colin Ingram wrote on Jun, 15: This is curious. I'm running Debian stock kernel 2.4.27-2-686 and neither: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256 I don't think these are needed or that they are the problem seem to be configured (checked /b

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade gave me emacs

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:00:56 -0400 Ryan Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "You will go to the Dagobah system..." :- ) Cybe R. Wizard -- Q: What's the difference between MicroSoft Windows and a virus? A: Apart from the fact that viruses are supported by their authors, use optimized, small

Getting the hang of APT 2.....

Here's part 2 I actually muddle through the APT HOWTO last night and figured out the dpkg-scanpackages comand. I used it to successfully scan 3 packages I moved from the CDROM to my /root/debs directory. It created the Packages file, which I opened with nano to verify the content. It appeared

Re: FW: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 12:52 pm, Michael Martinell wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Joerg Rossdeutscher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:15 PM > > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > Subject: Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! ! > > > > > > > >

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

Am Mittwoch, den 15.06.2005, 15:52 -0500 schrieb Michael Martinell: > > > From: Joerg Rossdeutscher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > AFAIK dselect gets removed from debian. > > > apt-get is deprecated. > > > aptitude is the tool to be used. > I sincerely hope that apt-get does not go away. Aptitu

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

Am Mittwoch, den 15.06.2005, 21:14 +0100 schrieb Thomas Adam: > --- Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:15:23PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > > apt-get is deprecated. > > > > Says who? For a distribution upgrade, maybe, but I wasn't aware > > this was

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

Am Mittwoch, den 15.06.2005, 19:59 + schrieb Andy Smith: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:15:23PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > apt-get is deprecated. > > Says who? For a distribution upgrade, maybe, but I wasn't aware > this was the case for day to day usage. The release notes for sarg

Re: FW: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

Michael Martinell wrote: > I sincerely hope that apt-get does not go away. Aptitude has *a long* > ways to go before it is very useful to me. It reminds me of dselect - > clumsy and not very efficient. I could have a package found and installed > using apt-get before I even began to guess which

Re: Setting IP address not working

Alan Chandler wrote: >On Wednesday 15 June 2005 18:59, Kent West wrote: >uring network interfaces...ifup: interface lo already configured > > >>This disturbs me. If you've just taken networking down, why is lo >>already configured? >> >>Try "/etc/init.d/networking stop" >>then "ifconfig" >>and r

FW: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

> > -Original Message- > > From: Joerg Rossdeutscher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:15 PM > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! ! > > > > > > AFAIK dselect gets removed from debian. > > apt-get is deprecated. > > ap

esddsp

Hi, There's been some discussion about esd over the network lately, but i don't know if i've seen any real great solutions... i'm at the point where i can hear have networked sound w/ esdplay, and xmms (w/ the esd plugin selected and the server part configured). Anyway, i thought that esddsp was

Re: Rescue

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:47:33PM +0100, nx13441a wrote: > In Woody with the cd nr. 1 we can rescue a system. > And in Sarge? > > Thanks I was faced with this very same problem last night when installing gnome-desktop-environment also installed hotplug. Hotplug prevented my computer from bootin

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

--- Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:15:23PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > apt-get is deprecated. > > Says who? For a distribution upgrade, maybe, but I wasn't aware > this was the case for day to day usage. It's by no means deprecated when you compar

Re: annoying iptables messages

Hi! > I'm trying to rid myself of annoying iptables messages that are clogging up > the console and dmesg. To my firewall script I've added: Well, dmesg just reads the kernel's debugging ringbuffer, where _every_ printk() the kernel issues is recorded. You can't keep messages from appearing ther

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:15:23PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > apt-get is deprecated. Says who? For a distribution upgrade, maybe, but I wasn't aware this was the case for day to day usage. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade gave me emacs

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 09:57 am, David Jardine wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 07:04:54AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:09:39PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > > I woke up this morning to find that apt-get dist-upgrade, which > > > had been running since the night befo

annoying iptables messages

I'm trying to rid myself of annoying iptables messages that are clogging up the console and dmesg. To my firewall script I've added: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_log_invalid And to sysklogd: KLOGD="-c 4" The console messages seem to be gone, but dmesg is still clogged wit

[OT] netboot os x

Does anyone know of any links to netboot OS X off a linux box? I've followed the detailed howto from here: http://mike.passwall.com/macnc/ But this only does netbooting with an OS 9 disk image. I was hoping to netboot into an OS X environment. Thanks! Mike --

Re: Setting IP address not working

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 18:59, Kent West wrote: uring network interfaces...ifup: interface lo already configured > > This disturbs me. If you've just taken networking down, why is lo > already configured? > > Try "/etc/init.d/networking stop" > then "ifconfig" > and report the results. [EMAIL PR

Re: Recommended laptop for Sarge

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:59:26PM -0300, Fernando Cacciola wrote: > CPU: Intel Pentium M 715A 1.5Ghz > RAM: 512MB DDR SRAM > VIDEO: Intel Extreme Graphics II OnBoard (64MB) > HD:60Gb (4200 rpm) > Connectivity: IEEE 1394 high speed data port > 56K modem (unspecifie

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade gave me emacs

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 07:04:54AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:09:39PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > I woke up this morning to find that apt-get dist-upgrade, which > > had been running since the night before, was downloading emacs > > packages. > > > > - I've never

Re: Recommended laptop for Sarge

While in the topic: I'm about to buy a HP Pavilion dv1125LA notebook: (http://h20285.www2.hp.com/estore/config.asp?co=arg&cModel=LAAR-101870-BAS) in SPANISH CPU: Intel Pentium M 715A 1.5Ghz RAM: 512MB DDR SRAM VIDEO: Intel Extreme Graphics II OnBoard (64MB) HD:60Gb (4200 rpm)

Re: Setting IP address not working

> RTNETLINK answers: Cannot assign requested address Google turns up a few instances of this error message, as well as the earlier "SIOCSIFADDR: File exists". Many of them seem to be associated with vserver, whatever that is. It seems that running vservers have to be shut down before the interfa

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

Hi, Am Montag, den 13.06.2005, 22:33 -0400 schrieb Marty: > I don't see anything there about not using dselect. AFAIK dselect gets removed from debian. apt-get is deprecated. aptitude is the tool to be used. Bye, Ratti -- -o) fontlinge | Fontmanagement for Linux | Schriftenverwaltung in Lin

Re: Rescue

On (15/06/05 16:47), nx13441a wrote: > In Woody with the cd nr. 1 we can rescue a system. > And in Sarge? > > Thanks There are a couple of 'live' CD's that can work as rescue disks but I think you need to use grub as your bootloader. I use dfs (debian from scratch): http://people.debian.org/~jg

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

Paulo M C Aragão wrote: Colin Ingram wrote on Jun, 15: This is curious. I'm running Debian stock kernel 2.4.27-2-686 and neither: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256 I don't think these are needed or that they are the problem seem to be configured (checked /boot/config-2.4

Re: Setting IP address not working

Alan Chandler wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] alan # /etc/init.d/networking start >Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. >Configuring network interfaces...ifup: interface lo already configured > > This disturbs me. If you've just taken networking down, why is lo already configured? Try "/etc/

Re: Custom minimalist build

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Andy Smith wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:48:17AM -0500, Matthew J. Harmon wrote: I'm building a series of Xen (xensource.com) virtualized servers to compartmentalize applications such as Apache, PostgreSQL, etc. and I would like to provide each a custom build with only

Re: Question about Last-Minute Notes

Hello *, On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:13:47AM -0600, Cam wrote: > netinst cd's aren't official. [...] Did you get this from reading ? I didn't... Cheers, Flo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Setting IP address not working

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 17:52, Kent West wrote: > followed by editing the interfaces file to a static IP so it looks like: > > # The loopback network interface > > >auto lo > >iface lo inet loopback > > > ># The primary network interface > >auto eth0 > >iface eth0 inet static > >address 192.

Re: Question about Last-Minute Notes

Hello *, On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:05:54AM +0800, hell0 un1verse wrote: > On the Sarge netinst CD, in the README.html there's a section which > reads like this: > > Last-Minute Notes > > You should keep in mind that this is an unofficial CD of the current > development version of the Debian sy

Re: Question about Last-Minute Notes

netinst cd's aren't official. if you want the official stuff, get the iso's w/ jigdo. it shouldn't matter either way though Cameron Matheson On 6/15/05, hell0 un1verse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > On the Sarge netinst CD, in the README.html there's a section which > reads like th

Question about Last-Minute Notes

Hi there, On the Sarge netinst CD, in the README.html there's a section which reads like this: Last-Minute Notes You should keep in mind that this is an unofficial CD of the current development version of the Debian system. This means that all sorts of bugs may be present anywhere in the system

Rescue

In Woody with the cd nr. 1 we can rescue a system. And in Sarge? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Custom minimalist build

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:48:17AM -0500, Matthew J. Harmon wrote: > I'm building a series of Xen (xensource.com) virtualized servers to > compartmentalize applications such as Apache, PostgreSQL, etc. and I would > like to provide each a custom build with only the necessary libraries. > > So fa

Am I hacked?

Hi all, I am nearly sure that my server was hacked, but I want to be sure. Can anybody say me if it is true. Here is tiger script output. Do you have any ideas how to repair it {no mkfs funny stuff please} There are some line interesting. I have one for every critical system command like {log

Re: Setting IP address not working

Alan Chandler wrote: >On Wednesday 15 June 2005 16:31, Kent West wrote: > > >>Whoa! So your network is working? >> >> >Yes but with the wrong ip address > > >>What's the output of "ifconfig"? >> >> >eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:DA:CF:A5:06 > inet addr:169.254.50

Custom minimalist build

I'm building a series of Xen (xensource.com) virtualized servers to compartmentalize applications such as Apache, PostgreSQL, etc. and I would like to provide each a custom build with only the necessary libraries. So far I haven't found a way to do this easilly, I'd like to be as minimalist as

Re: How to install on SATA drives?

John Plate wrote: > Hi > > I have a Fujitsu-Siemens (Econel 50, Intel based) server with two SATA > drives. > > The standard installation images (.iso files) cannot recognize the > drives. I believe that it does not contain the the libata and and > sata_sil modules and that is the reason. I had

big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

Hi all, I used dselect in order to upgrade from version 3.0 to 3.1. I let dselect do it by its own: 956 new upgrade packages were download but when it tries to install them many errors appear specially about libc6 C++ and also errors about broken unpacking. I still can log in to the old 3.0 fortu

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not so keen on KDE/GNOME because as I understand they are somewhat CPU-intensive and take longer to load than the traditional WMs. They do indeed - because they are desktop environments, not WMs. E.g. in GNOME's case, you've got a file manager, panel (launching tool),

Creating a custom system

I don't know if this had been asked many many times, but I couldn't not find a (good) reference elsewhere. So, sorry if I am asking again. (Any reference about this somewhere is much appreciated) I use to develop some projects (mail gateways, content filtering etc) to many customers and I would l

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

Paulo M C Aragão wrote: My ignorance: how do I check if I am using devfs or udev ? Good question. I think `mount' will tell you in the case of devfs. I thought it would for udev too, but it hasn't uttered anything useful for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Recommended laptop for Sarge

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:25:19AM -0500, Michael Madden wrote: > What new laptop from a tier 1 vendor (Dell, HP, IBM, etc) would you > recommend to use with Debian 3.1? Ideally I'd like a processor >= 2.0 GHz, > memory >= 1 GB, a 60 GB hard drive, a 14'' or 15'' LCD, a NVIDIA graphics > card, a o

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

Colin Ingram wrote on Jun, 15: > >This is curious. I'm running Debian stock kernel 2.4.27-2-686 and > >neither: > > > >CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y > >CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256 > > > > > I don't think these are needed or that they are the problem > > >seem to be configured (checked /boot/config-2.4.27

Re: Setting IP address not working

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 16:31, Kent West wrote: > Whoa! So your network is working? Yes but with the wrong ip address > What's the output of "ifconfig"? eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:DA:CF:A5:06 inet addr:169.254.50.3 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.0.0 inet6 add

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade gave me emacs

David Jardine wrote: I woke up this morning to find that apt-get dist-upgrade, which had been running since the night before, was downloading emacs packages. - I've never had emacs on this machine. HearHear, Snap! - A subsequent "dpkg -l" showed no sign of emacs. Cool Bananas, - There

Re: Setting IP address not working

Alan Chandler wrote: >On Tuesday 14 June 2005 22:55, Kent West wrote: > > >>I'm coming into the middle of this thread, so I may be heading the wrong >>direction. What does your "/etc/network/interfaces" file contain? >> >> ># The loopback network interface >auto lo >iface lo inet loopback >

Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

Hi Luiz, I had similar trouble. This is what I ended up doing based on the advice of others in this list. apt-get autoclean; this will clean up your cache directory, good thing to do every once in a while but no required. apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade Thanks go to Roberto C. Sanche

Recommended laptop for Sarge

What new laptop from a tier 1 vendor (Dell, HP, IBM, etc) would you recommend to use with Debian 3.1? Ideally I'd like a processor >= 2.0 GHz, memory >= 1 GB, a 60 GB hard drive, a 14'' or 15'' LCD, a NVIDIA graphics card, a on-board gigabit NIC, a built-in floppy, a built-in DVD+-R drive, and to

Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

Luiz Regis Emediato wrote: > I used dselect in order to upgrade from version 3.0 to 3.1. > I let dselect do it by its own: 956 new upgrade packages were > download but when it tries to install them many errors appear > specially about libc6 C++ and also errors about broken > unpacking. I still can

Re: degraded array - former device is unavailable

If you are getting errors on your md devices only after a reboot, try wiping out your /etc/mdadm.conf file. (if there is one) Of course your hard disks must be set to "Linux raid autodetect" via cfdisk. Doesn't work. I wipped out /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf and the problem persists. David -- T

Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:47:44AM -0300, Luiz Regis Emediato wrote: > I used dselect in order to upgrade from version 3.0 to 3.1. > I let dselect do it by its own: 956 new upgrade packages were > download but when it tries to install them many errors appear > specially about libc6 C++ and also err

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

On 15 Jun 2005, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Anthony Campbell: > > On 15 Jun 2005, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > > > Yes and no. With Win-Space I meant my keyboard shortcut: Windows key + > > > Space bar. You could also do Ctrl-Alt-Space. > > > > Thanks for this clarification. My Windows keys don't seem

Re: degraded array - former device is unavailable

Quoting David Svejda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I've problem with software RAID 1. I've installed Debian 3.1 and everything went ok.The machine was running for few days, then it was halted due to power supply failure. Then, after reboot, there is an error on md0 device as seen in /var/log/dm

Re: How to install on SATA drives?

Quoting John Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi I have a Fujitsu-Siemens (Econel 50, Intel based) server with two SATA drives. The standard installation images (.iso files) cannot recognize the drives. I believe that it does not contain the the libata and and sata_sil modules and that is the reason

big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

Hi all, I used dselect in order to upgrade from version 3.0 to 3.1. I let dselect do it by its own: 956 new upgrade packages were download but when it tries to install them many errors appear specially about libc6 C++ and also errors about broken unpacking. I still can log in to the old 3.0 fortu

Re: Oldstable? Abandoned Packages? Alternatives?

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:57:01PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > An academic question: If I wrote a standalone program in C strictly for > my own use Why even do that? Just get the source package for cbb, and you save the effort of writing it. >what would be its lifetime? I ha

Kernel 2.6.3-1 issue with Debian sarge upgrade (32 bit i386)]]

(BHello Debian fans, (B (BI tried to update my Debian sarge and got the bellow messages in my (B/var/log/messages. can anyone pinpoint me with an educated guess what I am (Blooking at ? (B (BWhich driver does the kernel chock on, and perhaps why ? ;-( (B (BThe system basically hangs ina l

degraded array - former device is unavailable

Hi, I've problem with software RAID 1. I've installed Debian 3.1 and everything went ok.The machine was running for few days, then it was halted due to power supply failure. Then, after reboot, there is an error on md0 device as seen in /var/log/dmesg: md0: former device ide/host0/bus0/tar

Re: /etc/debian_version - the penny drops

David Jardine wrote: > When upgrading to Sarge, I was asked if I wanted to keep my old > entry in /etc/debian_version or have it replaced by the package's > version. > > I was surprised to see that the default was to keep the old entry > (which explains why people using the --assume-yes option woul

Building a boot disk with initrd

I'm stuck with this... I have a Debian Woody system with root on raid, and I wish to upgrade it. First of all, I wish to build a set of boot floppies that could be used for booting and restart the complete system without troubles. I've tried # mkboot /dev/fd0 but this create a floppy with a v

Re: [courier-users] courierwebadmin: ERROR: No such file or directory

Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: dpkg-reconfigure courier-webadmin didn't ask me that question. I'm using Debian Sarge. Of course not. It's a courier-base question. ;) -- Saluti, Flavio Stanchina Informatica e Servizi Trento - Italy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

How to install on SATA drives?

Hi I have a Fujitsu-Siemens (Econel 50, Intel based) server with two SATA drives. The standard installation images (.iso files) cannot recognize the drives. I believe that it does not contain the the libata and and sata_sil modules and that is the reason. How do I make a new installation CD wi

Re: Exim4: disablign delay in flushing mail queues

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:28:59AM +1200, wrote: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 04:15:07PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > When I use fetchmail to import my mail through exim4 it only flushes the > > first > > few messages imidiatly and the rest are delayed quite a bit unless I do > > /etc/init.d/exim

python -> python2.4: debian way?

Hi, I'm wondering how I should make debian start python2.4 when I type python. I guess I could just modify the symlink so that /usr/bin/python points to /usr/bin/python2.4 instead of /usr/bin/python2.3, but I'm not sure that it won't screw up anything. What's the Debian way to do this? By th

Re: Getting the hang of APT....

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:00:31AM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: I have a HOWTO [0] on creating a Debian Package repository. It is meant to have more of a tutorial feel to it and you should find it helpful. -Roberto [0] http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr

Re: debian package list

Le mercredi 15 juin 2005 à 08:01 +0200, Mart Frauenlob a écrit : > Hello Simon, > > Simon wrote: > > > Is there an easy place to get a list of installed packages... To make > > sure that i dont miss any in the new install? > > dpkg --get-selections > > should bring up all you need. ... to be

Re: Brief Apt-Get and KDE Question

David R. Litwin wrote: > > > On 14/06/05, *Roberto C. Sanchez* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:18:42AM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > > I have recently gotten KDE 3.4.1 from deb > > http://pkg-KDE.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.1/ ./ w

Re: /etc/debian_version - the penny drops

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:01:26AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > David Jardine wrote: > > When upgrading to Sarge, I was asked if I wanted to keep my old > > entry in /etc/debian_version or have it replaced by the package's > > version. > > You must have modified it from the previous package i

RE: Inkscape (and others) make debian freeze

Le mercredi 15 juin 2005 à 08:08 -0500, Patrick Kirchner a écrit : > > -Original Message- > > From: Aurélien Campéas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 3:53 AM > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Inkscape (and others) make debian freeze > > Le me

RE: Inkscape (and others) make debian freeze

> -Original Message- > From: Aurélien Campéas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 3:53 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Inkscape (and others) make debian freeze > Le mercredi 15 juin 2005 à 01:22 +0800, Emile Kroeger a écrit : > > (oops, accidenta

Re: Top posting

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 01:29:23PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Monday 13 June 2005 04:48 am, Basajaun wrote: > > > > Such > > > people had the opinion rock was morally wrong and inferior to all other > > > music. They may or may not have been right, but the point is it was only > > > their opi

Re: i think I switched to Etch without knowing it

On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 01:57:28PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > No package creates /etc/apt/apt.conf that I know about. > And if it did then it would be a bug because that is supposed to be > reserved for the local sysadmin. If a package did want to create a > configuration for apt then it should

Re: Newbie cannot start graphical desktop

On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 05:04:42PM -0400, j Mak wrote: > The problem is that I cannot make my Internet > connection work with sarge. The only way I can > download that file either with Knoppix or windows as > an independent debian package, burn it into a cd and > install it from there. Or from th

Re: Exim4: disablign delay in flushing mail queues

On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 04:15:07PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > When I use fetchmail to import my mail through exim4 it only flushes the first > few messages imidiatly and the rest are delayed quite a bit unless I do > /etc/init.d/exim4 restart. > Any way to disable this behaviour with exim? Ther

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