Re: localhost -- MARK -- ????????

2006-02-08 Thread René Seindal
Rob Blomquist wrote (09-02-2006 06:41): On Wednesday 08 February 2006 8:31 pm, Alexander Schmehl so eloquently stated: That's just your syslogs way to say "I'm still alive and bored". Note the 20 minute intervalls between the entries. Interesting. I have never had syslogd become bored with

How to disable certain usb device discovery

2006-02-08 Thread Kai Cui
Hi!   Our server is running latest debian (3.1r1). I'd like to know how to config the environment to prevent the kernel from auto discovering and making available any hard drive or cdrom attached via usb. By the way, the keyboard is of usb kind too.    Best Rgd   Kai

Re: localhost -- MARK -- ????????

2006-02-08 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060209 06:41]: > Interesting. I have never had syslogd become bored with any other distro. And > now, I learn that Debian is boring. > > Sigh. It is. It's just working, no fun while hacking... can you imagine something more boring than a system which j

Re: localhost -- MARK -- ????????

2006-02-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 February 2006 00:41, Rob Blomquist wrote: >On Wednesday 08 February 2006 8:31 pm, Alexander Schmehl so eloquently > stated: Hi! > >* Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060209 04:41]: >> Feb 8 15:14:11 localhost -- MARK -- > >[..] > >> Feb 8 19:34:12 localhost -- MARK -- >> >> There

Re: XOrg+Radeon = No Direct Rendering?

2006-02-08 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Jacob S wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:30:44 +0100 Renato Serodio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all, my 3D plots were rather slow, and I decided to check: $> glxinfo direct rendering: No Well, I dug and dug, and here's what I got: For a funct

RE: Hardware not detected

2006-02-08 Thread Stan Banash
Try this document. It helped me figure out what packages (ALSA, CUPS, etc) to install. http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DebianSargeNetinst?skin=print.patt ern Stan -Original Message- From: redboyid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 8:45 PM To: debian

Re: Alsaplayer und CDDA-Problem

2006-02-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
Das ist eine Englische Liste. Es sollte auch eine Deutsche Liste (debian-german?) bei http://lists.debian.org existieren. For the list: This is an English list. There should also be a german list (debian-german?) at http://lists.debian.org The rest is too much to translate :) Andrei On Tue, 7

Re: localhost -- MARK -- ????????

2006-02-08 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 8:31 pm, Alexander Schmehl so eloquently stated: Hi! * Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060209 04:41]: > Feb 8 15:14:11 localhost -- MARK -- [..] > Feb 8 19:34:12 localhost -- MARK -- > > There's nobody around this computer called Mark. ;-) > > What the heck are

Re: kde 3.5

2006-02-08 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 2/8/06, Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > try this: > deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.5.0/ ./ did you upgrade? Is it working smoothly? -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042

Re: _some_ DVDs won't play

2006-02-08 Thread Andrew Porter
All disks play just fine on a stand-alone DVD player connected to the TV set. > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Feb 8 20:39:09 2006 > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on tdl.com > X-Spam-Level: > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tes

Backport Questions

2006-02-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
Having seen a number of questions lately responded to by directing the OP to backports, I decided to look into it, myself. I added backports to my sources.list, did an update and dist-upgrade. I said 'no' to the actual update so that I could look it over before committing myself to it. From

Re: apt wants to remove my kernel image

2006-02-08 Thread Scarletdown
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 23:41 -0500, Mark Fletcher wrote: > I remember someone else had this problem, or a very similar one to it, a > while back. I can't remember what the resolution was but if you search > back through the archives of this list for something like *...wants to > REMOVE my kernel.

Hardware not detected

2006-02-08 Thread redboyid
I have PC with spec: o Motherboard: DFI NF4X Infivity o Processor: Athlon 64 2800 Tray Socket 754 64bit o VGA Card: Pixelview 6200TC 128Mb up to 256Mb Tv Out,Dvi,Pci Express o SoundCard: Onboard Realtek AC97 o Printer: Canon iP1000 This PC, I install Debian Sarge 3.0 with option linux26.

Re: apt wants to remove my kernel image

2006-02-08 Thread Mark Fletcher
Colin wrote: Arnau Rebassa Villalonga wrote: The following packages will be REMOVED: initrd-tools kernel-image-2.6.8 I'm guessing but do you have the kernel-image-2.4-386 package installed? (Damn! packages.debian.org is down so I can't check for the proper name!) One other th

Re: apt wants to remove my kernel image

2006-02-08 Thread Mark Fletcher
Colin wrote: Arnau Rebassa Villalonga wrote: The following packages will be REMOVED: initrd-tools kernel-image-2.6.8 I'm guessing but do you have the kernel-image-2.4-386 package installed? (Damn! packages.debian.org is down so I can't check for the proper name!) I remember s

Re: _some_ DVDs won't play

2006-02-08 Thread Scarletdown
Have you tried them on a stand alone DVD player yet? That seems like the logical next step in troubleshooting, y'know, making sure that they weren't from a bad batch of disks at the factory. Yeah, I know. It's three seperate sets from at least two different vendors (you didn't say whether or not

Re: synaptic will not display after upgrade

2006-02-08 Thread Mark Fletcher
Iván Alemán wrote: try as a root: # xhost + then # synaptic & Iván ... Then, if that works, you can look into the xhost program's man page to see how to use it to allow the specific user ID you need to open consoles on your display. I did something like this a while back to allow me to

Re: Debian equivalent to service?

2006-02-08 Thread Jerry Quinn
Gregory Seidman wrote: There is nothing to stop you from making the runlevels behave differently. Indeed, I use levels 2 and 3 differently on both my server (few services run until I've mounted my encrypted disks, at which point I switch to runlevel 3) and my laptop (I want to choose between boot

Re: localhost -- MARK -- ????????

2006-02-08 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060209 04:41]: > Feb 8 15:14:11 localhost -- MARK -- [..] > Feb 8 19:34:12 localhost -- MARK -- > > There's nobody around this computer called Mark. ;-) > > What the heck are these messages? I can't say I have seen them before. That's just your syslogs

Re: ls defaults...

2006-02-08 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:58:31 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 02:18:15 + > Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyone know the story behind the apparent change in default 'ls' output > > on Debian - at least compared to all of the other Lin

Firewalling: best approach?

2006-02-08 Thread Bradley Alexander
I am trying to configure a firewall, but nailing down the configuration is eluding me. The box is running Debian stable. I have tried with iproute2 (I'm including a description below), but not gotten the intended effect. I have tried the lartc list, to no avail. A friend of mine suggested setting u

_some_ DVDs won't play

2006-02-08 Thread Andrew Porter
Troubles playing about half of the 12 _Lord of the Rings_ DVDs in a set purchased from amazon, and on its replacement, and on a third set set from Best Buy. Drive: a Sony CD-RW, CRX320EE, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM Using libdvdcss, from libdvdcss2_1.2.8-1_i386.deb xine-ui 0.99.3-1 Most of the bad discs

Re: kde 3.5

2006-02-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 18:11, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > Has anybody successfully upgraded to kde 3.5 from sarge kde 3.3.2. If > so which source? Debian Unstable works for me (but I don't run sarge...) -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Because it's time

Re: localhost -- MARK -- ????????

2006-02-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 19:41, Rob Blomquist wrote: > Feb 8 15:14:11 localhost -- MARK -- > Feb 8 15:34:11 localhost -- MARK -- > Feb 8 15:54:11 localhost -- MARK -- > Feb 8 16:14:11 localhost -- MARK -- > Feb 8 16:34:11 localhost -- MARK -- > Feb 8 16:54:11 localhost -- MARK -- > Feb

localhost -- MARK -- ????????

2006-02-08 Thread Rob Blomquist
Feb 8 15:14:11 localhost -- MARK -- Feb 8 15:34:11 localhost -- MARK -- Feb 8 15:54:11 localhost -- MARK -- Feb 8 16:14:11 localhost -- MARK -- Feb 8 16:34:11 localhost -- MARK -- Feb 8 16:54:11 localhost -- MARK -- Feb 8 17:14:11 localhost -- MARK -- Feb 8 17:34:12 localhost -- MARK -- Feb

Re: cdrom scsi problem

2006-02-08 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 12:32:23 +1100 M-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:56 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] thought about and sent this: > >> I am running Sarge, linux 2.4.27, and grub with a NEC cdrom. I have > > run > into what seems to be a common problem, but can find no pointe

Re: udev strangeness in Sid?

2006-02-08 Thread Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT
2.6.15-1-686 > me is sick of udev's error lines too :'(over hundred lines ;) couldnt even count how many.if anyone knows the solution, please let us learn too ;)

Re: kde 3.5

2006-02-08 Thread Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT
try this: deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.5.0/ ./

Re: Debian equivalent to service?

2006-02-08 Thread Jerry Quinn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:44:45 -0500 Jerry Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: These distinctions (at least 3 and 5) are actually useful when debugging problems with your X config. It just saves a step on some activity. On debian, I have to kill gdm, fiddle, and restart

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Mutt + Postfix]

2006-02-08 Thread Eduardo
[]'s Why do we fall ? So we can learn to pick ourselves up. Please do not CC me! Get a proper mailer instead: www.mutt.org .''`. : :' : `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Eduardo Rocha Costa Curriculum e personal page: http://www.virtualcompu

Re: ls defaults...

2006-02-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 02:18:15 + Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know the story behind the apparent change in default 'ls' output > on Debian - at least compared to all of the other Linux (and Unix) systems > I have used? > > The difference I am referring to is the date format u

Re: Disk checks on restart

2006-02-08 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:32:24 -0500 Tony Heal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a server (woody) that is rarely restarted, but when it is a disk > check is preformed that can take as log as 20 minutes. I believe it is > running fsck at boot up before mounting the partitions and when it gets to >

ls defaults...

2006-02-08 Thread Digby Tarvin
Anyone know the story behind the apparent change in default 'ls' output on Debian - at least compared to all of the other Linux (and Unix) systems I have used? The difference I am referring to is the date format used when the '-l' option is used. For example, "ls -ld ." on the following systems p

Re: Where does a guy get KDE 3.5?

2006-02-08 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 06 February 2006 9:55 am, Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT so eloquently stated: just add this line to your sources.list. # KDE 3.5 deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.5.0/ ./ then #apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade ;) No matter what I run apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade, or what e

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-08 Thread Ken Wahl
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 07:20:55PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Nothing hugely wrong with that... Talk to pool.ntp.org every 3 or > 4 hours, at a weird odd number of minutes past the hour (since most > people tend to choose :00, :30, etc). That shouldn't be too bad. I'm actually pulling it at 51

kde 3.5

2006-02-08 Thread L.V.Gandhi
Has anybody successfully upgraded to kde 3.5 from sarge kde 3.3.2. If so which source? -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042

Re: OpenOffice 2.0 Sarge or Etch

2006-02-08 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 2/9/06, Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I said earlier, it has not broken my system. It might for others who > have installed a different set of packages than mine. > If it is of any interest, on my sarge system, I have currently installed > the xorg system from backports + Nvidia

Re: udev strangeness in Sid?

2006-02-08 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 2/8/06, Ken Wahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:26:53AM +, Magnus Therning wrote: > > > > Yes, just verified it on my second machine. udev apparently tries to run > > stuff located in '/lib/udev/', and it doesn't find it. I have 3745 > > udevd_events written to the c

Re: g++ problem

2006-02-08 Thread Michael Marsh
On 2/8/06, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a occasional programmer I tried to recompile an old program I > intended to expand. Although #include was entered before the > start of main the g++ compiler did not recognize cin and cout. This > seems so elementary it certainly shoul

Re: g++ problem

2006-02-08 Thread Allan Wind
On 2006-02-08T20:26:58-0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > As a occasional programmer I tried to recompile an old program I > intended to expand. Although #include was entered before the > start of main the g++ compiler did not recognize cin and cout. Add a "using namespace std;" or prefix each ci

Re: cdrom scsi problem

2006-02-08 Thread M-L
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:56 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] thought about and sent this: >> I am running Sarge, linux 2.4.27, and grub with a NEC cdrom. I have > run > into what seems to be a common problem, but can find no pointer > to the > solution. How can I tell the kernel that I want > "/dev

g++ problem

2006-02-08 Thread Thomas H. George
As a occasional programmer I tried to recompile an old program I intended to expand. Although #include was entered before the start of main the g++ compiler did not recognize cin and cout. This seems so elementary it certainly shouldn't have changed and it certainly worked before as I am us

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 19:36 -0500, Ken Wahl wrote: > I've had the same problem for about 6 weeks. I'm not sure but I think it > is bug #342887. Doesn't NTP usually use the system clock as a fallback? > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342887 > > NTP has been pretty much useless

Re: OpenOffice 2.0 Sarge or Etch

2006-02-08 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:50:56AM +, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > > Am running Sarge, too, and would like some of the newer features of OO 2, but > was wondering if it can be installed in addition to the earlier version so > that I can test it before removing the earlier version. Coul

Re: GNU Hurd

2006-02-08 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
debian wrote: On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 02:25:45PM +, John Halton wrote: GNU/Hurd. As Hurd is an official part of the GNU project, it's not GNU/Hurd, but GNU. I mean, if I use Windows with Linux (the kernel) it should be Windows/Linux. But if I use just Windows it's just windows, not

Questions about jabber-muc

2006-02-08 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I'm running a jabberd (1.4.3 from Debian sarge) on hilbert.scientia.net. I force the use of SSL. It servers several virtual hosts: scientia.net mitterer.name christoph.anton.mitterer.name (all of these domains point either via A or SRV RR to hilbert.scientia.net) What I'd like to have is ab

Re: GIFT DANCER ON CARRIAGE

2006-02-08 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 00:01:02 +1300 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 08:39:40PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:11:36 +0100 "Tatiana Kornienko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I Olesia, 30 years dancer on ca

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-08 Thread Ken Wahl
I've had the same problem for about 6 weeks. I'm not sure but I think it is bug #342887. Doesn't NTP usually use the system clock as a fallback? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342887 NTP has been pretty much useless and I've had to keep time by calling ntpdate hourly from cron.

Re: cdrom scsi problem

2006-02-08 Thread anoop aryal
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 05:56 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am running Sarge, linux 2.4.27, and grub with a NEC cdrom. I have run > into what seems to be a common problem, but can find no pointer to the > solution. How can I tell the kernel that I want "/dev/hdc=ide-scsi"? Or, > better

Re: apt wants to remove my kernel image

2006-02-08 Thread Colin
Arnau Rebassa Villalonga wrote: > The following packages will be REMOVED: >initrd-tools kernel-image-2.6.8 I'm guessing but do you have the kernel-image-2.4-386 package installed? (Damn! packages.debian.org is down so I can't check for the proper name!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

cdrom scsi problem

2006-02-08 Thread sam1
I am running Sarge, linux 2.4.27, and grub with a NEC cdrom. I have run into what seems to be a common problem, but can find no pointer to the solution. How can I tell the kernel that I want "/dev/hdc=ide-scsi"? Or, better yet, can I upgrade from 2.4 to a fairly late 2.6 without installing the d

HW SCSI Raid 0 - Dog Slow...

2006-02-08 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Hello all, I have a Server that I have updated several things as of late. I upgraded the debian version to Sarge. I have built a new kernel version 2.6.8. I have upgraded the mother board and processor (Asus K8N - Sempron 3100+). Anyway I kept the old (3 years) Adaptec Model:2400A SCSI Raid 0 a

Sarge GPG Release signature

2006-02-08 Thread Alexandre Aufrere
Hi, I don't know exactly where to send the request, so i try here: Could someone from debian sign the Sarge "Release" file of the main repository with the 2006 key ? I use apt-check-sigs, and it barks (with reason, since the 2005 key the current file is signed has expired - see below). http://peo

Weird modprobe problems

2006-02-08 Thread René Seindal
Hi I have a problem with modprobe on one computer. Due to some unidentified problem with modprobe I'm having a lot of problems upgrading a computer to linux 2.6.15 smp. When installing the debian kernel and booting I got loads of messages complaining about "Unknown symbol journal_xxx". For

Re: synaptic will not display after upgrade

2006-02-08 Thread Iván Alemán
try as a root:# xhost +then# synaptic &IvánOn 2/8/06, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:I'm running debain sarge on my laptop. After I got out of hispital, I ran upgrate/upgrade, but did not pay any attention to what was beingupgraded.Now when I try to run "sudo synaptic:, I keep getting t

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-08 Thread anoop aryal
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 05:46 pm, Jacob S wrote: > Hello list, > > After I did an apt-get update/upgrade Monday I've had problem keeping > the time set properly on my computer. I have both ntpdate and > ntp-server installed, running a strictly Sid machine. > > Originally I thought maybe it wa

Re: Technical Cyber Security Alert TA06-038A on Mozilla products

2006-02-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kent West wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: The following appeared yesterday on vulnerabilities in Mozilla products: Also, Thunderbird (and SM Mail) is not vulnerable to these bugs in its default configuration. You have to turn on Javascript within Thunderbird to make it vulnerable.

Disk checks on restart

2006-02-08 Thread Tony Heal
I have a server (woody) that is rarely restarted, but when it is a disk check is preformed that can take as log as 20 minutes. I believe it is running fsck at boot up before mounting  the partitions and when it gets to /var (92GB) and /opt (92GB) it take it a while to complete each. So I hav

synaptic will not display after upgrade

2006-02-08 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I'm running debain sarge on my laptop. After I got out of hispital, I ran upgrate/upgrade, but did not pay any attention to what was being upgraded. Now when I try to run "sudo synaptic:, I keep getting this error; sudo synaptic (synaptic:22313): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: I've even

Re: rsync and chown

2006-02-08 Thread Edward Speyer
These are all great suggestions! My current root-use-avoidance plans were to tar up each filesystem locally into a tarball owned by some special "backup" user, then rsync the tarball to another machine (rather than rsyncing the filesystem itself). The Mike Rubel page that Clive Menzies mentioned

ntp strangeness

2006-02-08 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, After I did an apt-get update/upgrade Monday I've had problem keeping the time set properly on my computer. I have both ntpdate and ntp-server installed, running a strictly Sid machine. Originally I thought maybe it was my motherboard cl

Re: XOrg+Radeon = No Direct Rendering?

2006-02-08 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:30:44 +0100 Renato Serodio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > my 3D plots were rather slow, and I decided to check: > > $> glxinfo > direct rendering: No > > Well, I dug and dug, and here's what I got: > > For a func

Re: rsync and chown

2006-02-08 Thread David Kirchner
On 2/8/06, Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using rsnapshot, which uses rsync over ssh, and "pull" backups to > the backup server running as root, but I connect to the backup machines > as an ordinary user. I use keychain to help automate ssh-agent for > authentication, so I need to con

Re: rsync and chown

2006-02-08 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:00:50PM +, Edward Speyer wrote: > Hi! > > I'm stuck trying to find a nice way to allow rsync / rdiff-backup enough > permissions to keep ownership information intact at the backup-receiving > end. > > I /could/ run as root on the backup-reciever, but it'd be nice if

Re: rsync and chown

2006-02-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (08/02/06 21:00), Edward Speyer wrote: > I'm stuck trying to find a nice way to allow rsync / rdiff-backup enough > permissions to keep ownership information intact at the backup-receiving > end. > > I /could/ run as root on the backup-reciever, but it'd be nice if there > was a less sledge-ham

Re: KDE and Browser icon?

2006-02-08 Thread John Halton
Ishwar Rattan wrote: I am using a debian derivative with KDE desktop environment. After apt-get install firefox today I lost the browser icon (in task bar). Rebooting the system did not help. I can start the browser with explicit by invoking it via command line though. Any ideas? -ishwar Righ

Re: HELP, Mixed system with apt pinning

2006-02-08 Thread John Halton
Chris Lale wrote: Tom Davidson aka Dutler wrote: Hi, I need help setting up a mixed system with apt. This is my first in the Debian list, but let me know if i mess up on protocal... Back to apt pinning. I have scoured through these websites: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ap...efault-versi

Re: dist-upgrade wants to remove postfix, install exim

2006-02-08 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:01:25PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:51:55 +0100 > Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:35:11 PST, Andrew Sackville-West writes: > > > apt-cache policy exim4* shows that it conflicts and replaces any

Re: Otazka

2006-02-08 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:07:11AM +0300, Vitaliy Ischenko wrote: > NOTE: Don't try to install WinXP after Debian. WinXP will write it's > boot loader to MBR, so you won't be able to boot your Debian install > without loading linux LiveCD. > I managed to do that. BUT::: first I set up to bot De

XOrg+Radeon = No Direct Rendering?

2006-02-08 Thread Renato Serodio
Hello all,my 3D plots were rather slow, and I decided to check:$> glxinfodirect rendering: NoWell, I dug and dug, and here's what I got:For a functional Hardware Acceleration with Radeon 9200/9000: - agp, intel-apg (or other), drm and radeon drivers- glx, dri and radeon modules loaded from RadeonBu

Re: Otazka

2006-02-08 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
I have installed WinXP and then Debian with sarge net install. Installer handles great in this question (at least for me), so it will determine your WinXP partition and add it to /boot/grub/menu.lst There is another way: you can use windows boot loader. There is some info on the net, try to search

Re: dist-upgrade wants to remove postfix, install exim

2006-02-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:51:55 +0100 Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:35:11 PST, Andrew Sackville-West writes: > > apt-cache policy exim4* shows that it conflicts and replaces any > > mail-transfer-agent, so the dist-upgrade will do that and there's no > > way ar

rsync and chown

2006-02-08 Thread Edward Speyer
Hi! I'm stuck trying to find a nice way to allow rsync / rdiff-backup enough permissions to keep ownership information intact at the backup-receiving end. I /could/ run as root on the backup-reciever, but it'd be nice if there was a less sledge-hammer approach to the chown problem :) What's the

Re: [Cups] Blank page after every printjob

2006-02-08 Thread Mike McCarty
Krietjur wrote: I'm having some troubles with my printer setup. The operating system I use is Debian unstable kernel 2.4.18, the printer is a Ricoh Aficio 700. It is used to print documents generated by streamserve. At first, I used the Ricoh Aficio 700 Foomatic/hpijs driver. This one is recomme

Re: Lilo fails with "sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xfe00" (LVM2)

2006-02-08 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 12:57, Chris Carr wrote: > Thanks Clive - but I've heard that grub is really bad with LVM2. In fact, > the latest Debian Etch installer still explicitly removes the option to > install grub when it detects that / is on an LVM2 volume. It is not / that is the problem b

Re: Lilo fails with "sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xfe00" (LVM2)

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Carr
Thanks Clive - but I've heard that grub is really bad with LVM2. In fact, the latest Debian Etch installer still explicitly removes the option to install grub when it detects that / is on an LVM2 volume. I did eventually solve the problem, by starting sshd in the installer shell (chroot /mnt/VG1-R

Re: dist-upgrade wants to remove postfix, install exim

2006-02-08 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:35:11 PST, Andrew Sackville-West writes: > apt-cache policy exim4* shows that it conflicts and replaces any > mail-transfer-agent, so the dist-upgrade will do that and there's no > way around it I know of. > > I'm no apt- guru by any stretch, but you could --- remove (not pu

Re: Logging of mail events from Postfix to syslog and rotation of the mail logs

2006-02-08 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:27:11PM +0200, Simo Kauppi wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:45:33AM -0600, Anthony Simonelli wrote: > > On Monday 30 January 2006 12:03 am, Simo Kauppi wrote: > > > > > > > > If I write my own in /etc/logrotate.d similar to exim's or another > > > > service's settings,

Re: Logging of mail events from Postfix to syslog and rotation of the mail logs

2006-02-08 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:45:33AM -0600, Anthony Simonelli wrote: > On Monday 30 January 2006 12:03 am, Simo Kauppi wrote: > > > > > > If I write my own in /etc/logrotate.d similar to exim's or another > > > service's settings, will this override the current behavior now? > > > > Hi, > > > > Yes,

Re: Newbie wants KDE

2006-02-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:47:55AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just did a more or less default install of Sarge usin the mini-disk > and download method. Now the system fires up in Gnome instead of KDE. > How do I convince the system to start up kdm instead? > My previous experince is with

Re: USB flash drive not automounting

2006-02-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 22:23:59 -0800 Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 07 February 2006 9:57 pm, L.V.Gandhi so eloquently stated: > >see the following pages > >http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/126 > >http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/127 > > Thank you ver

Re: Newbie wants KDE

2006-02-08 Thread Joris Huizer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a more or less default install of Sarge usin the mini-disk and download method. Now the system fires up in Gnome instead of KDE. How do I convince the system to start up kdm instead? My previous experince is with Slackware where you could choose the window mana

Re: flashplugin-nonfree " No new version is detected "

2006-02-08 Thread Peter Colton
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 17:40, Chris Lale wrote: > Peter Colton wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > > >I have been trying to install flashplugin-nonfree but it looks > > like the flash > >package is not there. below is the out put of the command : > > > >sudo aptitude reinstall flashplugin

Newbie wants KDE

2006-02-08 Thread john
I just did a more or less default install of Sarge usin the mini-disk and download method. Now the system fires up in Gnome instead of KDE. How do I convince the system to start up kdm instead? My previous experince is with Slackware where you could choose the window manager at install time. TFYH

Re: ndiswraaper install error.

2006-02-08 Thread Craig M. Houck
I just used NDISWrapper to get a netgear wg111v2 fob to wifi... I have only done this with the 2.6 kernel, never 2.4. I also indicate the rev's I used, you may find different revisions. Get the source ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/ cd /usr/local/src mkdir ndi

Re: Technical Cyber Security Alert TA06-038A on Mozilla products

2006-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 08:12 -0600, Kent West wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > The following appeared yesterday on vulnerabilities in Mozilla products: > > > [snip] > > > [snip] > > Short response: all apps have bugs. What matters is how quickly they get > fixed and what the repurcussi

Re: OpenOffice 2.0 Sarge or Etch

2006-02-08 Thread Elmer E. Dow
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 04:18 pm, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 03:33:00PM +, L.V.Gandhi wrote: >> On 2/8/06, Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:19:58AM +, L.V.Gandhi wrote: >> >> On 2/8/06, Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROT

Re: ndiswraaper install error.

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Lale
L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have dell inspiron 600m. today I have loaded base sarge and upgraded to unstable. I have installed linux-source and ndiswrapper-source. I tried to get modules using info on wiki http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/InstallDebian. My /usr/src folder is as fo

Re: why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

2006-02-08 Thread Daniel B.
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:04 -0400, Daniel B. wrote: ... ... the reason I'm using PIO mode in the first place is because I get massive file system corruption when I use DMA mode with IDE controllers on my motherboard (Asus A7M266-D; AMD 762(?) chipset). ... I d

Re: flashplugin-nonfree " No new version is detected "

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Lale
Peter Colton wrote: Hello all, I have been trying to install flashplugin-nonfree but it looks like the flash package is not there. below is the out put of the command : sudo aptitude reinstall flashplugin-nonfree Unpacking replacement flashplugin-nonfree ... Setting up flashplugin-

Re: udev strangeness in Sid?

2006-02-08 Thread Ken Wahl
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:26:53AM +, Magnus Therning wrote: > > Yes, just verified it on my second machine. udev apparently tries to run > stuff located in '/lib/udev/', and it doesn't find it. I have 3745 > udevd_events written to the console during boot regarding this :( It > seems the syst

Re: OpenOffice 2.0 Sarge or Etch

2006-02-08 Thread Rogerio Eduardo Oliveira
Strange ... because I can get Open Office 2.0. I get it with apt-get, mirror http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/. --- John Talbut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > I would really like to have OpenOffice 2.0 on my > system. At present it > seems to be available in Etch or as a backport to > Sarge. C

Pb with etch netinstall - laptop/pcmcia/firewire - 3Com 3574

2006-02-08 Thread cga
I tried a net install with the current etch iso image and the installer seems to have trouble recognizing my 3com PC card (LAN + 56K). It asks me whether I would like to do the install through the firewire interface, which sounds like a "last resort" attempt and is probably not relevant. The la

Re: HELP, Mixed system with apt pinning

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Lale
Tom Davidson aka Dutler wrote: Hi, I need help setting up a mixed system with apt. This is my first in the Debian list, but let me know if i mess up on protocal... Back to apt pinning. I have scoured through these websites: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ap...efault-version http://jaqque.sb

Re: [Cups] Blank page after every printjob

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Lale
Krietjur wrote: I'm having some troubles with my printer setup. The operating system I use is Debian unstable kernel 2.4.18, the printer is a Ricoh Aficio 700. It is used to print documents generated by streamserve. At first, I used the Ricoh Aficio 700 Foomatic/hpijs driver. This one is recomm

Re: OpenOffice 2.0 Sarge or Etch

2006-02-08 Thread Anthony Simonelli
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 10:18 am, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 03:33:00PM +, L.V.Gandhi wrote: >> On 2/8/06, Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:19:58AM +, L.V.Gandhi wrote: >> >> On 2/8/06, Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROT

Re: OpenOffice 2.0 Sarge or Etch

2006-02-08 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 03:33:00PM +, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On 2/8/06, Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:19:58AM +, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > >> On 2/8/06, Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > Using OpenOffice 2.0 on sar

KDE and Browser icon?

2006-02-08 Thread Ishwar Rattan
I am using a debian derivative with KDE desktop environment. After apt-get install firefox today I lost the browser icon (in task bar). Rebooting the system did not help. I can start the browser with explicit by invoking it via command line though. Any ideas? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Udev, hotplug dispatcher

2006-02-08 Thread Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda
Hi, I'm having a problem with the udev and I'm really lost. I had I box that I upgrade from stable to tesing/sid (I like very much kde 3.5 ...). However, I realized that after the upgrade I had I problem with the kernels 2.6.12 and 2.6.15. (also 2.6.8) When I rebooted the box, then the udev ser

Bug#345815: Info received (was #345815 kmymoney2: default geometry too large for screen)

2006-02-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the package maintainer(s) and to other interested parties to accompany the original report. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): Debian KDE Extras Team <[EMAIL P

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