Re: emacs broken - displays empty rectangles in place of all characters

2006-05-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:21:27AM -0400, Adam Black wrote: > Hi folks > I'm a bit of a newbie. I'm not sure what I've done to break emacs, > but when it pops up now there are no characters, just empty rectangles > - which makes me think the fonts are broken, but I don't know how to > fix them. I

Re: O.T. dvd burning from the command line

2006-05-16 Thread Cameron Hutchison
David E. Fox wrote: > [...] >I find one needs to add -dvd-video and -dvd-compat switches to the >growisofs command line. >so that is: >$ growisofs -dvd-media -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdd /tmp/lulu Just a quick fix to that if people are cut'n'pasting: $ growisofs -dvd-video -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdd

"Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG" stopped working in Linux 2.6.16.5...

2006-05-16 Thread Fawad Nazir
Hi All, I am running, Ubuntu 5.10 and Linux v2.6.16.5. I just upgraded my Linux kernel and my "Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG" stopped working. I checked the /var/log/messages, so i got these messages: May 17 14:11:01 localhost kernel: [4294698.251000] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915

sound problem after installing latest kernel

2006-05-16 Thread L . V . Gandhi
I did base install from sarge cd and dist-upgraded to sid. Kernel 2.6.8 was working ok. I disacbled i810_audio and did alsaconf. everything was fine. Now I installed kernel 2.6.16 from repo. now sound is not working. I once again did alsaconf..checked all volumes are ok. Still no sound comes form b

Re: Blacklisting does not work...

2006-05-16 Thread Raquel Rice
On Wed, 17 May 2006 10:35:54 +1000 "Fawad Nazir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am using Ubuntu 5.10, Linux v.2.6.16.5 and trying to use > hostap_cs driver for my prism chipset card instead of orinoco_cs. > > I am trying to blacklist orinoco & orinoco_cs drivers. I have > tried three

Re: Windows is the better OS for running a FTP server

2006-05-16 Thread Raquel Rice
On Tue, 16 May 2006 23:57:16 +0200 Dirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, this is from the log of proftpd: > > > Passive data transfer failed, possibly due to network issues > > Check your PassivePorts and MasqueradeAddress settings, > > and any router, NAT, and firewall rules in the network pa

Re: Windows is the better OS for running a FTP server

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 23:57 +0200, Dirk wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:06:21PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > >>On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 20:52:10 +0200, Dirk wrote: [snip] > > Ah, you know how it is... You get only attention if you troll... Only if you're

Re: Windows is the better OS for running a FTP server

2006-05-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 5/16/06, Dirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:something about Windows being the better OS for running a [sic] FTP server.My reaction to that subject line was HehahehahahaheHehahehahahaheHehahehahahaheHehahehahahaheHehahehahahaheHehahehahahaheHehahehahahaheHehahehahahaheHehahehahahaheHehahehahahaheHeha

Re: O.T. dvd burning from the command line

2006-05-16 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 16 May 2006 18:59:16 -0700 "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:18:43 -0700 > "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have, so far > > > > growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/(my burner) _ /path/to/dvd-structure > > You're really close, an

emacs displays empty rectangles in place of all characters

2006-05-16 Thread Adam Black
Hi folks I'm a bit of a newbie. I'm not sure what I've done to break emacs, but when it pops up now there are no characters, just empty rectangles - which makes me think the fonts are broken, but I don't know how to fix them. I also get this error: emacs Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-couri

Re: O.T. dvd burning from the command line

2006-05-16 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:18:43 -0700 "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have, so far > > growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/(my burner) _ /path/to/dvd-structure You're really close, and you might have been able to figure it out by now, but maybe it'll be good for archiveness' sak

Re: Best way to boot between debian and suse?

2006-05-16 Thread Charlie
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 02:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote this for perusal by us all: >---> Could you advise me on the best setup for me to switch between SuSE and > Debian? ---> I have two 80gb hard drives and a CDROM r/w and a DVD r/w > drive. ---> Is it best to put both systems on different parti

Openoffice.org 2.0.2-3 - problem opening files

2006-05-16 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy list, I seem to be having some problems with OO.org 2. The program starts up fine, and I can get the file -> open dialog to come up and navigate to the apropriate directory, but when I select a file for it to open it hangs. When it hangs I am un

/etc/hostname /etc/dhclient.conf question

2006-05-16 Thread Grant Thomas
Quick question about the two files mentioned above. If I change my hostname, I also have to change a line in /etc/dhclient.conf to update my hostname on the network. Is there a Debian Way to synch both of these files? Or should I create a script that creates the /etc/dhclient.conf at boot befor

Re: firefox printing not displaying Letter (8.5x11 inch) choice paper, closest is hp-us-government-letter (203x253 mm)

2006-05-16 Thread Tom Allison
Edward Shornock wrote: On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:54:23AM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: On Monday 15 May 2006 00:21, Mitchell Laks wrote: I just saved my bookmarks and blew away my .mozilla directory and now mozilla prints fine again. I don't know how it got its complicated commands options

Bind9 DHCP3 ddns static lease question: Post successful setup

2006-05-16 Thread Grant Thomas
[stable] I have a successful setup of internal ddns. It works like a champ for 99% of what I need. The problem is assigning static leases through dhcpd. To be complete, here is some information that may com in useful: Client: uncommented line in /etc/dhclient.conf to send host-name "3800-dc";

Re: Windows is the better OS for running a FTP server

2006-05-16 Thread Chris Howie
Dirk wrote: > Chris Howie wrote: >>If you want an answer, ask, don't attack. It sounds like trolling. >> >>Now fuck off. > > I get "421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection" > when I log into my ftp server. > > It worked for days, but now it doesn't work anymore. > > I tri

Re: switching from apt-get to aptitude

2006-05-16 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Grant Thomas wrote: >Question for you (anyone) then: >If you install kde through aptitude, an aptitude marks Xorg as a >dependency, and then install gnome a couple of days later, would >removing kde also remove Xorg, or would it see it as a current >dependency for gnome and leave it? Aptitude doe

Blacklisting does not work...

2006-05-16 Thread Fawad Nazir
Hi All, I am using Ubuntu 5.10, Linux v.2.6.16.5 and trying to use hostap_cs driver for my prism chipset card instead of orinoco_cs. I am trying to blacklist orinoco & orinoco_cs drivers. I have tried three things: 1. I added these driver names in /etc/hotplug/blacklist 2. I also tried to do:

Re: Problem setting the screen resolution with Gnome and X-Windows

2006-05-16 Thread Philip Stephens
Hi, I don't know who is going to see this. The Debian list isn't that user-friendly (brace for incoming mortar). For instance, how do I know if this user problem was responded to? Anyway, I'm having the same issue with screen resolution as Scott Huey describes in message ID: http://lists.debian.

Re: switching from apt-get to aptitude

2006-05-16 Thread Roel Schroeven
Grant Thomas schreef: For example, a few days ago I decided to take a look at KDE (I am a long time IceWM user). I just did 'aptitude install kde' and had almost several hundred MB worth of k* applications. Exactly what I wanted and, so far, exactly what apt-get would have done. But it was just

Re: [OT] Re: Problem with T-bird (was Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 ))

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 14:12 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 03:05:12PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 14:42 -0500, Grant Thomas wrote: > > > I'll bite: > > > I can't stand it when you guys hijack a thread like this. > > > And over something so sill

Re: Windows is the better OS for running a FTP server

2006-05-16 Thread Dirk
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:06:21PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >>On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 20:52:10 +0200, Dirk wrote: >> >>>"421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection" >>> >>>proftpd, wu-ftpd, (netkit) ftpd ... they all suck ass! >>> >>>(Yeah,

Re: dialog package with mouse support

2006-05-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:34:13PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> whiptail doesn't appear to support gpm (only a subset of xterm mouse). > Hi, > have you investigated twin and libtw0. Its curses based and supports a > mouse but I think it maybe dead upstream

install-mbr on amd64?

2006-05-16 Thread Kilian
Dear All, I'm trying to set up a software RAID with Debian on a system with an AMD x86_64 Athlon processor. To install the MBR, I need install-mbr if I'm correct, but this package does not exist in the amd64 port... I then tried to compile it myself, which fails, obviously, because the package

Re: switching from apt-get to aptitude

2006-05-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:31:40PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 15:45:05 -0400, Stephen wrote: > > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:53:46AM -0400 or thereabouts, Rick Reynolds > > wrote: > > > I've googled this quite a bit and found various web pages praising > > > aptitude as

Re: Windows is the better OS for running a FTP server

2006-05-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:06:21PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 20:52:10 +0200, Dirk wrote: > > "421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection" > > > > proftpd, wu-ftpd, (netkit) ftpd ... they all suck ass! > > > > (Yeah, I'm ultimately pissed after read

Re: [OT] Re: Problem with T-bird (was Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 ))

2006-05-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 03:05:12PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 14:42 -0500, Grant Thomas wrote: > > I'll bite: > > I can't stand it when you guys hijack a thread like this. > > And over something so silly!! > > > > Everyone knows that CLI tools are dead. > > Windows has sooo

Re: network configuring in debian question

2006-05-16 Thread Sven Mueller
Jila Zakizadeh wrote on 16/05/2006 16:14: > We have two routers in different places that have own LANs. We are > connected to the machines through the gateways of these routers. Now, I > want to move one of these gateway to another place with different > provider. I would like to know what are the

Re: Marvell Yukon gigabit ethernet card

2006-05-16 Thread Jan Schledermann
Alex Fernandez wrote: > Hi all, > > Last year I purchased a new amd64 system: an AOpen XC cube EZ482, > where I have been trying to install Debian for a long time. Still no > luck with Debian testing amd64 net install, from April 13th 2006. So > rather than keep trying out daily images and wastin

Re: switching from apt-get to aptitude

2006-05-16 Thread Grant Thomas
> > For example, a few days ago I decided to take a look at KDE (I am a long > > time IceWM user). I just did 'aptitude install kde' and had almost > > several hundred MB worth of k* applications. Exactly what I wanted and, > > so far, exactly what apt-get would have done. But it was just an > >

Re: Windows is the better OS for running a FTP server

2006-05-16 Thread Paul Smith
%% Dirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: d> I get "421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection" d> when I log into my ftp server. Typing that message into Google gives all sorts of hits: most of them seem to feel that your server is not authorizing users properly. d> It worke

Re: [OT] Re: Problem with T-bird (was Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 ))

2006-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 14:42:07 -0500, Grant Thomas wrote: > I'll bite: > I can't stand it when you guys hijack a thread like this. > And over something so silly!! > > Everyone knows that CLI tools are dead. > Windows has sooo much of the market share that *nix will die a slow > horrible death!!!

Re: switching from apt-get to aptitude

2006-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 15:45:05 -0400, Stephen wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:53:46AM -0400 or thereabouts, Rick Reynolds wrote: > > I've googled this quite a bit and found various web pages praising > > aptitude as a "better apt-get". But I've also seen cautions about > > mixing the two.

Re: Windows is the better OS for running a FTP server

2006-05-16 Thread Dirk
Chris Howie wrote: > Dirk wrote: > >>"421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection" >> >>proftpd, wu-ftpd, (netkit) ftpd ... they all suck ass! >> >>(Yeah, I'm ultimately pissed after reading too many sloppy howto's) >> >> >>Dirk > > > If you want an answer, ask, don't attack.

Re: [OT] Re: Problem with T-bird (was Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 ))

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 14:42 -0500, Grant Thomas wrote: > I'll bite: > I can't stand it when you guys hijack a thread like this. > And over something so silly!! > > Everyone knows that CLI tools are dead. > Windows has sooo much of the market share that *nix will die a slow > horrible death!!! Hav

Re: Torrent client for CL

2006-05-16 Thread Brendan
On Monday 08 May 2006 13:33, Peter Colton wrote: > On Sunday 07 May 2006 15:02, Vladimir Strycek wrote: > > Hi, could somebody recommend mi some good and most user friendly torrent > > client for CL ( not web based) > > > > Thanks > > Hello Vladimir, > > I use bittornado from the comman

Re: Best way to boot between debian and suse?

2006-05-16 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:25:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could you advise me on the best setup for me to switch between SuSE > and Debian? It is difficult to generalise without more idea of your priorities. > I have two 80gb hard drives and a CDROM r/w and a DVD r/w drive. > Is it bes

Routing based on tcp/ip session limit

2006-05-16 Thread Tom Lobato
Hi, My ADSL provider in Brazil give us a link with a limit of 30 tcp/ip sessions. So, for a especific use, I will buy another link with the 30 limit but lesser bandwidth. But how to tell linux to only use second link when first is full (30 limit reached)? Or, how to use the two links in a bet

Re: switching from apt-get to aptitude

2006-05-16 Thread Stephen
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:53:46AM -0400 or thereabouts, Rick Reynolds wrote: > I've googled this quite a bit and found various web pages praising > aptitude as a "better apt-get". But I've also seen cautions about > mixing the two. You might try searching the archives for articles confirming

Re: [OT] Re: Problem with T-bird (was Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 ))

2006-05-16 Thread Grant Thomas
I'll bite: I can't stand it when you guys hijack a thread like this. And over something so silly!! Everyone knows that CLI tools are dead. Windows has sooo much of the market share that *nix will die a slow horrible death!!!

Re: [OT] Re: Problem with T-bird (was Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 ))

2006-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:15:04 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:23:28AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > Well, I use vim and I now type "i" in front of almost every word when I > > use other editors. Try to top that! > > > > (I have the nagging feeling that w

Re: Can I stay in testing without going etch?

2006-05-16 Thread Chris Howie
Paul E Condon wrote: >>I would highly recommend leaving your sources.list pointing at etch until >>after >>the freeze is over, then point at testing. Upgrading across releases (for >>that >>is what will happen if you track testing) can cause some bizarre problems now >>and then. > > I think the

Re: Windows is the better OS for running a FTP server

2006-05-16 Thread Chris Howie
Dirk wrote: > "421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection" > > proftpd, wu-ftpd, (netkit) ftpd ... they all suck ass! > > (Yeah, I'm ultimately pissed after reading too many sloppy howto's) > > > Dirk If you want an answer, ask, don't attack. It sounds like trolling. Now

Re: switching from apt-get to aptitude

2006-05-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 20:02 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > For example, a few days ago I decided to take a look at KDE (I am a long > > time IceWM user). I just did 'aptitude install kde' and had almost > > several hundred MB worth of k* applications. Exactly what I wanted and, >

Re: Windows is the better OS for running a FTP server

2006-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 20:52:10 +0200, Dirk wrote: > "421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection" > > proftpd, wu-ftpd, (netkit) ftpd ... they all suck ass! > > (Yeah, I'm ultimately pissed after reading too many sloppy howto's) > > > Dirk If a head and a book collide, and

Re: Windows is the better OS for running a FTP server

2006-05-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Dirk wrote: > "421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection" > > proftpd, wu-ftpd, (netkit) ftpd ... they all suck ass! > > (Yeah, I'm ultimately pissed after reading too many sloppy howto's) > > > Dirk > > I've not been following this thread, but have you allowed your inco

Windows is the better OS for running a FTP server

2006-05-16 Thread Dirk
"421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection" proftpd, wu-ftpd, (netkit) ftpd ... they all suck ass! (Yeah, I'm ultimately pissed after reading too many sloppy howto's) Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection

2006-05-16 Thread Dirk
I have installed proftpd and it worked great for days... Now, without an reason, it gives me: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection when I log in... or sometimes after I logged in and enter "ls" Why? Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Validating AVI files

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 19:46 +0200, Christoph Nenning wrote: > Am Dienstag, 16. Mai 2006 00:45 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 17:26 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 21:30 +0200, Christoph Nenning wrote: > > > > Am Montag, 15. Mai 2006 06:42 schrieb Ron Johnson: >

Re: switching from apt-get to aptitude

2006-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 20:02 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Rick Reynolds: [snip] > For example, a few days ago I decided to take a look at KDE (I am a long > time IceWM user). I just did 'aptitude install kde' and had almost > several hundred MB worth of k* applications. Exactly what I wanted and,

421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection

2006-05-16 Thread Dirk
I have installed proftpd and it worked great for days... Now, without an reason, it gives me: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection when I log in... or sometimes after I logged in and enter "ls" Why? Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection

2006-05-16 Thread Dirk
I have installed proftpd and it worked great for days... Now, without an reason, it gives me: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection when I log in... or sometimes after I logged in and enter "ls" Why? Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection

2006-05-16 Thread Dirk
I have installed proftpd and it worked great for days... Now, without an reason, it gives me: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection when I log in... or sometimes after I logged in and enter "ls" Why? Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Urgent! -- New Debian 3.1R2 install -- Nvidia card not recognized: fuzzy desktop, 640X480 resolution

2006-05-16 Thread Chris Lale
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Decided to give the latest stable version of Debian 3.1Rc2 a chance so I downloaded the first two CD's and burned them in Nero. Everything went flawlessly. Literally. I was delighted. That is, until I booted up to the new Debian and was I in for a shock. Th

Re: Best way to boot between debian and suse?

2006-05-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Could you advise me on the best setup for me to switch between SuSE and > Debian? > I have two 80gb hard drives and a CDROM r/w and a DVD r/w drive. > Is it best to put both systems on different partitions of the same hard drive > or > one on each drive? I don't think that

Re: Best way to boot between debian and suse?

2006-05-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could you advise me on the best setup for me to switch between SuSE and > Debian? > I have two 80gb hard drives and a CDROM r/w and a DVD r/w drive. > Is it best to put both systems on different partitions of the same hard drive > or > one on each drive? > Should the dr

Re: switching from apt-get to aptitude

2006-05-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
Rick Reynolds: > > I've googled this quite a bit and found various web pages praising > aptitude as a "better apt-get". But I've also seen cautions about > mixing the two. Mixing the two is generally a bad idea since aptitude tracks which packages you really wanted to install and which ones ju

Best way to boot between debian and suse?

2006-05-16 Thread dfp10
Could you advise me on the best setup for me to switch between SuSE and Debian? I have two 80gb hard drives and a CDROM r/w and a DVD r/w drive. Is it best to put both systems on different partitions of the same hard drive or one on each drive? Should the drives be primary and secondary or both pri

Re: Etch hangs on startup at: waiting on root file system ?

2006-05-16 Thread lostson
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 10:24 +1000, mustard lee wrote: > lostson wrote: > > >On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 21:02 +1000, mustard lee wrote: > > > > > >>I put together a brand new Etch install today, which was working > >>flawlessly for the first few boots. I think I may have done an apt-get > >>upgrad

Re: [Unstable] NFS problems

2006-05-16 Thread El Virolo
The problem still hasn't been fixed in the latest updates ... Can anyone please help me ?Thanks,Alex.

Re: Validating AVI files

2006-05-16 Thread Christoph Nenning
Am Dienstag, 16. Mai 2006 00:45 schrieb Ron Johnson: > On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 17:26 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 21:30 +0200, Christoph Nenning wrote: > > > Am Montag, 15. Mai 2006 06:42 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Does anyone know of a CLI tool for valida

Re: [OT] Re: Problem with T-bird (was Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 ))

2006-05-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:23:28AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Well, I use vim and I now type "i" in front of almost every word when I > use other editors. Try to top that! > > (I have the nagging feeling that we are not doing this flamewar thing > correctly. Maybe we have to wait for a con

Re: [OT] Re: Problem with T-bird (was Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 ))

2006-05-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:23:28AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 13:49:56 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:02:03PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:37:20 -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: > > [...] > > > > >

Re: a postfix problem

2006-05-16 Thread Danny
> Well, I have made some progress, but now it is barfing on the following > > mailhost:/usr/sbin# postfix set-permissions > chown: cannot access `/usr/lib/postfix/dict_ldap.so': No such file or > directory > > but I am not using ldap, what is going on here? any ideas? I am not a postfix expert

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-05-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 07:37, formless void wrote: > What about the case that you bought a car which has > got a hiden camera to trace your route. Where can I find one? I've been looking for a good dashmount for a digital camera so I can start a Portland version of tardsite.net and publicaly h

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-05-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 08:00, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Chris Metzler wrote: > > I want the 20 seconds I spent reading this post back. My God. > > > > -c > > YOu should have top posted that to save the rest of us as well :-) Oh, please don't encourage the top posting trolls that inhabit microso

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-05-16 Thread Alex Fernandez
> So you are happy with your GPS system in your car > which sends the data to the government intellegence > agent Hah? > If they can get the data from my GPS, why not just use the satellites which can photograph license plates and track them in real time. That way, they can also track me whe

Re: switching from apt-get to aptitude

2006-05-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/05/06 11:53), Rick Reynolds wrote: > I've googled this quite a bit and found various web pages praising > aptitude as a "better apt-get". But I've also seen cautions about > mixing the two. > > I'm running a testing installation that has been in place for nearly two > years -- all the

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-05-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
formless void wrote: >>All I can say is, "wow." I have never read anything >>that made so little >>sense. >> >>-Roberto >> > > > So you are happy with your GPS system in your car > which sends the data to the government intellegence > agent Hah? > If they can get the data from my GPS, why

421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection

2006-05-16 Thread Dirk
I have installed proftpd and it worked great for days... Now, without an reason, it gives me: 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection when I log in... or sometimes after I logged in and enter "ls" Why? Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-05-16 Thread formless void
> > > > What about the case that you bought a car which > has > > got a hiden camera to trace your route. Would you > > yell out? The same as true, if broswer doesn't > have a > > standrds, it can be very intrusive to the users > > > > All I can say is, "wow." I have never read anything > th

switching from apt-get to aptitude

2006-05-16 Thread Rick Reynolds
I've googled this quite a bit and found various web pages praising aptitude as a "better apt-get". But I've also seen cautions about mixing the two. I'm running a testing installation that has been in place for nearly two years -- all the while maintained via apt-get. I've even written a s

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-05-16 Thread formless void
> > All I can say is, "wow." I have never read anything > that made so little > sense. > > -Roberto > So you are happy with your GPS system in your car which sends the data to the government intellegence agent Hah? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired o

Re: aptitude replacing debfoster [limiting the view]

2006-05-16 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 04:15:56PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > I'm not really sure why not _all_ packages in that list can be marked > auto. One interesting package is 'ntp'. I have 'ntp-server' installed > and marked auto. It depends on 'ntp', but still I can't mark 'ntp' auto, > doing so will

Re: dhcp, router and debian

2006-05-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
Alle Meije Wink wrote: Hi, I have installed a D-Link DI-524 wireless/ethernet router between my cable modem and my PC. It worked fine on the first 5 (or so) sessions, but now when I start up debian, the startup item `ATM' takes ages to finish (it says `exim4' in the end) and I have no internet

Re: Problem with aspell checking text in greek

2006-05-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Eftaxiopoulos Dimitrios wrote: > I have tried to spell check several Latex files written in greek. I use kile. > It generally finds the mistakes but it highlights an irrelevant portion of > text, usually portions from two words, close to the wrong word. It highlights > at the same line, a few wo

Problem with aspell checking text in greek

2006-05-16 Thread Eftaxiopoulos Dimitrios
I have tried to spell check several Latex files written in greek. I use kile. It generally finds the mistakes but it highlights an irrelevant portion of text, usually portions from two words, close to the wrong word. It highlights at the same line, a few words before the wrong one. The replaceme

Re: problem installing ddd_3.3.9-3_i386.deb

2006-05-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Lengton, Leo wrote: > Hello, > > I want to install the ddd_3.3.9-3_i386.deb, but get a error: > > # dpkg -i ddd_3.3.9-3_i386.deb > Selecting previously deselected package ddd. > (Reading database ... > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `libfreetype6' missing, > assum

emacs broken - displays empty rectangles in place of all characters

2006-05-16 Thread Adam Black
Hi folks I'm a bit of a newbie. I'm not sure what I've done to break emacs, but when it pops up now there are no characters, just empty rectangles - which makes me think the fonts are broken, but I don't know how to fix them. I also get this error: emacs Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-couri

Re: aptitude replacing debfoster [limiting the view]

2006-05-16 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:46:55PM +0200, CJ van den Berg wrote: >On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 04:50:24PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: >> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 04:01:46PM +0200, CJ van den Berg wrote: >> >On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:37:33PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: >> >> Limiting the package list

problem installing ddd_3.3.9-3_i386.deb

2006-05-16 Thread Lengton, Leo
Hello, I want to install the ddd_3.3.9-3_i386.deb, but get a error: # dpkg -i ddd_3.3.9-3_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package ddd. (Reading database ... dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `libfreetype6' missing, assum ing

unable to install on adaptec sata raid system

2006-05-16 Thread Mark Copper
Hi, I am unable to install Debian on a Supermicro server configured with 2 sata harddrives connected to an Adaptec 2420SA serial RAID pci card. Although the exact sequence of events differ, I have tried both the stable and testing installers, each with both 2.4 and 2.6 kernel choices. In every c

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-05-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Chris Metzler wrote: > > I want the 20 seconds I spent reading this post back. My God. > > -c > YOu should have top posted that to save the rest of us as well :-) -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-05-16 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 16 May 2006 07:22:44 -0700 (PDT) formless void wrote: > --- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Monday 15 May 2006 04:48, formless void wrote: >> >> > > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:W3C_standards >> > > >> > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/ >> > >> > D

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-05-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
formless void wrote: >>Comparing auto specifications to what are free >>products in a >>totally unrelated discipline, is impractical and >>ludicrous, and a feeble >>attempt to be disingenuous. >> > > > To personal use, browsers are free but what about to > institutional use, are they free as well

Apt-get upate problem

2006-05-16 Thread John O'Hagan
Hi list, Last few days, when I try to do apt-get update on my Etch laptop, it fails with a number of different errors. I have made about twenty attempts. First there were gzip errors caused by corrupted partial files left in /var/lib/apt/lists/partial. Removing these allowed me to try again, bu

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-05-16 Thread formless void
>Comparing auto specifications to what are free > products in a > totally unrelated discipline, is impractical and > ludicrous, and a feeble > attempt to be disingenuous. > To personal use, browsers are free but what about to institutional use, are they free as well? Has Netscape not required any

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-05-16 Thread formless void
--- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 15 May 2006 04:48, formless void wrote: > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:W3C_standards > > > > > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/ > > > > Don't you confuse me, mate ! > > > > These standards are for web desin

Sarge on HP DL 320 G4

2006-05-16 Thread Erik Dykema
Hi- Has anyone successfully installed Sarge on an HP DL 320 G4 ? The installer seems to fail to load the network driver. I've tried fedora 5 on the same machine and it seems to work fine (notwithstanding an iLO virtual keyboard issue) and uses the tg3 network driver. This is the same driver

Re: Learning Scripting

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/16/06, Anil Gupte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The idea was the system cannot start the X-Server sometimes when the power goes off unexpectedly. So, if an error message is found the system should be shutdown nicely and then when it reboots, it runs an fsck and cleans up. The second set of ch

Re: aptitude replacing debfoster [limiting the view]

2006-05-16 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 04:50:24PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 04:01:46PM +0200, CJ van den Berg wrote: > >On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:37:33PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > >> Limiting the package list to that in aptitude and then pressing 'M' does > >> result in the pa

ALSA not working after reboot

2006-05-16 Thread Gunnar Möller
Hi folks, I have a problem with ALSA that sure has occurred before. Nonetheless, solutions proposed in earlier postings I browsed do not solve the problem. After running alsaconf in root, ALSA sound works fine, but after rebooting, some applications do not work (eg xmms) while others do (eg

Re: invalid action operation

2006-05-16 Thread Wackojacko
Andreas Rönnquist wrote: Hi! I've got the following showing up each boot: debian udevd[14626]: add_to_rules: invalid ACTION operation debian udevd[14626]: add_to_rules: invalid rule '/etc/udev/rules.d/050_hal-plugdev.rules:5' - it has been like this since the update the 10th of May I think i

Re: dhcp, router and debian

2006-05-16 Thread Alle Meije Wink
Hi, I have installed a D-Link DI-524 wireless/ethernet router between my cable modem and my PC. It worked fine on the first 5 (or so) sessions, but now when I start up debian, the startup item `ATM' takes ages to finish (it says `exim4' in the end) and I have no internet connection Are you su

Re: Learning Scripting

2006-05-16 Thread Anil Gupte
Thanx, Michael and Andrew. Here is my first usable shell script, thanx to your help. The idea was the system cannot start the X-Server sometimes when the power goes off unexpectedly. So, if an error message is found the system should be shutdown nicely and then when it reboots, it runs an fs

Re: cron.daily/man-db problems

2006-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:00:15 +0300, David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 16 May 2006 11:48, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:22:39 +0300, David Baron wrote: > > > Get a whole series of messages like: > > > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/xtrapinfo.1x.gz: bad symlink or ROFF >

Re: a postfix problem

2006-05-16 Thread bill
Danny wrote: On May 15 06, bill thought of the following : I am just trying to set up postfix on a newly installed sarge machine. I have edited the main.cf, I am well accustomed to using postfix, but have not so much experience with debian. When I do a postfix reload after editing I get the f

Re: Urgent! -- New Debian 3.1R2 install -- Nvidia card not recognized: fuzzy desktop, 640X480 resolution

2006-05-16 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Mardi 16 Mai 2006 02:56, charles norwood a écrit : > On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 19:13 +1000, Arafangion wrote: > > Benjamin Sher wrote: [...] > Hi. > I use sarge, but the following may help. > Try this: > apt-get install x-window-system-core > dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86 > > The second lin

Re: cron.daily/man-db problems

2006-05-16 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 11:48, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:22:39 +0300, David Baron wrote: > > Get a whole series of messages like: > > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/xtrapinfo.1x.gz: bad symlink or ROFF > > `.so' request > > mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1x/xtrap.1

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