Re: [backports & security]

2006-05-31 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Robert Van Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-01 08:41]: > > * Are you using unofficial repositories (e.g. backports.org) on > > production servers ? > > * Do you (and can I) trust backports.org ? > > * Also, since even backports.org does not seem to have vim 7.0 and > > kernel 2.6.1

Re: [backports & security]

2006-05-31 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-01 08:10]: > > * Also, since even backports.org does not seem to have vim 7.0 and > > kernel 2.6.16 (yet), what would be the best way/place to get these > > from ? Should I (try to) backport them myself ? > > It is said that compiling your o

Re: Debian Installation ISO DVD Image Files

2006-05-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
Mihira Fernando wrote: Robert J. A. Fernandes. wrote: Hi Mihira, Thank you very much for your email. But my problem is when I download the DVD ISO Files it showing me only 372 MB for 1st ISO and 2nd ISO it's showing me 127MB is this right size. That's what I want to confirm with you. the s

Re: [backports & security]

2006-05-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Felix C. Stegerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Also, since even backports.org does not seem to have vim 7.0 and > kernel 2.6.16 (yet), what would be the best way/place to get these > from ? Should I (try to) backport them myself ? It is said that compiling your own kernel with mak

Re: Debian Sarge Installation problem, ISO image is mounted from NTFS

2006-05-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
chandavarapu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Primary problem is, I don't want to make 14 CDs. So I put all 14 ISO images > on NTFS partition. You have very good suggestions in the other post. I just want to point out that you don't need all 14 CDs. The first 2 will do in most cases, and you can down

[backports & security]

2006-05-31 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Hi, I'm about to install sarge on a (production) server of my own, and would rather like to have the latest versions of: * mysql (5.0) * vim (7.0) * the Linux kernel (2.6.16) [ppc] Since these are not in sarge, I'm considering using backported versions from backports.org. I was however una

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-05-31 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Olafur Jens Sigurdsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-27 00:43]: > > * Is it a bad idea to use unstable on a production server when it > > comes to security? > > Yes, see the reasoning of why stable has a security section. > > > * If so, would you recommend using testing, or stable? > >

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-05-31 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-27 01:07]: > > So it comes down to: > > * Is it a bad idea to use unstable on a production server when it > > comes to security? > > Possibly to probably yes (the answer for stable would be "no"). > > > * If so, would you recommend using testing

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-05-31 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-27 01:09]: > > * Is it a bad idea to use unstable on a production server when it > > comes to security? > > * If so, would you recommend using testing, or stable? > > * And does anyone with experience running unstable on production > > servers know of

Re: Change screen resolution

2006-05-31 Thread lmyho
--- Christopher Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 06:41:21PM -0700, lmyho wrote: > > > > --- Christopher Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:30:30PM -0700, lmyho wrote: > > > > > > > > I just installed debian on an older computer ye

Recommended upgrade kernels for Etch?

2006-05-31 Thread David E. Fox
I'm ATM on m206-157:~# uname -a Linux m206-157 2.6.12-1-k7 #1 Tue Sep 27 13:22:07 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux I've run across something that *might* require 2.6.13 or higher. The question is- - what would fellow users recommend? My hardware is an Athlon T-bird 1000 mhz system. -- ---

Re: Change screen resolution

2006-05-31 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 06:41:21PM -0700, lmyho wrote: > > --- Christopher Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:30:30PM -0700, lmyho wrote: > > > > > > I just installed debian on an older computer yesterday, but the screen > > resolution is > > > so poorly set, whic

Re: Change screen resolution

2006-05-31 Thread lmyho
--- Christopher Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:30:30PM -0700, lmyho wrote: > > > > I just installed debian on an older computer yesterday, but the screen > resolution is > > so poorly set, which is actually different from the resolution I have set > > during > t

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-31 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Pascal Hakim wrote: > > Australian governor-generals are chosen by the prime minister... > (including John Kerr), and can be dismissed by the prime minister. Yes, > we technically have a race condition at the top of our government. > > (But finally! An off-topic debian-user politics thread on *Au

Re: Change screen resolution

2006-05-31 Thread lmyho
--- Christopher Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:30:30PM -0700, lmyho wrote: > > > > I just installed debian on an older computer yesterday, but the screen > resolution is > > so poorly set, which is actually different from the resolution I have set > > during > t

Re: security support for testing distribution

2006-05-31 Thread Black Dew
Does that mean that security updates go from unstable to testing security repository to testing distribution or am I misreading something here? No. If a (critical) vulnerability is discovered in some package which is already in testing or stable the security team patches it and uploads a fix

Re: Change screen resolution

2006-05-31 Thread lmyho
--- Roby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lmyho wrote: > > > All, > > > > I just installed debian on an older computer yesterday, but the screen > > resolution is so poorly set, which is actually different from the > > resolution I have set during the > > initial system configuration (much lower).

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Re: Change screen resolution

2006-05-31 Thread Roby
lmyho wrote: > All, > > I just installed debian on an older computer yesterday, but the screen > resolution is so poorly set, which is actually different from the > resolution I have set during the > initial system configuration (much lower). It looks really terrible and > so uncomfortable!:(( >

Re: Change screen resolution

2006-05-31 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:30:30PM -0700, lmyho wrote: > > I just installed debian on an older computer yesterday, but the screen > resolution is > so poorly set, which is actually different from the resolution I have set > during the > initial system configuration (much lower). It looks really

Re: Is it OK to remove alsa-base after Kernel 2.6.8?

2006-05-31 Thread Dominique Brazziel
I have alsa as module in the kernel and selected Crystal Logic CS46XX as the driver in the .config. I think it is OK, I purged alsa-base and alsa-utils but was able to play streaming audio. I had read that Alsa was included in the 2.6.8 kernel so I think this is OK to do. Thanks. -- To U

Re: question

2006-05-31 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:11:56PM +0200, Matus C wrote: > Hi, > / when I am starting my pc I have always options between booting up > windows and kernel 2.6.7... , so I am sure it is kernel / That's just the kernel used in the system. The OS is still called 'Debian' > >Could you type exactly

Change screen resolution

2006-05-31 Thread lmyho
All, I just installed debian on an older computer yesterday, but the screen resolution is so poorly set, which is actually different from the resolution I have set during the initial system configuration (much lower). It looks really terrible and so uncomfortable!:(( The screen can be set to m

Re: how to detect if a jpeg file is progressive or not

2006-05-31 Thread H.S.
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > Imagemagick does the trick for you. > > To see if your files are interlaced or not you can use identify > -verbose filename.jpg and search for the Interlace line and if it says > None then it isnt a progressive jpeg and if it says Plane it is. That was really grea

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-31 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:31:49PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > The Queen may be "Head of state" but the person with power here is the > > Prime Minister... The Queen is just a figurehead... > > Australian constitutional crisis of 1975. Unelected Governor- > General Sir John Kerr forced the ele

Re: Debina Installation ISO DVD Image Files

2006-05-31 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:37:48AM +0300, Robert J. A. Fernandes. wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I have downloaded DVD ISO Images files from this below location: - > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r2/i386/iso-dvd/ > > in this section the file size its shows 4.4G for > debian-31r2-i386-binary-

Re: debian testing xorg fails on /dev/input/mice

2006-05-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 15:21:39 +0200, Jon Jahren wrote: > Hi all > I've just installed debian etch on my main computer, but I get an error > when trying to start X, it tells me: > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice > No such file or directory > (EE) Configured Mou

Re: Recommendations for Low Resource System

2006-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 31 May 2006 16:11, Steve Lamb wrote: >> Hal Vaughan wrote: >>> I understand someone has written up a config file (forgot what the >>> special setting files are called) for screen writing formatting on >>> emacs, but, a

Re: Recommendations for Low Resource System

2006-05-31 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 16:11, Steve Lamb wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I understand someone has written up a config file (forgot what the > > special setting files are called) for screen writing formatting on > > emacs, but, as I said, when I'm writing, I'm in a different mode, > > and I just c

Re: Problem updating doodled

2006-05-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 23:58:34 +1000, Michael Lightfoot wrote: > On Wednesday 31 May 2006 08:36, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > I would first try to find out why the pre-removal script cannot stop the > > daemon. Is the daemon running at all? You can check it with > > > > ps -ef | grep [d]oodled >

Re: kde unwillingly starting

2006-05-31 Thread Adam Hardy
Francesco Pietra on 29/05/06 14:25, wrote: Sent again to add: do not pay attention to gdm. It also came from updating/upgrading, because I never used gnome. However, it is not configured and as soon as the need to configure it is presented, it dies and I can enter my my username. startx then st

Re: how to detect if a jpeg file is progressive or not

2006-05-31 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-31, 17:12:36 (-0400) skrifaði H.S.: > > Hello, > > I have searched google but haven't found an answer I was looking for. I > want to upload some family pics to share among relatives. Some have > dialup connections. To facilitate image downloads in their browsers, I > want to upload p

Re: console screen size

2006-05-31 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Alan Ianson wrote: > On this particular machine I am working on I get a text screen size of > 80x25. I'd like to change it to 80x30, or perhaps I need a 640x480 > frame buffer. Is there a way I can change that from the command line, > or in grub's menu.list maybe? Yes, with the 'vga=' option in

how to detect if a jpeg file is progressive or not

2006-05-31 Thread H.S.
Hello, I have searched google but haven't found an answer I was looking for. I want to upload some family pics to share among relatives. Some have dialup connections. To facilitate image downloads in their browsers, I want to upload progressive jpegs. How do I find out if the jpegs I already have

security support for testing distribution

2006-05-31 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I am trying to understand how the security support works for testing distribution. According to http://www.debian.org/security/faq.en.html#testing-security security support migrates from unstable to testing for any package. However, there is a separate testing security repository according to

RE: Issue with NFS share on sarge

2006-05-31 Thread Jerry DuVal
Also this might help.  I configure it like so emacs /etc/fstab 192.168.1.66:/opt/epace /opt/epace-storage nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0     From: Jerry DuVal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 4:28 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Issue with NFS sha

question

2006-05-31 Thread Matus C
Hi, / when I am starting my pc I have always options between booting up windows and kernel 2.6.7... , so I am sure it is kernel / >Could you type exactly what you see on the screen ? >Is it a white on black: So, the screen is black and white.It looks like a MS-DOS > Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 tty

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wulfy wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Katipo wrote: >>> Mike McCarty wrote: >>> >>> >>> This is a consequence of the fact that, in the USA, the Sovereign is the Electorate, >>> Yes, but t

Re: wake-on-lan

2006-05-31 Thread Roel Schroeven
Christian Pernegger schreef: I also checked Documentation/networking/e100.txt (I presume the card's driver is e100 since that's the only network driver related module I see in lsmod) and it says that it should work with ethtool. But it doesn't. It says the same for e1000 and that also only wor

Issue with NFS share on sarge

2006-05-31 Thread Jerry DuVal
I have a NFS mounted to a network server, but when I restart the box the NFS does not get mounted because the nic does not come online until after the filesystems are mounted. Any suggestions?  I’m sure I’m just missing a configuration.   Thanks in advance,   Jerry

Re: Recommendations for Low Resource System

2006-05-31 Thread Steve Lamb
Hal Vaughan wrote: > I understand someone has written up a config file (forgot what the > special setting files are called) for screen writing formatting on > emacs, but, as I said, when I'm writing, I'm in a different mode, and I > just can't remember all the keystroke commands. It's hard to e

Re: Debian Sarge Installation problem, ISO image is mounted from NTFS

2006-05-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:47:31PM +0530, chandavarapu wrote: > Primary problem is, I don't want to make 14 CDs. So I put all 14 ISO images > on NTFS partition. > > I have the first cd of Debian Sarge r310ra installed with 2.6 kernel and I > have the remaining 13 cd images on my windows partition

Re: No fonts in Flash Player (SOLVED)

2006-05-31 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
On 5/16/06, Edward J. Shornock wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:49:13PM +0200, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > I'm sorry, maybe is normal; just for comparisons with systems that works > fine :) If you've not solved this problem yet, check out bug#363378. The solutions posted there worked for me.

Re: Wacom Mouse - Footnote

2006-05-31 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:24:26AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > The Wacom Graphire4 mouse worked perfectly with Sarge - best mouse I've > ever had. > > After upgrading to Testing I have this strange set of affairs: The > stylus will move the cursor, the mouse will not but the mouse buttons

Re: Recommendations for Low Resource System

2006-05-31 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 15:04, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Several things: > > 1) Do not use a desktop environment (e.g GNOME, KDE). Use just a > window manager. I personally suggest Sawfish. My mistake, and thanks for pointing it out. I've been using KDE so long I got lazy in distinguishing my te

Re: debian testing xorg fails on /dev/input/mice

2006-05-31 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:21:39PM +0200, Jon Jahren wrote: > Hi all > I've just installed debian etch on my main computer, but I get an error > when trying to start X, it tells me: > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice > No such file or directory > (EE) Configured M

Re: Recommendations for Low Resource System

2006-05-31 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Several things: 1) Do not use a desktop environment (e.g GNOME, KDE). Use just a window manager. I personally suggest Sawfish. 2) If Abiword will work, use it. It's nice and usable. I use Emacs and LaTeX myself, but if you want a WYSIWYG processor, Abiword is fine. -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROT

Re: Recommendations for Low Resource System

2006-05-31 Thread Liudmila Yafremava
I have been using Blackbox ever since I got into Debian, mostly because it is so small and fast. I use it with xterms, graphics, word processing and simulations. It's great for low power beasts. I had a problem with it only on one machine, where it routinely but spontaneously shut down X, and

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-31 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 31 May 2006 13:39, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > I see this claim constantly.  You know what, it is completely > > without merit.  If the same thing had happened to "elect" Gore or > > Kerry, you would likely be p

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-31 Thread Stephen
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:35:02AM -0700 or thereabouts, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 31 May 2006 02:35, Wulfy wrote: > > > The Queen may be "Head of state" but the person with power here is the > > Prime Minister... The Queen is just a figurehead... > > She does occasionally excersize her

Re: PHP5 and MySQL5

2006-05-31 Thread Stephen
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:17:14AM -0400 or thereabouts, Oswaldo Otero wrote: > Hello Guys. > > We are installing 9 servers with Debian but we want to use PHP5 and > MySQL5. Those packages are not in stable, so what options do we have. We > are thinking in dotdeb.org. What dou you think about th

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 02:35, Wulfy wrote: > The Queen may be "Head of state" but the person with power here is the > Prime Minister... The Queen is just a figurehead... She does occasionally excersize her power. Most notably, back in the late 1990s, she declared a vote for Quebec to secede

Re: running backup

2006-05-31 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 31.05.2006 at 13:56 +0800, Jon Miller wrote: > #!/bin/sh > # script to automate the backup of the Ruby server to the W2K3 server > # > DAY=`date +'%a-%d-%m-%y'` > BACKUPDIR=/backup > RUBYLIVE=/var/lib/mysql/ > > cd $RUBYLIVE > tar -czvf /backup/rubylive${DAY}.tgz ./rubylive (Not r

Re: Recommendations for Low Resource System

2006-05-31 Thread Tim Day
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 12:59 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > Can anyone recommend or tell me about what window managers they use on > low resource systems with good results and what word processors they > use in that situation? I've found the Blackbox window manager with the "minimal" style works re

console screen size

2006-05-31 Thread Alan Ianson
On this particular machine I am working on I get a text screen size of 80x25. I'd like to change it to 80x30, or perhaps I need a 640x480 frame buffer. Is there a way I can change that from the command line, or in grub's menu.list maybe? I've taken a look but can't seem to find info on how to do

Re: Audigy LS / ALSA Volume control

2006-05-31 Thread Pirkka Jokela
Well, I agree, but I currently have the alsaplayer / alsamixer volume at "1%" that is the lowest possible value and I also have the stereo amplifier volume at about 1/10. This is not normal. And what if I want to use headphones attached straight to the computer? This isn't critical in the sense t

Re: Re: non-free nvidia driver on etch?

2006-05-31 Thread Pearce, Jonathan D
Using the developer's repository worked for me after a couple of reboot/apt-get cycles. Thanks, Stephen. Sincerely, Jonathan

Re: Recommendations for Low Resource System

2006-05-31 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:59:32PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I have an old Mitsubishi Amity, which is smaller than a laptop, but not > as small as a palm top. It's old and built to run Windows 95, but I > know people have gotten Debian to do well on this computer. It has 48 > MB of memory an

Debian Sarge Installation problem, ISO image is mounted from NTFS

2006-05-31 Thread chandavarapu
Primary problem is, I don't want to make 14 CDs. So I put all 14 ISO images on NTFS partition.I have the first cd of Debian Sarge r310ra installed with 2.6 kernel and I have the remaining 13 cd images on my windows partition on ntfs. I booted sarge mounted the ntfs partition and I then mounted the

Re: Debina Installation ISO DVD Image Files

2006-05-31 Thread Black Dew
Robert J. A. Fernandes. wrote: in this section the file size its shows 4.4G for debian-31r2-i386-binary-1, but when I am downloading it give me 372MB and for the another file debian-31r2-i386-binary-2 it shows 4.1G but when I downloads it gives me 127MB. Something (most probably your downloa

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-31 Thread Wulfy
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Katipo wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: This is a consequence of the fact that, in the USA, the Sovereign is the Electorate, Yes, but that's all rapidly changing, isn't it? When was *your* Head of State elected? Oh, wait, she wa

Re: wake-on-lan

2006-05-31 Thread Christian Pernegger
I also checked Documentation/networking/e100.txt (I presume the card's driver is e100 since that's the only network driver related module I see in lsmod) and it says that it should work with ethtool. But it doesn't. It says the same for e1000 and that also only works with Intel's newer driver.

Recommendations for Low Resource System

2006-05-31 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have an old Mitsubishi Amity, which is smaller than a laptop, but not as small as a palm top. It's old and built to run Windows 95, but I know people have gotten Debian to do well on this computer. It has 48 MB of memory and a 1.4 GB hard drive, which means it does not have many resources a

Re: fsck on ext3, lost files

2006-05-31 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Gary Parker wrote: > Lost+found contains over 300 entries numbered #1504387 through #4635638. About > 50 of these are directories. One of these directories contains most of my > user's home directory, though many of the subdirectories that I am interested > in > appear empty. In particular I a

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-31 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > Just wait until Alito "elects" Bush to a third term as president of the US in > a 5 to 4 swing decision. Same as the last two elections, just change the > names of the 7 people allowed to vote in the last two elections... Come off it, Paul. Even under the conditions t

Re: question

2006-05-31 Thread Peter Vandenabeele
On 5/30/06, Matus C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have sarge cd, whole name is Debian GNU/Linux sarge cd 3.1 r0a i386, This is not the very latest version. But you could install from this CD and then upgrade to the latest version. I booted it by means of "boot linux26" and it really worked

Wacom Mouse - Still Baffled.

2006-05-31 Thread Thomas H. George
The Wacom Graphire4 mouse worked perfectly with Sarge - best mouse I've ever had. After upgrading to Testing I have this strange set of affairs: The stylus will move the cursor, the mouse will not but the mouse buttons and scroll wheel work. I found and installed xserver-xorg-input-wacom.

PHP5 and MySQL5

2006-05-31 Thread Oswaldo Otero
Hello Guys. We are installing 9 servers with Debian but we want to use PHP5 and MySQL5. Those packages are not in stable, so what options do we have. We are thinking in dotdeb.org. What dou you think about that. Those solutions are stable enough? I will apreciate any FeedBack. -- Oswaldo Ot

Re: simple web blog software in sid

2006-05-31 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 May 2006, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Richard Blumel wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Is their something like wordpress in sid or do I have to move up in the > >world > > > > I use WP, but I used the source from WordPress, now almost 2 years ago. > I like it bec

fsck on ext3, lost files

2006-05-31 Thread Gary Parker
I have Debian/Stable installed on one partition formatted as ext3. Recently, when booting into my Debian/Stable partition a check was forced and fsck failed. I was then prompted to enter the root password and run fsck manually. It was also mentioned that the file system was mounted read-only and

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 04:27, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > Just wait until Alito "elects" Bush to a third term as president of the > > US in a 5 to 4 swing decision. Same as the last two elections, just > > change the names of the 7 people allowed to vote in the last two >

Re: Free SWF to AVI converter for Sarge

2006-05-31 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-05-31 @ 14:03:32 (week 22) Siju George wrote: > On 5/30/06, J.A. de Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 2006-05-30 @ 11:34:37 (week 22) Siju George wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Is there any Free SWF to AVI converter for Debian Sarge Linux? > > > >Take a look at ffmpeg. I regularly use

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> Just wait until Alito "elects" Bush to a third term as president of the US >> in >> a 5 to 4 swing decision. Same as the last two elections, just change the >> names of the 7 people allowed to vote

Re: Problem updating doodled

2006-05-31 Thread Michael Lightfoot
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 08:36, Florian Kulzer wrote: > I would first try to find out why the pre-removal script cannot stop the > daemon. Is the daemon running at all? You can check it with > > ps -ef | grep [d]oodled > > If the daemon is not running you can try the start/stop actions yourself >

Re: Free SWF to AVI converter for Sarge

2006-05-31 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 01:55:31PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > On 5/30/06, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:34:37AM +0530, Siju George wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Is there any Free SWF to AVI converter for Debian Sarge Linux? > > > >You can get mencoder from debian-m

howto customize printing from adobe reader 7.0.5

2006-05-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
I'm using cups and kprinter for printing on debian sarge. Apparently adobe reader is completely unaware of this. Every time I want to print something I have to manually select A4 instead of letter etc. and have to tell it to use kprinter instead of lpr. Other applications successfully detect a

debian testing xorg fails on /dev/input/mice

2006-05-31 Thread Jon Jahren
Hi all I've just installed debian etch on my main computer, but I get an error when trying to start X, it tells me: (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such file or directory (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Con

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-31 Thread Gerard Sharpe
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: Just wait until Alito "elects" Bush to a third term as president of the US in a 5 to 4 swing decision. Same as the last two elections, just change the names of the 7 people allowed to vote in the last two elections... I see this claim c

Re: wake-on-lan

2006-05-31 Thread Roel Schroeven
Christian Pernegger schreef: > [...] I can remotely wake the box if I shut it down before it boots > Linux, but it doesn't work if I shut it down when Linux is running. I had the same problem, as do many others according to Google. 1) Check if WoL is on using # ethtool eth0 There should be

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-31 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Paul Johnson wrote: > > Just wait until Alito "elects" Bush to a third term as president of the US in > a 5 to 4 swing decision. Same as the last two elections, just change the > names of the 7 people allowed to vote in the last two elections... > I see this claim constantly. You know what,

Re: ALSA + sid dist-upgrade may 30 2006

2006-05-31 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Linas Žvirblis wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Then I replaced libasound2 1.0.11-6 with -3 because -4 is nowhere to be found. 1.0.11-7 should also be safe. I'll report when it fails again at reboot eventually. Let us hope not. Worked! Thanks for posting that stuff! H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Debina Installation ISO DVD Image Files

2006-05-31 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1149075468 past the epoch, Robert J. A. Fernandes. wrote: > I have downloaded DVD ISO Images files from this below > location: - > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r2/i386/iso-dvd/ > > in this section the file size its shows 4.4G for > debian-31r2-i386-binary-1, but when I am downloading

Re: running backup

2006-05-31 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1149083799 past the epoch, Jon Miller wrote: > cd $BACKUPDIR > smbclient //server/backup tfc651800 -U administrator > put rubylive${DAY}.tgz I think Florian has hit on the problem here, but it would be easier in general if you supplied some kind of diagnostic output rather than just "it does n

Re: running backup

2006-05-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:34:51 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 13:56:39 +0800, Jon Miller wrote: > >> I have a file that I want to run daily to backup data. > >>This tgz file then needs to be copied to a Windows 2003 server. > >>I'm using smbclient

Re: Debian Installation ISO DVD Image Files

2006-05-31 Thread Mihira Fernando
Robert J. A. Fernandes. wrote: Hi Mihira, Can you please check from your side for this link http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r2/i386/iso-dvd/ for downloading DVD ISO Files what is the size while downloading this DVD iso files? It comes to 4+ gigs. For this reason I am attaching my pc s

Re: Debian Installation ISO DVD Image Files

2006-05-31 Thread Mihira Fernando
Robert J. A. Fernandes. wrote: Hi Mihira, Thank you very much for your email. But my problem is when I download the DVD ISO Files it showing me only 372 MB for 1st ISO and 2nd ISO it's showing me 127MB is this right size. That's what I want to confirm with you. the site provides Checksums for a

Re: mplayer error: undefined symbol: faacDecOpen

2006-05-31 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-05-16, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-05-15, Jérôme Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think the problem is here : libavcodec1 and libavcodec2 are not >> official and not in the Marillat's repositry ! I think you must remove >> them and it will work. > > I've purged

Debina Installation ISO DVD Image Files

2006-05-31 Thread Robert J. A. Fernandes.
Dear Sir,   I have downloaded DVD ISO Images files from this below location: -   http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r2/i386/iso-dvd/   in this section the file size its shows 4.4G for debian-31r2-i386-binary-1, but when I am downloading it give me 372MB and for the another file d

Re: Debian Installation ISO DVD Image Files

2006-05-31 Thread Mihira Fernando
Robert J. A. Fernandes. wrote: I have downloaded DVD ISO Images files from this below location: - http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r2/i386/iso-dvd/ in this section the file size its shows 4.4G for debian-31r2-i386-binary-1, but when I am downloading it give me 372MB and for the

Re: wake-on-lan

2006-05-31 Thread Christian Pernegger
> [...] I can remotely wake the box if I shut it down before it boots > Linux, but it doesn't work if I shut it down when Linux is running. I had the same problem, as do many others according to Google. 1) Check if WoL is on using # ethtool eth0 There should be a 'g' in the Wake-On: line. If

Debian Installation ISO DVD Image Files

2006-05-31 Thread Robert J. A. Fernandes.
  From: Robert J. A. Fernandes. Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 11:38 AM To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Debina Installation ISO DVD Image Files   Dear Sir,   I have downloaded DVD ISO Images files from this below location: -   http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd

Re: running backup

2006-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 13:56:39 +0800, Jon Miller wrote: >> I have a file that I want to run daily to backup data. >>This tgz file then needs to be copied to a Windows 2003 server. >>I'm using smbclient, but it does not seem

Re: Free SWF to AVI converter for Sarge

2006-05-31 Thread Siju George
On 5/30/06, J.A. de Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2006-05-30 @ 11:34:37 (week 22) Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any Free SWF to AVI converter for Debian Sarge Linux? Take a look at ffmpeg. I regularly use it to convert clips to a format that suits me better. Works like a charm.

Re: Free SWF to AVI converter for Sarge

2006-05-31 Thread Siju George
On 5/30/06, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:34:37AM +0530, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any Free SWF to AVI converter for Debian Sarge Linux? You can get mencoder from debian-multimedia.org. -- Thankyou so much Carl for the info. It seems mencoder doesn

Re: Which is the most stable desktop?

2006-05-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
Žáček Kryštof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Windows XP ? And of course you had to top-post :) IceWM-Experimental!!! Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: my fonts changed

2006-05-31 Thread Pooly
2006/5/31, cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:06:22PM EDT, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Pooly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 May 30 16:25 -0500]: > > > >Maybe this will help? > > > > > >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367593 > > > > > > > > > I changed my .fonts.conf

Re: running backup

2006-05-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 13:56:39 +0800, Jon Miller wrote: > I have a file that I want to run daily to backup data. This tgz file then > needs to be copied to a Windows 2003 server. I'm using smbclient, but it > does not seem to work thru the script. Can someone point out where the > problem

RE: Which is the most stable desktop?

2006-05-31 Thread Žáček Kryštof
Windows XP ? -Original Message- From: Michelle Konzack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 1:25 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Which is the most stable desktop? Please do not start a Flame-War !!! -- It is fvwm! ;-) Am 2006-05-24 08:56:53, schri

Re: Vs: Re: Help still needed installing debian

2006-05-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:22:06 +0700, Mihira Fernando wrote: > Joni Lahtinen wrote: > > >Where I might get those drivers? Is right modul at1500, if is I do not > >have it? > > > > I believe the debian installer already have the driver for this one. > Check the list of available drivers. I th