Re: clarification regarding icons seen during a Debian installation.

2006-07-06 Thread Willie Wonka
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 06:56:31PM +0530, Vivek Varghese Cherian wrote: > > On 7/5/06, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >well, I did say IIRC, I don't exactly install Debian every day. Maybe > > >someone else has more concrete info for you? > >

Fast Install with the Netinst CD -- WAS: Etch ISOs

2006-07-06 Thread Jeff Stevens
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 02:29 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > IraqiGeek wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am downloading the Etch DVD ISOs so I'd have a local copy. Is there > > any mirror where I could download the Etch ISOs from other than > > cdimage.debian.org??? The downloads from this server are slow

Re: No menus on some multimedia apps (xmms, audacity)

2006-07-06 Thread Willie Wonka
Luis Hidalgo wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Sarge 3.1 AMD64 port on an acer ferrari 4005, kernel 2.6.14. > I'm a bit concerned with the fact that when I open some apps like xmmx > or audacity, the menus have all the options and the programs behave > the usual way, with a slight inconvenience: > >

Re: Mount a CD-ROM automatically

2006-07-06 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:01:01 +0100 Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're running a GNOME desktop then gnome-volume-manager+pmount can > take care of it. Even if you are not running Gnome you can still use gnome-volume-manager+pmount, you just have to add it to your .xsession file

Re: Solid POP3 client

2006-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J Merritt wrote: > I am looking for a solid POP3 client for use with Debian. I know > people have their personal preferences, etc., but I am looking > specifically for a client that would provide a high level of > functionality and options. When using

Re: xpdf -fullscreen (maybe not Debian specific)

2006-07-06 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, # Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:07:15 -0400 > On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 09:50:38 +0900, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Hi all, I may be imagining it, but I thought that at one stage xpdf > > -fullsreen foo.pdf' would launch xpdf with no buttons or scrollbars > > etc. The curr

Solid POP3 client

2006-07-06 Thread J Merritt
I am looking for a solid POP3 client for use with Debian. I know people have their personal preferences, etc., but I am looking specifically for a client that would provide a high level of functionality and options. When using Windoze, I used Pegasus Mail for years and liked it a lot. Selective mai

Re: memtest= won't load

2006-07-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 05:00:21PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > next on my checklist os memtest. I've tried to boot into memtest from > > both the harddrive and the floppy that can be created with the > > memtest+ package. upon booting it says memtest is

Re: Using real email addresses to mailing lists (was Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?)

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 17:36, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > See also Karsten Self on challenge/response systems: > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/challenge-response.html I think you are referring to me using a C-R system. Let me just start out by saying that, I am not completely in favor of t

Re: xpdf -fullscreen (maybe not Debian specific)

2006-07-06 Thread Hubert Chan
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 09:50:38 +0900, Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi all, I may be imagining it, but I thought that at one stage `xpdf > -fullsreen foo.pdf' would launch xpdf with no buttons or scrollbars > etc. The current version in unstable (1.00-3.8) includes all these

Questions related to voice/sound recording in Debian.

2006-07-06 Thread Luis Maceira
I need a program to record and play my voice in high quality sound for training/improving my accent of foreign languages.With a iMac PPC first generation with built-in microphone and output for headphones.I have DebianPPC 3.1. Does the program ARDOUR is adequate for this? or is there some utility

xpdf -fullscreen (maybe not Debian specific)

2006-07-06 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi all, I may be imagining it, but I thought that at one stage `xpdf -fullsreen foo.pdf' would launch xpdf with no buttons or scrollbars etc. The current version in unstable (1.00-3.8) includes all these widgets: not exactly what I want for giving presentations. There don't seem to be any runtim

Re: Debian box listening on UDP port 68

2006-07-06 Thread Greg Norris
I suppose you could "kill -9" the dhclient process, once the interface has been configured. You run the risk, however, of the DHCP server reassigning your IP address to someone else, with no way for your system to react. I wouldn't even consider doing this unless you also control the DHCP ser

Re: Etch ISOs

2006-07-06 Thread Thierry Chatelet
IraqiGeek wrote: Hi, I am downloading the Etch DVD ISOs so I'd have a local copy. Is there any mirror where I could download the Etch ISOs from other than cdimage.debian.org??? The downloads from this server are slow, and the third DVD image doesnt seem to be there (in the download page it s

RE: Starting Mysql service.. Problem

2006-07-06 Thread Conrad Williams
Try making the directory writable. Don't know why the permissions have been changed, but...    # chmod u+w /var/run/mysqld      dr-xr-xr-x   2 mysql root 4096 2006-07-04 07:30 . ^  this is not writable for the mysql user. 

Etch ISOs

2006-07-06 Thread IraqiGeek
Hi, I am downloading the Etch DVD ISOs so I'd have a local copy. Is there any mirror where I could download the Etch ISOs from other than cdimage.debian.org??? The downloads from this server are slow, and the third DVD image doesnt seem to be there (in the download page it states that the thi

Re: Mount a CD-ROM automatically

2006-07-06 Thread Bob McGowan
Magnus Therning wrote: On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 13:26:26 -0300, Henrique Rennó wrote: Hello!!! I'd like to know if it is possible to mount a cd-rom automatically when I put a cd in the cd-rom drive without needing to type mount /mnt/cdrom for instance. Do I have to add some options to /etc/fst

Mplayer output

2006-07-06 Thread Wulfy
Hi, d-u! When I play a video from the command line (as a user rather than root) with mplayer, I get the following output: * MPlayer dev-CVS--3.3.5 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Duron Morgan,Camaro (Family: 6, Stepping: 0) MMX2 supported but disabled 3DN

Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

2006-07-06 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 05:44:09PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > But do you have any idea how many false hits your system gets? 'False' in the sense that a non-spam message is tagged as spam? Very few. Maybe one a month. And certainly no one has emailed me to say, "Did you get that email I sent?" >

Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

2006-07-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 06 July 2006 17:26, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 05:31:10PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > My personal experience is that if you use a real email address to > > subscribe to d-u, you are doomed. > > Only if your spam-catching software is bad. I make no > atte

Using real email addresses to mailing lists (was Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?)

2006-07-06 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 05:40:12PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > But not everyone has the resources to run a dedicated mail server and > maintain > it. Many people use webmail such as gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc., What about > them? They should suffer by exposing their email address to the p

Re: memtest+ won't load SOLVED

2006-07-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:44:13PM -0400, Jay Zach wrote: > On Thursday 06 July 2006 2:56 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Hi list, I'm trying to diagnose what I think is a hardware problem > > causing random hard-locks of my debian sid machine. > > > > its an athlon xp2800 on an asus a7n266-vm

Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 17:26, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 05:31:10PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > My personal experience is that if you use a real email address to > > subscribe to d-u, you are doomed. > > Only if your spam-catching software is bad. I make no > atte

Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

2006-07-06 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 05:31:10PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > My personal experience is that if you use a real email address to subscribe > to > d-u, you are doomed. Only if your spam-catching software is bad. I make no attempt to hide my email address, either here or on the web. My ser

Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 16:58, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > 1. Please be a man (or a woman or whatever gender you choose) and > actually post from a real email address with a real name. and get spammed like crazy :-) My personal experience is that if you use a real email address to subscribe to

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 16:23, Ron Johnson wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:27, Wackojacko wrote: > >> apt-get install privoxy ?? > > > > This will upgrade the dependencies only if privoxy requires so. But I > > want to upgrade the dependencies whenever I upgrade

Re: memtest= won't load

2006-07-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > next on my checklist os memtest. I've tried to boot into memtest from > both the harddrive and the floppy that can be created with the > memtest+ package. upon booting it says memtest is too big to fit in > memory. wah? > > the memtest+.bin image is only 93K. >

Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

2006-07-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Anonymous Sender wrote: > I know that anyone who can get into a computer can make it insecure > (by putting the hard drive in another machine or taking the mo/board > battery out to clear the bios password), but what are the steps I can > realistically take to make a computer in a shared office sec

pppoeconf doesn't work either

2006-07-06 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi again, In trying to sort out my connection problems I found that pppoeconf wasn't installed. So I installed it, and pppoe. However, when I try pppoeconf it responds with "That option is not available. Try pppoeconf --help for details on usage". Sadly, I get the same response with pppoeconf

migrating sylpheed-claws mailboxes to cyrus

2006-07-06 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi i finally as able to set up my personal mailserver and now i have to migrate 2 mailboxes from the local storage to the server. the current format is MH from sylpheed-claws which should be quite similar to the internal cyrus storage format and i'm

Re: Mozilla mplayer plugin setup question

2006-07-06 Thread LeVA
2006. július 6. 16:55, "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 06:37:12PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > > 2006. július 5. 18:17, > > "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > > > > Hi Tom! > > > > > Using the mpl

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:27, Wackojacko wrote: > >> apt-get install privoxy ?? > > This will upgrade the dependencies only if privoxy requires so. But I want to > upgrade the dependencies whenever I upgrade the privox

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:07, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Consider the following example > > The dependencies on privoxy are given by > > $apt-cache depends privoxy > privoxy > Depends: libc6 > Depends: libpcre3 > Depends: logrotate > Depends: adduser > Recommends: doc-base > > Now whe

aptitude blocking SIGWINCH when restarting sshd

2006-07-06 Thread Vineet Kumar
A number of times in the past, I've run into problems where remote systems were doing bad things wrt window resizing. Basically, they'd stop responding to resizes. This can be really annoying. Today I had a system of mine do that to me, and I think I tracked down why. Whenever I've googled for

Re: memtest= won't load

2006-07-06 Thread Jay Zach
On Thursday 06 July 2006 2:56 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Hi list, I'm trying to diagnose what I think is a hardware problem > causing random hard-locks of my debian sid machine. > > its an athlon xp2800 on an asus a7n266-vm board, 256 megs ram. > > it will randomly lock hard, no ssh, nothin

Re: Mount a CD-ROM automatically

2006-07-06 Thread LeVA
2006. július 5. 21:48, "Henrique Rennó" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,: > Hello Daniel!!! > > Thanks for the answer. Just one more question below. > > > Hi! > > > > Try the autofs package. > > > > $ apt-cache show autofs > > [...] > > Description: kernel-based automounter for Linu

Re: how to redirect sound

2006-07-06 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 02:10:42PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > "Lubos Vrbka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >belahcene abdelkader wrote: > >>Hi, every body > >>I am using a set of thin client (neoware) connected to > >>a llinux server, I want to redirect the audio to

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:11:10PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > At this point I would like the prompt to wait for the user's input. But I > dont > know why apt-get is Aborting it. I believe it has something to do with the character used to separate the items that xargs is processing. Whic

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 14:15, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > above command | xargs -i apt-get install '{}' > The -i option is not documented in the xargs man page. The -I is documented but I do not know whether they are the same. Anyway I changed the xargs command to -n1. So now the command looks

memtest= won't load

2006-07-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Hi list, I'm trying to diagnose what I think is a hardware problem causing random hard-locks of my debian sid machine. its an athlon xp2800 on an asus a7n266-vm board, 256 megs ram. it will randomly lock hard, no ssh, nothing. must reboot. so okay, lmsensors reports the voltage are out of whack,

Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

2006-07-06 Thread Guillaume
Anonymous Sender wrote: I know that anyone who can get into a computer can make it insecure (by putting the hard drive in another machine or taking the mo/board battery out to clear the bios password), but what are the steps I can realistically take to make a computer in a shared office secure?

securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

2006-07-06 Thread Anonymous Sender
I know that anyone who can get into a computer can make it insecure (by putting the hard drive in another machine or taking the mo/board battery out to clear the bios password), but what are the steps I can realistically take to make a computer in a shared office secure? I can only think of these

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 02:19:28PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > The last tr is useful so that I can do > > sudo apt-get install `above command here` > > Other wise I do not know how to pass the result to apt-get without any fancy > scripts. You can take a list of packages and do for i i

Re: What's wrong with this kernel config?

2006-07-06 Thread Matthew Dawson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:05, Brian C wrote: > Hi, > > I must be missing something. The standard Sarge 2.6.8.2 kernel with > initrd boots fine on this ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe Motherboard with a single > 500GB IDE Hard drive as /dev/hda, but the config I

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:23, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 01:18:45PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > Nope. apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade wants to upgrade a slew of other > > packages besides what I want. I dont want to upgrade the entire system. I > > just want to up

Re: how to redirect sound

2006-07-06 Thread Joe Smith
"Lubos Vrbka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] belahcene abdelkader wrote: Hi, every body I am using a set of thin client (neoware) connected to a llinux server, I want to redirect the audio to the client. It exists probably the way to do that in "same way" as the im

Re: Midi files S.O.S.

2006-07-06 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Marcio Roberto Teixeira writes: > Try Rosegarden (I use and maybe can help > you). Rosegarden edit midi files. What happens? I installed rosegarden4 but it doesn't manage to start: it sticks when I launch it. Marcio: > Timidity is sequencer+softsynth: > midi out (sequencer) --> softsynth --

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:27, Wackojacko wrote: > > apt-get install privoxy ?? This will upgrade the dependencies only if privoxy requires so. But I want to upgrade the dependencies whenever I upgrade the privoxy no matter whether it requires it or not. Perhaps privoxy is not such a good exa

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 06:27:09PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: > apt-get install privoxy ?? Oh, sorry; I was reading the original poster to be saying that he wanted to upgrade just the dependencies. Yes, apt-get install privoxy is the easy way to do this. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 01:18:45PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Nope. apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade wants to upgrade a slew of other > packages besides what I want. I dont want to upgrade the entire system. I > just want to upgrade privoxy and its dependencies. 1) Install apt-rdepends.

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Wackojacko
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:10, Alec Berryman wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi on 2006-07-06 13:07:41 -0400: Now whenever I am upgrading privoxy, I would like apt-get (or aptitude or whatever other software) to check if there any newer versions of the dependencies and updat

What's wrong with this kernel config?

2006-07-06 Thread Brian C
Hi, I must be missing something. The standard Sarge 2.6.8.2 kernel with initrd boots fine on this ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe Motherboard with a single 500GB IDE Hard drive as /dev/hda, but the config I made for 2.6.17.3 kernel panics at the point where it is looking for the hard disk (which it cannot fi

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:10, Alec Berryman wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi on 2006-07-06 13:07:41 -0400: > > Now whenever I am upgrading privoxy, I would like apt-get (or aptitude or > > whatever other software) to check if there any newer versions of the > > dependencies and update those as well.

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Alec Berryman
Kamaraju Kusumanchi on 2006-07-06 13:07:41 -0400: > Now whenever I am upgrading privoxy, I would like apt-get (or aptitude or > whatever other software) to check if there any newer versions of the > dependencies and update those as well. Is this possible? If so, How? 'apt-get upgrade' and 'apt-

Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Conside the following example The dependencies on privoxy are given by $apt-cache depends privoxy privoxy Depends: libc6 Depends: libpcre3 Depends: logrotate Depends: adduser Recommends: doc-base Now whenever I am upgrading privoxy, I would like apt-get (or aptitude or whatever other

Problems with internet connection via Aliant

2006-07-06 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I've just moved from Montreal to Wolfville, Nova Scotia. In the process I switched ISPs, from Bell Sympatico to Aliant. They both use the same hardware, but I'm having problems with my net access with Etch. The modem is a Speedstream 6520, which I've connected to my desktop NIC. It's runn

Re: DLT / Tape Library Emulation

2006-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mirco Piccin wrote: > Hi all. I'm looking for a tape library / DLT emulator. I aim to > test Backup products using those virtual devices to learn more > before real operative installation. Do you know same debs app or > other utility (open source, of

Re: [solved] wps file

2006-07-06 Thread Christoph Nenning
> > > Hi, > > > > > > I got a .wps file which was created with M$ Works. OOo, kword and > > > abiword are all failing to open it. Does anybody know another > > > tool to open it? > > What does Google say? I get many asian sites and nothing helpful. > Hi, > .wps file is format of a chinese M$ Wor

Re: Starting Mysql service.. Problem

2006-07-06 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
"Hansel A. Ortiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I continue having the same error, even restarting the service.and i chek the logs.. and there is nothing thereOn 7/5/06, Mirco Piccin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi there.So, i solved this problem few time ago in this way: edit /etc/mysql/my.cnfsearch for

Which Flash Drives Work with USB on a 6.5 Kernel?

2006-07-06 Thread Martin McCormick
The subject is the question. I presently have the mass storage driver working perfectly with a 2.6.5 kernel and an external USB hard drive. Other than the slow speed of the connection to the mother board, it doesn't miss a beat. usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 3 scsi2 :

RE: Debian box listening on UDP port 68

2006-07-06 Thread Jean-Sebastien Pilon
> Jean-Sebastien Pilon wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I noticed that all my Debian boxes are listening on port 68/UDP if they > > have the DHCP client running. > > > > Can someone explain to me why they would listen on that port if they > > actually received their DHCP info and they are up and runni

Re: Debian box listening on UDP port 68

2006-07-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Jean-Sebastien Pilon wrote: > Hello all, > > I noticed that all my Debian boxes are listening on port 68/UDP if they > have the DHCP client running. > > Can someone explain to me why they would listen on that port if they > actually received their DHCP info and they are up and running. > > udp

Re: Mozilla mplayer plugin setup question

2006-07-06 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 06:37:12PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > 2006. július 5. 18:17, > "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > > Hi Tom! > > > Using the mplayer plugin for mozilla I listen to a fm radio station on > > line. The sound is fine but mplayer occupies a

Re: clarification regarding icons seen during a Debian installation.

2006-07-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 06:56:31PM +0530, Vivek Varghese Cherian wrote: > On 7/5/06, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >well, I did say IIRC, I don't exactly install Debian every day. Maybe > >someone else has more concrete info for you? > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for the info.

Re: printing problem - spurious "d" characters, bad pixels, spuriousform feeds

2006-07-06 Thread Daniel B.
Felipe Sateler wrote: Daniel B. wrote: Can anyone help with this? I got absolutely no replies when I posted it before. Now the problem is much worse, with dozens of errors per page, maybe evening averaging one error per line of text (when printing a plain-text file). I'm taking a _very_ wil

RE: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-06 Thread Tony Heal
Try using a smart UPS and having it shut down the system cleanly when power goes off and restart the system when power returns. This will also fix your voltage flux problems. Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: David Goodenough

cdrecord - strange failure

2006-07-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
I had to burn 20 CDs. All but one of the first 18 went off OK; I put the single failure down to a faulty disk. But after I'd done 18 they all started failing. I tried a disk from a different source but the same thing happened. I then tried to burn disks in a different computer (running the same ver

No menus on some multimedia apps (xmms, audacity)

2006-07-06 Thread Luis Hidalgo
Hi, I'm running Sarge 3.1 AMD64 port on an acer ferrari 4005, kernel 2.6.14. I'm a bit concerned with the fact that when I open some apps like xmmx or audacity, the menus have all the options and the programs behave the usual way, with a slight inconvenience: The labels of each option from the m

a strange issue with kernel 2.6.17.x and pop3/imap servers!

2006-07-06 Thread galaxico
hi all I don't know if it is an already reported issue so please mind the repetition here. After upgrading to kernel 2.6.17 (both as a debian package as well as home-made) I cannot get mail from specific pop/imap servers (in particular the UW-IMAP) with or without using SSL and with a variety of

Re: clarification regarding icons seen during a Debian installation.

2006-07-06 Thread Vivek Varghese Cherian
On 7/5/06, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: well, I did say IIRC, I don't exactly install Debian every day.  Maybesomeone else has more concrete info for you?Thanks for the info. If some one could get me a URL that provides the answer it would be nice. I remember reading about it some ti

Re: Starting Mysql service.. Problem

2006-07-06 Thread Hansel A. Ortiz
the output log i have is thiswith linux-debian:~# cat /var/log/syslog | grep mysqldlinux-debian:~# cat /var/log/syslog | grep mysqldJul  5 10:24:24 linux-debian mysqld_safe[6113]: startedJul  5 10:24:24 linux-debian mysqld[6117]: 060705 10:24:24 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission

Debian box listening on UDP port 68

2006-07-06 Thread Jean-Sebastien Pilon
Hello all, I noticed that all my Debian boxes are listening on port 68/UDP if they have the DHCP client running. Can someone explain to me why they would listen on that port if they actually received their DHCP info and they are up and running. udp0 0 0.0.0.0:68 0.0.0

Debian sid tvtime problem

2006-07-06 Thread Rocky Ou
Hey List, I'm a newbie to the debian world. I'm longing to set up my Dell inspiron 2200 laptop with debian sid on it with the capability of watching TVs. I aptitude installed tvtime and select PAL and China broadcast as it goes. After that my computer refused to move further and give me the follow

Receipt of email

2006-07-06 Thread Do . Not . Reply
Thank you for your email. Unfortunately, due to an influx of spam, this mailbox has been disabled. To contact us, please use the Contact Us form located at: http://www.cc-solutions.com/contactus.html Thank you, Complete Computer Solutions, Inc. http://www.cc-solutions.com (508) 668-1400 Phone (

Debian sid installation

2006-07-06 Thread Rocky Ou
Hey list, Does any of you get Skype up and runing under Debian sid? I use to be able to install skype on my debian sarge system 2 months ago. But 1 month ago I switch to Debian sid and since then I could not install skype properly anymore. I would really appreciate it, If any of you could give m

make_kpkg does not build modules

2006-07-06 Thread matze
hello, i'm trying to build a kernel and modules image with make_kpkg. this works fine for the kernels (target kernel_image) but the modules aren't built. instead of executing the corresponding commands they are printed to the terminal. i tried it in several ways (modules, modules_image, deleting

DLT / Tape Library Emulation

2006-07-06 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi all.I'm looking for a tape library / DLT emulator.I aim to test Backup products using those virtual devices to learn more before real operative installation.Do you know same debs app or other utility (open source, of course!) to do this? Thanks!

Re: "netlink_lookup: write failed: Connection refused"

2006-07-06 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-07-05, Jim Seymour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> identd[12299]: netlink_lookup: write failed: Connection refused > I added tcp_diag to the list of modules getting loaded at boot time. > That is the module it is looking for. Thanks, I'll try that and see if goes away. Having googled a

Re: sid kde printing and cups setup

2006-07-06 Thread Roger Leigh
Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roger Leigh wrote: > >> >> Make sure you have "Port 631" (and nothing else) in >> /etc/cups/cups.d/ports.conf. >> > > Hi > > your solution solves my problems after an upgrade! > However, I had to create /etc/cups/cups.d/ports.conf (even the > director

Re: autofs only mounting one fs at a time.

2006-07-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 06.07.06 13:41, wehn wrote: > I set up autofs for automounting with help of: > http://greenfly.net/tips/autofs.html > > But I can only mount the 1st parition of the first device I insert. Does > anyone know what is wrong? the idea of using autofs for this purpose :) autofs is system that al

Re: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-06 Thread David Goodenough
I have had cases with repeated reboots, and ext3 recovers quite properly from almost every one. Obviously it can not handle serious hardware failure, but if all the hardware is good it will automatically restore the disk and then continue as normal. David On Thursday 06 July 2006 06:33, Anil Gu

Re: sid kde printing and cups setup

2006-07-06 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Roger Leigh wrote: Make sure you have "Port 631" (and nothing else) in /etc/cups/cups.d/ports.conf. Hi your solution solves my problems after an upgrade! However, I had to create /etc/cups/cups.d/ports.conf (even the directory /etc/cups/cups.d) since it was not there... thanks Lo

Re: new Package of the Day features

2006-07-06 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Hey, here's a neat app I just discovered five minutes ago via POTD: http://potd.redsymbol.net/?p=dog Cool! It's working for me already :) On Wednesday 05 July 2006 02:46 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > the bottom of the p.d.o pages provide a variety of links, some of > which actually go upstre

Re: wps file

2006-07-06 Thread Xiaoguang Xing
Hi, .wps file is format of a chinese M$ Word-like software. It's well known in China. Basically it is the same with .doc file. You can change the suffix to .doc and have a try with M$ Word or OpenOffice. Good luck. Xiaoguang On 7/5/06, Christoph Nenning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I got a .