Re: xserver-xorg-video-i810 now only displays 640x480 [SOLVED]

2006-12-16 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 16 December 2006 07:33, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have just restarted my computer after having been away for a few > days and the display has come up in 640x480 mode and that seems to be > the only option. I have NOT changed xorg.conf so my guess is that it > was a recent upgrade of the

Re: dumb question about jigdo and i386 and AMD 64 versions of Etch......

2006-12-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 02:12 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> I am going to do this as an exercise to learn about jigdo and also to find > >> the most efficient way of downloading a full distribution from the mirror > >> sites. > >Jigdo certainly is efficient. The nice thing about it is if you >

Re: Advice on staying current

2006-12-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 06:17:45PM +, andy wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > >As long as your sources.list points only to etch (or testing) you should > >be fine, though you probably should change any 'testing' to 'etch' before the > >release. > >Also, until the release, you could also put t

xine, mplayer or any media player segfaults

2006-12-16 Thread Nick Lidakis
As of a couple of days ago, any media player that I try on my Debian Sid box segfaults, no matter what video file format. Same goes after installing VLC. After doing a search, I think I might want to use a program called strace to try to figure out what's going on. I have to admit that I am t

Re: .bash_profile ignored in X

2006-12-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061216 23:52]: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 07:13:39AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > During configuration of another machine running Etch, I discovered > > that .bash_profile appears to be ignored when logging into X. > > No reason why it should be... your .ba

need some advice on redirection in apache

2006-12-16 Thread H.S.
Hello, Just wondering, what options do I have to do redirection from the older web site http://mydomain.net: (apache listening on port ) to the new web site http://mydomina.net. In other words, a webserver that has been running on port for quite a few months is to be shifted to

InterScan MSS has delivered a message

2006-12-16 Thread Perfect Commerce Viruswall2 Notification
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aptitude symbol look up error

2006-12-16 Thread rocky
Hey List, I'm using Debian Sid in my Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop. Recently after I aptitude update and aptitude upgrade I got the following error. aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol: _ZN9pkgPolicyD2Ev It has been there for several days. Did any of you come across the same prob

Re: Why Disable Root ssh login?

2006-12-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Sue Kim wrote: > Neither, yo. > > If you want security you need grsecurity's gradm RBAC patch installed. I > bet I could hack your system in 12 seconds. Pardon me if I am less than impressed by someone posting from an anonymous account, making spurious claims and begins their missive with the

Re: .bash_profile ignored in X

2006-12-16 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 07:13:39AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > During configuration of another machine running Etch, I discovered > that .bash_profile appears to be ignored when logging into X. No reason why it should be... your .bash_profile is, of course, a configuration file related to th

Re: Advice on staying current

2006-12-16 Thread Paul Johnson
andy wrote: > Anyway, I just wanted to pick the collective brain here: short of doing > a dist-upgrade with apt-get, or upgrading individual packages, is there > a third way of ensuring that the system-wide software I am running is > up-to-date (although, I don't want bleeding edge from Sid!!)? T

Re: .bash_profile ignored in X

2006-12-16 Thread José Alburquerque
Russell L. Harris wrote: During configuration of another machine running Etch, I discovered that .bash_profile appears to be ignored when logging into X. Specifically, the problem is that the "~/bin" directory does not appear in the path when, in an X terminal, I execute: $ echo $PATH Howe

Re: bulk mailer

2006-12-16 Thread José Alburquerque
Russell L. Harris wrote: I need a method to email a weekly Bible study to a list of a hundred or so recipients. I found in the Debian archive a package named "libmail-bulkmail-perl". I installed the package and looked at the example files in "/usr/share/doc/libmail-bulkmail-perl", but I have bee

setting up compiz on legacy video

2006-12-16 Thread David E. Fox
I was about to dismiss this as non-doable, but reading some posts on a google search convinced me to try out compiz on etch, so I installed it, making a few recommended changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf along the way. I'm running etch, with all updates as of today. Hardware is a bit of a clunker: hom

Re: where should i post securety risc code ?

2006-12-16 Thread Sue Kim
Post the code to the list anyway. It would be interesting to see your program :). Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:31:28 +0200, Jabka Atu said: > Howdy,... I realized some securety risc about users that are by > default are in Disc group : if user in this group he

Re: Why Disable Root ssh login?

2006-12-16 Thread Sue Kim
Neither, yo. If you want security you need grsecurity's gradm RBAC patch installed. I bet I could hack your system in 12 seconds. Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Olive wrote: > This answer in't entirely convincing. For example if you can sudo with > the normal password account, I do see

Re: Why Disable Root ssh login?

2006-12-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Olive wrote: > This answer in't entirely convincing. For example if you can sudo with > the normal password account, I do see any difference in security in > allowing root ssh or not. Operative word, "if". That's a big series of ifs. If sudo is installed. If it is configured to allo

Re: Modified Config Files

2006-12-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 04:52:19AM +0100, Chris Stork wrote: > Hi, > > What would be an easy way to list the config files that have been > changed on my system? > Find a file that was created/modified when you installed. Note that date. Use find to find all files in /etc/ newer than that date

Re: debian on an NAS server

2006-12-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 17:02 -0800, Tom Brown wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2006 10:56, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 08:23 -0800, Tom Brown wrote: > > > On Wednesday 13 December 2006 23:26, Tom Brown wrote: > > > > During boot I hit > > > > F2 to get to a menu which allows me to

Re: where should i post securety risc code ?

2006-12-16 Thread Hubert Chan
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:31:28 +0200, Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Howdy,... I realized some securety risc about users that are by > default are in Disc group : if user in this group he can add him self > to user group (by manualy editing the parttion ) i had written some > code that can d

Modified Config Files

2006-12-16 Thread Chris Stork
Hi, What would be an easy way to list the config files that have been changed on my system? Thanks, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Etch or Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) LAMP Server for LTSP

2006-12-16 Thread s spidas
Running "Ubuntu 6.06LTS", "Ubuntu 6.10", and "Etch RC1" Servers - two of each for various purposes. Before then the "Etch" servers ran "Sarge 3.1". IMHO the 'debian' (not to say that Ubuntu is not debian!) servers are preferable. Probably 'cos I know exactly what debian does and where it stores

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-16 Thread Wulfy
Marc Shapiro wrote: Wulfy wrote: Wulfy wrote: I found references to v.7 in ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat but I really don't know how to change that without screwing everything up. One of the references pointed to a now non-existent directory under /usr/lib... I "fixed" the problem...

Re: flashplayer9? (Mystery solved)

2006-12-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
David Jardine wrote: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 12:27:48PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Yes, but there are actually quite a few hidden configuration directories that are set with permissions of 700. I can see that this prevents anyone else from viewing your configs, but I don't see a danger in

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
Wulfy wrote: Wulfy wrote: I found references to v.7 in ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat but I really don't know how to change that without screwing everything up. One of the references pointed to a now non-existent directory under /usr/lib... I "fixed" the problem... reinstalled v.7. I h

Re: dumb question about jigdo and i386 and AMD 64 versions of Etch......

2006-12-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 20:31 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: >> How much commonality exists between the i386 versions of Etch or Sarge and >> the AMD 64 version of Etch? > >I expect very little. I was just wanting to do a similar thing - make a >DVD of m

/etc/network/interfaces file ?

2006-12-16 Thread Greg Madden
For several installs over a period of time for Etch, using a net-install cd. The ~/network/interfaces file uses the line "allow-hotplug eth0". This has not worked on my boxes, I have to type 'dhclient eth0' to connect. I use an Ipcop firewall, dhcp, hooked up to a switch. I comment out the 'hotplug

Re: Changing cable modum to ADSL modum.

2006-12-16 Thread John C
Russell L. Harris wrote: * Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061216 17:13]: Hi John, from my experience, most ISP use a device that outputs plain ole ethernet. My dsl service use a westell 6100. I'd suspect that it just uses ethernet with no PPPOE. Which means, as you suspect, you just plug it i

Re: Changing cable modum to ADSL modum.

2006-12-16 Thread John C
Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 01:09:44PM -0600, John C wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a simple way for a windows-only user to change a computer's network settings from a cable modem to an ADSL modem. I was under the impression that my granddaughter, who lives hundreds of miles

Re: Changing cable modum to ADSL modum.

2006-12-16 Thread John C
Douglas Tutty wrote: * John C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061216 13:13]: Hi all, I'm looking for a simple way for a windows-only user to change a computer's network settings from a cable modem to an ADSL modem. I was under the impression that my granddaughter, who lives hundreds of miles from me

link suggestion - blog banned by Goo gle

2006-12-16 Thread list
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Re: Changing cable modum to ADSL modum.

2006-12-16 Thread John Hasler
Most DSL modems include crude routers that handle PPP and also do DHCP. You usually can configure them via internal Web servers. If she doesn't have one of those or you choose to put it in dumb bridge mode as I do you will need to run Pppoeconf. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: question about using jigdo....

2006-12-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061216 17:13]: > If you use jigdo to read in bunch of Sarge CD images and then use them to > help make Etch CD images then you do the file scan bit on the mounted > Sarge CD images. > > I assume that jigdo would write the new iso file to your hard d

Re: Changing cable modum to ADSL modum.

2006-12-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061216 17:13]: > Hi John, > from my experience, most ISP use a device that outputs plain ole > ethernet. My dsl service use a westell 6100. I'd suspect that it just > uses ethernet with no PPPOE. Which means, as you suspect, you just plug > it in and wait for the d

Re: flashplayer9? (Mystery solved)

2006-12-16 Thread David Jardine
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 12:27:48PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Yes, but there are actually quite a few hidden configuration directories > that are set with permissions of 700. I can see that this prevents > anyone else from viewing your configs, but I don't see a danger in that > (viewing, b

Re: Advice on staying current

2006-12-16 Thread andy
Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 06:17:45PM +, andy wrote: What I was trying to get at in my original post was to see if there was a way of upgrading one's system by running a system-wide check which would then be cross-referenced to the sources, leading to out-of-date libs, etc.

Re: Changing cable modum to ADSL modum.

2006-12-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 01:09:44PM -0600, John C wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a simple way for a windows-only user to change a > computer's network settings from a cable modem to an ADSL modem. > > I was under the impression that my granddaughter, who lives > hundreds of miles from me,

Re: Changing cable modum to ADSL modum.

2006-12-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
> * John C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061216 13:13]: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm looking for a simple way for a windows-only user to change a > > computer's network settings from a cable modem to an ADSL modem. > > > > I was under the impression that my granddaughter, who lives > > hundreds of miles from

Re: where should i post securety risc code ?

2006-12-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 06:31:28PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > Howdy,... > I realized some securety risc about users that are by default are in > Disc group : > if user in this group he can add him self to user group (by manualy > editing the parttion ) > i had written some code that can demonstart

Re: Advice on staying current

2006-12-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 06:17:45PM +, andy wrote: > What I was trying to get at in my original post was to see if there was a way > of upgrading one's system by running a system-wide check which would then be > cross-referenced to the sources, leading to out-of-date libs, etc. being > identifie

question about using jigdo....

2006-12-16 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, If you use jigdo to read in bunch of Sarge CD images and then use them to help make Etch CD images then you do the file scan bit on the mounted Sarge CD images. I assume that jigdo would write the new iso file to your hard drive and not try to overwrite the existing CD

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-16 Thread Wulfy
Wulfy wrote: I found references to v.7 in ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat but I really don't know how to change that without screwing everything up. One of the references pointed to a now non-existent directory under /usr/lib... I "fixed" the problem... reinstalled v.7. I have sound back.

Re: Changing cable modum to ADSL modum.

2006-12-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
* John C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061216 13:13]: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a simple way for a windows-only user to change a > computer's network settings from a cable modem to an ADSL modem. > > I was under the impression that my granddaughter, who lives > hundreds of miles from me, had a cable

Re: dumb question about jigdo and i386 and AMD 64 versions of Etch......

2006-12-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 20:31 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > How much commonality exists between the i386 versions of Etch or Sarge and > the AMD 64 version of Etch? I expect very little. I was just wanting to do a similar thing - make a DVD of my Sarge-AMD64 CDs. But cdimage.debian.org doesn

Re: flashplayer9? (Mystery solved)

2006-12-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 12:27:48PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:02:40AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > >>Both /home an ~/ have permissions of 755, giving read access to > >>everyone (my wife and I are the only persons with physical acc

Re: dumb question about jigdo and i386 and AMD 64 versions of Etch......

2006-12-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 08:31:26PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > How much commonality exists between the i386 versions of Etch or Sarge and > the AMD 64 version of Etch? > > Let me explain what I mean a little more. > > I have Sarge 3.1r4 on DVD. I also have Sarge 3.1r3 on CD. All of i

Re: poweroff permission

2006-12-16 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 linux china wrote: > hi, > > if listing the reboot, I can see it is a soft link to halt. > > $ ls -l /sbin/reboot > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 6 14:23 /sbin/reboot -> halt > > and halt can be executed by others, > # ls -l /sbin/halt > -rwxr-xr-x

Re: New hardware under Etch ?

2006-12-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:34:37AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > Nice. > > I doubt that Sarge will find your SATA drives; go with Etch. Etch I have two Opteron servers with 4 GB RAM and 2 SATA drives each and the Sarge installer (unofficial amd64) found them just great. > should work. Best

dumb question about jigdo and i386 and AMD 64 versions of Etch......

2006-12-16 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, How much commonality exists between the i386 versions of Etch or Sarge and the AMD 64 version of Etch? Let me explain what I mean a little more. I have Sarge 3.1r4 on DVD. I also have Sarge 3.1r3 on CD. All of it. As I understand it I could use jigdo to sniff through the D

Re: flashplayer9? (Mystery solved)

2006-12-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:02:40AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Both /home an ~/ have permissions of 755, giving read access to everyone (my wife and I are the only persons with physical access). However, ~/.mozilla has permissions of 700, no access to anyone but

Re: Unbootable after today dist-upgrade (Sid)

2006-12-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 07:14 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > I've said this before, but it is *not* a good idea to do a dist-upgrade > to Sid on the same partition. I *always* use mondo to backup the Sid > partition, restore that CD/DVD to another one, from where I do the > dist-upgrade. If th

Re: flashplayer9? (Mystery solved)

2006-12-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:02:40AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: [...] > >> > >>I just ran locate again this morning. It found all the file and > >>symlinks in all the system directories that the install of > >>flashplayer-nonfree placed there. It DID NOT find the files in my > >>user directory,

Re: New Debian user

2006-12-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 07:54:09PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West skrev: > >On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 03:11:34PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > > > >>I wonder, if I put that LiveCD with Ubuntu back in, is there some > >>commands I can use to get all the info I need to instal

Changing cable modum to ADSL modum.

2006-12-16 Thread John C
Hi all, I'm looking for a simple way for a windows-only user to change a computer's network settings from a cable modem to an ADSL modem. I was under the impression that my granddaughter, who lives hundreds of miles from me, had a cable ISP. In an attempt to educate the next generation, I've

Re: New Debian user

2006-12-16 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Andrew Sackville-West skrev: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 03:11:34PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: I wonder, if I put that LiveCD with Ubuntu back in, is there some commands I can use to get all the info I need to install "Etch" ??? debootstrap. I'm sure ubuntu has got it. you can save your

Re: Advice on staying current

2006-12-16 Thread andy
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 04:08:13PM +, andy wrote: Hey all Well, this is about the anniversary of week one as a Debian Etch user, and I must say, it has been a very cool experience so far. There have been a couple of hiccups, but as I haven't been able to reproduce

Re: Advice on staying current

2006-12-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 04:08:13PM +, andy wrote: > Hey all > > Well, this is about the anniversary of week one as a Debian Etch user, > and I must say, it has been a very cool experience so far. There have > been a couple of hiccups, but as I haven't been able to reproduce them, > I'll let

Errors while playing video-DVD

2006-12-16 Thread Bernd Kloss
Etch 2.6.18-3-k7 w32codecs installed KDE 3.5.5 Kaffeine 0.8.3 or mplayer LG-DVD-RW ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] 2GHz, 512 MB Hello, while playing commercial videos the software crashes kaffeine: sigsev no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls

Re: flashplayer9? (Mystery solved)

2006-12-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 09:28:14AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Angelina Carlton wrote: W Paul Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: That is normal. updatedb does not go into user directories. On my system, updatedb runs some time early in

Re: New hardware under Etch ?

2006-12-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 03:30:17PM +0100, Christian Christmann wrote: > Hi, > > I've a system with 6 GB RAM, two AMD Opteron > CPUs and an S-ATA HD. Will these components run under > a default Debian Sarge. If so, where can I check that > both CPUs are running? Will /proc/cpuinfo provide > appropr

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
Kent West wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Does anyone now, off the top of their heads, a site that does not run on v7 that I can test this with? I just tried http://www.metacafe.com/watch/309044/magic_exposed/ with v7, and it complained that I needed a newer version; then I tried with v9, a

did any one compiled and uploaded wine64 some where ?

2006-12-16 Thread Jabka Atu
Howdy ,... im searching for wine on amd64 and i understand that i need to compile it. did anyone compiled and created a package for it ? Thnx in advance ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian NetInstall: Ethernet not found?

2006-12-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:42:23AM -0500, Mike Pobega wrote: > Well I was trying to switch OSes from Ubuntu to Debian, and I figured that > the NetInstall would be the best way to go. So I downloaded the .iso, burned > it, and popped it into my laptop. I connected my laptop directly into my > modem

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 09:28:14AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Angelina Carlton wrote: > >W Paul Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>That is normal. updatedb does not go into user directories. > >> > > > >On my system, updatedb runs some time early in the morning, before 6am, > >perhap

Re: Fehler beim Video-DVD abspielen

2006-12-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Bernd, try again in english please. A On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 05:36:03PM +0100, Bernd Kloss wrote: > > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > > Von: "Bernd Kloss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Gesendet: 16.12.06 08:13:53 > > An: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Betreff: Fehler beim Video-DVD abspielen

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
Angelina Carlton wrote: W Paul Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: That is normal. updatedb does not go into user directories. On my system, updatedb runs some time early in the morning, before 6am, perhaps the OP's computer isn't on at that time? This is getting even more confusing!

Re: apt-get "Segmentation faultsts ... x%" not solved

2006-12-16 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 16 December 2006 11:11, jdevoo wrote: > Hello, > I keep having problems with apt-get which throws a "segmentation faultsts" > at me regardless of my attempts to remove the /var/cache/apt/*.bin files. I > am running the stable version 0.5.28.6 on a kurobox (PowerPC). > The segmentation f

Re: Debian NetInstall: Ethernet not found?

2006-12-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Mike Pobega([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Well I was trying to switch OSes from Ubuntu to Debian, and I figured that > the NetInstall would be the best way to go. So I downloaded the .iso, burned > it, and popped it into my laptop. I connected my laptop directly into my > modem thr

Re: New Debian user

2006-12-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 03:11:34PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > > I wonder, if I put that LiveCD with Ubuntu back in, is there some > commands I can use to get all the info I need to install "Etch" ??? debootstrap. I'm sure ubuntu has got it. you can save yourself a download and burn (sort of)

Re: Debian NetInstall: Ethernet not found?

2006-12-16 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat, 2006-16-12 at 10:42 -0500, Mike Pobega wrote: > Well I was trying to switch OSes from Ubuntu to Debian, and I figured > that the NetInstall would be the best way to go. So I downloaded > the .iso, burned it, and popped it into my laptop. I connected my > laptop directly into my modem throug

Re: package problems [SOLVED]

2006-12-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > linux-image-2.6.18-3-k7 > > localepurge: checking system for new locale ... > > localepurge: processing locale files ... > > localepur

Re: aptitutde: "untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed!"

2006-12-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 17:08:04 +, Chris Lale wrote: > Miles Bader wrote: > >Chris Lale writes: > > > >>Would you mind telling me why you think this is misinformation? (I had > >>in mind that using Apt-get for a while and then using Aptitude could > >>result in Aptitude wanting to remove pac

Re: Fehler beim Video-DVD abspielen

2006-12-16 Thread Bernd Kloss
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: "Bernd Kloss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Gesendet: 16.12.06 08:13:53 > An: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Fehler beim Video-DVD abspielen > Etch 2.6.18-3-k7 > w32codecs installiert > KDE 3.5.5 > Kaffeine 0.8.3 oder mplayer > LG-DVD-RW-Laufwerk > AT

where should i post securety risc code ?

2006-12-16 Thread Jabka Atu
Howdy,... I realized some securety risc about users that are by default are in Disc group : if user in this group he can add him self to user group (by manualy editing the parttion ) i had written some code that can demonstarte this kind of behavor. where can i send this code ? Regards Jab

Re: Advice on staying current

2006-12-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 04:08:13PM +, andy wrote: > Hey all > > Well, this is about the anniversary of week one as a Debian Etch user, and I > must say, it has > been a very cool experience so far. There have been a couple of hiccups, but > as I haven't been > able to reproduce them, I'll

Re: http://cdimage.debian.org/

2006-12-16 Thread Niels Rasmussen
It's same thing here ! Just waiting for the site to come up, so I can install "Etch" :-) /niller 2006/12/16, Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Is http://cdimage.debian.org/ down? I'm getting time-outs all day. Tried from my UK server too - same result. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

http://cdimage.debian.org/

2006-12-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
Is http://cdimage.debian.org/ down? I'm getting time-outs all day. Tried from my UK server too - same result. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Advice on staying current

2006-12-16 Thread andy
Hey all Well, this is about the anniversary of week one as a Debian Etch user, and I must say, it has been a very cool experience so far. There have been a couple of hiccups, but as I haven't been able to reproduce them, I'll let those slide for now. Otherwise, this has been a great experienc

Debian NetInstall: Ethernet not found?

2006-12-16 Thread Mike Pobega
Well I was trying to switch OSes from Ubuntu to Debian, and I figured that the NetInstall would be the best way to go. So I downloaded the .iso, burned it, and popped it into my laptop. I connected my laptop directly into my modem through it's Ethernet port, but when it got to the point where it c

Re: New hardware under Etch ?

2006-12-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 15:30 +0100, Christian Christmann wrote: > I've a system with 6 GB RAM, two AMD Opteron > CPUs and an S-ATA HD. Will these components run under > a default Debian Sarge. Hard to say, you provide no details on the hardware - what model motherboard, etc. > If so, where can I c

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-16 Thread Angelina Carlton
W Paul Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That is normal. updatedb does not go into user directories. On my system, updatedb runs some time early in the morning, before 6am, perhaps the OP's computer isn't on at that time? -- -Angelina Carlton- orchid on irc.freenode.net [EMAIL PRO

New hardware under Etch ?

2006-12-16 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I've a system with 6 GB RAM, two AMD Opteron CPUs and an S-ATA HD. Will these components run under a default Debian Sarge. If so, where can I check that both CPUs are running? Will /proc/cpuinfo provide appropriate information? Regards, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-get "Segmentation faultsts ... x%" SOLVED

2006-12-16 Thread jdevoo
Hello again, I just dropped the /var/lib/apt/lists and re-created both lists and the partial subdirectory. Re-issued apt-get update and this time the "Reading Package Lists..." went through. Cool. - JP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

apt-get "Segmentation faultsts ... x%"

2006-12-16 Thread jdevoo
JHair, when I look at /proc/meminfo (don't have memtest) I get: total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 130138112 123412480 67256320 8929280 93880320 Swap: 268877824 15884288 252993536 MemTotal: 127088 kB MemFree: 6568 kB MemShared: 0 k

Re: Notice again

2006-12-16 Thread info
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Re: New Debian user

2006-12-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
H Neils, FYI, the Debian list has a custom of bottom posting so that a conversatio flows (see the mail list info on the web site). I've altered your reply thus: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 02:25:41PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > >If you look at the release notes for Etch you'll see that a test

Re: New Debian user

2006-12-16 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Etch, certainly. However, be prepared for Etch to be "obsolete" well before the next Debian release. You will most likely want to change your pointers to either "testing" or "unstable", but don't do that until you are comfortable with Debian and the apt way of package management as a user. I've be

Re: Add hardware to an existing system

2006-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
kevin bailey wrote: Something I've never known how to do?!?! Say I've installed Etch (which looks as good as Ubuntu BTW) on to a PC - and I then need to install a new graphics card and a DVD burner. Now I take it that during installation the hardware was detected and the various modules were se

Re: New Debian user

2006-12-16 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Thanks for reply. I'm not sure I want to repartitioning my other harddrive because I have 60 GB of music and fotos on it, so only one of them should have Debian on it. I presume it's possible to mount the media harddrive and catch my stuff from there ? My router has a fine internal firewall so h

Re: VCD no go with MPlayer.

2006-12-16 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Sven, On 12/16/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 14:14 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > The ao_driver was already set correctly, but I had to change the > vo_driver values from "xmga" to "xv,x11". I now get a picture, but > with the following error: > > ioctl dif

Intel D915GEV board problem

2006-12-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone else has problems with Debian on this board? I have Etch installed. About three out of four boots hang at random. What happens is it starts normally, but somewhere in the boot proccess the display gets corrupted and the machine hangs. Doesn't happen at the same

Re: GDM Timedlogin weird message

2006-12-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 11:32:15AM +0100, Nicoco Kinlidex wrote: > Hi ! > > I'm using GDM TimedLogin option but the message it displays at startup > is "User nicoco will login in 5 secondsnicoco", so there is one more > "nicoco" than necessary. I've found nothing in gdm.conf to change this. > I'm

GDM Timedlogin weird message

2006-12-16 Thread Nicoco Kinlidex
Hi ! I'm using GDM TimedLogin option but the message it displays at startup is "User nicoco will login in 5 secondsnicoco", so there is one more "nicoco" than necessary. I've found nothing in gdm.conf to change this. I'm using GDM in french under Debian Unstable Any clue ? Thanks -- Nicoco --

Re: apt-get "Segmentation faultsts ... x%" not solved

2006-12-16 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
jdevoo writes: > The segmentation fault appears at random points anywhere from 0% to > as high as 60%... Have you already tested the memory of your machine with memtest? -- -- Jhair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Disabled "Manual" menu item in Sylpheed Claws GTK2

2006-12-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
Hi, Using Sylpheed Claws GTK2 on an up-to-date Etch system: $ dpkg -l sylpheed* | grep ^ii ii sylpheed-claws-gtk2 2.6.0-1Fast, lightweight and user-friendly GTK2 bas ii sylpheed-claws-gtk2-doc 2.6.0-1User documentation for Sylpheed-Claws GTK2 m Even

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:21:19 -0600 W Paul Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Kent West wrote: [...] > >> "updatedb" runs by default, I believe, every day. However, just to > >> be sure, I'd run it manually, then do anot

poweroff permission

2006-12-16 Thread linux china
hi, if listing the reboot, I can see it is a soft link to halt. $ ls -l /sbin/reboot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 6 14:23 /sbin/reboot -> halt and halt can be executed by others, # ls -l /sbin/halt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10208 Jan 5 2005 /sbin/halt however, when I tried to run the reboot co

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-16 Thread Kent West
Marc Shapiro wrote: > Does anyone now, off the top of their heads, a site that does not run > on v7 that I can test this with? > I just tried http://www.metacafe.com/watch/309044/magic_exposed/ with v7, and it complained that I needed a newer version; then I tried with v9, and this site played. --

apt-get "Segmentation faultsts ... x%" not solved

2006-12-16 Thread jdevoo
Hello, I keep having problems with apt-get which throws a "segmentation faultsts" at me regardless of my attempts to remove the /var/cache/apt/*.bin files. I am running the stable version 0.5.28.6 on a kurobox (PowerPC). The segmentation fault appears at random points anywhere from 0% to as high