Re: euro sign / nobreak space

2008-04-13 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Nigel > I suggest unchecking all boxes on the "Enable xkb options" page, click on > "apply", then on "default", then logout, and login to KDE. > > Having logged back in, check "Enable xkb options" box, and scroll down to the > "Third level choosers" section, then check the "Press Right Alt

Re: Read-only root (/) except /etc

2008-04-13 Thread Timo Boettcher
* Daniel Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to have /etc on a separate partition from / (root) so > that root can be read-only while /etc is read-write? Making a read-only root-fs is quite complex. You didn't write why you do want to do this. If you have a medium that may break b

Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?

2008-04-13 Thread Goupil
Goupil wrote: > > > Lars Bjerregaard wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I saw a link to your survey from LWN, and wanted to reply to it because >> of it's >> friendly and inviting tone. I'm not subscribed to the list (but maybe I >> should >> do that...). >> >> I first touched a set of Linux diske

Packages temporarily disappearing from Testing/Lenny

2008-04-13 Thread David
Hi list. Something I've noticed with Testing/Lenny is that packages often disappear for a short period (a few days or weeks) and then reappear. A few current examples: xmms and nvidia-glx. If you look on packages.debian.org they are in unstable and stable, but not testing. comix was also gone for

Re: Kernel source packages..

2008-04-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.04.14.0252 +0200]: > The example in my Martin Kraft book refers to: > apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.8 > but I can't find a 'kernel-source-anything'.. Try linux-source-*. The kernel packaging has changed substantially since my book was pu

Use the BTS, luke! (was: sid: upgrade failed)

2008-04-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-04-14 00:43 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Last upgrade failed: > Setting up console-data (2:1.07-1) ... > no template type specified at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 34, > chunk 10. > dpkg: error processing console-data (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script

Re: lenny net instal problem

2008-04-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 03:01:30PM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > I reburnt several times and finally it worked. Now I've got another issue > to check out though ;) Even if you got rid of the first issue, doesn't mean that you burned it correctly this time. Use the "ckeck integrity" option of your bu

Re: [OT] How to add fortune output to terminal

2008-04-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:27:15AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Angus Auld wrote: > > Would someone be able to advise me as to what is a > > safe method to add a fortune command to my .bashrc > > file so as to have fortune output in my terminal @ > > login? > > I've googled this pretty extensively, a

Re: Kernel source packages..

2008-04-13 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:52:41AM +, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Can anyone shed any light on the differences between the > various kernel source packages in the repository, kernel-source-* are for sarge and below linux-source-* are for etch and beyond Then do apt-cache show $PACKAGE and read the

Re: Read-only root (/) except /et

2008-04-13 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Responding to the OP's original question (sorry, no longer have the message), Voyage Linux is a Debian derivation for use on flash storage which by default sets the root filesystem to read-only. A few exceptions such as /var are mounted under tempfs and so run in memory. The idea is to minimize wr

Re: Kernel source packages..

2008-04-13 Thread David Witbrodt
> Can anyone shed any light on the differences between > the various kernel source packages in the repository, > and which is the best choice for just being able to > reproduce the running kernel? > > The example in my Martin Kraft book refers to: > apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.8 > but

Re: software index is broken

2008-04-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
maybe aptitude autoclean then mandb then aptitude -f install might work. On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, laura eznarriaga wrote: Software index is broken - "Software index is broken It is impossible to install or remove any software. Please use the package

Re: Read-only root (/) except /et

2008-04-13 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Digby Tarvin wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 07:30:55PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>> The trouble is that isn't really true. As long as you have standard >>> utilities like 'passwd' and 'chsh' normal users can cause the root >>> filesystem to

Re: Read-only root (/) except /et

2008-04-13 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 07:30:55PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > The trouble is that isn't really true. As long as you have standard > > utilities like 'passwd' and 'chsh' normal users can cause the root > > filesystem to be modified any time they want.. > > No. The user isn't modifying

Kernel source packages..

2008-04-13 Thread Digby Tarvin
Can anyone shed any light on the differences between the various kernel source packages in the repository, and which is the best choice for just being able to reproduce the running kernel? The example in my Martin Kraft book refers to: apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.8 but I can't find a

Re: Read-only root (/) except /etc

2008-04-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 05:32:22PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote: > n Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:04:31PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 03:12:08PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I don't *need* things read-only. I would just rather not *need* to > > > have my root fil

Re: libdvdcss2 can't decrypt DVDs

2008-04-13 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 13/04/2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought that "read error" could be a hardware problem, but like I > said above, I couldn't get any read errors when dding the beginning of > the disk. Oh, never mind. It is a hardware problem. I tested this one minute after p

libdvdcss2 can't decrypt DVDs

2008-04-13 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Hello there. First time I post to this list. I am having problems decrypting DVDs. It may be a hardware bug, but I actually suspect more of a software bug. Allow me to describe the symptoms. About two months ago, I could happily play any DVD that I put into my drive, using Marillat's libdvdcss2 p

sid: upgrade failed

2008-04-13 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Last upgrade failed: Setting up console-data (2:1.07-1) ... no template type specified at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 34, chunk 10. dpkg: error processing console-data (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9 Errors were encountered while proc

Re: gdm errors on shutdown

2008-04-13 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:54:16 -0700 (PDT) Rick Dooling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I shutdown or restrart from gdm, I get the following showing up > in my log: > > Apr 13 07:54:12 debian gdm[7927]: CRITICAL: gdm_connection_close: > assertion `conn != NULL' failed > Apr 13 07:54:12 debian las

Re: Flash

2008-04-13 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:03:51AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > At Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:02:32 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote, > "So, I suggest you remove these: > libflash-swfplayer > libflash0c2 > libflash-mozplugin" > > Done. No improvment for the URI cited. > > At Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:52:24 -0

Re: Hidden processes....or not....using unhide package

2008-04-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 05:31:53PM +0100, Robin wrote: > On 13/04/2008, NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 02:41:55PM +0100, Robin wrote: > > > unhide proc :- Which gives intermittent hidden processes > > > unhide sys :- [*]Searching for Hidden processe

Re: euro sign / nobreak space

2008-04-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please try to turn off the HTML part. ] On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 16:00:05 +0200, Manon Metten wrote: > On 4/13/08, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 21:43:55 +0200, Manon Metten wrote: > > > On 4/12/08, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > > On Saturday 12 April 2008 05:17, Manon Metten wrote

Re: regex question

2008-04-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 08:00:00AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:00:42PM +1000, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 06:26:26PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 09:37:02AM +1000, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROT

Re: regex question

2008-04-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 09:21:51AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 04/13/2008 07:00 AM, Alex Samad wrote: >> Yes I did (thanks twice), but my question which arose from this was why >> this did not work >> >> perl -nle 'next if ( /^\s*;/); print' sip.conf >> >> why do I need the length statement[?] >

Re: gdm errors on shutdown

2008-04-13 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:54:16 -0700 (PDT) Rick Dooling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I shutdown or restrart from gdm, I get the following showing up > in my log: > > Apr 13 07:54:12 debian gdm[7927]: CRITICAL: gdm_connection_close: > assertion `conn != NULL' failed > Apr 13 07:54:12 debian las

Re: VLANs on Debian Etch

2008-04-13 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:57:51 +0100 Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 12:52:12 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > * VLAN support has been integrated into Linux Kernel since 2.4.14. > > Yes. > > > * Not all network cards support VLAN tagging. How do I find out

Re: VLANs on Debian Etch

2008-04-13 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 12:52:12 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > * VLAN support has been integrated into Linux Kernel since 2.4.14. Yes. > * Not all network cards support VLAN tagging. How do I find out if it does? Try it and see? > * Configuring VLAN is done through the 'vconfig' pro

Re: VLANs on Debian Etch

2008-04-13 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 13:15:36 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I should have put in more details of what I've done. > I apologize. No problem, and you're welcome. You were just unlucky enough to receive that section of my mail. There have been lots of queries recently with people say

Re: VLANs on Debian Etch

2008-04-13 Thread Allan Wind
On 2008-04-13T12:52:12-0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > * Not all network cards support VLAN tagging. How do I find out if it does? Look at the hardware specifications published by vendor, or failing that look at the retail specifications. > * Configuring VLAN is done through the 'vconfig' pro

Re: Read-only root (/) except /etc

2008-04-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 05:32:22PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote: > n Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:04:31PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 03:12:08PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I don't *need* things read-only. I would just rather not *need* to > > > have my root fil

VLANs on Debian Etch

2008-04-13 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey everyone, I've been googling around for information regarding VLANs on debian. What I need to do is create a VLAN interface so that all packets outgoing from my Etch box (telnet, pings, etc.) are tagged with a specific VLAN. I am not sure how this is done in etch. Here is a summary of what

how can i trust you

2008-04-13 Thread nasa Jirma
Invitation : "how can i trust you". Par votre hôte nasa Jirma: Date: lundi 14 avril 2008 Heure: 2 h 00 - 3 h 00 (GMT+07:00 Bangkok, Hanoi, Djakarta) Lieu: This message might meet you in utmost surprise,it's an urgent need for partner that m

Re: Best/correct way to use Python 2.5 in Etch?

2008-04-13 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:55:14 -0700 (PDT) Rob Gabaree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I know that Etch comes with Python 2.4 by default and that I can > install 2.5 via `aptitude` and have it available via the `python2.5` > binary. But once I do that, is there anything else I should do? >

gdm errors on shutdown

2008-04-13 Thread Rick Dooling
When I shutdown or restrart from gdm, I get the following showing up in my log: Apr 13 07:54:12 debian gdm[7927]: CRITICAL: gdm_connection_close: assertion `conn != NULL' failed Apr 13 07:54:12 debian last message repeated 2 times Apr 13 07:54:12 debian gdm[3436]: WARNING: gdm_cleanup_children: ch

Re: package conflict

2008-04-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/08 10:56, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 01:54:46AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 04/13/08 01:41, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: >>> dpkg had important recent changes in unstable. >> Am I too far behind current? >> Instal

Re: Mplayer runs slowly, screen split diagonally

2008-04-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/08 05:39, John Talbut wrote: [snip] > > I was trying to run mplayer from the GUI. When I ran it from the > command line I got a lot of information. What I have concluded up to > now is that the diagonally split screen is to do with interlac

Re: euro sign / nobreak space

2008-04-13 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 13 April 2008 16:03, Manon Metten wrote: > Hi Nigel, > > Well I tried adding the € to the 5 key on my Etch install, which only has > > > the > > original US keyboard layout. The only box I checked in xkb options was > > the "Add the EuroSign to the 5 key" one, and ALT-GR plus 5 now gives

Best/correct way to use Python 2.5 in Etch?

2008-04-13 Thread Rob Gabaree
Hi all, I know that Etch comes with Python 2.4 by default and that I can install 2.5 via `aptitude` and have it available via the `python2.5` binary. But once I do that, is there anything else I should do? I've searched Google and seen that many people have edited '/usr/share/ python/debian_defau

Freshness of "netmeeting directory kit"

2008-04-13 Thread Tom Lobato
Hi all! Is there someone running a LDAP server on linux with "NetMeeting directory kit", as described in the Linux NETMEETING HOWTO (http://www.freesoft.org/software/NetMeeting/)? I`m researching about ldap/netmeeting but I see it docs for work with a linux server is too outdated (~2001). I`d lik

Re: Read-only root (/) except /etc

2008-04-13 Thread Digby Tarvin
n Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:04:31PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 03:12:08PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I don't *need* things read-only. I would just rather not *need* to > > have my root filesystem read write. > > > > I gave some reasons above for why I would li

Re: bug tracking, especially openoffice

2008-04-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 13 April 2008 05:16:37 am Adam Hardy wrote: > How do I do that - where do I look? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: bug tracking, especially openoffice

2008-04-13 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Adam Hardy wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464402 > > I can do bugreport emails, but I really would like to find out more about > this bug in openoffice, mainly whether it's fixed. > > How do I do that - where do I look? Look at the picture on the right hand side which

Re: update manger question

2008-04-13 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
mike wrote: > today when my update manger ran (on my lenny system) it said it couldn't > update normally, I had to run "apt-get dist-upgrade" to get the > openoffice and a few other applications installed. > My question is, What makes those different? Why not just a normal upgrade? man apt-get an

Re: Flash

2008-04-13 Thread peasthope
Ron, Dave, Hugo & others, In this case I've inserted the References parameter of SMTP. In-reply-to may not be recognized; References might be. If both message copies appear on the list: sorry for the clutter. At Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:02:32 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote, "So, I suggest you remove th

Re: Flash

2008-04-13 Thread peasthope
Ron, Dave, Hugo & others, I've inserted the In-reply-to parameter of SMTP. Let's see whether the list manager connects the thread. At Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:02:32 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote, "So, I suggest you remove these: libflash-swfplayer libflash0c2 libflash-mozplugin" Done. No improvment for

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3 - again!

2008-04-13 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 02:51:10PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It looks like the system is still running, but any attempt to access the > hard drive gets stuck in an uninteruptible sleep. you might consider the following sysctl settings (if you want to automatically reboot the system): fi

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-13 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 02:35:25PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > my memory usage > has steadily climbed despite having no users on the system, perhaps htop memstat sysatat or similar things can help smartmontools hdparm (and badblocks, later) for the HD Also, how much (kernel) memory is used

Re: Hidden processes....or not....using unhide package

2008-04-13 Thread Robin
On 13/04/2008, NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 02:41:55PM +0100, Robin wrote: > > unhide proc :- Which gives intermittent hidden processes > > unhide sys :- [*]Searching for Hidden processes through getsid() > scanning > >

Re: Hidden processes....or not....using unhide package

2008-04-13 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 02:41:55PM +0100, Robin wrote: > unhide proc :- Which gives intermittent hidden processes > unhide sys :- [*]Searching for Hidden processes through getsid() scanning > Found HIDDEN PID: 16356 > [*]Searching for Hidden process

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-13 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun April 13 2008 03:19:15 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 21:15:05 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:50:14AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >>> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:13:29 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Florian Kulze

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:19:15PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 21:15:05 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:50:14AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >>> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:13:29 -0500, Kent West wrote: > F

Re: Read-only root (/) except /etc

2008-04-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 03:12:08PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't *need* things read-only. I would just rather not *need* to > have my root filesystem read write. > > I gave some reasons above for why I would like to be able to crontrol > if and when the root filesystem is subject t

Re: bug tracking, especially openoffice

2008-04-13 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 01:16:37PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464402 >From that page: Tags: moreinfo; [snip] Works for me. [snip] Of course, if we *do* find out which package is at fault we should fix OOos dependencies, but... Which m

Re: postgresql 7.4 and 8.1 on the same system

2008-04-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 05:22:27PM +0200, Paul Csanyi wrote: > Hello! > > I have installed on Debian Etch both postgresql 7.4 and 8.1. > > When I log in to the postgresql database with su postgres, > how can I know, which one is used? > > Say, I want to log in to the postgresql 7.4, then which >

Re: package conflict

2008-04-13 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 01:54:46AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/13/08 01:41, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > > dpkg had important recent changes in unstable. > Am I too far behind current? > Installed: 1.14.16.6 > Candidate: 1.14.18 Linkname: Important changes in dpkg 1.14.18 in sid

Re: update manger question

2008-04-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:47:05 -0400 mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello mike, > update-manager I think. it automatically runs and has an icon on > the top left part of the screen with a bubble that tells me there I don't know that one. Anyhow, I think Graham's answer is probably what you ne

Re: Read-only root (/) except /etc

2008-04-13 Thread lists2008
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:52:22AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 01:40:01AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The need to have the root filesystem mounted r/w annoys me too. My > > ideal scenario is to be able to have everything read-only except /home > > (for user file

postgresql 7.4 and 8.1 on the same system

2008-04-13 Thread Paul Csanyi
Hello! I have installed on Debian Etch both postgresql 7.4 and 8.1. When I log in to the postgresql database with su postgres, how can I know, which one is used? Say, I want to log in to the postgresql 7.4, then which command to use? Any advices will be appreciated! -- Regards, Paul Csanyi ht

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3 - again!

2008-04-13 Thread digbyt
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 05:55:36AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:23:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free -b > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > > Mem:1061478400 311463936 750014464

Re: update manger question

2008-04-13 Thread mike
Graham wrote: On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:50:16 -0400 mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: today when my update manger ran (on my lenny system) it said it couldn't update normally, I had to run "apt-get dist-upgrade" to get the openoffice and a few other applications installed. My question is, What ma

Re: regex question

2008-04-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:00:42PM +1000, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 06:26:26PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 09:37:02AM +1000, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > was heard to say: > > > this started out as a grep quetion

Re: Oops in Etch 40r3

2008-04-13 Thread digbyt
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 05:55:36AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:23:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free -b > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > > Mem:1061478400 311463936 750014464

Re: update manger question

2008-04-13 Thread mike
Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:50:16 -0400 mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello mike, My question is, What makes those different? Why not just a normal upgrade? $DEITY knows; I managed it with a normal upgrade. What update manager are you using? update-manager I thi

Re: update manger question

2008-04-13 Thread Graham
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:50:16 -0400 mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > today when my update manger ran (on my lenny system) it said it > couldn't update normally, I had to run "apt-get dist-upgrade" to get > the openoffice and a few other applications installed. > My question is, What makes those di

Getting gl518sm sensors working

2008-04-13 Thread David Baron
I recently replaced by MB is an aopen (via chipset). After compiling the needed module (found by sensor-detect), here is what I get: ~$ sensors gl518sm-i2c-0-2d Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 +5V: +0.00 V (min = +4.68 V, max = +5.18 V) +3.3V: +0.00 V (min = +3.74 V, max

Re: regex question

2008-04-13 Thread Mumia W..
On 04/13/2008 07:00 AM, Alex Samad wrote: Yes I did (thanks twice), but my question which arose from this was why this did not work perl -nle 'next if ( /^\s*;/); print' sip.conf why do I need the length statement[?] perl -nle 'next if ( /^\s*;/); print if length $_ > 0' sip.conf [...]

Re: update manger question

2008-04-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:50:16 -0400 mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello mike, > My question is, What makes those different? Why not just a normal > upgrade? $DEITY knows; I managed it with a normal upgrade. What update manager are you using? -- Regards _ / ) "The blindi

Re: euro sign / nobreak space

2008-04-13 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Nigel, Well I tried adding the € to the 5 key on my Etch install, which only has > the > original US keyboard layout. The only box I checked in xkb options was the > "Add the EuroSign to the 5 key" one, and ALT-GR plus 5 now gives me the € > char. The command shows: setxkbmap -option eurosign

Re: euro sign / nobreak space

2008-04-13 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Florian, On 4/13/08, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 21:43:55 +0200, Manon Metten wrote: > > On 4/12/08, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > On Saturday 12 April 2008 05:17, Manon Metten wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > In "KDE/Control Center/

update manger question

2008-04-13 Thread mike
today when my update manger ran (on my lenny system) it said it couldn't update normally, I had to run "apt-get dist-upgrade" to get the openoffice and a few other applications installed. My question is, What makes those different? Why not just a normal upgrade? thanks -mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Hidden processes....or not....using unhide package

2008-04-13 Thread Robin
On 13/04/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:35:28AM +0100, Robin wrote: > > Discovered multiple short term, 5-10 secs, hidden processes appearing on > my > > system - Linux localhost 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 27 16:52:38 UTC > 2008 > > x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: Man pages specification ?

2008-04-13 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Sylvain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello ! > > I'm searching for man pages specification but I could'nt find it on the > net, most of the commands (.TH, .SH, .PP, \fB, \fP, ...) are comprehensible > but I need full specification. > Can you help me please ? Coul

Man pages specification ?

2008-04-13 Thread Sylvain
Hello ! I'm searching for man pages specification but I could'nt find it on the net, most of the commands (.TH, .SH, .PP, \fB, \fP, ...) are comprehensible but I need full specification. Can you help me please ? Best regards

bug tracking, especially openoffice

2008-04-13 Thread Adam Hardy
At this moment I have one big blind spot regarding debian, and that is the system for bugs. For instance, I'm trying to work out what the situation is with a bug in openoffice.org-calc: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464402 Now I'm laboring under the Java-developer bug trac

Re: regex question

2008-04-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 06:26:26PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 09:37:02AM +1000, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > this started out as a grep quetion > > > > trying to look at a file with out the comments in it > > > > i tried grep -v '^\s*;' ; is

Re: regex question

2008-04-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:22:13AM +1000, Owen Townend wrote: > On 13/04/2008, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > this started out as a grep quetion > > > > trying to look at a file with out the comments in it > > > > i tried grep -v '^\s*;' ; is the comment delimiter. > > > > but this

Re: euro sign / nobreak space

2008-04-13 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 12 April 2008 21:43, Manon Metten wrote: > Hi Nigel > > On 4/12/08, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 12 April 2008 05:17, Manon Metten wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > In "KDE/Control Center/Keyboard layout/Xkb options", I set > > > "Adding the EuroSign to certain

Re: Mplayer runs slowly, screen split diagonally

2008-04-13 Thread John Talbut
> >>> When I try to play a DVD using mplayer it runs slowly, something > like 4 > >>> frames a second. The screen is split diagonally and it seems as if > one > >>> frame is pasted into the top left half of the screen and the next into > >>> the bottom right. > >>> > >>> Any ideas about wha

Re: Hidden processes....or not....using unhide package

2008-04-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:35:28AM +0100, Robin wrote: > Discovered multiple short term, 5-10 secs, hidden processes appearing on my > system - Linux localhost 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 27 16:52:38 UTC 2008 > x86_64 GNU/Linux. Checked logs. Checked PC with top, htop, ps and then > system rkhunt

Re: Read-only root (/) except /etc

2008-04-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 01:40:01AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The need to have the root filesystem mounted r/w annoys me too. My > ideal scenario is to be able to have everything read-only except /home > (for user file modification) and /var (for all files the system wants > to modify). It'

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 21:15:05 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:50:14AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:13:29 -0500, Kent West wrote: >>> Florian Kulzer wrote: > Is this the right ro

Re: Rhythmbox cannot play wma file

2008-04-13 Thread zhengda
NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 06:33:54PM +0200, zhengda wrote: I think I might delete some package by accident, check /var/log/dpkg.log Also note that .wma files do _not_ use all the same codec. Some use higtly non-free codecs which are not in debian (but some of them mi

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:41:21 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Andrew, > > > I loved Flying Circus! > > No, you didn't! > Well, now you're just contradicting. To argue, one has to take up a contrary stance. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly ob

Re: [OT] reStructured Text real world usage

2008-04-13 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:40:01 + (UTC) T o n g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:12:03 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > Inspired by the easy to use wiki syntax, I've been looking around for > > similar markups that allow for basic "rich text" output. > > > > The most pr

Re: localtime and UTC

2008-04-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 01:10:39PM +0200, Joost Witteveen wrote: > It may cause problems when rebooting after sommer/winter time changes > though, as Debian has no way of knowing whether the other system > already ajusted the local clock to the new sommer/winter time. Yes, but you can set the ot

Re: how to fix my broken system..

2008-04-13 Thread Mumia W..
On 04/12/2008 11:29 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:48:15PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: On 04/11/2008 03:59 AM, Jaisen N.D. wrote: Hai I have a problem here. I use Etch. I have installed a postgresql package from debian backports, with the following command. --