Re: Not sure who this should be sent too.....?

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:26:49PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > I get this error message when trying to open a recent document in LyX > > $ lyx > QPaintEngine::setSystemClip: Should not be changed while engine is active > QPaintEngine::setSystemClip: Should not be changed while engine is active > QWidg

Not sure who this should be sent too.....?

I get this error message when trying to open a recent document in LyX $ lyx QPaintEngine::setSystemClip: Should not be changed while engine is active QPaintEngine::setSystemClip: Should not be changed while engine is active QWidgetPrivate::beginSharedPainter: Painter is already active QWidgetPriva

Re: What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:34:14AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, 01 May 2008 21:11:21 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Well, Debian has a -360 list, just as it has an -amd64 list. Don't the > > -360 people lurk here with the rest of us mere mortals? > > I'm having trouble finding a De

Re: upgraded to lenny

On Thursday 01 May 2008 09:59:36 pm lostson wrote: > Hello > I upgraded to lenny and when trying to apt-get update i now get this > > Hit http://ftp.debian.org lenny/non-free Packages/DiffIndex > W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/lenny/updates/Release > Unable to find expected

upgraded to lenny

Hello I upgraded to lenny and when trying to apt-get update i now get this Hit http://ftp.debian.org lenny/non-free Packages/DiffIndex W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/lenny/updates/Release Unable to find expected entry lenny/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (ma

Re: installing iceweassel or the browser identity

On Thu, 1 May 2008 20:21:15 -0600 Aaron Siegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I am unable to access site that require the firefox browser. > http://www.comcast.net > > Is there a firefox package available for debian? Or can I change the > identify > of the Iceweasel browser? The g

Re: Clearing SWAP

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 02:55:28PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Thu May 1 2008 14:33:47 andy wrote: > > Output of ps vax, as suggested: [snip] > > kbuildsycoca normally only runs for several seconds after changing > something in KDE. If it's running non-stop you have a problem. > It's probably sa

installing iceweassel or the browser identity

Hello I am unable to access site that require the firefox browser. http://www.comcast.net Is there a firefox package available for debian? Or can I change the identify of the Iceweasel browser? Thank you Aaron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?

On Thu, 01 May 2008 21:11:21 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:01:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/01/08 10:50, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> > I am the proud owner of several unloaded partitioned data sets, dating >> > back to my days on OS/360 and OS/370. >> > >> > Do

Re: What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?

On Thu, 01 May 2008 21:11:21 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:01:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/01/08 10:50, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> > I am the proud owner of several unloaded partitioned data sets, dating >> > back to my days on OS/360 and OS/370. >> > >> > Do

Re: What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?

On Thu, 01 May 2008 19:44:50 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 03:50:09PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I am the proud owner of several unloaded partitioned data sets, dating >> back to my days on OS/360 and OS/370. >> >> Does anyone have any code I could use to decode the

Re: What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:01:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/01/08 10:50, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I am the proud owner of several unloaded partitioned data sets, dating > > back to my days on OS/360 and OS/370. > > > > Does anyone have any code I could use to decode these? I don't mean t

Re: What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/01/08 10:50, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I am the proud owner of several unloaded partitioned data sets, dating > back to my days on OS/360 and OS/370. > > Does anyone have any code I could use to decode these? I don't mean the > EBCDIC-to-ASCII (o

Re: Clearing SWAP

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/01/08 17:33, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 01 May 2008 17:00:38 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 05/01/08 16:29, andy wrote: >>> When I double click within Xfce on the /home directory icon, there is a >>> noticeable lag between

Re: BNX2 driver needs to block during boot

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 04:42:36PM -0700, Mike Ely wrote: > I've got a newish X-series server running Etch that has a Broadcom NIC > using the BNX2 driver, all set up statically in interfaces (and I've > commented out the "allow-hotplug" line for that interface). [snip] > What I really need is for

naive question: autofs with negative niceness

Hello List, on my (little) cluster, I used autofs to mount the `/home' directory on the worker nodes: is it possible (and recommended) to give a negative niceness to automount ? what is the Debian to do so ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net -- To UN

BNX2 driver needs to block during boot

Hi, I've got a newish X-series server running Etch that has a Broadcom NIC using the BNX2 driver, all set up statically in interfaces (and I've commented out the "allow-hotplug" line for that interface). When the server boots, I see the NIC start to come online, but then other services begin load

Re: What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 03:50:09PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I am the proud owner of several unloaded partitioned data sets, dating > back to my days on OS/360 and OS/370. > > Does anyone have any code I could use to decode these? I don't mean the > EBCDIC-to-ASCII (or to UTF-8) conversion -

Re: Clearing SWAP

On Thu, 01 May 2008 17:00:38 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/01/08 16:29, andy wrote: > > When I double click within Xfce on the /home directory icon, there is a > > noticeable lag between clicking and a response. What cause

Re: keeping package selection with new install

Rick Thomas wrote: > This is great. Thanks! > > One question: This seems to loose the "automatically installed" > information kept by aptitude. Is there a way to do it that preserves > aptitude's "automatic" attribute? Yes. Run $ aptitude search '~i!~M' to get a list of the manually installed

Re: keeping package selection with new install

Rick Thomas wrote: This is great. Thanks! One question: This seems to loose the "automatically installed" information kept by aptitude. Is there a way to do it that preserves aptitude's "automatic" attribute? Enjoy! Rick I must confuse, I don't know what you are talking about. -- Damon

Re: Clearing SWAP

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 10:29:59PM +0100, andy wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On 05/01/08 15:43, andy wrote: > > > >>Of 2863MB of SWAP, some 1881MB are being used. This is a capture of top: > >[snip] >> > >>How can I clear out SWAP so that it does not retain redundant memory > >>allocated pages?

Re: Clearing SWAP

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/01/08 16:55, Mike Bird wrote: [snip] > > You have two gdm's, and xfce desktop, and a lot of KDE running. > You have several heavy applications running. That's way more > than will fit comfortably in a gig of RAM. Isn't that just pathetic? Mak

Re: Clearing SWAP

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/01/08 16:29, andy wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 05/01/08 15:43, andy wrote: >> >>> Of 2863MB of SWAP, some 1881MB are being used. This is a capture of top: >>> >>> 15055 andy 20

Re: Clearing SWAP

On Thu May 1 2008 14:33:47 andy wrote: > Output of ps vax, as suggested: > 4023 ?Sl40:36 43190 208 1168611 246932 24.6 > /usr/bin/xfdesktop --sm-client-id 11c0a8012800011717220690088 > 4041 ?S 34:10 3599831 1132264 245552 24.4 > /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/x

Re: keeping package selection with new install

This is great. Thanks! One question: This seems to loose the "automatically installed" information kept by aptitude. Is there a way to do it that preserves aptitude's "automatic" attribute? Enjoy! Rick On Apr 29, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Damon L. Chesser wrote: frits wrote: Hello, I have

Re: Clearing SWAP

Mike Bird wrote: On Thu May 1 2008 13:43:20 andy wrote: Of 2863MB of SWAP, some 1881MB are being used. This is a capture of top: 15055 andy 20 0 34520 14m 4896 R 98 1.5 0:01.60 kbuildsycoca 14950 andy 20 0 171m 88m 27m S 55 9.0 15:52.20 iceape-bin

Re: Clearing SWAP

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/01/08 15:43, andy wrote: Of 2863MB of SWAP, some 1881MB are being used. This is a capture of top: 15055 andy 20 0 34520 14m 4896 R 98 1.5 0:01.60 kbuildsycoca 14950 andy 20 0 171m 88m 27m S 55 9

Re: Clearing SWAP

On Thu May 1 2008 13:43:20 andy wrote: > Of 2863MB of SWAP, some 1881MB are being used. This is a capture of top: > 15055 andy 20 0 34520 14m 4896 R 98 1.5 0:01.60 kbuildsycoca > 14950 andy 20 0 171m 88m 27m S 55 9.0 15:52.20 iceape-bin 1) You almost certainly have a

Re: can't send a bugreport in emacs

Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2008-05-01 21:45 +0200, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > >> Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> On 2008-05-01 06:34 +0200, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: Do I need to configure reportbug to be able to send bugreports? Or something else? >

Re: Clearing SWAP

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/01/08 15:43, andy wrote: > Of 2863MB of SWAP, some 1881MB are being used. This is a capture of top: > > 15055 andy 20 0 34520 14m 4896 R 98 1.5 0:01.60 kbuildsycoca > 14950 andy 20 0 171m 88m 27m S 55 9.0 15:52.20 icea

Re: Backup requirement

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 08:59 -0400, Brian McKee wrote: > On 30-Apr-08, at 7:48 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > >> I am looking at Mondo , etc. Kindly give > >> suggestions. > > > > I've never used Mondo. I tried once only to find that the mondo > > kernel > > couldn'

Clearing SWAP

Of 2863MB of SWAP, some 1881MB are being used. This is a capture of top: 15055 andy 20 0 34520 14m 4896 R 98 1.5 0:01.60 kbuildsycoca 14950 andy 20 0 171m 88m 27m S 55 9.0 15:52.20 iceape-bin 3890 root 20 0 123m 68m 8184 S4 7.0 41:54.30 Xorg 161 root

Re: can't send a bugreport in emacs

On 2008-05-01 21:45 +0200, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On 2008-05-01 06:34 +0200, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: >>> Do I need to configure reportbug to be able to send bugreports? Or >>> something else? > >> Not reportbug, no. You might have to configure

Re: installing scanner canon

On Thursday 01 May 2008 20:28:09 Shams Fantar wrote: > Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > On Thursday 01 May 2008 10:03:17 Shams Fantar wrote: > >> Thierry Chatelet wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 30 April 2008 20:44:53 Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:27:56 +0200 > Shams Fantar <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Cannot boot any HIGHMEM kernel (kernel panic - not syncing)

Michael Elsdörfer wrote: This is an etch server machine with 3GB of RAM, and I seem unable to boot into any kernel that has HIGHMEM enabled, i.e.: zoidberg:/# dmesg | head Warning only 896MB will be used. Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel. 896MB LOWMEM available. Specifically, the only kernel image

Re: Getting OLD potato netinst image

> I cannot help you directly, but found googling the following thread on > the Debian User Forums: > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=606&highlight=potato > > http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-archive/dists/Debian-2.2/main/disks-i386/ > points to disks for Debian 2.2. Hi Salvatore, I have

Re: maxima 5.13 in lenny requires gnuplot-x11 to plot?

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > >> Hi All! >> >> I installed maxima. It depends on gnuplot-nox, which is installed >> too. When I try to plot something in maxima, I get: >> >> (%i1) plot2d (exp(-u)*sin(u),[u,0,2*%pi]); >> >> (%o1) >> >> (%i2) Ex

Re: can't send a bugreport in emacs

Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2008-05-01 06:34 +0200, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > >> I am trying to send a bugreport in emacs through debian-bug. After >> sending' the bug report, I receive the following message in my >> mailbox. >> From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> S

Re: Getting OLD potato netinst image

Hi On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:43:19PM +0200, Nyitrai Tamas wrote: > We have a special hardware that needs a kernel module to work. Unfortunately > there is no kernel module update available and we can not replace this > hardware yet. So we stuck with all the libc and kernel versions. > > Now, I

Re: openoffice (is it broken?)

Daniel Dalton wrote: > > Does anyone know if OO is broken in debian lenny? On my testing box, I > installed or upgraded something that broke pidgin and firefox and it looks > to be openoffice. Can a debian lenny user please run: apt-get update && > apt-get upgrade (as root) and report back to me

Bradcom 4231AG 802.11 a/b/g/draft-n wireless card?

It is being by a HP-6700z notebeook in Vista-Home. I was trying to locate the .sys and .inf files (per ndiswarpper web page). I was able to find .sys file BCMWL6.SYS but no eauivalent .nf exits! So, is this card supprted by Linux as is or in compatibility mode? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Getting OLD potato netinst image

Dear all, We have a special hardware that needs a kernel module to work. Unfortunately there is no kernel module update available and we can not replace this hardware yet. So we stuck with all the libc and kernel versions. Now, I have to install Debian Potato, but - after googling around - I ca

Re: Dist upgrade aftermath..

On Thu, 1 May 2008, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 1 May 2008 09:48:42 -0400 (EDT) ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After apt-get disupgrade, it comes out that I lost the KDE Manager/desktop. The system now boots in fluxbox. Is there way to goback to KDE? Is KDE gone, or was the default s

Re: coldplug udev issue

On May 01, Rainer Dorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GROUP="scanner", NAME="umax%n", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/umax1220u start", /usr/local/ may not be available at boot time. > echo umax1220u $DEVICE $* >> /tmp/usb.log /tmp/ is definitely not writeable when the script is run at boot time. Use /dev/

Re: installing scanner canon

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Thursday 01 May 2008 10:03:17 Shams Fantar wrote: >> Thierry Chatelet wrote: >>> On Wednesday 30 April 2008 20:44:53 Brad Rogers wrote: On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:27:56 +0200 Shams Fantar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>

coldplug udev issue

Hi Marco, I am using a scanner which needs to have its lamp switched off when plugged into USB. I wrote a script for that, which is called by an udev rule. That works very well when I plug the scanner, the script is called and the lamp is switched off. Coldplug does not call the script though (

Re: (visual) diff for large files

2008/5/1 michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At work we've been discussing (below) 'diff' running out of memory. I've > tried to see if 'rdiff' can help (but no idea how to back out the > differences from the "delta" o/p file). I've seen that freeBSD has a > diff utility (eg 2bsd-diff) that does NOT

Re: openoffice (is it broken?)

On Thu May 1 2008 02:52:30 am Daniel Dalton wrote: > Does anyone know if OO is broken in debian lenny? On my testing box, I > installed or upgraded something that broke pidgin and firefox and it looks > to be openoffice. OO and pigeon work fine on my lenny box. I use iceweasel 2.0.0.14 rather tha

What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?

I am the proud owner of several unloaded partitioned data sets, dating back to my days on OS/360 and OS/370. Does anyone have any code I could use to decode these? I don't mean the EBCDIC-to-ASCII (or to UTF-8) conversion -- I mean the weird file format. Or documentation about this file format

Re: maxima 5.13 in lenny requires gnuplot-x11 to plot?

Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > Hi All! > > I installed maxima. It depends on gnuplot-nox, which is installed too. > When I try to plot something in maxima, I get: > > (%i1) plot2d (exp(-u)*sin(u),[u,0,2*%pi]); > > (%o1) > > (%i2) Expected X11 > > driver: /usr/lib/gnuplot/gnuplot_x11 Exec failed

Re: Dist upgrade aftermath..

On Thu, 1 May 2008 09:48:42 -0400 (EDT) ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After apt-get disupgrade, it comes out that I lost the KDE > Manager/desktop. The system now boots in fluxbox. Is there way > to goback to KDE? Is KDE gone, or was the default session manager changed? I find th

Cannot boot any HIGHMEM kernel (kernel panic - not syncing)

This is an etch server machine with 3GB of RAM, and I seem unable to boot into any kernel that has HIGHMEM enabled, i.e.: zoidberg:/# dmesg | head Warning only 896MB will be used. Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel. 896MB LOWMEM available. Specifically, the only kernel image that seems to work is linux

Dist upgrade aftermath..

After apt-get disupgrade, it comes out that I lost the KDE Manager/desktop. The system now boots in fluxbox. Is there way to goback to KDE? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unison on testing and stable

Sylvain Le Gall wrote: Hello, On 30-04-2008, Magnus Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm using unison to keep my Docs, my music and my pics in sync between my laptop, my desktop and my server. The laptop and the desktop are running testing and the server is running stable. With the latest

Re: Backup requirement

On 30-Apr-08, at 7:48 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: New business venture: send a datacentre to mars with enough redundancy and tape libraries to be great off-site backup Not a new idea :-) http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1200789,00.asp from 2003 PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally s

Re: Backup requirement

On 30-Apr-08, at 7:48 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I am looking at Mondo , etc. Kindly give suggestions. I've never used Mondo. I tried once only to find that the mondo kernel couldn't boot my machine. I figure that if I found a machine it wouldn't boot that ea

(visual) diff for large files

At work we've been discussing (below) 'diff' running out of memory. I've tried to see if 'rdiff' can help (but no idea how to back out the differences from the "delta" o/p file). I've seen that freeBSD has a diff utility (eg 2bsd-diff) that does NOT read in all of the files in one go and thus has l

Re: wine: Problem running some programs

pedxing wrote the following on 05/01/2008 03:14 AM: Paul Johnson wrote the following on 04/29/2008 02:33 PM: I sure would like to see a Pagemaker equivalent that is as good as OpenOffice is to Word/xcel/etc. and GIMP is to PhotoShop. Both OO and GIMP are the superior packages for my money. Hav

openoffice (is it broken?)

Does anyone know if OO is broken in debian lenny? On my testing box, I installed or upgraded something that broke pidgin and firefox and it looks to be openoffice. Can a debian lenny user please run: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade (as root) and report back to me if: - Firefox 3 works corre

Re: installing scanner canon

On Thursday 01 May 2008 10:03:17 Shams Fantar wrote: > Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 April 2008 20:44:53 Brad Rogers wrote: > >> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:27:56 +0200 > >> Shams Fantar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Hello Shams, > >> > -- Have you log out and in again? It is somet

Re: wine: Problem running some programs

On Thursday 01 May 2008, pedxing wrote: > Have you looked at Scribus? Worth looking at - I much prefer it to QuarkXPress - but you need to ensure you're using a recent version in Etch there are two versions: scribus - Open Source Desktop Page Layout scribus-ng - Open Source Desktop Page Layout -

Re: wine: Problem running some programs

> Paul Johnson wrote the following on 04/29/2008 02:33 PM: > > I sure would like to see a Pagemaker equivalent that is > as good as OpenOffice is to Word/xcel/etc. and GIMP is > to PhotoShop. Both OO and GIMP are the superior > packages for my money. Have you looked at Scribus? -pedxing -- To

Re: installing scanner canon

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Wednesday 30 April 2008 20:44:53 Brad Rogers wrote: >> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:27:56 +0200 >> Shams Fantar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hello Shams, >> >>> Which scanner group ? On my pc ? There is no group "scanner". >>

Re: Mail-Followup-To and mutt [Was: Re: How to refresh Debian to install software set]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > My version of mutt (1.5.17+20080114-1+b1) is newer than yours, so maybe > this behavior was changed recently or the older manpage is less > explicitly clear about it. No, it's the same, I just didn't read so far. As Kevin a