Re: Dist-Upgrade Problem

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 23:55:55 -0400, David L. Craig wrote: > I tried to upgrade my Sid system after having had it shutdown for > months. Apt-Get downloaded over a thousand packages! I had some > trouble which resulted in finally using the -f and --fix-missing options > and now I get the follow

Samba and filenames problem

Hi all! I've got problem. On Windows PC I've got file called "CH3CN+2.5%Fer.doc". When I try to acess this pc through samba, I have "File does not exist: smb://balls/D/CH3CN+2.5%25Fer.doc" error and the directory is not even listed. (From toher Windows it's ok). Could any one describe a solution? F

Dist-Upgrade Problem

I tried to upgrade my Sid system after having had it shutdown for months. Apt-Get downloaded over a thousand packages! I had some trouble which resulted in finally using the -f and --fix-missing options and now I get the following results: Setting up base-passwd (3.5.18) ... Can't locate Pod/Usa

Re: Ndiswrapper not work...

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:09:00 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -- Original message -- > > I don't know how; but i use b43-fwcutter from Debian repositories. > > I use Lenny and broadcom card. > > I finally got rid of my broadcom card because no matter what drive

Re: /bin/hostname on Debian

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:59:43AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2008-08-23 11:34:39 +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > > Within Debian you should not put the FQDN in /etc/hostname. > > There can be problems with that. I don't remember exactly. Something > like it is annoying not to be able to g

Re: Increasing screen resolution

2008/8/24 Nuno Magalhães <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> In the snipped section above commenting out vert and horz refresh >> lines and adding a modeline for resolution should work. > And what's the least painful way of producing such a modeline for a > given monitor? My 22" is still not running at full re

Re: How to recover email?

On 08/23/08 20:03, Thomas H. George wrote: When a harddrive was failing I managed to copy the contents of /home/tom. This includes a file /home/tom/.mozilla/tom/Mail/mail.tomgeorge.info/Inbox containing three years of email - mostly junk, but containing a few gems I would like to recover. I

How to recover email?

When a harddrive was failing I managed to copy the contents of /home/tom. This includes a file /home/tom/.mozilla/tom/Mail/mail.tomgeorge.info/Inbox containing three years of email - mostly junk, but containing a few gems I would like to recover. I reinstalled lenny and iceape and created a n

Re: /bin/hostname on Debian

On 2008-08-23 11:34:39 +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Within Debian you should not put the FQDN in /etc/hostname. There can be problems with that. I don't remember exactly. Something like it is annoying not to be able to get the FQDN if the network isn't up for some reason. Or perhaps because of

panasonic dmc-tz3 problems

Hello All I am having problems with current lenny and my panasonic dmc-tz3 camera. I can connect the camera using PTP mode but for some reason I can only see the jpegs that I have taken and no video. If I try and connect using usb mode when I click on open in a new window kde pops up a bug repor

Re: need help with cc

> > > > Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: need help with cc >Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:50:25 -0500 > >>On 08/23/08 09:58, John Hasler wrote: >>> Ron Johnson wrote: It would be interesting to know how many people on this list kno

Re: Increasing screen resolution

> In the snipped section above commenting out vert and horz refresh > lines and adding a modeline for resolution should work. And what's the least painful way of producing such a modeline for a given monitor? My 22" is still not running at full res. TIA -- Nuno Magalhães

Problem with a netopia switch

Hello, I currently try to set up a switch on my lan that has a linksys router. If I don't use the switch (therefore, router <=> computer), no problem of working (the computer gets an ip from the dhcp, for example, 192.168.1.2), great ! But If I add the switch to the lan, the computer gets an ip l

Re: automounting in xfce

On Saturday 23 August 2008 17:07, John O Laoi wrote: > Thanks to everyone. > > Problem solved. > > Yes, I misunderstood "fdisk -l". I assumed that it would list > > the CD partition also. I think that CD's don't have partitions. You mean filesystem. > > I never even tried to mount the CD, as I tho

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SL> [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 19 lines --] SL> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 07:27:19PM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: >> whoa. & i've been running it for 11. has anyone here been with >> debian from the start?

Re: "cannot open display: :0.0" error when using schroot

On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 11:17 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > I'd guess "libgnomebreakpad.so" is not accessible from within the > schroot environment. > > And without it, GTK and nero can't do anything affecting the display. > > *However*, this is all guesswork, my knowledge of schroot (or chroot, >

Re: diagram tool

On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 08:10 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Starting a contract job and I might need to diagram out the network, I > > know of diag, anything else out there? > > If you just need to draw the network, Kiv

Re: diagram tool

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 15:15 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Starting a contract job and I might need to diagram out the network, I > know of diag, anything else out there? > Well, Thanks for the replies. The program I remembered was not diag, but dia. I have looked at the ones listed and they

Re: need help with cc

raman narasimhan wrote: > i'm new to debian.. after compilation whenever i type ./a.out, bash says > permission denied or says segmentation fault... > how do i resolve the problem ? If you are getting a permission denied message, that means your binary executable, the a.out in your case, does not

Re: need help with cc

On 08/23/08 09:58, John Hasler wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: It would be interesting to know how many people on this list know (without resorting to Google) what PSW means... Program Status Word. Yes. But Prickley Space Woman is so much more interesting! -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA

Re: Problem scrolling back in runlevel 2. Etch netinst

Michael Mohn wrote: have you tried to scoll back using shift-page up and so on? You mean activating ypan? When I do that it just beeps. But I know it is active: kernel: [ 23.111775] uvesafb: scrolling: ypan using protected mode interface, yres_virtual=1536 I find references to shift-page

Re: need help with cc

Ron Johnson wrote: > It would be interesting to know how many people on this list know > (without resorting to Google) what PSW means... Program Status Word. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: diagram tool

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Starting a contract job and I might need to diagram out the network, I > know of diag, anything else out there? If you just need to draw the network, Kivio is good. If you mean an automated network discovery/mapping too

Re: Problem scrolling back in runlevel 2. Etch netinst

have you tried to scoll back using shift-page up and so on? bye, Michael. Am 23.08.2008 um 16:56 schrieb Nigel Henry: When working in runlevel 2, as with my Etch netinst, I'm unable to scroll back. for example I run lsmod, but only see what's on the screen, which is the tail end of lsmod.

Problem scrolling back in runlevel 2. Etch netinst

When working in runlevel 2, as with my Etch netinst, I'm unable to scroll back. for example I run lsmod, but only see what's on the screen, which is the tail end of lsmod. Now there must be some sort of basic window drawing ability, because nano works ok. Is there some similar app that I can st

Re: need help with cc

Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/23/08 08:59, Shachar Or wrote: On Saturday 23 August 2008 16:10, Ron Johnson wrote: It would be interesting to know how many people on this list know (without resorting to Google) what PSW means... Prickely Space Woman? That *is* one meaning, but not the relevant me

Re: Nautilus fails to manage desktop

Hi all, i've find a temporay solution... i'm running nautilus 2.20.0-6, and after a recent reboot nautilus is refusing to manage the desktop >>> check the content of file ~/.config/user-dirs.dir see if that can help >>> you. >> There's no such file. What should be there? > That's happened

Re: starting apache at boot?

Lazy way out, you could just edit /etc/rc.local and add in your Apache binary. I've started many custom compiled things that way

automounting in xfce

Thanks to everyone. Problem solved. Yes, I misunderstood "fdisk -l". I assumed that it would list the CD partition also. I never even tried to mount the CD, as I thought that when it was not being seen by fdisk, it was not there, and there was nothing to mount. Also I've learned how to instal

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 07:27:19PM +, i'll teach you to turn away. > wrote: > > whoa. & i've been running it for 11. has anyone here been with > > debian from the start? > > Not I. I came in somewhere between

Re: need help with cc

On 08/23/08 08:59, Shachar Or wrote: On Saturday 23 August 2008 16:10, Ron Johnson wrote: It would be interesting to know how many people on this list know (without resorting to Google) what PSW means... Prickely Space Woman? That *is* one meaning, but not the relevant meaning... -- Ron Joh

Re: need help with cc

On Saturday 23 August 2008 16:10, Ron Johnson wrote: > It would be interesting to know how many people on this list know > (without resorting to Google) what PSW means... Prickely Space Woman? > > -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA > > "Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know ther

Re: Nautilus fails to manage desktop

Sorry for my mistake, it should be ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs you can find things such as XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" in that file 2008/8/23 Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:30:38AM +0800, Narcissus wrote: > > > check the content o

Re: Nautilus fails to manage desktop

Hi all. >>> i'm running nautilus 2.20.0-6, and after a recent reboot nautilus is refusing to manage the desktop >> check the content of file ~/.config/user-dirs.dir see if that can help >> you. > There's no such file. What should be there? That's happened to me too: same release of nautilus. I

Re: need help with cc

On 08/23/08 07:20, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/22/08 23:04, Daniel Watkins wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:52:27 -0400 "raman narasimhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i'm new to debian.. after compilation whenever i type ./a.out, bash says permission denied or says segmentation

Re: need help with cc

On 08/23/08 07:36, Kent West wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/23/08 02:18, Rich Healey wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/22/08 23:04, Daniel Watkins wrote: If you get a segmentation fault, that suggests that the code being compiled is faulty. Blame the compiler That's a CompSci 101 mista

Re: diagram tool

On 08/23/08 06:39, Michael Mohn wrote: Am 23.08.2008 um 12:59 schrieb James Youngman: On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Starting a contract job and I might need to diagram out the network, I know of diag, anything else out t

Re: need help with cc

Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/23/08 02:18, Rich Healey wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/22/08 23:04, Daniel Watkins wrote: If you get a segmentation fault, that suggests that the code being compiled is faulty. Blame the compiler That's a CompSci 101 mistake. Erm.. I believe he was blaming

Re: need help with cc

Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/22/08 23:04, Daniel Watkins wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:52:27 -0400 "raman narasimhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i'm new to debian.. after compilation whenever i type ./a.out, bash says permission denied or says segmentation fault... how do i resolve the problem ? I

Re: diagram tool

Am 23.08.2008 um 12:59 schrieb James Youngman: On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Starting a contract job and I might need to diagram out the network, I know of diag, anything else out there? http://cheops-ng.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php is th

Re: diagram tool

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Starting a contract job and I might need to diagram out the network, I > know of diag, anything else out there? http://cheops-ng.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Migrate from AMD64 to i386

This worked very good (migrated within an hour or so). Thanks for the script, that made it easier (you only have a very small typo in your 'restore' comment, aptiude should be aptitude). Did plainly copy /etc and parts of /var (/var/lib & /var/log). Currently its running, but the 2.6.25-2 kerne

libxml2 security update

Hello to all, Updated the libxml2 package from security updates yesterday. Booted up this morning and Gnome is foobarred. For those you have not updated from this security warning, DON'T. Unless you are comfortable working from the commandline. Thanks for the heads up on that also, I thought tha

Re: Lenny users: attn about Gnome/libxml2 breakage

Christian Jaeger wrote: Today I did the usual dist-upgrade for my "testing" install, and it left me with a badly broken (from user's perspective) installation, because basically all Gnome applications stopped working. After a bit over 2 hours worth of investigation, I've found out how to solve

Re: Which C++ STL manual package in Debian

hce wrote: > Hi, > > I installed stl-manual in Debian, but it is HTML format, I cannot see > from the man. Is there a STL manaual package in Debian I can use the > man to display it? > > ii stl-manual 3.30-6 C++-STL documentation in HTML > > Yes. Man pages are in the 'libstdc++-4.3

Re: A viable mutt

* Andrei Popescu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [23.08.08 09:49]: > On Wed,20.Aug.08, 16:19:57, Steve Lamb wrote: > > [...] > > > I prefer that it handle multiple accounts sanely. > > I haven't looked into it, but 'muttprofile' seems interesting. Of > course, it will probably need a lot of fiddling first.

Re: /bin/hostname on Debian

Le Friday 22 August 2008 22:23:01 Vwaju, vous avez écrit : > I am having trouble with my Debian network configuration, and I am > trying to isolate the problem. The name of my host is "jupiter" and > the name of my domain is "obliqueuniverse.org". > > jupiter:~# echo jupiter.obliqueuniverse.org >

Re: IP Forward on Testing

On Saturday 23 August 2008 04:51, Zaki Akhmad wrote: > Hello > > I am using Debian as a router, so that I need to enable the ipv4 > forward feature. My question is how I enable it automatically, even > when the machine is reboot? So that the value in > > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > still 1?

Re: Migrate from AMD64 to i386

On Saturday 23 August 2008 11:57, Joris Dobbelsteen wrote: > Damon L. Chesser wrote, On 23-Aug-2008 5:35: > > On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 21:28 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 08/22/08 18:09, Luis San Martin Rojas wrote: > >>> 2008/8/22 Joris Dobbelsteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear all, > > >

Re: Migrate from AMD64 to i386

Damon L. Chesser wrote, On 23-Aug-2008 5:35: On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 21:28 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/22/08 18:09, Luis San Martin Rojas wrote: 2008/8/22 Joris Dobbelsteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Dear all, Is there an easy way to migrate an installation from AMD64 to i386? AFAIK it is impos

Re: aptitude purge

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:33:19PM +0200, Tammo Schuelke wrote: Please don't send HTML email to the list. > > Hi, > > I recently removed the etch version of amanda and installed a newer one > because > of a blocksize problem which was resolved there. How did you install the "newer one"? > I

Re: screen resolution

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 02:23:35PM -0400, Ed Sutter wrote: > No matter what I do, I'm not able to get the screen resolution up. It > appears that > it is just defaulting to the bare minimum resolution for some reason, but as > far as > I can tell, the card and monitor are properly being detected

Re: The minimum running X

On Thu,21.Aug.08, 11:28:55, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I want to install just a minimum on my machine ( small Disk < 512M ), but > running X, for example JVM or fluxbox. > When I tried apt-install xserver-xorg, it install extra packages I am sure > don't need and took big space. > > I wa

Re: Nautilus fails to manage desktop

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:30:38AM +0800, Narcissus wrote: > check the content of file ~/.config/user-dirs.dir see if that can help > you. There's no such file. What should be there? -- "Oh, look: rocks!" -- Doctor Who, "Destiny of the Daleks" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: A viable mutt

On Wed,20.Aug.08, 16:19:57, Steve Lamb wrote: [...] > I prefer that it handle multiple accounts sanely. I haven't looked into it, but 'muttprofile' seems interesting. Of course, it will probably need a lot of fiddling first. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't underst

Re: automounting in xfce

On Wed,20.Aug.08, 21:43:30, John O Laoi wrote: > Hi, > > I want to set up automounting on my etch system, which is using XFCE4. > > Basically, I want my CDs and flash devices to automount when I insert them. > > > I have done some googeling, and it seems that I need to use Thunar's volume > ma

Re: need help with cc

On 08/23/08 02:18, Rich Healey wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/22/08 23:04, Daniel Watkins wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:52:27 -0400 "raman narasimhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i'm new to debian.. after compilation whenever i type ./a.out, bash says permission denied or says segmentation fa

Re: need help with cc

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/22/08 23:04, Daniel Watkins wrote: >> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:52:27 -0400 >> "raman narasimhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> i'm new to debian.. after compilation whenever i type ./a.out, bash >>> says permission denied or s

Re: proftpd issue

On Wed,20.Aug.08, 22:31:52, Shachar Or wrote: > 'dpkg-reconfigure -plow proftpd' perhaps. > > I just do 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' and select the low priority in new > installs. ,[ dpkg-reconfigure(8) ] | -pvalue, --priority=value Specify the minimum priority of question that | will