[Solved] X11 keyboard behaving strangely since update

2009-02-16 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Marc Talder wrote: > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Stefan Bellon wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm happily running Debian GNU/Linux unstable on my IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad >> T60 (and on all my other machines as well). >> >> Yesterday I did an update with the notebook in question (the last >> update was e

Downgrade libc6

2009-02-16 Thread Adrian Chapela
Hello, I want to install the stable version (etch not lenny) of libc6. I have installed a testing version of the package ( it is needed by ext4 utils...) and now I want to downgrade. My problem is, if I try to uninstall this package, I will lost apt utility, then I can't reinstall anything m

Re: "On battery power, so skipping file system check" when in AC power

2009-02-16 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:32:25 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > IOW, does "apt-get install powermgmt-base" fix it? > Nope, I had powermgmt-base already installed and it is in latest version. Anyway - it seems, that it takes too long for system to figure out, that it is running on AC power. D

Re: Iceweasel blocking pop-ups

2009-02-16 Thread Jonathan Kaye
tyler wrote: > Dennis Wicks writes: > >> Greetings; >> >> I turned off the popup blocker in IW but it seems to still be blocking >> them. >> >> I tried it in Iceweasel 3.0.6-1 and it doesn't work at all, even with >> the popup blocker turned off. No messages or anything. It shows the >> URL when

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-16 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/17 Khristian : > (re-sending the e-mail to the list as well, I always forget to hit the > 'reply to all' button :/ ) Standard practice on this list is to reply only to the list unless explicetly requested to cc someone. > Yes, I've installed linux some times before, and what I'm trying to

Re: Lenny upgrade: Failed to load modules "ati" and "typ1" when starting X. No drivers available

2009-02-16 Thread S D
--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Probably need to add some modes or modelines to your > xorg.conf. Might try > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg (or sth like that) to get the > resolution you > want. I checked xorg.conf, it already has 1600x1200 line entries. Besides, the K

Re: Lenny upgrade: Failed to load modules "ati" and "typ1" when starting X. No drivers available

2009-02-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 16 February 2009 21:58:13 S D wrote: > The picture now, for some reason, doesn't use the whole available screen > space but leave unused areas about 3-5 cm from the left, right, top and > bottom monitor edges. It looks something like this: > > I usually run my monitor in 1600x1200 mode an

Re: Can't update Testing system

2009-02-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 09:18:55PM -0500, JoeHill was heard to say: > dpkg: error > processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libsox-fmt-base_14.2.0-1_i386.deb > (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_sndfile.so', which is > also in package libsox-fmt-sndfile That's your bug. It lo

Re: DVD install question

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2009 11:03 PM, M. Lewis wrote: Prior to the release of Lenny, I downloaded one of the Lenny release candidate DVD's and installed via a network install from DVD #1. Congrats. None of the Lenny DVDs I downloaded ever succeeded in doing a proper install. Only the CDs worked. Is th

Re: request to try something with midori

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Ink Bottle wrote: > Thank you very much for your help :) > I found exactly the same results. > So now, though it's not a solution, we have > a very reproducible problem. And even different > cases where it behave the same or not the same. > Since you English is far much better than mine > maybe you

DVD install question

2009-02-16 Thread M. Lewis
Prior to the release of Lenny, I downloaded one of the Lenny release candidate DVD's and installed via a network install from DVD #1. Is this still possible with the released version of Lenny? Or do I need all 5 of the DVD's? Thanks, Mike -- IBM: Irresponsibility Behaved Multinational 2

Re: Lenny upgrade: Failed to load modules "ati" and "typ1" when starting X. No drivers available

2009-02-16 Thread S D
--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > For the "ati" module, you need the package: > p xserver-xorg-video-ati - X.Org X server -- > ATI display driver Installed the xserver-xorg-video-ati package and it did resolve the issue somewhat. I was able to start X and KDE, KD

Re: New Debian Wiki online with lot of working howtos

2009-02-16 Thread green
On Mon, 2009-02-16, 047, Christoph Pilka wrote: > The first howtos I published cover topics like Lighttpd (+PHP/MySQL/ > SSL), Awesome Window Manager, Zattoo IPTV, KeePassX as password > manager, effective backups running on rsync, keybased SSH- > authentication, VMware Workstation and Debian on NS

Re: KDE

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2009 09:02 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: While using aptitude to remove a package from my KDE install aptitude wants to remove all of KDE, how do I stop this behavior? Insufficient data for non-facile response. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear P

Re: KDE

2009-02-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 16 February 2009 21:02:55 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > While using aptitude to remove a package from my KDE install aptitude > wants to remove all of KDE, how do I stop this behavior? Short answer: You can't and you don't want to. Medium answer: Use aptitude 'unmarkauto' on the packages or m

Re: From x86 to x86-64

2009-02-16 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/16/2009 08:33 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: [snip] Hi Ron, just to let you know, if you have /home installed to /root and you have another OS installed or a Live CD to use you can delete all files except /home and then install no-format, if you get a warning after partit

Hard freezes upon hotplugging a USB keyboard

2009-02-16 Thread Celejar
Hi, Running uptodate Sid. I used to be able to hotplug my USB keyboard into my laptop while running without any problems. Recently, doing this often, but not always, causes the system to lock up (screen freeze, no response to keyboard / mouse). I've never got Magic SysReq working properly, and

KDE

2009-02-16 Thread Jimmy Johnson
While using aptitude to remove a package from my KDE install aptitude wants to remove all of KDE, how do I stop this behavior? -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Older Debian Linux version hangs when detecting hardware

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2009 08:03 PM, Martin Willcocks wrote: I have an older Debian Linux version that came with Corel WordPerfect 8, and it had been working satisfactorily on my somewhat ancient 170MHz Pentium computer system with 128Mb RAM, but Lilo stopped working about a year ago. Error message?

Re: Is there any replacement product for Keil uVision3

2009-02-16 Thread Leniy Tsan
2009/2/15 Leniy Tsan > May wine keil work? > > > > 2009/2/15 Leniy Tsan > >> And Orcad Family Release 9.2 >> >> Thanks >> >> 2009/2/15 Leniy Tsan >> >>> used for coding in mcs-51 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Do not , for one repulse , give up the purpose that you resolved to >>> effect . >>> >> >> >> >>

Re: Lenny upgrade: Failed to load modules "ati" and "typ1" when starting X. No drivers available

2009-02-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 16 February 2009 16:13:29 S D wrote: > (EE) Failed to load module "ait" (module doesn't exist, 0) For the "ati" module, you need the package: p xserver-xorg-video-ati - X.Org X server -- ATI display driver -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasu

Older Debian Linux version hangs when detecting hardware

2009-02-16 Thread Martin Willcocks
I have an older Debian Linux version that came with Corel WordPerfect 8, and it had been working satisfactorily on my somewhat ancient 170MHz Pentium computer system with 128Mb RAM, but Lilo stopped working about a year ago. Despite several attempts, I've been unable to run it since this happe

Can't update Testing system

2009-02-16 Thread JoeHill
Came back tonight and of course I've got 200 or so packages to update after Saturday's release of Lenny. The update errors out, however, and tells me to run aptitude install -f to correct the problem, but that results in: node1:/home/joehill# aptitude install -f Reading package lists... Done Bui

Grub error 18

2009-02-16 Thread Jason Millis
Hi, I'm currently trying to install Debian (4.0) onto a 2.5" Seagate 60GB hard drive in a usb caddy (which is detected as a SCSI drive). Debian installs fine but then I get back an "Error 18" (which I've looked up, is due to a larger hard drive than the motherboards bios recognises). I've tri

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Ink Bottle-- > > > I've found this little script around something > I've heared about recently; it's a command dedicated > to check dependencies. > I don't know it it can be of some use. > It's been hard to make it work (that's the bad part :)

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2009 06:55 PM, JoeHill wrote: [snip] No, popularity has very little to do with it. Windows is compromised a lot because it is trivial to do so. Linux could have twice the market share as Windows, and it would still be less prone to invasion, simply because it is more difficult to do so.

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:05:27 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/16/2009 03:55 PM, H.S. wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> Sure. The keylogger would have to add itself to the "autostart folder", > >> but that's no mean feat. > >> > > > > I am sorry, what is an auto start folder in relation to

Re: unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2009 06:50 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: dgwicks:~# unzip -v UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP. It doesn't look like it has changed in the past five years, which makes me think it might be something else that unzip interacts with. But I have no idea what it mi

New Debian Wiki online with lot of working howtos

2009-02-16 Thread Christoph Pilka
Hi folks, I am working for several weeks on a new wiki containing lot lof interesting and _working_ howtos. You can find it at http://debian.asconix.com. The howtos explain step-by-step the setup of server or desktop installations. The first howtos I published cover topics like Lighttpd (+PHP/MyS

Re: Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41 - 2nd

2009-02-16 Thread Alokat MacMoneysack
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > [Once again, please reply to the list and don't cc. me, as per the > list code of conduct.] > > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:44:36 +0100 Alokat MacMoneysack > wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> Celejar wrote: >>

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread JoeHill
H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > In the last some weeks I recall reading in one of the mailing lists that > it is just a matter of popularity that we are not seeing bad intentioned > debs or rpms on the internet. If Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora were to become > sufficiently popular, the claim is that it would b

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
sudo rm -rf / is trapped and subject to special handling. At least, it should be, IMHO. >>> >>> I don't believe it. Show us! >> >> Ron, why don't you try to command and see for yourself? Its easy >> enough to do it. I just don't have the time. Cough. Cough. > > Boyd(?) asserted the

Re: unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
dgwicks:~# unzip -v UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP. It doesn't look like it has changed in the past five years, which makes me think it might be something else that unzip interacts with. But I have no idea what it might be. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2009 06:11 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-02-16_10:29:02, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/16/2009 08:26 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-02-15_17:26:23, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:48:37 Ron Johnson wrote: [W]hat's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this?

Re: Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41 - 2nd

2009-02-16 Thread Celejar
[Once again, please reply to the list and don't cc. me, as per the list code of conduct.] On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:44:36 +0100 Alokat MacMoneysack wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Celejar wrote: > > [Please reply to the list and don't cc. me, as per the code of > > con

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-02-16_10:29:02, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/16/2009 08:26 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: >> On 2009-02-15_17:26:23, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>> On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:48:37 Ron Johnson wrote: [W]hat's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this? $ sudo dpkg -i NakedBrittan

unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-16 Thread wix
Greetings; I regularly use the -a option in unzip to fix DOS/Windows line endings and have never had a problem. Until yesterday and today! Today it treated everything as a binary file and all the text/ascii files still had ^M at the end of each line. Yesterday it treated a pdf file as a text file

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
Dave Ewart wrote the following on 02/16/2009 10:42 AM: On Monday, 16.02.2009 at 16:37 +, Avi Greenbury wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: I don't believe it. Show us! In the interests of satisfying my curiosity: vm-linux2:/# rm -rf / rm: cannot remove root directory `/' vm-linux2:/# That's ra

unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I regularly use the -a option to unzip to fix DOS/Windows line endings and have never had a problem. Until yesterday and today! Today it treated everything as a binary file and all the text/ascii files still had ^M at the end of each line. Yesterday it treated a pdf file as a text fil

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Ink Bottle
I've found this little script around something I've heared about recently; it's a command dedicated to check dependencies. I don't know it it can be of some use. It's been hard to make it work (that's the bad part :) ). $ export LANG=C; 2>/dev/null apt-cache show $(dpkg-query -l "*"|grep "ii"|cu

[OT]: new to squeeze, everything OK

2009-02-16 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Well, I know, today it should be the same as lenny. BUT "No"!!! 208 updates!! All went OK. Thieery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Lenny upgrade: Failed to load modules "ati" and "typ1" when starting X. No drivers available

2009-02-16 Thread S D
After dist-upgrade from etch to lenny, I'm trying to run lenny using 2.6.18 kernel that I have left over from etch, as I'm having issues assembling mdadm RAID drives under the new 2.6.28 lenny kernel (For more info see http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/b97fd9

Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> lynx > > Much less capable than links2. > I see that I'm late to the party! I should have read the whole thread and seen what was suggested before replying. I personally have never tried links2, but I will try it soon. Thanks, Ron. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.i

Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2009 04:01 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/2/13 Marc Shapiro : Is there a light-weight browser that does not have a huge list of dependencies? lynx Much less capable than links2. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41 - 2nd

2009-02-16 Thread Alokat MacMoneysack
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Levi wrote: > 2009/2/17 Alokat MacMoneysack : >> I have the: >> >> Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter > > You need to install the firmware-ipw2x00 package from non-free. > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firmware-ipw2x00

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2009 03:55 PM, H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Sure. The keylogger would have to add itself to the "autostart folder", but that's no mean feat. I am sorry, what is an auto start folder in relation to Debian or Ubuntu? The same people who would install NakedBrittany.deb are the sam

Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/2/13 Marc Shapiro : > Is there a light-weight browser that does not have a huge list of > dependencies? > lynx -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В

Re: setting up vhost for external DNS?

2009-02-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
Zach Uram: > > I wish to take over a wiki so I am setting it up on my machine however > it will use the DNS hosted by someone else so they will setup a CNAME > record pointing "wiki.foo.org" to my machine's ip. I have no control > over foo.org. > > So how exactly should I set up the name based vho

Re: upgrade to lenny report

2009-02-16 Thread Kent West
Pavlos Parissis wrote: > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:39:11 -0600 > Kent West wrote: > > >> Sven Joachim wrote: >> >>> On 2009-02-15 23:59 +0100, Pavlos Parissis wrote: >>> >>> >>> This morning I upgraded my etch desktop to lenny. All went ok but with 3 small issues. >>>

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: > > Sure. The keylogger would have to add itself to the "autostart folder", > but that's no mean feat. > I am sorry, what is an auto start folder in relation to Debian or Ubuntu? I would expect it to put a line in .bashrc to start automatically when user logs in or perhaps

Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 07:25:50PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> Is there a light-weight browser that does not have a huge list of >> dependencies? >> >> I had been using dillo for things like reading html documentation and >> other light-weight tasks, but then I upgraded

Re: Using automake

2009-02-16 Thread Joris Dobbelsteen
Laurent Guignard wrote, On 15-02-09 18:58: Joris Dobbelsteen a écrit : Hello, I'm trying to build a application and was trying to use automake with it. Now I've stumbled upon an issue, see below, I cannot resolve for a few days. I think it is somewhere(tm) in the manual though. Can anyone poin

Re: Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41 - 2nd

2009-02-16 Thread Alokat MacMoneysack
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > [Please reply to the list and don't cc. me, as per the code of > conduct.] > > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:30:24 +0100 Alokat MacMoneysack > wrote: > > ... > >> Hey, >> >> I have the: >> >> Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter >

Re: unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2009 11:31 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I regularly use the -a option to unzip to fix DOS/Windows line endings and have never had a problem. Until yesterday and today! Today it treated everything as a binary file and all the text/ascii files still had ^M at the end of each lin

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2009 12:40 PM, H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/16/2009 04:30 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 04:22:37PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: But neither of these help in case a stupid user receives an e-mail saying: Run 'sudo dpkg -i FreePornPics.deb to see 's se

setting up vhost for external DNS?

2009-02-16 Thread Zach Uram
I wish to take over a wiki so I am setting it up on my machine however it will use the DNS hosted by someone else so they will setup a CNAME record pointing "wiki.foo.org" to my machine's ip. I have no control over foo.org. So how exactly should I set up the name based vhost in apache or should I

RE: Module-assistant error when installing fglrx ATI proprietary driver. (Debian Sid).

2009-02-16 Thread Lalit Dhiri
__> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:26:09 +0100> Subject: Module-assistant error when installing fglrx ATI proprietary driver. (Debian Sid).> From: parla...@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org>> Hi, I'm trying to install the last ATI proprietary driver which I've d

RE: Module-assistant error when installing fglrx ATI proprietary driver. (Debian Sid).

2009-02-16 Thread Lalit Dhiri
> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:26:09 +0100> Subject: Module-assistant error when installing fglrx ATI proprietary driver. (Debian Sid).> From: parla...@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org>> Hi, I'm trying to install the last ATI proprietary driver which I've

Module-assistant error when installing fglrx ATI proprietary driver. (Debian Sid).

2009-02-16 Thread Carlos Parada
Hi, I'm trying to install the last ATI proprietary driver which I've downloaded from AMD webpage. I did a "sh ati-driver-installer-9-1-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Debian/sid" and installed the resulting DEB packages with dpkg. Then, I've run "module-assistant prepare" and "module-assistant auto-inst

Re: Lenny upgrade: Can't mount mdadm RAID drive under kernel 2.6.26

2009-02-16 Thread S D
--- On Mon, 2/16/09, martin f krafft wrote: > Please file a bug against mdadm and make sure to include the > output > of > > /usr/share/bug/mdadm/script > > as root. > A bug report was sent to sub...@bugs.debian.org. No confirmation that it was received yet, so here's a copy, just in case.

vino and logging

2009-02-16 Thread H.S.
Hi, Does Vino (the remote desktop server) allow logging of events (something similar to SSH). I have been able to find an vino logs in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages. Thanks. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to m

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-16 Thread Khristian
(re-sending the e-mail to the list as well, I always forget to hit the 'reply to all' button :/ ) Yes, I've installed linux some times before, and what I'm trying to do is wipe the current ubuntu install I have to make a clean lenny install (I have /, /home and swap partitions already made). Insid

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Chris Burkhardt-- > > Paul Yeatman wrote: > [...] > >> There is a note in the man page about putting the --no-act flag before the > >> action: > >> > >> $ sudo dpkg --no-act -i texlive-base_2007.dfsg.1-2_all.deb > >> > >> Does that make it beha

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
Paul Yeatman writes: > > $ sudo dpkg -i --no-act texlive-base_2007.dfsg.1-2_all.deb (Reading > > database ... 138033 files and directories currently installed.) > > Preparing to replace texlive-base 2007.dfsg.1-2 (using > > texlive-base_2007.dfsg.1-2_all.deb) ... > > $ echo $? > > 0 > > > > tel

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Paul Yeatman wrote: [...] >> There is a note in the man page about putting the --no-act flag before the >> action: >> >> $ sudo dpkg --no-act -i texlive-base_2007.dfsg.1-2_all.deb >> >> Does that make it behave as expected? > > I wish but sadly no: > > $ sudo dpkg --no-act -i texlive-base_2007.d

Re: request to try something with midori

2009-02-16 Thread Ink Bottle
Thank you very much for your help :) I found exactly the same results. So now, though it's not a solution, we have a very reproducible problem. And even different cases where it behave the same or not the same. Since you English is far much better than mine maybe you could add the last few lines o

Re: lenny on x86

2009-02-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kelly Clowers: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:55, Attilio Cucchieri wrote: >> >> Does anybody nows if lenny installation on x86 machines >> using floppy is (or will be) available? > > I don't think there is such a thing, and I doubt there will be. > The manual makes no mention of floppies: > http:

Re: Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41 - 2nd

2009-02-16 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/17 Alokat MacMoneysack : > I have the: > > Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter You need to install the firmware-ipw2x00 package from non-free. http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firmware-ipw2x00 Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a machi

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Michael M. Moore-- > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Paul Yeatman wrote: > > Hi, I'm wondering if there is a command I can run on a debian > > package that would test for whether all dependencies of that package > > are already installed on

Re: Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41 - 2nd

2009-02-16 Thread Celejar
[Please reply to the list and don't cc. me, as per the code of conduct.] On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:30:24 +0100 Alokat MacMoneysack wrote: ... > Hey, > > I have the: > > Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter > > here is the URL from thinkwiki.org: > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Catego

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Chris Burkhardt-- > > Paul Yeatman wrote: > > Hi, I'm wondering if there is a command I can run on a debian package that > > would test for whether all dependencies of that package are already > > installed on the system without actually insta

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-16 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/17 Khristian : > I'm trying to install lenny amd64 here, but the installer doesn't > recognize my hard disk as already partitioned when I choose the manual > partitioning (it simply shows an unpartitioned 250GB disk). I tried > going through the graphical and text installers (both normal and

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Jimmy Johnson-- > > Paul Yeatman wrote: > > Hi, I'm wondering if there is a command I can run on a debian package > that would test for whether all dependencies of that package are already > installed on the system without actually installing th

Re: Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41 - 2nd

2009-02-16 Thread Alokat MacMoneysack
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:16:40 +0100 > Alokat MacMoneysack wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hey everbody, >> >> I installed Debian Lenny two days ago. >> >> All works fine but I can't use my Wlan card.

Re: Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41

2009-02-16 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/17 Alokat MacMoneysack : > Hey everbody, > > I installed Debian Lenny two days ago. > > All works fine but I can't use my Wlan card. > > Does anyone have an idea or can give me documentation? > > I found a couple of installation guides, but there are for Debian 4.0 > only. > > Thanks for hel

Graphical Installer: swap and partition table modifications

2009-02-16 Thread Zygmunt Konrad Dabek
My first impressions of the GUInstaller are very favourable as far as I have gone (up to partitioning) but was unable to select a suitable install partition without an overview of the machine configuration in paragraph 3, below. Any chance of displaying partition labels (as in gnome partition mana

Re: lenny on x86

2009-02-16 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:55, Attilio Cucchieri wrote: > > Hi! > > Does anybody nows if lenny installation on x86 machines > using floppy is (or will be) available? I don't think there is such a thing, and I doubt there will be. The manual makes no mention of floppies: http://www.debian.org/rele

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
> In the interests of satisfying my curiosity: > > vm-linux2:/# rm -rf / Here I hold my breath! > rm: cannot remove root directory `/' > vm-linux2:/# > Here I sigh and change my pants. And of course, the ob: http://xkcd.com/242/ -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א

Re: Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41 - 2nd

2009-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:16:40 +0100 Alokat MacMoneysack wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hey everbody, > > I installed Debian Lenny two days ago. > > All works fine but I can't use my Wlan card. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html What kind of card do y

named: network unreachable errors since upgrade

2009-02-16 Thread Ross Boylan
About 45 minutes after upgrading bind9 and logcheck I started getting messages like these: Feb 14 10:28:55 corn named[24777]: too many timeouts resolving 'safebrowsing.clients.google.com/A' (in 'com'?): reducing the advertised EDNS UDP packet size to 512 octets Feb 14 10:28:55 corn named[24777]: to

lenny on x86

2009-02-16 Thread Attilio Cucchieri
Hi! Does anybody nows if lenny installation on x86 machines using floppy is (or will be) available? Thanks. Best Attilio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/16/2009 04:30 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 04:22:37PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >>> But neither of these help in case a stupid user receives an e-mail >>> saying: >>> >>> Run 'sudo dpkg -i FreePornPics.deb to see 's >>> secret sex tape'. >

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 04:42:18PM +, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Monday, 16.02.2009 at 16:37 +, Avi Greenbury wrote: > > > In the interests of satisfying my curiosity: > > > > vm-linux2:/# rm -rf / > > rm: cannot remove root directory `/' > > vm-linux2:/# > > That's rather annoying. If I wan

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-16 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:28:45 -0800 Marc Shapiro wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:13:15 -0800 > > Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > >>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:16:49PM +, Avi Greenbury wrote: > Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Jack Schneider wrote: > > We are probably the o

Re: request to try something with midori

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Ink Bottle wrote: >> have the following >> packages installed: >> >> midori 0.1.2-1 >> mozilla-plugin-gnash 0.8.3-6 >> swfdec-mozilla 0.6.0-4 > > apt-cache policy midori mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla > flashplayer-mozilla > midori: > Installed: 0.1.2-1 > Candidate: 0.1.2-1 > mozilla-plu

Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-16 Thread Khristian
I'm trying to install lenny amd64 here, but the installer doesn't recognize my hard disk as already partitioned when I choose the manual partitioning (it simply shows an unpartitioned 250GB disk). I tried going through the graphical and text installers (both normal and expert), but nothing changed.

mediawiki-extension -- README?

2009-02-16 Thread sparcc
Hi, I'm trying to install extensions using the 'mediawiki-extensions' package. There does not appear to be a 'README' in the package http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/mediawiki-extensions/filelist ... and after searching the web... I could just come-up with: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-

unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I regularly use the -a option to unzip to fix DOS/Windows line endings and have never had a problem. Until yesterday and today! Today it treated everything as a binary file and all the text/ascii files still had ^M at the end of each line. Yesterday it treated a pdf file as a tex

Re: Debian VPN IPSEC interface

2009-02-16 Thread Martin
2009/2/16 Martin Hilpert : > is there a better solution then using Openswan ? this answer may not be welcome here, from what I read OpenBSD is quite nice with handling IPSec... > i hardly need ipsec because of cisco router hardly? Du brauchst das kaum? I think the OP wanted to say: "I d

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 16.02.2009 at 16:37 +, Avi Greenbury wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> I don't believe it. Show us! >> > > In the interests of satisfying my curiosity: > > vm-linux2:/# rm -rf / > rm: cannot remove root directory `/' > vm-linux2:/# That's rather annoying. If I want to shoot mysel

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/15/2009 11:39 PM, T o n g wrote: On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:48:37 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Anyway, twice in the past few years, Debian servers have been compromised. One time it was thru a weak DD user password, You implication seems to be "Debian is not secure enough", "Debian" can be

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Avi Greenbury
Ron Johnson wrote: I don't believe it. Show us! In the interests of satisfying my curiosity: vm-linux2:/# rm -rf / rm: cannot remove root directory `/' vm-linux2:/# -- -- Avi Greenbury http://aviswebsite.co.uk ;) http://aviswebsite.co.uk/asking-questions -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2009 08:26 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-02-15_17:26:23, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 15 February 2009 15:48:37 Ron Johnson wrote: [W]hat's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this? $ sudo dpkg -i NakedBrittany.deb What's to stop Joe Wannabe from doing this? sudo rm -rf

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2009 04:30 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 04:22:37PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: But neither of these help in case a stupid user receives an e-mail saying: Run 'sudo dpkg -i FreePornPics.deb to see 's secret sex tape'. No, but it still wouldn't get far becau

Re: ALSA devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

2009-02-16 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:42:51 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Maybe the grml kernel is for some reason not compatible with Debian's > ALSA setup. . . Thanks a lot for the analysis Florian. Basing it, I diverted the discussion to grml . Thanks again. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) htt

Notice Email User

2009-02-16 Thread Bezeqint . net
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Re: upgrade to lenny report

2009-02-16 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:39:11 -0600 Kent West wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2009-02-15 23:59 +0100, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > > > > > >> This morning I upgraded my etch desktop to lenny. > >> All went ok but with 3 small issues. > >> > >> 1) Exim was refusing to start up due to no zero siz

Wlan and IBM Thinkpad T41 - 2nd

2009-02-16 Thread Alokat MacMoneysack
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey everbody, I installed Debian Lenny two days ago. All works fine but I can't use my Wlan card. Does anyone have an idea or can give me documentation? I found a couple of installation guides, but there are for Debian 4.0 only. Thanks for help!

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread H.S.
Paul E Condon wrote: > On 2009-02-16_09:37:55, H.S. wrote: >> Paul E Condon wrote: >>> unaware. I suspect that the security is pretty good. Early on, there >>> were powerful organizations that would have benefitted handsomely if >>> Debian had been disrupted, and it wasn't disrupted. But there is >

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-02-16_09:37:55, H.S. wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > unaware. I suspect that the security is pretty good. Early on, there > > were powerful organizations that would have benefitted handsomely if > > Debian had been disrupted, and it wasn't disrupted. But there is > > Interesting. Care to

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