Re: Theoretical drive swapidge.

2010-03-18 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:29 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: > Hope this helps! > ~Stack~ greatly. thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/f8d5d4f31003182140w

Re: gnash vs. flash

2010-03-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
> [...] >> >> At worst it may require some changes to Firefox. >> > A bug report against IW? >> What's "IW"? > iceweasel? Ah, good catch, thank you. You can say "Firefox" even if Debian has to say "Iceweasel". Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: Theoretical drive swapidge.

2010-03-18 Thread ~Stack~
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jeremy jozwik wrote: > what i am hoping for however is to more or less mirror the current > drive / instillation over to the larger drive that will be installed. > i would rather not have to re-install debian and all its > configurations to the larger

Re: [semi-SOLVED] Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> My initial difficulties are mitigated a bit. Some web sites work; >> some don't. I think that both Gnash and Flash can be installed at >> the same time. Which is actually running, I am not competent enough >> to know. > update-alternatives --display flash-mozilla.so > update-alternatives --c

Re: unable to install mysql server

2010-03-18 Thread vishnu vardhan
I have purged mysql-server mysql-client using the following command : *# aptitude purge --purge-unused mysql-server mysql-client * and then i issued command : *# updatedb* I have again tried to install both of the packages, instead of downloading packages, i has took me directly to provide pass

Re: online voip client

2010-03-18 Thread Dave Siedler
Julien, thanks for mentioning us. TringMe voip client works great on Debian, ensure that you are using the latest adobe flash. Complete developer specific information including API documentation and source code can be found at http://tringme.com/developers.html More specifically, the API documentat

Re: Theoretical drive swapidge.

2010-03-18 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > Do you mean the "replace the existing drive with a larger capacity drive" > form of "beefing up"? yes. exactly that, i am considering installing a larger drive. > What exactly were your search terms? something along the lines of "debian migr

Re: online voip client

2010-03-18 Thread Dave Siedler
Julien, thanks for mentioning us. TringMe voip client works great on Debian, ensure that you are using the latest adobe flash. Complete developer specific information including API documentation and source code can be found at http://tringme.com/developers.html More specifically, the API documentat

Re: Apache2 chroot /dev/null permission denied

2010-03-18 Thread Knowledge Seeker
Thanks for the help. Doing what was asked I figured out and solved the problem. Another administrator added the option nodev to the partition of the chroot. Probably He did not umounted and mounted the partition after that and the service did not stopped, when we restart the machine, the problem a

Re: Radeon HD 3850 / RV670 AGP: no firmware loaded / slow

2010-03-18 Thread Cassiano Leal
On 17 March 2010 15:24, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,17.Mar.10, 11:27:19, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: >> Hi Andrei, >> >> OK, doing >> >> modprobe -r radeon >> modprobe radeon modeset=1 >> >> using 2.6.32-3-amd64 results in a working machine which actually >> performance workplace and application s

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > You must have missed the BIG BOLD LETTERS that tell you not to write > into resolv.conf by hand. > > $ cat /etc/resolv.conf > # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by > resolvconf(8) > # DO NOT EDIT THI

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: >> I carefully type a domain name and some decent nameservers into >> resolv.conf. >> >> Then all of it gets deleted and replaced by one single nameserver, which >> is the router and the nameserver of my provider. > > Well, yeah, th

Re: Theoretical drive swapidge.

2010-03-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:36:08 -0400 (EDT), jeremy jozwik wrote: > > hello list. i am contemplating beefing up my laptops hard drive. i did > a little google search and most of the hits seem to be forum posts. > and those that are not use different methods. > > this is a big move so i would like to

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:21:52 -0400 (EDT), Clive McBarton wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> What kinds of changes do you see happening and what changes are you >> trying to prevent? What harm is being caused by those changes? >> In other words, what is the real world problem you are trying to solve

Re: Problem with libXrender

2010-03-18 Thread Wayne
Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 07:39:10PM -0400, Wayne wrote: Guys I having a problem getting acroread and now eagle to run it claims that libXrander is bad. From the following I can see a problem. [VT/dev/pts/1 wt...@dj-squeeze] ~$ ls -l /usr/lib/libXrender* -rw-r--r

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-18 18:21, Clive McBarton wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: What kinds of changes do you see happening and what changes are you trying to prevent? What harm is being caused by those changes? In other words, what is the real world problem you are trying to solve? I carefully type a domai

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-18 19:04, Kelly Clowers wrote: [snip] MSO (all versions) is almost entirely C++, like most MS programs and Win32 itself. Most of the very low-level stuff (including the NT Kernel) is in C. C++ had barely been invented when Word, Excel & Access were written, and the compilers and l

Re: Theoretical drive swapidge.

2010-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-18 18:36, jeremy jozwik wrote: hello list. i am contemplating beefing up my laptops hard drive. i did Do you mean the "replace the existing drive with a larger capacity drive" form of "beefing up"? a little google search and most of the hits seem to be forum posts. and those that

Re: Problem with libXrender

2010-03-18 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 07:39:10PM -0400, Wayne wrote: > Guys > > I having a problem getting acroread and now eagle to run it claims > that libXrander is bad. From the following I can see a problem. > > [VT/dev/pts/1 wt...@dj-squeeze] > ~$ ls -l /usr/lib/libXrender* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58

Re: php5-memcache package & errno=11 Resource temporarily unavailable

2010-03-18 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:29:02PM +, Alex Kent wrote: > So I'm wondering, if this package isn't going to make it into the > official debian lenny sources - what is the best way to proceed? Thats what backport is for, check out http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php HTH, Oli -- To UNS

Re: Wireless still not working (was:Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee)

2010-03-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,18.Mar.10, 13:04:58, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> >> The difference >> being the lack of the Realtek network adaptor under >> Debian. That >> is certainly where the problem lies. Why would Debian >> not detect >> the adaptor at all? > > That's exactly what I was e

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 20:55, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> And yet me getting-old laptop is still snappy.  I think it's more that MSO >> is written in absurdly-tuned C & assembler, whereas OOo is portable C++ & >> Java. >> > > Actually, MSO is written in a high-level language. I forget which, but > it's

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread Michael Biebl
On 18.03.2010 16:53, Clive McBarton wrote: > My /etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten periodically. Any ideas why? > > I thought network-manager was the culprit and deinstaled it, but the > problem persists. If you are using network-manager, you can easily Open nm-connection-editor and select the co

Re: IOMMU option in bios

2010-03-18 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón wrote: > Not sure if this has something to do with some BIOS option that allow > "memmory remapping" :-? There's no such option. Not in any BIOS I've ever seen. > There is an Ubuntu forum thread that may help a bit It doesn't. It's a long

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread John Hasler
Clive writes: > I use dial-up internet. How did you configure it? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ljdpnqlw@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Problem with libXrender

2010-03-18 Thread Wayne
Guys I having a problem getting acroread and now eagle to run it claims that libXrander is bad. From the following I can see a problem. [VT/dev/pts/1 wt...@dj-squeeze] ~$ ls -l /usr/lib/libXrender* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58K 2009-11-25 13:54 /usr/lib/libXrender.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19

Theoretical drive swapidge.

2010-03-18 Thread jeremy jozwik
hello list. i am contemplating beefing up my laptops hard drive. i did a little google search and most of the hits seem to be forum posts. and those that are not use different methods. this is a big move so i would like to know the most tried and true, least down time tutorial for this. can someo

Re: Wireless still not working (was:Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee)

2010-03-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
From: Stephen Powell > > No need to CC me, I am subscribed to the list. That was an oversight. I recently started using Yahoo! web-mail, instead of Thunderbird, so that I could access my e-mail away from home. If I can't find a way to make it work better with Debian lists I may have to go b

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Powell wrote: > What kinds of changes do you see happening and what changes are you > trying to prevent? What harm is being caused by those changes? > In other words, what is the real world problem you are trying to solve? I carefully type a

RE: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread James Zuelow
> -Original Message- > From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.john...@cox.net] > Sent: Thursday, 18 March, 2010 14:57 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: why does resolv.conf change? > > > Well the OP can fix that. First, edit resolv.conf to look > the way you want it to. > >

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-18 17:45, James Zuelow wrote: -Original Message- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.john...@cox.net] Sent: Thursday, 18 March, 2010 13:44 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: why does resolv.conf change? On 2010-03-18 16:14, Clive McBarton wrote: To make my original qu

RE: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread James Zuelow
> -Original Message- > From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.john...@cox.net] > Sent: Thursday, 18 March, 2010 13:44 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: why does resolv.conf change? > > On 2010-03-18 16:14, Clive McBarton wrote: > > > > To make my original question more precise:

Re: Wireless still not working (was:Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee)

2010-03-18 Thread Stephen Powell
No need to CC me, I am subscribed to the list. On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:31:24 -0400 (EDT), Marc Shapiro wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> Perhaps this link will be useful to you: >> http://wiki.debian.org/rtl818x > > I had already installed wireless-tools, which did not automatically > load t

Re: Wireless still not working (was:Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee)

2010-03-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
From: Stephen Powell > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:04:58 -0400 (EDT), Marc Shapiro wrote: >> The difference being the lack of the Realtek network adaptor under Debian. >> That is certainly where the problem lies. Why would Debian not detect the >> adaptor at all? > >Perhaps this link will be useful t

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-18 15:55, Dotan Cohen wrote: And yet me getting-old laptop is still snappy. I think it's more that MSO is written in absurdly-tuned C & assembler, whereas OOo is portable C++ & Java. Actually, MSO is written in a high-level language. I forget which, but it's not .NET. They do that

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-18 16:14, Clive McBarton wrote: To make my original question more precise: I want the stuff I write into resolv.conf to persist, but it does not have to be in that file. I'm happy to write things elsewhere as long as *some place* makes my changes persistent. You must have missed th

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:09:40 +0100, Clive McBarton wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >>> My /etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten periodically. Any ideas why? >> >> Maybe because you are using a DHCP setup? > > Yes. So you've got the response. >> http://wiki.debian.org/ NetworkConfiguration#Definingthe.2

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:09:40 +0100 Clive McBarton wrote: ... > I assume that means dhcpd. How do I stop it from changing resolv.conf? I haven't been following the entire thread, but something on your system has to be running dhcpd. You can either tell it to not to, or you can configure dhcpd n

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:09:40 -0400 (EDT), Clive McBarton wrote: > I assume that means dhcpd. How do I stop it from changing resolv.conf? What kinds of changes do you see happening and what changes are you trying to prevent? What harm is being caused by those changes? In other words, what is the r

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/18/2010 3:44 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-18 11:47, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Andrei Popescu: Ron Johnson: Lastly, Excel, Word, IE & Lookout just launch faster than Calc, Write, FF & Tbird. That's too bad. The comparison is not quite fair, since the former are being preloaded in Wind

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 To make my original question more precise: I want the stuff I write into resolv.conf to persist, but it does not have to be in that file. I'm happy to write things elsewhere as long as *some place* makes my changes persistent. Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:53:20 +0100, Clive McBarton wrote: > >> My /etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten periodically. Any ideas why? > > Maybe because you are using a DHCP setup? Yes. > http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration#Defi

Re: Wireless still not working (was:Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee)

2010-03-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,18.Mar.10, 13:04:58, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > The difference being the lack of the Realtek network adaptor under > Debian. That is certainly where the problem lies. Why would Debian > not detect the adaptor at all? That's exactly what I was expecting and why I asked for the output of

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
> And yet me getting-old laptop is still snappy.  I think it's more that MSO > is written in absurdly-tuned C & assembler, whereas OOo is portable C++ & > Java. > Actually, MSO is written in a high-level language. I forget which, but it's not .NET. They do that because there are a lot of bugs, and

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-18 11:47, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Andrei Popescu: Ron Johnson: Lastly, Excel, Word, IE & Lookout just launch faster than Calc, Write, FF & Tbird. That's too bad. The comparison is not quite fair, since the former are being preloaded in Windows. And yet me getting-old laptop is s

Re: Wireless still not working (was:Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee)

2010-03-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:04:58 -0400 (EDT), Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I think we have finally found the problem! > > When I boot the eee into eeebuntu and run lspci, I get: > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express > Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 04) > 00:02.

Re: gnash vs. flash

2010-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-18 10:55, Stephen Powell wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:36:11 -0400 (EDT), Stefan Monnier wrote: What's "IW"? I think that means iceweasel. Yes, thanks. -- Obsession with "preserving cultural heritage" is a racist impediment to moral, physical and intellectual progress. -- To U

Re: Wireless still not working (was:Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee)

2010-03-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
From: Andrei Popescu > On Thu,18.Mar.10, 07:28:20, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> Since I have no wireless on the laptop and my flashdrive is ounting >> read-only, the relevant line from lspci is: >> >> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Atheros >> AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Etherne

Re: Apache2 chroot /dev/null permission denied

2010-03-18 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed March 17 2010 19:00:35 Knowledge Seeker wrote: > That is the problem. > The permission is set to 666 and the group is root. > But it still don't work. Please post the exact complete error message, and also the results of the following three commands run as root as soon as possible after the

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread Chris Davies
Clive McBarton wrote: > My /etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten periodically. Any ideas why? Samba? DHCP? ppp? OpenVPN? vpnc? resolvconf entries in /etc/network/interfaces? 3G (UMTS) modem? Proprietary networking software? There are several possibilities. Sometimes taking a look at the symlink for

Re: Report bug in migration-assistant

2010-03-18 Thread Wayne
Krasimir Chonov wrote: Hello. I found a bug in migration-assistant. The bug is in Ubuntu, but to report bug about this package I was redirected to Debian. So the bug is the fowolling: Do you mean the module-assistant package? Debian does not have a migration-assistant package AFAIK. When in

Re: Change In Restarting Services (slightly OT)

2010-03-18 Thread Tom H
>> I haven't been active in Debian for two years back when Lenny was >> still in 'testing' and noticed that for some reason it is no longer >> protocol to restart network services using the 'init.d' scripts. I >> also noticed the same for Ubuntu (which I don't use or could care >> about) and am try

RE: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread James Zuelow
> -Original Message- > From: Andrei Popescu [mailto:andreimpope...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, 18 March, 2010 00:42 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does > installing gnome ...) > > On Thu,18.Mar.10, 03:28:40, Ron Johnson wrote: > >

Re: Change In Restarting Services

2010-03-18 Thread Michael Biebl
On 18.03.2010 09:38, Adamou Nacer wrote: > It seems to me that the debian way to achieve this task from the > commandline is to use the following command: > invoke-rc.d networking restart invoke-rc.d is not really meant to be used by the casual system admin/user. It was designed to be used in deb

Re: gnash vs. flash

2010-03-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 18 March 2010 17:50, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2010-03-18 11:36:11 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > [...] >> >> At worst it may require some changes to Firefox. >> >> > A bug report against IW? >> >> What's "IW"? > > iceweasel? > The Debian branding of Firefox. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.co

Re: unable to install mysql server

2010-03-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:27:32 -0400 (EDT), vishnu vardhan wrote: > > I have followed the steps given by Stephen Powell and tried to install > again. It is showing same error. > Out of curiousity I have run > > *# dpkg -s mysql-server-5.0* > > **and the output of the above command is : > > *# dpk

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/18/2010 11:39 AM, Mark Allums wrote: The order of installation seems to matter. Installing Gnash, and then (re-)installing Flash caused most embedded videos to play properly. I have not tried Flash-based UIs, like Flash games. To put the nail in the coffin of this, after a lot of experimen

Re: Wireless still not working (was:Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee)

2010-03-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,18.Mar.10, 07:28:20, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Since I have no wireless on the laptop and my flashdrive is mounting > read-only, the relevant line from lspci is: > > 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Atheros > AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller (rev b0)

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> > Lastly, Excel, Word, IE & Lookout just launch faster than Calc, >> > Write, FF & Tbird. >> >> That's too bad. > > The comparison is not quite fair, since the former are being preloaded > in Windows. > For one thing, you can preload in Linux as well. For users with 2GB RAM or more, I enable th

Re: Change In Restarting Services (slightly OT)

2010-03-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100317_202738, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I haven't been active in Debian for two years back when Lenny was > still in 'testing' and noticed that for some reason it is no longer > protocol to restart network services using the 'init.d' scripts. I > also noticed the same for Ubuntu (which I don't

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Andrei Popescu: > Ron Johnson: > > Lastly, Excel, Word, IE & Lookout just launch faster than Calc, > > Write, FF & Tbird. > > That's too bad. The comparison is not quite fair, since the former are being preloaded in Windows. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: unable to install mysql server

2010-03-18 Thread vishnu vardhan
I have followed the steps given by Stephen Powell and tried to install again. It is showing same error. Out of curiousity I have run *# dpkg -s mysql-server-5.0* **and the output of the above command is : *# dpkg -s mysql-server-5.0* Package: mysql-server-5.0 Status: install ok half-configured P

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/18/2010 5:13 AM, Mark Allums wrote: On 3/17/2010 10:40 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: Installing Gnash screws up Flash. That is the core of the problem that needs to be fixed. There's no reason the two shouldn't be able to coexist peacefully so that each user on the machine can choose which fl

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Clive McBarton schreef: My /etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten periodically. Any ideas why? I thought network-manager was the culprit and deinstaled it, but the problem persists. As mentioned by others, /etc/resolv.conf is polled by the system when it needs info on how to do a dns lookup. Therefo

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread Chris Jackson
Clive McBarton wrote: My /etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten periodically. Any ideas why? I thought network-manager was the culprit and deinstaled it, but the problem persists. dhcpd can do it. -- Chris Jackson Shadowcat Systems Ltd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: gnash vs. flash

2010-03-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2010-03-18 11:36:11 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: [...] > >> At worst it may require some changes to Firefox. > > > A bug report against IW? > > What's "IW"? iceweasel? -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog:

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:53:20 -0400 (EDT), Clive McBarton wrote: > > My /etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten periodically. Any ideas why? > > I thought network-manager was the culprit and deinstaled it, but the > problem persists. I've had this happen to me when I switch between a hard-wired etherne

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:53:20 +0100, Clive McBarton wrote: > My /etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten periodically. Any ideas why? Maybe because you are using a DHCP setup? *** http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration#Definingthe.28DNS.29Nameservers The C library and other resolver libraries loo

Re: IOMMU option in bios

2010-03-18 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:08:30 -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote: > I was looking over a dmesg output and I noticed a message that said I > would save 64MB of RAM if I enabled the IOMMU option in the bios. > > I'm using an ASUS M4A79XTD EVO board with 8GB of RAM so maybe freeing up > 64MB of RAM isn't t

Re: gnash vs. flash

2010-03-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:36:11 -0400 (EDT), Stefan Monnier wrote: > What's "IW"? I think that means iceweasel. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: unable to install mysql server

2010-03-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:38:29 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > > aptitude remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client > > is not the correct way to purge a package. The correct way to > purge a package with aptitude is > > aptitude purge mysql-server mysql-client I suppose the most powerful co

why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-18 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My /etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten periodically. Any ideas why? I thought network-manager was the culprit and deinstaled it, but the problem persists. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla

Re: gnash vs. flash

2010-03-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I'm not at all convinced the problem is packaging (there doesn't seem to >> be any conflict there). Last time I had a system with both Gnash and >> adobe's flash, the problem was that Firefox just seemed to insist on >> using Gnash even when I instructed it to disable the Gnash plugin. >> So, a

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash

2010-03-18 Thread John Hasler
Celejar writes: > So apparently the stuff could actually be included in the official > archive, without violating the social contract? Dotan writes: > No, there is a difference between checking all software for possible > patent infringement and including known offenders. But the line is > grey, t

Re: Apache2 chroot /dev/null permission denied

2010-03-18 Thread Wayne
Knowledge Seeker wrote: That is the problem. The permission is set to 666 and the group is root. But it still don't work. I don't know know what else to suggest. Maybe it is time to upgrade to lenny? Sorry I could not be of more help. Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: (OT) LaTeX vs Word vs OOo

2010-03-18 Thread John Hasler
Vincent writes: > [Latex] is fine as long as you don't publish articles via commercial > publishers. I think that you will find that the math journals can deal with it. Some may even require it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: NICs bringin up fails (was Realtek 8139 NICs)

2010-03-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:01:23 -0400 (EDT), Sthu Deus wrote: > +1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8 > I have found that the problem with the Realtek's NICs is only with my > installation - when I boot from the install DVD - the installer uses > the NICs v

Re: NICs bringin up fails (was Realtek 8139 NICs)

2010-03-18 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:01:23 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: (...) > But I see the devices eth0 and eth1 in /var/log/messages or dmesg - and > they use the appropriate drivers AFAIK. What does "dmesg | grep -i eth" say? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: unable to install mysql server

2010-03-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:11:45 -0400 (EDT), vishnu vardhan wrote: > > This is what I have done : > > i have installed the mysql server and client. > > Then I have issued the following commands : > # aptitude remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client > # updatedb > # rm -r /etc/mysql/ > > After a c

Re: Wireless still not working (was:Re: New Lenny to Squeeze install problems on ASUS eee)

2010-03-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
Oops! I missed that request for data at the bottom of the post. My mistake. Since I have no wireless on the laptop and my flashdrive is mounting read-only, the relevant line from lspci is: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controll

NICs bringin up fails (was Realtek 8139 NICs)

2010-03-18 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I have found that the problem with the Realtek's NICs is only with my installation - when I boot from the install DVD - the installer uses the NICs very well. So, my question is, What can be wrong with my OS configuration? I did use it in KVM then I moved to a real PC. Here are the

Re:git

2010-03-18 Thread David Baron
> > > > > > due to a discussion of git I would like to know which of the > > numerous git-packages I have to > > install on lenny when I want to use git in my local environment. > > Minimum: > git-core > > Reasonable > git-doc > gitk > > If you use svn > git-svn > > For more: > $ aptitude s

(OT) LaTeX vs Word vs OOo (was: (OT) gnash vs. flash)

2010-03-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2010-03-18 10:19:07 +0200, Micha wrote: > Personally though I use lyx for anything I can get away with. > Luckily in university mathematics no one knows word. Almost everyone > apart for a few students that haven't converted yet use latex. This is fine as long as you don't publish articles via

Re: [semi-SOLVED] Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/18/2010 8:15 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2010-03-18 05:13:33 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: My initial difficulties are mitigated a bit. Some web sites work; some don't. I think that both Gnash and Flash can be installed at the same time. Which is actually running, I am not competent enough

Re: [semi-SOLVED] Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2010-03-18 05:13:33 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > My initial difficulties are mitigated a bit. Some web sites work; > some don't. I think that both Gnash and Flash can be installed at > the same time. Which is actually running, I am not competent enough > to know. update-alternatives --display

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:10:55 +0200 Dotan Cohen wrote: > > So apparently the stuff could actually be included in the official > > archive, without violating the social contract? > > > > No, there is a difference between checking all software for possible > patent infringement and including known

Re: are aptitude and synaptic compatible?

2010-03-18 Thread Chris Davies
Martin wrote: > I mean can I install/deinstall packages once with aptitude > then with synaptic without worry that something will break? Not if you use a preferences file with pinning. Aptitude honours it. Synaptic ignores it. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:18:13 +0200 Dotan Cohen wrote: ... > Thanks, Celejar. I also gave up on Lyx for Hebrew, but I may start > filing issues on the Lyx 2.0 branch so that they could fix it in time > for release. There does seem to be effort in that regard. > > It would be great if you could w

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Hm, I've had sort of the opposite experience.  Hebrew stuff usually > works fine for me with OO, but I've reluctantly had to give up LyX for > mixed Hebrew / English document creation, due to its brokenness: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516017 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:19:07 +0200 Micha wrote: ... > The problem is collaboration. There are quite a few word documents that don't > open properly in open office (hebrew usually typesets wrong, math doesn't > work > at all ...) > > Powerpoint files are also a complete mess in openoffice. >

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
> So apparently the stuff could actually be included in the official > archive, without violating the social contract? > No, there is a difference between checking all software for possible patent infringement and including known offenders. But the line is grey, to be sure. -- Dotan Cohen http

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:28:49 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,17.Mar.10, 16:44:17, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Enough DDs are sufficiently practical for there to be a non-free > > tree, and Christian Marillat does yeoman's work with > > http://www.debian-multimedia.org/. > > Most of the stuf

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash

2010-03-18 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:43 PM, John Hasler wrote: > Neal writes: >> to use Adobe software without paying for it is stealing . . . money . >> .. . no? > > No.  It may be copyright infringement if you do so without Adobe's > permission, but copyright infringement is not theft according to the US >

php5-memcache package & errno=11 Resource temporarily unavailable

2010-03-18 Thread Alex Kent
Hello, I ran into the "send of 32768 bytes failed with errno=11 Resource temporarily unavailable" bug and was pleased to see that this has been fixed and updated in the 3.0.2 and above versions of the package: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=503467 Because this bug was squas

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Neal Hogan
>>> >>> But can a "purist" accept such support and be a true linux user? >>> >>> "Linux" is not synonymous with "free".  "Debian" is not synonymous with >>> "Stallman".  Please keep these facts in mind. >>> >>> >> >> Sure . . . I was just curious to get some particular responses from users. >>

Re: git

2010-03-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:23:18AM +0100, Klaus Jantzen wrote: > Hi, > > due to a discussion of git I would like to know which of the > numerous git-packages I have to > install on lenny when I want to use git in my local environment. Minimum: git-core Reasonable git-doc gitk If you use svn

Re: [semi-SOLVED] Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/18/2010 5:13 AM, Mark Allums wrote: On 3/17/2010 10:40 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: Installing Gnash screws up Flash. That is the core of the problem that needs to be fixed. There's no reason the two shouldn't be able to coexist peacefully so that each user on the machine can choose which fl

Re: Report bug in migration-assistant

2010-03-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-03-18 10:56 +0100, Krasimir Chonov wrote: > Hello. I found a bug in migration-assistant. The bug is in Ubuntu, but > to report bug about this package I was redirected to Debian. Whoever told you that what wrong. This package does not even exist in Debian. > So the bug is the fowolling:

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/18/2010 6:35 AM, Neal Hogan wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Mark Allums wrote: On 3/17/2010 9:03 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: Most (if not all) software has some sort of license, like "use as you'd like but make sure you tell the next person the same" (BSD . . .as I understand it). Howe

Report bug in migration-assistant

2010-03-18 Thread Krasimir Chonov
Hello. I found a bug in migration-assistant. The bug is in Ubuntu, but to report bug about this package I was redirected to Debian. So the bug is the fowolling: When installing Ubuntu and selected to migrate documents and setting from previous version of Ubuntu, the settings and bookmarks wasn`t m

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