Re: Gnome-session startup failure

2004-01-18 Thread A . L . Meyers
Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A.L.Meyers wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A.L.Meyers wrote: Hi! When trying to start gnome-session, I get the Debian splash screen but then gnome exits, the console indicating an error in /usr/lib/libXft.so.2. Ideas welcome on how

Re: Mozilla broken, does not start up

2004-01-18 Thread A . L . Meyers
Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:20:08 +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: Unfortunately these do not work. One further information is that not only mozilla-bin but another process called gconfd-2 is left hanging and must be killed. Then go and do this ! Personally, I'd

Mozilla broken, does not start up

2004-01-17 Thread A . L . Meyers
Hi! Trying to start Mozilla recently does nothing. ps -A tells me that a task called mozilla-bin is running but the browser does not come up. Same systems runs konqueror and netscape perfectly. Galeon, however, will not start up either. Advice appreciated. Lux -- If you receive this by

Gnome-session startup failure

2004-01-17 Thread A . L . Meyers
Hi! When trying to start gnome-session, I get the Debian splash screen but then gnome exits, the console indicating an error in /usr/lib/libXft.so.2. Ideas welcome on how to get around this. Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD

Re: Mozilla broken, does not start up

2004-01-17 Thread A . L . Meyers
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A.L.Meyers wrote: Hi! Trying to start Mozilla recently does nothing. ps -A tells me that a task called mozilla-bin is running but the browser does not come up. Same systems runs konqueror and netscape perfectly. Galeon, however, will not start up either.

Re: Gnome-session startup failure

2004-01-17 Thread A . L . Meyers
Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A.L.Meyers wrote: Hi! When trying to start gnome-session, I get the Debian splash screen but then gnome exits, the console indicating an error in /usr/lib/libXft.so.2. Ideas welcome on how to get around this. Lux /var/log/gdm ?

OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread A . L . Meyers
Paul Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 20:49:17 +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: Bingo, Monique. And precisely that directory entry apparently was on one of the bad blocks on that partition (IDE drive about 4 years old - now I know why the old wizzards always prefer SCSI). And

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-28 Thread A . L . Meyers
Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 at 14:47 GMT, A.L.Meyers penned: [large snip] Thanks, Jerome, that did help. apt-get goes a great step further but, alas, then complains about missing file lists for each of the installed packages. Probably something

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-25 Thread A . L . Meyers
Jerome R. Acks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:43:48PM +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: Hi! Due to physical disk read errors had to copy /var/spool/apt and /var/lib/apt files to another disk and, after bad block checking, back. Apparently something went wrong in the process,

apt-get files problems

2003-12-24 Thread A . L . Meyers
Hi! Due to physical disk read errors had to copy /var/spool/apt and /var/lib/apt files to another disk and, after bad block checking, back. Apparently something went wrong in the process, perhaps due to file corruption. Anyway, now consistently getting the following error messages when doing

How to get debmenus with fvwm ?

2003-12-19 Thread A . L . Meyers
Hi! fvwm seems to have improved a lot recently and is at least colourfull and fast. But in the default debian package install (at least on my system) I don't see any debmenus. Advise and / or pointers to specific parts of docs welcome. Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and

Re: OT How to get debmenus with fvwm - solved

2003-12-19 Thread A . L . Meyers
Thanks, Micha! Simple and effective solution. Being chonically lazy, my next question (OT) is if you can recommend a good menu-driven configuration tool for fvwm. Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC

Re: loopback interface down - solved

2003-12-17 Thread A . L . Meyers
Yes. But we can help development by making packagers aware of such an item. Lou, as you are more competent that yours truly, you will probably be able to post a better report. However, please let me know if you would prefer me to do it. Regards, Lux -- If you receive this by error, please

Re: loopback interface down, sob ;-(

2003-12-16 Thread A . L . Meyers
Thanks, Andreas. Alas the problem is still alive but here are some details from doing networking restart in /etc/init.d/ : wassern:/etc/init.d# ./networking restart Reconfiguring network interfaces...ifconfig: can not resolve `down': Host name lookup failure cat: /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid:

Re: loopback interface down - solved

2003-12-16 Thread A . L . Meyers
Thanks a million, Lou! You're a genius. Small cause, big effect. Whew! Did you post a bug report to the inetutils-tools packagers? Greetings, Lux -- If you receive this by error, please delete it and inform the sender. Key fingerprint: 8994 CFDD 9C60 C978 A488 689F 5DCC EFC4 4D36 580D To Big

wrong libc6 - ouch! (fwd)

2001-03-31 Thread A. L. Meyers
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:28:30 +0200 (CEST) From: A. L. Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: wrong libc6 - ouch! Dear fellow Debianites, Tried to install a new (in testing) version of flwm. It required a newer version of libc6