Hi Geordie Birch,
> FWIW, I have version 2.85-5 of initscripts, sysvinit, and sysv-rc
> installed and am not having any problems re. terminal output.
Upon standard bootup into a terminal it appears that output ceases before
the INIT: Entering Runlevel : 2 message but will start up again if the
ke
Hi Geordie Birch,
>> > The bug is most likely caused by initscripts, sysvinit or sysv-rc. If
>> > you have upgraded you may wish to downgrade/wait for a fix before
>> > rebooting, especially if your computer doesn't automatically boot into
>> > X.
>>
>> I have confirmed that downgrading to initsc
Hi Geordie Birch,
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 06:14:01PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
>> I wrote:
>>
>> > The bug is most likely caused by initscripts, sysvinit or sysv-rc. If
>> > you have upgraded you may wish to downgrade/wait for a fix before
>> > rebo
I wrote:
> The bug is most likely caused by initscripts, sysvinit or sysv-rc. If
> you have upgraded you may wish to downgrade/wait for a fix before
> rebooting, especially if your computer doesn't automatically boot into
> X.
I have confirmed that downgrading to initscripts_2.85-4.1_all.deb
sys
Hi all,
Since upgrading to the latest unstable I have discovered that after my
startup reaches "Setting up X socket server directory ..." that I get no
further output at the terminal. I have confirmed this on two different
computers.
Neither the computers nor keyboards are locked up. I am able to
Hi Marcin Fusinski,
> Greetings!
>
> Is Debian package kernel-source-2.4.20 affected by the (limited) ext3
> data corruption bug or had it been fixed/patched (optimisation of
> data-ordered inodes only) before the package was released?
Since no working fix has been provided to the Linux Kernel m
Hi Bruce Park,
> When I run XMMS from the shell, I get this error: libmikmod.so.2: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
Bruce, head off to http://packages.debian.org and type libmikmod.so.2 in
"Search the contents of packages". Click search and you'll find the
library is su
Hi all,
Some advice is listed here on how to find out how fragmented an ext3
journal is (a small concern for those who have upgraded a heavily
fragmented ext2 partition to ext3):
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/ext3-users/2001-November/002152.html
One is told: `use "debugfs" to find the inod
Hi Dominic Iadicicco,
> Does anyone know how to unistall Xfree86? Without using deselect.
> Example deleting files and links and so forth...
You work out what packages install X and then "remove --purge" them (purge
also removes any custom configuration info).
This is probably a good start:
ap
Hi Colin Watson,
> OK, you're right that it's not the default state, sorry. That's not the
> whole story though:
>
> $ grep-status -nsPackage -FStatus 'purge ok not-installed' | wc -l
> 10312
>
> The first word in the Status: line is the "want" status (as the dpkg
> sources call it), and
Hi Colin Watson,
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 04:01:45AM +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
>> Is there a way to obtain a straight list of purged packages?
> You can set the COLUMNS variable to something large (e.g. 200) to avoid
> this. Alternatively, you can use grep-status from the grep-
Hi all,
Is there a way to obtain a straight list of purged packages?
The only unsatisfactory way I known of at present is:
dpkg -l '*' | grep -i 'pn '
However this cuts off package names.
Something strange has happened to one of my package databases. It lists
307 packages as being purged. I'd
As per the subject I'd be interesting to know whether anyone has been
sucessful in installing Windows 2000 as a guest OS and whether there are
any specific limitations (like only being able to run in 16 colour VGA
mode).
Thanks,
Adam
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On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 23:52, stan wrote:
> Somewhere along the line, one of my dslect upgrades must have removed the
> Gnome dictionary aplet, but I cna't seem to find it in the dselect list.
>
> Is there a tool that I can use to search the avaialble packages & see
> what package conyains this?
On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 22:53, Martin Wuertele wrote:
> Hi Adam!
>
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Adam Warner wrote:
>
> > Just a quick question: I'd like to move to a Debian woody kernel image
> > but wish to find out whether HPT366 hardware support has been compiled
On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 23:05, Crispin Wellington wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 16:54, George Teodor wrote:
> > I have an ess1868 soundcard which works fine but only logged in as root.
> > I can't make it work as user.I'm using potato. Any solutions?
>
> Add the users that are allowed to access the
Hi all,
Just a quick question: I'd like to move to a Debian woody kernel image
but wish to find out whether HPT366 hardware support has been compiled
into the image so that my computer will continue to boot.
Some install disks on the Debian archive include a transcript of the
kernel compile optio
On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 21:36, Oki DZ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had the following from dmesg:
> vs-13042: reiserfs_read_inode2: [4148 16361 0x0 SD] not found
> vs-13048: reiserfs_iget: bad_inode. Stat data of (4148 16361) not found
> vs-13048: reiserfs_iget: bad_inode. Stat data of (4148 16361) not found
>
On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 23:14, Johann Spies wrote:
> Is there perhaps an older version availaible which can still print?
> Where would I get that?
I filed a bug report detailing a work around:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no\&bug=129417
Hope that helps. If the older package
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 12:31, Adam Warner wrote:
> Packages: libgnomeprint-data, libgnomeprint-bin, libgnomeprint15
> Version: 0.34-2
Here is the bug report if you want to track progress:
http://bugs.debian.org/129417
^If you stick anything here like a bug numbe
Packages: libgnomeprint-data, libgnomeprint-bin, libgnomeprint15
Version: 0.34-2
Refer:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no\&bug=128378
Hi all,
I have discovered that reverting to the 0.32-4 versions of
libgnomeprint-data, libgnomeprint-bin and libgnomeprint15 fixes the
probl
> Thanks
> Neilen
>
> Yes there is a bug. I have reproduced the same problem. Change the font
> from Helvetica to Arial and print preview/printing starts working again
> from Gnumeric.
If people are following this issue the bug report Neilen made is here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 17:58, Adam Warner wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd suggest you don't upgrade unstable until GNOME printing is sorted
> out. I upgraded a number of packages and all I get is blank text on
> printing and in print preview in Gnome applications such as Evoluti
Hi all,
I'd suggest you don't upgrade unstable until GNOME printing is sorted
out. I upgraded a number of packages and all I get is blank text on
printing and in print preview in Gnome applications such as Evolution
and Gedit.
I've got one more computer to upgrade. I'll try and isolate which
pack
Thanks for the First Monday link Adam. It was lucky I was aware of it
and had printed it out (well most of it, some of the larger tables are
still too large in landscape).
On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 03:24, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> Adam, I'm sorry if my last message was a bit unfocused: a wisdom
> tooth e
On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 17:51, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> Any backup tips ? I wrote an M.A.(Hons) thesis on a CP/M based
> MicroBee, copying everything to a separate floppy kept in a safe place.
> I have, to date, not had the same need in Linux but it is an issue
> I will have to get on top of ... I have
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 01:26, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> Adam,
>
> your solution (link below) states ...
>
> "Greg reports his problems were fixed by adding
> "/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts" to the "@default_paths" of
> "/usr/share/doc/libgnomeprint-data/run-gnome-font-install"
> and then runnin
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 07:36, Joey Hess wrote:
> Adam Warner wrote:
> > I've been using alien for the first time today. Now I can't install any
> > package using apt-get (it might not be the alien packages but I thought
> > I should mention it).
>
> No, nothing
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 00:40, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> Any ideas on this one folks ?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200109/msg01284.html
The solution in my case:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200109/msg01470.html
Regards,
Adam
On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 04:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There are certain movie players in certain Linuxes ,
> that are horrendously pathetic .
> It is something like this :
> You see two hands , you hear some sound , and after
> 5 minutes you see Silvester Stalllone ?
Check out mplayer:
http://w
Hi all,
I've been using alien for the first time today. Now I can't install any
package using apt-get (it might not be the alien packages but I thought
I should mention it).
Before I make a real mess I thought I'd get some advice on the error
message:
apt-get install ucbmpeg-play
Reading Package
On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 12:18, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Adam Warner wrote:
>
> > I had rebooted multiple times trying to fix a halt problem. Everything
> > seems OK but it looks like I can't risk running reiserfsck anyway. I'm
> > probably going to have to
On Sun, 2001-11-25 at 00:08, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
>
> I've seen some people here talking about the new 2.4.15/2.5.0 kernel.
> Please, don't use it. It'll cause some corruption on your filesystem
> when unmounting filesystems.
My optimism that 2.4.15 would finally be a good release was obvio
After replying to Brian I thought I'd check out kernel.org.
I must be one of the first to know because bandwidth is still only
60Mb/s.
But this is also a surprise:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/
Regards,
Adam
On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 19:40, Brian Clark wrote:
> First, I have a feeling I'm going to burn for this one, but.. why is
> Debian (all versions?) not running 2.4 kernels? Please, please go
> easy.. :-)
There's a thread about this in debian-devel:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-dev
On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 16:53, Craig Dickson wrote:
> All hung while trying to open /dev/dsp. Killing esd resolves the
> problem. Which is fine with me, since I hate having my desktop
> environment play sounds for things like opening/closing windows,
> selecting menu items, and so on.
>
> I just no
Hi all,
A recent upgrade must have stopped these programs from functioning and I
can't isolate it (when I say recent it could be at least 10 days since
I've tried running xmms, etc).
Normal system sounds are playing fine. I just can't play audio using any
of the applications listed. There is no
On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 14:11, Josh Everist wrote:
> Well I can take responsibility for the messages from
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', however if the Debian User mailing list didn't send
> out viruses in the first place, there wouldn't be the automated reply.
The automated replies act like a denial of ser
On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 18:02, Jonathan Hunt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am probably going to repartition my hard drive and after being a satisfied
> Debian 2.2r2 user I am going to do a clean install. I was wanting the
> following things in my new setup:
>
> GCC >= 3.0
> XFree86 >= 4.0
>
On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 04:10, Kelley, Tim (CBS-New Orleans) wrote:
>
> Can you overcome your problem by using relative links, e.g.
>
> #ls -l
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/kdm -> ../../../../etc/kde2/kdm
>
> instead of
>
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/kdm -> /etc/kde2/kdm
>
>
> This is one reason relative style
> There is an introduction to Coda that covers these issues. It looks
> promising:
Sorry just a final comment about this for anyone that's interested.
1. Unofficial Debian packages that you can add to sources.list are
available from here:
http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/mirrors.html
Debian APT packa
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 16:46, Adam Warner wrote:
> I've now just found that current NFS implementations are specially
> designed to NOT cross mount points:
>
> http://playground.sun.com/pub/nfsv4/nfsv4-wg-archive/1996/0004.html
>
>The NFS protocol is specified to not
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 16:10, Brendan J Simon wrote:
>
> I have a few users on a LAN connected to an ISP via a permanent dial up
> connection. Some messages with large attachments never get through to a
> user is the USA (I'm in Australia). I'm thinking that there may be some
> outs coming int
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 16:04, Rich Puhek wrote:
> Don't be too hard on people who seem to underestimate your knowledge of
> a subject... often it's easiest to start from a certain point in an
> explanation to be certain everyone's on the same page... That's also
> very handy for others following al
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 14:35, nate wrote:
> Adam Warner said:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've come across this crazy problem and I hope someone knows what's
> > going on.
> >
> > I am using kernel-level NFS. Debian unstable. 2.4.14. I have
> > exp
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 13:40, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:31:21PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote:
> > I can mount the remote filesystem on my client machine no problem. But
> > if I try to change to a remote symlinked directory I get, for example:
> >
>
Hi all,
I've come across this crazy problem and I hope someone knows what's
going on.
I am using kernel-level NFS. Debian unstable. 2.4.14. I have exported /
I can mount the remote filesystem on my client machine no problem. But
if I try to change to a remote symlinked directory I get, for examp
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 22:16, Jason Machacek wrote:
> Is it possible to configure a NIC card without recompiling the kernel?
Yes.
Run "modconf" to load in another network card module (run as root). To
configure a network card's settings see the directory /etc/network/ (in
particular /etc/network/i
On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 19:41, Rory O'Connor wrote:
> I can mount filesystems from the command line just fine, but for some
> reason when i add them to the fstab file, they don't mount at boot time.
> is there and additional step I am missing...or is my syntax just wrong?
>
> #
On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 18:54, Blars Blarson wrote:
> The pseudo-image kit is an overly-complicated dificult to use solution
> to a problem that was temporary. It attempts to distribute the
> bandwidth utilization, but it actually winds up increasing it in
> almost all instances.
>
> Ignore pik an
On Thu, 2001-11-01 at 11:35, Damon Muller wrote:
> Quoth Adam Warner,
> > > > make dep
> > > > make bzImage
> > > > make modules
> > > > make modules_install
> > > > make install
> > >
> > > We have "make-
On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 22:35, Eduard Bloch wrote:
First off I'd just like to say it never ceases to amaze me what packages
are available for Debian. I'm really surprised that someone would have
packaged up ppscsi for instance!
> #include
> Adam Warner wrote on Wed Oct 31, 20
On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 05:12, Timothy Webster wrote:
> What is procedure is used to make an "official" 2.4 deb kernel image?
> Such as are avialable in unstable.
> What additional patches are required, if any.
I'm not an expert on this but I understand that Debian stays as close to
the offical Linu
Hi all,
I've caught up with the "test" posts. So don't reply. Let's hope the
backlog/time being taken to distribute messages is resolved (it would be
a thankless task if I didn't thank those right now working to resolve it
:-)
Regards,
Adam
On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 20:45, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 04:19:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I just added 512meg of ram to my Debian Woody box. I had heard that Linux
> > does not support 512meg of ram without a kernel recompile. Is this true?
>
> No...
On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 10:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I just added 512meg of ram to my Debian Woody box. I had heard that
Linux does not support 512meg of ram without a kernel recompile. Is
this true?
>
> Wayne
Not that I've heard. Just "cat /proc/meminfo" to see if it has been
detected.
If
On Sat, 2001-10-27 at 02:37, Vittorio wrote:
> In my laptop I've three partitions
> hda1= Debian Potato all directories but /home
> hda2= /home currently referring to Potato
> hda3= Woody all in this partition
>
> Now I'd like to refer both potato and woody to the same /home
> partition (hda2) and
I wrote:
> I haven't worked out the
> correct format of ssh -L yet, but I'm sure I'll figure that out.
Phenomenal. It works perfectly. It really is impressive.
And connecting is just so easy.
My browser is set with HTTP Proxy 127.0.0.1 and port x
The connection command is nothing more diff
On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 13:16, Dan Christensen wrote:
> Dan Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:54:56PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote:
> >>> I want to route s
On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 11:26, Gabor Gludovatz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does someone know of a sulution which I could use to encrypt a filesystem
> transparently? I want my data to be encoded on the disk and I'd like to
> mount it at the same time, and access+modify it.
>
> In the good old times there was
On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 11:16, Peter Hutnick wrote:
> >>But KDE clearly (?) states I am running 3.3.6-11, which is the stable
> >>package, AFAIK.
> > You have it pointing to all 3 different flavors of Debian. Comment out the
> > others, leave unstable uncommented, run apt-get update, and try again
On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 03:07, George Karaolides wrote:
> Sorry again, I didn't get exactly what you were trying to do from
> your first message.
That's alright. If some people were thinking that, it's best I had the
opportunity to clarify.
> Now to determine some more facts about the network geo
On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 01:04, George Karaolides wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need a bit more info. to start thinking about your question.
I'm still up, barely :-)
> How do you connect from H to R? Through the Internet?
Yes.
> If so, does your Internet connection (that you use to connect H to the
> I
On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 00:16, Arne Goetje wrote:
> > No common. A Google search turns up this advice:
> >
> > http://archive.osdlab.org/debian-user/Jul-2001/4261.html
>
> yes... same problem...
> my X is running in 16bbp...
That should be OK then? The problem seems to have been reported with
24bpp
On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 23:28, Adam Warner wrote:
> No[t] common.
Sorry if the typo caused any confusion. I don't think this is a common
problem.
> A Google search turns up this advice:
>
> http://archive.osdlab.org/debian-user/Jul-2001/4261.html
>
> Did you also try "
On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 23:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Using potato I downloaded security fixes by means of this line
inserted in my sources.list:
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free
Add this line as well:
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US sta
Hi all,
I just need to understand where I should look and how I should approach
this challenge.
I want to route some traffic though a remote computer (R) to my home
computer (H). In particular I want to have the ability to surf the Web
as if I was sitting at computer R. Right now I can already do
On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 14:18, Arne Goetje wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have acroread 4.0.5-4 installed but cannot use it.
> It starts up and shows the licence screen. When I close the licence screen
> acroread exits with the following message:
>
> Exited with error code: 0x400e0009.
>
> Is that a common p
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 01:16, Andreas Leitner wrote:
> Yep, the idea is good. But in practice how much space do you give /home
> ? I hate it when I ran out of disk space, even though there would be
> plenty.
The question is how much do you give the operating system :-) Everything
else is /home.
S
On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 00:48, Jussi Ekholm wrote:
> Kurt Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > By default (at least on Woody) exim puts mail in /var/mail/
> > (note the absence of /spool/)
>
> I'm running testing, and I have both - /var/mail/$USER and
> /var/spool/mail/$USER. Why is this? The
I like to have two partitions: one for my data (/home) and one for
everything else (and a third for the swap file, and a physically
different hard disks for backups). Such a small number of partitions
might make me a heretic :-)
There are clear advantages to this setup:
1. I can backup/restore th
On Fri, 2001-10-19 at 01:13, Matti Airas wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:02:25AM +1300, Adam Warner wrote:
>
> > downgrade gconf, libgconf11 and libgconf-dev to 1.0.4-3
>
> Worked great. Thanks.
You and Rodrigo may be interested to know that everything appears to be
fixed
On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 22:20, Matti Airas wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 06:06:22PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote:
>
> > I then added the official archive to my sources and was able to retrieve
> > a newer version of libgnome-vfs0. This allowed me to start Evolution
> > agai
Hi all,
I'm writing this from Evolution on another computer :-)
I upgraded my computer using an archive that is only one day behind the
main archive. Afterwards evolution wouldn't start. I got a message that
went something like the config database couldn't be found.
I then added the official arc
f you have concerns about this issue
(by emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Regards,
Adam Warner
W3C and the Promotion of Fee-based Standards for the Web
Adam Warner
On 16 August 2001 the W3C made public a proposal to substantially change
their patent policy framework. Amongst the changes is support
To answer my own idle question:
> (I wonder when 7.0 will be packaged).
> So you didn't need to try and build it yourself at all :-) Note that
> version 6.51 IS NOW GPL SOFTWARE. It just hasn't been repacked for
> Debian yet (and 7.0 packaged as gs-aladdin).
If you check out debian-devel you'll
On Fri, 2001-09-21 at 22:38, Alan McConnell wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I have just installed Woody, from four CDs made by a friend. In
> trying to set up my printing, I discovered that "apsfilter" wants
> a ghostscript of 5.5 or greater, while Woody gives only 5.1.
Install gs-aladdin instead (curre
On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 19:05, Mike Missett wrote:
> I have just installed the base system on a 68040 Mac with MacOS8 (I am
> very new to this). The installation went well and is up and running,
> but I can't seem to get anywhere on the internet. ppp is dialing the
> modem and making the appropriat
of problem) there may be slightly incorrect
processing of inn.conf by innconfval (are the tabs or # ending up in the
environment variables?).
Regards,
Adam Warner
> I've traced the error message into rc.news. The reason no active file is
> found, and nothing else works, is that the p
Hi Robert,
On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 14:32, Robert Schweikert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to debian, actually I don't even have everything running yet as
> I want it to. Right now I was trying to build a kernel and I got the
> following problem
I build my own kernels. But are you sure you need to?
To
Hi all,
[Debian unstable x86]
I've been having some big problems trying to get INN2 to run. I had it
successfully running and I was able to make a post as localhost but now
I find it has stopped working again. I have only made some innocuous
changes (nothing that would cause the problems set out
On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 18:59, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:31:28 +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
> > I tried a number of the recommendations without success (e.g. rearranging
> > XF86Config-4, checking out locales, locales-gen). I hope what appears to
> &
reat about the IMAP bit]
...
But, the best option involves a tactical nuclear weapon (an old ASROC
will do), pissing off a lot people who live downwind from Redmond, and
your choice of any Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, or Solaris CD.
---End Quote---
Regards,
Adam Warner
On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 03:27, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 23:53:31 +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
> > http://www.consulting.net.nz/print_preview.png
> >
> > This is Debian unstable on x86 running GNOME. Evolution, gedit, etc. are
> > all print
Hi all,
Here's a print preview of the problem:
http://www.consulting.net.nz/print_preview.png
This is Debian unstable on x86 running GNOME. Evolution, gedit, etc.
are all printing rectanges. My searching doesn't turn up a solution.
At this stage I'm printing text using StarOffice 5.2 since at
On 03 Sep 2001 18:31:16 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all. what do I need to install to be able to format DOS diskettes?
> thanks!
apt-get install mtools
and
apt-get install gfloppy
if you want to be able to format floppies using a GNOME graphical
interface.
Regards,
Adam
On 03 Sep 2001 11:21:24 -0700, Tim Moss wrote:
> Adam Warner wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anyone know how to set up a blank screensaver under GNOME?
> >
> > I've checked web and newsgroup archives and I can't find a solution that
> > works!
&g
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to set up a blank screensaver under GNOME?
I've checked web and newsgroup archives and I can't find a solution that
works!
I'm running Debian unstable.
Even if I add a file in /usr/share/control-center/.data called
Blank.desktop with these contents:
[Desktop Entry]
On 24 Aug 2001 01:44:00 -0600, John Galt wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2001, Adam Warner wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I used
> >
> >echo " hold" | dpkg --set-selections
>
> echo " purge" | dpkg --set-selections
Thanks for trying to help John. T
On 24 Aug 2001 01:44:00 -0600, John Galt wrote:
> On 24 Aug 2001, Adam Warner wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I used
> >
> >echo " hold" | dpkg --set-selections
>
> echo " purge" | dpkg --set-selections
Nice guess Atlas Shrugged but
Hi all,
I used
echo " hold" | dpkg --set-selections
To put a package on hold but it turned out I used the wrong name. And it
is sitting in the package database as held:
dpkg --get-selections
Shows that the non-existent package is currently being held. Plus an
apt-get install shows that the pa
On 23 Aug 2001 16:16:09 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:08:09PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
> > Try and replace the tags with "hello" (no quotes) using this regexp:
> > <.*?>
> > [The "?" is supposed to make the any character
Hi all,
I'm writing to you all together because you all suffer from the same
regexp bug. I suspect it could be caused by a library you all share? I
have only found that (X)Emacs doesn't suffer from it.
If you create a new file with these tags:
Try and replace the tags with "hello" (no quotes)
On 10 Aug 2001 12:12:34 -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
> What are the contents of the err files? Perhaps they can be of some
> utility in deciphering your problems.
Many thanks for trying to help. As I said initially they were zero byte
files.
I have solved all my problems by removing
lpr-ppd/
help
pinpoint the source of the error messages).
Regards,
Adam
> On 10 Aug 2001 10:23:47 +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > gnulpr 1.2 GNUlpr printing system.
> > gpr0.4-3 GUI for lpr: print files and configure print
> > l
Hi all,
gnulpr 1.2 GNUlpr printing system.
gpr0.4-3 GUI for lpr: print files and configure print
lpr-ppd0.71-5BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system
printfilters-p 2.02-7filters from the GNUlpr printing system
This is reproducible on all my Debian u
On 05 Jul 2001 20:57:57 +1200, Adam Warner wrote:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host 210.55.104.94[210.55.104.94] said: 550
> relaying to
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> prohibited by administrator
I discovered that I had to add 210.55.104.94 to local_domains in
exim.conf.
I'll b
On 04 Jul 2001 23:45:33 -0300, Linuxero wrote:
> Hello.
> I'm new to debian (not to linux). I have installed potato version 2.2r2
> First off all I inserted in sources.list a ftp to download new packages,
> then I maked an update of packages lists, so
> I did a #apt-get dist-upgrade successfuly but
On 04 Jul 2001 23:05:40 -0500, Matthew Garman wrote:
> What kernel version are you running? It's been a long time since I've had
> to pass the "mem=" parameter to my kernel. I think that was necessary in
> the 2.0.x and younger kernels, but I don't think it's been an issue since
> 2.2.x (but I'm
Hi all,
I've been trying to set up exim to receive mail without success yet.
When I try and send send mail to my IP address I get this result:
This is the Postfix program at host mail.win.co.nz.
I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
below could not be delivered to one or more
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