Problem Understood: Re: Procmail recipe problems

2007-03-09 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 08 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:37:50AM -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: On Mar 08 2007, S Scharf wrote: On 3/8/07, Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The recipe that *usually* works, indented here for convenient reading

Procmail recipe problems

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
no practical difference, since it's a single user system, but I suppose the configuration might matter.) -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Procmail recipe problems

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 08 2007, jeffd wrote: Arlie Stephens wrote: I've got a strange problem with my procmail setup, and it's presently affecting my handling of the debian-user list. I suspect I've made some stupid error I just can't see. The goal - filter all mailing lists into their own mailboxes

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in black diamonds in mozilla

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
header. I see. Since I'm lazy - and unsure precisely what query to feed to a search engine - could you possibly point at a list of these tags. -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
is *not* making me happy. -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Procmail recipe problems

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 08 2007, S Scharf wrote: On 3/8/07, Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The recipe that *usually* works, indented here for convenient reading. # Debian User List :0H: * ^(To|Cc):.*debian-user -debian-user Does running procmail with the VERBOSE flag

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
Hi, Thanks for the detailed suggestions and explanation. I can't test this imemdiatley, but from what I can check, I think it's going to work. On Mar 08 2007, H.S. wrote: Arlie Stephens wrote: I've got the same basic problem with just about every tool I use, notably my email client mutt

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 08 2007, Arlie Stephens wrote: Hi, Thanks for the detailed suggestions and explanation. I can't test this immediately, but from what I can check, I think it's going to work. Well, I'm now at home, trying this, and it didn't quite work - the bottom line being that not all

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 08 2007, Arlie Stephens wrote: 3. Make sure the relevant language fonts are installed. It looks like this is the problem. Not the fonts but the locales - the only locales I have are 'C' and 'POSIX', at least on the system I use most frequently. Interestingly, another sarge

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 08 2007, H.S. wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arlie Stephens wrote: I've got the same basic problem with just about every tool I use, notably my email client mutt. Other versions of linux have somehow Do you use mutt in xterm? If so, it will be very

Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

2007-03-02 Thread Arlie Stephens
(Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4

Re: Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

2007-03-02 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 02 2007, Wackojacko wrote: Arlie Stephens wrote: The complaint is that it fails to find a framebuffer, regardless of which answer I give to the question of whether or not to use the kernel's framebuffer. Have you tried manually editing the file? Comment out the UseFBDev

Re: Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

2007-03-02 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 02 2007, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 07:56 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: The complaint is that it fails to find a framebuffer, regardless of which answer I give to the question of whether or not to use the kernel's framebuffer. I (stupidly) failed to save

sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
then, it's pretty clear the upgrade *is* the culprit, in spite of appearances. -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/01/07 09:48, Arlie Stephens wrote: The problem - I tried to upgrade an elderly system from woody to sarge. Now it doesn't boot. I suspect the upgrade ate the master boot record - but I don't even know the right terminology to figure out what

Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/01/07 18:22, Arlie Stephens wrote: On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/01/07 09:48, Arlie Stephens wrote: [snip] I'll make one tonight, and try re-installing LILO. Then I'll doubtless be on to the next problem, but it's a stage

Upgrades vs Reinstalls (was Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem)

2007-03-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
administrator - in fact, the term incompetent amateur is perhaps more like it ;-) So it might be a bit more onerous for me than for others. -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Solved: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/01/07 09:48, Arlie Stephens wrote: The problem - I tried to upgrade an elderly system from woody to sarge. Now it doesn't boot. I suspect the upgrade ate the master boot record - but I don't even know the right terminology to figure out what

Aptitude - Removing Unwanted Holds

2006-12-04 Thread Arlie Stephens
may be completely wrong. -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Empty KDE Control Panel; Crowded Lost and Found

2006-12-04 Thread Arlie Stephens
Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 08:50:01 +1100, M-L wrote: On Saturday 02 December 2006 08:35, Florian Kulzer sent this for all our perusal: --- On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:02:54 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: --- Hi Folks, --- --- Like several others, I've got an etch installation

Re: Aptitude - Removing Unwanted Holds

2006-12-04 Thread Arlie Stephens
', and if that provides anything, I assume that's all there is, short of an explicit pointer elsewhere. On Dec 04 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:57:54 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: For some bizarre reason, aptitude seems extremely fond of holding packages at prior versions

Empty KDE Control Panel; Crowded Lost and Found

2006-12-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
text file to be editted, or (I fear) some binary file to be modified only with some doubtless graphical tool? Also, assuming I fix whatever got misinstalled, how do I avoid having it break again every time some kde component is upgraded? -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens

Re: Replacing Gnome with KDE

2006-11-28 Thread Arlie Stephens
Thank you, everyone who offered suggestions and observations. I've got KDE working, basically by using aptitude to remove the remaining bits of gnome, and then (re)installing the kde meta-packages. On Nov 28 2006, Tim Post wrote: On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 16:55 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: I made

Maze of Twisty Turny Little Package Managers

2006-11-28 Thread Arlie Stephens
interrelationships. Does any such thing exist? -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Replacing Gnome with KDE

2006-11-27 Thread Arlie Stephens
think of would be to reinstall, with tasksel/kde-desktop. I'd prefer something a little less drastic. -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]