Pcmcia & sony memory stick [Scan]

2004-06-29 Thread Franck Routier
Hi all, I'm trying to make my "memory stick" (sony) internal reader work on a samsung x10 laptop. This internal reader is in fact slot 0 of my RICOH yenta pcmcia controller. Right now I have : $ /etc/init.d/pcmcia start Starting PCMCIA services: using yenta_socket instead of i82365 cardmgr[4713]:

Using exim4 with fetchmail warning

2003-07-23 Thread franck routier
s of some maybe important or urgent messages Maybe a warning could be put in debian's package doc ? Best regards to all debianers, Franck Routier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Nautilus unable to show desktop

2003-02-01 Thread franck routier
Hi, When I open a gnome session, I get messages from nautilus telling me that : "/home/username/ is not valid location" "/home/username/.desktop is not valid location" I think it might come from gnome-vfs, but don't really know... Any hint ? Thanks, Franck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Gconf problem

2003-01-31 Thread franck routier
Hi, on a freshly installed laptop, installed via netinst tracking unstable, I am unable to start gnome. I get an error window stating : "There was an error starting GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or backgrounds settings may not work correctly. The Settings Daemon wa

libs are not elf binaries ???

2003-01-31 Thread franck routier
Hi, I have the following problem, after an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from unstable on powerpc. Is this a problem on my system, or a problem with unstable (in which case I would file a bug report) : ldconfig: /usr/lib/libfam.so.0.0.0 is not an ELF binary - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start T

Re: Problem with /var/lib/dpkg/available, please help

2003-01-31 Thread franck routier
Hi, running 'dselect update' worked Thanks Colin ! Franck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem with /var/lib/dpkg/available, please help

2003-01-30 Thread franck routier
Hi, after a power shortage, I now have a problem with /var/lib/dpkg/available. When I run dpkg, it finds a parse error at line 1 : EOF after field " " I cannot install any new package and my system was left in an unstable state (some libs seems not to be available anymore, so gdm or firestarter

Getting only ISO-8859-15 fonts installed

2003-01-22 Thread Franck Routier
Hi, I would like to have a system with only euro compatible fonts installed. x-window-system-core package depends on ISO-8859-1 fonts, so these are always installed. So even if I install the transcoded packages, users will be presented with a list of fonts that not necessarly support their loc

Re: Problems with cups

2002-11-23 Thread franck routier
Hi, my problem with cups and Samsung 1210 has been solved by the last upgrade from Sid (it installed a new version of the cupsomatic script, which seems to have been the culprit) Now works like a charm. Thanks to all those who responded. Franck le mer 20-11-2002 à 22:52, Markus Jotter a écrit

CUPS + Samsung 1210

2002-11-19 Thread franck routier
Hi, I'm coming back with my Cups problem and a little more info. I want to print on a Samsung 1210 printer with Cups. I'm on Sid, and since the last upgrade, it doesn't work anymore (it used to). Samsung 1210 seems to be a so called GDI printer. It ships with a .ppd file, that I did put in /usr/s

CUPS broken (as in printing, not coffee !)

2002-11-18 Thread franck routier
Hi, Another problem after a Sid upgrade. CUPS dosn't print anymore. Symptoms are : - printing from OpenOffice on wakes up the printer (some noise) but nothing prints. Not job in CUPS web admin. - 'lp file.txt' from a terminal give a job, but is marked 'aborted' in CUPS console - printing from

Re: Gnome freezes on initial splash screen

2002-11-18 Thread franck routier
Cristi Banciu wrote: Gnome2 in Sid is not starting anymore due to a bug in the latest bonobo packages. To fix, downgrade the following packages: bonobo-activation libbonobo-activation-dev libbonobo-activation4. The packages are in /var/cache/apt/archives/ or at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/m

Gnome freezes on initial splash screen

2002-11-18 Thread franck routier
Hi, I'm using unstable and did a fresh upgrade. Gnome2 won't work now. When I log in from gdm, the gnome splash screen opens, but nothing prints on the bottom of it, as it used to. It then stays frozen forever. I think this is related to gconf, but I'm not sure at all... Where should I look t

No fonts problem in open office

2002-09-20 Thread franck routier
ow any font. Did anyone experience a similar problem and has a hint ? Thanks, Franck routier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mozilla won't install (sid)

2002-03-18 Thread franck routier
Hi, my last dist-upgrade result in this error message for mozilla : Setting up mozilla-browser (0.9.9-1) ... sendmail="sendmail:/usr/sbin/sendmail" sendmail="sendmail:/usr/sbin/sendmail" sendmail="sendmail:/usr/sbin/sendmail" sendmail="sendmail:/usr/sbin/sendmail" source requires an argument send

Re: sound problem within gnome

2002-01-31 Thread Franck ROUTIER
Hi, I have no idea why this happens, but I experience exactly the same behaviour on my machine... ??? Franck >Messsage du 30/01/2002 20:58 >De : Karlheinz Nolte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >A : >Copie à : >Objet : sound problem within gnome > > Hi, > > I have a strange sound problem within gnome.

Re: cvs : access denied

2001-11-24 Thread franck routier
le ven 23-11-2001 à 15:03, Preben Randhol a écrit : > > if you did it before go into /var/lib/cvs and try to do: > > chgrp src -R * > chmod g+ws -R * > That did the trick ! Thanks. I still wonder why the base cvs .deb did not work first ? Thanks again Franck

cvs : access denied

2001-11-23 Thread franck routier
d from cvs, unable to create myapp directory in cvs If I do it as root, it works. Then, I still can't even checkout as a myuser, since I can't get a lock. What's wrong with my setup ? Thanks, Franck Routier

Huge /var/cache/apt

2001-07-05 Thread franck routier
Hi, My question is about /var/cache/apt. It's quite huge on my machine (~2.1 GB), and I wonder : - if it controls itself (won't it break while growing ?) - if I can clean it Thanks, -- Franck --- Only Linux Makes It Possible (TM ;-)

CUPS : strange error message

2001-06-15 Thread franck routier
Hi list, I am trying to use CUPS as a printing system on my Sid PC system. I use a Canon BJC 4000 printer with foomatic bjc600 driver on lp0. When I connect to localhost:631, I can see the printer,and it says 'Printer state : idle, accepting jobs'. But as soon as I send it a job (Print test Pag

Re: Ximian evolution unable to lock /var/spool/mail/xxxx

2001-05-15 Thread franck routier
chmod o+w /var/mail did the trick. (no need for sticky bit for me) This is not set by default on debian. Does anyone know : 1) why evolution needs it (does not run as the user's id ?) 2) if this can be dangerous in any way from a security point of view ? Thanks, Franck

Re: Ximian evolution unable to lock /var/spool/mail/xxxx

2001-05-15 Thread franck routier
Le lun, 14 mai 2001 21:13:16, Mario Vukelic a écrit : > On 14 May 2001 14:44:34 +0200, franck routier wrote: > > > unable to create lock file for /var/spool/mail/ : access denied > > Evo does not contain a movemail app. If you build it yourself you can > add a compile-o

Ximian evolution unable to lock /var/spool/mail/xxxx

2001-05-14 Thread franck routier
Hello, I try to use evolution mail reader (and more) on a sid box. Each time I try to check my mail,I go this message : Error while performing operation : unable to create lock file for /var/spool/mail/ : access denied (error message might not be accurated, I translate it from french) My m

How do I set route at boot time ?

2001-05-10 Thread Franck Routier
Hello, I want to set up the route to a new box on my LAN. If the route is not set, the connexion is refused (I think this is an otion in the kernel networking configuration) Where should I put this route ? From the docs I have found it should go in /etc/network/interfaces, but I can't figure

Nautilus dies / restart after a while

2001-05-07 Thread franck routier
Hi, I am happy Nautilus now runs on my sid i386 system (it used to refuse to do so cause of some misterious gconf / Corba stuff) :-) Nevertheless, I've still got 2 problems : 1) Nautilus seems to go to sleep a strange way When I leave my computer on for a while (say 5 minutes) without using Nau

Sawfish and accented chars

2001-05-01 Thread franck routier
Hi, I have a problem with accents for a while now. The few tries I made on the list had no success, cause no one was sure if it was my configuration or a bug somewhere. I come back with it :-) On gnome desktop (pure debian no ximian) running nautilus and sawfish, in french, when I right click, I

Configuring local network

2001-04-28 Thread franck routier
Hi, I'm trying to configure a network between 2 local computers. The configuration is : 1 PC running sid : 1 ethernet card to ADSL modem (eth0 10.0.0.1 pptp) 1 ethernet card to local network (eth1 10.0.0.2) 1 Powerbook running potato : 1 ethernet onboard card (eth0 10.0.0.3) 1 cable between th

Printing problems using CUPS

2001-03-21 Thread franck routier
Hi, I'm trying to setup my printer using CUPS. The problem is CUPS doesn't see my printer at all : socrate:/home/alci# lpinfo -v file file Nevertheless, the kernel recognizes it : socrate:/home/alci# cat /proc/devices Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty 3 ttyp 4 ttyS 5 cua 6 lp ... Whe

Re: Nautilus broken (once again)...

2001-03-15 Thread franck routier
Me again :-) After a search on deja.com, it seems that my problem is related to bug #79448, marked as done in nautilus 0.8.1 Well, not quite :-( Le jeu, 15 mar 2001 11:45:54, franck routier a écrit : > Not to respond to my own message, but I have got some more info on my > problem : >

RE: man missing !

2001-03-15 Thread franck routier
roblem but the error which i had got solved when i did su. > > please check if this helps >thanx > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 15 March 2001 4:3

Re: Nautilus broken (once again)...

2001-03-15 Thread franck routier
Mar 15 11:38:51 socrate gconfd (alci-965): Failed to notify listener 3338665986, removing: IDL:CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 Hope this can give a clue to someone more magic aware than I am :-) Le jeu, 15 mar 2001 09:18:08, franck routier a écrit : > Hello, > > Nautilus is broken once again on

Nautilus broken (once again)...

2001-03-15 Thread franck routier
Hello, Nautilus is broken once again on my machine. I use latest unstable. When I launch it, it just doesn't display anything (either launched from a terminal or from gnome menu). If there is no ~/.nautilus/first-time-flag file, then it shows the wirzard and hangs. The whole story is that was br

RE: man missing !

2001-03-13 Thread franck routier
Le mar, 13 mar 2001 16:56:12, Jason P. Holland a écrit : > Yeah, the man command itself is not in your path. was it working before? yes it was (before an upgrade)... > > $ whereis man this gives me : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ whereis man man: /usr/local/man /usr/share/man /usr/share/man/man1/

man missing !

2001-03-13 Thread franck routier
hello, for a few days, when I type 'man xxx', I get the following error message : bash: man: command not found However, I have installed manpages and man-db packages : socrate:/home/alci# dpkg -s man-db Package: man-db Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: doc Installed-Size

Re: Accented chars are replaced by ?'s

2001-03-13 Thread franck routier
Le mar, 13 mar 2001 09:02:54, kmself@ix.netcom.com a écrit : > You mentioned specifically gnome-terminal. Do the characters display > correctly elsewhere -- say, xterm, rxvt, or the system console? In fact, if I type an accented char in gnome-terminal, it IS displayed. I checked the font, and i

Re: Accented chars are replaced by ?'s

2001-03-13 Thread franck routier
Le mar, 13 mar 2001 08:52:57, kmself@ix.netcom.com a écrit : > on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:37:49AM +0100, franck routier > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > Have you generated your locales? Not really clear on where/how this > > > happens, but it's part

Re: Accented chars are replaced by ?'s

2001-03-13 Thread franck routier
> > Have you generated your locales? Not really clear on where/how this > happens, but it's part of the locale configuration somewhere. > > OK, try /usr/sbin/locale-gen, and check contents of /etc/locale.alias and > /etc/locale.gen. Yes I did, ie I uncommented french locales (fr8FR ISO-8859-1 a

IP Masquerade + VMware + pptp

2001-03-12 Thread franck routier
Has anyone experienced configuring IP Masquerade with pptp and VMware ? My situation is : - Debian box running unstable and kernel 2.4.2 - VMware + Windows 98 host system configured host-only - ADSL internet connexion using pptp protocol I would like my Windows virtual machine to access the net.

Accented chars are replaced by ?'s

2001-03-12 Thread franck routier
Hi, I use unstable (latest upgrade) in my box and have the following problem : french accented characters are replaced by ? in some places, or just make the rest of the text be ignored : 1) é à è, ... are replaced by ? in gnome-terminals 2) titles are troncated in window titles under sawfish/gno

Trouble with kernel stability

2001-03-07 Thread franck routier
Hi, I have some trouble with my kernel for a few days : it breaks quite often, giving me a oops... I noticed it is particularly bad with drm accessing null pointer... (???), but not only. X sometimes hangs up without warning too, and once my machine couldn't unmount file systems (giving a oops onc

Problem with last debconf package in unstable

2001-03-06 Thread franck routier
Hi, I have the following error message when trying to upgrade the debconf package in unstable : Setting up debconf (0.9.10) ... no template name specified at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 17. dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned e

Re: Novice memory usage question (SOLVED)

2001-02-18 Thread franck routier
ranck -- And remember : "Only Linux makes it possible" Le mar, 18 déc 2001 17:44:18, ktb a écrit : > On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 05:34:05PM +0100, franck routier wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have added memory to my computer to up to 384 MB. > > > > When I ch

Re: Hair-puller

2001-02-18 Thread franck routier
I'm sure but think there a problem with Perl. You should first install Perl-5.6 (apt-get install perl-5.6), then upgrade to woody. Hope this helps. Franck. Le dim, 18 fév 2001 18:56:14, Don Berkich a écrit : > Hi Folks, > > Anybody had trouble with debconf falling over dead on a woody upgrade?

Novice memory usage question

2001-02-18 Thread franck routier
Hi, I have added memory to my computer to up to 384 MB. When I check memory usage on my system (Gnome information Panel or even cat /proc/meminfo), I'm very surprised to see that ~350 MB are used, with X / Gnome started + apache + exim + postgre's postmaster. Well, why not... but what surprises m

What did I wrong : problem with Xlib

1999-09-27 Thread franck routier
npublished > -- Rights reserved under the Copyright Laws of the United States > User: franck routier > Organisation: maison de franck et mireile > Serial Number: xx > Configuration file: /etc/Xaccel.ini > LINUX(i386) using /dev/tty7 > PCI (#1/1, 8000

Problems after upgrading xlibg...

1999-09-23 Thread franck routier
rts with a long (15 seconds ) delay). Has my problem something to do with xauth ? with suid ? Isn't the boot sequence considered as root when launching programs ?... Can someone tell me what to do ? Thanx in advance, Franck Routier

Problem with Xlib

1999-09-21 Thread franck routier
blem something to do with xauth ? with suid ? Isn't the boot sequence considered as root when launching programs ?... Can someone tell me what to do ? Thanx in advance, Franck Routier