Re: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2006-03-19 Thread Michael Spang
/localtime /dev/log srw-rw-rw- 1 root root0 2006-03-16 23:01 /dev/log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3K 2006-03-01 21:16 /etc/localtime Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2006-03-19 Thread Michael Spang
think that's the case here. Presumably David would have noticed the inability to read anything after becoming a regular user. Also, bash is able to read various files according to the strace. Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2006-03-19 Thread Michael Spang
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Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

2006-01-16 Thread Michael Spang
, which of course can't be regenerated so easily. Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

2006-01-15 Thread Michael Spang
changes. Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: virtual package? aptitude says not a real package.

2005-09-29 Thread Michael Spang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: On my system, apt-cache show emacs-dl-wn gives me black, install says that package is unavailable. Thanks for your response! I'm still puzzled. What's this ghost package, then? The mplayer package seems to be another example. If they

Re: converting CHM files

2005-09-22 Thread Michael Spang
Dave Thayer wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 06:47:42AM -0500, Robert D. Crawford wrote: The chmlib-tools package contains some low-level type programs which can be used to unpack chm and manipulate chm files: test_chmLib - extracts a file out of a chm file extract_chmLib -

Re: Hard links to directories

2005-09-05 Thread Michael Spang
or efficient to implement properly, but I am curious about the details of this change. Thanks, Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install problem: Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Spang
the CD.. that is odd. Have you tried with a different CD? Which version of Debian are you trying to install? Where did you get the CD, did you download it from debian.org? If so, which image did you download? -- Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Install problem: Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

2005-08-30 Thread Michael Spang
. newbie is more applicable here. The error means you have no init binary on your root filesystem. The installation must have failed somehow for this to have happened. Can you provide more information about what you've done during your installation attempt? -- Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: changelog names are not displayed properly

2005-08-30 Thread Michael Spang
), and that is the only one which cant be removed. You should install the locales package and generate some locales. The encoding (ie UTF-8) follows the locale name in the list. Currently I have the en_US and en_US.UTF-8 locales generated. HTH, Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: DVD burning with 2.6.13

2005-08-29 Thread Michael Spang
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Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-28 Thread Michael Spang
whatever needs editing that way. Ha. If its running from the startup runlevel then you could always add init=/bin/bash to your command line. But why would you have MySQL in /etc/rcS.d/? Also, you don't need to type out 'single', just S will work fine. HTH, Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: What is the point of sudo?

2005-08-28 Thread Michael Spang
to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done. HTH, Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-28 Thread Michael Spang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Spang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: On Sat August 27 2005 06:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat August 27 2005 05:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've

Re: What is the point of sudo?

2005-08-28 Thread Michael Spang
X apps can hijack a root xterm I don't know, but I doubt this is the issue in question because superuser terminal sessions from within X are common while logged in as a regular user. Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Diablo II in Wine for multiple users

2005-08-27 Thread Michael Spang
into /usr/local/games, using setgid and some simple scripts to manage the savegames. Finally, if the savegames in question are on the multiplayer service (Battle.net), then they are stored on that service protected by a username and password. Each son could have his own account. HTH, Michael

Re: update-alternatives and window-manager and display-manager

2005-08-26 Thread Michael Spang
nothing was fixed because it does nothing if you don't change your choice. I ended up replacing the symlink manually. Even if these issues are the fault of broken maintainer scripts or something similar, the system should have more tolerance when things go wrong. Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Michael Spang
is hard coded in the binary, so I doubt it. $ readelf -l /bin/bash | grep ld-linux [Requesting program interpreter: /lib/ld-linux.so.2] Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using RPM on Debian

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Spang
machine, or is there a conversion utility? Thanks, Scott Huey The 'alien' package can convert rpms to debs for you. See the manpage for more info. HTH, Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: upgrade from kernel 2.4 to 2.6

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Spang
burnfree HTH, Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: adding modules to kernel

2005-08-24 Thread Michael Spang
the module in question into /lib/modules/kver. HTH, Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /dev broken on upgrade to 2.6.9

2004-12-09 Thread Michael Spang
the problem, allowing you to investigate further. udev needs hotplug: you did include that in your new kernel, right? Just a thought.. Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AGP

2004-12-07 Thread Michael Spang
to note that many of the questions are optional. It might be helpful if this was made more clear to users. Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't eject CD

2004-12-07 Thread Michael Spang
? Is it mounted? 'lsof /cdrom' may be of some help in finding out why the drive is locked. Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gdm and reboot

2004-12-02 Thread Michael Spang
find it especially strange since by default any user can shut down once logged into gnome via gdm, but they become stranded once back on the welcome screen. Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem of compiling kernel

2004-11-26 Thread Michael Spang
won't need to worry about an initrd. Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: combining mp3s

2004-11-26 Thread Michael Spang
in the middle of the file. Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do you make mkinitrd work!?

2004-11-25 Thread Michael Spang
to these modules, they would all have to be built in leaving all users with a gigantic kernel with many unneeded built-in features. Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My CDROM/CDRW not fully working in Debian

2004-11-25 Thread Michael Spang
under kernel 2.6.x. Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: partition magic?

2004-11-25 Thread Michael Spang
, the bios in different interrupts) you will always get different geometry. Linux CAN cope, but it can also break things for other OSes. Be forewarned.. partitions need to be managed with care! Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: dselect problems

2004-11-24 Thread Michael Spang
Raccanelli dselect will not allow you to continue if you ask it to do something impossible; there's likely a conflict which it prompts you to resolve. Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt pinning

2004-11-24 Thread Michael Spang
ocl wrote: Hi, I am trying to get a certain package (dbmail) pinned to a certain version (v2*). This package is not part of debian distribution --yet, but an older version (v1*) does exist for it in the debian repositories. This is the stuff that I added to /etc/apt/sources.list deb

Re: How do you make mkinitrd work!?

2004-11-24 Thread Michael Spang
,v 1.201 2004/05/16 22:00:48 herbert Exp $ Usage: /usr/sbin/mkinitrd [OPTION]... -o outfile [version] [snip] mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd-2.6.9.img 2.6.9 Didn't you see the -o in the usage: line? Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: How do you make mkinitrd work!?

2004-11-24 Thread Michael Spang
irrelevant. Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg --root functionality with apt-get?

2004-11-23 Thread Michael Spang
install (packages) -o Dpkg::options::=--root=/path/to/root -o dir::state::status=/path/to/root/var/lib/dpkg/status Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: devfs vs. udev

2004-11-22 Thread Michael Spang
Sean O'Dubhghaill wrote: [snip] - Does hotplug inform udev when a new device connects to the computer? Not sure, but new devices plugged in will cause new dev entries to be made. I think hotplug will just load the relevant modules and udev will sort out devices on its own SNIP Package: udev

Re: have a question about /proc

2004-11-19 Thread Michael Spang
system like /proc/self/root/proc/self/root/... Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel 2.4

2004-11-19 Thread Michael Spang
Andreas Janssen wrote: Almost all other mainstream distibutions (Mandrake, Slackware, Fedora, SuSE) install 2.6 by default. Knoppix comes with kernel 2.6 (although you may have to activate it using a boot option). Debian Sarge comes with kernel 2.6 (although I think right now the default

Re: have a question about /proc

2004-11-19 Thread Michael Spang
Chris Lale wrote: This reminds me. I cannot view /proc in Nautilus - even as root. Is there a way to do it? Chris. Works for me.. does nothing appear or do you get an error? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: playing mkv files.

2004-11-18 Thread Michael Spang
from cvs source just for that warm fuzzy feeling of having the latest snapshot of a great program. Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Kernel 2.4

2004-11-18 Thread Michael Spang
Although this questionis not specific to Debian, it is relevant and I figure someone here has the answer. Why is the Linux community so opposed to moving to Kernel 2.6? Is 2.4 really that much more stable? Familiar? Upgrading to much trouble? Too many things changed too much? I think not--the

Re: change conffiles

2004-11-18 Thread Michael Spang
supposed to mess with others' conffiles, even if they are custom built with that purpose in mind. Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: change conffiles

2004-11-18 Thread Michael Spang
Richard Kemp wrote: I know that it's not recommended. But that would be very practical to be able to maintain its own conffiles easily. Maybe so. I just read the dpkg-divert manpage and it won't divert conffiles, either. So I don't think this is possible. Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: install package - dependies

2004-11-18 Thread Michael Spang
. Then install qt and you're set. Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get Failure

2004-11-17 Thread Michael Spang
Brian Nelson wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:13:12AM +, michael wrote: Michael Spang wrote: Sed's postinst contains this line, which fails: sudo install-info --quiet --section General commands General commands /usr/share/info/sed.info The bug is apparently resolved so a fix should

Re: apt-get Failure

2004-11-16 Thread Michael Spang
Sed's postinst contains this line, which fails: sudo install-info --quiet --section General commands General commands /usr/share/info/sed.info The bug is apparently resolved so a fix should be on the way. Robert Tilley wrote: The sed package causes apt-get upgrade to stop. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#