apt-get distupgrade wants to remove my whole system

2004-09-12 Thread Steven Satelle
This is a resend (I'm not sure mails from my gmail account are reaching the list). I'm running testing and have been happily for the last few months. No real problems, updating every few days by doing an apt-get distupgrade. Yesterday I saw the package upgrade-system in the available list and

Re: Can't get APT to work on local files.

2004-09-12 Thread Steven Satelle
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 06:54:19 -0700 (PDT), Eric Dickner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Eric Dickner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To use the packages, finally, add: deb file:/root debs/ NB that there in no '#' here...does that mean to add that line to something else? OK, the

Re: Apt-get dist-upgrade threatening to remove 1500 files - SOLVED

2004-09-12 Thread Steven Satelle
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:47:11 +, Andrew M.A. Cater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Apologies for the bandwidth used. I had the entry for security.debian.org stable updates in my /etc/apt/sources.list. Upgrade-system saw that and attempted to downgrade my entire system such that it

apt-get distupgrade wants to remove my whole system

2004-09-11 Thread Steven Satelle
I'm running testing and have been happily for the last few months. No real problems, updating every few days by doing an apt-get distupgrade, yesterday I saw the package upgrade-system in the available list and decided to install it. I installed and ran it, it said it wanted to downgrade 20

Re: the Packages files should get to mirrors last

2004-09-09 Thread Steven Satelle
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:39:02 +0800, Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the Debian mirrors, each day there is a period, perhaps a few hours, between the time the Packages files arrive, and the time packages themselves arrive. This is not a problem, because it happens early in the

Re: howto delegate user administration to non-root account?

2004-09-09 Thread Steven Satelle
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 11:11:04 +0200, Gebhardt Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since my problem seems not that uncommon to me, I was asking for an established procedure that has already been reviewed and found to be secure. Cheers, Thomas what about using webmin http://www.webmin.com/ or

Re: Using DVD

2004-09-07 Thread Steven Satelle
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:32:28 +0200, Philippe Marzouk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:14:12PM +0300, Alejandro Matos wrote: I tried with xine but it says something about dvd:/ don't understand that :-\ Do you have a /dev/dvd link to the device of your dvd drive ? You

apt-move has 'deep emotional' issues

2004-09-06 Thread Steven Satelle
or at least it seems to ;) It wont talk to /var/cache/apt/archives I normally run 'apt-move update' to move all packages to a local mirror. But it no longer does anything. I start it and it says: Updating from local Packages files... Moving files... and thats it, it will sit there for days

RE: Debian installer beta 4 can't mount ext3 partitions

2004-07-22 Thread Steven Satelle (Service Desk)
Jason Rennie wrote: Hello, I just did a Debian Sarge install using the beta 4 installer. I had an existing ext3 paritition that I wanted to mount as /home, but after manually partitioning and telling Debian to use the existing format, Debian complained that the ext2 filesystem had

RE: 'white-rain' effect with SiS5597/5598

2004-07-19 Thread Steven Satelle (Service Desk)
Csaba Sarai wrote: Hello everybody! I have installed Debian Woddy 3.01r1 (stable) on my computer which has integrated video card SiS5597/5598. Unfortunately it has side effect-'white rain'. Could somebody has any idea to fix this problem? sorry, could you expand on the white rain, is it

Re: help on Keyboard language..

2004-07-16 Thread Steven Satelle
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 21:08, Nori Heikkinen wrote: if you do a dpkg-reconfigure locales it will take you through the same config as the original install will that do it? i don't think it's just the locales he needs, but the keyboard layout itself. to do this, you'll need to do a

Re: USB Disk

2004-07-15 Thread Steven Satelle
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:26:14 -0500, John Fleming wrote: Running unstable - How to get USB disk mounted? My fstab is: s,exec 0 0 /dev/hdb3 none swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sda /mnt/sda auto noauto,users,exec 0 0 assuming that /dev/sda is your usb disk, change that to read /dev/sda1 and it

Re: help on Keyboard language..

2004-07-15 Thread Steven Satelle
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:47:07 +0200, Lorenzo Rossi wrote: Hi, when I installed debian I setup my keyboard with italian layout. After an apt-get upgrade I loose the keyboard settings..how can I restore the correct language? thanks Lorenzo if you do a dpkg-reconfigure locales it will take

Re: starting X hangs on network timeout (hosts file ignored)

2004-07-13 Thread Steven Satelle
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:28:56 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: Same behavior (I am using wdm and no xdmcp and the no listen on tcp switch). It seems like /usr/X11R6/bin/X is whats causing the trouble, running tcpdump when X startx shows the name lookup BTW: you know, I think we're barking up the

Re: dselect alternatives

2004-07-13 Thread Steven Satelle
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:57:43 +, ricktaylor wrote: Personally, I'd use kpackage or synaptic in X and dselect in a terminal {mainly because synaptic and kpackage are easier to read... the I've always found that unless I stick to one package manager - synaptic at the moment, they resolve

Re: Changing hostname

2004-07-12 Thread Steven Satelle
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:57:16 -0400, * Tong* wrote: Hi, Quick question how to change hostname under debian? I changed my /etc/hosts from 127.0.0.1 cxmr localhost to 127.0.0.1 cxmr.dyndns.org localhost but why my hostname is still

Re: starting X hangs on network timeout (hosts file ignored)

2004-07-12 Thread Steven Satelle
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:58:40 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: BTW I got the following reply after I tried reporting a bug on netbase on this: [...] this is how it's supposed to work. host(1) is an interface to the resolver library, which does not use /etc/hosts by design. The problem is that

Re: starting X hangs on network timeout

2004-07-11 Thread Steven Satelle
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 20:18:19 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: --- Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure yet on what package to report this bug, but was wondering if anyone else experiences it too. Have a look at the bugpage for 'xserver-xfree86'. If it isn't listed there, then

Re: starting X hangs on network timeout

2004-07-11 Thread Steven Satelle
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 22:53:09 +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 20:18:19 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: no, its caused by the machine trying to resolve its name over eth0 AFAIR. If the network is up. If you've configured the network, you've set a hostname, so it is trying to

Re: starting X hangs on network timeout (hosts file ignored)

2004-07-11 Thread Steven Satelle
Ping uses the hosts file but host seems to ignore it. So if the nameserver is not reachable then ping hostname works but host hostname returns 192.168.0.1 connect: Network is unreachable Nameserver not reachable litshi.luna.local A record not found, try again my /etc/hosts has the following

test 'Debian User List'

2000-06-14 Thread Steven Satelle

RE: Accessinf devices after install...

2000-05-06 Thread Steven Satelle
Look in your /etc/dev for /cdrom and mount using that, linux sees it as a cdrom not a hd (i think) -Original Message-From: Kevin A Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 06 May 2000 09:58To: Eric G . Miller; debian-user@lists.debian.orgSubject: Re: Accessinf devices after

RE: Installing without rebooting (running the installation proggie from within Linux)

2000-04-27 Thread Steven Satelle
My understanding is (more from windoze than linux) that installing on one hrd drv and using it in a diff system is a bad idea, lots of different hardware / configurations, unless you both have identical systems -Original Message- From: Arcady Genkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

RE: serial mouse not working

2000-04-26 Thread Steven Satelle
i found with my mouse (the first timei ever had probs) that after i reconfigured it i had to make a new xf86config file, util i did the mouse wouldnt work -Original Message- From: Rafael Caetano dos Santos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 April 2000 04:55 To:

RE: Problems - Installing Packages from the A:

2000-04-25 Thread Steven Satelle
try copyong th package to your hard drv first -Original Message- From: Dulan Tevesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 April 2000 01:19 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Problems - Installing Packages from the A: I'm having problems installing simple packages with debian. I'm

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2000-04-25 Thread Steven Satelle
simple question, where do you put lines for the modules you want to autoload in debian? ie my winmodem and audio device

RE: Xproblem - modelines?

2000-04-25 Thread Steven Satelle
check your settings for the moniter vert horiz frequencies -Original Message- From: Olaf Meeuwissen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 April 2000 02:03 To: Mats Ström Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Xproblem - modelines? Mats Ström [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 25 Apr

ntfs mounting

2000-04-25 Thread Steven Satelle
Hi, does anyone know how to mount a ntfs partition in linux, i have installed the ntfs modules but linuxconf only lists my msdos filesystem not my ntfs or fat32 file syses, what lines do i need to add to fstab so they are automounted on boot

RE: Xproblem - modelines?

2000-04-25 Thread Steven Satelle
what are the vert/horiz frequencies? -Original Message- From: Mats Ström [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 April 2000 02:34 To: Steven Satelle Cc: 'Olaf Meeuwissen'; 'Debian User List' Subject: RE: Xproblem - modelines? On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Steven Satelle wrote: check your settings

RE: find running in the backgound

2000-04-25 Thread Steven Satelle
Isnt there a command call 'locate' which is simalir to find but about 1000 times faster (search your entire filesys in about 10 seconds) which works by examining the filesys every few hours? could be this which is running find -Original Message- From: Oswald Buddenhagen [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Newbie questions, Partisioning

2000-04-25 Thread Steven Satelle
There is no prob with having fat16 after fat32 partitions but using fdisk (windows-dos version) you can only have 2 partitions - logical drives aren't included - i.e. 2 primary or 1 primary and one extended, Linux fdisk I think can have up to 4 primary partitions, you prob could be related to the