Re: Change file picker in browsers

2024-09-27 Thread Geoff
J wrote: Hello! So, is there a way to change the file picker in browsers? Recently i have switched from Gnome Files (Nautilus) to Thunar. Yes, i use Gnome. I have used the command |xdg-mime default thunar.desktop inode/directory| So. |$ xdg-mime query default inode/directory thunar.desktop

Re: systemd may silently break your system!

2024-07-27 Thread Geoff
Vincent Lefevre wrote: The /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf symlink has been removed (currently in unstable) *without any announcement*, so that the /etc/sysctl.conf file (which is still documented, BTW) is no longer read. So, be careful if you have important settings there (security...). Thanks

Re: vanilla to sid

2023-11-25 Thread Geoff
dist-upgrade right now :) You have to be careful and watch what it's telling you. Regards, Geoff

Re: Logout at apt upgrade

2022-12-01 Thread Geoff
Loïc Grenié wrote:     Dear Debian users,     when I apt upgrade my system, I often (one every three, more   or less) find myself brutally logged out of the window system,   with systemd services painfully restarting (or failing to restart).   The only way I can recover is usually to reboot

Re: simple talking clock / reminder for when monitor is off and it is dark

2022-03-22 Thread Geoff Shang
flexibility in its scheduling. For the actual saying of the time, you could use the saytime package. I've not used it in many, many years, but I see that it's still in Debian and it uses sox so it should still work. HTH, Geoff.

Re: packages kept back on Debian stable

2022-02-24 Thread Geoff
ade will install new packages but not rip anything out. Regards, Geoff

Re: Bulseye - TacacsPlus - Configure ?

2022-02-13 Thread Geoff
Maurizio Caloro wrote: Found and install this package, TacacsPlus on Bullseye. Please asking for short adivce to configure this. root@HPT610:# apt search tacacs *libauthen-tacacsplus-perl*/stable,now 0.28-1+b1 amd64 [*installed*]   Perl module for authentication using TACACS+ server thanks M

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-10 Thread Geoff
rnel, what kernel version are you running? If your on stable and haven't already try getting a kernel from backports. Regards Geoff

Re: which command can show if usb 3.0 is used

2021-05-30 Thread Geoff
Geoff wrote: Long Wind wrote: Thank Geoff! with usb3 disk plugged to lenovo running buster i see msg below, but i'm not sure if usb3 is used May 31 10:21:18 debian kernel: [13385.174292] usb 5-6: new high-speed USB device number 12 using ehci-pci Definitely looks like usb 2, the ehci d

Re: which command can show if usb 3.0 is used

2021-05-30 Thread Geoff
Long Wind wrote: Thank Geoff! with usb3 disk plugged to lenovo running buster i see msg below, but i'm not sure if usb3 is used May 31 10:21:18 debian kernel: [13385.174292] usb 5-6: new high-speed USB device number 12 using ehci-pci Definitely looks like usb 2, the ehci driver also p

Re: which command can show if usb 3.0 is used

2021-05-30 Thread Geoff Reidy
Long Wind wrote: Thank Geoff! with usb3 disk plugged to lenovo running buster i see msg below, but i'm not sure if usb3 is used May 31 10:21:18 debian kernel: [13385.174292] usb 5-6: new high-speed USB device number 12 using ehci-pci Definitely looks like usb 2, the ehci driver also p

Re: which command can show if usb 3.0 is used

2021-05-30 Thread Geoff
You should see something in your logs, this is what I get for a usb 3.1 device: kernel: usb 2-1.2: new SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd USB 2 is only "high-speed": kernel: usb 1-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 12 using xhci_hcd Regards, Geoff

Re: Cannot see update to recent linux kernel 5.10.19-1~bpo10+1 (from 5.10.13-1~bpo10+1)

2021-03-21 Thread Geoff Reidy
l0f...@tuta.io wrote: $ apt policy linux-image-5.10.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 linux-image-5.10.0-0.bpo.3-amd64:   Installed: 5.10.13-1~bpo10+1   Candidate: 5.10.13-1~bpo10+1   Version table: *** 5.10.13-1~bpo10+1 100     100 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports/main amd64 Packages  

Re: why !oh why Debian and application list

2020-06-07 Thread Geoff Reidy
choice in the list, hit enter and up it comes. This is on KDE/Plasma. Regards, Geoff

Re: since almost 4 years: missing icon for "save session" in plasma

2020-03-19 Thread Geoff
"Restore manually saved session" selected. Regards, Geoff

Re: since almost 4 years: missing icon for "save session" in plasma

2020-03-18 Thread Geoff
n't use it often but I don't remember it being missing. Regards, Geoff

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-03 Thread Geoff
that I've replaced the MB, then I'll grow the filesystems to fit. Regards, Geoff

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-12 Thread Geoff Reidy
I've never had an Intel GPU but always had the impression they were pretty solid, but my opinion is changing. Note that kernel 5.5 may still have issues: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.5-Intel-Missed-Graphics Regards, Geoff

Re: Browsing debian-user: news.gmane.org is now news.gmane.io

2020-01-15 Thread Geoff
until I'd also figured that out :) Regards, Geoff

Re: 70-persistent-net-rules no longer supported? (Was Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster)

2019-07-02 Thread Geoff
observed results aren't applicable. I'm running up to date sid and using systemd and still have an eth0 as set by 70-persistent-net.rules. Geoff

Re: Xoscope(1) on Debian 9?

2018-01-28 Thread Geoff Reidy
Hi John, The binary in the debian package was compiled without alsa support, you've reminded me to file a bug for it. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=888704 Regards, Geoff John Conover wrote: Has anyone got Xoscope(1) on Debian 9 amd64 to work? It looks as if it doe

Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-14 Thread GEOFF BAGLEY
version of the Gnome desktop ever since they wrecked KDE3 and introduced KDE4. I think that the KDE exampled was abad one, but has been repeated. Best wishes. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Printing on HPLaserJetP1102w

2012-11-11 Thread GEOFF BAGLEY
two other machines. I wish now to investigate an ethernet or even WiFi network printing capability for my three machines with their three printers. Many thanks for giving me a push at the right time, and also to others who have helped me. Best regards. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Printing on HPLaserJetP1102w

2012-11-11 Thread GEOFF BAGLEY
nting. Best regards. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1352629534.97570.yahoomailclas...@web186105.mail.ir2.yahoo.com

Printing on HPLaserJetP1102w

2012-11-10 Thread GEOFF BAGLEY
. I would like to use it on Debian squeeze, but have so far not succeded. Please is there anyone out there using this printer on Debian ? Best wishes Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Re: Squeeze point release broke keyboard and mouse

2012-10-08 Thread geoff
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Squeeze point release broke keyboard and mouse From: Chris Bannister Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 17:41:58 +1300 Message-id: <20121005044158.GA26889@tal> In-reply-to: References: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 01:58:39PM +1000, geoff wrote: > OK. What

Re: Re: multiboot on usb?

2012-10-03 Thread geoff
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: multiboot on usb? From: Brian Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 12:40:51 +0100 Message-id: <20121003114051.GM22368@desktop> In-reply-to: References: On Wed 03 Oct 2012 at 10:12:22 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > I want to check different distros ( instead

Re: Squeeze point release broke keyboard and mouse

2012-10-03 Thread geoff
Original Message - From: "Chris Bannister" To: Cc: "geoff" Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 8:12 PM Subject: Re: Squeeze point release broke keyboard and mouse > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 01:29:14AM +1000, geoff wrote: > > You should fix your clock. > &g

Squeeze point release broke keyboard and mouse

2012-10-02 Thread geoff
Hoping someone can steer me in the right direction. The most recent point release went into my system on Sunday. Upon rebooting the keyboard and mouse are inactive. The mouse is usb, and can be activated by unplugging and plugging it back in. The keyboard is ps\2 and can not be activated. The u

Re: Replacing bcmxx wifi cards with intel 2200 & 2915 in Lenny and Squeeze

2011-12-14 Thread Geoff Simmons
ed by the firmware-b43-installer and firmware-ipw2x00 packages are placed in separate directories (/lib/firmware/b43 and /lib/firmware respectively) and the relevant drivers request differently named files. As they do not conflict, both packages can be installed on the same system. Geoff -- To UN

Re: how to examine the wireless

2011-12-13 Thread Geoff Simmons
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:37:44PM +, steef wrote: > you could use the broadcom-sta (source-package) in combination with this > webpage: http://wiki.debian.org/wl The proprietary driver has no support for the BCM4331 at this time. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: Network Connection issue

2011-11-04 Thread Geoff Simmons
; # The primary network interface > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface lo inet loopback > -- This is incorrect, as two iface stanzas are stated for loopback. It should contain a line for the eth* network interface (e.g. "iface eth0 inet dhcp").

Re: Support of Ethernet card Broadcom

2011-09-18 Thread Geoff Simmons
g a backported Linux kernel) at this time, see [1] for further details. For an established system (with an alternate form of connectivity), you can use either a backported linux-image package from Debian Backports [2], or a linux-image package proposed for the 6.0.3 point release [3]. Geoff [1]

Re: CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator

2011-09-15 Thread Geoff Simmons
s not support > > i use Debian squeeze. You need to supply firmware for support of your device (PCI ID 1013:6003), see http://wiki.debian.org/snd-cs46xx for more information. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Kernel 2.6.38-bpo.2-686 and Virtualbox

2011-05-25 Thread Geoff Simmons
he other two packages that are > no longer working? You require a later NDISwrapper version for use with Linux 2.6.38 (see Debian bugs #604880, #622709) which is available in the testing branch. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Dlink DWA-525

2011-05-17 Thread Geoff Simmons
epopulated during future linux-image-* package updates. Geoff [1] http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModuleBlacklisting -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://l

Re: Squeeze. Broken native laptop screen res 1366x768@NVIDIA after last update

2011-03-21 Thread Geoff Simmons
XF86Config-4 is no longer considered (Closes: #610453). Thanks, Bernhard R. Link! - Stop searching for XF86Config files This change is briefly mentioned in the 6.0.1 news release. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: modem symlink in /dev

2011-03-13 Thread Geoff Simmons
y default) can be set within /etc/default/martian-modem. Adding "DEVICE=/dev/modem" to this file should provide your expected behaviour, after the martian-modem daemon is restarted. Alternatively, adjust your PPP dialer application to use /dev/ttySM0. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: installing rtl8187B on debian lenny with kernel 2.6.26 - need help on installing backport kernel to recognise chipset

2011-01-31 Thread Geoff Simmons
Amend your /etc/apt/sources.list file, run "aptitude update", install the backported linux-image-* package (using your earlier command) and restart your system into the 2.6.32 kernel. Geoff [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Backports -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: Re: WPA2-WLAN on Laptop with PCMCIA card and wpa_supplicant

2011-01-09 Thread Geoff Simmons
e of NDISwrapper as a workaround is not possible, as 16-bit PCMCIA devices are not supported. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110109190012.gh6...@tammy.lan.gsimmons.org

Re: how to make pdnsd listen on all interfaces?

2010-12-16 Thread Geoff Simmons
le manual mode, as described in /usr/share/doc/pdnsd/README.Debian. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101216232903.ga15...@tammy.lan.gsimmons.org

Re: wireless adapters

2010-09-20 Thread Geoff Simmons
pective page on the Debian wiki. Geoff [1] http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper [2] http://wiki.debian.org/Backports [3] http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x [4] http://wiki.debian.org/ar9170usb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Can't locate ndiswrapper module!

2010-09-16 Thread Geoff Simmons
naccuracy of pre-compiled module availability within ndiswrapper-source's package description (added in version 1.53-1) was corrected at ndiswrapper version 1.55-1. Geoff [1] http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper#Lenny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: detect ethernet card?

2010-09-10 Thread Geoff Simmons
pgrade your system to 5.0.6. * Manually acquire the relevant linux-image-2.6.26-2-* package for your system from packages.debian.org[3], transfer and install via dpkg. An interface for this network device should become available once your system is restarted with the updated kernel. Geo

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-02-03 Thread Geoff Reidy
I had a similar issue but with a 2 card, 3 monitor setup. Applying the patch as per this thread: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1306609&postcount=19 against the 190.53 driver has fixed it for me. sgfxi drops the driver file in /usr/src/ Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: 2.6.25 kernel and NVIDIA driver

2008-07-24 Thread Geoff Reidy
here and thanks Paul, I hadn't got the new kernel and drivers to go until now. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to configure Icedove for use with Debian Mailing list

2008-07-11 Thread Geoff Reidy
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/11/08 12:26, Steve C. Lamb wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 02:23:59PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >>> I was able to add the button to the toolbar by customizing it. And there >>> is that option in the Message menu. However, both the button and the >>> menu en

How to Configure Aptitude for Update Archive Compression Types?

2007-12-16 Thread Geoff Sanders
I'm experiencing an issue with aptitude regarding archive compression types during update. Currently, I have two installed systems (etch stable) that retrieve different update archive types. One system retrieves Packages.bz2, where the other system retrieves Packages.gz during 'aptitude update' (di

wpa_supplicant disconnecting problems

2007-11-08 Thread Geoff Crompton
Hi, I'm a bit of a wireless newbie. I'm trying to connect my tnet1130 PCI wifi card (104c:9066) with the ndiswrapper to a Asus WL-500GP access point. I've got the ndiswrapper going, using Debian Etch, kernel 2.6.18-5-686, and building the ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.18-5-686 package, version 1.28-1+2

Re: Get wirless working

2007-05-15 Thread geoff
IBM T43 and actually got the ipw2200 working till a kernel upgrade came through and then I lost wireless and being a noob I couldn't get it going again :-) I tried Linux Mint (Cassandra) and only one click got my wireless working. All the Beryl things work out of the box too. And the T43 d

solved?: grub ide=nodma not working with CF card - boot delay

2007-04-11 Thread geoff
G_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO setting. 7) make some tea. Assuming the build went well, the resulting .deb file should be in the parent directory. 8) Copy the linux-image-2.6.18custom10.deb file to the target system. 9) Install on the target system dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.18custom10.deb. 10) reboot. -Geo

grub ide=nodma not working

2007-04-09 Thread geoff
I'm also seeing the same issue with the Debian 4.0 Release (Etch). I have a custom Celeron based SBC with an IDE CF slot as the primary drive. The board itself does not support DMA, so I've been using the 'ide=nodma' boot parameter with RedHat 9.0 and Debian Sarge. On these older distributi

Re: apt-get vs. deselect

2007-02-19 Thread Geoff Reidy
grade will upgrade all packages, try apt-get install calmd. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-05 Thread Geoff Reidy
andy wrote: > Geoff Reidy wrote: >> Marko Randjelovic wrote: >> >>> andy wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks Geoff. I had also read that during the course of my earlier >>>> research on this issue. But ... >>>> >>>> :~

Re: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple

2007-01-05 Thread Geoff Reidy
Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 02:02 +1100, Geoff Reidy wrote: >> It's awful, if I just type in "/usr/bin" I get "/usr/src//bin" because >> of it's autocompletion, so you have to type slowly and watch what it's >> doing. >

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-05 Thread Geoff Reidy
Marko Randjelovic wrote: > andy wrote: >> Thanks Geoff. I had also read that during the course of my earlier >> research on this issue. But ... >> >> :~$ uname -r >> 2.6.18-3-686 >> >> Viola! 686 and still no 1GB mem recognised, only 3/4s (7764

Re: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple

2007-01-05 Thread Geoff Reidy
Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 07:26 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: >> They're the standard GNOME dialogs, and you're absolutely right. They fall >> into the Microsoft Error: cool-looking, terrible usability. But apparently >> GNOME is immune to user comments. >> >> They are inferior (an

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-05 Thread Geoff Reidy
Doug. > > Andy, if you have a P4 then install linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 and you'll get access to your 1 GB memory. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Warning: `//root/.bash_history' file size is zero

2006-11-07 Thread Geoff Thurman
Oops; sorry about the line-length.

Warning: `//root/.bash_history' file size is zero

2006-11-07 Thread Geoff Thurman
t their size limits, are they trimmed back, or are they zeroed? And am I right in assuming that I have nothing to worry about? Is there anything else I need to look at or tell you?I'm mailing this list rather than the chkrootkit one because I don't see it as a chkrootkit issue, but rather as a bash history one.Thanks for any help,Geoff

Re: laser printer recommendation for personal use?

2006-09-15 Thread Geoff Reidy
, had to set the margins with a program called alignmargins but apart from that minor hassle it works well, good unit. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Really slow glxgears, excellent speed in Planet Penguin

2006-06-22 Thread Geoff Reidy
heads but glxgears in *slw*. > > Any thoughts? > They've changed it after all these years, try: glxgears -iacknowledgethatthistoolisnotabenchmark Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wine 3d very very slow, toolchain problem?

2006-02-20 Thread Geoff Reidy
, found here: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4143 Pretty impressed with wine I must say, never used it before. Oh, and I'm using wine's oss interface, have you tried running it with sound disabled? Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &

Re: lmsensors alarm....

2005-09-26 Thread Geoff Reidy
LARM > beep_enable: > Sound alarm enabled > First thing, according to the above your +12v is at 19.58v and -12v is at +6v, along with a few other odd values. This is possibly because: You've got both the w83627hf ISA and i2c modules loaded, you only want one of th

Re: Bizarre ls Behavior

2005-07-22 Thread Geoff Reidy
Ron Johnson wrote: Unfortunately, I can't determine it's package using the usual tool: $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/[ dpkg: /usr/bin/[ not found. $ dpkg -S "/usr/bin/[" dpkg: /usr/bin/[ not found. $ dpkg -S '/usr/bin/[' dpkg: /usr/bin/[ not found. $ dpkg -S '/usr/bin/\[' coreutils

Re: rosegarden, no sound

2005-07-05 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:46:13PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > > I've benn looking on and off at rosegarden, and the most recent > version looks very polished for a midi app. On the downside, I can't > get any sound out of it, and other apps play fine. I'm pretty sure midi > did work on my system

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-07-01 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 08:21:33AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Geoff Thurman wrote: > > >But isn't he right, at the end of the day, to be concerned about > >software patents? > > > Yes. > > >And I would have thought this list was exactly the > &

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-07-01 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:36:18PM -0500, Steve Block wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:25:47PM +0200, Guillaume TESSIER wrote: > >Kent West wrote: > > > >>Guillaume TESSIER wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>My little sister could register on a web site. > >>> > >>> > >> > >>and > >> > >> > >> > >

Re: ssh: No route to host

2005-06-21 Thread Geoff Jacobs
Guillaume TESSIER wrote: > John Wilkes wrote: > >> On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 22:56 +0200, Guillaume TESSIER wrote: >> >> >>> NAT translation is not a concept i can resume in some lines. >>> But , broadly, it works like this : >>> >>> For exemple, you have ssh server (your mum'smachine) that has a >>

Re: bmp/ppm/jpeg/pbm to wsq/nist2000 file format changer

2005-06-21 Thread Geoff Jacobs
Mustafa Golam wrote: > We are working for a finger print validation system. > We have taken NFIS as our base. > We need some bmp/ppm/jpeg/pbm to wsq/nist2000 file format changer. > any link or Free program will be quit help full. > any doc to converter program or specification of wsq/nist 2000 fil

Re: Updating woes (debian sid)

2005-06-13 Thread Geoff Reidy
. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge release

2005-06-06 Thread Geoff Thurman
enzies.co.uk ... > ...strategies for business > Geoff Thurman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tun failing: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device

2005-06-02 Thread Geoff Reidy
Jon Dowland wrote: Geoff Reidy wrote: It would take about 10 seconds to verify this! modprobe tun ifconfig tun0 Debian sid 2.6.11 kernel. Is this too much to ask? anubis:/home/jon# modprobe tun anubis:/home/jon# ifconfig tun0 tun0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

Re: tun failing: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device

2005-06-02 Thread Geoff Reidy
Geoff Reidy wrote: CoolFox wrote: 1) Load the right module for your ethernet device 2) ifconfig eth0 3) route add default netmask 0.0.0.0 gw (ip of your gateway) if it is already done, try : /etc/init.d/networking restart tun is the right module, it creates an interface that e.g. a guest

Re: tun failing: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device

2005-06-01 Thread Geoff Reidy
CoolFox wrote: 1) Load the right module for your ethernet device 2) ifconfig eth0 3) route add default netmask 0.0.0.0 gw (ip of your gateway) if it is already done, try : /etc/init.d/networking restart tun is the right module, it creates an interface that e.g. a guest OS on qemu can use

Re: tun failing: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device

2005-06-01 Thread Geoff Reidy
ready of course, but either the problem is stated and no answer received or people seeing the error haven't loaded the module. I get the same error whether the module is loaded or not. I was hoping someone could at least confirm whether tun works in this kernel or not. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCR

tun failing: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device

2005-05-31 Thread Geoff Reidy
;t come up: # ifconfig tun0 127.20.0.1 SIOCSIFADDR: No such device tun0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Is it a bug or have I broken something? Regards, Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Pausing the scroll (was Re: Small issues, but still annoying)

2005-05-23 Thread Geoff Thurman
start the scroll again use Ctrl and Q. Cheers, Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recommended Debian book?

2005-05-23 Thread Geoff Thurman
s document. [On the other hand, if the book gets revised from time to time (does it?) your version might be more up to date anyway.] Cheers, Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

massive .xsession-errors (was Re: chkrootkit finds 'value too large for defined data type')

2004-10-13 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 10:58 pm, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Geoff Thurman: > > I'm running woody on one hd, and have recently installed sarge on > > another by upgrading everything over the net after installing from > > my original woody cds. Tonight on the

chkrootkit finds 'value too large for defined data type'

2004-10-12 Thread Geoff Thurman
but to no actual routine. This is the first time anything has come up. I'm only running a desktop, with a dial-up connection. Do I have anything to worry about here? Apologies if I should have told you anything else, and thanks for any help. Cheers, Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

migrating to udev

2004-08-10 Thread Geoff
and devfs packages both installed, and try our udevfs, but come back to devfs if something breaks. Thanks! Geoff Crompton (Not on list, please cc) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian Woody.

2004-07-01 Thread GEOFF BAGLEY
Pascal Compiler. The only ones I might wish for are gpc and fpc, both of which are not found in the "stable" Woody version. Can anyone offer any help ? Should I include "unstable" downloads into Woody ? Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: APT problem: postgresql won't install/uninstall/upgrade/reinstall

2004-05-29 Thread Geoff Caplan
David, Thanks for responding. Finally got this fixed by hacking the remove script and hacking the install script. Nasty experience - but at least I've learned more about the Debian package system so I shouldn't get into such a mess again! Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

APT problem: postgresql won't install/uninstall/upgrade/reinstall

2004-05-28 Thread Geoff Caplan
less I can fix it I'll have to rebuild my server, which would be a serious pain in the ***. Any help much appreciated. -- Geoff Caplan Vario Software Ltd (+44) 121-515 1154 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Paranoid (over?)reaction to kmail glitch and exim security announcement

2004-05-08 Thread Geoff Thurman
ems in the last couple of days? I expect not, but it would help put my mind at rest if nobody else has - I can't be the only one running kmail who downloaded lots of mail before performing the exim update. Sorry about the length of this message. Cheers, Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Anacron vs. cron.

2004-05-02 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Sunday 02 May 2004 1:05 am, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 04:27:01PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 07:41:50PM +0100, Geoff Thurman wrote: > > > Anacron is recommended if your computer is not left on more or > > > less contin

Re: Anacron vs. cron.

2004-05-01 Thread Geoff Thurman
e cron is installed as (I think) a base package, and anacron is only rated as optional, I think you should just remove anacron. Although I am surprised if it actually prevents cron from running (some of?) its jobs, clearly this does seem to be the case. I think you should just go ahead and re

Re: Anacron vs. cron.

2004-05-01 Thread Geoff Thurman
sure you have anacron installed?, because if you have, then frankly your problem is beyond me and I am out of my depth again. ;) Cheers (raising glass) Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anacron vs. cron.

2004-05-01 Thread Geoff Thurman
to remove the anacron package than the new user would be to install it. Is this a bug, then, or am I missing something? Cheers, Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-17 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:41 pm, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Geoff Thurman wrote: > > On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are > >> scrolling off the screen too fast. I saw some lines

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-17 Thread Geoff Thurman
st). To halt the scroll, use Ctrl and S. Then Shift and Page Up should allow you to check what you have missed. Ctrl and Q to release the scroll lock. HTH Geoff However, when I do a dmesg | grep -i > microcode, it is not found. > > Does dmesg holds the complete log of the bootup messag

Thanks, Adam: was Re: recovering from security kernel-image update

2004-04-16 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Thursday 15 April 2004 21:14, Adam Aube wrote: > Geoff Thurman wrote: > > My system is broken following yesterday's security kernel-image > > update. I am able to boot in using a rescue disk, but am unsure > > what to do next. The obvious thing is to simply do an apt-

recovering from security kernel-image update

2004-04-15 Thread Geoff Thurman
team have already sorted out for us, but I am worried that this might somehow make matters worse. I'm sorry if this is so obvious as to be stupid, but is there something else I should do beforehand please? Thanks for any help, Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

openoffice spelling failing

2004-03-29 Thread Geoff Crompton
hecking to work? Cheers, Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

openoffice dialogs no borders

2004-03-29 Thread Geoff Crompton
Hi, I'm running Debian Unstable. In OpenOffice.org, v1.1 many of the dialogs that popup have no borders on them. So I can't close them once they are open. Is this an issue with OpenOffice.org, or is it related to my window manager? (Which is sawfish) Thanks, Geoff Crompto

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-28 Thread Geoff Bagley
This may be off-topic, but the very first computer programmer ever was a lady. The Countess Ada Lovelace, who wrote Babbage's software for him. Regards. Geoff. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

lp0 on fire - Epson Stylus Color 480 with Woody and Knoppix and CUPS

2004-03-04 Thread Geoff Thurman
ect usb:/dev/usb/lp3 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp4 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp5 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp6 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp7 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp8 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp9 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp10 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp11 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp12 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp13 direct usb:/dev/usb/lp14 direct usb:/d

Ntop dies on stable

2004-02-24 Thread Geoff Nordli
unfortunately ntop relies on lots of different packages, which would all need to be upgraded. Does anyone know of a backport site with the ntop files. Have a great day! Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Plotting pixel maps and graphs.

2004-01-30 Thread Geoff Bagley
packages for math- plotting or geographical plotting ? Could possibly be "piped" to (say) ghostscript ? TIA Geoff. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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