Re: su not working

2007-11-28 Thread Vikram Vincent
Hello, Javier Vasquez wrote: Hi, I'm used not to login as root, specially under X. Instead, when required to edit a configuration file, or do something not planned under sudo, then what I do is to "su" and then provide the root password. The problem is that the root password is never recogni

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-28 Thread Raghesh A
Dear Philip, Thanks a lot. We were able to reproduce the block size problem with a partition of 500 MB. Now we will change the block size to 4096 and test it out. Regards, Raghesh On Nov 29, 2007 1:37 AM, Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 27 November 2007 18:22, you wrote:

su not working

2007-11-28 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, I'm used not to login as root, specially under X. Instead, when required to edit a configuration file, or do something not planned under sudo, then what I do is to "su" and then provide the root password. The problem is that the root password is never recognized, so I can't su-to-root ever,

Non root sudo + aptitude

2007-11-28 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, It seems that aptitude works under root, meaning one can install packages and upgrade them under root. However under a non root user, with sudo set so that aptitude can be run, then everything works, except for the fact that after downloading the packages, if the packages were requested throu

Re: Can't get vim installed...

2007-11-28 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Nov 23, 2007 9:13 PM, Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 23, 2007 10:05 AM, Fabienne Ducroquet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Le Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:37:49 +0100, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a > > écrit : > > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 07:13:15PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:

Re: Xorg problems

2007-11-28 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Nov 26, 2007 5:27 AM, Fabienne Ducroquet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:29:34 +0100, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit > : > > Did you configure x11-common to allow anybody to start the X server? > > Yes, without that the error message says clearly that it's > i

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-28 Thread Philip Charles
On Thursday 29 November 2007 02:44, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:06:22AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > No sign of the new glibc and hurd packages yet. I will probably > > create a little script to check daily. > > Oops. I did not upload them because I wanted to wait on K15

Re: USB support?

2007-11-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Fabienne Ducroquet, le Wed 28 Nov 2007 15:19:44 +0100, a écrit : > All the information I've found about the hardware supported by > Debian GNU/Hurd say that there is no USB support at all, but my USB > keyboard and mouse seem to work, Thank your BIOS ;) (look for keywords like USB legacy supp

Re: USB support?

2007-11-28 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:19:44PM +0100, Fabienne Ducroquet wrote: > All the information I've found about the hardware supported by > Debian GNU/Hurd say that there is no USB support at all, but my USB > keyboard and mouse seem to work, has there been progress recently? I > found nothing abou

USB support?

2007-11-28 Thread Fabienne Ducroquet
Hi, All the information I've found about the hardware supported by Debian GNU/Hurd say that there is no USB support at all, but my USB keyboard and mouse seem to work, has there been progress recently? I found nothing about that in the last months'archives of the bug-hurd, hurd-devel-readers

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-28 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:06:22AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > No sign of the new glibc and hurd packages yet. I will probably create a > little script to check daily. Oops. I did not upload them because I wanted to wait on K15, not the other way round. The new major glibc release has not s

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-28 Thread Philip Charles
On Wednesday 28 November 2007 13:16, Michael Banck wrote: > > Calicut have it easy because they use a shell script instead of > binaries in an initrd, so it'd be a matter of search and replace (I > pointed it out to one of them a while ago I think) > > Anyway, this is not a regression from K14 (or