RE: Need some guidance on a IBM G40

2004-11-01 Thread Gustavo Halperin
I recommend to you start again from the start but with Debian Sid or Sarge, and not update the Debian 3.0r2 that I suppose is the Debian Woody. The problem is that in my experiences, the upgrade is not always do it for all, and probably you never will know which packages wasn't upgrade because yo

Re: Need some guidance on a IBM G40

2004-11-01 Thread Arthur Zhu
Thanks for the advice. When you say 'start again from the start' do you mean boot the machine with say Sid CD1 and wipe out the previous installation? But Sid is supposed to be only used for upgrade not installation from start? On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 09:56:48 +0200, Gustavo Halperin <[EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Need some guidance on a IBM G40

2004-11-01 Thread Gustavo Halperin
Yes, I mean boot from the CD. About the boot: I don't sure about Sid, but I think that Sarge can do it boot without any problem. Just try, but if not I recommend to you just install the base system and after it when the system do reboot and after it ask you for CD resources give the CD that you h

Re: Need some guidance on a IBM G40

2004-11-01 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 November 2004 09:23, Arthur Zhu wrote: > Thanks for the advice. When you say 'start again from the start' do > you mean boot the machine with say Sid CD1 and wipe out the previous > installation? Take a look here: http://www.nl.debian.org

Re: Need some guidance on a IBM G40

2004-11-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Gustavo Halperin wrote: > > Arthur Zhu wrote: > > Thanks for the advice. When you say 'start again from the start' do you > > mean boot the machine with say Sid CD1 and wipe out the previous > > installation? > > And one more think, if you are new with Debian I think that maybe is to > risk use Si

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why cant i kill processes?

2004-11-01 Thread ognjen Bezanov
HI all, I have a laptop running debian testing with 2.6.8 custom-kernel, and ive noticed that sometimes i cannot exit from applications (e.g. xine). clicking on the close button does nothing, but the application does not seem to stop responding (i.e. is basically ignores the request to close) now

Re: why cant i kill processes?

2004-11-01 Thread Jason Martens
ognjen Bezanov wrote: HI all, I have a laptop running debian testing with 2.6.8 custom-kernel, and ive noticed that sometimes i cannot exit from applications (e.g. xine). clicking on the close button does nothing, but the application does not seem to stop responding (i.e. is basically ignores the r

RE: why cant i kill processes?

2004-11-01 Thread ntr
Well, kill does NOT kill processes only, it is used to send signals to processes. In that sense, the process, if programmed so, can simply choose to ignore the signal. When you type kill -9, you send the actual KILL signal, which cannot be caught and ignored. >= Original Message From Jason

Re: why cant i kill processes?

2004-11-01 Thread João Lourenço
Hi, Kill, by default, send SIGTERM (code 2) to the targeted process. The default behavior for such signal is to terminate the process ("man 1 kill" at the prompt). However, processes can defaine a signal handler to process SIGTERM to do whatever you want it to. In this case the process will not