Re: Why are passwords in /etc?

Hi! On Sat Jul 05, 2003 at 02:37:31PM -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote: > Generally, applications and static data go in /usr. You could mount > /usr read-only save when installing apps, and none of the core Debian > applications would break. > > Similarly, system-wide configuration data goes in /etc.

Re: Can't dialup, possible DNS problem

Basic troubleshooting steps: 1. Use traceroute or tcptracroute to a known IP address. Make sure your internet connection is really alive. If not, you have other problems... 2. Make sure your nameservers are where you think they are. Try doing: host www.debian.org 3. After dialing up

Re: but I don't want the Russian etc. documentation

On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 01:00, Dan Jacobson wrote: > As a faithful Debian user, I must keep abreast of all latest advances. > # apt-get --print-uris -y dist-upgrade|awk 'NF==4{print $3,$2}'|grep apt-|sort -rn > 300030 apt-howto-ru_1.8.5-2_all.deb > 258682 apt-howto-pl_1.8.5-2_all.deb > 257092 apt-how

but I don't want the Russian etc. documentation

As a faithful Debian user, I must keep abreast of all latest advances. # apt-get --print-uris -y dist-upgrade|awk 'NF==4{print $3,$2}'|grep apt-|sort -rn 300030 apt-howto-ru_1.8.5-2_all.deb 258682 apt-howto-pl_1.8.5-2_all.deb 257092 apt-howto-de_1.8.5-2_all.deb 249416 apt-howto-fr_1.8.5-2_all.deb 2

Can't dialup, possible DNS problem

Hello, I've tried configuring my dialup accounts using pppconfig, however when I try to fetch a web page Mozilla sits there forever 'resolving host foo.bar.com...' When I try to use ping, it also just sits there trying to resolve the host. The same happens when I try to configure wvdial. Both d

Bad experience in installation

Hi, I went through the procedures in the document "Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 for Intel X86".   1. Following the download from the specified sites i.e. 'current', I end up with a version 2.2. This is not really a problem compared to what follows.   2. I was able to proceed smoothly lik

Re: Performance of a binaries vs source compliation!

hi ya On 5 Jul 2003, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 18:43, Rthoreau wrote: > > I have been doing some research lately about the performance difference > > between binary packages, and those compiled from source. From what I have > > learned so far their really is not a good tool t

Re: Performance of a binaries vs source compliation!

On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 18:43, Rthoreau wrote: > I have been doing some research lately about the performance difference > between binary packages, and those compiled from source. From what I have > learned so far their really is not a good tool to verify the difference. For 99% of cases its not

Re: apt-get update: gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 11:01:02PM -0400, Robert August Vincent II wrote: > 2. Should I post my work-around patch? Is there a better way? Use FTP for your apt sources? -- "How can I not love the Americans? They helped me with a flat tire the other day," he said. - http://www.toledoblad

apt-get update: gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

Finally found the solution to a long-standing annoyance. Since installing DansGuardian on our firewall/proxy system, some debian package sources have been inacessible through the apt-get system. The symptom is that some (but not all) debian sources will produce an error when running "apt-get upda

Re: Dual head text console / X HOWTO sought

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 07:39:46PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > I suspect that "standard" X forwarding is not designed to handle such > a peculiar setup, so perhaps I would need to hack something together > myself, with netcat, perhaps. ...which seems to need X 4.3.0, for the "kbd" keyboard input driver

esd 0.2.23 remote play on debian unstable

I am running a VNC server on a computer with Debian stable, and viewing the output on a computer running Debian unstable. Console beeps get passed through the connection, but I would like to be able to play sounds on the server and hear them on the client. Does esound have this capability? Looking

Re: Why are passwords in /etc?

On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 02:40:06 +0200, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Creating this as a symlink is possible, though it breaks in edge cases. > Most notably, loopback mounts aren't properly freed. Hmm. The "user" mount option doesn't seem to work with /proc/mounts either. Looks like /etc/mtab really belon

Re: Static IP config

On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 00:20:04 +0200, Kelley Hilborn wrote: > iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.0.101 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > gateway 192.168.0.1 Looks OK to me. > About all I can do at this point is ping my gateway computer. Can you be more precise? Can you ping other

re[3]:please help me to editi xconfig

here is my xfree86.log, anyone wants to help me to edit it? someone has give me the example of xf86config-4 file, i try to edit my file based on the example and the hardware that i have, but the result is blank screen. please tell me how to start the nvidia driver. ReZa XFree86

Re: server version, stable or testing?

Johann Koenig wrote: > I was wondering what version of Debian people prefer for servers? > Stable, or testing. I understand that unstable is right out for this stable. testing has the disadvantage that it could be broken and you could wait for security updates _much_ longer than people with stabl

Disabling X from listening to port 6000 the debian way!

Hello, Its just another warm Saturday afternoon and I'm trying to up the security of the local network. I've noticed that I had port 1024 open and port 6000 open, presumably for wdm and X11 respectively Since I use only ssh to forward X connections, I'd rather not have X listening to the enti

server version, stable or testing?

I run a small server, does http/ssh/imap, pretty much just for me. Yes, smtp is locked down. No spam from here :-P. I was wondering what version of Debian people prefer for servers? Stable, or testing. I understand that unstable is right out for this sort of application, even though thats what I r

Re: Help with an error message

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 11:29:49PM +0200, Xerex wrote: > Could someone help me out with this message, and do I need to worry about > it? May it be a mainboard error? I'm using only IDE drives with LBA ... > > bash# mv /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci.bak > bash# cp bzImage /

Trouble getting uml networking going.

Hi, I am getting various errors trying to set up user-mode-linux networking on a 2.4 kernel, running Debian Sid. I have documented what happened when trying the preconfigured tun/tap configuration. I have a machine with a simple routing tablee, and a single nic with ip 192.168

Re: make-kpkg: permission denied making modules_image

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 18:25:15 -0400, Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 11:43:01 -0500 > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > So I am wondering: what am I doing wrong? I *should* be able to >> > compile modules for an existing kernel tree without write privs

Re: Why are passwords in /etc?

on Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 02:37:31PM -0500, Brian McGroarty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This may be a silly question: > > Why is /etc/shadow in /etc? Historical reasons. A consequence of which: this is where it's looked for by many, many, many applications. Change would take years. > Generally

Re: Using IMAPS instead of IMAP in courier

On Sat, 05 Jul 2003, gerard wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 15:03, Jesse Meyer wrote: > > In an effort to run a more secure network by default, I decided to > > switch from courier-imap to courier-imap-ssl. > > > > Now I have imaps running port 993, however, imap2 still wants to run > > on 143.

Re: Why are passwords in /etc?

on Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 12:47:58AM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > A related question. I always thought that /etc/mtab was supposed to be a > symlink to /proc/mounts in newer Linux distros. On my Debian boxes, it is a > regular file managed by mount and friends. Why is this

Re: compiling lufs

Sebastian Kapfer wrote: On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 21:20:11 +0200, Ken Bloom wrote: I've also tried from the kernel source directory (Adding --append-to-version) but the module has unresolved symbols when I run depmod. I get unresolved symbols here, too. Other modules work fine (ALSA, LIRC, NVIDIA). I

Re:

On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 00:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, my gnome configuration was so hopelessly fscked up that > I decided to back up my data and reinstall from scratch. > > In doing so I've found out that my PC will not boot anything > except the hard drive. Unfortunately, there aren't any

Re: (simple) exim question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 05 Jul 2003 11:35 pm, Jos Elkink wrote: > After a whole day of configuring Exim I'm right now at a loss as to what > I'm looking for. I have all kinds of docs, so I just need help in where > to look ... I have configured Exim so far that it

Re: running aptitude and apt-get from cron

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 10:08:45PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > I have been running 'apt-get-update' from cron during the night. Root > gets sent the output which is much as one would see in a terminal. > > However, following a recent message from someone (Colin Watson???) to > the list suggest

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Hi, my gnome configuration was so hopelessly fscked up that I decided to back up my data and reinstall from scratch. In doing so I've found out that my PC will not boot anything except the hard drive. Unfortunately, there aren't any partitions left on that sucker. Once I take the HD off, it boot

Re: Why are passwords in /etc?

A related question. I always thought that /etc/mtab was supposed to be a symlink to /proc/mounts in newer Linux distros. On my Debian boxes, it is a regular file managed by mount and friends. Why is this the case? -- Best Regards, | Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into Sebastian |

Re: Remove With Understanding Due Work, Power And Nature Of I Associative We

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:03:02AM -0400, Bill Marcum wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 12:34:02PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 23:59, cr wrote: > > > On Friday 27 June 2003 11:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > LABOR TRUE SOLUTIONS WITH RESOLVE TOMORROW METABOLIC MIXTURE

Kernel compile error message assistance please

Hi yall, having *finally* (three weeks worth), gotten Debian to load on my NF7, after a bios update, I am now getting this kernel compile error message, which I do not understand. Could someone suggest a fix or pointer to one, please? make all_targets make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/sr

Performance of a binaries vs source compliation!

I have been doing some research lately about the performance difference between binary packages, and those compiled from source. From what I have learned so far their really is not a good tool to verify the difference. I keep hearing about how important a source package is over a binary. Some

Re: Using IMAPS instead of IMAP in courier

you should check your /etc/services file. make sure its mapped in there. On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 15:03, Jesse Meyer wrote: > In an effort to run a more secure network by default, I decided to > switch from courier-imap to courier-imap-ssl. > > Now I have imaps running port 993, however, imap2 stil

Re: Radeon 9000 Pro and Framebuffer

Elimar Riesebieter schrob: > > 127MB HIGHMEM available. > > 896MB LOWMEM available. > I'm not shure, but there is a similar higmem-bug in radeonfb as in > vesafb. Try booting with mem=845M or something like that. Ah, well, this seemed to be the problem. Now I got still some other annoying proble

(simple) exim question

After a whole day of configuring Exim I'm right now at a loss as to what I'm looking for. I have all kinds of docs, so I just need help in where to look ... I have configured Exim so far that it can send mail locally, use different (virtual) domains, and that I can login externally using telnet ov

Re: Static IP config

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 16:46:18 -0500 "Kelley Hilborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > About all I can do at this point is ping my gateway computer. Am I > missing > something once again? > One other thing, do I need to input a nameserver anywhere? > If so, where? You're on the right track. man res

Re: Static IP config

Kelley Hilborn wrote: Okay, for my local LAN, I'm trying to set up a static IP address. This is what my /etc/network/interfaces looks like # auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.101 netmask 2

Re: The nature of testing and where can others help (Was Re: HowTofor Gnome2??)

Hi, I accidentally deleted all the messages in my debian-user folder . However, I do remember enough of your original post to (hopefully) enlighten you. I have also done the nasty cross-post thing to -devel because I conclude with a thought on how to get the package pool living up to its potenti

Static IP config

Okay, for my local LAN, I'm trying to set up a static IP address. This is what my /etc/network/interfaces looks like # auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.101 netmask 255.255.255.0

Help with an error message

Could someone help me out with this message, and do I need to worry about it? May it be a mainboard error? I'm using only IDE drives with LBA ... bash# mv /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci.bak bash# cp bzImage /vmlinuz bash# lilo Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48

running aptitude and apt-get from cron

I have been running 'apt-get-update' from cron during the night. Root gets sent the output which is much as one would see in a terminal. However, following a recent message from someone (Colin Watson???) to the list suggesting that it is better to run aptitude than apt-get directly, I have been e

Re: kernel compile the debian way

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 18:42:57 +0200 Rudy Gevaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every time I install a new kernel it moves the kernel I am using at > that time to vmlinuz.old (the symlink). > > Can I configure that it just adds a new entry in lilo? I don't believe it is. That's a limitation of usi

Re: configuring start options of X

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 19:45:22 +0200 Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Negative... > > If i reconf xserver-xfree86 it only asks me about if i want to configure > XF86Config-4 via debconf. It does not ask me about the acess issues. > > U can be sure that tried xserver-xfree86 ;)) Try

Can't Eject CD in Middle of Install

In the middle of installing the packages ("Unpacking...") it asked me to insert the next CD: Media Change: Please insert disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_Official i386 Binary-2 (20020718)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter I cannot eject the CD. I have an HP Pavilion 6545C with a

Re: Why are passwords in /etc?

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 14:37:31 -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote: > This may be a silly question: > > Why is /etc/shadow in /etc? Because of http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-fhs and http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-3.4.html HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form

Why are passwords in /etc?

This may be a silly question: Why is /etc/shadow in /etc? Generally, applications and static data go in /usr. You could mount /usr read-only save when installing apps, and none of the core Debian applications would break. Similarly, system-wide configuration data goes in /etc. You could mount /e

Re: Dual head text console / X HOWTO sought

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:59:53PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1) Dual head text console. A keystroke combination switches the focus > > of the keyboard from one monitor to the other; the usual Alt-F then > > switches between VTs on that monitor. > > > > 2

Using IMAPS instead of IMAP in courier

In an effort to run a more secure network by default, I decided to switch from courier-imap to courier-imap-ssl. Now I have imaps running port 993, however, imap2 still wants to run on 143. I cannot simply remove the courier-imap package, since courier-imap-ssl lists it a dependency. Any sugg

Re: Samba Problem

On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 18:50:04 +0200, Manfred Hungerland wrote: > Everytime when a printjob from Windows is started i get > to the job a Page that says > User: *** ( the User ) > Host:*** ( Server ) > Class:*** ( Server ) > Job: sbmprn.*** There's probably a banner-page option in your print spooler

Re: kernel compile the debian way

Le Samedi 5 Juillet 2003 18:42, Rudy Gevaert a déclamé : > Every time I install a new kernel it moves the kernel I am using at > that time to vmlinuz.old (the symlink). > Can I configure that it just adds a new entry in lilo? Perhaps see in /etc/kernel-img.conf (and a config example in /usr/shar

Re: Sobek-Sobek.com

Am Samstag, 5. Juli 2003 17:48 schrieb Martin Sobek: > You place your page on address www.sobek-sobek.com unlawfully! Remove it > immediately or you risk juridical prosecution. > > > Sobek-Sobek.com q analytic service q [EMAIL PROTECTED] q +420605921227 > > q Bryksova 27, 19800 Prague 9, CZ Hi, if

Re: configuring start options of X

On Saturday 05 July 2003 10:25, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 08:22:45PM +1200, Greek Geek wrote: > > Hi Yall & Raffaele Sandrini, > > > > >I remember beeing asked about where should be able to start X and its > > > nice level from debconf... I reconfigured many packs now i did't fi

Re: The nature of testing and where can others help (Was Re: HowTo for Gnome2??)

Oops. On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 12:02:23 -0400 Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, I don't know that it is stated anywhere; but it's an obvious > conclusion of the way in which testing is built. See > > http://www.debian.org/devel/testing > > It's an automated distribution: it can't h

Re: A bit OT: conversion mp3 to wav

On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 13:50:08 +0200, vdemar wrote: > E.g., If I issue the basic command > > mpg123 -w weare.wav weare.mp3 [...] > Illegal instruction Did this break with a recent update? It sounds like mpg123 uses an instruction that your CPU (which?) doesn't support. Does normal playback work?

strange packet denial

The following report of a denied packet has been appearing about once or twice a day in my system logs: Jul 4 10:12:48 gateway kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=2 0.0.0.0:65535 224.0.0.2:65535 L=32 S=0x00 I=19572 F=0x T=1 O=0x0494 (#5) My question is: What does this mean? T

Re: Compiling kernel with patches

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 18:48:37 +0200 Christophe Courtois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, which package shall I use to have the recent patches to improve > responsivness ? kernel-patch-ck ? lowlatency (and which version ??) ? > preempt ? I've found all these : > > kernel-patch-2.4-lowlatency >

kernel compile the debian way

Hello, I'm new to compiling kernels the debian way. This is how I do it: make menuconfig make dep make-kpkg clean fakeroot make-kpkg --append_to_version -468 --revision=rev.01 kernel_image modules_image dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.21-468_rev.01_i386.deb Now that works fine except it moves the kern

Re: Compiling kernel with patches

Le Samedi 5 Juillet 2003 18:14, Kevin McKinley a déclamé : > > Do you know a way to check if a patch was successfully applied ? > If you redirect the output of your make-kpkg command line to a file, > you can examine the file. There will be messages to let you know > whether or not the patches wer

re: tasksel, first time with debian

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 02:29, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > You're trying to run tasksel under those conditions? > > yep...? Is that a leading question!? Since you're installing, you might be a newbie (like me - at Debian, anyway). I've been doing ad-hoc tech support for my Dad for years, and his mo

Samba Problem

Hello I hohe this is the Right place. I have a Problem with samba. Everytime when a printjob from Windows is started i get to the job a Page that says User: *** ( the User ) Host:*** ( Server ) Class:*** ( Server ) Job: sbmprn.*** has anyone a Idea how i stop this? Greatings from Switzerland

Re: Sobek-Sobek.com

also sprach Martin Sobek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.05.1748 +0200]: > You place your page on address www.sobek-sobek.com unlawfully! Can you read? This computer has installed the Debian GNU/Linux operating system but has nothing to do with the Debian GNU/Linux project. If you want to repo

Re: gv ps.bz2 instead of ps.gz

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 04:27:07PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > is it possible to configure gv such that it supports bzip2-compressed > postscript files in addition to gzip-compressed ones? Google is amazing and good fun. Using 'gv' and 'bzip2-compressed' as the search terms comes up with two metho

Re: hda died, moved hdb. Final Solution.

Changing woody from hdb to hda howto. Final Version (with Grub) 1. Boot with the installation CD (any should work, I used #1). 2. Press F3 for information about possibilities (may be skipped?) 3. type rescue root=/dev/hda1 4. type in password for root, remount to write as indicated. 5. Change

Re: compiling the kernel with GCC 3.3

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 09:49:05 +0200 Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I tried to compile a 2.4.20 kernel with GCC 3.3 and failed. > I searched through several list and the web to find more infos. I found > some docs about GCC3.1 and its implemetation (wich isnt). > > Just to be

Re: Compiling kernel with patches

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 09:46:26 +0200 Christophe Courtois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you know a way to check if a patch was successfully applied ? There > seems to be nothing obvious... If you redirect the output of your make-kpkg command line to a file, you can examine the file. There will be

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Re: The nature of testing and where can others help (Was Re: HowTo for Gnome2??)

Hi. Your post was very very long; so I hope you won't mind that I've only got time to reply to parts of it, sorry. On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 14:06:37 -0600 Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ snip ] > > Unfortunatly for a Debian neophyte like myself your descriptions

the evergreen: mozilla 1.0 and gnome2

(please cc me since I am not subscribed to the -user list) Hi I've installed gnome2 from unstable and am running mozilla 1.0 from stable. To go straight, the mozilla ui (i.e. menu, bookmark bar, etc.) fonts are just ways too big! With gnome1.4 this hasn't been a problem since mozilla 1.0 seeme

Re: Radeon 9000 Pro and Framebuffer

On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 the mental interface of Jan Tammen told: > Bonjour. > > Trying to set up the framebuffer with my Radeon 9000 Pro on a 2.5.69 > Kernel (Debian sid). But it seems the framebuffer can not be > initialized, as the resolution does not change. [...] > > The (hopefully) most impo

Re: Repartitioned, now can't mount root

I used Redhat 9 for a short while, and I remember now they used the partition labels in the fstab file. Due to the nature of my choice of backup system, it got in the way and I had to edit fstab to set the actual /dev/xxx names so it wouldn't find the label on the modular bay disk on my laptop. S

Re: local mirror based on APT source.list format?

On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 02:04, Daniel B. wrote: > Allister McRae wrote: > > > > read into the dpkg and apt-get (maybe even apt-* files). There must be a > > way with those...you can do almost anything like you describe once you > > figure em out :) > > Last I knew, apt-get didn't have any mirroring

debian profile handout

I am going to give a short 15 Minute talk about Debian here in Zurich on Wednesday [1]. To make a good impression, I am planning to hand out a CD to each attendant (either the LT2003 one if they get here in time, or a copy) along with a short 1-2 page profile of the Debian organisation and operatin

gv ps.bz2 instead of ps.gz

is it possible to configure gv such that it supports bzip2-compressed postscript files in addition to gzip-compressed ones? TIA. wbr, Lukas -- Lukas Ruf | Wanna know anything about raw | | IP? | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

XDMCP + LBX

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Re: Update cd image for Woody?

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 07:54, Peter Karlsson wrote: > Kevin McKinley: > > CD #1 of Woody 3.0r1 is available here (among other places): > > ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian-iso/ > > I don't want to update to 3.0r1 cd images, I want an update cd > (3.0->current) to be used in *addition* to the current set.

Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM

Sebastian Kapfer wrote: On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 15:40:18 +0200, Kent West wrote: I use Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.org). As I wrote in my original email, Knoppix seems to fight with a chrooted lilo. Don't know why though... Sorry, I guess I missed that. That is a mystery. I used it just y

artsd (unstable) eating up CPU time?

Hi... I'm running KDE 3.1.2 from unstable and the artsd that's coming along. The problem is that when running noatun, artsd is eating 15 to 30% CPU time, depending on what type of file I'm playing (generally, high-quality OGG files use more that 128kbit MP3s) and skips badly whenever something

Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM

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A bit OT: conversion mp3 to wav

In my deb testing installation until recently I had been using a widely known procedure to convert mp3 files into wav to roast CDs. in a nutshell for i in *.mp3; do mpg123 -w `basename $i .mp3`.wav $i; done Now the same procedure is painfully complaining about an "illegal instruction" an

Re: woddy-proposed-updates vs. security

Hello Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Just a quickie - > > Is there any difference between woody-proposed-updates and > security.debian.org, for a stable machine? > > In other words, if I have stable and security in sources.list, am I > missing out on /anything/ that's been updated by not having > p

Dpkg seg faults.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was trying to upgrade libxml2 to the latest 2.5 version recently so I could install ardour. I created a dummy libxml2 package using equiv-control and equiv-build. The package installed ok, but ardour still failed and I discovered I also needed to re

Re: configuring start options of X

In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hi > > I remember beeing asked about where should be able to start X and its nice > level from debconf... I reconfigured many packs now i did't find the right > one... Can someone tell me the correct package? > > Is there in general a method to find out wich p

Re: compiling the kernel with GCC 3.3

Le Samedi 5 Juillet 2003 10:24, Marino Fernandez a déclamé : > Yes, that's what it seems. I had the same problem with 2.4.21... GCC > 2.95 and 3.2 work, but no 3.3. I compile with 2.95 ; is there a difference for a user with 3.2 ? -- Christophe Courtois - Ostwald, Alsace, France http://www.cou

woddy-proposed-updates vs. security

Just a quickie - Is there any difference between woody-proposed-updates and security.debian.org, for a stable machine? In other words, if I have stable and security in sources.list, am I missing out on /anything/ that's been updated by not having proposed-updates in there too? In other, other

Re: configuring start options of X

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 08:22:45PM +1200, Greek Geek wrote: > Hi Yall & Raffaele Sandrini, > >I remember beeing asked about where should be able to start X and its nice > >level from debconf... I reconfigured many packs now i did't find the right > >one... Can someone tell me the correct package?

Re: grep-dctrl

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:30:14AM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > I installed mysql-server on my server, and now I want to install lynx > and/or ntpclient. This gives an error: > > kain:/var/log/apache# apt-get install lynx > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The fo

Re: The nature of testing and where can others help (Was Re: HowTo for Gnome2??)

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 04:59:18PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:40:34PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > The components that have so far been upgraded were upgraded entirely > > automatically. The dependencies within the GNOME 2 packages are simply > > not strict enough

Does anybody know what happenedt o galeon ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, I have been using galeon for over a year now and saw how features were added (tabbed browsing, popup blocking, open link in new tab, blocking images originating from hosts) but about less than a month ago about all those features disappear

Re: compiling the kernel with GCC 3.3

On Saturday 05 July 2003 2:49 am, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi > > I tried to compile a 2.4.20 kernel with GCC 3.3 and failed. > I searched through several list and the web to find more infos. I found > some docs about GCC3.1 and its implemetation (wich isnt). > > Just to be sure: We still must us

Re: configuring start options of X

Hi Yall & Raffaele Sandrini, who wrote: Hi I remember beeing asked about where should be able to start X and its nice level from debconf... I reconfigured many packs now i did't find the right one... Can someone tell me the correct package? Is there in general a method to find out wich packa

configuring start options of X

Hi I remember beeing asked about where should be able to start X and its nice level from debconf... I reconfigured many packs now i did't find the right one... Can someone tell me the correct package? Is there in general a method to find out wich package configures what? cheers, Raffaele -- R

Re: Newbie to spamassassin- How to make it learn?

On 04 Jul 2003, Marino Fernandez wrote: > On Friday 04 July 2003 9:34 am, SRIKANTH NS wrote: > > Hi > > Disgusted with the amount of spam received, I installed > > Spamassassin2.54 and configured it, It works properly for the past one > > month. I use fetchmail to receive mail and invoke sylpheed t

compiling the kernel with GCC 3.3

Hi I tried to compile a 2.4.20 kernel with GCC 3.3 and failed. I searched through several list and the web to find more infos. I found some docs about GCC3.1 and its implemetation (wich isnt). Just to be sure: We still must use GCC 2.95 to compile the kernel, right? cheers, Raffaele -- Raffael

Re: Compiling kernel with patches

Le Vendredi 4 Juillet 2003 21:42, Kevin McKinley a déclamé : > > ...but it does not seem to work (still the pinguin at boot). > You seem to have a good command line. > Do you have a directory /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/debianlogo? How is > it owned? Does it contain the files "debian-logo-2.2.x.gz

Re: MIDI Converter

Bill Webster wrote: I have a need to convert several songs that are currently in the midi format and I need to ultimately put them onto a music CD. Can someone give me a clue as to how I can go about this? There are several debian packages which can output midi files as wav files. Wav files can