upgrading windoze partition

2004-04-14 Thread Roy Pluschke
Currently running a dual boot system win98 and sid (lilo is my boot manager). I have to update my little used windows partition to windows 2000 for a particular program but I am afraid this will cause problems with lilo by over-writing something. What's the best way of doing this safely and no

[Fwd: canon D300: it works!]

2004-04-14 Thread steef
Original Message Subject:canon D300: it works! Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 14:14:55 +0200 From: steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: zeta To: Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wellafter some work I can download files and get

[Fwd: Re: OpenOffice 1.1.1 (Testing) loses settings ...]

2004-04-14 Thread steef
Original Message Subject:Re: OpenOffice 1.1.1 (Testing) loses settings ... Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 23:20:53 +0200 From: steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: zeta To: Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PRO

Need Info About Debian Versions: [Was:: Some Info]

2004-04-14 Thread Kent West
Umar Draz wrote: hi dear members i am new in Debian. and use woody. and alos new in debian-user list. i have seen lot of mails and i see about unstalbe, sid, plz tell what is (unstable, sid) is it is SID a version of debian. and what is the mean of unstalbe , stable is it unstable is

Re: Some Info

2004-04-14 Thread dircha
Umar Draz wrote: i am new in Debian. and use woody. and alos new in debian-user list. > i have seen lot of mails and i see about unstalbe, sid, plz tell what is (unstable, sid) is it is SID a version of debian. and what is the mean of unstalbe , stable is it unstable is a version of debian

Some Info

2004-04-14 Thread Umar Draz
hi dear members     i am new in Debian. and use woody. and alos new in debian-user list. i have seen lot of mails and i see about unstalbe, sid,   plz tell what is (unstable, sid) is it is SID a version of debian.   and what is the mean of unstalbe ,  stable    is it unstable is a version of debian

RE: dpkg "Unknwon error 990"

2004-04-14 Thread Brancato, Mike
ls: /var/lib/dpkg/info/openmcu.list: Unknown error 990 cat: /var/lib/dpkg/info/openmcu.list: Unknown error 990 Looks like I might have filesystem issues. Xfs_check is showing a lot of non-verbose output including a bad inode. I'm going to try xfs_repair. Thanks for helping me stumble on that.

Re: Verry disapointing

2004-04-14 Thread Kent West
Bill wrote: I installed unstable a couple of months ago. I was verry impressed. About 2 weeks ago I used apt-get to update and upgrade, after I lost my lan and sound. Ok, it was unstable. I then attempted to download the sid package to reinstall. The disk I downloaded, wouldn't boot. I trie

Re: dpkg "Unknwon error 990"

2004-04-14 Thread Joey Hess
Brancato, Mike wrote: > Everytime I try touse dpkg or apt which calls dpkg, I get an error. Last > time I ran an update/upgrade on this box was about 3 weeks go. I'm running > unstable. > > Here is some things I've tried.. > > > dvr:~# dpkg -r openmcu > (Reading database ... dpkg: error proces

Re: How to do it

2004-04-14 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-04-15, Freak Zilla penned: > Hi there i downloaded some thing of the internet and it has come i tar > format, what do i have to do to be able to burn it on to dvdr? Due to > it being this format i cant burn it straight off. > > Thanks Cya On any unix-like system, there will be a tar comma

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2004-04-14 Thread Paul
> This certainly may have implications for computation intensive > applications. I don't think it would overly surprise anyone if it were > discovered that Sun's Linux JVM performs poorer than its Window's > counterpart. I'm sure such tests have already been performed in detail > elsewhere. >

dpkg "Unknwon error 990"

2004-04-14 Thread Brancato, Mike
Everytime I try touse dpkg or apt which calls dpkg, I get an error. Last time I ran an update/upgrade on this box was about 3 weeks go. I'm running unstable. Here is some things I've tried.. dvr:~# dpkg -r openmcu (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing openmcu (--remove): unable to open

Re: Verry disapointing

2004-04-14 Thread Paul
I'm using testing, and yesterday did an apt-get update then upgrade, and subsequently lost both sound, network, and boot options. I've fixed gdm and gotten the network back, and sound is working kind of - though not like before. Upgrading GDM caused the login problem for me, but I wish I knew wha

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2004-04-14 Thread Katipo
Andy Morris wrote: Just been browsing and came across this dicussion, and thought i might be able to give some input. I'm a software grad (well this summer) and use both linux(gentoo 2.6.xxx cant remember specifically) and xp pro sp1 as home os's (games, dev etc) and when building a fairly sma

Verry disapointing

2004-04-14 Thread Bill
I installed unstable a couple of months ago. I was verry impressed. About 2 weeks ago I used apt-get to update and upgrade, after I lost my lan and sound. Ok, it was unstable. I then attempted to download the sid package to reinstall. The disk I downloaded, wouldn't boot. I tried a different

Re: upgrade debian kernal

2004-04-14 Thread Kent West
Matt Kirchhoff wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 19:21:11 -0500, Kent West wrote: Chris Lowe wrote: I am running debian base 3.0r0 assuming you're running sid at least Since you're running Woody Well, duh! I was paying close attention, huh? Ignore me; I'm an idiot. -- Kent -- To UNSU

Re: upgrade debian kernal

2004-04-14 Thread Aurel
Bill Moseley wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 07:15:31PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: make menuconfig make-kpkg --revision=MyKernel.1 kernel_image make-kpkg --revision=MyKernel.1 kernel_image modules_image Assuming there's something in /usr/src/modules, right? Like pcmcia-cs? Or is pcmc

Setting up ADSL USB modem

2004-04-14 Thread jack kinnon
Thanks Pigeon. The mistake was to set the ext2 selection to . I have upgraded to 2.4.18. Am working on the ADSL modem.   Has anyone got the Prolink Hurricane 8000 modem working under Debian? I had downloaded some stuff from Linux.ie "Linux ZyXel 630-11 Modem Setup". The stuff is supposed to work to

Re: VFS: Cannot open root device

2004-04-14 Thread lebbatdot
I am having somewhat the same problem mentioned in this trail. The bin 2.6.3 deb works fine (etcept for alsa which is what started the whole thing) When I recompile I cannot get the root file system to come up. I copied over the /boot/config file, ran make config, checked that ext3 is compiles in,

Re: upgrade debian kernal

2004-04-14 Thread Bill Moseley
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 07:15:31PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > > make menuconfig > > make-kpkg --revision=MyKernel.1 kernel_image > > make-kpkg --revision=MyKernel.1 kernel_image modules_image Assuming there's something in /usr/src/modules, right? Like pcmcia-cs? Or is pcmcia-cs now in 2.6? --

Re: Error (info@electromedia-intl.com)

2004-04-14 Thread info
Thank you for contacting Electro MEDIA Int'l. Your email is very important to us! You will receive within 24H a response from the Regional Sales Office of your area. If you are inquiring about buying a small message display, we are sorry but we don't sell retail, so you may not receive an answer t

Terminal xterm and Bindings

2004-04-14 Thread Rieker Flaik
Hi, I'm trying to realize some adaptations to my Linuxbox, inter alia on xterm. To use it in the most efficient way, in my opinion, it would be great to bind/rebind some keyfunctions. But I failed to make it work - for example: bind Super_L+U to Scroll back I red the manpage, edited my ~/.Xresou

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.1 (Testing) loses settings ...

2004-04-14 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 23:20:53 +0200, steef wrote: > welli loaded up the dutch version of openoffice 1.1.0. last > spell-checker (dutch, 9/4/2004) does not work: Well, funny, I tried the same and was astonished that there is no myspell-nl !!?? There is gaelic and latvian; but no 'nl'. An

Kde 3 with woody

2004-04-14 Thread Tomy Alarie
I always hear about using kde 3 with unstable and experimental debian versions. Is it possible to install kde 3 with Woody ? Can someone tell me detailed steps ? Thanks tomy - e6e9fe46b17fa16d9a250d4189e8f0cd fingerprint Quadra 650 | Debian 3.0r2 | m68k __

Re: ALSA problems sarge 2.4.25 (trying 2.6.3 compile

2004-04-14 Thread Colin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I will try this, however this is the bin package, and I don't think it is loading alsa modules? As well, in alsaconfig what does the following do Configuring snd-ens1370. Do you want to mod /etc/modprobe.d/sound? I answered yes and I am stil

Cleanly applying 3rd party patches to a make-kpkg kernel build

2004-04-14 Thread Ryan Gustafson
Greetings! I've been doing regular sarge kernel builds (w/ debian kernel-source that already has debian patches applied) with 'make-kpkg', in which I need to apply some additional 3rd party patches. My goal is to be able to have instructions others can follow for creating a custom kernel which

How to do it

2004-04-14 Thread Freak Zilla
Hi there i downloaded some thing of the internet and it has come i tar format, what do i have to do to be able to burn it on to dvdr? Due to it being this format i cant burn it straight off. Thanks Cya _ You could be a genius! Find

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2004-04-14 Thread dircha
Mark Roach wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 00:13 +0100, Andy Morris wrote: ... i made a simple program to count from 0 to a parameter x number of times, test data was to count 0-9 100 times. XP box did it in 3mins 10 secs, linux 5 mins 4 secs ( i did this numerous times and results were alw

Re: upgrade debian kernal

2004-04-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Aurel: > Hi Kris, > > First if you recompile your kernel, you can choose a 2.6.5 (why a > 2.6.3?! weird). Anyway, it's the same. > As Kent say you can see available versions with apt-cache search > kernel-image. > > Then, do 'apt-get install kernel-package' to install some tools yo

Re: upgrade debian kernal

2004-04-14 Thread Matt Kirchhoff
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 19:21:11 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Chris Lowe wrote: > >> I am running debian base 3.0r0 and I need to upgrade to kernel 2.6.3. >> I would like to use menuconfig to build the kernel. I am new to >> debian and have never compiled my own kernel before. What tools will I >> n

Re: upgrade debian kernal

2004-04-14 Thread Aurel
Hi Kris, First if you recompile your kernel, you can choose a 2.6.5 (why a 2.6.3?! weird). Anyway, it's the same. As Kent say you can see available versions with apt-cache search kernel-image. Then, do 'apt-get install kernel-package' to install some tools you'll need to compile your new kernel u

Re: Graphics card

2004-04-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Charles Rodgers wrote: Can someone recommend a currently available 64Mb graphics card that they know to be reliably compatible with Kernal 2.4.18. ?? The Debian hardware compatibility list does not address the issue of Kernal version. Your answer will be gratefully appreciated. TIA - Charles The re

Re: upgrade debian kernal

2004-04-14 Thread Kent West
Chris Lowe wrote: I am running debian base 3.0r0 and I need to upgrade to kernel 2.6.3. I would like to use menuconfig to build the kernel. I am new to debian and have never compiled my own kernel before. What tools will I need to install/update before I can build the kernel? If you're just w

Re: testing PPP connection

2004-04-14 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Phil wrote: I've created a dial-in connection to my ISP, I pon and get BSD compression messages and the like, the modem lights all go on and seem to be functioning properly, the data transmit lights seem to send the the data necessary to logon but browsers don't work in KDE or Gnome. How can

upgrade debian kernal

2004-04-14 Thread Chris Lowe
I am running debian base 3.0r0 and I need to upgrade to kernel 2.6.3. I would like to use menuconfig to build the kernel.  I am new to debian and have never compiled my own kernel before. What tools will I need to install/update before I can build the kernel?   Thanks Chris Lowe  

Re: color names not defined?

2004-04-14 Thread Michael Salem
I fixed the problem and just wanted to let anybody out there having the same issue what I did... In my XFConfig-4 file I had defined the "RgbPath". Although this was the correct path, removing this line fixed the problem. A. Michael Salem wrote: Hi, I am having a problem with color names not b

Re: Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2004-04-14 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 00:13 +0100, Andy Morris wrote: > ... i made a simple program to count from 0 > to a parameter x number of times, test data was to count 0-9 100 > times. XP box did it in 3mins 10 secs, linux 5 mins 4 secs ( i did this > numerous times and results were always v sim

Re: testing PPP connection

2004-04-14 Thread Phil
At 01:21 PM 4/14/04 -0600, you wrote: Incoming from Phil: > I've created a dial-in connection to my ISP, I pon and get BSD compression > messages and the like, the modem lights all go on and seem to be > functioning properly, the data transmit lights seem to send the the data > necessary to log

Re: Anyone used Backports.org to upgrade a woody to 2.6?

2004-04-14 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 14:36 -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > Anyone have success using those packages to update a Woody box? Working great for my main mail/web server, and a postgres server at work. > Any notes? Did you add backports to source.list or download the .deb > and use dpkg -i for the mod

[MailServer Notification] To External Sender: file blocking setti ngs matched and action was taken.

2004-04-14 Thread System Attendant
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Re: Debian XFree86 "-nolisten tcp"

2004-04-14 Thread Xavier Andrade
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I run a cluster of machines w/ only one display; I need to run lots of > remote X apps. For performance, I think I need the X server listening > on a TCP port - but Debian makes a big deal about the security > implications. Have I any options besides

Re: Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2004-04-14 Thread Andy Morris
Just been browsing and came across this dicussion, and thought i might be able to give some input. I'm a software grad (well this summer) and use both linux(gentoo 2.6.xxx cant remember specifically) and xp pro sp1 as home os's (games, dev etc) and when building a fairly small application i fel

Re: nfsd not running?

2004-04-14 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-04-14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: > Hello, I am trying to bring up the nfs server. > > When I try to mount > > mount -t nfs 192.168.0.200:/home/folder /mnt > > the computure says. > > mount: RPC: Progam not registered > > I have /etc/hosts.allow > > ALL:192.168.0.0/255 > ALL:192.168.0.1

Re: apt-get upgrade == no eth0/sound for nforce2

2004-04-14 Thread Paul
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 13:59, paul wrote: > I've since found that before the apg-get upgrade my machine was loading > 23 modules, but now is just loading 19. One of those not being loaded > is hotplug, which I thought it was before. Could this one module be > responsible for loading the ethernet a

Re: Debian XFree86 "-nolisten tcp"

2004-04-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run a cluster of machines w/ only one display; I need to run lots of remote X apps. For performance, I think I need the X server listening on a TCP port - but Debian makes a big deal about the security implications. Have I any options besides A) using SSH, B) removing

Re: md5sum mismatch while upgrading mplayer-386

2004-04-14 Thread David
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 02:15:40PM -0400, H. S. wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to update my Debian Sarge machine and apt-get said > mplayer-386 was kept back. When I try to install it, it says there was a > md5mismatch: > Anybody else facing this problem? That md5sum mismatch worried, hence >

Re: Cron output logging

2004-04-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 05:36:20PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > I've been away, but just before I went I guessed a solution. In > /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.workstation there is a series of files with names > of programs containing not very informative contents. I guessed these > might be expressio

Re: Crontab last days of the month..

2004-04-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 01:35:13PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > if [ $(date -d tomorrow '+%m') -ne $(date '+%m') ] > then > echo 'today is the last day of the month' > fi [ $(date -d tomorrow '+%d') -eq 1 ] && echo 'last of the month' This can also be done directly in your crontab: [ $(dat

Re: kernel 2.6.4 thourh make-kpkg

2004-04-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Umar Draz wrote: hi dear members i have new in debian. but have a experience of FreeBSD, Redhat, Solaris. now 3 days ago i have recompile kernel 2.6.4 in debian through source. and its working fine. but now i want kernel recompile again 2.6.4 but with debian make-kpkg. plz help me step by step

udev: hotplug vs manual

2004-04-14 Thread Allan Wind
I just upgraded to 2.6.5 and have little trouble understanding when hotplug takes care of things and when you should be adding modules to /etc/modules yourself. For instance, parport and partport_pc were automatically loaded, but lp was not. 8250 (serial port) was not loaded, but I think serial_c

Re: Dynamically increase/reduce hardware raid partition?

2004-04-14 Thread Allan Wind
On 2004-04-14T22:24:00+1000, Michael Bellears wrote: > I also came across LVM (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html) > - Can anyone comment on the effectiveness/stability and if it would be > appropriate to my situation?..It certainly looks interesting. Installed LVM on my work-station y

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-14 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 18:22:06 -0400 (EDT) Thomas Pomber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, I think Monique is incorrect for once. > Unstable is less stable than testing. If by "less stable", you mean "less changing in its contents in time," then that's true. But if by "less stable", you mea

Re: testing PPP connection

2004-04-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Phil: > At 01:21 PM 4/14/04 -0600, you wrote: > >Incoming from Phil: > >> I've created a dial-in connection to my ISP, I pon and get BSD > >compression > >> messages and the like, the modem lights all go on and seem to be > >> functioning properly, the data transmit lights seem to

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-14 Thread Thomas Pomber
Actually, I think Monique is incorrect for once. Unstable is less stable than testing. But it's the only way to go, in my humble opinion. --- Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14 Apr 2004, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > > [snip] > > > My understanding of the 'testing' distribut

Re: Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2004-04-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 10:23:48PM +0100, Andy Morris wrote: > Now one thing I should have mentioned earlier is that the app was > written in Java (compiled using Sun's jdk1.4.2 (not gentoo's blackdown > since it's too buggy)) and we are therefore also testing the platform > implementation of the V

Re: libpam-runtime is broken in unstable.

2004-04-14 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Matt! On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 07:38:12PM +, Matt Kirchhoff wrote: > The `apt-listbugs` package is useful in this case too, as it will list current > bugs when running `apt-get upgrade`, for example. And while we are at it, apt-listchanges might prove convenient, too, as well as rc-aler

Re: libpam-runtime is broken in unstable.

2004-04-14 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Ralph! On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 11:33:54AM -0400, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > Thanks. I found it there, at: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=243512 There are other bugs having similar effects, so it might not be this particular one. BTW 0.76-19 installed just fine a few min

Re: Latest kernel security upgrade in woody is BROKEN! DO NOT INSTALL!

2004-04-14 Thread Pete Clarke
> kernel packages named kernel-image-2.4.18-1- with version 2.4.18-13 contain only > one module. That and it expects the modules at 2.4.18-1 instead of 2.4.18-1-686-smp! > hoping this warning is timely and not _too_ redundant, :-) Found out the hard way there is a 13.1 now tho' ... -- T

Re: Crontab last days of the month..

2004-04-14 Thread N. Thomas
* s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-14 09:58:38 -0600]: > Another way is to run it every day, but have the script figure out if > it's the last day of the month, and exit if not. Or even better: run it on the 28th-31st day of each calendar month and then have the script figure out if it's th

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-14 Thread Brad Sims
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 4:29 am, Will Trillich wrote: > here i brainstorm to conjure up some naming scheme possibilities > (referring to current status as of 13 apr 2004): > > sid -- alternatives to "UNSTABLE": > - "UNKNOWN" > - "DANGEROUS" > - "CAVORT

Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2004-04-14 Thread Kent West
Andy Morris wrote: So XP and Gentoo Linux on the same box, and xp still beats it hands down (it only improved by around 30 secs), which really dissapointed me. It makes me want to use my xp box for more stuff than previously, which i had been trying not since i like using kde over the Windows

Latest kernel security upgrade in woody is BROKEN! DO NOT INSTALL!

2004-04-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Dear all, It seems that at least on ix86, the latest woody security updates for the kernel packages are completely broken. The kernel packages named kernel-image-2.4.18-1- with version 2.4.18-13 contain only one module. DO NOT upgrade to these packages or your system will be broken when you r

Anyone used Backports.org to upgrade a woody to 2.6?

2004-04-14 Thread Bill Moseley
I see that there's both module-init-tools and a kernel-image-2.6.5 (kernel-image-2.6.5-1-k7_2.6.5-0.backports.org.1_i386.deb) available. Anyone have success using those packages to update a Woody box? One is an Athlon XP 1800+, which I assume is should use the k7 kernel. I also have a P4 and a

Re: reportbug locale complaints

2004-04-14 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:09:29 -0700 Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Recently, I've been getting warnings about my locale when I start > reportbug: > *** Warning: unsupported locale setting > [the preceding appears at the very top. Somewhat later I see..] > *** The following debconf setti

Re: Re: Linux/Windows Universal Benchmark

2004-04-14 Thread Andy Morris
Just been browsing and came across this dicussion, and thought i might be able to give some input.   I'm a software grad (well this summer) and use both linux(gentoo 2.6.xxx cant remember specifically) and xp pro sp1 as home os's (games, dev etc) and when building a fairly small application i

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.1 (Testing) loses settings ...

2004-04-14 Thread steef
Uwe Dippel wrote: FYI. Did the usual update / upgrade. When starting, the 'reading script' dialog came up and I smelled trouble. I could still select 'upgrade from 1.0.3' or 'new' and clicked 'upgrade ...'. But, alas, everything gone and I had to enter name, etc. blabla once again. There is no ex

Re: reportbug locale complaints

2004-04-14 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 01:09:29PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Recently, I've been getting warnings about my locale when I start > reportbug: > *** Warning: unsupported locale setting > [the preceding appears at the very top. Somewhat later I see..] > *** The following debconf settings were detect

Re: apt-get upgrade == no eth0/sound for nforce2

2004-04-14 Thread paul
I've since found that before the apg-get upgrade my machine was loading 23 modules, but now is just loading 19. One of those not being loaded is hotplug, which I thought it was before. Could this one module be responsible for loading the ethernet and sound? modconf shows four drivers for hotplug

Re: Network gone, just like that

2004-04-14 Thread Joost De Cock
Quoting dircha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Joost De Cock wrote: > > When booting the computer I get an error from dhclient (eth0: no such > device) > > and if I try to manually configure it, it gives me the same. > > I tried with knoppix, eth0 isn't there either, but I can configure it > manually. > >

Re: need RAID driver for install, but no floppy drive

2004-04-14 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 13:20, you wrote: > On 04/13/2004 06:36 PM, Justin Guerin wrote: > >On Tuesday 13 April 2004 14:32, Matt Morgan wrote: > >>I'm trying to install Debian (3.0 r2) on a Penguin Computing Relion > >> 140. It has an LSI MegaRAID disk controller; the driver is not present > >>

nfsd not running?

2004-04-14 Thread ingirafn
Hello, I am trying to bring up the nfs server. When I try to mount mount -t nfs 192.168.0.200:/home/folder /mnt the computure says. mount: RPC: Progam not registered I have /etc/hosts.allow ALL:192.168.0.0/255 ALL:192.168.0.198 /etc/hosts.deny is unconfigured. Nothing written. I have

reportbug locale complaints

2004-04-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Recently, I've been getting warnings about my locale when I start reportbug: *** Warning: unsupported locale setting [the preceding appears at the very top. Somewhat later I see..] *** The following debconf settings were detected: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check t

Debian XFree86 "-nolisten tcp"

2004-04-14 Thread ms419
I run a cluster of machines w/ only one display; I need to run lots of remote X apps. For performance, I think I need the X server listening on a TCP port - but Debian makes a big deal about the security implications. Have I any options besides A) using SSH, B) removing the "-nolisten tcp" opti

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 03:18 pm, mike wrote: >I think the names are just fine. >The code names are great and the debian Names (Stable, Testing, Unstable) > are as they should be. If they are changed, I think we would have more > questions asking about the naming scheme. > >Mike I agree with so

Re: libpam-runtime is broken in unstable.

2004-04-14 Thread Matt Kirchhoff
Florian Ernst uni-hd.de> writes: > Whe using unstable one should be able to check the Bug Tracking > System, there are several reports dealing with this issue... > > Cheers, > Flo > The `apt-listbugs` package is useful in this case too, as it will list current bugs when running `apt-get upgra

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 11:13:41AM -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:19:39 +0300 > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>sarge -- alternatives to "TESTING": > > > > - desktop > > - user > > - mostly stable > > - freezing > In that case it should

Re: Cannot boot from harddrive

2004-04-14 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 13:09:27 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allan Wind) wrote: > > I changed the subject to be consistent with the problem you are seeing. Yeah. I didn't do that because I was sorta planning on doing this in another thread in a few days, and I didn't wanna usurp Martin's thread. >On 2

script to search completed auctions on ebay

2004-04-14 Thread Antonis
Does anyone know how to create a script that will search completed auctions on ebay and put the results in a text file? I know how to do this for current auctions but not for completed auctions. Thanks, Antonis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: testing PPP connection

2004-04-14 Thread Phil
At 01:21 PM 4/14/04 -0600, you wrote: Incoming from Phil: > I've created a dial-in connection to my ISP, I pon and get BSD compression > messages and the like, the modem lights all go on and seem to be > functioning properly, the data transmit lights seem to send the the data > necessary to log

Graphics card

2004-04-14 Thread Charles Rodgers
Can someone recommend a currently available 64Mb graphics card that they know to be reliably compatible with Kernal 2.4.18. ?? The Debian hardware compatibility list does not address the issue of Kernal version. Your answer will be gratefully appreciated. TIA - Charles

Re: testing PPP connection

2004-04-14 Thread strawks
Hi, you can check the status of your ppp connexion with pppstatus. You can also try to ping some hosts like google : $ ping google.com strawks. On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 21:14, Phil wrote: > I've created a dial-in connection to my ISP, I pon and get BSD compression > messages and the like, the mo

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-14 Thread mike
> > it's important to note that the present branding scheme > (unstable / testing / stable) is certainly ACCURATE from the > point-of-view of the programmers and script-writers -- but for > the public-at-large, those terms seem MYSTERIOUS and engender > frequent explanations and lectures on this

Re: testing PPP connection

2004-04-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Phil: > I've created a dial-in connection to my ISP, I pon and get BSD compression > messages and the like, the modem lights all go on and seem to be > functioning properly, the data transmit lights seem to send the the data > necessary to logon but browsers don't work in KDE or

Re: Network gone, just like that

2004-04-14 Thread dircha
Joost De Cock wrote: When booting the computer I get an error from dhclient (eth0: no such device) and if I try to manually configure it, it gives me the same. I tried with knoppix, eth0 isn't there either, but I can configure it manually. When I do so, I can ping the IP address I gave it but nothi

Re: [not yet :-( fixed] Re: hangs on Nforce2 & kernel 2.6.4

2004-04-14 Thread Kai Weber
* Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1203 > > > > Some other workaround (and patches) are suggested. > Let's hope they are able to fix it. I would love to be able to use my > NForce2 at full speed, it is a very good chipset! As far as I kno

qmail - SMTP AUTH

2004-04-14 Thread Daniel Guido
I downloaded the qmail-src package from unstable and want to know how to get SMTP AUTH and TLS to work. The patches available on the internet don't patch cleanly to the debian provided source. After a little investigation I found 3 files in the /patches/ldap-patches/ directory that are named:

testing PPP connection

2004-04-14 Thread Phil
I've created a dial-in connection to my ISP, I pon and get BSD compression messages and the like, the modem lights all go on and seem to be functioning properly, the data transmit lights seem to send the the data necessary to logon but browsers don't work in KDE or Gnome. How can I test this

Re: [SID] Base Xsession file lost? And gdm error messages - Solved

2004-04-14 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
Hi, No more problem by now. Apparently, I got rid of *all* the symptoms I had with gdm by doing this:    apt-get --purge remove gdm         (it said it didn't remove /etc/dm/)    rm -rf /etc/dm/  (so that everything is removed)    apt-get install gdm And now it works fin

Re: udev: how to do it right?

2004-04-14 Thread John L Fjellstad
Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John, could you provide pointers to the documentation? I wan to > understand all this before asking more questions. I would like to know > how to identify my memstick in /sys for example. Check the udev man pages. I really haven't seen any other doc

Re: gdm - Please, send me a default Xsession (Newbie in trouble) - Solved

2004-04-14 Thread Sylvain Vedrenne
Hi, Finally I solved *all* the problems I had with gdm with: apt-get --purge remove gdm (it said it didn't remove /etc/dm/) rm -rf /etc/dm/ (so that everything is removed) apt-get install gdm And now it works fine! Cheers, Sylvain. On Wednesday 14 April 2004 19:21, you wrote:

md5sum mismatch while upgrading mplayer-386

2004-04-14 Thread H. S.
Hi, I was trying to update my Debian Sarge machine and apt-get said mplayer-386 was kept back. When I try to install it, it says there was a md5mismatch: ~# apt-get -m install mplayer-386 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Suggested packages: mplayer-doc The follow

Re: kernel 2.6.4 thourh make-kpkg

2004-04-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from CW Harris: > > "make-kpkg" is in the "kernel-package" package. > ("apt-get kernel-package" to install). > > After installing it, read /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz, it > contains very detailed steps on how to use it. At its simplest it can > be: > > make-kpkg cle

Re: off

2004-04-14 Thread Sebastiaan
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, cookie lady wrote: > TAKE ME OFF YOUR MAILING LIST > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: unsubscribe see also the information attached to every message Greetz, -- English written by Dutch people is easily recognized by the improper use of 'In principle ...' The software box sai

Re: Network gone, just like that

2004-04-14 Thread paul
> Hello all, > > I have a weird issue. When booting my computer I no longer have my > eth0 > interface. The local interface is there, and it's working (I can ping > the > loopback address) but eth0 is nowhere to be seen. (it was there > yesterday) > > When booting the computer I get an error from

Re: gdm - Please, send me a default Xsession (Newbie in trouble)

2004-04-14 Thread Aurel
Hi, try a dpkg-reconfigure gdm then take a look at the /etc/dm/Sessions directory. you'll find a file default.desktop. Add one file per desktop/WM you want to be launched using gdm. Each file has to be in this form: [Desktop Entry] Name=Gnome / KDE / WMaker Comment=Gnome / kde /Wmaker Exec=/usr

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-14 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 10:32:40AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > Daily Builds are expected to fail. IDW Builds are about the equivalent > of Debian's Experimental. IDS Builds are about the equivalent of > Debian's Unstable: they are shipped to ISVs, most people are expected to > run them, th

Re: Crontab last days of the month..

2004-04-14 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 09:58:38AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Wayne Topa: > > Rus Foster([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > Hi All, > > > Couldn't find a decent answer to this in google but goes as follows > > > > > > If I have a cron job that is scheduled for the 31s

Re: Network gone, just like that

2004-04-14 Thread Paul W.
> Hello all, > > I have a weird issue. When booting my computer I no longer have my > eth0 > interface. The local interface is there, and it's working (I can ping > the > loopback address) but eth0 is nowhere to be seen. (it was there > yesterday) > > When booting the computer I get an error from d

sysvconfig -- A text menu based utility for configuring init script links

2004-04-14 Thread John Hasler
I've uploaded sysvconfig 0.6 to Experimental: Package: sysvconfig Architecture: all Depends: dialog Description: A text menu based utility for configuring init script links It provides extensive explanations at each step. Some features supported by sysvconfig are: - Enable or disable services

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-14 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 01:14:45PM +0200, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > In computer-world unstable means: is known to crash too often, or > something similar. It sounds like it is flaky, buggy crap :). I worked at Microsoft for 3 years. They build NT Daily. They have: * Daily Builds * IDW B

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