Re: Mozilla 1.6-5 not printing anything

2004-04-16 Thread J.S.Sahambi
steef wrote: J.S.Sahambi wrote: I am using Debian/unstable. Recently after an upgrade, mozilla has stopped printing. When I print a page from mozilla, it sends a ps file to printer and nothing gets printed. My printer is HP2300TN and I am using cups for printing. The output of dpkg -l|grep cups

Nero

2004-04-16 Thread Jac van Oosterom
My system is windows 2000 and my Liteon cd burner will only operate with the Nero installation disk that came with the unit. I prefer to use Roxio.Is this possible and how can I do that?     It's good to be able to contact you this way.[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dhcp

2004-04-16 Thread Paul Johnson
Mustafa Taha Al-Shawaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a cable modem and router. At the moment, my debian box uses > dhcp and asks the router for an ip everytime my machine boots up. > Also, everyday my router gives my debian box a new ip. Contact whoever made that POS and find out how to m

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

2004-04-16 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know where can I find logs for the various init level? They should be in /var/log. For example, in my /etc/rc2.d, I have the script "S99kdm", which is a symlink to /etc/init.d/kdm. So I look in /var/log, and sure enough there's a "kdm.log" file. However, not a

Re: Antivirus (with exim+courier-imap+fetchmail)

2004-04-16 Thread Paul Johnson
David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you taken a look at ClamAV (its free, since you're on a small > budget)? I used it at my previous place of employment, and It worked > very well. If you are using exim4, its trivial to integrate virus > scanning into your ACL config (requires exim4-d

Re: upgrade debian kernal

2004-04-16 Thread Kent West
S.D.A. wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 07:21:11PM -0500 or thereabouts, 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 b

Re: INIT: ID "2" respawning too fast: Disabled for 5 minutes

2004-04-16 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I had this problem for months and posted and nobody appeared to have the solution. A friend of mine did a google search and found something from a 2001 debian-user post; I can not say for sure that this will work. I solved my problem by changing to mingetty as I had other reasons for wanting to do

INIT: ID "2" respawning too fast: Disabled for 5 minutes

2004-04-16 Thread Bruce Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Every few weeks, I have difficulties after closing a console login session. The error message is: INIT: ID "2" respawning too fast: Disabled for 5 minutes While the session is being respawned too fast, I obviously do not have access to it. On previ

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Problem gone (Re: aptitude/apt: "could not lock the cache file")

2004-04-16 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
Well, I never did figure out the problem, and a reboot didn't help, but updating the package list in aptitude seemed to "fix" it. Whatever. On 2004-04-12, Monique Y. Mudama penned: > Argh! Not sure what's going on here. > > I fire up aptitude, hit 'g' to look at what's about to be > installed/r

Re: Sarge system now refusing all login attempts

2004-04-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 07:54:24PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > what about strace-ing something that tries to authentificate? Good idea, and this is really, really weird. Something's screwed up in the library path. It's looking for all libraries (including libpam) in the /home/myaccount/qtopia

Re: upgrade debian kernal

2004-04-16 Thread Adam Aube
Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 10:16:58AM +1000, Chris Lowe wrote: >> I am running debian base 3.0r0 and I need to upgrade to kernel 2.6.3. > there are pre-compiled version of 2.6. Not in 3.0 (Woody) there aren't. There are backports available, but they are not in the standard packa

Re: Sarge system now refusing all login attempts

2004-04-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Carl Fink wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 05:56:52PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: look at the logs, there is probably something about something there :-) try ls -lrt to see which logs were changed last (right after you do sudo or something that doesn't work) Sure, as soon as I can get a root she

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

2004-04-16 Thread users
Do you know where can I find logs for the various init level? Thanks :) > Kent Westwrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are scrolling > off the screen too fast. I saw some lines mentioning about some > modules not found. One of them is micro

postnuke in debian?

2004-04-16 Thread Toshiro
Anybody knows why postnuke is not included in Debian? Any problem with the license? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: upgrade debian kernal

2004-04-16 Thread S.D.A.
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 07:21:11PM -0500 or thereabouts, 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. Wha

Re: wlan-ng and pcmcia-cs with 2.6 kernels?

2004-04-16 Thread John L Fjellstad
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a prism2 based wireless card, and I'm not clear what needs to be > done to support this when moving to 2.6 on a laptop running sid. > > Instructions for building the wlan-ng module is at: > > ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/README > >

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

2004-04-16 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are scrolling off the screen too fast. I saw some lines mentioning about some modules not found. One of them is microcode module (couldn't catch the rest). However, when I do a dmesg | grep -i microcode, it is not fou

Re: Sarge system now refusing all login attempts

2004-04-16 Thread Kent West
Carl Fink wrote: I apt-get updated the system this morning. I now find that I can't do anything that requires login authentication. I noticed it when a sudo attempt just hung forever. Checking discovered that I can't sign on as either root or a user, at any prompt including VT's (which would ru

Re: upgrade debian kernal

2004-04-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 10:16:58AM +1000, 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 be

Re: Unresolved symbols error when installing kernel image

2004-04-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:13:08AM -0700, Matthew Richardson wrote: > Hello, > > I installed with a minimal iso (woody_xfs_netinst.iso) from > http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~george/debian-xfs/. I then tried to isntall the > 2.4.21-2 kernel image from the same site. The install went fine, but w

Re: help setting up a home network

2004-04-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 12:23:30PM -0400, abdoulaye kebe wrote: > Hello everybody, I' am trying to set up a home network . I have a pc running 2000 > pro and a new one running XP. I have a linksys router and a high speed connection, > but I cannot transfer files from pc to pc. > N.B I have create

Re: HP Glance 4.00

2004-04-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 01:16:10PM -0300, Philip Pinkerton wrote: > I need to install Glance on several Linux systems we use Debian on all > our systems. After update & upgrade to 2.4.25-1-686 (sid) I tried to > install HP Glance 4.00. It install ok but won't run. > > glance: error while loading s

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-16 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Benedict Verheyen: > > If the user wants/needs newer software than stable provides, > > the Debian system can accomodate that through the installation of > > backports or even /usr/local. > > That's something i personally don't understand. I'm not sure if i get this > right but isn't

Hosting virtual mail domains on Debian.

2004-04-16 Thread David Anselmi
I'd really like to be able to host virtual mail domains on a Sarge server. I'd like not to have to give users accounts on the server and to avoid passing cleartext passwords over the network for authentication (with pop3 or imap). I'd also like to use exim as the MTA. Cyrus and Courier look

print kernel tree from make xconfig?

2004-04-16 Thread Matt Price
anyone know whetheri t's possible to print out the lovely display of the kernel module tree from "make xconfig"? I would like to have an annotated copy (what modules are required on which machines for what purposes, etc...). If there's another similar pretty picture somewhere that is of course

Re: naming usb devices?

2004-04-16 Thread Matt Price
thanks colin, that seems to be it! will play with it a bit. thanks for the quick reply. m On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 02:30:56AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:24:06PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > feel like I saw this somewhere a while ago, but a quick search didn't > > turn

won't shut down: "acpi_power_off called"

2004-04-16 Thread Mike Chandler
Debian testing, kernel-2.6.3-1-686-smp, pentium 4, @3.0Ghz-- When I go to turn off the machine, it goes through all the screen messages as usual, but won't turn off. (Need to hold in power switch for 5 seconds to turn off.) The last two lines of messages are here: Power down. acpi_power_off call

Re: naming usb devices?

2004-04-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:24:06PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > feel like I saw this somewhere a while ago, but a quick search didn't > turn up what I wanted. Is there a way to assign a permanent name to a > usb device like a pen drive,' so that (say) if I plug in two different > pen drives at the s

Re: Sarge system now refusing all login attempts

2004-04-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 05:56:52PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > look at the logs, there is probably something about something there > :-) try ls -lrt to see which logs were changed last (right after you do > sudo or something that doesn't work) Sure, as soon as I can get a root shell. I don't

naming usb devices?

2004-04-16 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, feel like I saw this somewhere a while ago, but a quick search didn't turn up what I wanted. Is there a way to assign a permanent name to a usb device like a pen drive,' so that (say) if I plug in two different pen drives at the same time, each one gets assigned to an appropriate name,

Re: Sarge system now refusing all login attempts

2004-04-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Carl Fink wrote: I apt-get updated the system this morning. I now find that I can't do anything that requires login authentication. I noticed it when a sudo attempt just hung forever. Checking discovered that I can't sign on as either root or a user, at any prompt including VT's (which would rul

Re: dhcp

2004-04-16 Thread Tom Simnett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 17 April 2004 01:45, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > On 04-04-17 01:41 +0100, Tom Simnett wrote: > > On Saturday 17 April 2004 01:23, Kent West wrote: > > > Rather than doing this from the client side, you'd probably find it > > > easier to do

Re: Gdm X and nvidia

2004-04-16 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Basically I want to install X on my toshiba > laptop. However I believe I get everything working fine but I just get the > NVidia logo > and then gdm crashes and goes back to NVidia again. Paul, try the troubleshooting tips at http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/troubleshooting.html.

Re: Sympatico user from canada

2004-04-16 Thread Colin
Aurel wrote: I lived in Canada last year and used sympatico too. I used rp-pppoe and it worked just fine. I suppose you can read french (you're in Quebec, no?) so go to: http://linux.gegeweb.net/adsl-pppoe_7.html The pppoe package *is* the rp-pppoe program. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-16 Thread users
Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are scrolling off the screen too fast. I saw some lines mentioning about some modules not found. One of them is microcode module (couldn't catch the rest). However, when I do a dmesg | grep -i microcode, it is not found. Does dmesg holds the

Re: dhcp

2004-04-16 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
On 04-04-17 01:41 +0100, Tom Simnett wrote: > On Saturday 17 April 2004 01:23, Kent West wrote: > > Rather than doing this from the client side, you'd probably find it > > easier to do from the router side. You should be able to get into your > > router settings (probably via a web browser) and spe

Re: XMMS quit working.

2004-04-16 Thread Mike Chandler
On Friday 16 April 2004 05:25 pm, you wrote: > Hello again, > All of a sudden XMMS will not run anymore, here is the error, which means > absolutely nothing to me. > If you can understand this, please tell me what I need to do. > Thanks! > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xmms > libmikmod.so.2: cannot open s

Re: dhcp

2004-04-16 Thread Tom Simnett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 17 April 2004 01:23, Kent West wrote: > Mustafa Taha Al-Shawaf wrote: > >Hi group, > > > >I have a cable modem and router. At the moment, my debian box uses dhcp > > and asks the router for an ip everytime my machine boots up. Also, > > e

Sarge system now refusing all login attempts

2004-04-16 Thread Carl Fink
I apt-get updated the system this morning. I now find that I can't do anything that requires login authentication. I noticed it when a sudo attempt just hung forever. Checking discovered that I can't sign on as either root or a user, at any prompt including VT's (which would rule out an X proble

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-16 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> If the user wants/needs newer software than stable provides, > the Debian system can accomodate that through the installation of > backports or even /usr/local. That's something i personally don't understand. I'm not sure if i get this right but isn't the point of running stable on servers that

XMMS quit working.

2004-04-16 Thread Mike Chandler
Hello again, All of a sudden XMMS will not run anymore, here is the error, which means absolutely nothing to me. If you can understand this, please tell me what I need to do. Thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xmms libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Inconsistency

Re: dhcp

2004-04-16 Thread Kent West
Mustafa Taha Al-Shawaf wrote: Hi group, I have a cable modem and router. At the moment, my debian box uses dhcp and asks the router for an ip everytime my machine boots up. Also, everyday my router gives my debian box a new ip. The thing is I want to use port forwarding to my comp so I can

Re: Antivirus (with exim+courier-imap+fetchmail)

2004-04-16 Thread Thomas Halahan
Seems like there are a few options 1) clamva which is gpl'd but maybe fails www.testvirus.org 2) use "exim heavy deamon" (whatever that is) which seems to nuke a lot of attachments. 3) buy a commercial AV where amarvis or mailscanner is your friend (which seem to do the same thing (amarvis wi

dhcp

2004-04-16 Thread Mustafa Taha Al-Shawaf
Hi group, I have a cable modem and router. At the moment, my debian box uses dhcp and asks the router for an ip everytime my machine boots up. Also, everyday my router gives my debian box a new ip. The thing is I want to use port forwarding to my comp so I can ssh in. I want to have my comp

festival 1.4.3 is not working on debian testing

2004-04-16 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi all I have always received wonderful advice from this group which successfully solved my previous problems. Thanks you all. I installed festival 1.4.3, a speech synthesis system couple of days back. It is not working properly. This is what I did. $echo 'Hello world' > temp $festival --tts

Re: Mail server for small business

2004-04-16 Thread David Clymer
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 16:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I maintain a lot of small businesses that are not large enough to have > their own mail server hosted internally. I would like to have a mail > server that runs internally and fetches the mail from the providers and > then host it locally.

Re: digital camera question

2004-04-16 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 15 April 2004 6:18 pm, Mike Chandler wrote: > I wonder if I have to add stuff to fstab,-- I can access the camera as 'root' > now, but not as a user. That screams permissions problem check the ownership of the devices and act accordingly -- Congratulations, you have just reinvented

Re: samba mounting and nautilus

2004-04-16 Thread David Clymer
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 14:12, Matthew Kay wrote: > > do you have the smbfs package installed? > > No! Have installed it and now mounting works fine with > ## mount -t smbfs -o username=foo,password=bar //MATT/public /mnt/laptop > > Thanks very much! > > Re nautilus - even with gnome-vfs-extras

Re: Antivirus (with exim+courier-imap+fetchmail)

2004-04-16 Thread David Clymer
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 16:54, Thomas Halahan wrote: > Hello, > > I just set up a small mail server with exim+fetchmail+courier-imap. In doing > so, however, I seemed to have opened up a virus threat which was previously > handled at the workstation where mail was downloaded straight from a pop3

Re: Mail server for small business

2004-04-16 Thread Adam Aube
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I maintain a lot of small businesses that are not large enough to have > their own mail server hosted internally. I would like to have a mail > server that runs internally and fetches the mail from the providers and > then host it locally. Look into getmail or fetchmai

Re: Unresolved symbols error when installing kernel image

2004-04-16 Thread Adam Aube
Matthew Richardson wrote: > I installed with a minimal iso (woody_xfs_netinst.iso) from > http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~george/debian-xfs/. I then tried to > isntall the 2.4.21-2 kernel image from the same site. The install went > fine, but when trying to install the new kernel image I received

Re: Why so complex?

2004-04-16 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 18:27 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a digital camera. I resolved the problem has follows: > 1° - Compile the kernel with the SCSI emulation, USB support and USB > mass storage support > 2° Load all modules (edit /etc/modules to load them at boot time) > 3° mount /d

Re: iptables

2004-04-16 Thread David Clymer
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 23:47, Umar Draz wrote: > hi dears members! > > i am new to debian! but have experience of redhat and freebsd, > solaris > > now in redhat when i use iptables in redhat a file create in > /etc/sysconfig/iptables where all rules save > > now my question in debian whe

Re: woody -> sarge dist-upgrade woes

2004-04-16 Thread dircha
Jerry Spicklemire wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies: e2fsprogs: PreDepends: libblkid1 (>= 1.34-1) but it is not installable PreDepends: libss2 (>= 1.34-1) but it is not installable PreDepends: libuuid1 (>= 1.34-1) but it is not installable coreutils

Apt sources (devel)

2004-04-16 Thread Steve Reiger
I am trying to install request-tracker3, but it is only on th devel servers. How can I add a devel server to my apt sources, and will it also try to install (for example) the devel version of apache, which might break my system Thanx Any pointers would be appreciated -- Your Source For Promot

Re: My system display UTC time....how to correct?

2004-04-16 Thread Lorenzo Rossi
I have found in /etc/default/ the file "rcS" In this file there are the lines: --- # Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT), and UTC=no if not. UTC=yes

Mail server for small business

2004-04-16 Thread David . Grudek
I maintain a lot of small businesses that are not large enough to have their own mail server hosted internally. I would like to have a mail server that runs internally and fetches the mail from the providers and then host it locally. The provider does not support IMAP and the users space is o

Re: Mail Server Design - ez

2004-04-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On 16 Apr 2004, Mariano Wahlmann wrote: > I need some help, on designing a mail server solution (structure), my > request are: > > -Users 4000+ aprox. with a growth rate of 20/users by month. > -Each user has 15Mb of inbox. > -Accesible by POP3 / IMAP (Only for Webmail who resides in other serv

[Fwd: Mouse problem.]

2004-04-16 Thread Jansen Carlo Sena
Dear friends, another tip about my problem: when I run "cat /proc/interrupts" I can't see my mouse. But, if I boot my system using Knoppix, for example, my mouse works fine. Jansen. --- Begin Message --- Hi all, I very strange thing happened with me. I was using my system normally and when I r

Re: flash sound in galeon behind picture

2004-04-16 Thread Kent West
Nori Heikkinen wrote: at the request of my roommate, who's been desperately missing her weekly dose of strong bad's email, i red(nstalled flash for galeon on my computer. in so doing, i noticed a problem i'd had before -- the sound in any flash movie gets progressively more and more behind the pi

Re: woody -> sarge dist-upgrade woes

2004-04-16 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Jerry Spicklemire: > > Is there any way to back up in time to > a state where sarge is complete, and > therefore upgradable, even if it is > in a less than ideal state? I can always I'd suggest you backup /etc and $HOME and re-install, using woody/stable sources.list. Then if y

Mouse problem.

2004-04-16 Thread Jansen Carlo Sena
Hi all, I very strange thing happened with me. I was using my system normally and when I reboot my mouse stops. Now, I'm unable to use it because de pointer doesn't move anymore. When I run mdetect my mouse is detected but it doesn't work either. Can anyone help, please? Jansen. signature.a

Your mail was found to contain a virus and could not be deliverd

2004-04-16 Thread InKolM02/TCS . TCS
Please be informed that the mail sent by you with the subject "Re: Your text" could not be delivered as it contained the following Virus: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please inform the addressee and contact your System Administrator. The scanned document was QUARANTINED. Virus Information: The attachment

dri, permissions and creation

2004-04-16 Thread John L Fjellstad
Does anyone know when and how /dev/dri/card0 is created? And where the permissions are set? I tried searching on google, but couldn't find anything. The problem is that the dri/card0 is created with permissions root.root 0660, which means I can't access it as a normal user. Which creates prob

Database of Textile Industry

2004-04-16 Thread Textile Information
Database of 28,000 Worldwide Textile, Garment Industry with category wise Directory of Textile Mills, Dyers, Finishers, fibers, spinners, weavers, knitters, producers of nonwovens, Exporters,Garment, Supplier, Printing and Dyeing, Wool, Apparel, Yarn, Importers, Carpet, Textile, Fiber, Agent, C

woody -> sarge dist-upgrade woes

2004-04-16 Thread Jerry Spicklemire
Greetings Debian Gurus, Well, I've learned a lot this week about how Debian works in the real world. Up to now I've just been having a blissful run of beginner's luck, it seems. The past five days have seen me chasing down supposed hardware incompatibilities, sifting through partial, though

My system display UTC time....how to correct?

2004-04-16 Thread Lorenzo Rossi
Hi, I have a problem with the time on my computer. It displays the UTC time, but I have setup the right time zone. The file "localtime", in /etc is a link to the correct time zone: localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Rome If I verify the time with the command: /sbin/hwclock Fri Apr 16 22:

Re: Gnome-terminal and Meta keys

2004-04-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-04-16 11:09:30 -0700, Jan Medlock wrote: > I have seperate Alt and Meta keys, which work correctly in X. I am > having trouble using Meta with gnome-terminal in unstable. The > resource 'XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true' causes xterm to do the right > thing when sending Meta keys. How can I g

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-16 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:18:58 -0600 "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If that's the most important thing, the very next most important thing > is that the descriptions make clear to non-developer users that testing > and unstable are not intended for them. I see no such advisory

Re: Module /usr/src/modules/bcm4400 failed (ahh no network)

2004-04-16 Thread wex
Hey thanks for the replies, I was rather frustrated last night whne i wrote this. I guess the real thing to do is to get more involved in the debian process, i just haven't done much coding of this type. Some more responses included... > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 10:08:49PM -0700, wex wrote: >> Ac

Re: Before going with debian questions.

2004-04-16 Thread Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 18:26, Robin Lynn Frank wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > We've been using Mandrake Linux for a number of years and have come accross > problems with the way its library packages are set up. (We encounter > problems compiling certain software bec

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-16 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-04-16, Chris Metzler penned: [snip] > > But this assumption is wrong. The purpose of the existence of testing > and unstable is *not* to give users choices. It may also be true that > their existence gives users choices; but that's not what they're > fundamentally for. The purpose of t

Re: samba mounting and nautilus

2004-04-16 Thread Matthew Kay
do you have the smbfs package installed? No! Have installed it and now mounting works fine with ## mount -t smbfs -o username=foo,password=bar //MATT/public /mnt/laptop Thanks very much! Re nautilus - even with gnome-vfs-extras this still doesn't work. I read elsewhere that this is a known bug

Re: HP Glance 4.00

2004-04-16 Thread HdV
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Philip Pinkerton wrote: > I need to install Glance on several Linux systems we use Debian on all > our systems. After update & upgrade to 2.4.25-1-686 (sid) I tried to > install HP Glance 4.00. It install ok but won't run. > > glance: error while loading shared libraries: libn

Gnome-terminal and Meta keys

2004-04-16 Thread Jan Medlock
I have seperate Alt and Meta keys, which work correctly in X. I am having trouble using Meta with gnome-terminal in unstable. The resource 'XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true' causes xterm to do the right thing when sending Meta keys. How can I get gnome-terminal to correctly send Meta keys? -- To U

wlan-ng and pcmcia-cs with 2.6 kernels?

2004-04-16 Thread Bill Moseley
I have a prism2 based wireless card, and I'm not clear what needs to be done to support this when moving to 2.6 on a laptop running sid. Instructions for building the wlan-ng module is at: ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/README What I'm confused about is: - it says I need to have a

Re: Antivirus (with exim+courier-imap+fetchmail)

2004-04-16 Thread Paul Johnson
Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If one has exim4-daemon-heavy and denies any MS executeables with > this in the /etc/exim4/conf.d/acl/40_exim4-config_check_data: > deny message = $found_extension files are not accepted here > demime = bat:btm:cmd:com:cpl:dll:exe:lnk:msi:pif:prf:reg:sc

Re: Distribution Upgrade

2004-04-16 Thread dircha
Curtis Vaughan wrote: So, before I reboot, I just want to be sure that I have lilo.conf set up right. What specifically should I do? Remove the install= line, or put something like install=menu.b? Yes, you should be able to safely remove the 'install=' line if you have upgraded to LILO > 22.3 a

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-16 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Chris Metzler: > > Hi. You picked my post to reply to when you said this. It may just > have been a choice of many and wasn't directly in response to me. > But just in case not, let me say that I agree completely with you, > that I thought the point of view I was expressing was abs

Re: system wide fix for 'max user processes'/RLIMIT_NPROC?

2004-04-16 Thread Michael Loftis
Not system wide, re-read my message. I'm using that. That only works for PAM apps. init isn't a PAM app. somewhere between the kernel firing init and initscripts getting run something is screwing up that limit. And there has beena change between 'woody' and 'sarge' since sarge isn't screwe

Unresolved symbols error when installing kernel image

2004-04-16 Thread Matthew Richardson
Hello, I installed with a minimal iso (woody_xfs_netinst.iso) from http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~george/debian-xfs/. I then tried to isntall the 2.4.21-2 kernel image from the same site. The install went fine, but when trying to install the new kernel image I received an error about Unresolv

re:Really, I still don't have sound

2004-04-16 Thread users
The ALSA arch is included in the lastest kernels... It should work when you has configured you /etc/modules.conf ... You can use alsaconf package to automagically configure your soundcard... then you should put up you volume (with alsamixer or setmixer) and then enjoy! It's not usefull install new

Re: gnome hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb upgrade problem

2004-04-16 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Philip! On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 01:24:14PM -0300, Philip Pinkerton wrote: > Problems with latest upgrade: apt-get install -t expermential gnome > [...] > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_

Why so complex?

2004-04-16 Thread users
I have a digital camera. I resolved the problem has follows: 1° - Compile the kernel with the SCSI emulation, USB support and USB mass storage support 2° Load all modules (edit /etc/modules to load them at boot time) 3° mount /dev/sd[abcd]1 /mnt/digitalcamera -t vfat The file system should be vfat

Re: flash sound in galeon behind picture

2004-04-16 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Fri, 16 Apr 2004 01:21:30PM -0400, Chris Metzler insinuated: > On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:24:44 -0400 > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > at the request of my roommate, who's been desperately missing her > > weekly dose of strong bad's email, i reďnstalled flash for galeon on > > my

kernel 2.6.x + hotplug + usb scanner - not work.

2004-04-16 Thread Egor Tur
Hi folk. I have problem with using my USB Epson 2400 photo scanner. uname -r 2.6.6-rc1 lsusb | grep -i epson Bus 004 Device 002: ID 04b8:011b Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 2400 Photo dpkg -l hotplug | grep ^i ii hotplug0.0.20040329-8 Linux Hotplug Scripts dpkg -l | grep libusb | grep ^i ii

Re: Problem with udev and apcupsd

2004-04-16 Thread John L Fjellstad
Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I managed to fix the problem by adding the following line to my > /etc/udev/links.conf file: > > M hiddev0 c 180 96 > > This seems a little bit hackish to me and I was wondering if there is > a better way to solve this problem. I do have the "hid" entry i

Re: flash sound in galeon behind picture

2004-04-16 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:24:44 -0400 Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > at the request of my roommate, who's been desperately missing her > weekly dose of strong bad's email, i reďnstalled flash for galeon on > my computer. in so doing, i noticed a problem i'd had before -- the > sound in

Re: debian to logon ms exchange server

2004-04-16 Thread Stephen Patterson
lunardancer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a new linux user, the first important thing I'm facing is, to access company > exchange server. My company have a web access exchange, I paste the IP > http://xx.xx.xx.xx/exchange to mozilla and an authorization window appear, but I > cannot get access with my

Re: 2.6 kernel causing X to hang?

2004-04-16 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:25:15PM +0300, David Baron insinuated: > Hey, at least you got the Java IDE to run! heh. yeah, but that's only after removing it (eclipse) and reÄnstalling it ... blah. i want to love netbeans, but i haven't gotten the thing to work with an external editor (vim!) yet. >

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/04/04 10:28), s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Chris Metzler: > > > > But this assumption is wrong. The purpose of the existence of testing > > and unstable is *not* to give users choices. It may also be true that > > their existence gives users choices; but that's not what they're > > f

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-16 Thread Chris Metzler
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:28:26 -0600 "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Incoming from Chris Metzler: >> >> But this assumption is wrong. The purpose of the existence of testing >> and unstable is *not* to give users choices. It may also be true that >> their existence gives users choices; bu

gnome hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb upgrade problem

2004-04-16 Thread Philip Pinkerton
Problems with latest upgrade: apt-get install -t expermential gnome (Reading database ... 181234 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking hicolor-icon-theme (from .../hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb

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-get > > update and upgrade a

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-16 Thread Damon L. Chesser
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Chris Metzler: But this assumption is wrong. The purpose of the existence of testing and unstable is *not* to give users choices. It may also be true that their existence gives users choices; but that's not what they're fundamentally for. The purpose of their

Re: Distribution Upgrade

2004-04-16 Thread Curtis Vaughan
So, before I reboot, I just want to be sure that I have lilo.conf set up right. What specifically should I do? Remove the install= line, or put something like install=menu.b? Curtis Vaughan On 15 Apr, 2004, at 17:24, dircha wrote: Curtis Vaughan wrote: When doing a distribution upgrade I got

Re: 2.6 kernel causing X to hang?

2004-04-16 Thread Andrew Schulman
> on Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:48:09AM -0400, Andrew Schulman insinuated: > > > a couple days ago, i upgraded from the 2.4.6 kernel to the 2.6.4 > > > kernel. figured out a couple problems, and all seemed smooth. > > > > > > however, twice today -- both initially while using a java IDE -- X > > > has f

Re: help setting up a home network

2004-04-16 Thread Bradley Alexander
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This list is the Debian-user list. If you are running XP and 2000, aren't you looking in the wrong place? On Friday 16 April 2004 12:23, abdoulaye kebe wrote: > Hello everybody, I' am trying to set up a home network . I have a pc > running 2000 pro a

help setting up a home network

2004-04-16 Thread abdoulaye kebe
Hello everybody, I' am trying to set up a home network . I have a pc running 2000 pro and a new one running XP. I have a linksys router and a high speed connection, but I cannot transfer files from pc to pc. N.B I have created a workgroup between both pc; they have different names and the wor

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