Re: Sarge kernel update, using newer kernel, should I update older kernel?

On Friday 23 December 2005 02:17 am, Greg Madden wrote: > On Thursday 22 December 2005 21:24, Laszlo wrote: > > For a Debian Sarge/Stable install, I originally installed Sarge when > > Sarge just went stable. I believe the first kernel was 2.6.8 that I > > installed as part of the Sarge install (i

Re: Sarge kernel update, using newer kernel, should I update older kernel?

On Thursday 22 December 2005 21:24, Laszlo wrote: > For a Debian Sarge/Stable install, I originally installed Sarge when > Sarge just went stable. I believe the first kernel was 2.6.8 that I > installed as part of the Sarge install (instead of the 2.4.x series). > I subsequently upgraded to 2.6.1

kghostview refresh time

Kghostview is very useful, the way it can watch a file and refresh its display if the file changes. If the file changes kghostview doesn't refresh for a few seconds. (Which is a long time if frequent changes are being made.) Is there any way this time can be shortened ? --help-all dosen't mentio

Re: Re: USB flash drive problem

Thank you for reply me! > On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:50:07 -0600 > Tatsuya Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > > Vendor: eMModel: Bay ReaderRev: 1.01 > > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI r

Re: sharing a bibliography

El Jueves, 22 de Diciembre de 2005 21:05, michael escribió: > I was thinking about using the bibliography 'database' in OpenOffice to > store all my references (and to include short notes such as 'read/not > read', 'contains vital info on XY and Z'). > An excellent tool to store and retrieve bibli

Re: USB flash drive problem

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:50:07 -0600 Tatsuya Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > Vendor: eMModel: Bay ReaderRev: 1.01 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Attached scsi removab

Re: USB flash drive problem(log cont.)

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:50:07 -0600 Tatsuya Kobayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > Vendor: eMModel: Bay ReaderRev: 1.01 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Attached scsi removab

Re: [OT] Gmail POP fails

I met the same problem with pop, and found another desidion - forward everything to another email accont and pop from there. -- Vasily Levin

Re: Mozilla 1.5 download directory

Richard wrote: 2005/12/22, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi all I am using Sid and it seems i found a bug in de latest mozilla package. I am not sure if this is a mozilla bug or a debian package bug so i ask here if more people can confirm this. I am also using KDE and every time when i dow

Re: firewire, reboot, /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

Hi there! On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 02:27:54AM -0500, Bill Marcum wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:34:39PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > > Hi Debian users, > > My workstation's inputs (keyboard and mouse) froze today for the second > > time in 6 years and I had to hit the reset button. > > Every

Re: [OT] Gmail POP fails

On 12/22/05, roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That account gets very low traffic rates. This account I read through > > the web interface. Just so you know. > Huh? I have two gmail accounts. The one I use with Thunderbird is attached to my blog, and gets almost no traffic. I use Firefox to r

Re: Re: USB flash drive problem(log cont.)

dmesg log cont.= VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 148k freed vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6 NET: Registered protocol family 1 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz

Re: Re: USB flash drive problem

Thank you for reply me. I got dmesg output and I'm going to post them on the bottom of this message. And I'm sorry that I forgot to notice my pc environment. PC is eMachines W2888. M/B is D845GVSR and there is 8 in 1 card reader is connected to M/B's USB front panel connector(9-pin one). That ca

Re: repositories

The Mepis people have a list going that might help: http://www.mepislovers-wiki.org/index.php?title=Alternative_sources Cheers, Tyler Bob Hynes wrote: Does anyone happen to have a link or a list of repositories other than the standard/default one that come with a fresh Debian install?

Re: unsubscribe

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:13:22 -0800 David Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMO, it would be a good demonstration of our problem solving skills if > we could manage to program the list processor to honor (or at least Well, I've had overzealous mail list program filter stuff out on the Mandrak

repositories

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[lets try again:] Firefox 1.5 download directory set static to Desktop

Hi I am using Sid and it seems i found a bug in de latest firefox package. I am not sure if this is a firefox bug or a debian package bug so i ask here if more people can confirm this. I am also using KDE (this makes that i also have a "desktop directory" in my home directory) and every time when

MTA slow to start

During boot up it takes about 30 seconds for MTA to start for my Etch install. With Sarge on the same box this takes less than a second. Can I fix this somehow? I'm running a single desktop computer, connected via an NIC through a router to highspeed DSL, and I get all my mail from pop accounts

Re: USB flash drive problem

Try putting this in your /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /media/flashvfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 and then making the directory /media/flash. -- Steven Wheelwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's never not now. PGP Fingerprint: 809E 9E32 907D 7619 2BED 8764 108D F31C 8927 1E3F signature.asc Descri

Re: sharing a bibliography

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 08:05:40PM +, michael wrote: > I was thinking about using the bibliography 'database' in OpenOffice to > store all my references (and to include short notes such as 'read/not > read', 'contains vital info on XY and Z'). But I need to share said info > across machines, g

Re: How do I make xhost changes stick?

Thanks, but I'm still missing something. I appended the line xhost local: to /etc/profile, as well as ~/.bash_profile, and neither seems to have changed anything. I've tried to wade into the bash manual and the bash doc examples, but it's beyond me. Thanks, Tyler On 12/19/05, *Tyler Smith*

USB flash drive problem

Hi all,(and I'm sorry that I sent wrong mail that only has "# help" for body.) I'm using Debian sarge and kernel is 2.6.8-2. My problem is that I can't read my USB flash drive. I installed this kernel from linux26 of boot option of installer disk. And udev and hotplug is installed. I mean my Deb

Re: [OT] Gmail POP fails

On Tuesday 20 December 2005 07:35, Michael Marsh wrote: > Thunderbird 1.0.7 > Server name: pop.gmail.com > port: 995 > options checked: >   - use SSL >   - check for messages at startup >   - check for new messages every 10 minutes >   - automatically download new messages > All other options are u

Re: [OT] Gmail POP fails

On Wednesday 21 December 2005 18:41, Steven Wheelwright wrote: > When you do get it all worked out, there is a setting in GMail to make all > mail accessible through POP. > > I would also try disabling POP for your aount and then re-enabling it. Tried - made no difference. Gmail POP is bust: http

Re: [OT] Gmail POP fails

On Tuesday 20 December 2005 12:56, Gregory Seidman wrote: > My fetchmail line (which clearly works since I receive debian-user mail > through it): > > poll pop.gmail.com with proto POP3 port 995 and options no dns >     localdomains gmail.com anthropohedron.net >        user '' there with password

Re: [OT] Gmail POP fails

On Tuesday 20 December 2005 14:41, Curt Howland wrote: > No, I don't remember. But the settings are, host: pop.gmail.com, port > 995, SSL encryption, clear text authentication. Same settings as I've already got, but thanks for trying. All the best. -- Robert "roach" Spencer Pietermaritzburg Sou

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KMail - GNOME

Hi! I installed Etch with Gnome but for mailer I like to use KMail. When I tried to get an email I got a message (error): Could not start process pop3 And when I send an email message stay in outbox and nothing happened. I tried to send and get with Evolution and with Sylpheed and work with both.

Re: kernels > 2.6.10 slow network connections [SOLVED]

Benedict Verheyen wrote: I had a bridge up on that host as i was using UML. However, I was in the process of moving my UML's to vservers and so i didn't need the bridge anymore. After i removed the bridge, the networking was fast again. Don't know why that gave problems with certain kernels but i

Re: Booting Debian directly into a 'regular user account

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:35:38 -0800, Alex wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 14:07 +0100, Obiajulu Odu wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any way to configure Debian Sarge to boot directly into a > > 'regular user' account without entering user name or password? In > > ot

Re: Question about module loading from floppy

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 01:02:50AM +0100, Marc Demlenne wrote: > Hello, > > I have to start a machine with rescue CD because lilo is broken. (I > probably just have to run /sbin/lilo as root to correct this) The > problem is that booting with rescue root=/dev/sda1 won't work because > my drive is

ftp://ftp.fsn.hu down?

Hi ! Is someone aware if ftp://ftp.fsn.hu is down? I was downloading unstable jigdo images and all of a sudden it's no longer reachable. -- Javier --

Question about module loading from floppy

Hello, I have to start a machine with rescue CD because lilo is broken. (I probably just have to run /sbin/lilo as root to correct this) The problem is that booting with rescue root=/dev/sda1 won't work because my drive is a RAID-5 and I need to load an extra-module to make it work. I have this m

Re: about remove directory

Nevruz Mesut Sahin wrote: Hello my firend I want to delete every thing inside of a directory but there are more than 100.000 files. I don't need any files in that directory. if I write rmdir -R /disk4/vmx/sirlo/mesut the machina asks confirmation for all files in this directory. is there

broken dependencies

Hi, Recently I tried to upgrade KDE from unstable repositories and faced with multiple broken dependencies.Is there any way out to handle this situation (hoping there is :-)? Regards Nikhil Prabhakar

Re: reply-to munging

Felix Miata wrote: > Maybe people should be allowed to choose a MUA based on whether its > entire feature set best meets their overall needs. Maybe people who choose to use an MUA which is deficient in one area or another should complain to the authors of the MUA about said deficiencies instea

Re: Can't mount a newly created ext3 partition from the new Hard Disk I installed...

Dom wrote: On 12/22/05, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] I'm saying that I have run mkfs only now and it mounts. Thanks really on that, it's simply me not knowing... Everybody's ignorant, just about different things. Will Rogers Mike -- p="p=%

Re: kernels > 2.6.10 slow network connections

Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > > when connect from an WinXp machine to my sarge server with a 2.6.10 > kernel, connectivity to the server is great. > However, when i upgrade to a 2.6.11 up to a 2.6.14, performance is > not great at all. > With connectivity i mean IMAP & smb. I keep my mail on th

Re: Can't mount a newly created ext3 partition from the new Hard Disk I installed...

On 12/22/05, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dom wrote: > > On 12/22/05, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>What file system? I don't see where you ran mkfs. > >> > >>All you've got is a blank partition. > >> > >>Mike > > > > > > Thanks Mike! I've done it. > > Are you saying

Re: Can't mount a newly created ext3 partition from the new Hard Disk I installed...

On Thursday 22 December 2005 16:39, Dom wrote: > I bought a Western Digital 80GB Hard Disk as a second disk for my > GNU/Linux Debian system (kernel 2.6.8-2-386). > > I attached it as a Slave and set its jumper accordingly. The next > step was to create partition, and I created one by running (unde

Re: Can't mount a newly created ext3 partition from the new Hard Disk I installed...

Dom wrote: On 12/22/05, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What file system? I don't see where you ran mkfs. All you've got is a blank partition. Mike Thanks Mike! I've done it. Are you saying that you have now run mkfs and it mounts? If so, then congratulations! Or are you saying

Re: Can't mount a newly created ext3 partition from the new Hard Disk I installed...

On 12/22/05, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What file system? I don't see where you ran mkfs. > > All you've got is a blank partition. > > Mike Thanks Mike! I've done it.

Re: Can't mount a newly created ext3 partition from the new Hard Disk I installed...

Dom wrote: I bought a Western Digital 80GB Hard Disk as a second disk for my GNU/Linux Debian system (kernel 2.6.8-2-386). I attached it as a Slave and set its jumper accordingly. The next step was to create partition, and I created one by running (under root of course) 'fdisk /dev/hdb' and usin

Can't mount a newly created ext3 partition from the new Hard Disk I installed...

I bought a Western Digital 80GB Hard Disk as a second disk for my GNU/Linux Debian system (kernel 2.6.8-2-386). I attached it as a Slave and set its jumper accordingly. The next step was to create partition, and I created one by running (under root of course) 'fdisk /dev/hdb' and using the command

Re: mac address

On Thu, December 22, 2005 21:28, Jay Zach said: > Kent West wrote: >> Tony Heal wrote: >>>how do I obtain the mac address of eth0 and eth1 on a remote server? >> ssh in, and run "ifconfig" > > > run > > 'nmap -sP hostname' > Yes, that is correct if you run it as root... [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ nmap

Re: mac address

Kent West wrote: > Tony Heal wrote: > > >>how do I obtain the mac address of eth0 and eth1 on a remote server? >> > > > ssh in, and run "ifconfig" > run 'nmap -sP hostname' -- Sun in the night, everyone

sharing a bibliography

I was thinking about using the bibliography 'database' in OpenOffice to store all my references (and to include short notes such as 'read/not read', 'contains vital info on XY and Z'). But I need to share said info across machines, generally Debian but not the same versions of OpenOffice but prefer

Re: Is AMD-64 mature enough to start using? (possibly on K8V-MX moptherboard)

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 04:14:24PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Wednesday, 21 December 2005 at 7:07:42 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > > Linux. Specifically, an Asus K8V-MX Athlon 64 motherboard, > > an AMD Sempron64 2600, 512 meg DDR PC-3200 w/o ECC. > [...] > > > > My question is

Re: Kernel source tree for installed kernel, and config file: how to get?

On 12/22/05, Wim De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/22/05, Fred Proctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have installed Debian Testing via the netinstall, and have a kernel > > 2.6.12-1-386 from Debian testing (etch). I'd like to make some changes > > to the kernel source, namely the device

Re: Kernel source tree for installed kernel, and config file: how to get?

On 12/22/05, Fred Proctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed Debian Testing via the netinstall, and have a kernel > 2.6.12-1-386 from Debian testing (etch). I'd like to make some changes > to the kernel source, namely the device driver for my sound chip. I > installed what I thought was

Re: X Window hangs completely, except for the mouse

qvvx wrote: > I seem to have a trouble with the X Window System. Both on sarge (where > the X server is XFree86) and on etch (where I use X.org), the graphics You could try a clean setup (a Knoppix Live CD, e.g.). I guess that it is a hardware problem. Or are you using the same configs in sarge a

Re: installing amd64 kernel

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 07:06:05AM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: > I received a number of advices on installation of my AMD Athlon 64 machine. > This far I only was successful with (K)ubuntu. At one time I thought I got > the Debian daily installer to detect my built-in nVidia Ethernet, but I was > w

Re: [process priority] Questions about re/nice

belbo wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: [...] $ alias mplayer="nice -n -20 /usr/local/bin/mplayer" Or a script. As to whether this may cause prolems with starving other processes, I don't know. Certainly, if possible, another solution is preferable. Mike I've already considered this solution,

Re: [process priority] Questions about re/nice

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 08:53:58PM +0100, belbo wrote: > I've already considered this solution, but it doesn't work, because of root > permissions needed: if I run this command as a normal user, here's the result: > > $ nice -n -20 /usr/local/bin/mplayer > nice: cannot set priority: Permission de

Any interest in Debian packages of Geant 4?

Hi all, Here is a question for other HEP / nuclear physicists on the lists. Please follow up only to debian-science. Needing to do some Monte Carlo simulations for the last bit of work on my thesis, I was once again reminded how much of a pain compiling Geant4 from source is. As a result I've sp

Re: root can not delete a directory ,why?

Robert Brockway wrote: On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: Humm, you weren't perchance cd'd into the directory? Actually unix will let you delete a directory that is in use. Harley No, it will not. Hahn once described this as sawing off the branch you are sitting on. Eg: $mkdir

Re: installing amd64 kernel

Richard Lyons wrote: I never did sort out the onboard nVidia sound, though. I had to rob an old SoundBlaster Live PCI card from another box. I had a few problems with this at first. The nvsound module did work but the card was not recognised by Alsa or Kcontrol Center, and I had to reinst

Re: [process priority] Questions about re/nice

Mike McCarty wrote: [...] >> >> > > $ alias mplayer="nice -n -20 /usr/local/bin/mplayer" > > Or a script. > > As to whether this may cause prolems with starving other processes, > I don't know. Certainly, if possible, another solution is preferable. > > Mike I've already considered this soluti

Re: root can not delete a directory ,why?

Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 21 December 2005 12:53, Realos wrote: hi, I am completely at loss. I can not delete following empty directory as root. drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 8192 Dec 21 18:14 kolab I tried "rm -rf kolab", "rmdir -f kolab", "rm -fd kolab" but nothing works. Error message

Re: Question on backups using rsync

Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 20 December 2005 20:35, Daniel Webb wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 04:48:43PM -0600, Brad Sims wrote: Why don't you mirror /dev/? I use udev and /dev/ is created at boot time to the best of my knowledge Oh, I am behind the times on that issue, that makes sen

Re: apps Re: Question on backups using rsync

Alvin Oga wrote: On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Daniel Webb wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 02:16:29AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: One nit to pick here: - find | tar | gpg meeets all of my requirements for most all possible potential disasters and recovery As I describe on my backup page, that's a t

kernels > 2.6.10 slow network connections

Hi, when connect from an WinXp machine to my sarge server with a 2.6.10 kernel, connectivity to the server is great. However, when i upgrade to a 2.6.11 up to a 2.6.14, performance is not great at all. With connectivity i mean IMAP & smb. I keep my mail on the server and check it via imap. I also

Re: Problem setting the screen resolution with Gnome and X-Windows

Very same problem...did anyone every msg you off-list with the solution? I went out and grabbed the most recent linux driver for the video on this box, but don't even have a clue in this os how to install... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

RE: mac address

Duhhh. OK I feel like an idiot. Guess this cold is worse than I thought. Thanks Kent Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:38 PM To: Debian Users Subject: Re: m

RE: Subscription

Any update?   From: Solis, Mirna Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 12:01 PM To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Subscription Importance: High   Good morning.   Back in october, I sent you a subscription requisition under Saul Orbezo’s name attaching the credit card

Re: Probs with netboot/NFS - SOLVED

Fantastic! Your bit of advice wasn't the only thing I needed to change. I needed to also change: * Recompile kernel without cramfs or ramdisk support and include automounter support, boot with nfs filesystem, and a couple other options enabled which was pretty important! * Use a different c

Re: mac address

ping each of the ip addresses then: arp -a -n -v to see the associated mac addresses. - Original Message - From: Tony Heal To: Debian Users Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:31 PM Subject: mac address how do I obtain the mac address of eth0 and eth1 on a

Re: mac address

Tony Heal wrote: > how do I obtain the mac address of eth0 and eth1 on a remote server? > ssh in, and run "ifconfig" -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mac address

how do I obtain the mac address of eth0 and eth1 on a remote server?   Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

How to stop hda->sr0 assignment

Hi All,   I'm working with Etch on a Pentium 4, 1GB RAM, PS2 mouse, PS2 keyboard, no USB devices, 2 SATA hard drives, 1 ide cdrom, 1 ide ATAPI IOmega REV drive, Intel 10/100 onboard NIC   I installed Debian Etch with the 2.6.12-1-686-smp kernel from the Etch Testing CD's by manually selectin

Re: reply-to munging

Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2005-12-18 07:33:53, schrieb Felix Miata: > > This is a public discussion list, not a public questions/private answers > > list. You can't have a public discussion when people make their replies > > private. > Maybe you should use a RFC-Compliant MUA > which suppo

Re: Can't switch to virtual console anymore

On Thu 22 Dec 05, 9:09 AM, p said: > Dear all, > > I can't switch to a virtual console any longer. I'm fairly sure whatever > happened must have happened during my last "aptitude upgrade", because I > switch to VC's very very often. Datapoints: > > 0. This is a Debian/testing machine. > > 1.

Re: X Window hangs completely, except for the mouse

qvvx wrote: Hi all, I seem to have a trouble with the X Window System. Both on sarge (where the X server is XFree86) and on etch (where I use X.org), the graphics system just hangs from time to time. When it does so, the interface becomes completely unresponsive, and the keyboard appears to sto

X Window hangs completely, except for the mouse

Hi all, I seem to have a trouble with the X Window System. Both on sarge (where the X server is XFree86) and on etch (where I use X.org), the graphics system just hangs from time to time. When it does so, the interface becomes completely unresponsive, and the keyboard appears to stop functioning

Re: post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]

One list issue also that I hate to bring up given the "Unsubscribe" thread :-) and I did send the question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but have received no answer (though two days is not unreasonable :-). I found this list on GMANE also so I can follow it

Re: Is AMD-64 mature enough to start using? (possibly on K8V-MX moptherboard)

On Wednesday, 21 December 2005 at 7:07:42 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > Linux. Specifically, an Asus K8V-MX Athlon 64 motherboard, > an AMD Sempron64 2600, 512 meg DDR PC-3200 w/o ECC. [...] > > My question is, is the Debian AMD64 platform ready for such use? [...] > Very few happy use

Re: custom debian install cd

Hello jack (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I need to create a custom install cd using a 2.6 kernel that has > support for extra sata raid drivers. I've found a few sites on how to > tackle the issue: > > (for example: > http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/debian-netinst/kveton/) I once built

Re: installing amd64 kernel

On Wednesday, 21 December 2005 at 21:12:28 +, Wackojacko wrote: > > > Aaron Stromas wrote: > >Greetings, > > > >I received a number of advices on installation of my AMD Athlon 64 [...] > > I had similar problems installing from the netinstall but luckily I had > an old PCI card to slot in

Re: W: GPG error:

Hi! * Nikhil Prabhakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051222 14:36]: > After adding backports.org repository I'm getting following error: [..] > Fetched 190B in 3s (49B/s) > Reading package lists... Done > W: GPG error: http://www.backports.org sarge-backports Release: The > following signatures couldn't b

Re: Can't switch to virtual console anymore

On Thu 22 Dec 05, 9:43 AM, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > >Dear all, > > > >I can't switch to a virtual console any longer. I'm fairly sure whatever > >happened must have happened during my last "aptitude upgrade", because I > >switch to VC's very very often.

Re: Can't switch to virtual console anymore

Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Dear all, I can't switch to a virtual console any longer. I'm fairly sure whatever happened must have happened during my last "aptitude upgrade", because I switch to VC's very very often. Datapoints: 0. This is a Debian/testing machine. 1. My XF86Config does not con

Automount of USB stick doesn't work

Hiya! Obviously, I'm somewhat blinded. For some time I try to configure a new desktop machine ('etch', kernel 2.6.12) to automount (gnome-volume-manager) an USB stick. This is not my first Debian system and with other systems (e.g. my laptop), I'm able to use USB sticks, but this machine is awful.

cyrus + sieve vacation

dear list, i have the same problem with sendmail and cyrus. did someone know the answer for that problem? greetings markus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install from usb-stick

Cameron Matheson wrote: Hi, On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 12:06:24PM +0100, Thierry wrote: Yes he is right, and the problem is: How to copy it over the stick? Thierry Just mount the iso as a loop-back file and then copy the files over as normal... e.g: mount -o loop -t iso9660 netinstall.

Kernel source tree for installed kernel, and config file: how to get?

I have installed Debian Testing via the netinstall, and have a kernel 2.6.12-1-386 from Debian testing (etch). I'd like to make some changes to the kernel source, namely the device driver for my sound chip. I installed what I thought was the kernel source, and expected to see "-1-386" in the so

Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

Hi Gene, Am 2005-12-19 10:43:47, schrieb Gene Heskett: > On Monday 19 December 2005 09:39, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And I made a post to this list, instantly answered by a 5kb chunk of > undecipherable html from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > How the hell do we get rid of this? You got ONLY one? -

Re: can't load fglrx

On 12/22/05, ericradt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am install ati driver 8.20.8 in my system,kernel > 2.6.14 patch with ' vesafb',but now i can't load > the fglrx modules, > when i run modprobe fglrx with bash,there are > this error in terminal > "FATAL: Error inserting fglrx > (/

Re: reply-to munging

Am 2005-12-18 07:33:53, schrieb Felix Miata: > That's only one admin's opinion. I find the opposite superior: > http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html > > This is a public discussion list, not a public questions/private answers > list. You can't have a public discussion when people

Re: netstat output

Adam Hardy wrote: Is this some brute force dictionary attack in progress on my webserver? The full foreign address is zns551-ga01a.us.yokogawa.com. Those nasty people in Yokogawa! Original Message Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 05:00:07 + (GMT) Active Internet connections (serve

Re: VPN client to Windows network

Bob Hynes wrote: Is there a commonly used VPN client for Debian? I'd like to vpn to a windows network at work, but I'm not sure if there is something that works like the VPN client built in to XP (which is what I currently use). For windows VPN, you will probably need to patch your kernel

Re: can't load fglrx

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:07:00PM +0800, ericradt wrote: > i am install ati driver 8.20.8 in my system,kernel > 2.6.14 patch with ' vesafb',but now i can't load > the fglrx modules, At least you got a lot further than I did last year! I ran the script that is supposed to tell you which version o

NFS and Firewall on 2.6

Hi,sorry for bothering you.I'm not sure if this is the best place for this post. pls. let me know if not.I'm trying to map via nfs thru a firewall. I already managed to tie the nfs to port 2049, mountd to 4002.The only thing which is not working is to get nlockmgr onto port 4001.I tried to use foll

Re: (u)mounting of USB devices

On Thursday 22 December 2005 14:08, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2005-12-20 15:50:29, schrieb David Goodenough: > > This looks like a job for udev, which can assign meaningful names to > > USB storage devices. > > We have droped "udev" because it produced to many errors. Well if you do not wish to

Re: Editing textareas in opera/firefox with external editor

Jon Dowland wrote on Dec, 22: [...] > > I wonder if this source is trusted. Its certificate is signed by > > itself. When I click on the downloaded xpi file, Firefox says it's > > "unsigned". I fear installing an extension that might potentially pry > > my privacy. > > Has anybody installed moze

Re: (u)mounting of USB devices

Am 2005-12-20 15:50:29, schrieb David Goodenough: > This looks like a job for udev, which can assign meaningful names to > USB storage devices. We have droped "udev" because it produced to many errors. > Why it should not free up /dev/sde1 when you unmount it I do not know, > I have never seen

Can't switch to virtual console anymore

Dear all, I can't switch to a virtual console any longer. I'm fairly sure whatever happened must have happened during my last "aptitude upgrade", because I switch to VC's very very often. Datapoints: 0. This is a Debian/testing machine. 1. My XF86Config does not contain the DontVTSwitch option

Re: (u)mounting of USB devices

Am 2005-12-20 10:40:56, schrieb H.S.: > I use Gnome and as you probably know this issue has been solved in the We do not use GNOME or KDE. > last year or so. But before that, or when this automounting thing was > flaky in Gnome, I was in a similar situation as you. I found udev to be No "udev"

Re: Simple question

Am 2005-12-20 04:04:24, schrieb Teilhard Knight: > What's the command to stop a service like gdm? It depends. 1) For killing it the current bootet Computer /etc/init.d/gdm stop 2) Only from the runlevel 2 rm /etc/rc2.d/??gdm 3) Permanently apt-get --purge remove gd

Re: Why display the entire window contents when moving it?

Am 2005-12-20 11:26:56, schrieb Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: > Hello, > > When dragging a window around, why isn't only the border displayed > during movement, instead of all the details. The current behaviour > punishes CPU power and therefore some ugly, trailing stuff (try it). AFAIK, this feature can

Re: Shutdown w/o root password.

On 12/17/05, Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why I don't need to supply the root password to shutdown the computer from > gnome?... > I've been searching for any option related but didn't find any. > For those that don't know. gdm runs as root, yes. And so does x.org. They have to if they a

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