Re: How to diagnose kernel panic?

2006-07-09 Thread Lothar Braun
Hi Mark, On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 15:56 -0400, Mark Copper wrote: > I have a server that is brought down by a kernel panic every two weeks > on average. Did it do that right from the first installation or did it run for some time without problems? > Nothing untoward gets in the logs and the on-sc

Re: Command line audio and CD player?

2006-07-09 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 14:15:56 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Marcum) wrote: > If it isn't a video CD, try cdda:// and make sure /dev/cdrom is a > symbolic link to your cd player. Hmm. I figured something like that was going to do it, but I couldn't think of the right syntax. OTOH, I tried ('mpla

Re: How to diagnose kernel panic?

2006-07-09 Thread Robert Jeffrey Miesen
Hi Mark. I don't know if this kind of information will help out at all or not, but what are the specs of your machine? Specifically, do you have a quality power supply? How about your hard drive and your motherboard? As I said, I don't know if answering these questions will reveal anyt

Re: Google Earth display problem

2006-07-09 Thread Dale Hair
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 00:31 +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: > > > > -- the display behaves weirdly. This is difficult to describe, > >but the "earth" image does not stay put in its proper place > >inside the window; it often "jumps" to the left, becoming > >invisible, or sometimes half-o

Re: upgraded, now unbootable: lacking a boot-menu.b file?

2006-07-09 Thread Pat Wastrodowski
see http://www.karakas-online.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=674 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sendmail setup

2006-07-09 Thread kevin . mark
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 01:14:50PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > 2006. július 9. 12:44, > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -> debian-user ,[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Hi folks, > > I just got a new isp. old smtp was at smtp.pipeline.com. using port 25 and > > sendmail. new isp uses outgoing.yahoo.verizon.net and

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 07:23:54PM +0300, Török Edvin wrote: > Btw, what is the appropriate severity level for a package that doesn't > work on a certain architecture at all? Is it release critical? If the architecture is a release candidate, yes. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "As

Re: Howto add firewire printer ???

2006-07-09 Thread helices
* Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:07:09:23:19:53+0100] scribed: > You need to know the destination hostname/IP address and queue name. > Some printers will be using ethernet-over-firewire, and you treat it > just like a networked IPP print server (like another CUPS server). > > ipp://ser

Re: Google Earth display problem

2006-07-09 Thread Bernd Schubert
> -- the display behaves weirdly. This is difficult to describe, >but the "earth" image does not stay put in its proper place >inside the window; it often "jumps" to the left, becoming >invisible, or sometimes half-obscured by the left edge of the >window. Sometimes resizing the w

Xemacs-21.4.19 and Tex-output-view style

2006-07-09 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: According to the documentation, if there are tex files which use pstricks, pst- modules or psfrag viewing should automatically produce the .ps file and call gv for display. Similarly, if pdflatex is run, the view should bring up xpdf. This seems to work for some files, e.g. pst

Re: rhythmbox (& gstreamer)

2006-07-09 Thread Adam Hardy
Hans van Middendorp on 09/07/06 17:06, wrote: On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 13:21:12 +0100 Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hans van Middendorp on 04/07/06 19:38, wrote: On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:20:36 +0100 Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hans van Middendorp on 02/07/06 21:28, wrote: On Sun, 0

Re: Howto add firewire printer ???

2006-07-09 Thread Roger Leigh
helices <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been trying to subscribe to the cups mailing lists; but, I have > NOT received any response. Is it just due to the weekend? It should work. I just used their NNTP server, since the "lists" are really just a mail gateway to local usenet groups. Just

Re: Howto add firewire printer ???

2006-07-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 helices wrote: > * Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [2006:07:09:10:18:09+0100] scribed: > >> With such a printer, it's quite common for the page rendering >> it to be CPU bound when printing at a high resolution. A >> single page could easily weigh

Re: hdparm.conf and udev - options gets ignored

2006-07-09 Thread LeVA
2006. július 9. 12:11, LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> "Debian-User " ,: > Hi! > > I've set up some global (default) options in /etc/hdparm.conf and I'm using > udev. Now the README.debian says, that if I'm using udev then I shouldn't > be worried, because the /etc/udev/hdparm.rules rules file does the

Re: Howto add firewire printer ???

2006-07-09 Thread helices
First, allow me to thank you for your participation in these issues. I have been trying to subscribe to the cups mailing lists; but, I have NOT received any response. Is it just due to the weekend? * Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:07:09:19:16:29+0100] scribed: > FWIW, the ieee1394 backe

Re: Howto add firewire printer ???

2006-07-09 Thread helices
* Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:07:09:10:18:09+0100] scribed: > With such a printer, it's quite common for the page rendering it to be > CPU bound when printing at a high resolution. A single page could > easily weigh in at over 500 MiB of print data. HP XW9300, dual Opteron, 2.4GHz, 6G

Re: Any way to comment on bugs?

2006-07-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alec Berryman wrote: > Andrew Malcolmson on 2006-07-09 13:53:41 -0400: > >> Can anyone other than a package maintainer add comments to bug >> reports? > > Yes, send an email to @bugs.debian.org. Additional > useful information is always welcome. Be

Re: [OT]usb stick

2006-07-09 Thread Derek
This happens to me sometimes,try reloading the usb-storage modulermmod usb-storagemodprobe usb-storageOn 7/9/06, Owen Heisler < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 16:54 +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I have Transend usb pen drive. It was working OK. I gave to my nephew> for backup. He used

Re: [OT]usb stick

2006-07-09 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 16:54 +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I have Transend usb pen drive. It was working OK. I gave to my nephew > for backup. He used in some other PC. Now it is not working. Now when > I insert nothing happens. I mean no message in syslog. > But in the same machine with other USB stic

How to diagnose kernel panic?

2006-07-09 Thread Mark Copper
I have a server that is brought down by a kernel panic every two weeks on average. Nothing untoward gets in the logs and the on-screen panic message starts with something like Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt Call trace: [] scsi_request_fn+0xf610x294 I wasn't a

2.6 kernel image for AMD-K6-2

2006-07-09 Thread Helen Easthope
Debian users,   Is there a straightforward way to get a 2.6 kernel image for an AMD-K6 machine?  The 2.4 image works fine but the 2.6 AMD-K7 image fails on this Compaq Presario 5330.   Thanks,   Peter Easthope shark at gulfnet sd64 bc ca

Re: redirect mails question

2006-07-09 Thread Alec Berryman
Raphael Brunner on 2006-07-09 20:40:55 +0200: > I want to redirect the mails from the system (from root) to my > home-mail-system on the same machine. On my home I have fetchmail and > procmail to receive the mails from the internet-provider and sort it > into a lot of folders. I want to get the s

redirect mails question

2006-07-09 Thread Raphael Brunner
Dear Users! I want to redirect the mails from the system (from root) to my home-mail-system on the same machine. On my home I have fetchmail and procmail to receive the mails from the internet-provider and sort it into a lot of folders. I want to get the systemmails also there. What can I do? Doe

Re: Command line audio and CD player?

2006-07-09 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 10:47:46AM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 15:46:14 +0200 > Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Any command line tool that plays both? > > I can't think of any specifically that do the job. > > On the other hand, one would think that 'mplayer

Re: Command line audio and CD player?

2006-07-09 Thread Jason DeVita
On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I'm looking for an audio and CD command line player, but it seems that `cdplayer' only plays CD's but not audio files, whereas `m3u123' viceversa only plays audio files but not CD's. Any command line tool that plays both? I use VLC (www.videolan.org) f

Re: Any way to comment on bugs?

2006-07-09 Thread Alec Berryman
Andrew Malcolmson on 2006-07-09 13:53:41 -0400: > Can anyone other than a package maintainer add comments to bug reports? Yes, send an email to @bugs.debian.org. Additional useful information is always welcome. > Can I somehow 'vote' for a fix for a neglected bug? In the Bugzilla sense of 'vot

Re: Howto add firewire printer ???

2006-07-09 Thread Roger Leigh
Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> helices wrote: >>> * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:07:08:19:12:57-0500] >>> scribed: helices wrote: > I have a printer and a workstation that are both > firewire/ieee1394 capable. dmesg sho

Any way to comment on bugs?

2006-07-09 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Can anyone other than a package maintainer add comments to bug reports? Can I somehow 'vote' for a fix for a neglected bug? Thanks --- Andrew Malcolmson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Voodoo 4/5 display problem

2006-07-09 Thread mike
On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 20:46:57 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using KDE, with a Voodoo 3 card. Excellent display. > > THen I try to swap it for a Voodoo 4. I get a crawling display [that's how > it looks - all the pixels constantly moving]. > > I looked ona another machine I usually use

Re: Command line audio and CD player?

2006-07-09 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 15:46:14 +0200 Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any command line tool that plays both? I can't think of any specifically that do the job. On the other hand, one would think that 'mplayer' should be do it, but several attempts to access the cd device (/dev/cdrom, o

Re: Package question

2006-07-09 Thread Aurélien Morelle
Stephen Cormier wrote: On Sunday 09 July 2006 12:55, Aurélien Morelle wrote: Hi, I've done "apt-file update" and then "apt-file search msgfmt" returns nothing. It makes me think it comes not from a package... strange. Works here running a mixed testing/unstable AMD64 s

Re: Package question

2006-07-09 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Sunday 09 July 2006 12:55, Aurélien Morelle wrote: > Hi, > I've done "apt-file update" and then "apt-file search msgfmt" returns > nothing. > It makes me think it comes not from a package... strange. > Works here running a mixed testing/unstable AMD64 system. >$ apt-file search msgfmt gettext

Re: rhythmbox

2006-07-09 Thread Hans van Middendorp
On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 13:21:12 +0100 Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hans van Middendorp on 04/07/06 19:38, wrote: > > On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:20:36 +0100 > > Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hans van Middendorp on 02/07/06 21:28, wrote: > >>> On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 15:48:20 +0100 > >>

Re: Package question

2006-07-09 Thread Aurélien Morelle
I have proceeded with apt-file which did not found msgfmt After seeing your message, I have tried apt-file list gettext and it shows nothing Is there a special configuration to allow apt-file to show or search files in all packages ? I have done apt-file update before Strange again... LeVA wro

Re: Package question

2006-07-09 Thread Aurélien Morelle
Hi, I've done "apt-file update" and then "apt-file search msgfmt" returns nothing. It makes me think it comes not from a package... strange. Danny wrote: Hi list, Could someone please tell me which package provides "msgfmt"? Thank you all in advance Danny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Package question

2006-07-09 Thread LeVA
2006. július 9. 15:50, Danny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> Debian-User ,: > Hi list, > > Could someone please tell me which package provides "msgfmt"? > > Thank you all in advance It's gettext. Use apt-file... Daniel -- LeVA

Package question

2006-07-09 Thread Danny
Hi list, Could someone please tell me which package provides "msgfmt"? Thank you all in advance Danny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Command line audio and CD player?

2006-07-09 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi. I'm looking for an audio and CD command line player, but it seems that `cdplayer' only plays CD's but not audio files, whereas `m3u123' viceversa only plays audio files but not CD's. Any command line tool that plays both? Thanks for any hint, Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Testing and honesty

2006-07-09 Thread Dave Ewart
On Sunday, 09.07.2006 at 10:08 -0300, Andre Carezia wrote: > Maybe you should think about using better software (squirrelmail and > bind are not secure enough for public servers, anyway :-)) Can you provide some evidence to back up that remark? Dave -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ...

Re: new user with installation problem

2006-07-09 Thread Manon Metten
@Christopher Nelson: Hi, I'm new on Debian and on this list. Just last week I installed Debian on my k8v-mx mobo with amd sempron 64bit cpu. (Linux debian 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux). I noticed your answer on this thread. an amd64 processor will work with the

Re: GUI lock-up after accessing unmounted samba share

2006-07-09 Thread BBVoda
Yeah, thanks, I did try all that you are suggesting, except trying to connect over LAN or with a separate com port console. This why you see a "non-clean" reboot. I ask this question here exactly because I have exhausted all the software means I know to determine the cause : First I tried to get

Re: Testing and honesty

2006-07-09 Thread Andre Carezia
Carl Fink escreveu: > The thing is, the Debian Project is set up to guarantee that Stable will > never actually be usable. [...] > > I run Stable on the servers I administer, but 100% of them have to use some > hand-compiled or backported software, or they'd be unusable. Maybe you should think a

Re: rhythmbox

2006-07-09 Thread Adam Hardy
Hans van Middendorp on 04/07/06 19:38, wrote: On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:20:36 +0100 Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hans van Middendorp on 02/07/06 21:28, wrote: On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 15:48:20 +0100 Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thomas Jollans on 02/07/06 15:05, wrote: Adam Hardy wro

Re: sendmail setup

2006-07-09 Thread LeVA
2006. július 9. 12:44, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> debian-user ,[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi folks, > I just got a new isp. old smtp was at smtp.pipeline.com. using port 25 and > sendmail. new isp uses outgoing.yahoo.verizon.net and port 587 > authenticated? how does one do this with debian comman

sendmail setup

2006-07-09 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi folks, I just got a new isp. old smtp was at smtp.pipeline.com. using port 25 and sendmail. new isp uses outgoing.yahoo.verizon.net and port 587 authenticated? how does one do this with debian commands like dpkg-recongure sendmail? this didn't do anything. I tried to change /etc/sendmail/sendma

Re: Segmentation faulty Tree - aptitude

2006-07-09 Thread jb701
Many thanks - I've tracked down the problem to two corrupted files - "available" and "status". Copied across the "status-old" and "available-old" versions and it all seems to work OK. It seems as though the faulty memory caused this corruption [not surprisging I suppose] one way or another -

hdparm.conf and udev - options gets ignored

2006-07-09 Thread LeVA
Hi! I've set up some global (default) options in /etc/hdparm.conf and I'm using udev. Now the README.debian says, that if I'm using udev then I shouldn't be worried, because the /etc/udev/hdparm.rules rules file does the hard work, and sets the options upon device creation. Unfortunately this i

Re: Howto add firewire printer ???

2006-07-09 Thread Roger Leigh
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > helices wrote: >> * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:07:08:19:12:57-0500] >> scribed: >>> helices wrote: I have a printer and a workstation that are both firewire/ieee1394 capable. dmesg shows that ieee1394 is resident. Sett

Re: Mount a CD-ROM automatically

2006-07-09 Thread Willie Wonka
Henrique Rennó wrote: > Hello!!! > > I'd like to know if it is possible to mount a cd-rom automatically > when I put a cd in the cd-rom drive without needing to type mount > /mnt/cdrom for instance. > > Do I have to add some options to /etc/fstab instead of auto that tells > to mount just at boot

Re: DNS and resolv.conf

2006-07-09 Thread Seeker5528
On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 06:11:43 -0300 Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) Do ISPs change DNS addresses often? Is there a way to detect it when > it happens, so I don't have to call them up for the new one every time > it happens? They shouldn't change very often. Usually you can connect to

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris wrote: > On Sunday 09 July 2006 03:20, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Rich Johnson wrote: >>> The only philosophical basis is that 2.4 it is what the installer >>> installs...and that dist-upgrade doesn't see fit to upgrade it. >> Kernel 2.6 is "hidden",

Re: Mount a CD-ROM automatically

2006-07-09 Thread Seeker5528
On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:43:11 +0100 Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Even if you are not running Gnome you can still use > >gnome-volume-manager+pmount, you just have to add it to your .xsession > >file, ~.kde/autostart directory, run it and save your session, or > >whatever is necessa

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-09 Thread Chris
On Sunday 09 July 2006 03:20, Ron Johnson wrote: > Rich Johnson wrote: > > The only philosophical basis is that 2.4 it is what the installer > > installs...and that dist-upgrade doesn't see fit to upgrade it. > > Kernel 2.6 is "hidden", but running linux26 would install a 2.6 > kernel. At the CD

Re: list of problem

2006-07-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 john znuck wrote: > hi folks, got a list of problems on hand. > > 1. mouse hang if i don't move it about during boot. > 2. after boot, with ps -e, i see 6 apaches2 processes. Maybe it's supposed to be like that, if your config file specifies 6 threa