Fwd: Header files amd64 etch

2007-06-29 Thread Francesco Pietra
Probably I have found the way with apt-cache search (show) xorg-dev V 1:7.1.0-16 fp --- Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:00:52 -0700 (PDT) > From: Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Header files amd64 etch > To: debian-users , > debian64

Header files amd64 etch

2007-06-29 Thread Francesco Pietra
A mixed compilation (ifort/gcc 4.1.2) of Amber9 on amd64 etch dual-core-opterons (Linux deb32 2.6.18-3-k7 #1 SMP Mon Dec 4 17:23:11 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux) requests the following header files; WcActCB.c:22:28: error: X11/IntrinsicP.h: No such file or directory WcActCB.c:29:24: error: X11/ShellP.h

Re: Issues dist-upgrading Etch to Lenny - 1 week old

2007-06-29 Thread David Fox
please post up the libgphoto problem again... It was a bit long to post but it's in there somewhere - i'm having issues with jadetex and other packages as well, but those are not all that big of a deal. I do most of my camera work either with digikam or by browsing the camera card in konquero

Re: Get rid of KDE / Gnome desktop manager

2007-06-29 Thread - Tong -
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:57:11 +, rocky wrote: > Can any of you > tell me how can I get rid of the Desktop manager please? To remove all of KDE packages: http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/distro/debian/deb08-DpkgRelated/ar01s03.html#_remove_all_of_KDE_packages i.e., apt-get remove li

Re: Updating without Apt

2007-06-29 Thread John Hasler
Andrew Gray writes: > I love Debian. I love apt. The Debian/Apt combination has allowed me to use > software I would have never before dreamed to be possible to use. I'm quite > content with my system at the moment. My problem comes when a piece of > software that I use with frequency is updated by

resolv.conf wrongly gets Belkin router's address

2007-06-29 Thread Kent West
I replaced a dead router the other day with a new Belkin F5D7230-4 wireless/4-port unit. When networking starts on my Etch box, /etc/resolv.conf gets rewritten like so: search hydroplatenet nameserver 192.168.2.1 nameserver 208.180.42.68 nameserver 208.180.42.100 Web browsing (and other name

Re: FileSystem Question

2007-06-29 Thread Sam Leon
Manon Metten wrote: Hi, On my Debian GNU/Linux box I use ext3 file system. On my other platform (AmigaOS) I use SmartFileSystem (SFS). Well, I don't know nothing about file systems, but SFS has one feature I really miss in ext3: ".recycled". Every file I delete or every file I overwrite, ends

Re: Updating without Apt

2007-06-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 06:27:23PM -0700, Andrew Gray wrote: > My name is Andrew, and I use Debian Lenny on an x86 machine. > [...] > The software in question is emacs22. Currently I have it compiled in my > home directory at ~/source/emacs/, where I run it directly out of the > src directory.

Re: web proxy settings

2007-06-29 Thread David Ondzes
On 6/29/07, David Ondzes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:15 pm, Jeff D wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, David Ondzes wrote: > >>> /etc/apt# find . | xargs grep proxy_server >> >> Did not find "proxy_server" in any of the files below /etc/apt >> >> On 6/29/07, Pol Hallen <[EMAIL

Updating without Apt

2007-06-29 Thread Andrew Gray
My name is Andrew, and I use Debian Lenny on an x86 machine. I love Debian. I love apt. The Debian/Apt combination has allowed me to use software I would have never before dreamed to be possible to use. I'm quite content with my system at the moment. My problem comes when a piece of software t

[SOLVED]: No Sound After Playing XMMS

2007-06-29 Thread TW
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:21:52AM -0600, TW wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 11:51:29AM -0600, TW wrote: Hi, After playing music with the XMMS application, I seem to be unable to hear sound after closing the XMMS app

Re: restarting pump (DHCP) automatically when network unavailable at boot time

2007-06-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-06-29 12:50:14 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-06-28 15:17:45 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Change the 'auto eth0' line to 'allow-hotplug eth0' instead. That > > triggers the dhcp to happen when the device becomes available. That > > will probably workaround whatever problem you ar

Re: testing if Ubuntu deb file for ASCEND works in Debian....

2007-06-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I tried installing it on the i386 machine at work and I discovered that it > needs llibsundials-serial0, python-matplotlib python-numpy and libktable. > I couldn't find the sundial libraries anywhere in Synaptic in Etch 4.0 r(0) > i386. Maybe they ar

Re: FileSystem Question

2007-06-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 06:45:03PM +, Manon Metten wrote: > > It's definitely no ordinary backup or RAID. It even works with a single hd. > SFS takes care of all this. I don't have to backup anything. SFS just > writes all subsequent copies of a file to different locations on the hd and > mo

Re: The Perfect Linux gaming Box

2007-06-29 Thread Nick Lidakis
Orestes leal wrote: Hi Folks, I want that some of the members of the group comments something about hard core gaming boxes under Linux, what kind of configuration I need to play *ALL* Titles and *ALL* forms of games, 3d games like Doom3, etc in linux with a performance closely like win32 and Dir

Re: new disk results in boot problem

2007-06-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 12:01:00PM +0200, nicals wahlgren wrote: > Normally I am using one sata disk, no problem to boot from it. (using > amd64 and sid, kernel 2.6.21.2-amd64) > But when I add another sata or ide disk from old Debian systems the > system ends up in initramfs. > BIOS still says i

Re: have to learn python

2007-06-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:21:50AM +0200, Dan H wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:19:05 +0200 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you already are familiar with the above listed languages, then > > learning python should be no problem > > or: not necessary > > > at all. > I think we ar

Re: apt-get install problem

2007-06-29 Thread Nick Adie
Karl & Daniel The apt-get --purge remove On 6/29/07, Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:42:20AM +0100, Nick Adie wrote: > > Hi > > > > I ran: apt-get install mediawiki [OK] > > i ran: apt-get remove --purge mediawiki [OK] > > So far, so good > > > I then

Re: archive corrupted !

2007-06-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 08:13:16PM +0200, sfantar wrote: > > > > I use tar (tar -cvvf) to compress this archive. It's not a file, it's an > archive .tar.gz. if, as you claim, you used 'tar -cvvf' to make the archive then its not gzip'ed and doesn't need the -z flag to untar it, despite how it

Re: No Internet, but Email

2007-06-29 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Friday 29 June 2007, TW wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe it's just my day. I'm trying to get onto the internet but I > can't. I do netstat and see that I'm receiving packets. I'm able to > get on email (obviously). Did I mess something up? It happened after I > did the chkrootkit command. I don'

[SOLVED]: No Internet, but Email

2007-06-29 Thread TW
TW wrote: Hi, Maybe it's just my day. I'm trying to get onto the internet but I can't. I do netstat and see that I'm receiving packets. I'm able to get on email (obviously). Did I mess something up? It happened after I did the chkrootkit command. I don't think this is on the IP's end

Re: Iceweasel and Icedove not showing main window

2007-06-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:23:34 +0300, Fabrice Colliot wrote: > Hi, > After upgrading from testing to unstable my mozilla apps are not showing > their main window. > The processes are running, icedove even ask me for my email password but > their's nothing else. > > I tried to remove old .mozilla

Re: How to move the master boot record?

2007-06-29 Thread Bob McGowan
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: If I understand correctly, you have Sarge on a partition that you want to preserve, while using a second partition on the same disk to install Etch. Yes, that's right. Once you're

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-29 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:23:20 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 6/28/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:13:38 +0300 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > [...] > > > anyway, IMHO: even if RTF is "open" under some interpretation it's not > > > to be used as a critical c

No Internet, but Email

2007-06-29 Thread TW
Hi, Maybe it's just my day. I'm trying to get onto the internet but I can't. I do netstat and see that I'm receiving packets. I'm able to get on email (obviously). Did I mess something up? It happened after I did the chkrootkit command. I don't think this is on the IP's end. Anyone

Re: backports

2007-06-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 10:25:05 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > $ gpg --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg --keyring > > /usr/share/keyrings/debian-backports-keyring.gpg --check-sig 16BA136C > > pub 1024D/16BA136C 2005-08-21 > > uid Back

sound and twinkle

2007-06-29 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, I know the bug #420138 (twinkle) but it's not fixed for me with a laptop acer aspire 5102wmli. My dist: unstable, kernel 2.6.18-4-amd64 apt-cache show twinkle | grep Vers: Version: 1:1.0.1-1 I encounter a problem when I launch twinkle, I get: Cannot access the ring tone device (ALSA: plu

Re: FileSystem Question

2007-06-29 Thread Manon Metten
On 6/29/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now after saving for the fifth time, I realize that I had accidentally deleted some vital info. How can I retrieve that? I just open eg. .recycled/my_doc$AAB, copy the info that was not deleted at that time and paste it in my current doc. N

Re: ipw3945d starts but not detecting the hardware...

2007-06-29 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 07:32:15AM +0200, bejnet wrote: > > I compiled from scratch - getting tar of ipw3945-1.2.1.tgz, > ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2.tgz and ipw3945d-1.7.22.tgz. > > # ps | grep ipw > 3961 pts/000:00:00 ipw3945d > > # lsmod | grep ipw

Re: FileSystem Question

2007-06-29 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi. Manon Metten, 29.06.2007 19:06: > Now after saving for the fifth time, I realize that I had accidentally > deleted some > vital info. How can I retrieve that? I just open eg. .recycled/my_doc$AAB, > copy > the info that was not deleted at that time and paste it in my current doc. > > Now here

Re: archive corrupted !

2007-06-29 Thread sfantar
Martin Marcher wrote: hmm in my mind there were some sentences below :), anyway file reports that is indeed a gzipped tar? maybe just some extension weirdness... If it is a backup script test run it to be sure it doesn't do some redirection badness and simply creates corrupted files because it

Re: archive corrupted !

2007-06-29 Thread sfantar
Dan H wrote: On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:50:38 +0200 Till Wimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ah ok, i think this is a misunderstanding... The your archive file home-20-06-2007-05-55.tar.gz is corrupt, not a single file in it. "unexpected end of file" means that gzip cannot handle the zip file co

pb with locales

2007-06-29 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, When I try to install a package a receive the following warning. I am using the french language and the qwerty keyboard. bela# dpkg-reconfigure locales perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (un

Re: /dev/pts/

2007-06-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:02:29 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'd like use write and talk(d) in jail env. > When an user is logged, his don't have any tty (tty: not a tty). > > I assume it's a /proc/ problem. > > In /proc/self/fd/ every users had a symblic links to own pts > > How c

Re: ipw3945d starts but not detecting the hardware...

2007-06-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 07:32:15 +0200, bejnet wrote: > > I compiled from scratch - getting tar of ipw3945-1.2.1.tgz, > ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2.tgz and ipw3945d-1.7.22.tgz. > > [b]# ps | grep ipw[/b] > 3961 pts/000:00:00 ipw3945d > > [b]# lsmod | grep ipw[/b] > ipw3945 174016 1 > i

Re: How to move the master boot record?

2007-06-29 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On my PC, besides the swap partition, I have one partition, hda1, for MS >>> Windows and another five for Linux: hda6, had7, hda8, hda9, hda10. >>> >>> At the moment the `boot partition' is hda6 and I want it to be, say, hda9. >>> Sorry if I can'y use

Re: network configuration issue - iptables

2007-06-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 11:07:01PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West on 25/06/07 04:27, wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 08:35:09PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > >>I have set up a network for our house using a gateway server with etch > >>and two NICs, eth1 for the internal network an

FileSystem Question

2007-06-29 Thread Manon Metten
Hi, On my Debian GNU/Linux box I use ext3 file system. On my other platform (AmigaOS) I use SmartFileSystem (SFS). Well, I don't know nothing about file systems, but SFS has one feature I really miss in ext3: ".recycled". Every file I delete or every file I overwrite, ends up in .recycled. This

Re: apt-get install problem

2007-06-29 Thread Nick Adie
On 6/29/07, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:42:20AM +0100, Nick Adie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I ran: apt-get install mediawiki [OK] > i ran: apt-get remove --purge mediawiki [OK] > > I then in hind sight did a 'stupid' and removed the leftover

Re: How to move the master boot record?

2007-06-29 Thread Bob McGowan
Joe Hart wrote: On Friday 29 June 2007 15:33:09 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In my computer the master boot record is installed in /dev/hda6. Suppose I want to move it and have it installed in /dev/hda9: is it possible, and how? "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL P

Re: It was new to me, even if it was 3 years old...

2007-06-29 Thread ndemou
On 6/29/07, Bert Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-cache madison ... > apt-cache's madison [...] > [...] Don't you think the list will be able to read the apt-cache manpage? (; I surely prefer that he did - I hate it when I see a URL or any other reference without a hint as to what

kdevelop : subversion support ?

2007-06-29 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello to All, well, as written in the subject, is there any Subversion support or interface from Kdevelop ? I tried to 'google' this matter but (surprisingly) find nothing concluant ... Thanks. Bye, Bruno -- PGP key ID: 0x2e604d51 Key : http://www.costacurta.org/keys/bruno_costacurta_pgp_key.

Re: No Sound After Playing XMMS

2007-06-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:21:52AM -0600, TW wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 11:51:29AM -0600, TW wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >> After playing music with the XMMS application, I seem to be unable > >>to hear sound after closing the XMMS app and going to watch vid

Re: opinions on package descriptions

2007-06-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 01:02:42PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Hi, > > I use "apt-cache search" when I'm looking for a package which may suit > my needs. I was amused to get: > > $ apt-cache search power | wc -l > 791 > > $ apt-cache search "power " | wc -l > 159 > > $ apt-cache search " po

Re: No Sound After Playing XMMS

2007-06-29 Thread TW
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 11:51:29AM -0600, TW wrote: Hi, After playing music with the XMMS application, I seem to be unable to hear sound after closing the XMMS app and going to watch videos at Google Video (or anywhere else on the web). I've looked over the net

Re: No Sound After Playing XMMS

2007-06-29 Thread TW
TW wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 11:51:29AM -0600, TW wrote: Hi, After playing music with the XMMS application, I seem to be unable to hear sound after closing the XMMS app and going to watch videos at Google Video (or anywhere else on the web). is i

Re: web proxy settings

2007-06-29 Thread David Ondzes
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:15 pm, Jeff D wrote: On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, David Ondzes wrote: /etc/apt# find . | xargs grep proxy_server Did not find "proxy_server" in any of the files below /etc/apt On 6/29/07, Pol Hallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All. I installed my debian while behind

Re: GRUB not loading kernel image

2007-06-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 03:23:52PM +0200, Kim Christensen wrote: > Hey list, > > I came across a really pesky problem when installing Debian on one of > our servers today. An installation like any other, with our standard > setup: [...] > /dev/sda3 reiserfs (the rest) > > The installation went

Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working [SOLVED]

2007-06-29 Thread Chris Lale
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 12:39:48 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > > [...] > >> Both machines have Etch up to date. >> >> The laptop has /dev/dsp, the affected desktop does not. Perhaps this device >> is >> needed by alsa for the affected applications? I tried to create the devi

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Re: web proxy settings

2007-06-29 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, David Ondzes wrote: /etc/apt# find . | xargs grep proxy_server Did not find "proxy_server" in any of the files below /etc/apt On 6/29/07, Pol Hallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All. I installed my debian while behind a web proxy and now > I want to run it with a

Re: web proxy settings

2007-06-29 Thread David Ondzes
/etc/apt# find . | xargs grep proxy_server Did not find "proxy_server" in any of the files below /etc/apt On 6/29/07, Pol Hallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All. I installed my debian while behind a web proxy and now > I want to run it with a direct connection. What config file do I n

Trouble configuring an Hp Officejet 6310 with Etch

2007-06-29 Thread Keith Christian
Running Debian Etch. I've had this 6310 all in one Officejet working with Etch before but it doesn't work after I installed Etch on a different machine. The printer has been working fine with the previous Etch system and with Windows. 1. /usr/bin/hp-setup says: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ~>sudo

Re: It was new to me, even if it was 3 years old...

2007-06-29 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:40:15AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 01:43:20AM -0700, Bert Schulze wrote: > > > apt-cache madison ... Thanks, Kevin. I, for one, haven't yet discovered a workable method of tracking updates to all the man pages on my system. -- Paul E Condon

Re: samba q

2007-06-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Owen Townend wrote: Hugo, First step is probably ensuring that you have encrypt passwords = true set as a [global] option, if you're using swat then it's a check box on the main config page. Try that first, hopefully it fixes the problem. I don't know why that doesn't

Re: It was new to me, even if it was 3 years old...

2007-06-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 01:43:20AM -0700, Bert Schulze wrote: > > apt-cache madison ... > > apt-cache's madison command attempts to mimic the output format and > > a subset of the functionality of the Debian archive management tool, > > madison. It displays available versions of a package in a

Re: testing if Ubuntu deb file for ASCEND works in Debian....

2007-06-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:46:18AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > >From: Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: testing if Ubuntu deb file for ASCEND works in Debian > >Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:20:24 -0700 > > > >On Mon, 2007-25-06 at 1

Re: Detecting disk drives from an installation script

2007-06-29 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-06-20 11:54:02, schrieb Orestes leal: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:29:12 +0200 > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you tell me which version of "fdisk" you are using? > > "fdisk -l" returns nothing at all (¶USER or root) > > fdisk v2.12r :-/ I have v2.12p Thanks, Greetings

Re: web proxy settings

2007-06-29 Thread Pol Hallen
> Hello All. I installed my debian while behind a web proxy and now > I want to run it with a direct connection. What config file do I need > to change to remove the proxy info I entered during install. My system > is headless so I will need a command line way of removing the > information. Hi, i'm

Re: lenny: KDE menus disappeared after upgrade

2007-06-29 Thread dijlle
I noticed in the meanwhile that /var/cache was full. After resolving this, and running an aptitude dist-upgrade again, my problem is solved :-) Regards, Jeroen On Jun 29, 3:10 pm, "Jeroen Dijkmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I performed an dist-upgrade of my lenny system this morni

Re: libneon25, or libneon26?

2007-06-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 06:55:19AM -0700, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > I understand how aptitude handles automatically installed packages. > Since I have always used aptitude on this box my question, I suppose, is > why is libneon26 still insta

Re: libneon25, or libneon26?

2007-06-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: Aptitude is clever. If nothing depends on libneon26, and it's not one of the packages that you specifically wanted installed, then it's a candidate for removal. Sounds like you had something installed (at some point) that needed libneon26, but that "something" has bee

Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working

2007-06-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 29 June 2007 13:39, Chris Lale wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions, Nigel. > > Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Thursday 28 June 2007 12:08, Chris Lale wrote: > >> Some of my Etch sound apps have stopped working: Audacity, RealPlayer > >> 10, XMMS. Others continue to work OK: gxine, mplayer, VLC

Re: How to move the master boot record?

2007-06-29 Thread Joe Hart
On Friday 29 June 2007 15:33:09 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In my computer the master boot record is installed in /dev/hda6. > >> Suppose I want to move it and have it installed in /dev/hda9: is it > >> possible, and how? > > "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL P

Re: How to move the master boot record?

2007-06-29 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In my computer the master boot record is installed in /dev/hda6. Suppose I >> want to move it and have it installed in /dev/hda9: is it possible, and how? "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is only one master boot record per dri

Re: apt-get install problem

2007-06-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:42:20AM +0100, Nick Adie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I ran: apt-get install mediawiki [OK] > i ran: apt-get remove --purge mediawiki [OK] > > I then in hind sight did a 'stupid' and removed the leftover folders and > files. > > When I now run: apt-get insta

GRUB not loading kernel image

2007-06-29 Thread Kim Christensen
Hey list, I came across a really pesky problem when installing Debian on one of our servers today. An installation like any other, with our standard setup: * 3ware 9550SX-4LP RAID controller * 2x Western Digital WD5000YS drives in RAID1 As this was only to be used for temporary storage, I didn't

lenny: KDE menus disappeared after upgrade

2007-06-29 Thread Jeroen Dijkmans
Hello, I performed an dist-upgrade of my lenny system this morning. After that, I noticed that starting up my wife's KDE, gives a lot of trouble. I get the following two error pop-ups: Malformed url file://home/mywife/Desktop Malformed url system:/ After which I get the desktop, but all men

Re: Any ksh Raw binaries Out there that work for linux i386?

2007-06-29 Thread Orestes leal
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:34:36 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ore writes: > > > > I know that it's in the repository but I need the raw binary for 386. > > Why? > > I am afraid only statically linked binary can do that since many distros use > different libraries. It

Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working

2007-06-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 12:39:48 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: [...] > Both machines have Etch up to date. > > The laptop has /dev/dsp, the affected desktop does not. Perhaps this device is > needed by alsa for the affected applications? I tried to create the device > with > > # cd /dev; ./MA

web proxy settings

2007-06-29 Thread David Ondzes
Hello All. I installed my debian while behind a web proxy and now I want to run it with a direct connection. What config file do I need to change to remove the proxy info I entered during install. My system is headless so I will need a command line way of removing the information. Thanks David

Re: new disk results in boot problem

2007-06-29 Thread michael
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 12:01 +0200, nicals wahlgren wrote: > Normally I am using one sata disk, no problem to boot from it. (using > amd64 and sid, kernel 2.6.21.2-amd64) > But when I add another sata or ide disk from old Debian systems the > system ends up in initramfs. > BIOS still says it boots

Re: Some ALSA apps stopped working

2007-06-29 Thread Chris Lale
Thanks for the suggestions, Nigel. Nigel Henry wrote: > On Thursday 28 June 2007 12:08, Chris Lale wrote: >> Some of my Etch sound apps have stopped working: Audacity, RealPlayer 10, >> XMMS. Others continue to work OK: gxine, mplayer, VLC Media Player. > > Hi Chris. Is this [...] an existing ins

Re: syslog-ng and etch

2007-06-29 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Jun 29, 2007 at 20:44:17 +1000, Robert S wrote: > I would like to replace syslog with syslog-ng on Etch. Am I likely to run > into any problems with breakages etc if I do this? No. Steve -- # Kink-Friendly Dating http://ctrl-alt-date.com/ -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Can't see my bootsplash image.

2007-06-29 Thread Kun Niu
Dear all, I've just install bootsplash package on my system. And I have fb module installed on my system. I can see fb0 under /dev. I also install the bootsplash debian theme package. I updated my initramfs. The corrresponding default series images can be seen. But when the system boots, I can on

Re: restarting pump (DHCP) automatically when network unavailable at boot time

2007-06-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-06-28 15:17:45 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Change the 'auto eth0' line to 'allow-hotplug eth0' instead. That > triggers the dhcp to happen when the device becomes available. That > will probably workaround whatever problem you are experiencing. The > allow-hotplug is now the default in Et

Re: apt-get install problem

2007-06-29 Thread Nick Adie
Karl, Thanks Nick On 6/29/07, Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:42:20AM +0100, Nick Adie wrote: > Hi > > I ran: apt-get install mediawiki [OK] > i ran: apt-get remove --purge mediawiki [OK] So far, so good > I then in hind sight did a 'stupid' and remo

Re: apt-get install problem

2007-06-29 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:42:20AM +0100, Nick Adie wrote: > Hi > > I ran: apt-get install mediawiki [OK] > i ran: apt-get remove --purge mediawiki [OK] So far, so good > I then in hind sight did a 'stupid' and removed the leftover folders and > files. Which ones? > When I now run: apt-get

syslog-ng and etch

2007-06-29 Thread Robert S
I would like to replace syslog with syslog-ng on Etch. Am I likely to run into any problems with breakages etc if I do this? TIA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

new disk results in boot problem

2007-06-29 Thread nicals wahlgren
Normally I am using one sata disk, no problem to boot from it. (using amd64 and sid, kernel 2.6.21.2-amd64) But when I add another sata or ide disk from old Debian systems the system ends up in initramfs. BIOS still says it boots from original disk. How do I keep the system to boot from origina

Re: testing if Ubuntu deb file for ASCEND works in Debian....

2007-06-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: testing if Ubuntu deb file for ASCEND works in Debian Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:20:24 -0700 On Mon, 2007-25-06 at 13:54 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Sorry, this was meant fort the list.. :) > Dear De

Re: It was new to me, even if it was 3 years old...

2007-06-29 Thread Bert Schulze
> apt-cache madison ... > apt-cache's madison command attempts to mimic the output format and > a subset of the functionality of the Debian archive management tool, > madison. It displays available versions of a package in a tabular > format. Unlike the original madison, it can only display in

Re: No Sound After Playing XMMS

2007-06-29 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 11:51:29AM -0600, TW wrote: > Hi, > >After playing music with the XMMS application, I seem to be unable > to hear sound after closing the XMMS app and going to watch videos at > Google Video (or anywhere else on the web). I've looked over the net > and couldn't find

Re: libneon25, or libneon26?

2007-06-29 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 06:49:35PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I have an Etch system that I keep up to date with nightly downloads > using cron-apt and doing a manual 'aptitude upgrade' every few days. A > few days ago I noticed that OOo was being held back. A little research > showed that it

apt-get install problem

2007-06-29 Thread Nick Adie
Hi I ran: apt-get install mediawiki [OK] i ran: apt-get remove --purge mediawiki [OK] I then in hind sight did a 'stupid' and removed the leftover folders and files. When I now run: apt-get install mediawiki It searches the repository tells me everything is OK and installs nothing. How do I r

Re: Any ksh Raw binaries Out there that work for linux i386?

2007-06-29 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > Ore writes: > > > I know that it's in the repository but I need the raw binary for 386. Why? I am afraid only statically linked binary can do that since many distros use different libraries. It will be huge and not flexible, andc even that might not work on some distros with special environme

Re: archive corrupted !

2007-06-29 Thread Dan H
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:50:38 +0200 Till Wimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah ok, i think this is a misunderstanding... > > The your archive file home-20-06-2007-05-55.tar.gz is corrupt, not > a single file in it. > "unexpected end of file" means that gzip cannot handle the zip file > correctly

Iceweasel and Icedove not showing main window

2007-06-29 Thread Fabrice Colliot
Hi, After upgrading from testing to unstable my mozilla apps are not showing their main window. The processes are running, icedove even ask me for my email password but their's nothing else. I tried to remove old .mozilla and .mozilla-thunderbird from my home directory but it did not help. I als

Re: have to learn python

2007-06-29 Thread Dan H
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:19:05 +0200 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you already are familiar with the above listed languages, then > learning python should be no problem or: not necessary > at all. --D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

/dev/pts/

2007-06-29 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi folks, I'd like use write and talk(d) in jail env. When an user is logged, his don't have any tty (tty: not a tty). I assume it's a /proc/ problem. In /proc/self/fd/ every users had a symblic links to own pts How can I create this in jail env? I did many and many attempt.. Pol -- To UN