Re: etch/EVMS upgrade to lenny

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/18 Oliver Dr. Muth : > Hi Adrian > > thanks for the quick reply. > >> Are the partitions Native EVMS or are they normal partitions accessed >> through the /dev/evms/ mount points? > Most of them are native EVMS, because I occasionally used the snapshot > function. They are EVMS on LVM2 on a

Re: label swap partition

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/18 : > I'm trying to prepare my etch system for upgrade, and am converting to > labels in fstab. > > I tried to label my swap partition (which is swap type in part table) by doing > mkswap -L rootswap /dev/hda1 (the current dev name of my swap partition) > > but swapon -L rootswap says it

Re: etch/EVMS upgrade to lenny

2009-02-17 Thread Oliver Dr. Muth
Hi Adrian thanks for the quick reply. > Are the partitions Native EVMS or are they normal partitions accessed > through the /dev/evms/ mount points? Most of them are native EVMS, because I occasionally used the snapshot function. They are EVMS on LVM2 on a software RAID. I could probably convert

Is there a way to recover network-manager wep keys without network manager

2009-02-17 Thread Micha Feigin
I moved to wicd some time ago from network manger and I have a wep key to a network I used to work with some time ago tucked away with network-manager that is no longer installed. Is there a way to recover that key? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Can't update Testing system

2009-02-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:30:37PM -0500, JoeHill was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 09:18:55PM -0500, JoeHill was > > heard to say: > > > dpkg: error > > > processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libsox-fmt-base_14.2.0-1_i386.deb > > > (--unpack): trying to ove

Re: Are squeeze weekly CDs being produced yet?

2009-02-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:48:41AM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > 2009/2/18 Rick Thomas > > > Same sort of thing for the weekly page > > > >http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ > > > > It mentions Lenny as if it were still testing. > > > > Rick > > > > On Feb 17, 2009, at 6:

[OT]: Label printer

2009-02-17 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Hi, I need a label printer. I was looking at this one: BROTHER Label Printer N&B P-Touch QL-500A Has anyone used it ? Or can you give me information on a label printer that you use under debian? Thank you. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Older Debian Linux version hangs when detecting hardware

2009-02-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:23:29PM -0700, Martin Willcocks wrote: > Hi Greg and Douglas: Martin, don't cc me; I subscribe to the list. > floppy drives that is somehow corrected once Windows 98 has fully > booted, but which still affects booting from a floppy disk. I did try You can probably f

Re: Older Debian Linux version hangs when detecting hardware

2009-02-17 Thread Martin Willcocks
Hi Greg and Douglas: Many thanks for the additional information about diagnostics and the older Debian Linux. There is probably a hardware issue with one of the floppy drives that is somehow corrected once Windows 98 has fully booted, but which still affects booting from a floppy disk. I did

Re: Are squeeze weekly CDs being produced yet?

2009-02-17 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/2/18 Rick Thomas > Same sort of thing for the weekly page > >http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ > > It mentions Lenny as if it were still testing. > > Rick > > On Feb 17, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On the cdimage daily builds page >> >>http://cdim

label swap partition

2009-02-17 Thread marcslists
I'm trying to prepare my etch system for upgrade, and am converting to labels in fstab. I tried to label my swap partition (which is swap type in part table) by doing mkswap -L rootswap /dev/hda1 (the current dev name of my swap partition) but swapon -L rootswap says it can't find the label. i

Re: IPMI problem compiling linux 2.6.28.5 in Debian Way

2009-02-17 Thread whollygoat
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:02:37 +0100, "Adrian Chapela" said: > Thomas Preud'homme escribió: > > On Tuesday 17 February 2009 12:31:45 Adrian Chapela wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I am compiling Linux Kernel 2.6.28.5. > >> > > > > Where did you get the sources ? I first thought it could b

emacs and terminus, proggy and ttf-inconsolata fonts

2009-02-17 Thread H.S.
Hello, This is on Testing. In Emacs if I left-click the mouse button with the Shift key pressed, I get the Font Menu from which I can select some of the preset fonts (fixed, courier, etc.). I want to try terminus, proggy and ttf-inconsolata fonts. I can set terminus font by setting the Basic face

Re: testing or unstable?

2009-02-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 07:02:38 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I've been using Debian for more than three years now, but always using the > official DVDs of the most current stable version: first Sarge, and then > Etch. > > Recently, many times I've been needing to use a testing/unstable Debian > ver

Re: testing or unstable?

2009-02-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-02-17_13:02:38, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I've been using Debian for more than three years now, but always using the > official DVDs of the most current stable version: first Sarge, and then Etch. > > Recently, many times I've been needing to use a testing/unstable Debian > version > for ma

Re: Older Debian Linux version hangs when detecting hardware

2009-02-17 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 16 February 2009, Martin Willcocks wrote: > I have an older Debian Linux version that came with Corel WordPerfect > 8, and it had been working satisfactorily on my somewhat ancient 170MHz > Pentium computer system with 128Mb RAM, but Lilo stopped working about > a year ago. Despite sever

Re: KDE

2009-02-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 02:40:59 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Thanks Boyd, you have confirmed my findings and I will stick to doing my > mini installs and not installing desktop meta-packages. I've found that generally works best for me, but I still just use meta-package + extras when I'm installin

source device options for /etc/crypttab in Lenny?

2009-02-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
I'm just reading Lenny's release notes and have come to the section that discusses device renaming. I have root=LABEL=root so after an upgrade I should be able to boot. However, I have some directories mounted with cryptsetup. In Etch's cryptsetup and crypttab man pages I don't see any indicati

Re: Restoring file permissions from package database?

2009-02-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:45:30AM +0100, Oliver Schneider wrote: > is there any way in Debian (4.0 or 5.0) to restore the file > permissions - mainly of files inside /etc/ - from the cached packages > or the package database or so? > > The only other chance I see - without reinstalling - would be

Restoring file permissions from package database?

2009-02-17 Thread Oliver Schneider
Hi, is there any way in Debian (4.0 or 5.0) to restore the file permissions - mainly of files inside /etc/ - from the cached packages or the package database or so? The only other chance I see - without reinstalling - would be to install all those packages into a dummy installation (e.g. in a

Are squeeze weekly CDs being produced yet?

2009-02-17 Thread Rick Thomas
Same sort of thing for the weekly page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ It mentions Lenny as if it were still testing. Rick On Feb 17, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: On the cdimage daily builds page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/ there

Re: Lenny upgrade: Failed to load modules "ati" and "typ1" when starting X. No drivers available

2009-02-17 Thread S D
--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > [pparis...@spartacos][~]$ > id -a > uid=1000(pparissis) gid=1000(pparissis) > groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),34(backup),40(src),44(video),46(plugdev),1000(pparissis) > [pparis...@spartacos][~]$ which xvidtune > /usr/bin/xvidt

Are squeeze daily CDs being produced yet?

2009-02-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On the cdimage daily builds page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/ there is mention of Lenny and Sid, but no mention of squeeze. Is that a bug? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: Lenny upgrade: Failed to load modules "ati" and "typ1" when starting X. No drivers available

2009-02-17 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:06:48 -0800 (PST) S D wrote: > --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > > > You don't need root access in order to run that > > command. > > True, but if I run it as a regular user, it gets even funnier: > > $ which xvidtune > /usr/bin/xvidtune > $ `which xvidtune`

Re: I can't mount pendrives or hard disks

2009-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2009 04:24 PM, Carlos Carrero Gutierrez wrote: The message is *option invalid trying to mount "anyname"*. Curiously, one hard disk works, but the rest no. What could i do? i am using Debian lenny (i know that i am posting it in ubuntu too, but the systems are similars) Are you doing

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-17 Thread Khristian Alexander Schönrock
Adrian Levi escreveu: > 2009/2/18 Khristian Alexander Schönrock : > >> Adrian Levi escreveu: >> > > >>> This will let you reuse your existing partitions. >>> >>> >> That's the problem. I'm selecting the manual partitioning, but it >> doesn't list the existing partitions. The insta

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/17/2009 03:58 PM, H.S. wrote: >> >> Other than this, you will find this list very helpful. Searching google >> usually gives pretty good hits too. >> >> Coming from Fedora, it may be no useful to know that there is no >> runlevel (init x) command in Debian as there is in

I can't mount pendrives or hard disks

2009-02-17 Thread Carlos Carrero Gutierrez
The message is *option invalid trying to mount "anyname"*. Curiously, one hard disk works, but the rest no. What could i do? i am using Debian lenny (i know that i am posting it in ubuntu too, but the systems are similars) Thank you very much, I appreciatte your help.

Re: Upgrading to Lenny & 2.6.26: serverworks OSB4 IDE problem

2009-02-17 Thread Tim Day
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 13:26 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Don't know, maybe you can try to build a custom kernel with > CONFIG_PATA_SERVERWORKS (it is disabled in the Debian kernel) which > seems to be the PATA driver for your IDE controller. Yes that did the job; thanks for the tip. Instructions

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-02-17 23:07 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 17 February 2009 21:58:20 H.S. wrote: >> Coming from Fedora, it may be no useful to know that there is no >> runlevel (init x) command in Debian as there is in Fedora. Most common >> use for me of these commands was to restart the gui. In d

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2009 03:58 PM, H.S. wrote: Hello, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: Hi all, my first day on the list, usually, I use fedora, since fedora 1 (today's release is 10). Now, I'm trying Lenny. Downloaded netinst AMD64 but no GUI. Now, installing fglrx. Is there any short install guide (lik

Serious Error in Lenny Stable: X Server doesn't works when i reboot eight or nine times

2009-02-17 Thread Carlos Carrero Gutierrez
Hi, i have installed the DVD-1 Lenny stable (15 feb), and it works well. But when i try to reboot the computer eight times (more or less), the OS doesn't start anymore. I switch on the computer, i choose my partition, username and password, ok. Now, it appears (translated to english): There is a

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 21:58:20 H.S. wrote: > Coming from Fedora, it may be no useful to know that there is no > runlevel (init x) command in Debian as there is in Fedora. Most common > use for me of these commands was to restart the gui. In debian, almost > all such services are controlled sc

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I don't think Debian defaults to a GUI install, although there is one. Check the F-keys at the boot prompt. Lenny just became stable, the mirrors might be shaky. debian.org has manuals for instalations per architecture, those are extensive and suffice for newbies to the *nix world, so they'll sure

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread H.S.
Hello, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > Hi all, > > my first day on the list, usually, I use fedora, since fedora 1 (today's > release is 10). Now, I'm trying Lenny. Downloaded netinst AMD64 but no > GUI. Now, installing fglrx. > > Is there any short install guide (like http://www.fedorafaq.o

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2009 03:00 PM, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: Hi all, my first day on the list, usually, I use fedora, since fedora 1 (today's release is 10). Now, I'm trying Lenny. Downloaded netinst AMD64 but no GUI. Now, installing fglrx. netinst might not have a GUI installer? (The Lenny GUI l

error after testing update

2009-02-17 Thread Rick Pasotto
I updated a bunch of packages to the new testing today. I'm now getting the following error: Feb 17 15:02:28 niof spamd[25754]: Use of uninitialized value $NetAddr::IP::Util::n2d_format in sprintf at ../../blib/lib/NetAddr/IP/Util.pm (autosplit into ../../blib/lib/auto/NetAddr/IP/Util/ipv6_n2d.a

Re: Debian VPN IPSEC interface

2009-02-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 02:04:43PM +0100, Martin Hilpert wrote: > i need the ipsecX device for doing the routing stuff with quagga and for > Firewall rules I am not sure about quagga, but I used use ipsecX for firewall rules as well, but if you check out iptables there are new(? old by now) funct

Re: dvips update

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/17 Rodolfo Medina : > Does anyone know how I can update, in Etch, my old dvips(k) 5.95a with the > newest lenny dvips(k) 5.96.1? Otherwise I'll have to full-upgrade to lenny... > > Thanks for any help > Rodolfo Add lenny sources to your sources.list aptitude update aptitude install dvips(k

Re: etch/EVMS upgrade to lenny

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/18 Oliver Dr. Muth : > Hi > > Since lenny dropped support for EVMS I guess it would be fatal to just > dist-upgrade an etch system that is based on EVMS volumes. > However, I could not find anything on this issue in the release notes. > > Should I file this as a bug against the release note

Re: Belkin 54g Wireless Desktop Network Card

2009-02-17 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:19:50 + Martin Sewell wrote: > I'd be most grateful for any advice on how to get the following working > with Debian 2.6.18-6-486. > > Belkin 54g Wireless Desktop Network Card > model no. F5D7000 > version 1133uk We need the chipset information (lspci). Celejar -- m

Re: Problems with Lenny Installer

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/18 Khristian Alexander Schönrock : > Adrian Levi escreveu: >> This will let you reuse your existing partitions. >> > That's the problem. I'm selecting the manual partitioning, but it > doesn't list the existing partitions. The installer simply defaults to > the screen shown in > [http://img

Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-17 Thread Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo
Hi all, my first day on the list, usually, I use fedora, since fedora 1 (today's release is 10). Now, I'm trying Lenny. Downloaded netinst AMD64 but no GUI. Now, installing fglrx. Is there any short install guide (like http://www.fedorafaq.org/) you can suggest for a debian newbie? Thanks a lot

Re: Lenny upgrade: Failed to load modules "ati" and "typ1" when starting X. No drivers available

2009-02-17 Thread S D
--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > You don't need root access in order to run that > command. True, but if I run it as a regular user, it gets even funnier: $ which xvidtune /usr/bin/xvidtune $ `which xvidtune` Please install the program before using $ /usr/bin/xvidtune Please instal

[SOLVED] Re: Lenny upgrade: Can't mount mdadm RAID drive under kernel 2.6.26

2009-02-17 Thread S D
--- On Tue, 2/17/09, S D wrote: The issue was solved by: # rm -rf /var/lib/mdadm/CONF-UNCHECKED # update-initramfs -ut -k 2.6.26-1-686 See /usr/share/doc/mdadm/README.upgrading-2.5.3.gz for more details. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

power off without acpi

2009-02-17 Thread Engi Zoltán
Hi everybody, How can I shutdown my computer without acpi? In the grub menu, I have next line: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64 root=/dev/hdc6 ro acpi=off So, I can switch off acpi, but after "shutdown -h now" command the computer doesn't switch off. I get next message: "Sytem halted". I don't wa

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2009 02:19 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Clemens Eisserer wrote: That was my question after all. I would like to install "autossh", but apt detects some dependencies, including some package named "libc6". The package "libc6" seems to suggest libc6-i686, at least that what I understoo

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Clemens Eisserer
> It's just a "Suggest", so it won't be installed, unless you ask for it. > > So simply don't. The original command output shows that only > libc6 libedit2 libkeyutils1 libkrb53 libncurses5 libssl0.9.8 locales > openssh-client > will actually be installed. All other packages are just suggestions,

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Clemens Eisserer wrote: > That was my question after all. > > I would like to install "autossh", but apt detects some dependencies, > including some package named "libc6". > The package "libc6" seems to suggest libc6-i686, at least that what I > understood from your descriptions. > > The big questi

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Clemens Eisserer
> You're stressing out over nothing. It's obvious: your PC is a 586. > lib6-686 is designed for 686+; thus, don't install lib6-686. > > What the hell could be more obvious?? That was my question after all. I would like to install "autossh", but apt detects some dependencies, including some p

Re: Lenny upgrade: Failed to load modules "ati" and "typ1" when starting X. No drivers available

2009-02-17 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:08:26 -0800 (PST) S D wrote: > > > > --- On Tue, 2/17/09, pavlos.paris wrote: > > > Try the following > > 1) inside GNOME/KDE open a terminal and run > > xvidtune and tune the settings > > as you wish. Then click on show button, this will > > print on the terminal th

Re: [OT] Linux on the London Tube?

2009-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
Oops... 2009/2/17 Sam Kuper > It strikes me that a sticker bearing, say, "Get your ticket freedom at > www.debian.org" [...] > s/ticket freedom/ticket to freedom/

Re: [OT] Linux on the London Tube?

2009-02-17 Thread Sam Kuper
2009/2/17 Richard Lyons > I saw this ad on the tube recently, and was disappointed to find it wasn't > inviting people to migrate from the dark side > > http://the-place.net/penguin/migrate.jpg > > But maybe we should... > It strikes me that a sticker bearing, say, "Get your ticket freedom at ww

Re: Lenny upgrade: Failed to load modules "ati" and "typ1" when starting X. No drivers available

2009-02-17 Thread S D
--- On Tue, 2/17/09, pavlos.paris wrote: > Try the following > 1) inside GNOME/KDE open a terminal and run > xvidtune and tune the settings > as you wish. Then click on show button, this will > print on the terminal the setting to be used in > xorg.conf. Weird, when I try to run (as root)

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2009 01:50 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Is there any way to use libc6-i586? I don't think that there currently is such a beast. But after all, where does that libc6-i686 package come from? I installed Debian-3.1 on that machine, and when asking apt to install something, it should look

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Clemens Eisserer
>> Is there any way to use libc6-i586? > > I don't think that there currently is such a beast. But after all, where does that libc6-i686 package come from? I installed Debian-3.1 on that machine, and when asking apt to install something, it should look into Sarge's online repositories - and as far

Re: [OT] Linux on the London Tube?

2009-02-17 Thread Sholem Aleichem
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 7:43:37 pm Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 07:34:54PM +, Sholem Aleichem wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 February 2009 7:31:57 pm Jamie White wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Paulo Brito > > > > > > wrote: > > > > 2009/2/17 Richard Lyons > > > >

Re: [OT] Linux on the London Tube?

2009-02-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 07:34:54PM +, Sholem Aleichem wrote: > On Tuesday 17 February 2009 7:31:57 pm Jamie White wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Paulo Brito > > wrote: > > > > > 2009/2/17 Richard Lyons > > >> > > >> I saw this ad on the tube recently, and was disappointed to find

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2009 01:34 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: [snip] Is there any way to use libc6-i586? I don't think that there currently is such a beast. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: xen virtual network(solved)

2009-02-17 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Freddy Freeloader wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to create both frontend and backend networks in xen. By that I mean a publicly available network for internet access and a virtual network for communication between guests only that has no internet or other network access. Here's what I've

Re: [OT] Linux on the London Tube?

2009-02-17 Thread Sholem Aleichem
I liked that. Shame it wasn't for a GNU/Linux system. Not sure London underground adverts would do much good though. On Tuesday 17 February 2009 7:31:57 pm Jamie White wrote: > If only it was a Linux ad! > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Paulo Brito > > wrote: > > lol!! That's funny! > > > > 2

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, > Wow. Even your 2.4 kernel is old!! I never received a kernel update, although I did frequent "apt-get update/upgrade". And I don't want to update to a newer debian version, because that machine has onle 24mb RAM and who knows how well a new version of postgres or the kernel will cope with t

Re: [OT] Linux on the London Tube?

2009-02-17 Thread Jamie White
If only it was a Linux ad! On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Paulo Brito wrote: > lol!! That's funny! > > 2009/2/17 Richard Lyons > > I saw this ad on the tube recently, and was disappointed to find it wasn't >> inviting people to migrate from the dark side >> >> http://the-place.net/penguin/migr

Re: unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-17 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 02/16/2009 07:05 PM: On 02/16/2009 06:50 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: dgwicks:~# unzip -v UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP. It doesn't look like it has changed in the past five years, which makes me think it might be something else

Re: [OT] Linux on the London Tube?

2009-02-17 Thread Paulo Brito
lol!! That's funny! 2009/2/17 Richard Lyons > I saw this ad on the tube recently, and was disappointed to find it wasn't > inviting people to migrate from the dark side > > http://the-place.net/penguin/migrate.jpg > > But maybe we should... > > richard > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: make - doesn't find header file but file is available

2009-02-17 Thread H.S.
Benjamin Schmidt wrote: > Hello community > > Maybe this is one of the beginner questions answered more than a > thousand times without becoming visible in google search ;) > > Some projects to compile with gcc/make come with the script ./configure. > They are easy for me to build. But what I hav

[OT] Linux on the London Tube?

2009-02-17 Thread Richard Lyons
I saw this ad on the tube recently, and was disappointed to find it wasn't inviting people to migrate from the dark side http://the-place.net/penguin/migrate.jpg But maybe we should... richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Lenny upgrade Report

2009-02-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 04:15:15AM -0600, P. Lane wrote: [...] > Appaerently with exim4 you must accept the maintainers > new config file even if you don't want to. Otherwise it leaves the > DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF in the config which causes the error whitch cascades I had the same problem a coup

Re: Iceweasel blocking pop-ups

2009-02-17 Thread Dennis Wicks
Jonathan Kaye wrote the following on 02/17/2009 12:55 AM: tyler wrote: Dennis Wicks writes: Greetings; I turned off the popup blocker in IW but it seems to still be blocking them. I tried it in Iceweasel 3.0.6-1 and it doesn't work at all, even with the popup blocker turned off. No message

hyphenation

2009-02-17 Thread Ivan Petrov
I've noticed, that the automatic hyphenation doesn't work at my openoffice 2.4.1 on Debian Lenny (KDE if it is important). In "service - parameters - language options" "automatic hyphenation" is switched on. There are modules for hyphenation in /usr/share/myspell This is written in /etc/openoffi

make - doesn't find header file but file is available

2009-02-17 Thread Benjamin Schmidt
Hello community Maybe this is one of the beginner questions answered more than a thousand times without becoming visible in google search ;) Some projects to compile with gcc/make come with the script ./configure. They are easy for me to build. But what I have now is a project without it. An

Re: How to adjust margins in xpdf reader?

2009-02-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 06:57:46PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > How can I adjust the top and side margin at my pleasure in xpdf reader? I > couldn't find this issue in the xpdf man page. I've never found a direct way. I do it two ways: 1. Since I run on old hardware, some boxes are able

etch/EVMS upgrade to lenny

2009-02-17 Thread Oliver Dr. Muth
Hi Since lenny dropped support for EVMS I guess it would be fatal to just dist-upgrade an etch system that is based on EVMS volumes. However, I could not find anything on this issue in the release notes. Should I file this as a bug against the release notes? ;-) Or am I mistaken here? Is there

Re: where can i find gmake

2009-02-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 10:08:31 abdelkader belahcene wrote: > where can i find gmake, it is not a package by itself I thought "gmake" was what GNU Make installed as on the BSDs. Since Debian is Linux, you probably just want "make". You might want to 'ln -s make /usr/bin/gmake' if some scr

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:29:09 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/10/2009 07:58 PM, ow...@netptc.net wrote: >>> >>> >>> Original Message >>> From: m...@allums.com >>> To: ron.l.john...@cox.net >>> Subject: Re: Which programming Language Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 >>> 12:32:26 -0600 > [snip] >>

How to adjust margins in xpdf reader?

2009-02-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
How can I adjust the top and side margin at my pleasure in xpdf reader? I couldn't find this issue in the xpdf man page. Thanks for any help Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Older Debian Linux version hangs when detecting hardware

2009-02-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 07:06:28AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/17/2009 02:03 AM, Martin Willcocks wrote: > [snip] > > > >Error message? None, the installation simply hung. In the bottom right > >of the screen is a "spinning disk" graphic that stopped spinning about > >30 seconds into the

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:25:31 +0100, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: > HI, > There are many and many programming languages (mainly : C,C++,java, > Shell, Perl, python, php). which learn and use, in which circonstances > use that language instead of the other. > > In many situations we can use anyone,

Re: Debian Lenny 5 on Inspiron 1525

2009-02-17 Thread Michael Lansche
Hi Kenneth, Martin Kenneth Lopez tektonlabs.com> writes: > > Hi everybody, > > I just get Lenny 5 stable, but I don't know if anybody else have a > problem with the wifi, Lenny doesn't recognize the wifi card not even > with ndiswrappers any help will be appreciated, I already try > eve

Re: Can't update Testing system

2009-02-17 Thread JoeHill
Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 09:18:55PM -0500, JoeHill was > heard to say: > > dpkg: error > > processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libsox-fmt-base_14.2.0-1_i386.deb > > (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/sox/libsox_fmt_sndfile.so', which > > is also in package libsox-fmt

Re: Debian Lenny 5 on Inspiron 1525

2009-02-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Martin Kenneth Lopez wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I just get Lenny 5 stable, but I don't know if anybody else have a > problem with the wifi, Lenny doesn't recognize the wifi card not even > with ndiswrappers any help will be appreciated, I already try > everything. > It's hard to help if

Re: Yet another RAID admin question

2009-02-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Hendrik Boom [2009.02.17.1747 +0100]: > But I understand these partitions are marked in some way to > identify them as RAID members, and that these marks are used at > boot time to asssemble the RAID. > > What do I have to do to make sure that after I have removed the > old member it

Re: IPMI problem compiling linux 2.6.28.5 in Debian Way

2009-02-17 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 16:02:37 Adrian Chapela wrote: > > I downloaded the sources from www.kernel.org. But my problem starts with > 2.6.28. I can compile this version but now it is impossible. Then I > downloaded 2.6.28.5 and it is the same. This morning I have been > changing some packages f

Yet another RAID admin question

2009-02-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
I have successfully identified and decommissioned a failing RAID partition -- my RAID1 was then running properly with only one of its two twinned partitions. Every timr I booted, I got a message complaining that it was deficient. The drive with the failing partition was indeed defective, and

Re: mediawiki-extension -- README?

2009-02-17 Thread John W Foster
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 18:28 +0100, spa...@gmx.net wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install extensions using the 'mediawiki-extensions' package. > > There does not appear to be a 'README' in the package > http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/mediawiki-extensions/filelist > > ... and after searching

Re: Ruby 1.8.6 Source and Apt-Get Upgrade

2009-02-17 Thread subsorama
On 17 Feb 2009, at 16:25, subsor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am hoping to get some advice with a problem I have gotten myself into; I upgraded my packages using apt-get yesterday and have found an issue with my installed (source built) version of Ruby 1.8.6. I am wondering if the update

Re: request to try something with midori

2009-02-17 Thread Ink Bottle
--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > > I recompiled swfdec-mozilla with debugging symbols and sent > a backtrace to your > bug report. The problem is somewhere with swfdec-mozilla or > libwebkit, because > epiphany-webkit with swfdec has the same issue. As you may have noticed the b

Re: /etc/X11/Xorg.conf is d ifferent in Lenny, ¿wher e can i add the module "record?

2009-02-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 16:04:00 +0100, Carlos Gutierrez wrote: > Hi, if you think that you can't help me, i would like find mailing lists > or forums where somebody can help me (please tell me!). > > I need to add the module "record" in xorg.conf, but the archive has > changed. > > In debian (th

Ruby 1.8.6 Source and Apt-Get Upgrade

2009-02-17 Thread subsorama
Hi, I am hoping to get some advice with a problem I have gotten myself into; I upgraded my packages using apt-get yesterday and have found an issue with my installed (source built) version of Ruby 1.8.6. I am wondering if the update has interfered with my version of ruby as some of my rail

where can i find gmake

2009-02-17 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, where can i find gmake, it is not a package by itself

Belkin 54g Wireless Desktop Network Card

2009-02-17 Thread Martin Sewell
I'd be most grateful for any advice on how to get the following working with Debian 2.6.18-6-486. Belkin 54g Wireless Desktop Network Card model no. F5D7000 version 1133uk Many thanks Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: DVD install question

2009-02-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
Ron wrote: >On 02/17/2009 02:50 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> That's a shame, as the testing we did on release day worked fine. I >> don't see any bug reports from you, though... >> > >The sha1summ of the downloaded ISO matched that of the "upstream" >ISO, but I could never correctly generate

Re: DVD install question

2009-02-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
Jimmy Johnson wrote: > >Hi Steve, I have been reading the Debian List and following the release >and know how hard it was to make Lenny final and would like to take this >opportunity to thank you and all the Debian volunteers for all the hard >work..Thank you, I wish you guys and gals all the be

Re: Postgresql 8.3 Question

2009-02-17 Thread Ink Bottle
--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Alex Samad wrote: > From: Alex Samad > Subject: Re: Postgresql 8.3 Question > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 12:20 PM > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 02:55:57AM -0800, Dancing Fingers > wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I'm used to Postgresql 7.4 b

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Sven Joachim
[Please fix your mailer, it sends out iso-latin-1 declared as UTF-8.] On 2009-02-17 15:41 +0100, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > When I try to install autossh I am asked to install libc6-i686: > >> mesrv:~# apt-get install autossh >> Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig >> Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgeb

Re: KDE 4.1.4 is the last version available for Lenny?

2009-02-17 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:51:22 +0100 "Thomas Preud'homme" wrote: > On Tuesday 17 February 2009 15:40:29 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > Does "*16 January 2009 Backports for KDE 4.1.4 are available. This is the > > last update for the KDE 4.1 series and backport available in this > > website.*" means th

Re: New Debian Wiki online with lot of working howtos

2009-02-17 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 04:48:34PM -0800, Christoph Pilka wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am working for several weeks on a new wiki containing lot lof > interesting and _working_ howtos. You can find it at > http://debian.asconix.com. > The howtos explain step-by-step the setup of server or desktop > i

Re: Will installing libc6-i686 on my i586 crunch my installation?

2009-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2009 08:57 AM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hi, This should guide you: $ apt-cache show libc6-i686 Well, so far it says: This set of libraries is optimized for i686 machines, and will only be used if you are running a 2.6 kernel on an i686 class CPU However uname -m says I am running a

/etc/X11/Xorg.conf is different in Lenny, ¿where can i add the module "record?

2009-02-17 Thread Carlos Gutierrez
Hi, if you think that you can't help me, i would like find mailing lists or forums where somebody can help me (please tell me!). I need to add the module "record" in xorg.conf, but the archive has changed. In debian (the original one): Section "Files" FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X1

Debian Lenny 5 on Inspiron 1525

2009-02-17 Thread Martin Kenneth Lopez
Hi everybody, I just get Lenny 5 stable, but I don't know if anybody else have a problem with the wifi, Lenny doesn't recognize the wifi card not even with ndiswrappers any help will be appreciated, I already try everything. Thanks in advance Regards Kenneth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

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