Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andrei Popescu [2009.05.18.0847 +0200]: > The "Default-Release" option in apt.conf will set stable's > priority to 990, why are you changing it again to 900? Two stitches are better than one? ;) In general, I'd say to prefer /etc/apt/preferences over apt.conf, unless you really just

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,17.May.09, 14:06:47, Michael M. Moore wrote: > I use a pretty conservative pinning, more conservative than what is > given on the wiki. Mine is taken from Martin Krafft's book "The Debian > System," recently recommended on this list: > > mcu...@drifter:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf > APT::Def

Re: make gnus reply correctly to debian lists

2009-05-17 Thread Nicolas KOWALSKI
Tiago Saboga writes: > I am moving from mutt to gnus, and I am missing a description of how to > make gnus behave "the right way" when dealing with debian lists. I use > fetchmail to get messages from my ISP, and a strange combination of > procmail and maildrop to filter them into mboxes, where e

Re: make gnus reply correctly to debian lists

2009-05-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-05-18 02:25 +0200, Tiago Saboga wrote: > I am moving from mutt to gnus, and I am missing a description of how to > make gnus behave "the right way" when dealing with debian lists. I use > fetchmail to get messages from my ISP, and a strange combination of > procmail and maildrop to filter

Re: swapfile

2009-05-17 Thread steef
Tiago Saboga wrote: steef writes: hi list, starting up lenny, my machine hanged on 'activating swapfile swap' (or something like that) starting up my machine a second and third time did not give any trouble at all. is there a generally known reason for a computerstart hanging on activatin

Re: I'm at my wit's end

2009-05-17 Thread Mark Allums
Ken L. Klaser wrote: On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 19:39 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: thveillon.debian wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Mark Allums wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Mark Allums wrote: flashplugin-nonfree in Sid is working again. I don't think it has any other Sid dependencies. Remember, if your

Re: wget file name is too long

2009-05-17 Thread sanju121
I’ve been using the soft at www.pathtoolong.com that resolves the long http://www.pathtoolong.com filename & path issue and deletes locked files. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/wget-file-name-is-too-long-tp23241664p23590988.html Sent from the Debian User mailing list

Re: I'm at my wit's end (was:Re: Help with Flash)

2009-05-17 Thread Ken L. Klaser
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 19:39 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > thveillon.debian wrote: > > Marc Shapiro wrote: > >> Mark Allums wrote: > >>> Marc Shapiro wrote: > Mark Allums wrote: > > flashplugin-nonfree in Sid is working again. I don't think it has > > any other Sid dependencies. Rememb

Re: make gnus reply correctly to debian lists

2009-05-17 Thread Paul Johnson
> make gnus behave "the right way" when dealing with debian lists. I use > fetchmail to get messages from my ISP, and a strange combination of > procmail and maildrop to filter them into mboxes, where each mailing > list has its own inbox. Gnus takes messages there and stores them in it= s > nnml b

Re: bug #350639

2009-05-17 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Matteo Riva wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: It seems resolved in unstable, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525183 I have rebuilt the package from source as suggested by a user in that bug report, but now the update manager flags gnome-vo

Re: bug #350639

2009-05-17 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Javier Barroso wrote: Hi, On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I'd like to point this bug out as it has been around now for 3 1/2 months with no official resolution. What's worse is that this bug was caused by the Debian gnome-volume-manager maintainer. Nobody else is

I'm at my wit's end (was:Re: Help with Flash)

2009-05-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
thveillon.debian wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Mark Allums wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Mark Allums wrote: flashplugin-nonfree in Sid is working again. I don't think it has any other Sid dependencies. Remember, if your internet connection is not always-on, that it is just an installer, and it st

Re: perl package environment problems

2009-05-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Jude DaShiell wrote: >perl: warning: Setting locale failed. >perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = (unset), > LC_ALL = (unset), > LANG = ""en_US.UTF-8"" This shows that you LANG variable actually contains double-quote characters. Check /

Problem with pure-ftpd

2009-05-17 Thread William Lebel
Hi all! I got a problem, When i do /etc/init.d/pure-ftpd start, It does nothing... I installed the package but there is nothing going up I am on debian Lenny 5.0.1 Thanks for help Greatman

Re: install proprietary nvidia driver without xorg.conf?

2009-05-17 Thread Matthew Moore
On Sunday May 17 2009 3:56:23 pm Michael M. Moore wrote: > It says for Lenny you have to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to load "glx" > module and remove "dri" or "GLCore" modules, under the "Module" section; > and that you need to change the driver (from "nv" to "nvidia") under the > "Device" section.

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a0ffa4a.5040...@kalinowski.com.br>, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >(or `command`, though this is a bashism) Not a bash-ism. It is the older method and still required in SUS-conformant shells. However, it doesn't nest well and has other issues that are required not to affect $(). -- Boyd St

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <880dece00905170250o422275adv83039d8ece728...@mail.gmail.com>, Dotan Cohen wrote: >2009/5/14 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. : >> These are particularly useful when combined with the "UNIX filter >> commands" tr, grep, sed, cut, paste, and awk plus the tee command. > >I am baffled that one must type in

make gnus reply correctly to debian lists

2009-05-17 Thread Tiago Saboga
I am moving from mutt to gnus, and I am missing a description of how to make gnus behave "the right way" when dealing with debian lists. I use fetchmail to get messages from my ISP, and a strange combination of procmail and maildrop to filter them into mboxes, where each mailing list has its own in

Re: No console from X

2009-05-17 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:45:35PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:26:00 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 08:28:42PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 20:26:50 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 07:19:49PM -1

Re: No console from X

2009-05-17 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Sunday 17 May 2009 13:57:45 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:45:16 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > On Saturday 16 May 2009 17:33:28 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 14:33:32 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > > > > > > > On Friday 15 May 2009 13:34:45 Florian

Re: swapfile

2009-05-17 Thread Tiago Saboga
steef writes: > hi list, > > starting up lenny, my machine hanged on 'activating swapfile swap' (or > something like that) > starting up my machine a second and third time did not give any > trouble at all. > > is there a generally known reason for a computerstart hanging on > activating a swapfi

Re: failed to upgrade to next kernel package

2009-05-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 07:04:11PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > [Replying to debian-user, including OP's reply to me, which was > presumably intended for debian-user.] > > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, gianni wrote: > > Hi Patrick > > this is the result from df -h > > Filesystem            

Re: failed to upgrade to next kernel package

2009-05-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
[Replying to debian-user, including OP's reply to me, which was presumably intended for debian-user.] On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, gianni wrote: > Hi Patrick > this is the result from df -h > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/machina-root >                  

Re: bug #350639

2009-05-17 Thread Matteo Riva
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: > It seems resolved in unstable, > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525183 I have rebuilt the package from source as suggested by a user in that bug report, but now the update manager flags gnome-volume-manager as needing an

executing udev rules on _un_plug

2009-05-17 Thread Cameron Hutchison
How can I write a udev rule to be run/matched when a device is unplugged? I have a 3G modem that I wrote a rule for to run "ifup ppp0" when the modem is plugged in. I would like to have "ifdown ppp0" be automatically run when the modem is unplugged. Without a rule to run "ifdown ppp0", the networ

how to fix where grub boots from

2009-05-17 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi all, A system that I am building has 2 HDDs--one is EIDE the other is SATA. Etch is installed on the EIDE drive and an almost complete update from Etch to Lenny is installed on the SATA drive. Normally grub boots from the SATA drive. Last night there were power problems and today the syst

Re: failed to upgrade to next kernel package

2009-05-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 5:51 PM, gianni wrote: > I dont understand the problem, when the new kernel was issued, I did run > apt-get update & apt-get upgrade... > and I get this error > > "Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 ... > dpkg: error > processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/linux

Re: install proprietary nvidia driver without xorg.conf?

2009-05-17 Thread JoeHill
Michael M. Moore wrote: > I thought I'd try the proprietary nvidia driver (currently using 'nv'), > so I've been reading through the how-to on the wiki here: > > http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers > > I'm a little concerned, though, that it might be out-of-date (for one, > because it

install proprietary nvidia driver without xorg.conf?

2009-05-17 Thread Michael M. Moore
I thought I'd try the proprietary nvidia driver (currently using 'nv'), so I've been reading through the how-to on the wiki here: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers I'm a little concerned, though, that it might be out-of-date (for one, because it keeps talking about Etch), especially gi

Re: failed to upgrade to next kernel package

2009-05-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
gianni wrote: > I dont understand the problem, when the new kernel was issued, I did run > apt-get update & apt-get upgrade... > and I get this error > > "Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 ... > dpkg: error > processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.26-2-686_2.6.26-15lenny

Re: No console from X

2009-05-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:26:00 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 08:28:42PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 20:26:50 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 07:19:49PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > > > > > > Hey, neither can I. I've got pret

failed to upgrade to next kernel package

2009-05-17 Thread gianni
I dont understand the problem, when the new kernel was issued, I did run apt-get update & apt-get upgrade... and I get this error "Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.26-2-686_2.6.26-15lenny2_i386.deb (--unpack): fail

Re: df output

2009-05-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Adam Hardy on 17/05/09 22:44, wrote: Javier Barroso on 17/05/09 20:48, wrote: I get this output: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 9.2G 2.8G 6.0G 33% / tmpfs 126M 0 126M 0% /lib/init/rw udev

Re: BUG: ... kernel NULL pointer reference ... udevadm timeout

2009-05-17 Thread Bram Vromans
In-Reply-To=<20090322054558.gc13...@hamsu.tarvainen.info> (sorry my Yahoo-mail doesn't seem to support the in-reply-to field in the header). Tapani, I had exactly the same problem on a fresh Lenny install on an (old) Dell Latitude Cpi D266XT. The following worked for me: add a line with "blac

Re: df output

2009-05-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Javier Barroso on 17/05/09 20:48, wrote: I get this output: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 9.2G 2.8G 6.0G 33% / tmpfs 126M 0 126M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 64K 10M 1% /dev >

Re: swapfile

2009-05-17 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:09:48PM +0200, steef wrote: > hi list, > > starting up lenny, my machine hanged on 'activating swapfile swap' (or > something like that) > > is there a generally known reason for a computerstart hanging on > activating a swapfile? If the same disk already had your ro

swapfile

2009-05-17 Thread steef
hi list, starting up lenny, my machine hanged on 'activating swapfile swap' (or something like that) starting up my machine a second and third time did not give any trouble at all. is there a generally known reason for a computerstart hanging on activating a swapfile? in all those years i a

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-17 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 21:50 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM, JoeHill wrote: > > Aniruddha wrote: > > > >> I would like to install the latest version swfdec-mozilla (because it > >> offers autoplay). I intent to track stable as closely as possible. As > >> far I can tell t

Re: No console from X

2009-05-17 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 08:28:42PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 20:26:50 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 07:19:49PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > > > > Hey, neither can I. I've got pretty much the same symptoms. > > > I'll be grateful for any eyeballs/

Re: postfix with policyd-weight

2009-05-17 Thread mouss
Phillipus Gunawan a écrit : > Hi there, > > I am trying to build postfix mail MTA spam with guide from > http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-spamsnake-ubuntu-8.04-p1 > judging from -p4, where the author puts "reject_unauth_pipelining" in smtpd_recipient_restrictions, I'd say just zap the whol

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-17 Thread JoeHill
Aniruddha wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM, JoeHill wrote: > > Aniruddha wrote: > > > >> I would like to install the latest version swfdec-mozilla (because it > >> offers autoplay). I intent to track stable as closely as possible. As > >> far I can tell there are four possibilities to

Re: bug #350639

2009-05-17 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > I'd like to point this bug out as it has been around now for 3 1/2 months > with no official resolution.  What's worse is that this bug was caused by > the Debian gnome-volume-manager maintainer.  Nobody else is responsible for > it.

Re: X problem after upgrade--help!

2009-05-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please wrap your lines at 80 characters or less for ordinary discussion. ] On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 08:29:42 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > Hi. I just upgraded from testing to unstable, in order to get some > updated packages I need. > > X is now not working, and i dont know why. The

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-17 Thread Aniruddha
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM, JoeHill wrote: > Aniruddha wrote: > >> I would like to install the latest version swfdec-mozilla (because it >> offers autoplay). I intent to track stable as closely as possible. As >> far I can tell there are four possibilities to achieve this: >> >> 1) Temporary

Re: df output

2009-05-17 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Adam Hardy wrote: > Javier Barroso on 17/05/09 19:24, wrote: >> >> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Adam Hardy >> wrote: >>> >>> it looks like I've messed up one of my hard drives after filling the >>> drive >>> up to full - deleting files is not freeing up space,

bug #350639

2009-05-17 Thread Freddy Freeloader
I'd like to point this bug out as it has been around now for 3 1/2 months with no official resolution. What's worse is that this bug was caused by the Debian gnome-volume-manager maintainer. Nobody else is responsible for it. He disabled automount when he compiled the gnome-volume-manager pa

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 06:37:45PM +, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I need to convert an HTML document to PDF from the CLI. Currently, I > ... > > > Any other ideas? Is there a konqueror- or KDE way to do this? Am I > > missing something o

Re: ESS Maestro3 + Lenny

2009-05-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 17:59:22 -0400, Dennis Creedan wrote: > I've configured Gmail to use UTF-8 for outgoing messages .. hope this > helps. You are still sending both a plain text and an HTML version. > Here is the output of 'lspci -nn' > > 02:03.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: ESS

Re: df output

2009-05-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Javier Barroso on 17/05/09 19:24, wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Adam Hardy wrote: it looks like I've messed up one of my hard drives after filling the drive up to full - deleting files is not freeing up space, at least not according to 'df'. I get this output: Filesystem

Re: No console from X

2009-05-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 20:26:50 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 07:19:49PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > > Hey, neither can I. I've got pretty much the same symptoms. > > I'll be grateful for any eyeballs/suggestions. > > I'm running a recent Toshiba laptop. The black screen ch

python(?) problem

2009-05-17 Thread niclas wahlgren
Problems with both reportbug and mnemosyne. Both report python problem: >reportbug Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/reportbug/ui/gtk2_ui.py", line 459, in callback func (*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/reportbug/ui/gtk2_ui.py", line 5

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-17 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I need to convert an HTML document to PDF from the CLI. Currently, I ... > Any other ideas? Is there a konqueror- or KDE way to do this? Am I > missing something obvious? Thanks! If you don't mind a hands-on approach, there's this Python con

Re: df output

2009-05-17 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Adam Hardy wrote: > Hi, > > it looks like I've messed up one of my hard drives after filling the drive > up to full - deleting files is not freeing up space, at least not according > to 'df'. > > I get this output: > > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mo

Re: No console from X

2009-05-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:45:16 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > On Saturday 16 May 2009 17:33:28 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 14:33:32 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > > > > > > On Friday 15 May 2009 13:34:45 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Thu,14.May.09, 20:57:29,

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-17 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 01:11:54PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 08:51:38AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > As other people have pointed out, the way to capture a command's output > > is with $(command) (or `command`, though this is a bashism). > > $(command) is

Re: ESS Maestro3 + Lenny

2009-05-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Dennis Creedan [090516 18:16 -0400] > > > > Since alsa-driver 1.0.17.dfsg-1 maestro3 ist supported anymore. > > Don't know which Debian Kernel version removes it because of DFSG > > violations. > > > > Custom Kernels can be build with maestro3. > > > > >> How do I go about doing this? Find howt

Re: ESS Maestro3 + Lenny

2009-05-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Florian Kulzer [090516 21:14 +0200] > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 20:51:00 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > * Florian Kulzer [090516 18:53 +0200] > > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 00:25:44 -0400, Dennis Creedan wrote: > > > > All, > > > > > > > > I've upgraded from woody to sarge to etch to lenny, a

Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC)

2009-05-17 Thread Adeodato Simó
Hello, For those following testing, this is just a quick mail to let you know that KDE4 will become available in Squeeze with tonight's mirror pulse. (It's KDE 4.2.2, I'm told 4.2.3 will shortly be uploaded to unstable.) A note for compiz users: unfortunately it hasn't been possible to migrate to

Re: No console from X

2009-05-17 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Saturday 16 May 2009 17:33:28 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 14:33:32 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > > > > > On Friday 15 May 2009 13:34:45 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Thu,14.May.09, 20:57:29, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I can't get to a console fr

df output

2009-05-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Hi, it looks like I've messed up one of my hard drives after filling the drive up to full - deleting files is not freeing up space, at least not according to 'df'. I get this output: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 9.2G 2.8G 6.0G 33% / tmpfs

X problem after upgrade--help!

2009-05-17 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi. I just upgraded from testing to unstable, in order to get some updated packages I need. X is now not working, and i dont know why. There are no useful messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, that i can tell--no errors are reported adn the only thing that looks bad is "SELinux: Disabled on system,

Re: Apache virtual map for Exchange OWA?

2009-05-17 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
Thanks for your reply, brilliant... but its not easy because OWA is https I got it working with http but need to trial-error to get https working thanks a lot - Original Message From: Gilles Mocellin To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, 17 May, 2009 9:39:23 PM Subject: Re

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-17 Thread John Hasler
Dotan Cohen writes: > Yes, it seems that what I am looking for is copy-paste. I have seen it > suggested that screen can do this, though I have not yet looked into it > in detail. The Linux console can do it with gpm. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-17 Thread JoeHill
Aniruddha wrote: > I would like to install the latest version swfdec-mozilla (because it > offers autoplay). I intent to track stable as closely as possible. As > far I can tell there are four possibilities to achieve this: > > 1) Temporary enable testing/unstable repositories and install the pr

perl package environment problems

2009-05-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
The perl warnings are still with me: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = ""en_US.UTF-8"" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to

Grub stage1 not found then Error 2 on reboot

2009-05-17 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
I had a working Lenny install which I somehow hosed while experimenting with Grub. On boot, the message displays 'Grub loading stage 1.5' then 'Error 2'. I did the following to try to fix the problem: 1) I reboot from a GRML rescue CD and attempt to repair grub with grub-install #mount /dev/sda

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
> As other people have pointed out, the way to capture a command's output > is with $(command) (or `command`, though this is a bashism). However, > unless the output is exactly in the form you need (which is often not > the case; in your example ifconfig outputs a lot of information besides > the I

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 08:51:38AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > As other people have pointed out, the way to capture a command's output > is with $(command) (or `command`, though this is a bashism). $(command) is bashism. `command` is the "pure" bourne shell form. $ posh $ echo `echo hi

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-17 Thread Aniruddha
Harry Rickards wrote: On 05/17/09 09:40, Aniruddha wrote: I would like to install the latest version swfdec-mozilla (because it offers autoplay). I intent to track stable as closely as possible. As far I can tell there are four possibilities to achieve this: 1) Temporary enable testing/unsta

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Dotan Cohen wrote: > I am baffled that one must type in the output to commands. For > instance, the sysadmin may need to use the existing DHCP IP address > for one reason or another. After running ifconfig, where the address > is stated, why must he type it in? I'm not looking for copy-paste in > t

Re: Apache virtual map for Exchange OWA?

2009-05-17 Thread Gilles Mocellin
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:23:29PM -0700, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > > Hi There, > > Is there anyway we can trick Exchange OWA to be redirected via Apache server? > I had SBS 2003 with OWA working OK locally > But the http server is on my Debian box > > Can I somehow make virtual directory (or s

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-17 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/09 09:40, Aniruddha wrote: > I would like to install the latest version swfdec-mozilla (because it > offers autoplay). I intent to track stable as closely as possible. As > far I can tell there are four possibilities to achieve this: > > 1) T

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
> For stuff like that where the output is totally unpredictable, I doubt > anything beats the flexibility of gnu/screen's copy/paste mechanism. > This seems to be the key that I was looking for! I will look into gnu/screen's copy/paste mechanism. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com h

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/5/14 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. : > In <880dece00905140755w67aefd85uacffa635c306...@mail.gmail.com>, Dotan Cohen > wrote: >>I am using a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu). Often I need to use the >>output of one terminal command as the input for another. > > UNIX-ish OSes and programs are designed for

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:55:35AM EDT, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I am using a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu). Often I need to use the > output of one terminal command as the input for another. A classic > example is the which command: > $ which firefox > /usr/bin/firefox > $ > > Now, I would like to us

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Like you said, it does require foreknowledge of the output. So there is > no way to make a one-size-fits-all solution, be it a command-line trick > or a program. > > If you told us exactly what you want to achieve, we might be able to > help you better. > I just want to know in a very general se

Re: Help with Flash

2009-05-17 Thread thveillon.debian
Marc Shapiro wrote: > Mark Allums wrote: >> Marc Shapiro wrote: >>> Mark Allums wrote: flashplugin-nonfree in Sid is working again. I don't think it has any other Sid dependencies. Remember, if your internet connection is not always-on, that it is just an installer, and it still ne

Re: Help with Flash

2009-05-17 Thread thveillon.debian
Marc Shapiro a écrit : > Mark Allums wrote: >> Marc Shapiro wrote: >>> Mark Allums wrote: flashplugin-nonfree in Sid is working again. I don't think it has any other Sid dependencies. Remember, if your internet connection is not always-on, that it is just an installer, and it still

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 01:02:40PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > I know what you mean, but in the end this is absolutlely free support from > people who do have other lives. I have learned that the quality and accuracy > of > the question I ask is incredibly important. Exact error messages are very

What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-17 Thread Aniruddha
I would like to install the latest version swfdec-mozilla (because it offers autoplay). I intent to track stable as closely as possible. As far I can tell there are four possibilities to achieve this: 1) Temporary enable testing/unstable repositories and install the program 2) Download *.deb from

Re: Could someone recommend documentation or books about debian?

2009-05-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael M. Moore [2009.05.17.0010 +0200]: > Excellent book, even though it is slightly dated I am still learning > things from it. I am expecting to begin work on a new version soon. Unfortunately, time is a rarity and I cannot provide you with any estimates yet. Please go to http://d

Re: source package linux-2.6

2009-05-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,17.May.09, 11:04:21, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I would like to test the lastest linux-2.6 package from Sid on my Lenny Box. > My initila plan was to build it from its source with dpkg tools. But the list > of packaged balls is rather huge _and_ useless for a personal use: > is t

Re: gnome-terminal and pango

2009-05-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,17.May.09, 01:39:07, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > > Does gnome-terminal use Pango? Is there any way one could make it do so? > I could only find a nine years old thread on this topic on gtk-i18n-list: > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-i18n-list/2000-October/msg00020.html > > And that does

Re: obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT ???

2009-05-17 Thread Detlef Rohde
Hallo Michael, bei mir kommt diese Meldung immer im Zusammenhang mit dem Start von Skype: May 17 09:01:22 detlef-d2 kernel: [ 950.783224] process `skype' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT Das ist schon eine Weile so, seit ich Ubuntu benutze (Start mit 8.04, jetzt 9.04). Meine Skype-Pa

Re: Is there an IM Client that Does Not Use X

2009-05-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,15.May.09, 14:39:31, Martin McCormick wrote: > Is there any sort of instant message application that can run in > a command-line terminal, similar to talkd? Have a look at bitlbee. You can use it to connect to several IM services through a command-line irc client (like irssi). Regards, An

Re: WARNING: All config files need .conf

2009-05-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,15.May.09, 22:04:24, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > I started seeing this message during boot time, after some upgrade. > > These are the messages: > > Fri May 15 21:27:02 2009: Configuring network interfaces...WARNING: All > config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/irda, it will be ignored in a

Re: source package linux-2.6

2009-05-17 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Indeed, but I want to build the kernel with the Debian patches, not a vanilla kernel. Jerome Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:04:21AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, I would like to test the lastest linux-2.6 package from Sid on my Lenny Box. May I ask why? If you jus