Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

On 2009-07-24 01:08, lee wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:58:32AM -0400, ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after S55something. Check /boot/grub/menu list; I think that'

Re: How to tell if an m4a file is lossless

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 03:32:15PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > How can I tell (from a script) if some *.m4a file is using the AAC codec > or the ALAC codec? Unpack it and compare it to the "original" unpacked file? Perhaps the packer leaves a signature somewhere in the packed file to tell an u

Re: MTA experts: address rewriting depending on next hop

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 23:04 -0600, lee wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:32:43AM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > Look at the Received: headers in my mails, afaict winnegan.fake is no > > valid domain outside my lan and using outside would provoke harsh > > reactions. > > Look at my headers:

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:58:32AM -0400, ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var (which > is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after S55something. Check /boot/grub/menu list; I think that's where the kernel is being told

Re: There is no signal coming from your computer..

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 06:29:34PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Another debian-user reported having similar problems. In the morning when I > get in, I do not have any problems. This seems to only appears on a shorted > breaks. And my dell 2709W / DisplayPort clearly state: "There is no sig

Re: How to create"official" off-line repository

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:18:01AM +0300, Hai Zaar wrote: > Good day dear list! > > I work for organisation that has its development network off-line and > I want to setup a Debian with current Lenny release. Maybe mirroring might work: http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror Or are you saying th

Re: compensating for dhcp which only provides useless dns

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:50:08PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > wireless works fine except at one location where my guess is that the > DNS is not set up correctly. > but I haven't figured out how /etc/resolv.conf is being > overwritten or where I can put the working nameserver addresses The n

Re: FWD: Re: Network email draft

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 05:12:18AM +, bouncy...@gmail.com wrote: > And what of the ideas contained therein? I tried to read it, but found it unreadable. If you want others to read your postings, it's a good idea to try to make a posting that is easy to read and understandable. I don't like it

Re: Install question

On 2009-07-23 23:39, Scott Curtis wrote: Hi I have ubuntu 8.10 and was wondering if I can install Debian 5.0 with Ubuntu??? Things are too subtly different. Besides, U 8.10 is newer than Debian 5.0. Is this for a home or personal workstation where you want to keep up with the latest softwa

Re: Kmail................

On 2009-07-24 00:07, Celejar wrote: [snip] Sylpheed suffers from the same problem; my workaround is to maintain a working getmail configuration, and when I know that I have a lot of mail queued, my connection is slow, or I just want to use Sylpheed now instead of waiting, I just download the mai

Re: MTA experts: address rewriting depending on next hop

On 2009-07-24 00:04, lee wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:32:43AM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: [snip] Look at the Received: headers in my mails, afaict winnegan.fake is no valid domain outside my lan and using outside would provoke harsh reactions. Look at my headers: who cares? Unless you'

Re: Debian Lenny amd64 hangs when loading parport module

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:52:50PM -0500, Jose Perez wrote: > I got an error about problems creating a foomatic filter from the > KDE printer assistant. What did the error message say? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Open Office question.

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 08:39:09AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > lee wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:12:40PM -0400, I Rattan wrote: > >> I did dist-upgrade and the new openffice (3.1) > >> and it does display a .php file (goal is to convert > >> to .txt), the older version did do this function.

Re: Kmail................

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:24:14 -0300 Tiago Saboga wrote: ... > 1) There is a long-standing bug - or feature request: kmail does not > start a new thread when downloading mail, so you have to wait for it to > finish. It can be long if you have lots of mail, or if you pass the mail > through anti-sp

Re: MTA experts: address rewriting depending on next hop

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:32:43AM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > Oops, this one slipped by me since I have moved the question to > d-devel, sorry for not Ccing d-user. > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 16:10 -0600, lee wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 01:03:01PM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > > >

Install question

Hi I have ubuntu 8.10 and was wondering if I can install Debian 5.0 with Ubuntu??? Kinda new so hope this is not a stupid question. Thanks

Re: Debian Lenny amd64 hangs when loading parport module

Hi: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Wayne Topa wrote: > Jose Perez wrote: >> >> Hi all: >> >> I recently bought a new PC like this: >> >> Printer: HP Deskjet 920c (connected via USB cable) >> Mainboard: MSI K9A2 Neo2 (This mainboard doesn't have a parallel port) >> Processor: AMD Phenom X4 >> RAM

Re: Emails [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

On 2009-07-23 23:24, Kevin Ross wrote: Do you have a dedicated 'group' page (similar to yahoo groups) where people can post/read messages, or is it done totally through an e-mail list? IF through email, is there a 'daily digest' option where I can receive only one email a day (containing all the

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

On 2009-07-23 21:04, John Hasler wrote: Ron Johnson writes: BSD had to have a cc before gcc came along, no? Yes. It shipped with the non-free[1] pcc until 1994 when it was replaced with gcc. Interesting. That must have been part of the fallout from The Lawsuit. -- Scooty Puff, Sr The Doom

RE: Emails [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

> Do you have a dedicated 'group' page (similar to yahoo groups) > where people can post/read messages, or is it done totally through > an e-mail list? IF through email, is there a 'daily digest' option > where I can receive only one email a day (containing all the day's > posts)? Or do I have to u

Re: Kmail................ not fixed...

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:49:16 +0300 Dotan Cohen sent this information: >> commited to KDE trunk? If the latter, could you please open a bug at > >/s/latter/former > >-- >Dotan Cohen > >http://what-is-what.com >http://gibberish.co.il Using Gamin doesn't fix it Dotan. I purged FAM from the syste

Re: Font (or color) problem on current unstable x86 box

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 07:10:31PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 07:04:21AM EDT, David Goodenough wrote: > > [..] > > Several programs (the first was the new Eclipse Galileo, then > > IceWeasel and now a locally compiled version of zenmap v5) have > > started to come up with a

Emails [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

UNCLASSIFIED Do you have a dedicated 'group' page (similar to yahoo groups) where people can post/read messages, or is it done totally through an e-mail list? IF through email, is there a 'daily digest' option where I can receive only one email a day (containing all the day's posts)? Or do I have

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

Ron Johnson writes: > BSD had to have a cc before gcc came along, no? Yes. It shipped with the non-free[1] pcc until 1994 when it was replaced with gcc. [1] There is now a BSD-licensed pcc. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

On 2009-07-23 19:51, Miles Fidelman wrote: Neal Hogan wrote: And thanks for reminding us of the essential role of gcc, glibc, and binutils. I'm too new to GNU/linux to remember.. but would anything have been possible without them? yes well sure, if you were working on ITS or some othe

Re: Sadly... (was Re: normal firefox for debian lenny 64bit?)

On 2009-07-22 13:28, S. Fishpaste wrote: On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:47:50 -0400, Tony Baldwin in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-21 09:59, Tim Tebbit wrote: [snip] Please keep a handle on top posting. This is a lost battle, thanks to The Evil That Is GMail. You do

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

> Saying GNU doesn't produce software is like saying Debian doesn't produce > dpkg, apt-get, and aptitude. There's a big difference: most GNU software was written first and then integrated as part of the GNU project. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Moving to Sid (was Re: normal firefox for debian lenny 64bit?)

On 2009-07-22 15:20, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:27:30 -0400, Damon wrote in message <1248190050.3741.40.ca...@dam-main>: On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 10:03 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-21 08:46, Soren Orel wrote: But where can I download SID?? I just can't find an e.g.: "dow

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

On 2009-07-23 18:24, s. keeling wrote: : "s. keeling" wrote: : boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after S55something. (No, it doesn't drop me into single-user mode. I think it wants to, but

Tbird or vim (was Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...)

On 2009-07-23 17:19, Chris Jones wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:33:02PM EDT, ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Chris Jones wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:58:32AM EDT, ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var (which is part of /)

Re: resize2fs: Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!

On 2009-07-23 16:22, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Mon, Jul 20 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-20 21:29, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sun, Jul 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-08 20:23, Miles Bader wrote: [snip] Hmm, my / is 290MB, though /tmp, /var, /boot, and /usr are all separate pa

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

Neal Hogan wrote: And thanks for reminding us of the essential role of gcc, glibc, and binutils. I'm too new to GNU/linux to remember.. but would anything have been possible without them? yes well sure, if you were working on ITS or some other research operating system, otherwise, the

Re: resize2fs: Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!

On 2009-07-22 10:02, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In <4a665bf5.2090...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-21 11:51, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In <4a655762.6020...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: Then still I don't see the real gain to separating /usr and /usr/local into their own partit

Re: How do I setup wireless network (READ THE DOCUMENTATION or be more specific with your questions)

Ogya Chief wrote: > Is the firmware being loaded to the card correctly? Try something like > > $ grep firmware /var/log/syslog > > And look for messages that might indicate failure. > > -- Kevin > grep wl_apsta /var/log/syslog did not give any output. However, dmesg gave the following error mess

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

> And thanks for reminding us of the essential role of gcc, glibc, and > binutils.  I'm too new to GNU/linux to remember.. but would anything > have been possible without them? yes > > CJ > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

: > "s. keeling" wrote: > > : > > > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to > > > /var (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just > > > after S55something. > > > > > > (No, it doesn't drop me into single-user mode. I think it wants > > > to, but thi

Re: sudo logging

Berthold Cogel wrote: > We're doing somthing like this in /etc/sudoers: > Cmnd_Alias SHELLS =/bin/sh, \ >/bin/bash, \ [...] > TRUSTED_USR ALL = NOPASSWD:ALL ,!SHELLS, NOROOT Surely this breaks trivially? ln

Re: Kmail................

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:48:50 +0300 Dotan Cohen sent this information: >> 1) There is a long-standing bug - or feature request: kmail does not >> start a new thread when downloading mail, so you have to wait for it >> to finish. It can be long if you have lots of mail, or if you pass >> the mail

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:33:02PM EDT, ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:58:32AM EDT, ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: > > > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var > > > (which is part of /) and thus the boot process f

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:46:09PM EDT, David L. Craig wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 07:23:02PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 04:27:05PM EDT, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > What the GNU project has done is give a name and a visibility, > > > defined a set of guidelines (an

RE: How do I setup wireless network (READ THE DOCUMENTATION or be more specific with your questions)

> > > > > Is the firmware being loaded to the card correctly? Try something like > > $ grep firmware /var/log/syslog > > And look for messages that might indicate failure. > > -- Kevin > grep wl_apsta /var/log/syslog did not give a

panasonic kxp-1123 printing problem

A friend and me used linuxprinting.org and openprinting.org and have foomatic and cups and the ppd file for this printer on my machine. I got new ink cartridges for this printer from databaazar.com and we can make the printer do the self-test externally but even after foomatic is given the loc

Re: resize2fs: Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!

On Mon, Jul 20 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-07-20 21:29, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> On 2009-07-08 20:23, Miles Bader wrote: >>> [snip] Hmm, my / is 290MB, though /tmp, /var, /boot, and /usr are all separate partitions. >>> *Why*? IOW,

Re: How do I setup wireless network (READ THE DOCUMENTATION or be more specific with your questions)

Ogya Chief wrote: I wrote that after installing b43-fwcutter and extracting the firmware the wireless card still did not work. It was suggested that I configure it but I did not understand what the specific configuration the writer was referring to.

RE: How do I setup wireless network (READ THE DOCUMENTATION or be more specific with your questions)

I do not know why the messages of my last two posts were deleted. I wrote that after installing b43-fwcutter and extracting the firmware the wireless card still did not work. It was suggested that I configure it but I did not understand what the specific configuration the writer was referrin

Re: rhythmbox issue

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Preston Boyington wrote: > Hello all, > > I did an upgrade the other day and now rhythmbox throws an error when it > opens an mp3 (can't find codec?) then WILL eventually play.  Also it > takes quite a while for it to start a new song after the previous is > finishe

Re: Old .debs

On Thursday 23 July 2009 15:06:24 I Rattan wrote: > Where can I find older .deb files for openoffice? I > would like to install 2.4 or so (current installed > version 3.1.1 has problems with display of .php > files). Which version of Debian are you using? Lenny has OOo 2.4.1. Lisi -- To UNSUB

Re: How to tell if an m4a file is lossless

On Qui, 23 Jul 2009, Stefan Monnier wrote: How can I tell (from a script) if some *.m4a file is using the AAC codec or the ALAC codec? One possibility is to use ffmpeg -i filename and then parse the output. (Grepping for the strings used in each codec should give the answer.) -- Eduardo

How to tell if an m4a file is lossless

How can I tell (from a script) if some *.m4a file is using the AAC codec or the ALAC codec? Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Kmail................

Dotan Cohen wrote: >> 1) There is a long-standing bug - or feature request: kmail does not >> start a new thread when downloading mail, so you have to wait for it to >> finish. It can be long if you have lots of mail, or if you pass the mail >> through anti-spam/anti-virus. >> > > Do you have the

Re: Kmail................

Andrei Popescu writes: > On Thu,23.Jul.09, 11:25:18, Tiago Saboga wrote: >> > >> > Do you have the bug number? This is the reason that I left Kmail. >> >> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41514 >> >> It should be solved when the akonadi server replaces the internal pop >> server. I do not k

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

"s. keeling" wrote: > : > > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to > > /var (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just > > after S55something. > > > > (No, it doesn't drop me into single-user mode. I think it wants > > to, but things fly by so fast t

Re: APT configuration file

> A previous poster stated to add this line to the "/etc/apt/apt.conf" > file: APT::Install-Recommends "0"; . I would love to do that but I am > unable as yet to find a file named /etc/apt/apt.conf. In the Unix world, there is usually no difference between an empty configuration file and a configu

Re: RAID probs

also sprach Glenn English [2009.07.23.2023 +0200]: > >From superblocks, which are scanned by the default auto-assembly > >code. > > Thanks, Martin, but I *hate* helpful software :-) I am not 100% happy with the way mdadm does things right now. It's "auto-magic" and I *hate* that too. Or rather:

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:58:32AM EDT, ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: > > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var (which > > is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after S55something. > > > > (No, it doesn't drop me into single-u

Re: Sadly...

On 2009-07-23 17:46 (UTC), s. keeling wrote: >>> vim (from mutt) also puts the cursor at the beginning. > ... While emacs, called from mutt or slrn, puts it right at the start > of the body text. :-) These command-line text editors have +n option to choose the starting line number, like this:

rhythmbox issue

Hello all, I did an upgrade the other day and now rhythmbox throws an error when it opens an mp3 (can't find codec?) then WILL eventually play. Also it takes quite a while for it to start a new song after the previous is finished. All other system sounds, videos, game sounds play just fine. I'm

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: > > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var > > (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after > > S55something. > > Just to exclude the obvious: > what's the output of 'df' from the li

Re: There is no signal coming from your computer..

Try disabling DPMS in the X setup. This can happen when the x video driver does not tell the card to turn on the DVI signal when it returns from the DPMS-off state. On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 19:29, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Bob McGowan > wrote: >> >> mathieu.ma

Re: Kmail................

On Thu,23.Jul.09, 11:25:18, Tiago Saboga wrote: > > > > Do you have the bug number? This is the reason that I left Kmail. > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41514 > > It should be solved when the akonadi server replaces the internal pop > server. I do not know what's the state of kde 4 with

Re: RAID probs

martin f krafft wrote: From superblocks, which are scanned by the default auto-assembly code. Thanks, Martin, but I *hate* helpful software :-) OTOH, when I installed it, I did tell it to assemble stuff... mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdbX Fixed. I was thinking it all had to do with setti

Re: RAID probs

also sprach Glenn English [2009.07.23.1943 +0200]: > I created md0, 1, and 2 RAID1 arrays with mdadm, containing > partitions from missing and sdb. Then I changed my mind, but mdadm > seems to be trying to put them together anyway, and I can't figure > out where it's getting the info. From superb

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

: > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to > /var (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just > after S55something. > > (No, it doesn't drop me into single-user mode. I think it wants > to, but things fly by so fast that I can't see.) > > Thanks >

RAID probs

I created md0, 1, and 2 RAID1 arrays with mdadm, containing partitions from missing and sdb. Then I changed my mind, but mdadm seems to be trying to put them together anyway, and I can't figure out where it's getting the info. I purged mdadm, deleted /etc/mdadm, grep -r'ed /etc and /boot for m

Re: Sadly...

Celejar : > On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:29:35 +0300 > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Tue,21.Jul.09, 21:01:22, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > > > > The right position for the cursor when starting a reply is at the > > > beginning of the quoted text so that you can > > > > > > - cut parts of it which ar

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

Check file permissions on /etc/init.d scripts. I just had a system I upgraded where several critical init.d scripts lost the executable flag. This caused the symptom described, at the script that remounts root as rw was affected. Pat -- Patrick Ouellette p...@flying-gecko.net

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:58:32AM EDT, ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var (which > is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after S55something. > > (No, it doesn't drop me into single-user mode. I think it wants to, bu

Re: FWD: Re: Network email draft

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 bouncy...@gmail.com wrote: > And what of the ideas contained therein? > > --Original Message-- > From: lee > see http://www.webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php > > Maybe if you stop top posting (even if only to this list), someone will answe

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 07:23:02PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 04:27:05PM EDT, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > What the GNU project has done is give a name and a visibility, defined > > a set of guidelines (and licenses) and created the expectations that > > define both the O

Re: APT configuration file

In <864da6a10907221729y80d02d7sc66498536a7d4...@mail.gmail.com>, Kc9EYE wrote: >So, where exactly is apt-config dump >reading these configuration options from? Both /etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/* plus maybe some defaults somewhere under /usr/share. man 5 apt.conf man 8 apt-config m

Re: Old .debs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I Rattan wrote: > > Where can I find older .deb files for openoffice? I > would like to install 2.4 or so (current installed > version 3.1.1 has problems with display of .php > files). What happens, if you just rename .php to .txt? Does this work wit

Re: There is no signal coming from your computer..

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Bob McGowan wrote: mathieu.malate...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there,  Everytime I go out for lunch and comes back to my desk I cannot get the screen to wake up. Apparently typing on the keyboard does not send any signal from the computer to the screen. Using: - de

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var > (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after > S55something. Just to exclude the obvious: what's the output of 'df' from the liv

Re: There is no signal coming from your computer..

mathieu.malate...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi there, > > Everytime I go out for lunch and comes back to my desk I cannot get the > screen to wake up. Apparently typing on the keyboard does not send any > signal from the computer to the screen. > > Using: > - debian 5.0 > - dell precision T7500 > - Dis

Re: Open Office question.

lee wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:12:40PM -0400, I Rattan wrote: >> I did dist-upgrade and the new openffice (3.1) >> and it does display a .php file (goal is to convert >> to .txt), the older version did do this function. > > What's the difference between a php file and a text file? > Tec

Re: Kmail................

Dotan Cohen writes: >> 1) There is a long-standing bug - or feature request: kmail does not >> start a new thread when downloading mail, so you have to wait for it >> to finish. It can be long if you have lots of mail, or if you pass >> the mail through anti-spam/anti-virus. >> > > Do you have th

Re: Old .debs

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:06:24AM -0400, I Rattan wrote: > > Where can I find older .deb files for openoffice? I > would like to install 2.4 or so (current installed > version 3.1.1 has problems with display of .php > files). Maybe http://snapshot.debian.net would help. HTH. Kumar -- To UNSU

Old .debs

Where can I find older .deb files for openoffice? I would like to install 2.4 or so (current installed version 3.1.1 has problems with display of .php files). -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: APT configuration file

On Thu 23 Jul 2009 at 06:37:24 -0500, Kc9EYE wrote: > What is the name of the file that > apt-config reads when there is no /etc/apt/apt.conf file? There is no extra config file on the system. apt-config displays initialisation values set in the source file init.cc.

Re: Debian Lenny amd64 hangs when loading parport module

Jose Perez wrote: Hi all: I recently bought a new PC like this: Printer: HP Deskjet 920c (connected via USB cable) Mainboard: MSI K9A2 Neo2 (This mainboard doesn't have a parallel port) Processor: AMD Phenom X4 RAM: 8 GB OS: Debian Lenny 5.0.2 amd64 After installing some base packages I instal

Live CD says all fs clean, but...

boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after S55something. (No, it doesn't drop me into single-user mode. I think it wants to, but things fly by so fast that I can't see.) Thanks P.S. - Yes, I see the ir

Re: APT configuration file

Kc9EYE wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Just create it with the line you want. No other contents are needed. The man page for apt.conf(5) describes the syntax of the file and the configuration parameters used by apt. Thanks for the quick replies. Yes I will co

Re: Kmail................

> commited to KDE trunk? If the latter, could you please open a bug at /s/latter/former -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: Kmail................

> 1) There is a long-standing bug - or feature request: kmail does not > start a new thread when downloading mail, so you have to wait for it to > finish. It can be long if you have lots of mail, or if you pass the mail > through anti-spam/anti-virus. > Do you have the bug number? This is the reas

Re: Kmail................

Charlie writes: > Haven't used Kmail for some months, maybe a year, but decided to try it > again a couple of days ago. > > It appears to be a huge resource hog, and doesn't respond for some time > as it does something which I can't detect, sometimes using 20% of my > CPU and 10% of the RAM. > > I

Re: APT configuration file

On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 06:37 -0500, Kc9EYE wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > > Just create it with the line you want. No other contents are needed. > > > > The man page for apt.conf(5) describes the syntax of the file and the > > configuration parameters used by a

Re: How to create"official" off-line repository

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Lubos Rendek wrote: >> Do you suggest installing apt-proxy on LAN that is not connected to >> Internet and do what? > maybe this can help... > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/406#comment_4 That is an interesting idea. I've also found apt-mirror, altho

Re: RAID1 file corruption(?)

So far so good with the Samsung F1 drives. Though admittedly I haven't been transferring as large of files with it yet. Steve On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:50:24AM -0600, lee wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 06:05:16PM -0500, Steve wrote: > > > I'm hoping the problem will be solved with two new

There is no signal coming from your computer..

Hi there, Everytime I go out for lunch and comes back to my desk I cannot get the screen to wake up. Apparently typing on the keyboard does not send any signal from the computer to the screen. Using: - debian 5.0 - dell precision T7500 - Display/Port cable Thanks, -- Mathieu signature.as

Re: APT configuration file

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Just create it with the line you want. No other contents are needed. > > The man page for apt.conf(5) describes the syntax of the file and the > configuration parameters used by apt. Thanks for the quick replies. Yes I will copy the apt.

Re: Is it a bug: huge dependency problems of php5 and ikiwiki

En/na Wouter Verhelst ha escrit: The issue is that php5 depends on "libapache2-mod-php5 | libapache2-mod-php5filter | php5-cgi"; i.e., it does allow you to do this, but *by default* will depend on the apache versions. If you wish to use PHP5 with cherokee, you need to explicitly select php5-cgi,

Re: Is it a bug: huge dependency problems of php5 and ikiwiki

(this really isn't Debian-arm specific; please direct follow-ups, if any, to the debian-user mailinglist) On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 05:11:43PM +0200, Xan wrote: > Hi, > > I have a NSLU2 device (armel computer). With Debian 5.0.2 installed. > I cannot use reportbug because exim4 is not configured pr

Re: MTA experts: address rewriting depending on next hop

Oops, this one slipped by me since I have moved the question to d-devel, sorry for not Ccing d-user. On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 16:10 -0600, lee wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 01:03:01PM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > > > Here's the question again: which one of the abundance of MTAs in > > Debia

Kmail................

Haven't used Kmail for some months, maybe a year, but decided to try it again a couple of days ago. It appears to be a huge resource hog, and doesn't respond for some time as it does something which I can't detect, sometimes using 20% of my CPU and 10% of the RAM. I've cut out as many of it's pr

Re: How do I setup wireless network (READ THE DOCUMENTATION or be more specific with your questions)

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, thirstyh2o wrote: > >> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:57:07 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, thirstyh2o wrote: >>> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:56:51 +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: > __

Re: How to create"official" off-line repository

> Do you suggest installing apt-proxy on LAN that is not connected to > Internet and do what? maybe this can help... http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/406#comment_4 On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Hai Zaar wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Lubos Rendek wrote: >> have you trie

Re: How to create"official" off-line repository

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > Did you try to loop-mount DVD images, that way round you have a working > signed official repo at your hands ? Same problem - Release files on DVDs are not signed - I will again get unsigned repo. -- Zaar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <2009074953.ga29...@codelibre.net>, Roger Leigh wrote: >> I write software specifically for Debian as a >> Debian Developer (schroot, sbuild and other bits). I'd say that those >> were created by Debian, as is al

Re: How to create"official" off-line repository

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:18 +0300, Hai Zaar wrote: > Good day dear list! > > I work for organisation that has its development network off-line and > I want to setup a Debian with current Lenny release. > Creating on-line mirror and bringing it in on USB disk is not an > option due to security me

Re: How to create"official" off-line repository

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Lubos Rendek wrote: > have you tried apt-proxy : http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/#Introduction Do you suggest installing apt-proxy on LAN that is not connected to Internet and do what? > > lubos > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Hai Zaar wrote: >> Good day dea

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