texlive-latex-base configuration error

2010-01-30 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Hello, list! I am running testing i386. Upgrading livetex, apt gives configuration errors: I have looked around the web, and in the debian-user archives, and there is a similar bug that appeared a long time ago, like in 2007 and 2008, but it seemed to be fixed. In any case, I have found nothing

Viziteaza profilul meu Netlog

2009-09-07 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Hei, Am creat un profil Netlog cu pozele mele, filme, bloguri si evenimente si vreau sa te adaug ca prieten astfel ca tu sa il poti vedea! Dupa conectare, iti poti crea propriul tau profil. Arunca o privire: http://ro.netlog.com/go/mailurl/type=invite_1&mailid=119068013&id=1&url=-L2dvL3JlZ2lzdG

can't switch to external monitor after KDE 3.5 upgrade

2006-02-15 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
e LCD display and Fn-F8 doesn't have any effect again. So it seems like this is a problem of the X server. Does anybody know how to go around it or fix it? Thank you. -- Alexandru Cabuz Doctoral Student Université Montpellier II France Tel: +33 (0)4.67.14.47.34 --- Please no Word or

No kmail in sid?

2005-12-04 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Hello, I just did a dist-upgrade to sid and noticed that kmail is absent and refuses to install. evolution can read email but refuses to send saying RCPT TO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> failed: Transaction failed. The address is my own, and I know it works, because I am sending email from it right now.

Re: openoffice cannot find java...

2005-12-04 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Well, no it wasn't, but I tried setting it by hand and it seems to have no effect. I did export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/lib/java export JAVAC=/usr/local/lib/java/bin/javac but I still get javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! -- Alexandru CabuzDoctoral StudentUniversité Mont

openoffice cannot find java...

2005-12-04 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Hello, I just installed openoffice 2 and gave it a try. It says javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! but seems to open all right. However I can't figure out how to do anything useful in it like for example opening a new writer document. In the File-> New there is only the option "

mouse wheel behavior in KDE 3.4

2005-12-02 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
of the **same** application. I liked it better before and I want to go back to that behavior but I cannot find a setting in the Desktop Manager, and google shows nothing. Suggestions? Thanks. -- Alexandru Cabuz Doctoral Student Université Montpellier II France Tel: +33 (0)4.67.14.47.34

impossible to connect to DNS

2005-12-01 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Hello, I have been using Debian testing on my laptop for a while now, and networking-wise everything went smooth until today it all of a sudden refused to connect to the DNS server and therefore refused to connect to anything else unless provided with the IP address. For example, I can set up IP

lyx and k3b absent from testing: is this permanent?

2005-11-06 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
aurus0c102 libarts1 libfam0c102 libkcal2a libkdegst0.6 libkdenetwork2 libkdepim1 libmimelib1a libopenexr2 libqt3-dev libqt3c102-mt libqt3c102-mt-mysql libtag1 lyx lyx-common lyx-qt opera -- Alexandru Cabuz Doctoral Student Université Montpellier II France Tel: +33 (0)4.67.14.47.34 --- Plea

any particular reason why jailkit has not been packaged?

2005-05-18 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Is there any particular reason why jailkit has not been packaged? License problems perhaps? Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE messed up after dist-upgrade

2005-01-08 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
> Again, restart KDE, work out the remaining minor issues, and you'll be > fine. Thanks for the detailed responses. You're right. I haven't restarted KDE or X yet. Didn't know you have to do that. Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

KDE messed up after dist-upgrade

2005-01-07 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Hello, I did my daily apt-get upgrade a couple of days ago, and I noticed there were a whole bunch of packages being held, most of them kde. Trying a couple of them by hand revealed they were in conflict with other packages that needed to be removed and whatnot. So I did a dist-upgrade. Now I

Re: network unreachable

2004-12-18 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
I'm not sure what the routing tables are... I'll try man route and see what I can glean. Both machines are on the same hub. Oh, and a new development, I tried it while I was writing this email. I can ssh to both of these machines but from home, which is a completely different network than the

network unreachable

2004-12-17 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Hi, I got two computers in my office, both using Debian Sarge. One 2.6.9, the other 2.6.7. They both can ping the outside world (like google.com), but they can't ping each other. Let's call them machine A and machine B. When I try to ping B from A I get connect: Network is unreachable When

Re: Configuring proftpd

2004-12-09 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
> somebody lend me a hand? Don't know, but you'd have a much better chance of getting a response if you didn't post html. Some people don't even read that stuff, because of security, and because some clients don't support it. Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Usb not a valid block device

2004-12-09 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
I would suggest moving to a 2.6 kernel, why not 2.6.9 for example, and make sure you load the scsi_mod modules: sg, ide_scsi, sd_mod, usb_storage. Check with lsmod. Alex. Le jeudi 9 DÃcembre 2004 10:05, çå a ÃcritÂ: > Dear debianers, > > I've a Debian3.0 r2 installed. > I updated my kernel to 2

Re: Problem of compiling kernel

2004-11-26 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
> I just have problem of compiling kernel. The standard debian way of > compiling kernel is using the make-kpkg. Perhaps you need to compile an initrd and you forgot to give the --initrd option to make-kpkg... I am no guru, but I had a similar problem compiling a kernel, and that was the sol

openoffice in chroot

2004-11-23 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
I set up a chroot last night following the instructions in the howto. By the way, that howto needs some updating. There are some details that are not mentioned. Like when and how to run base-config to set up the chroot environment, and whatnot, and when and how one should run aptitude to install al

Re: AMD 64 and Debian

2004-11-22 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
> How difficult, would you say, was it to get it installed and get everything > working. Do you play any games? Specifically do you play any Windows games > using cedega? Are you happy with your configuration? Would you recommend > this configuration to others? Right now I'm pretty happy with it.

ata_piix and ide_generic weird behavior

2004-11-22 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Hello, I have spent about the last week setting up the Debian AMD64 Sid port on my brand new AMD64 nforce3 box. I was wondering if anybody can explain the following behavior. I have two ide DVD drives, one a regular ROM, the other RW. Since the ide_generic module does not support DMA, I learn

Re: AMD 64 and Debian

2004-11-22 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Le Lundi 22 Novembre 2004 18:24, downtime null a écrit : > I'm going to be upgrading my system very soon and was considering upgrading > to the AMD 64 bit processor. Are there already binary packages available > for 64 bit or am I going to have to compile everything? I'm pretty sure > there is alre

Re: mozilla crashes on loading some sites

2004-11-20 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Figured it out. It was the flash player plugin. Ahem. Which the alioth true64 HOWTO clearly warns does not work and the only way to use it is to install a 386 system and chroot to that... Sorry. Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: mozilla crashes on loading some sites

2004-11-20 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
> I think this is because of the java plugin. Try disabling it. Disabled it. Makes no difference. Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mozilla crashes on loading some sites

2004-11-20 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
> true64 port on an Athlon 3200+ ??? Athlon-64 3200+ . Yeah. You got a problem with that? :-) Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mozilla crashes on loading some sites

2004-11-19 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Hello, Mozilla crashes when trying to load this site (and others, this is an example). http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=41713 I just disappears all of a sudden. No fuss. Is anybody else's doing the same? If not, then which log files should I look into? I should mention I am using sid

AMD 64 build absolutely necessary for install on Athlon 64?

2004-11-16 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
I am trying for a few days here to boot my brand new Athlon 64 box on a Sarge Installation CD. But since sarge is not yet ported to AMD 64 (http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status) I tried IA 64. The computer refuses to boot off of it. It just hangs instead. At first I thought i

Re: why debian

2004-11-15 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
> Just my 2 cents, but trying to make everything relative won't do. There > are plenty of standards by which things can be judged (whether > anti-aliasing, interface design or meringues smothered in strawberry > sauce) though whether someone likes them or not is merely a question of > taste. Some o

Re: why debian

2004-11-15 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
> No idea, but it does sound like a good starting point for the > control freaks among the powers that be... This is true. Didn't think about it like that. Regulation. Ugh. Well I guess it's an idea that needs some more thought... Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: why debian

2004-11-14 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
> The failure of 'democracies' (even this quoting will not hold it for > ever) is in the fact that everybody believes to be entitled to judge > everything, and to issue a directing opinion on every matter and > aspect of life. As a result, the average level constantly is lowered, > to accomodate th

network install over nVidia nForce 3 ethernet interface

2004-11-11 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Hello, My question concerns the correct course of action when installing Sarge on a computer whose only way to connect to the internet is through an nVidia nForce 3 ethernet interface which needs the driver provided by nVidia at http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_amd64_1.0-0292 without ha