Dan wrote:
I cant create a new topic!!
Thanks God for that ! :)
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Vinicius Massuchetto wrote:
I installed CUPS and ran the daemon, also added my HP Deskjet 680c to
the system, but the printer doesn't print.
When I go to "Completed Jobs" it says all of them were cancelled.
See if http://chefacciamo.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Debian/CUPS can help
you troublesh
Mankuthimma wrote:
Now if I ask upgrading this package, the system wants to REMOVE
approximately 130 packages
Most probably, you are missing a couple of gnome dependencies, try doing this
# aptitude install gnome-desktop-environment
OMG Mankuthimna !!!
Javier Redoano wrote:
TECHNICAL TRANSLATION
English/Spanish - Spanish/English
- Crops
- Cattle Raising
- Swine
- Poultry
- Farm Machinery
- Agricultural Inputs
- Veterinary Medicine
- Farm Management
- Agricultural Economics
- Commodity Commercialization
- Rural Policy
- Natural Resources
For f
Cannot find a bootlog in /var/log
Stopping KDM on the console I see the last line is:
Stopping bootlog daemon: failed!
The last word is is a yummy strawberry red :)
How to fix this ?
Thanks,
Bob
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Dear friends,
I have reinstalled a Debian machine after having my laptop tracking
unstable for a couple of years.
This time I wanted a testing environment with only a few packages I need
from unstable. I have tried using aptitude but now quit after it has
taken a few liberties I did not appre
I am trying to load the ibm_acpi module with some options.
I placed the
ibm-acpi
line in /etc/modules
I tried using the following line in /etc/modprobe.conf
options ibm-acpi hotkey=enable,0x experimental=1
ran depmod -a and rebooted
but the options I need are not activated.
What am I doing wron
As many of you might have read with both 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 kernels and
APM, my Thinkpad T40 (2373-92G) did not resume after being left in
suspend to RAM for a longish time (very approx. over 45 min).
Shorter sleeps went just fine and the machine restarted just perfectly
with it's brilliant GNOME
I have this Thinkpad T40 with a fairly standard Debian sid on it.
Reading some appends it appears that using the X.org and/or ATI's binary
driver could enhance performance and/or stability (upon
susupend/resumes) of my machine.
Do I understand correctly that I can run EITHER XFree86.dfsg OR X.o
Sam Watkins wrote:
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:42:33PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote:
A last item I do not like about TB is that using IMAP, my emails are on
the server, and in TB when I delete an item it gets into the server's
Trash folders and emptying it therefore takes a while.
I recomme
Nate Duehr wrote:
Bob Alexander wrote:
A last item I do not like about TB is that using IMAP, my emails are
on the server, and in TB when I delete an item it gets into the
server's Trash folders and emptying it therefore takes a while.
Tell TB not to store Trash on the server.
Up to now I have been reading this lists mail with Thunderbird, fetching
it via IMAP from my ISP.
Thunderbird does a decent (but not wonderful) job of filtering spam.
Of course it threads topics and I can label individual emails in
different colours.
What I do not like about TB is the relative
I keep a few different kernel source trees under /usr/src and each of
them has a different .config file.
Part of my pre-backup script I would like to run a command such as
find /usr/src -name .config
for example:
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.9-rja/.config
/usr/src/linux-2.6.10-rja/.config
and for e
Is there some dependable site serving sid images in DVD format ?
I have used a site in .hu about ten days ago and now wanted to build the
updated images but it complains about a mismatch between the NEW .jigdo
and .template files I have just downlaoded from there.
Thank you,
Bob
PS Just in case
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Hello Users,
A couple of weeks ago I tasted debian first time and was so
excited about what Linux can offer these days that I wanted to
give a serious try to move permanetly to linux world and leave
windows behind.
Installing Sarge went without any complications, everything
gconfd spews out stuff to my syslog and messages:
Dec 27 13:51:50 localhost gconfd (root-6798): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only
configuration source at position 0
Dec 27 13:51:50 localhost gconfd (root-6798): Resolved address
"xml:readwrite:/root/.gc
Greg Folkert wrote:
So what do you think of those of us that *DO* use Sid + Experimental for
Production?
Careful what you say... I do have experience with Debian. No I am not an
idiot, I have very UN-limited needs, I have been known to talk out
of /dev/ass, have built very elaborate systems to ensu
Rogério Brito wrote:
> Just hang on a second! If you are so afraid of breaking your system, you
should not be using sid, but using testing instead.
Did I really sound that afraid ?!
Natural language is such an imprecise tool. Especially when two
different mothertongue use a third language to comm
Rob Bochan wrote:
I use it myself on my laptop that runs Sid, which I use for my business, to
check to see if there's anything major I need to know before I upgrade
anything. It runs automatically whenever I run apt-get upgrade. It's saved my
butt more than once.
Thank you very much Rob.
Of cou
Rob Bochan wrote:
On Saturday 25 December 2004 10:48 am, Bob Alexander wrote:
Is there an automatic way to check even only for the number of severe
bugs for a package from any of the package manager frontends ?
Install the apt-listbugs package.
Sounds GREAT. Tried reading or finding examples on
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Or you could use William Ballard's system of keeping the upgrades
separate by differently labeled .deb directories and simply reverting to
a set of .debs that worked if you run into problems.
He has posted his scripts to this list at least twice that I know of.
Sounds nice
alireza faryar wrote:
I installed fvwm on debian.testing using
apt-get install fvwm.
When I run fvwm, it complains that can't open display.
What am I missing,
Thanks
farid
Are you running that from xdm or gdm or what ?
Bob
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Background considerations, question follows:
When I was studying as a doctor (a lng time ago) my Pharmacology
professor told us:
"A good doctor is never the first to use a new medicine and never the
last to abandon an old one"
and later on my sailplane instructor told me:
"There are old pil
Glyn Tebbutt wrote:
> Did you install the cpufreqd? When it's installing (or reconfiguring) it
asks if you want to run it with suid, say yes, restart cpufreqd and
reload the applet, it should work now, it did for me anyway.
Glynn you're a genius.
I ran dpkg-reconfigure gnome-cpufreq-applet and set
I am running my rebuilt system and still have a few minor glitches.
Please be patient :)
The GNOME CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor 0.3.1 installed from the
corresponding Debian sid package now only show the CPU frequency but
does not permit me to select/change to tother frequencies.
Reading in t
Forwarding the dnsmasq problem analisys of Simon Kelley.
He very smartly spotted the bug I was talking about.
Happy XMas to Simon and all of you !
Bob
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Sam Watkins wrote:
you can watch the TTL dropping by typing repeatedly:
dig www.apple.com
Thank you Sam.
Very interesting.
But I keep on being a little confused.
tcpdump -n -i eth0 port 53
shows activity for "dig www.apple.com" every time, while for all other
names I can try, the activity on p
Michael Marsh wrote:
> If I understand what you mean correctly, then it should be easy.
Thunderbird uses the mbox format, so you can just move one mbox file
in place of another. For instance, if you have myBackupInbox, you can
move that to Inbox and be ready to go. If you're trying to merge,
the
Paul E Condon wrote:
I've been lurking on this thread. When I saw mention of Karten's system-info
script I googled it and downloaded it without any problem. Your problem is
probably temporary. Maybe, try again.
Paul,
the link is really 404.
Googling did not get exactly Karsten's script but some oth
Why are so many more applications listed under
Gnome's->Applications->Debian menu that directly into Gnome->Applications ?
For instance the installed k3b is only in the former list under Debian
menu->Apps->System and not where I would have expected it
Gnome->Applciations->Multimedia (for instan
Can I get rid of the following errors/warning at boot time regarding my
LVM setup ?
TIA,
Bob
Wed Dec 22 20:05:23 2004: Creating device-mapper devices...done.
Wed Dec 22 20:05:23 2004: Setting up LVM Volume Groups...
Wed Dec 22 20:05:23 2004: Reading all physical volumes. This may take
a while
Ted Parks wrote:
Ifconfig lists eth0 for the Orinoco card. The first three lines:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr (then the MAC address . . .)
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Can
Each time I reboot and login as bob I must manually launch alsamixer and
press M to unmute the main volume.
Why doesn't this get "remembered" across reboots ?
Using sid on 2.6.9 custom compiled kernel.
TIA,
Bob
ii alsa-base 1.0.7-2ALSA driver configuration files
ii alsa-oss 1
After moving/resizing my /var,/usr/tmp and /home ext3 filesystems,
Partition Magic ferociously disfigured my / partition (on which there
also was the .15 stage GRUB loader so I could not even boot to XP anymore).
After some 9 hours I am mostly back and this time with all but / on LVMs :)
Now a m
Paul E Condon wrote:
The fact that mkdir c: works for ext3 (which is what I have) and not for
fat32 leads me to believe that there is a rule against colon in file name
that is part of the fat32 standard and is being enforced by the fat32
implementation. I am not optimistic about you finding what y
Ron Johnson wrote:
2) I would like to redirect the output to a file called with the
catenation of 'uname -n'.'uname -r'.config.MMDDHHMM.txt where
MMDDHHMM is a timestamp of the command execution time. How do I
obtain such value ?
$ date +%Y%m%d%H%M
How do I create the required backtick
Slowly building my "disaster assurance" strategy on top of the file backups.
Amongst other things I want to periodically run a shell script that
would build a file with useful information. Here it is:
lsmod
lspci
dpkg --get-selections
sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda
df
uname -a
Now the questions:
1) Other
Florian Ernst wrote:
Hello Bob, hello list!
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 03:21:00PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote:
[...]
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-removal script: Permission denied
dpkg: error processing gtkhtml3.2 (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Paul E Condon wrote:
mkdir c:
also works for me. Some console messages are a bit tricky to interpret,
but directory is named as you wish without any quoting.
Paul,
the problem was that I tried creating the c: file on a FAT32 filesystem.
On ext2/3 etc it works fine.
Thanks
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In an attempt to mount /usr normally and then remount it ro to upgrade
packages I must have screwed something.
Now in order to straighten things I have tried to mount the /usr rw upon
boot but I still get errors.
Here is what I do and related data. Any help please ???
TIA,
Bob
t40:/home/bob# ap
Robert Waldner wrote:
Which filesystem do you use?
On my laptop, ext3:
Robert,
you are a genius ! (as ALMOST all Roberts :)).
I am trying to do it on a FAT32 filesystem which of course is strongly
objecting :)
Thank you.
Bob
PS Of course on ext3 it works aok
PPS This is a disaster for me :( I had
My Notes client under WINE setup needs to configure a directory called
dosdevice which needs to be populated by symlinks to the filesystem.
These symlinks must be called c: d: etc
I am not able to understand how can I create such "wierd" names.
Tried with '' with "" with \: etc but nothing worked
Scarletdown wrote:
2) Copy the old /var, /tmp, /usr and /home data onto the new
partitions, delete them, copy the rest on the new /
(... snip ...)
7: Update your /etc/fstab file to mount those new partitions
And that is really all there is to it. Repeat the process with your
other partitions.
Dear Debian-friends,
I am moving my fully updated Debian sid from a single partition to a
multipartition scheme.
My old "monopartition" which is currently alive is now on /dev/hda12 and
is around 3.5 GB.
The doubt I am having is how to properly move the / data to the new 70MB
filesystem/partit
using tcpdump I see that Intranet queries are resolved on my localhost
by the installed dnsmasq daemon (e.g. w3.ibm.com) while external sites
(e.g. www.apple.com) are always sent to the first upstream DNS each time.
Why ?
Thank you for any help,
Bob Alexander
/etc/dnsmasq.conf only has the
Alvin Oga wrote:
> - backup scripts are all FREE ... and all require tweeking, which
users and servers you want to backup to where
Thank you Alvin,
what you say is very very interesting.
Maybe what you say is the right approach also for me and I could just
use the diff command to compare any
Situation:
1) running "monopartition" Debian on /dev/hda8
2) similar size spare partition on /dev/hda7 that can be sliced at will
3) /dev/hda5 FAT32 partition used as Windows XP "data partition"
First question:
I would like to transition from the "monopartition" to one with
independent /, /home, /
possibility of going back to some previous state of the file.
Any ideas ?
Thank you very much,
Bob Alexander
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Is there some GUI to define, revoke, update passwords for Apache(2)
users ???
Tried Apache Webmin but it does not and I would like to avoid using the
htpasswd command line for this (many users and quite dynamic).
Thank you. Bob Alexander
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ect to handle these cases (i.e. finding a new mantainer without consent
of the current) ??
Thank you. Bob Alexander
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need) and have only them and their
prerequisites being installed.
Take care. Bob
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> > I have way too many packages installed
help. Bob Alexander
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0 mobility, wireless etc.
Thank you. Bob Alexander
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