System freezes sporadically during user initiated HD access (SCSI)

2003-04-03 Thread Manegold
Hi all, my debian woody system developed a quirk that I can't isolate. From time to time the system freezes with the HD access light on. This LED is attaced to the SCSI controller (Terratec) so I guess this means it happens while it accesses on of the SCSI devices. I have a DVD-ROM and two SCSI

Applications started via KDE Kicker in wrong language (via shell ok)

2002-11-27 Thread Manegold
Hallo, After updating to woody and KDE 3 non-kde-applications started via kicker start with the wrong language setting. If I start them via kconsole they start up with the right setting (except galeon, which then hangs). My guess is that the language environment variables are not set correctly

Re: Log message: dditional sense indicates Tracking servo failure

2002-06-07 Thread Thorsten Manegold
Once upon a time around Friday, 7. June 2002 20:38, in a galaxy far, far away someone known as Robin Putters wrote: > On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 18:09, Thorsten Manegold wrote: > > I found the following message in the kern.log. What does it mean? > > If it means that my HD is about to

Re: Log message: dditional sense indicates Tracking servo failure

2002-06-07 Thread Thorsten Manegold
Once upon a time around Friday, 7. June 2002 20:36, in a galaxy far, far away someone known as Mike Dresser wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Thorsten Manegold wrote: > > === > > Jun 6 20:18:58 localhost kernel: Additional sense indicates > > Tracking ser

Log message: dditional sense indicates Tracking servo failure

2002-06-07 Thread Thorsten Manegold
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What means: Warning: /proc/ksyms not normal

2001-08-02 Thread Manegold
Hi! When using ps or top, I get: Warning: /proc/ksyms not normal What does that mean? I'm using debian potato with all the latest patches and kernel 2.4.7 TIA Thorsten PS: pls cc to personal e-mail so that I don't miss the answer.

Re: Firewall for use with cable modem?

2000-12-20 Thread Manegold
Gary Hennigan wrote: > > Manegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ktb wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:02:14AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > > > > I have spent much of the day getting more and more confused about > > > > f

Re: Firewall for use with cable modem?

2000-12-20 Thread Manegold
ktb wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:02:14AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: > > I have spent much of the day getting more and more confused about > > firewalls and Linux. I am having a cable modem installed soon and want my > > system to be secure. I have only the one computer, and am running

Re: apt-get with Packages out of arbitrary directory?

2000-12-19 Thread Manegold
On 19-Dec-2000 David Z. Maze wrote: > Manegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > M> Is there a way to use apt-get on packages in a directory somewhere > on a > M> system, that are not organized like archive and that do not have > M> Packages.gz files > > Nope. &

apt-get with Packages out of arbitrary directory?

2000-12-19 Thread Manegold
not know how to make it usefull). Any ideas? TIA Thorsten Manegold

Re: Konqueror in GNOME, no response to Save Yourself

2000-12-16 Thread Manegold
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 04:06:11PM -0500, Anderson, Tim TL33E wrote: > > Hi, > > I run the Konqueror browser from KDE2 on a GNOME desktop, and it > > seems to work OK (as I expected). A minute or so after startup I get an > > error saying 'No respons

ldconfig message

2000-12-13 Thread Manegold
Hi! ldconfig gives the following message: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libgtkimreg.so (file or directory not found), skipping ls -l /usr/lib/libgtkimreg.so gets: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Sep 27 13:14 /usr/lib/libgtkimreg.so -> libgtkimreg.so.0.0.0 What is the prob

Re: What is VNC?

2000-12-12 Thread Manegold
On 12-Dec-2000 Erik Steffl wrote: > Manegold wrote: >> >> Alson van der Meulen wrote: >> > >> > > When it comes to controlling a Linux X display, I'm a little more >> > > hazy. >> > > >> > > Near as I can figure, i

Re: Re: es1371 (SOLVED hopefully )

2000-12-12 Thread Manegold
On 12-Dec-2000 romain lerallut wrote: > Begin Original Message > Hello, > * romain lerallut ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >>> BUT >>> - there's nothing in /dev/sndstat _(the file "exists" but cat >>> /dev/sndstat say no such device) >>> - there's no /proc/sound file >>> AND >> >> This

Re: configuring kdm or gdm to see both kde and gnome

2000-12-12 Thread Manegold
Hi, On 11-Dec-2000 mario wrote: > On Monday 11 December 2000 20:13, Anderson, Tim TL33E wrote: >> Hi, >> I'd like to have both KDE and GNOME (helix) in my display manager's >> session >> menu (I'm not bothered which one I use). I thought this would be >> quite >> simple but after looking th

Using Postgres SQL with Staroffice?

2000-12-12 Thread Manegold
Hi! How can I use Staroffice (the database stuff) as a front end to Postgres (I can't get the supplied Adabas to work with me without major investment of time, and I need to to relational database stuff [more than one tabel], which does not work with dbf of starbase table formats)? TIA Thorsten

Re: What is VNC?

2000-12-12 Thread Manegold
Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > > When it comes to controlling a Linux X display, I'm a little more hazy. > > > > Near as I can figure, if you want to control a Linux box using VNC, you > > don't run your normal X server. Instead you run vncserver from a non-X > > environment. This starts the VNC

Re: es1371

2000-12-12 Thread Manegold
romain lerallut wrote: > > Hello debian-users ! > > I have a problem using a es1371 sound card (it's really a SB128 PCI). > In a nutshell: the system can't talk to the card... > > I am using woody and a kernel 2.2.17 > > Here's what I did: > > recompiling the kernel (sound support: module , es

Printing with TrueType fonts ?

2000-12-12 Thread Manegold
Hi! How do I make eg. StarOffice print using the truetype fonts selected? After all it's little use seeing them on screen, but not be able to print out, what you did. TIA Thorsten

What is VNC?

2000-12-11 Thread Manegold
Hi! I'm wondering what VNC is. According to the package listing it is a remote display system. Therefore something like X. But what does that mean? Can I use it instead of X? Does it need special apps that make use of it, or can normal X/KDE/Gnome - apps make use of it? What are the advantages of V

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-11 Thread Manegold
"S.Salman Ahmed" wrote: > > I have a Lexmark Optra E312 Postscript printer that I am trying, > unsuccessfully, to configure. > > I decided to use CUPS as the LinuxPrinting-HOWTO mentions that to be > quite easy. So I apt-get installed cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-client, > qtcups and xpp, the last

Re: Printer woes

2000-12-04 Thread Manegold
Mark Phillips wrote: > > Hi again, > > I earlier sent a message about problems I have been having getting a > printer to work under kernel 2.4.0-test11. Well, I since have tried > it under a 2.15 kernel on a laptop and got the same problem --- > printer not active or something to that effect. >

Re: filter

2000-12-01 Thread Manegold
Hi! On 29-Jun-2000 Frederico S. Muñoz wrote: > > > Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: >> >> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 13:46:05 +0100, Sven Garbade wrote: >> >> >> >> >Why don t you use apsfilter or magicfilter? I think you can save a >> >lot >> >of work. >> > > > > Also I found that CUPS works flawlessl

Re: Problem with Z32 in a Woody box

2000-12-01 Thread Manegold
curro wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Manegold wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I assume that the parport support in the kernel/modules is enabled/the > > module loaded and PLIP disabled. > > Can you try with some other device if it's a port p

Re: new kdm not reading kdmrc??

2000-11-30 Thread Manegold
Nate Amsden wrote: > > Evan Van Dyke wrote: > > > > Ok, this seems silly but does anyone know why since one or two upgrades > > ago on kdm it would have stopped reading my /etc/kde2/kdmrc file? > > the session-types box has dropped down to just kde and failsafe... > > yes i noticed that too when

Re: Problem with Z32 in a Woody box

2000-11-29 Thread Manegold
curro wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > On 28-Nov-2000 curro wrote: > > > > > > Hi, I have been unable to configure my Linux box to print in a > > > LexmarkZ32 printer connected to the serial port. I have installed in > > > > Do you really mean "serial port"?

RE: Problem with Z32 in a Woody box

2000-11-28 Thread Manegold
On 28-Nov-2000 curro wrote: > > Hi, I have been unable to configure my Linux box to print in a > LexmarkZ32 printer connected to the serial port. I have installed in Do you really mean "serial port"? I seem to remember that the Z32 does not work under Linux. At least I think that is what

Re: TTF - Fonts in KDE 2.0 apps

2000-11-27 Thread Manegold
Hi! Sorry I didn't explain that properly. I meant, that I have xfstt serving ttf fonts to X. This works fine with other apps (Nescape, Mozilla etc.), so the problem is not there. konqueror and the other KDE2 apps however do not see those fonts and do not offer them for selection. Why? TIA Thorste

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

2000-11-27 Thread Manegold
Gary Hennigan wrote: > > "Anthony Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 22 Nov 2000, Christoph Simon wrote: > > > On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:59:52 -0800 (PST) > > > Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > bleah. how do i keep this program from starting on boot? > > > > > > >

TTF - Fonts in KDE 2.0 apps

2000-11-26 Thread Manegold
;m running potato 2.2r0 with the debs of tdyc installed. TIA Thorsten Manegold -- \\|// ( o.o ) \(_)/ oOOo-oOOo--- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 25-Nov-

Re: more than one .sty file in a tex document!?

2000-11-25 Thread Manegold
In what order did you load the packages? Maybe g-brief overwrites your settings, if it's loades after fancyhdr. Thorsten On 24-Nov-2000 Manuel Hendel wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 08:42:05AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: >> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 08:42:05 -0800 >> From: "Eric G . Miller" >>

Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-23 Thread Manegold
Timmy Douglas wrote: > > "John-Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello all > > I have been battling with exim, fetchmail and mutt now for what seems like > > eons! I have made progress over the time and am at a situation now where I > > can receive mal I send to a normal user from root. How

Re: strange syslog messages

2000-11-23 Thread Manegold
Michael Bürkle wrote: > > several times i got this syslog message popping up on the console: > kernel: CPU0: Machine Check Exception: 0004<0>BANK 4: > b240151general protection fault: > I'm running kernel 2.2.17 > any suggestions? > Hi! Could this be a memory module in Ba

Re: more than one .sty file in a tex document!?

2000-11-23 Thread Manegold
Manuel Hendel wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 09:44:40AM +0100, Manegold wrote: > > Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 09:44:40 +0100 > > From: Manegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: Debian-User-Mailinglist > > Subjec

Re: more than one .sty file in a tex document!?

2000-11-23 Thread Manegold
Manuel Hendel wrote: > > Hi, > > is it possible to use more than one .sty file in a tex document? For > example, let's say I use g-brief as documentclass, but also want to > use letter or dinbrief and a package called rechnung. > Hi, yes and no. Some packages like footmisc, soul, which are not a

mp3 ID Editor?

2000-11-09 Thread Manegold
Hi All! Does anyone know, how I can edit the ID tag of an mp3 file? TIA Thorsten

T-Online Software for Linux?

2000-11-07 Thread Manegold
Hi All! Is there a software to access the german T-Online (formerly BTX) under Linux? I know how to use PPP (Internet) via T-Online and Linux, but the official decoder supplied by the Telekom is Windows. It's however needed for doing the telebanking stuff more securely, since it is a closed system

external apps in Netscape

2000-11-02 Thread Manegold
d it. Any ideas? TIA Thorsten Manegold

How to use Suspend to RAM

2000-11-02 Thread Manegold
Manegold

Re: KDE2 dependence problem

2000-10-27 Thread Manegold
Anthony Fox wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Peter Fedichev wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have seen a couple of "I have installed KDE2" reports here. How have > > you managed, since .debs on ftp.kde.org seem to require libgl1? > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > I apt-got kde2 debs from http://kde.

Re: Tex/Latex problem

2000-10-19 Thread T. Manegold
hormoz rebati wrote: > I have ported TeX/Latex onto my machine HP UX 10.20 > But everytime I use tex/latex I get:- > "I Can't find the format file 'tex.fmt'/'latex.fmt' > > What is wrong. Can someone help please? > > Thanks in advance > Hormoz Rebati > Hi! Did you run initex? I assume you ported

SOLVED: HOW to install StarOffice for mulituser

2000-09-25 Thread T. Manegold
/net thing as root. Calling it up as normal useer did offer the expected screens. Thank you to all! Thorsten Manegold PS: now I only have to figure out how to get Adabas working... back to the README

Re: HOW to install StarOffice for mulituser

2000-09-25 Thread T. Manegold
John Foster wrote: > "T. Manegold" wrote: > > > > HI! > > I tried > > > > ./so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-de.bin /net > > > > but it still came up without the net-install dialogs. Do I have to have the > > file in a > > spe

Re: HOW to install StarOffice for mulituser

2000-09-25 Thread T. Manegold
; are all permissions ok? is there enough space on the disk? > > hth HI! I tried ./so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-de.bin /net but it still came up without the net-install dialogs. Do I have to have the file in a special place? Or can't I use sudo ? TIA Thorsten Manegold

HOW to install StarOffice for mulituser

2000-09-25 Thread T. Manegold
/unpack or whatever the downloaded file to get the files that are on CD? TIA Thorsten Manegold

KDE uses wrong codepage

2000-09-22 Thread Thorsten Manegold
displayed in kfm. What is wrong and how/where can I change that? TIA Thorsten Manegold

Re: apt-get error

2000-08-24 Thread Manegold
Hi ! Well apt-get upgrade did never finish OK. It started out more or less ok, but after a while it could not properly configure some packages (gimp-manual and libpaperg (here it never accepted any paper format like a4 and there was no list to choose from; therefore forcing a ctrl+c and thereby ab

apt-get error

2000-08-23 Thread Manegold
to I make apt-get do the update? I had script -a update2.2.log running to get a transcript. I attach it to this message TIA Thorsten Manegold -- \\|// ( o.o ) \(_)/ oOOo---

Re: apt-get failed SOLVED

1999-11-03 Thread Thorsten . Manegold
HI! I had the same error. Upgrading debconf by hand solved it. Thanks! Thorsten On 02-Nov-99 Joey Hess wrote: > > Upgrade debconf by hand to the current version in unstable. > > jack wrote: >> hi, >> >> the error message is: >> >> debian:~# apt-get -f dist-upgrade >> Reading Package Lists...

faxrunq in what package

1999-08-07 Thread Thorsten . Manegold
Hi! I have a man page for faxrunqd (part of the mgetty package), but not the program. Also I don't have faxrunq, which is mentioned in the man page. Where can I find those? My HylaFAX server only spools faxes and I think I need this program to make it send it out. TIA Thorsten

dpkg --> html?

1999-07-06 Thread Thorsten Manegold
Hi! with rpm there is a tool rpm2html to make the database readable via a browser (espec. the depenancies and files). Is there something like that for debs as well? TIA Thorsten Manegold

rebuliding dpkg database

1999-07-06 Thread Thorsten Manegold
Hi! As someone already asked about problems with dpkg after dataloss... Is there a way to rebuild the dpkg database if it gets corrupted? With rpm there was a way to rebuild if you had some data still intact. TIA Thorsten

(ana)cron message

1999-07-02 Thread Thorsten . Manegold
HI! What does the following (ana)cron message mean? I get it every time. 45375 45375 File /usr/lib/emacs/19.34/i386-debian-linux/movemail registered but not installed TIA Thorsten Manegold \\|// ( o.o

HD activity

1999-06-21 Thread Thorsten Manegold
Hi! I seem to remember, that this was asked before, but can't find it in the list-archive: 1) What causes the HD activity every 3 seconds? That way powersaving will never take effect. 2) How can I change the setup, so that the HD will not be needlessly acsessed? TIA Thorsten Manegold

RE: Getting there

1999-06-18 Thread Thorsten Manegold
ps? I hope not Help me out here! :) Why? You don't need to run KDE just to use KMail. Dto for Gnome. Sure you need to install the runtime libraries (like qt for KMail) and maybe it's easier to install the environment, but you can run those apps from Windowmaker too (or from a

difference between magicfilter and apsfilter

1999-06-17 Thread Thorsten Manegold
Hi! I sent this question before but did not receive any reply, so I try again: What is the difference between magicfilter and apsfilter? As far as I can tell they both do about the same. Is one better? TIA Thorsten Manegold \\|// ( o.o

Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?

1999-06-14 Thread Thorsten Manegold
t; large disclaimer saying that using it would render the package > not upgradable and not removable by dpkg. teTeX is on area in which the html page does not work because of the gz. format. Where do I have to report that to? Do I understand correctly, that all files in /usr/doc are supposed to be gz? If yes, then rezipping them recursevly should solve the problems with dpkg updateing etc. Thorsten Manegold

RE: kppp error - pppd dies unexpectedly

1999-06-12 Thread Thorsten Manegold
"lock" in /etc/ppp/options to be removed. HTH Thorsten Manegold \\|// ( o.o ) \(_)/ oOOo-oOOo--- E-Mail: Thorsten Manegold <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: systemtime

1999-06-11 Thread Thorsten Manegold
On 10-Jun-99 Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 10 Jun, Thorsten Manegold wrote about "systemtime" >> Hi! >> What does the file /etc/adjtime do? >> It seems that when it is there hwclock.sh that is called at startup >> always sets my systemtime to some funny val

systemtime

1999-06-10 Thread Thorsten Manegold
Hi! What does the file /etc/adjtime do? It seems that when it is there hwclock.sh that is called at startup always sets my systemtime to some funny value... Any ideas? TIA Thorsten Manegold

difference between magicfilter and apsfilter

1999-06-10 Thread Thorsten Manegold
Hi! What is the difference between magicfilter and apsfilter? As far as I can tell they both do about the same. Is one better? TIA Thorsten Manegold

Re: ESD and x11amp

1999-06-10 Thread Thorsten Manegold
> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Thorsten Manegold wrote: > > > Hi! > > I want to compiele x11amp so that it usese esd. However the configure > > script does not find esd. > > I installed enlightenment 0.15.5 from source to /usr/local. > > You can get esd from your p

Re: HylaFAX

1999-06-10 Thread Thorsten Manegold
> On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 12:32:50PM +0200, Thorsten Manegold wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Has anybody HylaFAX working?. > > I've been using it for a few years without any problems (I never could > get efax to work). > > > I use slink and HylaFAX just spo

Re: HylaFAX

1999-06-10 Thread Thorsten Manegold
> On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 12:32:50PM +0200, Thorsten Manegold wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Has anybody HylaFAX working?. > > I've been using it for a few years without any problems (I never could > get efax to work). > > > I use slink and HylaFAX just spo

ESD and x11amp

1999-06-09 Thread Thorsten Manegold
Hi! I want to compiele x11amp so that it usese esd. However the configure script does not find esd. I installed enlightenment 0.15.5 from source to /usr/local. TIA Thorsten Manegold

HylaFAX

1999-06-09 Thread Thorsten Manegold
Hi! Has anybody HylaFAX working?. I use slink and HylaFAX just spools the files to fax but does not start to fax at all. I assume, that the problem is in the stage where it converts the PS files to fax/tiff files. How can I verify this? Also what ownerships to the files in /var/spool/fax have t

Re: Web site shuts down Netscape

1999-05-25 Thread Thorsten Manegold
orsten Manegold > > On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 11:15:28PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > My cousin sent the following link to me: > > > > http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Castle/7393/Police.html > > > > Whenever I try to access it using Netscape 4.5 on a system using a 2

Re: packages for dialing isp

1999-05-16 Thread Thorsten Manegold
Hi! AFAIK kppp does not like to have "lock" set in /etc/ppp/options. Commenting it out made kppp work for me. HTH Thorsten Manegold On 14-May-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 5/13/99 5:24:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> How

changing default LANGUAGE

1999-05-05 Thread Thorsten Manegold
via mime-assoziation) they don't. What do I have to change to make that work? I have set the languge in K-Controlcenter but that does not change it. TIA Thorsten Manegold

contens fo /etc/rc0.d

1999-05-05 Thread Thorsten Manegold
-list of rc0.d? TIA Thorsten Manegold

setting domain - name

1999-04-29 Thread Thorsten Manegold
tly complains without a domainname. So. How do I set the domainname?? TIA Thorsten Manegold

Re: deb vs. rpm

1999-04-27 Thread Thorsten Manegold
tions/suggestions. So maybe RedHat (and others) only do not make use of the features that rpm offers, while dep-Packagers do. Also with deps you can be sure that they are comptible with your Debian system, something not the case with rpms. Am I missing someting here? TIA Thorsten Manegold

Re: deb vs. rpm

1999-04-26 Thread Thorsten Manegold
hat it's supposed to be supperior. As a matter of fact that is the main reason for me to try Debian (I started out with SuSE and am still using it. However I don't like the way they package things as it's not compatible to rpm's that I find on the net since they aor usually f

deb vs. rpm

1999-04-26 Thread Thorsten Manegold
kages contains the names of other packages that it requires). Which behaves better during updates? TIA Thorsten Manegold