On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 04:41:37AM +0200, Jacobo221 wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm working on my computer to do a Linux MediaCenter (to play videos, DVS,
> music, maybe games, and such). Since this computer will not have internet
> nor LAN access, i'd like it to auto-login, so that by insterting a CD and
> boo
On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 09:50:44PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I want to back up a large file to DVD. I have been backing up 'normal'
> files to DVD successfully for some time, but this one is 2725942329
> bytes, and someting is keeping growisofs from writing any more than
> 807 bytes. I've t
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 05:24:29PM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote:
> I'll try it with a single file:
[ ... ]
> debug1: Exit status 0
Exit status 0 means completely successful. Either it worked or scp is
lying (probably a bug).
--
The world's most effective spam filter:
ln -sf /dev/full /va
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:23:43AM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I think I'm like most people in that, when I run "straight" x programs
> (for me this includds xpdf, acroread, and little scripts I've written
> or downloaded using Tk or wxPython) the output is aesthetically
> pretty unpl
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:10:16PM +1300, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> It keeps foundering with the following message. What's happening ?
>
> Is the Bluefish maintainer still around ?
>
> >Tux:~# apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing
> >Reading Package Lists... Done
> >Building Dependency Tree... Done
> >C
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 11:45:01PM -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote:
> I'm trying Mutt and keep running up against "Could not open temporary
> file" whenever I attempt to open a message. What's the cause or
> solution? Thanks.
I'd try:
strace -o mutt.strace mutt
Looking at the output from that on my
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:26:01AM -0400, Tony Uceda Velez wrote:
> Anyone know what is comparable to Gentoo's 'emerge search' in apt-get? Man
> pages didn't reflect something similar? Want to search for list of packages
> that start with a certain string.
>
> Thanks.
~ %% apt-cache search foob
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:21:49PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I used jigdo-lite to get sarge-i386-1.iso (cd version), burnt the cd and
> installed the Debian Base System on a new computer. All went well
> except I cannot connect to our LAN. The DHCP setup says it has obtained
> an IP addres
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:13:06PM -0500, Tim Kelley wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 September 2004 21:03, Tim Kelley wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 September 2004 13:28, Don Hayward wrote:
> > > Is there a package that contains the standard contents of the /bin
> > > directory? I erred.
> >
> > The followin
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 06:48:25PM -0500, Johnny wrote:
> Hi
> When the kdm is up and I can login to GNOME Okay, but I can't login to
> KDE the splash comes up and when it does it initializing it get to the
> keyboard and mouse it quits sends a Caught signal 4. I did a apt-get
> update to see i
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 11:37:46PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
>
> now i'm having a totally different problem, actually: after figuring
> out how to mount it, i put about 500 songs on it, and then
> disconnected and reconnected it a bunch for various reasons.
If you don't unmount the filesystem b
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:55:28PM +1000, Blake Swadling wrote:
> Howdy
>
> I have a need to start certain apps (specifically mplayer) with no
> window decorations. I recall that with older versions on gnome this
> could be done via the window menus. Does anyone know how this can be
> done with g
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 06:03:17PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
> Whenever I commit a file with gcvs to sourceforge.net CVS the access
> rights are changed from "-rw-r--r--" to "-r--r--r--". How can I reset
> this annoying behaviour?
CVS makes files read-only to remind you to use 'cvs edit' (or the gcv
On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 09:02:33PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
> To update my webpages from CVS I use a crontab with some jobs. But every
> time the jobs are executed at sourceforge.net I get a mail. This seems
> to be the default behaviour. Is there a possibility to disable this
> mailing?
IIRC cron
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 12:49:11AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm prepared to upgrade a PC to AMD 64. Any comment in respect of
> running Debian on AMD 64 will be appreciated.
Take a look at http://www.nl.debian.org/ports/amd64/
It is currently only supported in unstable, but it
On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 01:39:07PM -0400, Silvan wrote:
> On Saturday 25 September 2004 04:16 pm, Bruce DeGrasse wrote:
>
> > missing hda6 hdb1
>
> > hda: 12594960 sectors (6448 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=13328/15/63, UDMA(33)
> > ?/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1[EZD] p2
>
> It isn't finding t
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 10:57:23PM -0400, David Witbrodt wrote:
> > > You make this sound pretty bad. I wonder if the HILUX CD is as bad as
> > > this. It's a lot smaller, and has a lot of updated (backported)
> > > packages for a minimal installation, which can then be finished by
> > > downlo
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 09:46:15PM -0400, David Witbrodt wrote:
> > Looking in the 2.6 tree, there are drivers supporting the Highpoint 343,
> > 345, 366, 370, 370A, and 372.
>
> Now that is helpful information! (May I ask how and where you found
> this, so I will bother other folks less in the
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 08:32:38PM -0400, David Witbrodt wrote:
> > DHCP means that you don't need to enter your IP address. Dynamic Host
> > Configuration Protocol makes things MUCH easier. Even a total newbie
> > should know how to turn the computer off when the install doesn't work :)
>
> Ye
On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 01:25:00AM +0100, robin wrote:
> Eric Dickner wrote:
>
> >And how can I tell if I have a plain i686 machine or
> >an i686-smc one?
> >
> Do you mean smp? If so its symmtric multi-processing ie dual processor,
> quad processor
Something to note: If you have one processor,
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 07:03:26PM -0400, David Witbrodt wrote:
> I am glad to hear about the autodetect, but I am a bit worried about
> autodetection of my NIC (HP EN1207D-TX) and my video (NVidia Vanta on
> motherboard).
> I have a SpeedStream 5100b, which has a built-in router, for DSL.
> T
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 05:27:27PM -0400, David Witbrodt wrote:
> I am about to install Linux for the first time in the next week or two,
> as soon as I finish backing up my old hard drive.
>
> I received a WD 160 GB hard drive as a gift earlier this year, but have
> not found a chance to install
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 11:46:08PM +0500, Asim Jamshed wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just installed Debian Linux on my PC. This is my first experience
> with Linux. Understandably, I faced a lot of problems . I had
> downloaded the ISO images of debian v3 release 2 which comes on 7
> CDs(Woody). On ins
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 11:19:43AM -0500, Bruce DeGrasse wrote:
> Need Kernel advice and help.
>
> I currently have idepci kernel installed on a Pentium II 350 mh, 6 GB (hda)
> and 1 GB (hdb), 320 MB mem system. This is from my initial install. Since
> then I have moved to Unstable and upgrade
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 12:01:01PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello all,
> I had a dual boot system with Windows and Linux
> installed. Bought a new cd writer and found out I had to
> upgrade win 98 to SE to use new software for writer. SE
> costs more than the writer did. Nuts to
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 08:26:42PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:58:03 -0700
> Stefan O'Rear disseminated the following:
>
> > > X should load the same set of fonts no matter the desktop or WM, no?
> >
> > The script I sent is very minimal.
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 05:07:20PM -0700, Pritpal Dhaliwal wrote:
> so today I was trying to install testing mysql-server and I think I
> messed couple of things up..
>
> here is what df returns:
>
> bigmonster:~# df -h
> FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:48:11PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
>
> If I fire up a vncserver with Gnome (very slwly), the Artwiz fonts I
> installed in ~/.fonts are 'available'.
>
> However, when I run a vncserver that loads Pekwm instead, those fonts are not
> available, I just get the default
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 10:46:27AM +0530, Nayyar Ahmed wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I want to add an ip address 203.128.5.100
> to /etc/hosts.allow , please tel me wat will be the entry.??
$ apropos hosts
...
hosts_access (5) - format of host access control files
...
$ man 5 hosts_access
Read it.
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 10:04:09PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:18:04 -0700
> Stefan O'Rear disseminated the following:
>
> > > I can't get the vncserver to load Pekwm instead of Gnome (we're talkin' a
> > > P100 w/ 64
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 08:39:20PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
>
> I can't get the vncserver to load Pekwm instead of Gnome (we're talkin' a P100
> w/ 64MB here, so...Gnome's a little on the slow side).
>
> I set this up before, and IIRC, I created a file '~/.vnc/xsession' (executable)
> which just had
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:44:37AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> Tks for your advice.
>
> > > In my case
> > >
> > > $ ps -f -C pppd
> > > UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME
> > CMD
> > > root 602 1 0 15:02 ?00:00:00
> > pppd
> > > call dsl-provider
>
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:28:57PM +0200, dogmad wrote:
> I'm sure I do have a lot of free disk space, but my df output is:
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda7-1848747039517 1 0 19% /
> /dev/hda6-1848747039517
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 11:15:16PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Hugo,
>
> Tks for your advice.
>
> - snip -
>
> > > /usr/bin/poff: I could not find a pppd process for
> > > provider 'ds-provider'. None stopped.
> > >
> >
> > That means pppd was not running ds-provider.
> > What does ps
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:13:55PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> *Very* new Debian user here, first install ever, though I was surprised at how
> easy it was, even though I chose to install from floppies over the internet.
> That's pretty cool!
>
> Anyhow, stupid question number one: I w
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:59:29PM -0700, Cole S. Ashcraft wrote:
> Is there a way to install / upgrade to sarge from a debian box running
> woody without using apt-get? I have glibc2.3 instsalled.
Yes.
Download the sarge netinst ISO.
Burn it to CD.
Back up all your data.
Turn off computer.
Inse
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:22:13PM -0400, Adam Aube wrote:
> martin f krafft wrote:
> > Every now and then, coincidence will have it that 10 or 20 users
> > invoke spamassassin at the same time. Spamassassin is a resource
> > hog and that will cause the machine to basically become unusable,
> > wit
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 12:01:11PM -0500, helices wrote:
> What broke? What changed?
>
> I have been running 2.6x kernels on this legacy PPro box for most of
> this year -- first kernel-image-2.6.2-1-686, then
> kernel-image-2.6.6-2-686 -- without incident.
>
> Today, the only change I made was
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:13:05PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Monday 20 September 2004 17:07, Marc Wilson wrote:
>
> > Uh, that's a CUPS back-end, not the hardware directly. The port itself
> > cannot consume CPU. Well, it can, but not in the sense that you mean.
>
> In what way do *you*
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 07:50:53PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 05:30:24PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 05:20:50PM -0700, Cole S. Ashcraft wrote:
> > > Is there an updated version of glibc (2.3) and gcc for woody?
> >
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 09:10:40PM -0700, Cole S. Ashcraft wrote:
> Is there anyway (short of compiling a 2.6 kernel) to get epoll? A debian
> package? Anything?
IIRC that is a system call, so you'll need either a new kernel or a new
libc.
But you don't need to compile a 2.6 kernel.
Just:
sudo
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 01:04:21PM +1000, Blake Swadling wrote:
> Howdy folks
>
> when i log into X ~/.bash_profile and /etc/profile do not get
> automagically loaded. however if I log in from the console it load fine.
> any ideas?
>
> I am running unstable with xserver-xfree8 4.3.0.dfsg.1-7 and
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 05:20:50PM -0700, Cole S. Ashcraft wrote:
> Is there an updated version of glibc (2.3) and gcc for woody?
>
> Thanks,
> Cole
There is no updated anything for woody.
But, you can install the libc6, libdb1_compat, gcc-3.3, etc from woody:
~/homework/2004/09 %% dpkg -s libc
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 07:42:12PM -0300, Robson Azevedo Rung wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an usb hub on my monitor that is used to connect my printer and my
> webcam. I'm getting the message below when I quit from X to text mode:
>
> > hub.c: port 2 over-current change
>
> The kernel doesn't stop to
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 05:39:11PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> Please cc me on replies.
>
> I've got a couple of problems for which I can't identify the responsible
> subsystem, so I thought I'd ask in a general forum like this. Here's the
> first:
>
> Running Debian Sid, various 2.6.x k
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 10:57:31PM +0300, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
> To make sure the system was alive at that time, syslog periodically
> writes such messages to /var/log/messages:
>
> Sep 19 22:09:27 debian -- MARK --
> Sep 19 22:29:27 debian -- MARK --
> Sep 19 22:49:27 debian -- MARK --
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 01:42:13PM -0500, Pepper Orlando wrote:
> Thank you for the suggestions, I will give it a try again this evening.
>
> I may still need some help fighting the dependancy issues. When I tired to
> remove some of the base packages (exim, etc) I ran into the same sort of
> pr
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 05:36:59PM -0700, Terry wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
>
> >>Sorry for not including it.
> >>
> >>>From .xsession-errors :
> >>
> >>xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X s
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 03:22:09PM -0700, Terry wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Shaul Karl wrote:
>
> >>A brief, but by no means exhaustive, list:
> >>
> >>Runs from Windowmaker: ALL
> >>Runs from command line:mozilla, gimp2, gnomesword2, xchat
> >>Crashes from command line: dillo, alsaplaye
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 10:57:59AM -0500, Rthoreau wrote:
> Dear: Fellow Debian Users;
>
> I am having problems trying to get ./configure to generate a make file
> for Lcd4linux. Below is the output for the program. It stops with an
> error message "configure: error: X11 headers or libraries no
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 05:30:17PM +0200, Pascal Bonesh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just wondered why some apps turn out to look ugly/oldfashioned.
>
> I.e. gktalog, nmapfe, xcdroast and acroread. Are they plain X-11 apps or
> are they using some old gtk 1.x toolkit?
>
> I would like to change the look
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 02:54:43PM +0100, Eddy Parris wrote:
> Hallo
>
> I am having terrible problems with my system, I think coreutils was upgraded in my
> last apt-get
> update/upgrade and now uname does not seem to function like it should, it behave
> rather like
> fsck... thus rendering man
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 06:03:01AM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote:
> I am trying to compile some .src.rpm files. When
> I try to do this they look for headers under the
> /usr/src/linux link. I installed linux from CD's
> originally and they didn't put anything there...I
> don't even have that link.
>
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 06:11:30PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> Ok, I just did a dist-upgrade on my Sid machine and blue text changed.
> I first noticed in mutt that my light blue lines got darker -- I see
> it in the background color in the header line, for example:
>
> ---Mutt: =lists.debian-u
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 04:44:08PM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote:
>
> --- Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:40:45 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: Will Debian have libstdc++.so.5 soon?
> > To: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 03:59:19PM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote:
> I have an application that was developed on RedHat
> that is calling for it. Apparently Debian doesn't
> have it yet, at least I can't seem to find it as a
> package.
>
>
> Does Debian lag behind RedHat on a lot of things like
> thi
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 12:02:08PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> Dave Howorth wrote:
>
> >>know whether there's a way to contact the server directly to see
> >>whether it's
> >>REALLY running
> >
> >
> >The simplest way to me is to write an X client program that just makes a
> >connection, then
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 12:39:33PM +0100, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> Hi,
>I'm trying to get iptables working on a x86 PC running 3.0r2. I now
> have installed a .deb package, but everytime I try to run
> /sbin/iptables, it reports something like the following - I say'
> something like', as I
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 09:39:14AM +0800, Lian Liming wrote:
> Hi all,
>I am now using the script "/etc/init.d/" to start service
> manually. I wonder if there are any way to add service to auto start
> when system boot up?
>
>Thank you for suggestions!
man update-init.d
--
The
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 03:37:42PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> This is going to be a "doh!" question, I'm sure.
>
> I needed to copy a bunch of files from a directory tree -- but only
> selected files (say all regular files that end in .foo). I want the
> destination tree to be created. find(1)
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 11:21:55PM +0200, Iwan van der Kleyn wrote:
> Brad Sawatzky wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Teuchteu wrote:
> >
> >
> >I created a user with root privileges who just makes a shutdown -h now
> >(Well i edit the /etc/passwd file to launch a script that shut down the
> >co
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 06:52:45PM -0500, Andrew Konosky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I started out in Linux with RedHat 8.0, then 9.0, and now I run Fedora
> Core 2 on my primary computer. I have used the Knoppix cd a lot, which I
> know is based on Debian, so I wanted to try out the full version of
>
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 08:52:38PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I already know how to use netatalk to allow a Mac user to treat
> my Debian box as a file server. But I can see on the Mac that
> it is able to share files with others Macs. So, how do I get
> my Debian box to pretend to be a Mac? Or
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 08:42:46PM -0400, Ryan Waye wrote:
> Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> >On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 05:52:13PM -0400, Ryan Waye wrote:
> >>/var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base_5.8.4-2.2_i386.deb (--unpack):
> >>trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/perl/5.8',
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 09:17:57AM -0700, Russel Hill wrote:
> We routinely build ISO's and occasionally one fails to boot (with a
> kernel panic). I've attached a screenshot of the kernel panic.
>
> The ISO's are all built using script files and they are always built the
> same way. They may
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 05:52:13PM -0400, Ryan Waye wrote:
> I am using Sid 2.6.7 and I seem to be having some broken package
> problems. The funny thing is that this is a week old, and noone else
> seems to have submitted a bug report. This has completely handicapped
> apt, so I can not use it r
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 09:05:34PM -0600, Marvin Aguero wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have little experience burning CDs with Linux, but I have managed to burn
> some data and audio CDs with no problems at all.
>
> I now face a new challenge: I'd like to duplicate a CD. The CD I am trying
> to duplic
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 07:25:18AM -0400, Prashant Kumar wrote:
>
> Hi all
> All of sudden vim shows no syntax coloring :set syntax on is of no help.
> Though ls --color is working fine. I recently upgraded ncurses could
> that be the problem??
>
> Any suggestion will be highly appreciated especi
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 09:43:41PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> I havent updated since woody but I recently had a go at it. This is my sources.list:
> -
> #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binar
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:41:10PM -0500, Kurt Dresner wrote:
> Hi everyone, sorry to bother you.
>
> I just made a huge mistake and blew away everything in /etc/exim4/
>
> I have tried for several hours now to get the packages reinstalled,
> but I can't get it to work. If anyone could help me o
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:37:23PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
>
> >-- BEGIN DATA BLOCK --
> ># enable bash completion in interactive shells
> >
> >if [ "$PS1" -a -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
> >
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 06:37:44PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
>
> Dear People,
>
> I have noticed that bash completion only works on a remote machine I have
> sshed into, if I log in as root. This is obviously a case of something not
> being sourced correctly, but I am not sure what the problem
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:40:05PM +0100, Tom Wesley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for a probably normal query, but I couldn't find an answer with Google:
> Is there a simple way to remove packages that were installed as dependencies
> for packages that have since been removed?
Just:
dpkg --remove l
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 02:19:47AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> Hi D-U,
> a day ago, I had a problem with su-ing to root. I checked out my auth.log and
> found strange activity. I have a basic ipchains script and run apache
> and sshd on a dialup connection. Consult:
> http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 08:09:48PM -0400, William Ballard wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 04:41:34PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > cell->server->smtp->procmail->[process here]->maildir->[process
> > there]->PICS
> > do you want to [process here] or [process there]?
>
> [process there]
>
> I alrea
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 07:58:53PM -0400, Steven Curtis wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade to the vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-k7 kernel and my system has
> an Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI adapter. The stock vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-k7
> kernel has aic7xxx support compiled as a module. I added the aic7xxx
> module line
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 01:00:13PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> hi folks,
>
> I need to be able to test whether an x server is running on a given
> display on localhost, for a script I'm writing (it's a python script
> automating openoffice, but I could launch it from a bash wrapper no
> problem). I
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:20:24AM +1000, Blake Swadling wrote:
> howdy
>
> I just installed deb testing on my machine using the net install and I
> am having trouble loading X.
>
> I can boot to terminal fine, though when X is started the screen goes
> blank. I can ssh in for a while and then t
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 04:47:38PM -0700, Matt Perry wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Erik Steffl wrote:
>
> >problem 1 (that's just something to be careful about): if you just
> > have the default x-window-manager it can be replaced during update and
> > when you restart WM the X session will c
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 08:55:07PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks - and, you're right, and I had forgotten that; ".login" is a
> shell feature. (I probably didn't look in the "csh" or "tcsh"
> manuals...)
>
> The "Xauthority" tactic, if I understand correctly, is similar to
> using "xau
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:56:34AM +0100, David Leggett wrote:
> Hello to all list readers,
> I have been running old style legacy /dev/ system for a while and i recently
> installed udev.
> After having read the udev documentation i realised that my system shouldnt
> have 1600 files in /dev, i a
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 02:47:58PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm trying to get my single-user system set up so that
> programs running as root to be able to open windows, etc.
> (ref. the infernal message "Not allowed to connect to
> server", etc. etc.)
/usr/src/linuxen/kernel-source-2.2.2
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 02:07:04PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > "Justin" == Justin Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Justin> uninterruptable sleep. If it is, there's nothing you can do
> Justin> about it, except reboot. Also note, that each process in
> Justin> uninterrupta
The power lines in my neighborhood are acting up, and I am going to
tune2fs -j all my filesystems.
I want to know if there are any hidden gotchas before commiting to ext3.
I am running an ext3-patched Debian 2.2.20
I can mke2fs, tunefs -j, e2fsck, and mount -t ext3.
Anything else I need to chec
On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 03:40:38AM +0200, Martin Henne wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On my system I want to keep users from browsing the '/home' directory.
> Unfortunately, when I do a 'chmod o-r /home', the user can't login via
> ftp anymore. When the user logs in via ssh, he gets the root directory
> as
On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 10:36:09PM +0100, Paul Hailey wrote:
> snip
> If you haven't looked at the XFree86 log file in /var/log do so - it shows
> if the mouse bits are
> loading correctly or not at the end of it.
>
> In my case I think I may have to hold a mouse button down as the 'gdm'
> syste
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 08:59:31PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a Debian Linux Sid system that has a compactflash slot, setup to
> mount CF cards on /mnt/flash.
>
> I mount them from the commandline, just doing something like this:
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdg1 /mnt/flash
>
> When mou
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 08:18:04PM -0400, Tong wrote:
> Hi,
K = Kernel
K = KDE
Lots of easy confusion.
> I notice that, many times, when my mouse become sluggish, the
> kupdated is taking up much cpu resource. So,
> What is this kupdated? Do I absolutely need it? How can I get rid
> of it if not
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 07:55:47PM +0200, Richard Palfalvi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed Sarge on my laptop and I am running often into the
> following problem when I try to install packets with apt-get or also
> with dselect.
>
> Usually if there more than one packet to install or update dpk
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:21:35AM -0400, Mike Ward wrote:
> Interesting. I just looked, it shows I have ~40 free open files left,
> so maybe that's it.
They are dynamically allocated.
On my system:
~ %% cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
913 82 4096
~ %%
913 open file structures
all but 82 in
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:57:04AM -0400, Mike Ward wrote:
> Well, it obviously varies, but I just ran "lsof | wc -l" and it returned:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsof | wc -l
> 6335
>
> I'll try running that next time I run into problems as well.
>
>
> Kernel version is 2.2.20-idepci
Won't lsof
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 05:18:32PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote:
> On Thursday 02 September 2004 15:15, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:45:24PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote:
> >
> > Emacs 21 has an enriched-mode that will load/save rtf. Dunno if it
>
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:18:58PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:31:29PM +, Will Ness wrote:
> > Sweet it worked!!! You are my hero!!! I have been trying to get this to
> > work, like FOREVER!! One more quick question: Where in the x-windows setup
> > do you tell it t
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:45:24PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote:
> I'm in the process of tinkering around with my old TI Extensa 450 Laptop
> and getting Damn Dmall Linux installed on her, since she only has 12MB
> RAM and a 540MB hard drive.
>
> Due to memory limitations (until I can get a pair of
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:32:56PM -0400, Scott Mohnkern wrote:
> We're seeing something quite strange. Periodically, logging to messages
> just "stops" then it restarts.
>
>
> Anyone know what causes this?
Maybe. Debian rotates logs by default, and klogd can't do much during
the rotation. B
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:55:14PM -0400, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
> How can I use data=journal mode in Sarge, stock kernel 2.4.26-1-i386? If
> I include data=journal in /etc/fstab, I'm told that I can't change the
> journal mode during a remount. Using tune2fs to set journal=data doesn't
> seem t
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 06:59:11PM +, Cousin Stanley wrote:
> Greetings
>
> If I move installed files from their original
> apt-get install target locations, is there a
> a simple way to redirect the package managers
> to cope with these path changes for future
> updates/upgr
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:23:52PM +, Will Ness wrote:
> Whew!! It was tough but I finally figured it out! Anyways here is a copy of
> the error file that X-Windows created when it couldn't start up. If anyone
> could help me, that would awesome. TIA!!
>
> -Will
>
> Hardware Info:
>
> Ati
Preston Boyington wrote:
>
> I am involved with a project that is (currently) using Knoppix as a
> base for a LiveCD. The end result of the project is having a "trial"
> cdrom that can then be installed as a real Debian system.
>
> I know that there are projects like Morphix (which is what the D
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 07:06:13PM -0400, Mark D. Hansen wrote:
> Thanks! Great advice. I've got the VNC suggestion working. But, it
> would be cooler to do it the SSH/X11 way. I'm just a little reluctant
> to install the Cygwin stuff on all my Windows boxes. Is there any other
> way to do thi
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