_simple_ xresources question

2001-09-28 Thread Greg S.
is it possible to keep a window always on top in ~/.Xresources? i'm using MWM (motif window manager), and i would like to keep XClock always on top. anybody know how? thanks in advance

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-28 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > Wonderful. I just tested it. It can use EUC-JP encoding in > EUC-JP locale. Also other encodings. In short, it is locale- > sensible. Great! > If vim 6.0 will be included in Woody, Bug#107856 (enable CJK > handling ability) can be closed. Are you willing t

Re: _simple_ xresources question

2001-09-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:20:59PM -0700, Greg S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > is it possible to keep a window always on top in ~/.Xresources? i'm > using MWM (motif window manager), and i would like to keep XClock > always on top. anybody know how? thanks in advance I believe this is a window-man

Re: The joys of Debian unstable

2001-09-28 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >2) MySQL complaining about an empty root password. Even downgrading > three versions didn't help and I don't have an older version. Looks > like I will have to dump all my databases (luckily user accounts > still work) and rebuild the account infor

Re: Debian on laptops

2001-09-28 Thread Kari Ruohonen
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:53:11 +0200 > LAMIRAULT Nicolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hello everybody, > > > > i will buy a laptop. Perhaps it will be the HP Pavillon N 5461. > > Does anybody have install debian linux on this laptop ? > > > > Could you send me some links to know on which laptop

Wine 0.0.20010824-1 won't even run sol.exe

2001-09-28 Thread David Knudsen
wine _always_ fails with the attached error message. Has anyone seen anything similar? Wine is installed with mostly defaults on a woody system, but is using files from an existing windows 95 installation. I've even tried pointing it to a different, fresher, windows 95 installation (yes, I have

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-28 Thread turgon
On Sep/27/2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > vim 6.0 was released yesterday and I just finished the packages for it. Does this new version have a "Conflicts: *emacs*" yet? (just joking, of course :-)) -- Roberto Suarez Soto

Re: Fw: Select/copy/paste using keyboard in X

2001-09-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Joey Hess wrote: > > Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > Actually, I would like to be able to cut > > > and paste, with or without mouse, in different > > > applications running under KDE. For example, > > > a line from KWord to a search box at an > > > internet site up under Netscape. I can cut > > > a

how to configure a sound card

2001-09-28 Thread fouad HENNI
Hello I installed Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 (potato) on my PC and I have no idea on how to get my sound card working. I tried the commands: sndconfig soundconfig but I had an error message. Please help. ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Un e-mail gratuit @yah

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Sep 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > Previously [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Just use an epoch, please. That's what it's for. > > > > No, those package were never uploaded to debian > > Ah. That does change things a bit. > > > > -- >

Re: Fw: Select/copy/paste using keyboard in X

2001-09-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > > > I am not sure why some applications use different > > clipboards (buffers)... anybody has explanation? pointer > > to docs? > > How about this, http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html ?? thanks, that's good info. erik

Re: Debian 2.2r3 apt-get & dselect -> testing

2001-09-28 Thread Vittorio
Jaime, I've started a thread on this list on a very similar subject (re:mixture of potato & testing). People have strongly discouraged me of mixing the different version of debian. Vittorio Jaime cristerna Avila [debian-user] <27/09/01 14:46 -0700>: > > On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Jason Boxman wrot

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-28 Thread Danie Roux
> As a dedicated vim user, I always use the source tarballs, which IME > always compile flawlessly and install themselves in /usr/local, thus > leaving Debian undisturbed. It's easy to have the latest incarnation of > this brilliant editor if you do it this way. > > Anthony I used to do this, un

Re: Wine 0.0.20010824-1 won't even run sol.exe

2001-09-28 Thread Dmitriy
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 08:57:58AM +0200, David Knudsen wrote: > wine _always_ fails with the attached error message. Has anyone seen > anything similar? I don't think you attached the message, or it got lost along the way. Perhaps you should try to use 'winesetuptk' package to set up a built-in

Re: mixture of potato & testing

2001-09-28 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
The short question is: will I succeed in installing/upgrading a Woody program on Potato, or will it give me troubles? Answer: I did this with SANE. It worked. Just include the proper Woody sources line in your sourses.list, apt-get update, apt-get install I would imagine that the Debian dep

Re: man-db cron.daily job

2001-09-28 Thread Carlos Sousa
It shouldn't. Could you show me the permissions on /var/cache/man/cat8 (using 'ls -ld')? drwxr-sr-x 15 manroot 4096 Sep 28 07:48 /var/cache/man/ drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 28 08:28 /var/cache/man/cat1/ drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 22 21:20 /var/cache/man/cat2/ drwxr

Re: how to configure a sound card

2001-09-28 Thread Andrea
On Fri, 2001-09-28 at 09:30, fouad HENNI wrote: > Hello > I installed Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 (potato) on my PC and > I have no idea on how to get my sound card working. > I tried the commands: > sndconfig > soundconfig > but I had an error message. Do you know your sound card model? FWIK, you have t

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Sep 2001, Danie Roux wrote: > > As a dedicated vim user, I always use the source tarballs, which IME > > always compile flawlessly and install themselves in /usr/local, thus > > leaving Debian undisturbed. It's easy to have the latest incarnation of > > this brilliant editor if you do it this

Re: Wine 0.0.20010824-1 won't even run sol.exe

2001-09-28 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
David Knudsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > wine _always_ fails with the attached error message. Has anyone seen > anything similar? Maybe, but didn't find any attachment in your posting. Having the same problem (wine not even starting notepad at several machines, always same error message conce

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-28 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Peter Palmreuther wrote: > I would like to ask if there would be a packaged version for stable/potato too > or if vim-6 will remain .deb-ed only for >= "wooddy"? I can build a potato package as well, but if you don't mind I'ld like to wait until the packages have stabalized in bit in un

Re: man-db cron.daily job

2001-09-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:14:03AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > It shouldn't. Could you show me the permissions on /var/cache/man/cat8 > > (using 'ls -ld')? > > drwxr-sr-x 15 manroot 4096 Sep 28 07:48 /var/cache/man/ > > drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 28 08:2

Re: Debian 2.2r3 apt-get & dselect -> testing

2001-09-28 Thread Helmut Trinkl
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 02:46:14PM -0700, Jaime cristerna Avila wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Jason Boxman wrote: > > . > > > There are "unofficial" XFree 4.x packages for Potato. Perhaps search > > the list archives. > > . > > > Thank you Jason for your reply. I considered your s

Re: some questions about lilo

2001-09-28 Thread Christian Eckert
- Original Message - From: Mike Alborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Christian Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian-User-List Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 7:04 PM Subject: Re: some questions about lilo Thank you for the help! What I've learnt: The first bootloader (e.g. lilo) is only i

Re: In mail, 'From' becomes '>From'

2001-09-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 22:28:10 EDT, dman writes: >On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:44:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: >| I've been noticing this on a number of messages both from and to me. >| >| Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to >| say, this utterly borks things

Wine 0.0.20010824-1 won't even run sol.exe

2001-09-28 Thread David Knudsen
wine _always_ fails with the attached error message. Has anyone seen anything similar? ... forgot to attach the error log. Here it is: wine.log Description: Binary data

Re: Speeding up scp (Was: Re: Ramfs and Cachless Networking.)

2001-09-28 Thread Samuli Suonpaa
Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In this case, blowfish is a nice speed improvement. Any idea, why > it' not the default? I would assume it has something to do with 3des being older. In ssh man-pages it is said, that blowfish _appear_ very secure. I think BSD-folks are just being con

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-28 Thread Peter Palmreuther
Hello Wichert, On Friday, September 28, 2001 at 11:25:57 AM, you wrote (at least in part): > Previously Peter Palmreuther wrote: >> I would like to ask if there would be a packaged version for stable/potato >> too >> or if vim-6 will remain .deb-ed only for >= "wooddy"? > I can build a potato

Re: how to configure a sound card

2001-09-28 Thread Daryl Pawluk
fouad HENNI wrote: Hello I installed Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 (potato) on my PC and I have no idea on how to get my sound card working. I tried the commands: sndconfig soundconfig but I had an error message. Please help. ___ Do You Yahoo!? --

PHP 4.0.3pl1 missing bcmod

2001-09-28 Thread A . Didit Mifanto
Dear debian user: I have installed PHP 4.0.3pl1 in my apache (1.3.9), and can't run bcmath functions. Refer to PHP help, to get these functions, we must compile PHP with --enable-bcmath configuration. Any solutions to add these functions without recompile it?. Or any new package (apache & php)

Re: some questions about lilo

2001-09-28 Thread Daryl Pawluk
Christian Eckert wrote: - Original Message - From: Mike Alborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Christian Eckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian-User-List Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 7:04 PM Subject: Re: some questions about lilo Thank you for the help! What I've learnt: The first bootlo

Simple way to downgrade libc6 (fix Konqueror, Mozilla and Galeon problems)

2001-09-28 Thread Mark Purcell
Given the current interest in downgrading libc6, to enable unstable Konqueror, Mozilla or Galeon to function correctly, I thought I would post the simplest method of downgrade. # apt-get install libc6=2.2.4-1 This of course assumes you have testing listed in your apt.sources: deb http://mirror.a

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:26:50AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: > On Sep/27/2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > vim 6.0 was released yesterday and I just finished the packages for it. > > Does this new version have a "Conflicts: *emacs*" yet? > > (just joking, of course

Kernel-image on intel

2001-09-28 Thread Chapman, Matt
Title: Kernel-image on intel Hi, I have made an attempt at doing a apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.9-686 This is on a DELL PowerEdge 1400 It downloads just fine and starts the install.  It then gives me this: The following NEW packages will be installed:   kernel-image-2.4.9-686 0 pack

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 07:56:41 EDT, Daniel Burrows writes: >On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:26:50AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: >> On Sep/27/2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: >> >> > vim 6.0 was released yesterday and I just finished the packages for it. >> >> Does this new version have

Bug#112192: Info received (was Simple way to downgrade libc6 (fix Konqueror, Mozilla and Galeon problems))

2001-09-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developer(s) and to the developers mailing list to accompany the original report. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If yo

lilo

2001-09-28 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
I can't seem to get out of this. I have lots of boot disks, but very little confidence since lilo won't run. I've tried many combinations, read the literature, and I just don't see what's wrong. How is the image not defined? What's wrong? ===

Re: latest unstable, lots of crashing galeon

2001-09-28 Thread Jeremy Hankins
dman said: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:23:05PM -0400, dman wrote: > | Is there anything I can do other than wait for a fix? > > Never mind. The wheels are turning a bit slowly. I just installed > the prev. version from /var/cache/apt/archives and all is well. Previous version of which -- galeo

Re: Simple way to downgrade libc6 (fix Konqueror, Mozilla and Galeon problems)

2001-09-28 Thread Danie Roux
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:49:42PM +1000, Mark Purcell wrote: > Given the current interest in downgrading libc6, to enable unstable > Konqueror, Mozilla or Galeon to function correctly, I thought I > would post the simplest method of downgrade. > > # apt-get install libc6=2.2.4-1 Great! I dpkg -

Debian review...

2001-09-28 Thread Alexander Wallace
Hello there! I don't want to start any controversy here or anything like that But I was reading the newbiezided help files at http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/distronhf.html and found out that in the reviews they make about several distros, they don't have a very good one for debian

Re: The joys of Debian unstable

2001-09-28 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Okay, I did a `strace login viktor` to find out, where login was hanging. Here's an excerpt: -snip- access("/var/run/utmpx", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/var/run/utmp", O_RDWR) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl64(3, F_SETFD,

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-28 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Daniel Burrows wrote: > Sssh! Don't give him ideas! Not needed, I'll settle for Essential: yes :) Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The joys of Debian unstable

2001-09-28 Thread Danie Roux
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 03:25:37PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > ANY help is greatly appreciated. I'm guessing here, but the fact that Konq is not working suggests you have been hit by the bug in the newest libc6 apt-get install libc6=2.2.4-1 Will downgrade from 2.2.4-2. locales and libc6-de

libc6 upgrade breaks openoffice?

2001-09-28 Thread Brian Stults
Hello, I have already posted this to openoffice's Issuezilla, but I thought I might also ask here. I was extensively using the most recent openoffice build (638) for over a week with no problems. It really has come a long way in a short time. However, suddenly it started segfaulting and I c

Re: The joys of Debian unstable

2001-09-28 Thread Danie Roux
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 03:29:51PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 03:25:37PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > ANY help is greatly appreciated. > > I'm guessing here, but the fact that Konq is not working suggests you > have been hit by the bug in the newest libc6 Darn, may

Re: Simple way to downgrade libc6 (fix Konqueror, Mozilla and Galeon problems)

2001-09-28 Thread Christian Leber
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:49:42PM +1000, Mark Purcell wrote: > Given the current interest in downgrading libc6, to enable unstable > Konqueror, Mozilla or Galeon to function correctly, I thought I > would post the simplest method of downgrade. A little bit suprising for me is the fact that Konqu

Re: libc6 upgrade breaks openoffice?

2001-09-28 Thread Brian Stults
Brian Stults wrote: I have already posted this to openoffice's Issuezilla, but I thought I might also ask here. I was extensively using the most recent openoffice build (638) for over a week with no problems. It really has come a long way in a short time. However, suddenly it started segf

Vigor, anyone?

2001-09-28 Thread Glenn Becker
All, I guess because I'm a bit unwell, I wanted to install the joked-up version of vi (with M$ish paperclip assistant) called Vigor. I've been trying to download the unofficial .deb from the riva.ucam.org server linked off the Vigor author's page at red-bean.com, but I can't seem to raise a resp

Re: auto power off capabilites under linux

2001-09-28 Thread Alexander Wallace
You need to add APM in the kernel... That worked for me... Hope that helps... On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Alex Hunsley wrote: > The motherboard I am running my debian setup on is quite modern (ABit BP7) and > has capabilities to auto-power off at shutdown - windows does this ok. The > default behaviour

Re: auto power off capabilites under linux

2001-09-28 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Alexander Wallace wrote: > > You need to add APM in the kernel... That worked for me... > > Hope that helps... Not so fast. Do you have 2 processors? AFAIK Linux SMP machines don't completely support APM. Investigate further. :-) > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Alex Hunsley wrote: > > > The mothe

Xawtv - again (was: Xawtv and Xfree86 4.0)

2001-09-28 Thread Pedro António Neves
Hi there: I posted a message on this list about xawtv and Xfree 4.0. Following some solutions given by people on this list, I've managed to get xawtv working just fine... except for one thing: the sound. When I try to change volume (with the A key) it changes the volume from Muted to 0%. It see

Re: Debian review...

2001-09-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Sep 2001, Alexander Wallace wrote: > Hello there! I don't want to start any controversy here or anything like > that But I was reading the newbiezided help files at > http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/distronhf.html > and found out that in the reviews they make about several di

Re: auto power off / Standby capabilites under linux

2001-09-28 Thread hanasaki
How about support for standby mode? Alexander Wallace wrote: You need to add APM in the kernel... That worked for me... Hope that helps... On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Alex Hunsley wrote: The motherboard I am running my debian setup on is quite modern (ABit BP7) and has capabilities to auto-power o

Re: Debian review...

2001-09-28 Thread Alexander Wallace
I agree with the fact that debian is not hard to install at all... Maybe before it was... I just downloaded it and installed it a couple of days ago and was very impressed, I'm very happy with it and that's why I thought it deserves a better review... On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Anthony Campbell wrote:

Re: Xawtv - again (was: Xawtv and Xfree86 4.0)

2001-09-28 Thread Matthias Richter
Pedro António Neves wrote on Fri Sep 28, 2001 at 03:18:43PM: > Following some solutions given by people on this list, I've managed > to get xawtv working just fine... except for one thing: the sound. [...] > These are the modules I've got: > > Module Size Used by > tuner

Tulip driver unresolved symbols

2001-09-28 Thread D.
Hi all I have installed Potato 2.2.r2 on my HP Pavilion N5450 Laptop and this system uses a Accton en2242 nic card that uses the tulip driver. I know that I've seen this discussed on this list but I am unable to find it. I have downloaded the drivers for the card and did a cp pci-scan.o tulip.o

Re: Xawtv - again (was: Xawtv and Xfree86 4.0)

2001-09-28 Thread Pedro António Neves
On Friday 28 September 2001 15:41, Matthias Richter wrote: > I guess tvmixer is missing... which gives you yet another mixer-tab > (called 'msp3400­c6' here) when using gmix (don't know about the others). > I've loaded the module tvmixer and still doesn't work... Module Size Us

Re: Tulip driver unresolved symbols

2001-09-28 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
I get tons every time I boot up, but it works fine. Does yours work? Information is not knowledge. Belief is not truth. Indoctrination is not teaching. Tradition is not evidence. David Raleigh Arnold [EMAIL PROTE

Re: lilo

2001-09-28 Thread Frank Zimmermann
First please post only the relevant lines. On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > I can't seem to get out of this. I have lots of boot disks, but very > little confidence since lilo won't run. I've tried many combinations, > read the literature, and I just don't see what's wrong.

Re: lilo

2001-09-28 Thread Wayne Topa
David Raleigh Arnold([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I can't seem to get out of this. I have lots of boot disks, but very > little confidence since lilo won't run. I've tried many combinations, > read the literature, and I just don't see what's wrong. How is the > image not define

apt-get help

2001-09-28 Thread shock
i am sorry to keep asking, but i cannot find a solution for this. i have a machine running woody. i hadn't updated it in a while, so a few days ago, i did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade on it. here's the results. this happens any time i try to install any package with apt-get, so until i ge

Arrgh! Why did I wait so long?

2001-09-28 Thread David A. Rogers
I have been postponing attempting to upgrade to testing on any of my computers because I've just got a regular modem and thought it would take too long. I finally bit the bullet this week. I've got a hand-me-down laptop that I'm putting Debian on. The problem is that under xfree 3.3.6, it only

Re: Xawtv - again (was: Xawtv and Xfree86 4.0)

2001-09-28 Thread Matthias Richter
Pedro António Neves wrote on Fri Sep 28, 2001 at 03:52:06PM: > On Friday 28 September 2001 15:41, Matthias Richter wrote: > > I guess tvmixer is missing... which gives you yet another mixer-tab > > (called 'msp3400­c6' here) when using gmix (don't know about the others). > I've loaded the module tv

DNS/Domain questions

2001-09-28 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I just recently purchased a domain name and am wondering on a few things. Which package would be best to create my own name server? A lot of places have it, but for an extra fee. Why pay when I have Debian is my slogan . I have done some researching on BIND and have looked through a lot of it's

Re: Make core files writeable?

2001-09-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 09:48:55PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 02:28:15AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > > image is written to a file called core. Some shells allow to specify > > how big such core files may be; bash uses "ulimit -f <#kilobytes>". > > Default the max

Re: Arrgh! Why did I wait so long?

2001-09-28 Thread Glyn Millington
"David A. Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I finally got the pcmcia modem working and last night I did the > apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade thing. It was 11:30 by then, so I > haven't installed it yet. Sounds good! Can anyone tell me if apt-get dist-upgrade minds being interrupted?

Re: Arrgh! Why did I wait so long?

2001-09-28 Thread Robert L. Harris
Just do an "apt-get -d dist-upgrade" -d is download. If you get disconnected, run again, rinse, repeat until you get all downloaded, then run without the -d. Thus spake Glyn Millington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "David A. Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I finally got the pcmcia m

Re: Arrgh! Why did I wait so long?

2001-09-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 04:59:21PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > Sounds good! Can anyone tell me if apt-get dist-upgrade minds being > interrupted? My ISP cuts me of after two hours and I need to redial - > will that foul up the process? Nope. apt doesn't care. It's smart enough to not downlo

Re: Vigor, anyone?

2001-09-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 04:53:13AM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > I guess because I'm a bit unwell, I wanted to install the joked-up > version of vi (with M$ish paperclip assistant) called Vigor. I've been > trying to download the unofficial .deb from the riva.ucam.org server > linked off the Vigor

Re: The joys of Debian unstable

2001-09-28 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Danie Roux wrote: > At least unstable is providing you with hours of fun! :-p It's getting annoying. I'm still debugging and found out that downgrading libpam0g to 0.72-31 resolved the shutdown problem. I found that out by doing ldd /bin/login to see what libraries are used. The funny thing is

problems with Konqueror

2001-09-28 Thread Jussi Ekholm
I'm currently running Debian testing with kernel 2.2.17. Today I decided to give a shot for unstable's Konqueror. Well, it started ok - it fetched couple of other packages too (kdelibs3, kdebase-libs, libkonq3 etc.) but when it started to set up them, it failed because of some dependancy problem.

Re: DNS/Domain questions

2001-09-28 Thread Jason Healy
At 1001695456s since epoch (09/28/01 11:44:16 -0400 UTC), Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I just recently purchased a domain name and am wondering on a few things. You were a little vague, but I'll do my best here... > Which package would be best to create my own name server? A lot of places > ha

Re: Kernel-image on intel

2001-09-28 Thread Mike Alborn
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 08:04:03AM -0400, Chapman, Matt wrote: > Hi, > > I have made an attempt at doing a apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.9-686 > This is on a DELL PowerEdge 1400 > > It downloads just fine and starts the install. It then gives me this: > > The following NEW packages will be i

Re: Tulip driver unresolved symbols

2001-09-28 Thread D.
I did a lsmod and it was not listed so I assumed that it was not installed... So I did not set it up. I'll chceck it out. --- David Raleigh Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get tons every time I boot up, but it works fine. > Does yours work? > > -

Re: Arrgh! Why did I wait so long?

2001-09-28 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:28:45AM -0500, David A. Rogers wrote: | I have been postponing attempting to upgrade to testing on any of my | computers because I've just got a regular modem and thought it would take | too long. I finally bit the bullet this week. I've got a hand-me-down | laptop that

Re: Vigor, anyone?

2001-09-28 Thread burningclown
Oh, good. Thank you! Is it headed for testing or unstable? G On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 04:53:13AM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > > I guess because I'm a bit unwell, I wanted to install the joked-up > > version of vi (with M$ish paperclip assistant) called

Re: dselect and delete archived .debs - no

2001-09-28 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > apt.conf.d is mainly there so that packages can create their own > apt.conf segments in it and not have to worry too much about merging > them with those of other packages. I'd recommend that you remove that > line from /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf again, create a file called

apt-get error

2001-09-28 Thread Eileen Orbell
Hi,   I am trying to issue the command apt-get upgrade.  The errors I receive are You have unmet dependencies: Try running apt-get –f install.   If I run this command I get the error dpkg: ldconfig not found on PATH NB: roots path should usually contain /usr/local/sbin  /usr/sbin /

Re: Needing a random number generator for scripting

2001-09-28 Thread Rob Hudson
Check out 'man perlfaq4', and the question titled, "How do I shuffle an array randomly?". It gives a nice algorithm for shuffling, which could be applied similar to below to output shuffled lines. -Rob > On 20010928.0900, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima said ... > > On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Joey Hess wrot

Re: vim 6.0 packages

2001-09-28 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 06:34:52PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > vim 6.0 was released yesterday and I just finished the packages for it. > Please note however that if you have been using the prerelease packages > I made this will be a downgrade (unfortunately I made a stupid mistake > in vers

strange '\' characters

2001-09-28 Thread Ben Hartshorne
Hi everyone, A couple of days ago, a very strange thing started happening. Every now and then (I have tried, but really see no pattern), when I type a character, it is replaced by a '\' character. Sometimes, instead of being replaced, it is simply followed by a '\' character. I have seen it ha

xine with dxr3 support

2001-09-28 Thread Nothing
hullo, Anyone here succesfully using this combination, and if so, could you tell me how? I have the xine source, I have the em8300 modules built and installed, but I cannot compile xine with --enable-dxr3. It carps about undefined reference to sup_button_t, or similar, and an IOCTL_BUTTON.. or t

Re: apt-get error

2001-09-28 Thread shock
is ldconfig in your path? try something like: # which ldconfig /sbin/ldconfig # env | grep :/sbin: and see if it's in your path. On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Eileen Orbell wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to issue the command apt-get upgrade. The errors I receive > are > You have unmet dependencies: > T

bug reporting about conflicts in sid

2001-09-28 Thread Blars Blarson
Having a scratch monkey (I assume that story is still being told, even though it was old 25 years ago) temporarily available while waiting for the disk drives for my new (to me) computer, I descided to install sid and see what happened. (I've been running potato for a couple of months, and am much

Re: lilo

2001-09-28 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > > # /etc/lilo.conf - See: `lilo(8)' and `lilo.conf(5)', > # --- `install-mbr(8)', `/usr/share/doc/lilo/', > # and `/usr/share/doc/mbr/'. > > # +---+ > # |

Re: strange '\' characters

2001-09-28 Thread Andre Berger
* Ben Hartshorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-09-28 18:43 +0200: > A couple of days ago, a very strange thing started happening. Every > now and then (I have tried, but really see no pattern), when I type a > character, it is replaced by a '\' character. Sometimes, instead of > being replaced, it

RE: apt-get error

2001-09-28 Thread Eileen Orbell
It looks like my problem lies pretty deep because #which ldconfig returns nothing and a search also turns up empty. Is it time to reinstall? Thanks -Original Message- From: shock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 12:41 PM To: Eileen Orbell Cc: Debian-User Sub

Xscreensaver CPU Usage

2001-09-28 Thread Terry Warner
I was wondering if anyone else uses the xmatrix xscreensaver, and has noticed a major increase in cpu usage at times when its running: This is from a top command 4196 keerf 18 10 1556 1556 1224 R N 88.0 0.1 0:58 xmatrix is 88% cpu normal for that? I'm running debian unstable 2.4.9-

hdparm or ide howto

2001-09-28 Thread Greg Wiley
Good day all. Is anyone aware of a document or set of ducuments that describe Linux (E)IDE support? It seems to me that some sort of primer on tuning IDE and demysti- fying the newer technologies such as ATA and UDMA would be a significant HOWTO asset. This is prompted by the recent discussion o

dvorak / qwerty and netscape

2001-09-28 Thread Ben Hartshorne
Hi Everyone, I use the dvorak layout instead of qwerty. When I upgraded to woody, I set a config setting somewhere (in some config question) selecting dvorak as my default layout. It works great in the console. It even works in X, mostly. So my problem is this: after booting X, netscape re

Re: HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.

2001-09-28 Thread csj
On Fri, 2001-09-28 at 05:22, Mike Dresser wrote: > > Yeah, that's pretty much where I stand today... I've got an old ATA33 disk. > > It's a Quantum Fireball 30GB disk. What sort of throughput should I be > > getting? > > > > nebula:/home/jasonb# hdparm -t -T /dev/hdb > > > > /dev/hdb: > > Timing

Re: Xscreensaver CPU Usage

2001-09-28 Thread David Mohr
No, I don't think that is normal. Running xmatrix in a normal window, I get 0.5 cpu usage (ps aux | grep "xmatrix"). Maybe fullscreen it is a little more, but it can't be that much. I'm running 2.4.9 on a P3 850. Bye, David P.S. Since 2.4.10 is out, maybe you want to upgrade and check if it wa

Re: Making a wheel mouse behave

2001-09-28 Thread csj
On Fri, 2001-09-28 at 04:09, dman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 03:01:09AM +0800, csj wrote: > | Is there an option to make the wheel in (what else) a wheel mouse behave > | like the middle button in a conventional mouse? A "friend" bought an > | optical mouse which unfortunately has this featur

Re: lilo

2001-09-28 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Frank Zimmermann wrote: > > First please post only the relevant lines. Sorry. And thank you. > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > > > I can't seem to get out of this. I have lots of boot disks, but very > > little confidence since lilo won't run. I've tried many combination

Re: lilo

2001-09-28 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Wayne Topa wrote: > > David Raleigh Arnold([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I can't seem to get out of this. I have lots of boot disks, but very > > little confidence since lilo won't run. I've tried many combinations, > > read the literature, and I just don't see what's wrong.

Re: Vigor, anyone?

2001-09-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 11:23:49AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 04:53:13AM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > > > I guess because I'm a bit unwell, I wanted to install the joked-up > > > version of vi (with M$ish paperclip assistan

Re: strange '\' characters

2001-09-28 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 06:53:14PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > * Ben Hartshorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-09-28 18:43 +0200: > > A couple of days ago, a very strange thing started happening. Every > > now and then (I have tried, but really see no pattern), when I type a > > character, it is rep

Re: DNS/Domain questions

2001-09-28 Thread Doug Fields
In short: 1) Buy DNS & BIND, 4th edition, and read it cover to cover 2) Use BIND9 instead of BIND, as that provides "views." Views allow you to present one set of DNS entries to "the rest of the world" and another set internally Cheers, Doug At 11:44 AM 9/28/2001, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:

Re: Arrgh! Why did I wait so long?

2001-09-28 Thread Glyn Millington
Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 04:59:21PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > > Sounds good! Can anyone tell me if apt-get dist-upgrade minds being >> interrupted? My ISP cuts me of after two hours and I need to redial - >> will that foul up the process? > > Nope

Re: apt-get error

2001-09-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Eileen Orbell([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > It looks like my problem lies pretty deep because > #which ldconfig > returns nothing and a search also turns up empty. Is it time to > reinstall? > > Thanks > First make sure that /usr/sbin is in your root's PATH. If not then

Re: Xscreensaver CPU Usage

2001-09-28 Thread Anthony Lau
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:04:38PM -0400, Terry Warner wrote: > I was wondering if anyone else uses the xmatrix xscreensaver, and has noticed > a major increase in cpu usage at times when its running: > > This is from a top command > > 4196 keerf 18 10 1556 1556 1224 R N 88.0 0.1 0:5

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