Re: dselect

2002-01-20 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> Completely unattended upgrades are a worthwhile goal, but they >> aren't possible in the general case yet. > > I am interested in this because if I'm at home, and telnet to my > linux which is at work, I'd like to tell it to upgrade remotely > without having to stay on

Re: can't get realtek NICs to work.

2002-01-20 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Have you checked your /etc/modules file and /etc/modutils/aliases? "seg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ifup with eth1 fails and during boot up it reports: > modprobe: can't locate module eth1. Operation failed. There is no module entitled "eth1". In /etc/modutils/aliases: alias eth1 8139too

dselect for X?

2002-01-20 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Hi, is there a dselect for X? Whenever I launch dselect in xterm, the 'select' option produces an ugly black screen with only a few lines of white-on-black text. TIA, Elizabeth

Re: iptables in potato

2002-01-20 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Acheron wrote: >Theres no package for netfilter in stable, however a build from source >is fairly trivial. The source for the iptables tools can be had at >http://netfilter.samba.org >There are packages in testing / unstable, btw. You should probably try using the pinning fe

Re: dselect

2002-01-20 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 21:00, Asura wrote: > > > > Why in back ground. APT system run by dselect > > > > Pet peeve: apt has nothing to do with the questions that are asked while > > upgrading packages. > > > > > asks question unless you set "debconf" to assume yes to all etc. > > > > Even then you

Re: dselect

2002-01-20 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 22:16, Rich Rudnick wrote: > On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 21:00, Asura wrote: > > I hate replying to myself, but after reading David Maze's last post I realized I forgot something important :\ > If I understand correctly, what might work for you is a three step > process I have us

Mail Client Help

2002-01-20 Thread James
Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I don't have this email address subscribed to the list, and I can't check my subscribed address without messing anything up at the moment. I am having trouble finding a mail client that can do these things: - Allow more than one identity, and to choose w

Re: another exim question

2002-01-20 Thread Ken Weingold
On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 12:17 , Alan Chandler wrote: local_domains = localhost:*.home:home:chandlerfamily.org.uk:libdebate.org is mine - you could - if there are lots put them in a file one per line and do local_domains = /path/to/file Thanks, Alan. When I change local_domains to

KDE

2002-01-20 Thread James
Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since this address is not subscribed. My subscribed address is out of action at the moment. Cheers. :) I am trying to get KDE. I am downloading all KDE base files from pool/k/kdebase to their own directory so I can hopefully go dpkg -i *.deb to get them all in

Re: Configuring remote xdm

2002-01-20 Thread Simon Law
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Tim Grogan wrote: > Hi, being a relative newbie with Debian I'm looking for some help. I'm > running woody 2.2.20 and KDE. Does anyone have a step-by-step guide on > setting up xdm to support remote x-windows sessions or that can point me in > the right direction. I've foun

Re: another exim question

2002-01-20 Thread Ken Weingold
Oh, btw, I don't need fetchmail if I can get all mail to any domain (aliased/forwarded to my local address) to get to this machine. -Ken

Re: Dual head with two cards?

2002-01-20 Thread Paul Mackinney
David Z Maze declaimed: > William Burrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is it technically possible to construct a dual head machine by using > > two video cards (say a PCI and AGP card)? Any tips where to look? Another place to look is in the Framebuffer HOWTO, although it's dated, and in /kernel

Re: Memory recognition problem / large mem

2002-01-20 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
dman posts : > | even more interesting... > | the 2.2.20 kernel reports: > | total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: > | Mem: 994078720 42676224 951402496 10178560 8065024 21536768 > | MemTotal:970780 kB > > use 'free -m' to see smaller (easier to read) numbers. > The c

Re: fetchmail -> procmail -> spambouncer -> sendmail problems

2002-01-20 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:39:18PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm trying to set up a Debian woody system to replicate what I've had > working on a HP-UX box for several years. > > Here is how it goes. I use fetchmail to retireve email from several > different POP accounts. Fetchmail then invokes p

Re: make-kpkg modules_image question

2002-01-20 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:00:31PM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: > I just compiled a new kernel and realized that I forgot to include ppp > support in the kernel. > > Rather than recompiling a new custom kernel, can I just make-kpkg clean, make > menuconfig and make-kpkg modules_image to compile ppp

Re: dselect for X?

2002-01-20 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:07:54AM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > Hi, > > is there a dselect for X? Whenever I launch dselect in xterm, the > 'select' option produces an ugly black screen with only a few lines of > white-on-black text. There is no dselect for X but there are things that repl

Re: Trying to setup modules with modconf

2002-01-20 Thread debian
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, dman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:39:56PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | I'm following the online FAQ on building my own kernel, so far I've dpkg > | --install'd my custom kernel after a make menuconfig, and am now at the > | part where I'm suppose to run /usr/sbin

Re: fetchmail -> procmail -> spambouncer -> sendmail problems

2002-01-20 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Stan Brown wrote: >I'm trying to set up a Debian woody system to replicate what I've had >working on a HP-UX box for several years. > >Here is how it goes. I use fetchmail to retireve email from several >different POP accounts. Fetchmail then invokes procmail, via the .forward

Re: dselect

2002-01-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:00:17PM -0700, Asura wrote: > > > Completely unattended upgrades are a worthwhile goal, but they aren't > > possible in the general case yet. > > I am interested in this because if I'm at home, and telnet to my linux > which is at work, I'd like to tell it to upgrade re

RXTX/Java serial action

2002-01-20 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
ref: http://www.rxtx.org Anyone gotten a recent version of RXTX to work either by: 1) Compiling from source 2) Using the RXTX binaries or, 3) Alien-izing an RPM or other package? I have some people that I work with claiming that RXTX isn't working with debian even though it "works fine with red

Identd

2002-01-20 Thread Santiago Canez
How should I be starting/using identd? It takes me like 15-20 seconds to connect to irc.openprojects.net (using Xchat), takes about the same tie to connect to my school's pop/imap server and ssh server...and once connected to irc.openprojects.net I get this message "AUTH :*** No identd (auth) respo

Re: RXTX/Java serial action

2002-01-20 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:20:25AM -0800, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > > ref: http://www.rxtx.org > > Anyone gotten a recent version of RXTX to work either by: > > 1) Compiling from source > 2) Using the RXTX binaries > or, > 3) Alien-izing an RPM or other package? 1. probably works but I haven't

Re: RXTX/Java serial action

2002-01-20 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
> 1. probably works but I haven't set up java which is needed as configure > looks for java clases... That's what I said... all I could tell was that it SHOULD work. > 2. here's the output from ldd > > mira:/tmp/rxtx-bins.1/1.5/i386-pc-linux> ldd * > > So I guess they work - all depends are sa

Re: another exim question

2002-01-20 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 January 2002 6:51 am, Ken Weingold wrote: > On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 12:17 , Alan Chandler wrote: > > local_domains = > > localhost:*.home:home:chandlerfamily.org.uk:libdebate.org > > > > is mine - you could - if there are lots put

Re: Mail Client Help

2002-01-20 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 January 2002 5:44 pm, James wrote: > Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I don't have this email > address subscribed to the list, and I can't check my subscribed address > without messing anything up at the moment. > > I am having t

Promise ATA100 and translations

2002-01-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I have an ASUS A7V motherboard with a pair of ATA66 IDE controllers and also a Promise ATA100 (20265) pair of ATA100 controllers. I have an ATA100 disk which has been running on the ATA66 controller as hdb. I moved it onto the ATA100 controller as an experiment; linux spotted it as hde, but didn'

Re: Promise ATA100 and translations

2002-01-20 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
When I switched my single drive over to the A7V's Promise controller, it was moved from hda to hde. All I had to do was boot with root=/dev/hde1 (or wherever my root partition was, this was the most frustration as I didn't write them down first!) and fix my inittab for everything to work.. All par

Re: kernel 2.4.17...2 strange things

2002-01-20 Thread Paul Mackinney
wsa declaimed: > Hi, > > Today i upgared from potato to woody... > with: > dselect update > apt-get dist-upgrade > (just mentioning it cause this might be the wrong way?) > > And i switched to a 2.4.17 kernel. > > Now i have 2 NICsdifferent brands...realtek and 3com. > eth0, the realtek, co

Re: KDE

2002-01-20 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 January 2002 5:53 pm, James wrote: > Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since this address is not > subscribed. My subscribed address is out of action at the moment. > Cheers. :) > > I am trying to get KDE. I am downloading all KDE base fil

Re: another exim question

2002-01-20 Thread Ken Weingold
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002, Alan Chandler wrote: > Like it says I think you have DNS problems. I did a quick lookup on your > domain name (hellrot.org) and it told me the mail server for your domain is > at mail2.your-site.com. I assume this is a domain name hosting company and > they are holding yo

exim query

2002-01-20 Thread Jijo Jose A
hi all have any one know the syntax of exim 'smarthost' director TIA -jijo jose

Re: kernel-package and moving the old vmlinuz

2002-01-20 Thread Paul Mackinney
Manoj Srivastava declaimed: > Hmm. I think I know what is going on here, but just to make > sure I am not totally off base here: You have instructed your boot > loader to expect an initrd kernel (and that is required to load the > newer official kernel images), and were trying to build an

Re: KDE

2002-01-20 Thread Brian Nelson
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since this address is not > subscribed. My subscribed address is out of action at the moment. > Cheers. :) > > I am trying to get KDE. I am downloading all KDE base files from > pool/k/kdebase to their own directory so I can

Re: Copying a whole subdirectory possible?

2002-01-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 07:01:27PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > The short answer is: > > # cd /path/to/old/directory > # find . -depth -print0 | afio -p -xv -0a /mount/point/of/new/directory [ snip ] > afio: >Afio is a better way of dealing with cpio-format archives

Re: exim query

2002-01-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jijo Jose A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >hi all >have any one know the syntax of exim 'smarthost' director /usr/share/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz Or http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.30/doc/html/spec.html Mike.

question about building a deb package

2002-01-20 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, in the debian new maintainer's guide: chapter 3: Note that if your program uses GNU automake and/or autoconf, meaning the source includes Makefile.am and/or Makefile.in files, respectively, you will need to modify those files. chapter 3, section 3.1: Basically, you need to ma

Re: VIM features

2002-01-20 Thread Paul Mackinney
Wichert Akkerman declaimed: > Previously Paul Mackinney wrote: > > What would be helpful is a README.Debian file in /usr/doc/vim that > > alerts the user to the existence of /etc/vim/vimrc and its nice set of > > potential customizations. I had overlooked the vim stuff in /etc, but I > > have lea

Re: make-kpkg modules_image question

2002-01-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Kurt Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just compiled a new kernel and realized that I forgot to include ppp > support in the kernel. > > Rather than recompiling a new custom kernel, can I just make-kpkg clean, make > menuconfig and make-kpkg modules_image to compile ppp kernel support as a

Re: kernel 2.4.17...2 strange things

2002-01-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > wsa declaimed: > > And another thing...i also noticed that on mounted vfat windows partitions > > every file and every directory now gets marked as executable... > > Is this normal? > The 'ls -l' output for vfat is mostly bogus, the vfat file system >

Re: Window Maker crashes on Woody

2002-01-20 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > /usr/bin/WindowMaker: relocation error: /usr/bin/WindowMaker: undefined > > > symbol: RReleaseImage > > [...] > > ldd /usr/bin/WindowMaker > libwraster.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libwraster.so.2 (0x40023000)

Re: iptables in potato

2002-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:40:06PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > 1. If I use my existing ipchains firewall script with 2.4, I've heard > that it will in fact work, of course not making use of any of the cool > netfilter features. Is this accurate? Almost. You'll have to tweak it a little: for

Re: question about building a deb package

2002-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:14:43AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > in the debian new maintainer's guide: debian-mentors is probably a better mailing list. > chapter 3: > > Note that if your program uses GNU automake and/or autoconf, meaning > the source includes Makefile.am and/or Makefile

Re: newbie

2002-01-20 Thread Paul Mackinney
Kent West declaimed: > Joe Wise wrote: > > >I just got my CD this afternoon. My CD shows up in the CMOS, but I > >cannot get it to boot. One common gotcha is that an IDE device must be the bus master in order, easy to forget. > >So, I made the floppies and booted using them. If it didn't se

Re: KDE

2002-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 03:53:43AM +1000, James wrote: > I am trying to get KDE. I am downloading all KDE base files from > pool/k/kdebase to their own directory so I can hopefully go dpkg -i > *.deb to get them all installed at once. No, don't do that. There are many files in that directory whi

Re: tar question

2002-01-20 Thread Paul Mackinney
martin f krafft declaimed: > > | > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:26:58PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > > | > | How can I get tar to backup my entire machine to a file in /tmp with > > | > | causing recursion? > > why would you want to backup /tmp??? > The question was how to back up to a file _in_ /tmp

Re: Framebuffer or....not to Framebuffer

2002-01-20 Thread Paul Mackinney
dman declaimed: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 09:26:21AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | I have an nVidia GeForce 2 MX 400. I have compiled the nVidia > | drivers and it works fine. When I had originally compiled the > | 2.4.17 kernel, I had enabled the nVidia framebuffer in it. So, > | should I

devfs error..

2002-01-20 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
im getting, "devfs: devfs-register(a8): could not append to parent, err: -17". what does that mean? TIA -- "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --Sherlock Holmes _The Sign of Four_

Re: VIM features

2002-01-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Wichert Akkerman declaimed: >> Previously Caleb Shay wrote: >> > I second this. For example, at the bottom of /etc/vim/vimrc there are >> > several lines commented out "as they cause vim to behave a lot different >> > from

System hangs during installation

2002-01-20 Thread Juergen Striegel
Got a dual celeron system with adaptec-scsi here on a Intel BX mb from tyan. I tried to install woody and also potatoe on one of my scsi disks. After the first reboot the system hangs during installation setup when asking for the ispell dictionary ("[1] or [2]"). No reaction from the system, no

kernel compile question

2002-01-20 Thread Willi Dyck
Hi *, i am trying to build a bootable CD-ROM with debian which runs completly in RAM, for FW use. so i am trying to keep my kernel as small as possible. but my kernel won't compile without support for hot-pluggable devices. as far as i know, hot-pluggable device support is only needed with PCMCIA

Re: dselect

2002-01-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 08:20:02AM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:00:17PM -0700, Asura wrote: > > > > > Completely unattended upgrades are a worthwhile goal, but they aren't > > > possible in the general case yet. > > > > I am interested in this because if I'm at hom

Re: kernel compile question

2002-01-20 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello Willi, On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 13:34, Willi Dyck wrote: > as far as i know, hot-pluggable device support is only needed with > PCMCIA cards. i don't have such cards, so i keep that support out of the if i am right, USB also needs id > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.5'

Re: System hangs during installation

2002-01-20 Thread Timo --Blazko-- Boewing
Hello Juergen, On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 13:23, Juergen Striegel wrote: (BTW: why does debian installs the ispell stuff for a minimal system?) > Are there any suggestions/ideas? That's what i hated 'bout SuSE: they installed to much on a minimal system, and debian is sometimes going the same way :-(.

Console Garbage

2002-01-20 Thread Terry Carney
Hi. Since upgrading to 'testing' my firewall host has been spewing out kernel messages to whatever virtual console I happen to be viewing making it extremely difficult to work. However, the only kernel messages that appear to be showing are the ones that log firewall denials. My syslog config has

sane

2002-01-20 Thread Frank Coldewe
Hi, when i try to install sane backends 1.0.4 with ./configure and make in /usr/local i get the following errormessage by doing make: infile included from cannon c-181 infunktion ` define_scan_mode` warning: comparsing between signed and using mode Any idea? Greetings Frank

compiling kernel

2002-01-20 Thread Frank Coldewe
Hello, today i started to compile my kernel, but as i do make modules_install there appers: /lib/modules/2.4.14/build is a directory make :xxx [_modisnst_] ERROR 1 Does anyone know what this error means an how to get rid of them. Greetings Frank

cleaning up a system

2002-01-20 Thread martin f krafft
i'd like to remove all files that debian didn't install, obviously ignoring places like /home, /var, /tmp, /usr/local, /dev (any other suggestions i have overlooked?)? there's cruft, but it's too complicated and while i should configure it in the long run, for now i have thought of something like

Re: dselect for X?

2002-01-20 Thread Pontus Edvardsson
On Sunday 20 January 2002 07.07, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Hi, > > is there a dselect for X? Whenever I launch dselect in xterm, the > 'select' option produces an ugly black screen with only a few lines of > white-on-black text. > > TIA, Elizabeth Not exactly, but if you're using KDE, you should c

Re: Emacs HTML modes

2002-01-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 19/01/02 Manoj Srivastava did speaketh: > - User Option: sgml-markup-faces > A list of markup to face mappings. Each element looks like > `(MARKUP-TYPE . FACE)'. Possible values for MARKUP-TYPE is: > `comment' comment declaration > `doctype' doctype declarat

Re: iptables in potato

2002-01-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 20/01/02 Colin Watson did speaketh: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:40:06PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > 1. If I use my existing ipchains firewall script with 2.4, I've heard > > that it will in fact work, of course not making use of any of the cool > > netfilter features. Is this accurate

Re: Console Garbage

2002-01-20 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 05:40:55AM -0800, Terry Carney wrote: > Hi. > > Since upgrading to 'testing' my firewall host has been > spewing out kernel messages to whatever virtual console > I happen to be viewing making it extremely difficult to > work. However, the only kernel messages that appear

Re: Mail Client Help

2002-01-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 21/01/02 James did speaketh: > I am having trouble finding a mail client that can do these things: > - Allow more than one identity, and to choose what identity is used when > composing and replying to mail > - Choose a different SMTP server for each identity > - Filter mail on Subject, From,

Warning: Do NOT upgrade base-passwd in unstable!

2002-01-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
If you are running unstable, do NOT upgrade the base-passwd package!!! Version 3.2.2 has a critical bug which causes it to swap the UIDs and GIDs for users in the /etc/passwd file. (See bug reports #130032 and 130085.) I found this out the hard way. The simple fix if it's already happened to you

separate graph package for gnumeric ?

2002-01-20 Thread briand
When I try to use the graphing in gnumeric I get : ** WARNING **: 'Nothing matched the requirements.' : while attempting to activate a graphing component. oaf-run-query "repo_ids.has('IDL:GNOME/Gnumeric/Graph_v1/Manager:1.0')" should return a value. Then I thought - aha I'll look this up in the

Re: Warning: Do NOT upgrade base-passwd in unstable!

2002-01-20 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > I found this out the hard way. The simple fix if it's already happened to > you: copy the backup file "/etc/passwd.org" over top of the new file > "/etc/passwd". You should do this to shadow and group as well and readd any users that may have been a

Re: Identd

2002-01-20 Thread Dries Kimpe
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Santiago Canez wrote: > How should I be starting/using identd? It takes me like 15-20 seconds to > connect to irc.openprojects.net (using Xchat), takes about the same tie to > connect to my school's pop/imap server and ssh server...and once connected > to irc.openprojects.net

Re: iptables in potato

2002-01-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:31:01AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 20/01/02 Colin Watson did speaketh: > [snip...] > Strange. I read an article in the Linux Journal that stated that many > people were upset in the 2.0 to 2.2 transition because they had to drop their > tried and tested ip

Re: Warning: Do NOT upgrade base-passwd in unstable!

2002-01-20 Thread Jason Wood
On Sunday 20 January 2002 2:57 pm, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > If you are running unstable, do NOT upgrade the base-passwd package!!! > Version 3.2.2 has a critical bug which causes it to swap the UIDs and GIDs > for users in the /etc/passwd file. (See bug reports #130032 and 130085.) Hehe, cheers.

Xine & DVD's

2002-01-20 Thread techlists
I finnally got Xine running on my laptop, but it plays everything except DVD's. Any one know what package I have to add for this? Wayne

Where does dselect store it's selections?

2002-01-20 Thread Stan Brown
I had high hopes of getting my wife's new woody machine deployed this weekend, but I seem to have sliped inot a descending death spiral on that machine :-( Presently both printing and email are horibly broken on it. So I fired up dselect, amde the mistake of telling it to update, and tried to see

kernel recompile + broken kde package in Sid

2002-01-20 Thread Mike Atamas
I recompiled my kernel today, and I put in DHCP support. After I installed the system DHCP was automatically configured. (I selected it during install). However, when I boot up with the new kernel, it does automatically autonegotiate eth0, and the settings are the same. What can I do to fix this?

Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-20 Thread sam rosenfeld
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 09:52:10PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:40:06PM -0500, sam rosenfeld wrote: > > I have tried unsuccessfully to install many packages and programs -- > > from math programs to pine, sawfish and libc6.2. In most cases the > > problem is one in whic

Re: Xine & DVD's

2002-01-20 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 January 2002 3:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I finnally got Xine running on my laptop, but it plays everything except > DVD's. Any one know what package I have to add for this? > > Wayne I have had success with debian libdvdread2 and

Re: iptables in potato

2002-01-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 20/01/02 Karl E. Jorgensen did speaketh: > I 2.4 kernels you can enable backward comta^H^Hpatability.. (whatever) - > by setting CONFIG_IP_NF_COMPAT_IPCHAINS (at least on 2.4.13). > > I found that after a 'modprobe ipchains', my "old" firewall scripts > worked flawlessly. I haven't found

Re: kernel recompile + broken kde package in Sid

2002-01-20 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 January 2002 4:18 pm, Mike Atamas wrote: > I recompiled my kernel today, and I put in DHCP support. After I > installed the system DHCP was automatically configured. (I selected it > during install). However, when I boot up with the new ke

Re: Xine & DVD's

2002-01-20 Thread Pete Ryland
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:36:40AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I finnally got Xine running on my laptop, but it plays everything except > DVD's. Any one know what package I have to add for this? I downloaded a rpm for xine-lib-d4d (version 0.9.7 in my case) and used alien to convert to deb.

Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-20 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 January 2002 4:25 pm, sam rosenfeld wrote: > I confess that I know next to nothing about the distinction between runtime > and development versions of the libraries. libx contains the library binary that a binary application that uses

Re: Window Maker crashes on Woody

2002-01-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > /usr/bin/WindowMaker: relocation error: /usr/bin/WindowMaker: undefined > > > > symbol: RReleaseImage > > > > > [...] > > > > > ldd /usr/bin/WindowMaker

Re: sane

2002-01-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Frank Coldewe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > when i try to install sane backends 1.0.4 with ./configure and make in > /usr/local i get the following errormessage by doing make: > > infile included from cannon c-181 infunktion ` define_scan_mode` > > warning: comparsing between signed and

Re: System hangs during installation

2002-01-20 Thread Juergen Striegel
> I suggest another try with an actual woody CD (the german PC mag. Linux > Intern had a woody CD some time ago) from the net or maybe a sid CD set. Thanks for your suggestion. In deed I tried also the CD from the german Linux Tag (Woody) with the same result (but maybe the critical part is the s

Re: Warning: Do NOT upgrade base-passwd in unstable!

2002-01-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Jan-2002 Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > If you are running unstable, do NOT upgrade the base-passwd package!!! > Version 3.2.2 has a critical bug which causes it to swap the UIDs and GIDs > for users in the /etc/passwd file. (See bug reports #130032 and 130085.) > > I found this out the hard wa

Re: Where does dselect store it's selections?

2002-01-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Jan-2002 Stan Brown wrote: > I had high hopes of getting my wife's new woody machine deployed this > weekend, but I seem to have sliped inot a descending death spiral on that > machine :-( > > Presently both printing and email are horibly broken on it. > > So I fired up dselect, amde the m

Re: cleaning up a system

2002-01-20 Thread Brian Nelson
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i'd like to remove all files that debian didn't install, obviously > ignoring places like /home, /var, /tmp, /usr/local, /dev (any other > suggestions i have overlooked?)? > > there's cruft, but it's too complicated and while i should configure it > i

Re: kernel compile question

2002-01-20 Thread Charles Baker
--- Willi Dyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi *, > > i am trying to build a bootable CD-ROM with debian > which runs completly > in RAM, for FW use. so i am trying to keep my kernel > as small as possible. <> Unless this is just an exercise in learning, you might want to check out http://leaf.so

linewrapping in emacs

2002-01-20 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi List. I have the following two lines in my .emacs file: (auto-fill-mode 1) tex-mode-hook '(lambda () (font-lock-mode 1) (auto-fill-mode 1)) But I still always have to type M-x auto-fill-mode in any mode I use to get linewrap. What else do I need to do? thanks joerg

Re: compiling kernel

2002-01-20 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:54:28PM +0100, Frank Coldewe wrote: > Hello, > > today i started to compile my kernel, but as i do make modules_install > there appers: > > /lib/modules/2.4.14/build is a directory > make :xxx [_modisnst_] ERROR 1 > > Does anyone know what this error means an how to ge

write to ntfs-partition?

2002-01-20 Thread Claus Ladekjær Wilson
Does anyone know how far the kernel build is from being able to write to a ntfs-partition? Even though I do compile my own kernel, I get the message 'mount read-only' because ntfs is win2k+ (If this is not a relevant place to ask - could someone advice where to go next then?) -- Hilsen / Greeti

Re: Warning: Do NOT upgrade base-passwd in unstable!

2002-01-20 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:57:15AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > If you are running unstable, do NOT upgrade the base-passwd package!!! > Version 3.2.2 has a critical bug which causes it to swap the UIDs and GIDs > for users in the /etc/passwd file. (See bug reports #130032 and 130085.) > > I

kmail and links

2002-01-20 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi again How can I tell kmail to open links in konqueror? I don't find an option for thi in the preferences menu. thanks joerg

emacs not using auto-fill-mode

2002-01-20 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi list! I have (auto-fill-mode 1) in my ~/.emacs file, but I still have to type M-x auto-fill-mode if I want to use it. Am I missing something? thanks joerg

Re: dselect for X?

2002-01-20 Thread Martin Atukunda
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:07:54AM -0600, Elizabeth Barham decided to write thus: > is there a dselect for X? Whenever I launch dselect in xterm, the > 'select' option produces an ugly black screen with only a few lines of > white-on-black text. in sid you could check out the deity-gtk package M

Re: write to ntfs-partition?

2002-01-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Does anyone know how far the kernel build is from being able to > write to a ntfs-partition? Even though I do compile my own kernel, > I get the message 'mount read-only' because ntfs is win2k+ > (If this is not a relevant place to ask - could someone advice > where to go next then?) I read some

Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:25:07AM -0500, sam rosenfeld wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 09:52:10PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > You'll have to be more specific. It's possible that you only have > > runtime versions of libraries involved, while you need development > > (-dev) versions in order to

Re: linewrapping in emacs

2002-01-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 19/01/02 Joerg Johannes did speaketh: > Hi List. > > I have the following two lines in my .emacs file: > > (auto-fill-mode 1) > tex-mode-hook '(lambda () (font-lock-mode 1) (auto-fill-mode 1)) > > But I still always have to type M-x auto-fill-mode in any mode I use to get > linewrap. What e

Re: separate graph package for gnumeric ?

2002-01-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:58:02 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I try to use the graphing in gnumeric I get : > > ** WARNING **: 'Nothing matched the requirements.' : while attempting to > activate a graphing component. Gnumeric doesn't implement graphing itself, but uses guppi (the GNOME

Re: emacs not using auto-fill-mode

2002-01-20 Thread MH
> "Joerg" == Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Joerg! Joerg> Hi list! I have (auto-fill-mode 1) in my ~/.emacs file, Joerg> but I still have to type M-x auto-fill-mode if I want to Joerg> use it. Am I missing something? How about a bit of RTFM? external: google "auto

Re: make-kpkg modules_image question

2002-01-20 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Sunday 20 January 2002 02:03 am, Brian Nelson wrote: > No. Do 'make-kpkg kernel_image' instead. modules_image is for modules > external to the kernel source, like ALSA. OK, so I went ahead and recompiled the kernel using make-kpkg kernel_image > > Assuming so, what do I then need to do to m

Re: emacs not using auto-fill-mode

2002-01-20 Thread Gary Turner
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:18:33 +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: >Hi list! > >I have >(auto-fill-mode 1) >in my ~/.emacs file, but I still have to type M-x auto-fill-mode if I want to >use it. Am I missing something? > > I have this in my .emacs. Unless I'm using another major mode, this is automatic.

Re: Warning: Do NOT upgrade base-passwd in unstable!

2002-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:13:10PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:57:15AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > > If you are running unstable, do NOT upgrade the base-passwd package!!! > > Version 3.2.2 has a critical bug which causes it to swap the UIDs and GIDs > > for users in

Re: cleaning up a system

2002-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:57:32PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > i took the output of a `find /` and deleted all lines corresponding to > inodes in the above special directories (find has no exclude!!! > wishlist!), Sure it does. Use something like 'find -o -print'. -- Colin Watson

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