Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:27:57AM +0200, Daniel Klein wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a whole damn lot of problems here, pretty much all of a sudden. > > Ever since a good friend helped me install debian (let's say he's a > little on the hectic side.. I didn't see everything he did), there was a >

options - Re: ntp server

2004-06-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya zenaan On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > authenticate no > > On restarting the ntp server on my server, with the above line in > ntp.conf, I get the following in /var/log/xntpd: > > 24 Jun 16:09:08 ntpd[6593]: configure: keyword "authenticate" unknown, > line ignored c

Re: redirecting : fetchyahoo to thunderbird + colorful console

2004-06-24 Thread richard lyons
On Thursday 24 June 2004 00:34, Marco Paganini wrote: [...] > There is something very strange here. One of the main problems with > yahoo mail is exactly that: They stopped offering POP access to the > free accounts. I just checked my "Mail Options" and there's no option > to activate POP (unless,

Re: system hangs for kernel 2.6.6

2004-06-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Jules Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:56:58 +0200, Riccardo Vestrini wrote: > >> [...] installed devfs (bad thing) > > devfs is a bad thing? Yup, it's been unmaintained for a while now, it died with 2.4. Just use udev instead. -- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lin

bootcd hangs at boot time

2004-06-24 Thread zorgh
Hi I somehow made my own bootcd from Debian. System: CPU Athlon XP 1 Ghz, RAM 1024Mb, Debian (sid), kernel 2.6.5(with devfs enabled), bootcd 4.21 I burned a dvd+rw. When my computer boots from it, it stops in middle of booting and hangs. mount_devfs_fs(): unable to mount devfs, err: - 2 Some

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-24 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 06:39:28PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > echo psmouse >> /etc/modules > > ugly, but it works... Thanks. That did the trick! Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "Children, obey you

Re: how stop the dns service?

2004-06-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Felipe Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.06.23.2142 +0200]: > in RedRat there is command 'service' to start, restart, stop and verify > status of services. > - which command in debian is equivalent? invoke-rc.d service start|stop|status > - how can i verify which services are runnin

Re: make xconfig in kernel 2.6.6. - how?

2004-06-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Jun 2004, David Goodenough wrote: > On Wednesday 23 June 2004 13:38, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > The 2.6 kernel requires the qt library for "make xconfig". > > > > Could somebody kindly tell me which of the many qt libraries listed in > > Sid are needed here? I have libqt3c102 and libqt3c102-

Cron test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily

2004-06-24 Thread Robbert Hamburg
Hi List, Today i found this error in my mail from one of our debian machines. It puzzles me a little since i didnt change anything in the config, and it is a fresh install. The output in the mail was: Subject: Cron test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts -- report /etc/cron.daily > /etc/cron.d

Re: Cron test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily

2004-06-24 Thread Joost De Cock
On Thursday 24 June 2004 10:18, Robbert Hamburg hurled the following on the wire: > Hi List, > > Today i found this error in my mail from one of our debian machines. > > It puzzles me a little since i didnt change anything in the config, and it > is a fresh install. The output in the mail was: > >

Re: redirecting : fetchyahoo to thunderbird + colorful console

2004-06-24 Thread John Summerfield
richard lyons wrote: On Thursday 24 June 2004 00:34, Marco Paganini wrote: [...] There is something very strange here. One of the main problems with yahoo mail is exactly that: They stopped offering POP access to the free accounts. I just checked my "Mail Options" and there's no option to activa

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-24 Thread Steve Kleiser
Burning the CD as an image using Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 on my WindowsXP machine results in a CD with a directory structure that looks like it should, from Explorer (it's comparable to my purchased CD, which does boot). Presumably, the image also provided any required system files. But can I conf

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

2004-06-24 Thread Paul Scott
Jules Dubois wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 01:39:16 -0500, Kent West wrote: Jules Dubois wrote: There's really nothing more to it than installing a kernel-image package (and, in my case, updating initrd-tools)? If you're not already running an initrd kernel, you may have to add one lin

Re: gnome-panel-data 2.6.1-4 problems

2004-06-24 Thread George Roman
hi i have the same problem. beside all this i can't see the icons in their normal shape. i only see something like a paper George Roman Technical Support RDS Timisoara Branch - Network Operations Center Tel: +4 0356 400 200 Tel: +4 0256 200 033 Fax: +4 0256 294 510 www.rdsnet.ro

Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

2004-06-24 Thread Ajitabh Pandey
Hi, I recently compiled 2.6.3 kernel. When I try to boot from it, after lots of messages, I get the following message and system gets into hung state. However, if I choose the old 2.2.20 kernel of woody 3.0r2 it boots fine. I followed the normal steps of compiling the kernel. make xconfig make dep

Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

2004-06-24 Thread George Roman
i think that in lilo (grub) you haven't specified the corect root partition. to identify the root partition you cand use the "df" command and search for the "/" partition. thet is the one you should use as root. if you use lilo try to edit lilo.conf and add the folowing line under the image yo

Re: can not compile kde, some xmkmf problem

2004-06-24 Thread LeVA
2004. június 24. 04:31, Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:54:05AM +0200, LeVA said > > Since XFree86 4.4.0 isn't in Debian, you must have installed it from > a tarball or something. You'll need to point the KDE configure > script at the

A bunch of questions

2004-06-24 Thread deb_milist
hi guys...yesterday i was moaning about how to retrieve my yahoo! mail through thunderbird. messing around with fecthmail is really not good idea for me since i don't have a clue in 'how to' thing. ( even i've been using debian and linux in general for almost 4 monts---it seems that i'm still d

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:34:19 -0500, Steve Kleiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Burning the CD as an image using Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 on my WindowsXP > machine results in a CD with a directory structure that looks like it > should, from Explorer (it's comparable to my purchased CD, which doe

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:34:19 -0500, Steve Kleiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are there any freeware utilities to burn an ISO image to CD (e.g., > iso2CD.exe or something) that run under Windows? The CD burning applications > appear to contain numerous features I don't need for this particula

Re: A bunch of questions

2004-06-24 Thread Jon Dowland
I would suggest that you use a more informative subject line for future postings as people are liable to skip over generic ones like 'A bunch of questions' and focus their time on ones that they have a better idea they could answer. - Original Message - From: deb_milist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: PHP With GIF Support

2004-06-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:19:27 +0200, Marvin Massih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh :-(. > Do you happen to know how well PNG is supported by web browsers? http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/png-gif in brief: the subset of PNG features in common with GIF work across the board. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSU

Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:49:57 +1200, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe you should just make a clean install of debian on a different > partition of your machine. That will leave you with a working system > with the least messing around with debian internals - and it's what > Windows

Re: Problem XF86Config

2004-06-24 Thread Paal Marker
Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:58:42PM +0200, Paal Marker wrote: I need to prevent a box from blanking out. In redhat8 I could succesfully put this section in the end of /etc/X11/XF86Config Section "Serverflags" Option "BlankTime""0" Option "StandbyTime" "0" Opti

Re: PHP With GIF Support

2004-06-24 Thread Marvin Massih
> http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/png-gif > in brief: the subset of PNG features in common with GIF work across the board. Thanks a lot! __ Zeigen Sie Emotionen mit der WEB.DE Bild-SMS! Das Bild ist gratis, Sie bezahlen nur den Versand. htt

Re: X fonts size

2004-06-24 Thread Frédéric Dreier
Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: Hi all Is there any debian tool to configure the font size of X applications? I can't configure X resolution more than 800x600 and I would like to decrease the application fonts size (ie mozilla menu fonts) because they are very big. I'm using fvwm as window manager. any hel

Re: A bunch of questions

2004-06-24 Thread Kent West
deb_milist wrote: 3. and how about the colorful console that has been made me jelous to those knoppix users ? I assume you're talking about the boot-up process. That's a two-part thing. The first part is having framebuffer enabled. As I understand it (and I _don't_ understand it), the framebuffe

Re: X session

2004-06-24 Thread Kent West
Antony wrote: When I log into X, my saved session comes back with Mozilla proper instead of Firefox. If it matters, I'm using windowmaker in unstable... I don't know how X (KDE? Gnome?) records your saved session, but I'm guessing that instead of recording the browser and the URL, it's only r

Re: Apache and CGI

2004-06-24 Thread Mark Par
Greg Sidelinger wrote: Ok I feel pretty stupid for even asking this but how do I make cgi scripts work with apache2 and unstable. I did just the default install of apache2 and tried to run the test-cgi script and all I got for output was the script itself. I know I have had this same problem b

Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

2004-06-24 Thread Ajitabh Pandey
--- George Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i think that in lilo (grub) you haven't specified > the corect root > partition. The older image is working fine as the lilo.conf has this entry in a common area immediately after the boot= entry. So without this entry it should also work. But

Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

2004-06-24 Thread Stelian Iancu
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 05:21:13 -0700 (PDT), Ajitabh Pandey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- George Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i think that in lilo (grub) you haven't specified > > the corect root > > partition. > > The older image is working fine as the lilo.conf has > this entry in a

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players

2004-06-24 Thread Nicolau Leal Werneck
> I'm told that the information squeezed out by ogg is not audible to humans. > And that the information squeezed out by mp3 compression is different, and > not audible to humans. > But when you ogg an mp3, you get both squeezed out, and the result *is* > audible. > > But I haven't tried it out, a

Re: X session

2004-06-24 Thread Antony
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 07:25:40AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Antony wrote: > > >When I log into X, my saved session comes back with Mozilla proper > >instead of Firefox. If it matters, I'm using windowmaker in unstable... > > > > > I don't know how X (KDE? Gnome?) records your saved session, but

Re: can not compile kde, some xmkmf problem

2004-06-24 Thread LeVA
> [...] > checking for xmkmf... /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf > checking various X settings... failed > configure: error: /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf (imake) failed. > Make sure you have all necessary X development packages installed. > On some systems a missing /lib/cpp symlink is at fault. Hi! I figured out wh

Re: rick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-24 Thread Antony
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 11:19:51AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > Install dfsbuild (in sid). dfs = debian from scratch What a cool tool. It amazed me how much useful stuff is out there that I never hear of! A -- Please don't CC me. Also _please_ read the following before posting: Documentation

Re: redirecting : fetchyahoo to thunderbird + colorful console

2004-06-24 Thread S.D.A.
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:34:05AM -0400 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Marco Paganini wrote: > > >There is something very strange here. One of the main problems with > >yahoo mail is exactly that: They stopped offering POP access to the free > >accounts. I just checked my "Mail Option

Re: PHP + PostgreSQL

2004-06-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 05:17, dodol garut wrote: > I've techtables installed in my box but it doesn't > wanna work. someone in this room told me that it > because PHP doesn't compiled with PostgreSQL. Well, i > wonder...As a trully stupid debian newbie, all i did > when installing PHP4 to support Po

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-24 Thread John Summerfield
Jon Dowland wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:34:19 -0500, Steve Kleiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are there any freeware utilities to burn an ISO image to CD (e.g., iso2CD.exe or something) that run under Windows? The CD burning applications appear to contain numerous features I don't need for th

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-24 Thread LeVA
2004. június 24. 15:54, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On many/most Linux systems, it seems you need to turn on DMA first: > hdparm -d1 -u1 /dev/cdrom What does that unmaskirq mean? Daniel -- LeVA pgplzxm3dbYz0.pgp Description: signature

Re: How does one get ssh to not wait?

2004-06-24 Thread Rob Sims
On Saturday 12 June 2004 07:22 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote: > How does one get ssh to not wait? > > ssh somewhere < touch file > sleep 333 && rm file& > ! > echo I want control to arrive at this line without waiting 333! I know this has been solved other ways, but I'm thinking the generic syntax is u

Re: Apache and CGI

2004-06-24 Thread Greg Sidelinger
On Thursday 24 June 2004 08:43 am, Mark Par wrote: > Greg Sidelinger wrote: > >Ok I feel pretty stupid for even asking this but how do I make cgi scripts > >work with apache2 and unstable. I did just the default install of apache2 > >and tried to run the test-cgi script and all I got for output wa

How to print the name and email from a signature file?

2004-06-24 Thread LeVA
Hi! How can I print out the signer's name and email address from a signature file, without being it imported? Thanks! -- LeVA pgp4NEYo691Vy.pgp Description: signature

Re: redirecting : fetchyahoo to thunderbird + colorful console

2004-06-24 Thread Marco Paganini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 09:34:14AM -0400, S.D.A. wrote: > Strange, I received my notice last week of the increased storage amounts, but > nothing in it stated that they had removed POP or forwarding access. I just > checked and my options panel still

Re: A bunch of questions : THANKS

2004-06-24 Thread deb_milist
>Stelian Iancu wrote : >Check out the fetchmail homepage: http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/ well...yap, i'd been there before. The information provided is pretty good, but actually i'm looking for something that can be download such as PDF document so I can read it anywhere I want to...but than

Re: virtual consoles unresponsive

2004-06-24 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 16:16, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 14:49, Carl D. Blake wrote: > > So the problem > > seems to be strictly with the display. > > > > An interesting item is that after awhile (an hour or so) when I take > > another look at the console, I'll press the shift key

higher performance in knoppix

2004-06-24 Thread Nathan
Recently I was playing around with Knoppix 3.4, and I decided to check out glxgears performance. After loading the nVidia driver, I got 1500-1700 frames per second. The interesting thing is that on the same exact computer, with Debian unstable running, I only get around 800. I've looked at the XF

libc6-dev for stable

2004-06-24 Thread Mark Copper
Hi, I am trying to build mod_perl from source on this machine: Linux 2.4.25-vs1.26 #2 Fri Feb 20 22:48:22 PST 2004 i686 unknown My first problem was installing libc6-dev in stable. This appears not to work currently. There is a related (broken) thread from April: http://lists.debian.org/debi

Unidentified subject!

2004-06-24 Thread Harish Singh Bohara
Hi This is harish. I got ur is from net. I have some prob. And i was trying to load my module by "insmod ./test.o". But i am getting this prob. So could u help me. Thanks Harish ## Hint: You are trying to load a m

Re: X session

2004-06-24 Thread Chris
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 15:25, Antony wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 07:25:40AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Antony wrote: > > > > >When I log into X, my saved session comes back with Mozilla proper > > >instead of Firefox. If it matters, I'm using windowmaker in unstable... > > > > > > > > I don

Re: Firebird/Interbase DBD for Debian

2004-06-24 Thread Douglas G. Phillips
On 22 Jun, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > I'm looking for a Firebird/Interbase DBD under Debian Unstable - I'm not > finding a package. Is there one? I didn't see any packages for it, but in CPAN there is a DBD-Interbase module you could probably look at. -- Douglas G. Phillips Distributed Computing

Re: aptitude wants to remove base-config

2004-06-24 Thread Joey Hess
William Ballard wrote: > When I updated apt today, aptitude wants to remove base-config due to > unsatisified dependencies: > > tasksel is going from 1.52 to 2.01, and > tasksel conflicts with base-config (< 2.32) > > I assume this is a bad thing, so I put tasksel on hold. Correct? Yes. I mean

Cyrus 2.2 - imap

2004-06-24 Thread Sarah Ryder
Hello Debian users, I'm looking for an update on Debian packages for Cyrus imapd 2.2 The last information on Cyrus was sent to this list in May and states that there may be a test package before Debconf4 ends. I am happy to help test the new packages on my mail servers running testing. Thanks,

Re: libc6-dev for stable, correction

2004-06-24 Thread Mark Copper
Oops. "usr/include/db1/ndbm.h" is not part of libc6-dev/stable, so at least I know why mod_rewrite.h couldn't include it! But what to do now? On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:43:24AM -0400, Mark Copper wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to build mod_perl from source on this machine: > Linux 2.4.25-vs1.26

Re: PHP + PostgreSQL

2004-06-24 Thread deb_milist
Oliver Elphick wrote: On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 05:17, dodol garut wrote: I've techtables installed in my box but it doesn't wanna work. someone in this room told me that it because PHP doesn't compiled with PostgreSQL. Well, i wonder...As a trully stupid debian newbie, all i did when

In Praise of Apt-Spy

2004-06-24 Thread Curt Howland
I've used apt-spy before, but this time I put the resulting "closest" server at the top of the list in /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://mirrors.rcn.net/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debia

limiting the speed of ramdisks

2004-06-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Hello, I want to limit the speed of ramdisks so they are not running `as fast as possible'. This is so I can perform some experiments with parallel reads (e.g. RAID-0) without involving hard disks, and be able to see speed improvements. Does anyone know if this is possible? I am using `old style

Re: X session

2004-06-24 Thread deb_milist
Chris wrote: On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 15:25, Antony wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 07:25:40AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Antony wrote: When I log into X, my saved session comes back with Mozilla proper instead of Firefox. If it matters, I'm using w

kernel install on a Cobalt Raq4

2004-06-24 Thread Erwin van der Horst
Hi, Anyone succeeded in installing a Debian Woody distribution on a Cobalt Raq (4)? Pleasy help me out. Perhaps this is a more generic question, how to install a Debian kernel on an empty machine (only with debootstrap initialized), which is temporarly booted from the net with NFS. I followe

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-24 Thread John Summerfield
LeVA wrote: 2004. június 24. 15:54, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On many/most Linux systems, it seems you need to turn on DMA first: hdparm -d1 -u1 /dev/cdrom What does that unmaskirq mean? On IA32 systems, interupts can be turned off (masked), potentially

Re: higher performance in knoppix

2004-06-24 Thread John Summerfield
Nathan wrote: Recently I was playing around with Knoppix 3.4, and I decided to check out glxgears performance. After loading the nVidia driver, I got 1500-1700 frames per second. The interesting thing is that on the same exact computer, with Debian unstable running, I only get around 800. I've lo

kernel install on a Cobalt Raq4

2004-06-24 Thread Erwin van der Horst
Hi, Anyone succeeded in installing a Debian Woody distribution on a Cobalt Raq(4)? Pleasy help me out. Perhaps this is a more generic question, how to install a Debian kernel on an empty machine (only with debootstrap initialized), which is temporarly booted from the net with NFS. I followed th

Re: Gnome fonts and themes

2004-06-24 Thread Norman Walsh
/ David Mesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | It's not necessary to pass options to gnome-settings-daemon. I just run | it as "gnome-settings-daemon &" and it works fine. Bingo. Thank you. Be seeing you, no

Exim4 question

2004-06-24 Thread David Baron
Can I configure this to sit on external email accounts? If so, how? If another program such a fetchmail is required, how would these be set up to work together? (Documentation and a linux-administrator's howto were murky at best.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Gnome 2.6 volume control applet not seeing audio channels?

2004-06-24 Thread Sridhar Srinivasan
"Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I recently updated my sid box to all the latest stuff for the first > time > in a month or two, which got me from Gnome 2.4 to 2.6. Once I > Except one thing: the volume control applet on the panel doesn't work. > It > won't find any of the channels; like it ca

Evolution Attachments icons problems

2004-06-24 Thread Mariano Wahlmann
After an apt-get upgrade my evolution stop working, because a libsoup upgrade who make evolution crash every start, after i fix that (downloading libsoup from ximian and linking), i start evolution and find that attachments icons are not being show, and if a open new mail window and try to attach,

Re: Firebird/Interbase DBD for Debian

2004-06-24 Thread Daniel Miller
Douglas G. Phillips wrote: On 22 Jun, Daniel L. Miller wrote: I'm looking for a Firebird/Interbase DBD under Debian Unstable - I'm not finding a package. Is there one? I didn't see any packages for it, but in CPAN there is a DBD-Interbase module you could probably look at. I was having

Re: A bunch of questions : THANKS

2004-06-24 Thread deb_milist
valdyn wrote: deb_milist wrote: Stelian Iancu wrote : Check out the fetchmail homepage: http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/ well...yap, i'd been there before. The information provided is pretty good, but actually i'm looking for something that can be download such as PDF do

Re: Alsa setup broken after upgrade

2004-06-24 Thread Joris Huizer
Jeff Bradberry wrote: I have a mixed testing/unstable system running on a HP Omnibook 4150 laptop [sound chipset is cs4232]. Recently, I upgraded a number of things, including gcc (2.95.4 -> 3.3.3), alsa (0.9.4 -> 1.0.5a), and kernel-source (2.4.19 -> 2.4.26). Before the upgrades, I had a working

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-06-24 Thread Ishwar Rattan
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Harish Singh Bohara wrote: > > > Hi > This is harish. I got ur is from net. I have some prob. And i > was trying to load my module by "insmod ./test.o". But i am getting > this prob. So could u help me. Not enough details to make even a wild guess! -ishwar -- To UN

Re: virtual consoles unresponsive

2004-06-24 Thread Carl D. Blake
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 07:24, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 16:16, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 14:49, Carl D. Blake wrote: > > > So the problem > > > seems to be strictly with the display. > > > > > > An interesting item is that after awhile (an hour or so) when I ta

Evolution Attachments icons problems

2004-06-24 Thread Mariano Wahlmann
After an apt-get upgrade my evolution stop working, because a libsoup upgrade who make evolution crash every start, after i fix that (downloading libsoup from ximian and linking), i start evolution and find that attachments icons are not being show, and if a open new mail window and try to attach,

Re: virtual consoles unresponsive

2004-06-24 Thread Ricky Clarkson
You could run savetextmode on a machine with as close a configuration as possible, copy the files over and try it, but check the risks in doing this, as it is a server that you don't want to reboot, let alone crash. On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:45:52 -0700, Carl D. Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I d

Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

2004-06-24 Thread Ajitabh Pandey
--- Stelian Iancu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check out that the fs that the root partition has is > NOT build as a > module for the kernel, but in the kernel itself. The root filesystem is the ext2 filesystem and it is build in the kernel. I use xconfig to configure and I clearly remembers that

Migrating to Debian: questions

2004-06-24 Thread linuxnand
Hello All, I am new to Debian but I have been using Linux since 1995. I enjoy the idea of Debian that offers total independence so I am willing very much to learn it well. I have installed 3.0R2. It installed kernel 2.2 instead of 2.4. Now, how can I use apt to have the 2.4 installed? Also, ho

Re: Exim4 question

2004-06-24 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-24, David Baron penned: > Can I configure this to sit on external email accounts? If so, how? I don't understand the question ... > > If another program such a fetchmail is required, how would these be > set up to work together? > > (Documentation and a linux-administrator's howto were

AUTOFS to mount either via SMB or NFS, how?

2004-06-24 Thread Brian
Hi, I am running a VDR box that mounts, via AUTOFS an MP3 directory on another PC. At the moment that PC is running Win98, so I mount via SMBFS, this works. Now I want to sometimes run the remote PC as a Win98 box, and sometimes as a Linux (Debian) box. So I am looking for the best way to mount

how to set up debian from fedora core 2

2004-06-24 Thread Stefan Seefeld
hi there, I'm following the instructions at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade to install a debian partition on my machine, i.e. I install debootstrap, then run it to prepare a debian partition. Then I chroot into that to configure it. Everything runs m

Re: PHP + PostgreSQL

2004-06-24 Thread deb_milist
Oliver Elphick wrote: You seem to have an extra comma there. It is doing a host look up of "127.0.0.1," and of course it is not finding it. The word "localhost" is quite acceptable. Since you are accessing the database from a program running on the same machine, you could also leave the h

Re: Migrating to Debian: questions

2004-06-24 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am new to Debian but I have been using Linux since 1995. I enjoy the > idea of Debian that offers total independence so I am willing very > much to learn it well. > > I have installed 3.0R2. It installed kernel 2.2 instead of 2.4. Now, > h

Re: {Virus?} Delivery (asa@tipro.org)

2004-06-24 Thread asa
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Address Changed (your email was not delivered) Scott Anderson has resigned his position as TIPRO's Executive Vice President. He may be contacted at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin Fleming is now serving as TIPRO's Interim Executive Vice President. Mr. Fleming may be reach

Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

2004-06-24 Thread Urs Schroffeneger
Check out that you have the right partition type enabled in Advanced partion types, it's a bit hidden in the options tree. (under xconfig filesystem->partition types->advanced partition types->pc bios) For a pc type, it would be the MSDOS_PARTITION option. It's absolutely necessary for the kerne

OT: Debian/Linux Stickers

2004-06-24 Thread Chris Metcalf
For years I've been searching for a good source of good Linux stickers for my machines. Sure, we've got Thinkgeek or HackerStickers.com (http://www.hackerstickers.com/products/sticker-debian-linux.shtml), but other than that, the best I've been able to find is Tux case badges. Does anybody know of

Re: Migrating to Debian: questions

2004-06-24 Thread Ricky Clarkson
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:41:02 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed 3.0R2. It installed kernel 2.2 instead of 2.4. Now, how can I use > apt to have the 2.4 installed? If you haven't already, turn on bash_completion (smart tab completion) by typing 'source /etc/bas

Re: kerenls: hand-rolled v. stock

2004-06-24 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 24 Jun 2004 01:56:03AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen insinuated: > >- Original Message - > >From: "Nori Heikkinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:29 PM > >Subject: kerenls: hand-rolled v. stock > >i'm looking into grabbing

Re: kerenls: hand-rolled v. stock

2004-06-24 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:56:41AM -0600, Paul E Condon insinuated: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:29:07PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > i'm looking into grabbing a new kernel (because the one i'm using > > doesn't appear to have the "soundcore" option either compiled in or as > > a module -- can i fi

[OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-24 Thread Nori Heikkinen
hey all, noticed today that yahoo has again switched protocols, making it impossible to connect from gaim. the quick fix suggested on /. [1] -- switching to scs.yahoo.com from scs.msg.yahoo.com -- doesn't work for me, as pointed out in the threads below, as i'm running Gaim, not trillian. i trie

Re: Migrating to Debian: questions

2004-06-24 Thread Ben Russo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I am new to Debian but I have been using Linux since 1995. I enjoy the idea of Debian that offers total independence so I am willing very much to learn it well. I have installed 3.0R2. It installed kernel 2.2 instead of 2.4. Now, how can I use apt to have the 2

Re: Evolution Attachments icons problems

2004-06-24 Thread Ben Russo
Mariano Wahlmann wrote: After an apt-get upgrade my evolution stop working, because a libsoup upgrade who make evolution crash every start, after i fix that (downloading libsoup from ximian and linking), i start evolution and find that attachments icons are not being show, and if a open new mail wi

Re: Alsa setup broken after upgrade

2004-06-24 Thread Jeff Bradberry
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Joris Huizer wrote: > Check `uname -r` and look in /lib/modules/`uname -r` for that alsa > directory; > If you're running 2.4.26, you installed a new kernel, not a new kernel > source; If not, than I couldn't explain why you'd get such errors; Sorry if I wasn't clear, but I

Re: OT: Debian/Linux Stickers

2004-06-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 12:32, Chris Metcalf wrote: > For years I've been searching for a good source of good Linux stickers > for my machines. Sure, we've got Thinkgeek or HackerStickers.com > (http://www.hackerstickers.com/products/sticker-debian-linux.shtml), > but other than that, the best I've b

Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

2004-06-24 Thread Ishwar Rattan
I have seen this error when in-compatible/correct options chosen during config. So, bite the bullet and redo the kernel compliation from scratch! -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How does one get ssh to not wait?

2004-06-24 Thread Ben Russo
Rob Sims wrote: On Saturday 12 June 2004 07:22 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote: How does one get ssh to not wait? ssh somewhere < sh -c "sleep 333 && rm -f file" & -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Debian/Linux Stickers

2004-06-24 Thread Chris Metcalf
I agree. If you look hard enough you can usually find Tux stickers on eBay, so maybe I'll focus more on the metallic "Powered by..." stickers. I've got a few graphic designer friends I could probably convince into designing something for me. Can we get votes on what the "Powerd by..." line should

RE: Cron test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily

2004-06-24 Thread R. Hamburg
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Joost De Cock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: donderdag 24 juni 2004 10:36 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: Cron test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily On Thursday 24 June 2004 10:18, Robbert Hamburg hurled the following

Re: bash_completion, was :Migrating to Debian: questions

2004-06-24 Thread Paul Scott
Ricky Clarkson wrote: If you haven't already, turn on bash_completion (smart tab completion) by typing 'source /etc/bash_completion' or entering that into a .bashrc or similar and restarting your bash. Then do apt-get install kernel-image-2.4. By I mean press the tab key. That should show you all

Re: system hangs for kernel 2.6.6

2004-06-24 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
To all: Apparently I didn't cc the group. Thanks for all the messages. IN desparation, I did a dist-upgrade. After that the kernel loaded without incident. I hadn't upgraded for about two years (it's a node on a cluster). Thanks again. Art Edwards On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 04:17:25PM -0600, Arth

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2004-06-24 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
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Re: OT: Debian/Linux Stickers

2004-06-24 Thread Stephen Wuebker
A couple of ideas... 1. Powered by: Swirlies! (with the standard debian swirl logo) 2. Super Cow Powered (with the apt-get cow) Steve http://duder.net/ On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:21:08 -0700, Chris Metcalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree. If you look hard enough you can usually find Tux

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-24 Thread Rich
As far as I am aware, the fact that you can see the directory structure tells me that you've burned the CD as a bootable image. When I accidentally burned a non-bootable image, all I could see was one big .iso file. I wasn't using Roxio, but Nero 6. You can get free versions off the web, but they m

Re: how to set up debian from fedora core 2

2004-06-24 Thread Stefan Seefeld
to follow up on my own mail, someone just pointed out to me that I should set up the file '/etc/apt/sources.list' followed by 'apt-get update' etc. This seems to solve all issues, at least now I'm happily continuing the installation. To whomever it concerns: this should be added to the documentatio

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