Rescued unbootable is system with d-i netinst CD and got Gnome 2.8 :-)

2004-11-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, My recent sid upgrade ended me with unbootable PC. Rest assured it was relatively simple using d-i netinst image CD I had and now I am with Gnome 2.8 destop. Folder with many photos seems faster to display now and I am happy :-) In woody days, boot-CD can be booted with "rescue root=/dev/hd

Beginner's?? Question

2004-11-21 Thread David Baron
Quick answer: How might one retrieve the path to the most recent entry in a directory to pass to something else in a bash script? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fresh Debian Sarge Install ( no sound + keyboard )

2004-11-21 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 13:34:41 -0500, Tomy Alarie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I just installed Sarge and I found it is a real good work ! But, my > onboard sound card doesn't work. ASUS P4P800-SE ( ADI AD1985 Audio Chipset ). Only a guess, if you use ALSA you probably need the "snd-intel8x0" mo

Re: time out

2004-11-21 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 13:59:33 +, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > michael wrote: > > I can't see any discussion on this list of the merits (or otherwise!) of > > timeoutd or autolog (or better equivalent)... thoughts? > > Michael running on > > 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC

where are debian boot-messages logged?

2004-11-21 Thread Bram Mertens
Hi On my desktop (running SuSE 8.2) the messages printed to tty1 when the machine is booting are stored in /var/log/boot.msg. On my laptop I can't find any file in /var/log/ that contains these messages. Are they logged somewhere else? If so where and how should I have been able to find them?

Newbie Nvidia/Woody problem

2004-11-21 Thread Brian
Hi there, Complete Linux newbie here. Successfully partitioned the disk on my W2K box, and got it dual-booting with Woody (installed from a CD set). I thought that was pretty cool, and I was going good! Tried startx, and got this: (EE) No devices detected. Hmmm, no video driver presumably. My

Re: where are debian boot-messages logged?

2004-11-21 Thread René Seindal
Bram Mertens wrote (21-11-2004 11:15): Hi On my desktop (running SuSE 8.2) the messages printed to tty1 when the machine is booting are stored in /var/log/boot.msg. On my laptop I can't find any file in /var/log/ that contains these messages. Are they logged somewhere else? If so where and how sh

Re: where are debian boot-messages logged?

2004-11-21 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Bram Mertens (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On my desktop (running SuSE 8.2) the messages printed to tty1 when the > machine is booting are stored in /var/log/boot.msg. On my laptop I > can't find any file in /var/log/ that contains these messages. Debian Sarge and Sid also have a boot lo

Re: have a question about /proc

2004-11-21 Thread Chris Lale
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 23:12, Michael Spang wrote: > Chris Lale wrote: > > This reminds me. I cannot view /proc in Nautilus - even as root. Is > > there a way to do it? > > > > Chris. > > Works for me.. does nothing appear or do you get an error? > Works fine for me too today!. I have been havi

Re: Newbie Nvidia/Woody problem

2004-11-21 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 10:30:17AM -, Brian wrote: > Hi there, > > Complete Linux newbie here. Successfully partitioned the disk on my W2K > box, and got it dual-booting with Woody (installed from a CD set). I > thought that was pretty cool, and I was going good! Tried startx, and got > thi

Re: where are debian boot-messages logged?

2004-11-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bram Mertens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On my desktop (running SuSE 8.2) the messages printed to tty1 when the >machine is booting are stored in /var/log/boot.msg. On my laptop I >can't find any file in /var/log/ that contains these messages. Suse uses bootlogd f

Re: Newbie Nvidia/Woody problem

2004-11-21 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:30:17 -, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > Complete Linux newbie here. Successfully partitioned the disk on my W2K > box, and got it dual-booting with Woody (installed from a CD set). I > thought that was pretty cool, and I was going good! Tried startx,

Re: where are debian boot-messages logged?

2004-11-21 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 11:15:53AM +0100, Bram Mertens wrote: > On my desktop (running SuSE 8.2) the messages printed to tty1 when the > machine is booting are stored in /var/log/boot.msg. On my laptop I > can't find any file in /var/log/ that contains these messages. /var/log/boot seems the plac

Re: autofs or am-utils?

2004-11-21 Thread Chris Lale
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 10:42, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >If I just want my USB pen drive to be automounted & dismounted, > >it sounds like autofs would be the one to use, then. > > Or supermount. That's a seperate ker

Re: Newbie Nvidia/Woody problem

2004-11-21 Thread Brian Coiley
Many thanks for your reply. I really appreciate your efforts to help. Unfortunately, you have overestimated my abilities! I started on this literally just yesterday, and doing anything at all is requiring a great deal of research and trial-and-error! Specifically: > Well woody also supports Lin

Re: Newbie Nvidia/Woody problem

2004-11-21 Thread Brian Coiley
"Andrea Vettorello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:30:17 -, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Complete Linux newbie here. Successfully partitioned the disk on my W2K > > box, and got it dual-booting with Woody (installe

applications on gnome don't start.

2004-11-21 Thread NabilM
Hi, I installed Sarge (Debian 3.1 testing) on my machine. It looks very nice. It was a basic install and I selected the Desktop Environment packages only during install. I was able to answer the right questions and gnome started very well. I also made a normal user account. However, when I login

Re: Newbie Nvidia/Woody problem

2004-11-21 Thread Chris Lale
On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 11:32, Brian Coiley wrote: > > Regarding Sarge, isn't that unstable? What exactly does that mean? > Sarge is "Testing" - between Stable and Unstable. Sarge will soon (?) become the new stable. > How > exactly would I switch to it? I deliberately chose to install Woody,

Re: Newbie Nvidia/Woody problem

2004-11-21 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:32:49 -, Brian Coiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Andrea Vettorello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] > > Thank you Andrea for your reply. I have spent hours trawling archives, and > found lots of threads about Nvidia drivers, but

Re: Newbie Nvidia/Woody problem

2004-11-21 Thread Alvin Smith
On Sunday 21 November 2004 06:32 am, Brian Coiley wrote: > "Andrea Vettorello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:30:17 -, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > > > Complete Linux newbie here. Successfully partitioned t

Re: Nvidia Kernel Drivers ( Sarge )

2004-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Frederik Dannemare wrote: On Saturday 20 November 2004 22:03, Tomy Alarie wrote: Hi ! I just want to know if anyone here has installed yet these drivers with Sarge and how did you do. Newbie with NVIDIA-Linux drivers ! Though it doesn't cover the fancy module-assistant, it's still a pretty easy t

Re: framebuffer in 2.6.9, anybody got it working?

2004-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 09:59:48AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Sridhar M.A. wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 03:55:23PM -0500, H. S. wrote: > > > I have been trying to get frambuffer bootup work in 2.6.9 without > > > success so far. Cannot get the logo at

Re: Nvidia Kernel Drivers ( Sarge )

2004-11-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Nicolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.11.21.0041 +0100]: > Yep, I installed the nvidia modules. It's a shame that's so badly made! They are well-made and you can compile drivers with one command: Make a new directory and drop the following Makefile there: ---snip--- KROOT = /usr/src/kern

Re: Newbie Nvidia/Woody problem

2004-11-21 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Alvin Smith wrote: .. > > > > sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run ... > As far as the video driver is concerned, a driver called > "nv" (http://www.xfree86.org/current/nv.4.html) will be used and installed by > default for the nvidia card. If you need special featu

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jules Dubois wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:41:32 -0500, Williams, Allen wrote: What did you have to do to get it to work with the nvidia driver? Apparently -- I don't buy closed hardware -- udev is not able to create the device nodes needed by X quickly enough to satisfy the NVidia server. So, as

Re: Nvidia Kernel Drivers ( Sarge )

2004-11-21 Thread martin f krafft
I noticed that my Makefile was suboptimal. Here's a better version, requiring no modifications. ---snip--- KSRC ?= /usr/src/kernel-headers-$(KVERS) SUITE ?= unstable .PHONY: all all: modules/nvidia-kernel $(KSRC) ifndef KVERS @echo "You must specify the kernel version to use like so:" 1>&2 @e

X running without monitor (may be w/o videocard)

2004-11-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
How do you set up X to run in a machine without monitor, or even may be without video card? About this last one I am not sure. A hosted server, to forward X through ssh you still need X there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: X running without monitor (may be w/o videocard)

2004-11-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > How do you set up X to run in a machine without monitor, or even may > be without video card? About this last one I am not sure. A hosted server, to > forward X through ssh you still need X there. You don't need the X server to run any X clients (the

Re: X running without monitor (may be w/o videocard)

2004-11-21 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 08:40:57 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you set up X to run in a machine without monitor, or even may > be without video card? About this last one I am not sure. A hosted server, to > forward X through ssh you still need X there. > > -- > To UNSUBS

Re: X running without monitor (may be w/o videocard)

2004-11-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 11:58:05AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > How do you set up X to run in a machine without monitor, or even may > > be without video card? About this last one I am not sure. A hosted server, > > to > > forward X

Re: X running without monitor (may be w/o videocard)

2004-11-21 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 08:40:57 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you set up X to run in a machine without monitor, or even may > be without video card? About this last one I am not sure. A hosted server, to > forward X through ssh you still need X there. Here's where the X

Webcam in Debian Sarge?

2004-11-21 Thread Inge Thorin Eidsaether
Hi all! Does anyone have any recommendations as to what webcam to use for videoconferencing under Debian GNU/Linux (Sarge)? I have been reading here and there on the subject, but I haven't found an obvious candidate yet. It seems that the Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 is one of the better suppor

Re: X running without monitor (may be w/o videocard)

2004-11-21 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 09:09:42 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In sid xbase-utils provides xauth, is sarge is about the same > (probably). Is there any short howto anywhere? > Thank you guys. If your headless machine has sshd running and your terminal has an X server, a) apt

Re: X running without monitor (may be w/o videocard)

2004-11-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 02:10:41PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 08:40:57 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do you set up X to run in a machine without monitor, or even may > > be without video card? About this last one I am not sure. A hosted server,

Re: X running without monitor (may be w/o videocard)

2004-11-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > Here's where the X notion of client/server can be confusing. If you > > consider a server which provides programs to clients, then this server > > would be running X client programs, and each terminal an X server. :) > > Yeap, confusing. H cr**

Re: Webcam in Debian Sarge?

2004-11-21 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 03:06:43PM +0100, Inge Thorin Eidsaether wrote: > > Hi all! > > Does anyone have any recommendations as to what webcam > to use for videoconferencing under Debian GNU/Linux (Sarge)? > > I have been reading here and there on the subject, but I haven't found > an obvious

Multiple domains in exim4

2004-11-21 Thread tito
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Hello. I am currently using qmail-vpopmail to manage multiple email domains. Can I manage these domains with exim4? How could I define domains? Thanks! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6 iQEVAwUAQaCrTSz0qkmHAn1PAQFO2wf7BPOz61mkHbm/LkCgF5Co+9

cyberjack cardreader with libchipcard on sarge

2004-11-21 Thread Rainer Hoeckmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I have a ReinerSCT Cyberjack PinPad USB. I'm using Debian Sarge with Kernel 2.6.8. The driver used for the reader is the NEW libctapi-cyberjack-2.0.1. A test with ReinerSCT check programm cjgeldkarte is successful, it shows the correct amount

Re: X running without monitor (may be w/o videocard)

2004-11-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 12:44:27PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > No, you just need to understand how it works. > > X server is a *screen server*, thus it is your screen/station. > > X client is a program that wants to talk to a "screen server" so that it can > display something. >

mounting Windows problem

2004-11-21 Thread freire
For some reason my windowsnt filesystem in may debian istalation is owned by root and is mounted as read only (and tgherefore I cant change anything). Teh line in /etc/fstab is: /dev/hda1 /Winntfsrw,user,noauto 0 0 but... Someone can tell me why? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: mounting Windows problem

2004-11-21 Thread David Mandelberg
The linux ntfs code can't stably mount read-write yet, and I'm pretty sure the debian stable and testing stock kernels can't mount ntfs rw at all. freire wrote: > For some reason my windowsnt filesystem in may debian istalation is > owned by root and > is mounted as read only (and tgherefore I can

Re: mounting Windows problem

2004-11-21 Thread Lauri Tischler
freire wrote: For some reason my windowsnt filesystem in may debian istalation is owned by root and is mounted as read only (and tgherefore I cant change anything). Teh line in /etc/fstab is: /dev/hda1 /Winntfsrw,user,noauto 0 0 but... Someone can tell me why? Because

Re: Beginner's?? Question

2004-11-21 Thread K-sPecial
David Baron wrote: Quick answer: How might one retrieve the path to the most recent entry in a directory to pass to something else in a bash script? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ echo $OLDPWD /home/kspecial [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ echo $PWD /tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ PWD contains the current direct

User can't start firefox

2004-11-21 Thread Jerry Turba
I just installed debian on a computer for a friend (PIII 500meg ram) and everything has gone fairly well. I installed firefox and thunderbird and some of the basic programs. Root can start and run firefox and thunderbird. there is only 1 other user. He can start thunderbird but not firefox. When

Re: Newbie Nvidia/Woody problem

2004-11-21 Thread Kent West
Brian Coiley wrote: Many thanks for your reply. I really appreciate your efforts to help. Unfortunately, you have overestimated my abilities! I started on this literally just yesterday, and doing anything at all is requiring a great deal of research and trial-and-error! Specifically: As others

Re: applications on gnome don't start.

2004-11-21 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I installed Sarge (Debian 3.1 testing) on my machine. It looks very nice. It was a basic install and I selected the Desktop Environment packages only during install. I was able to answer the right questions and gnome started very well. I also made a normal user accoun

Re: User can't start firefox

2004-11-21 Thread Kent West
Jerry Turba wrote: I just installed debian on a computer for a friend (PIII 500meg ram) and everything has gone fairly well. I installed firefox and thunderbird and some of the basic programs. Root can start and run firefox and thunderbird. there is only 1 other user. He can start thunderbird but

Re: X running without monitor (may be w/o videocard)

2004-11-21 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 08:40:57AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > How do you set up X to run in a machine without monitor, or even may > be without video card? About this last one I am not sure. A hosted server, to > forward X through ssh you still need X there. You need xfree86-common installe

Re: Re: Kernel 2.4

2004-11-21 Thread Ralph Katz
Oh, sorry. I misunderstood your question and can't help on the 2.6 issue. Still, starting a new thread with a more specific subject may get you better responses. All the logs are in /var/log, so looking there for your 2.6 sessions' problems may be instructive. Good luck! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: mutt + squirrelmail

2004-11-21 Thread richard
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:06:12PM +0100, Maurits van Rees wrote: [...] > > Some snippets from my .muttrc: > > # Default mail directory - `=' refers to this folder. > set folder=imaps://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/INBOX. > > # Local mail spool box: > mailboxes /var/mail/maurits > # IMAP inbox: > mailboxes

Bug Reporting for Woody & Sarge Installations

2004-11-21 Thread John J Waldeck
I was directed to file bug reports for installations of Woody (which failed with a P4 system), and Sarge (which failed on a P3 system and succeeded on a P4 system). My question is which package should I indicate for the bug reports? jjwdeck _

Re: Bug Reporting for Woody & Sarge Installations

2004-11-21 Thread Wim De Smet
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:50:42 -0600, John J Waldeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was directed to file bug reports for installations of Woody > (which failed with a P4 system), and Sarge (which failed on a P3 system > and succeeded on a P4 system). My question is which package should I > i

TEST: New MOC source and binary available

2004-11-21 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi list, there is a new console music player available. _M_usic _O_n _C_onsole ->MOC http://moc.daper.net deb http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv binary-powerpc/ deb http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv binary-i386/ deb-src http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv sources/ moc (2.1.3+2.2.0alpha1-1) unstable; urgency

Re: Kernel 2.4

2004-11-21 Thread Cousin Stanley
| Oh, sorry. I misunderstood your question | and can't help on the 2.6 issue. Ralph No problem My question maybe could have been worded a bit better in general Are internet connection problems with common NICs that function well under kernel 2.4 but fail under 2

HELP!!!, can't login even as root

2004-11-21 Thread arodriguez31
Running sid, computer went bananas. Gnome terminal froze. Logged out from X. Couldn't come back. Rebooteed. This is what happens: INIT: cannot excute "/etc/init.d/rcS" INIT: Entering runlevel:2 INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init/d/rc" INIT: cannot execute "/usr/sbin/secvpnmon" same same same

Re: HELP!!!, can't login even as root

2004-11-21 Thread David Mandelberg
Try this from a knoppix xterm (or other terminal) $ su # mkdir /mnt/debian # mount -o rw,exec -t auto /dev/ /mnt/debian # chroot /mnt/debian /bin/bash # mount -a # /etc/fstab make sure that / is mounting read-write and exec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Running sid, computer went bananas. Gnome te

Re: Woody -> Sarge with apt-cdrom

2004-11-21 Thread Felixk Karpfen
On 2004-11-18, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Felixk Karpfen wrote: >> before plunging into an upgrade >> via "apt-cdrom". >> >> I have used this routine successfully to add the "Debian 3.0R2" upgrade >> disk to my successfully-installed "Debian 3.0R1"; but I blench at an >> upgrad

xprt broke my printing in Galeon

2004-11-21 Thread Bill Wohler
I used to be able to print double-sided from Galeon. After a recent upgrade (Sarge) which pulled in xprt-xprintorg, there are two immediate problems: 1. Printing is single-sided (yes, Printer is set to my double-sided spool ds and yes, lpr -Pds still prints double-sided). 2. The print is HUGE

Re: HELP!!!, can't login even as root

2004-11-21 Thread arodriguez31
Well, I did it, but it didn't help. Still unable to boot. The corresponding entry in fstab was changed to r,w,exec Even from the woody rescue cd couldn't get in, same response. Used a grub floppy, tried to load another kernel, 2.4.20 i think, same response. Any ideas what to do? Sunday, all are r

Re: courier-mta + amavisd-new + spamassassin

2004-11-21 Thread Horst Bursik
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:10:10 +0100, Mark Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Mark, >central point. But take a look at LDAP. With LDAP you can do the >same things and also do future things from this one database. >Creating a "single-sign-on" environment for your users. I considered moving the u

Re: Installing Development Headers

2004-11-21 Thread Jeremy Brown
Just re-checking because I hadn't gotten a response. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks, Jeremy Jeremy Brown wrote: Is there any script or command in Debian that will install development header subpackages for all of the packages on my system? If you'd like to compile software above and beyond

Re: Beginner's?? Question

2004-11-21 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 21 November 2004 10:34 am, K-sPecial wrote: > David Baron wrote: > > Quick answer: How might one retrieve the path to the most recent entry in > > a directory to pass to something else in a bash script? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ echo $OLDPWD > /home/kspecial > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ ec

Re: xprt broke my printing in Galeon

2004-11-21 Thread arodriguez31
- Original Message - From: Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, November 21, 2004 2:55 pm Subject: xprt broke my printing in Galeon > I used to be able to print double-sided from Galeon. After a recent > upgrade (Sarge) which pulled in xprt-xprintorg, there are two > immediatep

Re: courier-mta + amavisd-new + spamassassin

2004-11-21 Thread Horst Bursik
Hi Frederik, Thank you very much for your notes - I'll give them a try in the next days and let you know if I find something that may be not in your notes. On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:10:10 +0100, Frederik Dannemare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >mention. Maybe you can use some of it, maybe you can't.

Re: HELP!!!, can't login even as root

2004-11-21 Thread David Mandelberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, I did it, but it didn't help. Still unable to boot. The corresponding > entry in fstab was changed to > r,w,exec That should be rw,exec If that doesn't fix it, try (in knoppix, after the chroot and mount -a): # apt-get update # apt-get install --reinstall `dpkg --

Re: HELP!!!, can't login even as root

2004-11-21 Thread arodriguez31
the chroot step didn't work, rr webmail is being a pain, loging me out every 5 sec, sorry if send this mail twice, dont know if it made it is chroot indispensible for the dpkg reinstallation? Thanks david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, I did it, but it didn't help. Still unable to boot. The corr

error in apt updating to Sarge

2004-11-21 Thread Igor Arruza
Hello I have installed Woody and i want to upgrade to Sarge. I put the sources but when i update i have this error Reading Package ListsError! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing po4a (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_de

DSL+PPPoE with Efficient Networks LANL card (legacy SBC)?

2004-11-21 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted.] A friend of mine has residential DSL service from SBC. I can move him from MSFT to Debian if I can get his DSL service going. Apparently he was an early adopter, and let the telco install and configure his service, and it took them nine house calls to get it wo

Re: courier-mta + amavisd-new + spamassassin

2004-11-21 Thread Frederik Dannemare
On Sunday 21 November 2004 21:45, Horst Bursik wrote: > Hi Frederik, > > Thank you very much for your notes - I'll give them a try in the next > days and let you know if I find something that may be not in your > notes. > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 03:10:10 +0100, Frederik Dannemare > > <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: HELP!!!, can't login even as root

2004-11-21 Thread David Mandelberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the chroot step didn't work, rr webmail is being a pain, loging me out every > 5 sec, sorry if send this mail twice, dont know if it made it Hmm, it worked before though, are you sure you followed the exact same steps (mkdir /mnt/debian, then mount /dev/ /mnt/debian, the

Re: error in apt updating to Sarge

2004-11-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Igor Arruza([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello > I have installed Woody and i want to upgrade to Sarge. > I put the sources but when i update i have this error > > Reading Package ListsError! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing po4a (NewVersi

nautilus-audio-view dies unexpectedly, nautilus becomes unusable

2004-11-21 Thread Pascal Bonesh
Hi everyone, I recently upgraded to debian sid, with udev and gnome-volume-manager enabled and then after my first reboot I started getting strange messages about "nautilus-audio-view" dying unexpectedly. This happens every time after a reboot. Killing nautilus or killing X and starting it again

atftpd installation and Multicast Transfer

2004-11-21 Thread Tom Allison
What is Multicast Transfer and why would I use it? I'm not sure what the correct answer is during the installation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HELP!!!, can't login even as root

2004-11-21 Thread arodriguez31
Ok, it seems someone got in, don't know, here goes what you asked me for: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mkdir /mnt/debian [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount -o rw,exec -t auto /dev/hdb1 /mnt/debian [EMAIL PROTECTED] chroot /mnt/debian /bin/bash chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TEST: New MOC source and binary available

2004-11-21 Thread Hans-Georg Bork
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 07:35:33PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > Hi list, > [...] > Do you smell something burning or ist it me? It's you! Das ist hier naemlich die deutsche Liste. Gruss -- hgb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: HELP!!!, can't login even as root

2004-11-21 Thread David Mandelberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Access: (0660/-rw-rw) Uid: ( 33/www-data) Gid: ( 33/www-data) Do this: $ grep 33 /mnt/debian/etc/passwd $ grep 33 /mnt/debian/etc/group and email the user with uid 33 and the group with gid 33. If it actually is www-data/www-data, then you've probably been h4x

LIRC modules and kernel 2.6

2004-11-21 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
Hi all, I cannot compile lirc-modules with kernel 2.6.8. I have installed kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 and kernel-headers-2.6.8-1-686. This is what I get when I try to compile: salon:/usr/src/modules/lirc# debian/rules binary-modules sed -e "s!\$KVERS!`sed -n -e '/UTS_RELEASE/s/^[^"]*"\([^"]*\)".*$/

configure PS2 mouse through KVM Switch to serial port on Debian with Xfree

2004-11-21 Thread Greg Strong
Hello Debian_User, How do you configure a PS/2 mouse through a KVM Switch connected to a PS/2 to serial port adaptor to the serial port on a PC with Xfree? Interesting point is old serial port mouse works fine in GUI (i.e. Xfree) but the new PS/2 mouse through the KVM switch does not work. Why w

Re: Re: Nvidia Kernel Drivers ( Sarge )

2004-11-21 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/20/2004 09:20 PM, Frederik Dannemare wrote: it's still a pretty easy task (especially if you're using 2.4.x). I have written down the instructions at: http://www.sentinel.dk/cookbook/?nvidia_drivers Frederik, Thank you! I've had several failed attempts at installing nvidia-glx and getting i

Re: Bold Fonts Not Working in OpenOffice (Sid)

2004-11-21 Thread Bernard Lineham
I have installed those packages and the problem is solved. I had some problems with the mstt fonts package (proxy issues) so it was installed later than the others and the problem did not resolve until this package was on, so it may be that I needed this package in particular. Thank you to everyo

Nikon Coolpix 5200

2004-11-21 Thread Clifton Sluss
I am currently running debian sid kde 3.3.1 kernel 2.6.7-1-686-smp, and in the market for a digital camera, i really like the nikon coolpix 5200 but it is not listed in KDE's digital camera menu under control center. i was wondering if anyone out there might know if the 5200 would work with this

Re: Installing Development Headers

2004-11-21 Thread John Hasler
Jeremy writes: > Is there any script or command in Debian that will install development > header subpackages for all of the packages on my system? apt-get build-dep -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: HELP!!!, can't login even as root

2004-11-21 Thread arodriguez31
yeap, it is www-data. See next www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www/:/bin/sh and www-data:x:33: It probably hapenned by allowing uploading of pictures through a perl script to my server without proper security. STUPID mistake, if it is the reason. And more stupid, if another mistake of mine. T

Re: error in apt updating to Sarge

2004-11-21 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Sunday 21 November 2004 04:23 pm, Igor Arruza wrote: > Hello > I have installed Woody and i want to upgrade to Sarge. > I put the sources but when i update i have this error > > Reading Package ListsError! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing po4a (NewVersion

Re: Nikon Coolpix 5200

2004-11-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 17:41 -0500, Clifton Sluss wrote: > I am currently running debian sid kde 3.3.1 kernel 2.6.7-1-686-smp, > and in the market for a digital camera, i really like the nikon > coolpix 5200 but it is not listed in KDE's digital camera menu under > control center. i was wondering

Re: Cups in sarge stops a lot.. maybe lprng better

2004-11-21 Thread Ivan Teliatnikov
I was having exactly the same problem. I noticed when my HP4100 printers goes off-line, cups disables printer gueue. The only way I could think of fixing it is to run /usr/bin/enable from the cron. My respect to all people on this list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Disabling access to SSH

2004-11-21 Thread Ivan Teliatnikov
There are several approaches: 1) Use tcpd - access control facility for internet services Configure your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny as follows: Add to /etc/hosts.allow # Services that can be contacted externally. sshd: IP-host1/255.255.255.0 IP-host2/255.255.255.0 172.16.145.0/255.2

Problem with CUPS: need to enter password for lp and lpq several times

2004-11-21 Thread Andreas Ehn
Hi, I'm using CUPS (cupsys-1.1.20final+rc1-10) in Sarge and have a problem using any functions that require authentication. If I want to print a document using lp, I have to enter my password three times before it is accepted. If I want to query the status of the printer queue using lpq, I have t

Re: mounting Windows problem

2004-11-21 Thread Chris Martin
Lauri Tischler wrote: freire wrote: For some reason my windowsnt filesystem in may debian istalation is owned by root and is mounted as read only (and tgherefore I cant change anything). Teh line in /etc/fstab is: /dev/hda1 /Winntfsrw,user,noauto 0 0 but... Someone can

Re: Problem with CUPS: need to enter password for lp and lpq several times

2004-11-21 Thread Tim Kelley
On Sunday 21 November 2004 17:34, Andreas Ehn wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using CUPS (cupsys-1.1.20final+rc1-10) in Sarge and have a problem > using any functions that require authentication. > > If I want to print a document using lp, I have to enter my password > three times before it is accepted. If I

Re: Installing Development Headers

2004-11-21 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 03:59:03PM -0500, Jeremy Brown wrote: > Jeremy Brown wrote: > > >Is there any script or command in Debian that will install development > >header subpackages for all of the packages on my system? > > > >If you'd like to compile software above and beyond what is shipped >

does kernel 2.4 support scsi AC-520A

2004-11-21 Thread j smith
i have a ISA scsi card, the model name is AC-520A, the chipset is adaptec AIC-6360L, does kernel 2.4 support it? Thanks! __ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Problem with CUPS: need to enter password for lp and lpq several times

2004-11-21 Thread Andreas Ehn
On Sunday 21 November 2004 18:03 -0600, Tim Kelley wrote: > It sounds like you have /jobs set to AuthType Basic / AuthClass User; which I > believe is the default. Yes, you are right. I have now changed that to AuthType Digest, with the result that I can now access /jobs. I still have the same

Courier certificate

2004-11-21 Thread richard
Every time I log on to IMAP server via mutt, it says This certificate belongs to: localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] Courier Mail Server Automatically-generated IMAP SSL key New York NY US This certificate was issued by: localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] Courier Mail Server Automatica

Re: Courier certificate

2004-11-21 Thread Robert Vangel
Edit `/etc/courier/imapd.cnf' accordingly, then run `/usr/lib/courier/mkimapdcert' to generate the new certificate. Reload /etc/init.d/courier-* and close your client, log in again. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every time I log on to IMAP server via mutt, it says This certificate belongs to: local

Re: does kernel 2.4 support scsi AC-520A

2004-11-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 16:54 -0800, j smith wrote: > i have a ISA scsi card, the model name is AC-520A, the > chipset is adaptec AIC-6360L, does kernel 2.4 support > it? Thanks! Have you googled? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA

clock oddity

2004-11-21 Thread richard
I've been reading man pages of hwclock, xclock, adjtime, and so on, but cannot see how to adjust the time shown on teh icewm clock, which is steadfastly 56 minutes ahead of the hwclock (which is set reasonably correct). Which utility controls this? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Problem with installing gnome

2004-11-21 Thread Lian Liming
Hi all, I am using debian/unstable, and find i can't install gnome with the following error: #aptitude install gnome Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done E: Unable t

Re: Problem with installing gnome

2004-11-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 09:26 +0800, Lian Liming wrote: > Hi all, > I am using debian/unstable, and find i can't install gnome with > the following error: > > #aptitude install gnome > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information > Initial

Re: Problem with installing gnome

2004-11-21 Thread Robert Vangel
Try installing gnome-desktop-environment on its own and see what comes up. I remember having this problem, and I tried each package individually until it finally spat something out at me which was helpful. Lian Liming wrote: Hi all, I am using debian/unstable, and find i can't install gnome

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