Re: cannot open root device "801"

2004-12-30 Thread Eric N. Valor
I don't know because I'm not using the Debian image (I like to compile my own kernels, and have only started running into these problems using 2.6.x kernels). Does the Debian 2.6.8 binary image contain support for the Sym53C8XXX SCSI controller? Beyond this problem with HFS, I'm concerned that a

Re: debsign problem

2004-12-30 Thread Choy Kho Yee
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 07:33:50 + (UTC) (BAlexis Huxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (B (B> On 2004-12-30, Choy Kho Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (B> (B> >> Now signing changes and any dsc files... (B> >> signfile dri-trunk-sid_2004.02.28-2.dsc Michel Daenzer (B> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg

Re: pppd: CHAP authentication failed

2004-12-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Mauro Darida wrote: Hello, I am experiencing a weird thing: I have got KDE kppp perfectly working but when it comes to use pppd directly with the pon script even from root pppd won't start. I have the following /var/log/ppp.log: Dec 29 19:49:50 ifi pppd[1302]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 Dec

Re: modem for potato

2004-12-30 Thread Dani Belz
* John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-12-30 01:03]: > Any external modem that connects to the computer via a serial port will > work. Unfortunately not true! Bought a Creative modem some time ago. This didn't work. There really are modems that do not work with linux (at least it isn't easy to set

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-30 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 03:10:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:10:03 + > From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody > [ snip ] > > > if your sources.list in /etc/apt/ are "correct"

Re: cannot open root device "801"

2004-12-30 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 29.12.2004, 12:45 -0800 schrieb Eric N. Valor: > The only change I > made was to enable HFS filesystem (so I can play with my new iPod). This is no solution for your problem, but maybe a useful workaround: I work for a company that uses Macs, and we all got an iPod for chris

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-30 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 07:49:07AM -0800, saravanan ganapathy wrote: > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 07:49:07 -0800 (PST) > From: saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody > [ snip ] > > I have done recompile using kernel-source

Re: kernel version

2004-12-30 Thread YH
Hi, I've installed 3.0 r2. From kernel package, it seems the kernel version is 2.4.18. Is here any command / utility to check kernel version? I would like to check if the saa7134 driver (which is included in the 2.6.x kernels) is included in the 3.0 r2 or not. Thanks. YH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-30 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 29.12.2004, 14:35 -0500 schrieb Antonio Rodriguez: > I think it would be wise to implement a way of stopping a thread at > the top level when it goes to far off topic. It has been the case is > several of them very recently. I wonder if one could implement a kind of "p2p-kill

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alexei Chetroi wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 03:10:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:10:03 + From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody [ snip ] if your sources.list in /etc/apt/

HOSTALIASES variable not being checked

2004-12-30 Thread Matt Perry
>From reading the man page for gethostbyname(3) I see that I can set the environment variable HOSTALIASES to point to a file with local aliases. When I do that, it doesn't seem to be working. $ cat hostalias deb ftp.debian.org $ export HOSTALIASES=$HOME/hostalias $ ftp deb ftp: deb: Name or ser

imlib-base 1.9.14-16 and DSA 618-1

2004-12-30 Thread Robert King
Is imlib-base supposed to disappear in unstable? On the basis of DSA 618-1 I've updated imlib11, but I also have imlib-base 1.9.14-16 installed, which doesn't seem to have a 1.9.14-17 around, and http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?version=all&subword=0&exact=1&arch=any&releases=a

Re: cannot open root device "801"

2004-12-30 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Eric N. Valor wrote: > I don't know because I'm not using the Debian image (I like to compile > my own kernels, and have only started running into these problems using > 2.6.x kernels). Does the Debian 2.6.8 binary image contain support for > the Sym53C8XXX SCSI controller?

Re: cannot open root device "801"

2004-12-30 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 00:01:15 -0800, Eric N. Valor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know because I'm not using the Debian image (I like to compile > my own kernels, and have only started running into these problems using > 2.6.x kernels). Does the Debian 2.6.8 binary image contain support fo

Re: HOSTALIASES variable not being checked

2004-12-30 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Matt Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041230 01:30]: > >From reading the man page for gethostbyname(3) I see that I can set > the environment variable HOSTALIASES to point to a file with local > aliases. When I do that, it doesn't seem to be working. > > $ cat hostalias > deb ftp.debian.org > > $ ex

Samba and Unix Password Sync

2004-12-30 Thread Thomas Weber
Hello, I'm trying to activate Unix Password Syncing in Samba (Distribution: Sarge). However, it doesn't work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ smbpasswd Old SMB password: New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: cli_pipe: return critical error. Error was Call timed out: server did not respond after 2

ntp-server doesn't sync time correctly?

2004-12-30 Thread Cameron G
I have a handful of debian servers going, and I've done an apt-get install ntp-server on all of them. They all seem to have "server pool.ntp.org" in the config file, yet they're all out of sync a little bit, by a couple of minutes in some cases. Is merely installing the package enough? Or am I miss

Re: Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-30 Thread Robert Waldner
(not at the office today, I hope I got the reply right nonetheless) Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >Well, it would be perfect if you could reproduce this. Try something like: >If this prints "Caught SIGCLD" then that is a severe kernel bug. >Try both "cc foo.c" and "cc foo.c -lpthread" please.

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-30 Thread saravanan ganapathy
--- Alexei Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 07:49:07AM -0800, saravanan > ganapathy wrote: > > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 07:49:07 -0800 (PST) > > From: saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

Re: How can I make a kernel package that is _identical_ to those available for download?

2004-12-30 Thread R G Cottrell
I'm back after getting some sleep. Paul E Condon wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 01:45:46PM +1000, R G Cottrell wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:17:44PM +1000, R G Cottrell wrote: Hi folks, I asked this on debian-kernel about 8 hours ago but didn't get any replie

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-30 Thread saravanan ganapathy
--- Jonathan Lassoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 07:49:07 -0800 (PST), saravanan > ganapathy > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have done recompile using kernel-source-2.4.18 > and > > after reboot I got the following error > > > > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-30 Thread Robert Vangel
saravanan ganapathy wrote: --- Alexei Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd suggest you to do the following: 1. unpack /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 2. copy /boot/config-2.4.18-1-686 to .config in the top dir of kernel source (kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686 should be installed) 3. enable highm

Re: modem for potato

2004-12-30 Thread Gerard Robin
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 10:01:27AM +0100, Dani Belz wrote: > * John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-12-30 01:03]: > > Any external modem that connects to the computer via a serial port will > > work. > > Unfortunately not true! Bought a Creative modem some time ago. This > didn't work. There really

network connection fails after setup

2004-12-30 Thread Roger Creasy
Howdy! I set up sarge with kernel 2.4. This setup was done via a startup cd and http. During setup files were downloaded with no problem. After the setup was complete, I have no internet or network connection. Any suggestions for a fix? TIA, Roger _

Building kernel-headers containing links?

2004-12-30 Thread Mikael Magnusson
How do I build a kernel-headers package that contains the links that are available in the official packages? My kernel-headers-2.6.7-skas-1 package doesn't depend on kernel-headers-2.6.7-1 either. ls /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.7-1-k7/ arch@ crypto@ drivers@ fs@ include/ init@ ipc@ kernel@ lib@

Re: network connection fails after setup

2004-12-30 Thread Wim De Smet
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 03:34:53 -0800 (PST), Roger Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy! > > I set up sarge with kernel 2.4. > This setup was done via a startup cd and http. During > setup files were downloaded with no problem. After the > setup was complete, I have no internet or network > conn

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-30 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 03:20:36AM -0800, saravanan ganapathy wrote: > Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 03:20:36 -0800 (PST) > From: saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody > > > --- Alexei Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >

Re: Using killfiles

2004-12-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: That's more or less what I gathered from the snippy, off-list response I got from her. You, too, eh? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.

Re: modem for potato

2004-12-30 Thread Dani Belz
* Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-12-30 12:25]: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 10:01:27AM +0100, Dani Belz wrote: > > * John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-12-30 01:03]: > > > Any external modem that connects to the computer via a serial port will > > > work. > > > > Unfortunately not true! Bought

de2104x module with kernel 2.6.10

2004-12-30 Thread Soyez Grégory
Hello, I just compiled the 2.6.10 kernel on a computer with a D-Link network card. lspci tells me that the card is of the de2104x family. If I use this driver, I can modprobe the module but ifconfig eth0 up freezes the system. The generic module (de4x5) brings the interface up correctly but no tra

Re: Using killfiles

2004-12-30 Thread Steve Lamb
ABrady wrote: Thank you for helping to make my point. You have no point. Anyone thinking that I propose imposing my will on anyone needs to look in a mirror. Your own religious/political OT stuff is the imposition on those of us wanting to deal with linux/Debian/derivatives, not the other way a

Re: Frustration with Firefox extension update

2004-12-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Patrick Wiseman wrote: No doubt it's a permissions problem - so much with Linux is - but I can't figure out where Firefox keeps anything so that I could correct it. Well, is it a global or local install of the extension? That does make a difference on where Firefox is installing stuff. > (An

Re: ntp-server doesn't sync time correctly?

2004-12-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Cameron G wrote: > I have a handful of debian servers going, and I've done an apt-get install > ntp-server on all of them. They all seem to have "server pool.ntp.org" in > the config file, yet they're all out of sync a little bit, by a couple of > minutes in some cases. Is mere

Re: ntp-server doesn't sync time correctly?

2004-12-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Cameron G wrote: I have a handful of debian servers going, and I've done an apt-get install ntp-server on all of them. They all seem to have "server pool.ntp.org" in the config file, yet they're all out of sync a little bit, by a couple of minutes in some cases. This could be because the server

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-30 Thread saravanan ganapathy
> > > How did you compile your kernel? Did you use > > > make-kpkg? Did you use > > > /boot/config-2.4.18-686 for building new kernel? > > > > > > I'd suggest you to do the following: > > > > > > 1. unpack /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 > > > 2. copy /boot/config-2.4.18-1-686 to .con

Re: kernel version

2004-12-30 Thread Ryan D'Baisse
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:12:19 +1300, YH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've installed 3.0 r2. From kernel package, it seems the kernel version > is 2.4.18. Is here any command / utility to check kernel version? I > would like to check if the saa7134 driver (which is included in the > 2.6.x kernels)

Re: Connection timeouts with SSH and CVS

2004-12-30 Thread Brian
Norman Davis wrote: Hi there, I'm having problems using SSH and CVS at my work. The connections timeout. However I can browse the internet with Mozilla just fine. But this only happens on my network at work. When I dial in to my ISP from home, in SSH and CVS both work fine. The network at work most

Re: dccproc error

2004-12-30 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 10:17 -0800, Vadim wrote: > I started to have dccproc errors in my syslog: > > Dec 2 06:02:26 host dccproc[27454]: open(/var/lib/dcc/map): Permission denied chown dcc:root /var/lib/dcc/map chmod 600 /var/lib/dcc/map Problem solved. If /var/lib/dcc/map has read permissions

Re: modem for potato

2004-12-30 Thread Kent West
Gerard Robin wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 10:01:27AM +0100, Dani Belz wrote: * John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-12-30 01:03]: Any external modem that connects to the computer via a serial port will work. Unfortunately not true! Bought a Creative modem some time ago. This didn't

Re: kernel version

2004-12-30 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 the mental interface of YH told: > Hi, > > I've installed 3.0 r2. From kernel package, it seems the kernel version > is 2.4.18. Is here any command / utility to check kernel version? I > would like to check if the saa7134 driver (which is included in the > 2.6.x kernels) is

Re: debsign problem

2004-12-30 Thread John Hasler
Choy Kho Yee writes: > ...ran "debuild -us -uc" instead of just "debuild" and it completed > flawlessly. I don't know why but it did the trick. Because that says not to attempt any signatures at all (which is fine for your purpose). You'd have to edit the control file to get the package signed wi

Re: ide-scsi with 2 drives

2004-12-30 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > > /dev/hda hd > > > /dev/hdb dvd writer > > > /dev/hdc hd > > > /dev/hdd dvd rom > > > > I have found mixing hd's & cd'd on the same IDE controller to cause > > issues. I have even had issues with the position of the drives on the > > ribbon cable, depending on the UDMA number of th

Re: Endless Arguments (Re: PVR...)

2004-12-30 Thread Brendan
On Thursday 30 December 2004 10:03, Curt Howland wrote: > > major suppliers of inexpensive, common video hardware > > Two? So there is an alternative that you recognize as equal to nVidia? > Would you care to comment on their quality or open API? Or even > mention their name? I thought it was

Endless Arguments (Re: PVR...)

2004-12-30 Thread Curt Howland
Brendan wrote: > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 20:49, Curt Howland wrote: > > I prefer not to reward hardware manufacturers who obfuscate their > > APIs. > > Yes, we are all impressed by your wording, but do you have any idea why they > have to? They don't own the IP in a healthy chunk of that!

Re: Frustration with Firefox extension update [SOLVED]

2004-12-30 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:27:38 -0500, I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apologies for asking here, as it's probably not specific to Debian, > but I am a Debian user (testing system) and this is a very > knowledgable group (about lots of things :). > > I use the gmail notifier extension, which lets me k

aic7xxx won't load?

2004-12-30 Thread Didde Brockman
I just recently got my hands on a custom built machine using only Intel components along with an Adaptec RAID card using HostRAID. After trying a stable install which of course could not find the drive(s) I resorted to the Debian Installer which has helped in the passed when I had to deal with har

mozilla-firefox and futex loop

2004-12-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Anyone else getting a problem where firefox is looping on FUTEX_WAIT and FUTEX_WAKE? First started happening on my laptop and now it's happening on my main machine as well. Not sure what changed on either of them to cause it. Here's an strace: poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLI

Re: KDE 3.3.1 issue

2004-12-30 Thread John Foster
On Thursday 30 December 2004 01:43 am, Aditya Pratap wrote: > Hi, > Yesterday I tried to upgrade KDE from 3.2 to 3.3.1. This is how I tried > to do > $ apt-get install kdebase > $ apt-get install kde > > After the installation, I tried to log into KDE. > After loging in I found that no applications

Re: Connection timeouts with SSH and CVS

2004-12-30 Thread Norman Davis
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 05:27:50 -0800, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Norman Davis wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I'm having problems using SSH and CVS at my work. The connections > > timeout. However I can browse the internet with Mozilla just fine. > > > > But this only happens on my network at wo

OpenOffice (sid) just quit , WHY?

2004-12-30 Thread John Foster
I was using OpenOffice as a web writer and it seemed to be running sporadically, slowing way down, then it crashed and now will not start at all. I removed it from my system and reinstalled it and it still does not work. Any one know of this? The only thing that I had done was involving Apach

Script similar to Redhat chkconfig

2004-12-30 Thread Ian Meyer
Does something like this exist for Debian? I know the update-rc.d is there to add/remove services to rcX.d but chkconfig will list the services and what their runlevels are and whether or not they are started/stopped. Just curious, is all. Thanks, Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Why the constant conflicts between Apache2 & PHP4, Now Gallery has quit!

2004-12-30 Thread John Foster
There seem to be constant conflicts between Apache2 & PHP4 as far as getting the apache2-mod-php4 and any dependent applicatione to work properly. Any one know why this condition is predominent. I think there is a bug in the configs as Debian installed them as I have tweaked them to get them to tr

Re: /dev/video0

2004-12-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello (please don't top-post) YH (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Andreas Janssen wrote: >> YH (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> >>> BTW, speaking xawtv, I've just have an error during "make xawtv": >>> "/usr/bin/ld cannot find -lXaw", but I can see >>> /usr/X11/R6/lib/libxaw.so.7 on my machine. D

ALSA broken after upgrade

2004-12-30 Thread Hank Marquardt
Did and update/upgrade cycle on my SID box last night and again just now. alsa-base, alsa-headers and alsa-utils were all upgraded; alsa-modules was not and is at alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-k7_1.0.6a+5_i386.deb I now no longer have sound I get this on boot and when run from the command line: Starti

Re: Script similar to Redhat chkconfig

2004-12-30 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:15:47 -0500, Ian Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does something like this exist for Debian? > > I know the update-rc.d is there to add/remove services to rcX.d but > chkconfig will list the services and what their runlevels are and > whether or not they are started/stoppe

Re: Script similar to Redhat chkconfig

2004-12-30 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 05:33:28PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:15:47 -0500, Ian Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does something like this exist for Debian? > > > > I know the update-rc.d is there to add/remove services to rcX.d but > > chkconfig will list the servi

Re: debsign problem

2004-12-30 Thread Choy Kho Yee
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:04:28 -0600 (BJohn Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (B (B> Choy Kho Yee writes: (B> > ...ran "debuild -us -uc" instead of just "debuild" and it completed (B> > flawlessly. I don't know why but it did the trick. (B> (B> Because that says not to attempt any signatures

Re: Script similar to Redhat chkconfig

2004-12-30 Thread Ian Meyer
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 05:33:28PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:15:47 -0500, Ian Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does something like this exist for Debian? I know the update-rc.d is there to add/remove services to rcX.d but chkconfig will list t

"It could be that your whole purpose is..."

2004-12-30 Thread martin f krafft
We all know the image all the way at the bottom of http://www.funroll-loops.org/. I recall that Debian has a similarly witty/punny image and quote, but I cannot find it. Would you know a pointer to it, and share it with me, please? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :pro

PDF Form Editing.

2004-12-30 Thread Nayyar Ahmed
Hello All, I want to edit a PDF form, is there any utility ? TIA, -- Nayyar Ahmad Lecturer Faculty Of Computer Science, Institute Of Management Sciences, Hayat Abad Peshawar , Pakistan. Office : 92-091-9217404 , 9217452 Cell : 92-0333-9139461 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: ntp-server doesn't sync time correctly?

2004-12-30 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 19:13 +0800, Cameron G wrote: > I have a handful of debian servers going, and I've done an apt-get install > ntp-server on all of them. They all seem to have "server pool.ntp.org" in > the config file, yet they're all out of sync a little bit, by a couple of > minutes in some

Re: debsign problem

2004-12-30 Thread John Hasler
Choy Kho Yee writes: > control file which means...? man deb-control -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Minimalist mailing list

2004-12-30 Thread Tom Allison
I am trying to set up the minimalist mail server and ran into a problem with logging. My configuration states: Directory: /var/spool/minimalist Administrative password: ok Logging: /var/log/Minimalist.log Log info about messages: yes But I can't get anything to log. There is no file in /var/log/

Re: Why the constant conflicts between Apache2 & PHP4, Now Gallery has quit!

2004-12-30 Thread Michael
> There seem to be constant conflicts between Apache2 & PHP4 as far as > getting > the apache2-mod-php4 and any dependent applicatione to work properly. Any > one > know why this condition is predominent. I think there is a bug in the > configs > as Debian installed them as I have tweaked them to g

clients database

2004-12-30 Thread erkanevat
Hi! Clients Database. Clients.rar attached. In clients.rar: clients.csv - database in Microsoft Excel. X.chm - help file with another information about our clients. Password on archive: 123. Best regards, Alex. clients.rar Description: Binary data

Re: OpenOffice (sid) just quit , WHY?

2004-12-30 Thread Adam Aube
John Foster wrote: > I was using OpenOffice as a web writer and it seemed to be running > sporadically, slowing way down, then it crashed and now will not start at > all. I removed it from my system and reinstalled it and it still does not > work. Any one know of this? The only thing that I had

Re: How can I make a kernel package that is _identical_ to those available for download?

2004-12-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 09:22:22PM +1000, R G Cottrell wrote: > I'm back after getting some sleep. > > Paul E Condon wrote: > > >On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 01:45:46PM +1000, R G Cottrell wrote: > > > > > >>Paul E Condon wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:17:44PM +1000, R G Cot

Re: Script similar to Redhat chkconfig

2004-12-30 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:41:41 -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 05:33:28PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:15:47 -0500, Ian Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does something like this exist for Debian? > > > > > > I know th

Re: Connection timeouts with SSH and CVS

2004-12-30 Thread Adam Aube
Norman Davis wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 05:27:50 -0800, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Norman Davis wrote: >>> I'm having problems using SSH and CVS at my work. The connections >>> timeout. However I can browse the internet with Mozilla just fine. >>> But this only happens on my network at

Re: Connection timeouts with SSH and CVS

2004-12-30 Thread Norman Davis
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:02:26 -0500, Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is ECN off (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn)? You can check/set it with sysctl. > net.ipv4.tcp_ecn was 0. I just now set it to 1. CVS and SSH still don't work. I guess I want to leave net.ipv4.tcp_ecn at 0? -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-30 Thread CW Harris
Putting this back to the list... On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 04:33:43PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:45:09PM -0700, CW Harris wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:31:33PM -0700, CW Harris wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:33:14PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: On We

Re: OpenOffice (sid) just quit , WHY?

2004-12-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
John Foster wrote: I was using OpenOffice as a web writer and it seemed to be running sporadically, slowing way down, then it crashed and now will not start at all. I removed it from my system and reinstalled it and it still does not work. Any one know of this? The only thing that I had done was

Re: PDF Form Editing.

2004-12-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Nayyar Ahmed wrote: Hello All, I want to edit a PDF form, is there any utility ? TIA, Are you referring to a fillable PDF form, as one created in Acrobat Professional or some such Adobe product? If so, try installing the acroread package from: ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main Su

Re: debsign problem

2004-12-30 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 the mental interface of John Hasler told: > Choy Kho Yee writes: > > ...ran "debuild -us -uc" instead of just "debuild" and it completed > > flawlessly. I don't know why but it did the trick. > > Because that says not to attempt any signatures at all (which is fine for > your

Re: ntp-server doesn't sync time correctly?

2004-12-30 Thread Alexis Huxley
As someone else suggested run 'ntpq -p' or quicker is 'ntpq -pn' and look for a '*' in column 1 of any row; if none then you're not synced with the server. Another common problem is that if your collection of machines are on a private LAN and their gateway machine has only a transient connection

System will not reboot

2004-12-30 Thread Olav
Hi, Today I have taken out two IDE harddisks (RAID1 set with Sarge installed on them) from computer A and put them in computer B. Both A and B are older machines, with exactly the same CPUs. A has more RAM (256 MB) than B (96 MB), but that does not seem to make much of a difference. After plugging

Re: ide-scsi with 2 drives

2004-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 09:41 -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: [snip] > An optical drive (slow) running on the same IDE channel as a hard drive > (fast) will slow down data transfer to and from the hard drive, when the > optical drive is operating (by forcing a lower DMA mode?). So in the > configur

Re: kernel version

2004-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 08:17 -0500, Ryan D'Baisse wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:12:19 +1300, YH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've installed 3.0 r2. From kernel package, it seems the kernel version > > is 2.4.18. Is here any command / utility to check kernel version? I > > would like to chec

Re: PDF Form Editing.

2004-12-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Nayyar Ahmed wrote: Hello All, I want to edit a PDF form, is there any utility ? TIA, Are you referring to a fillable PDF form, as one created in Acrobat Professional or some such Adobe product? If so, try installing the acroread package from: ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-mar

Re: kernel version

2004-12-30 Thread YH
Thanks all for the help. How can I type the "uname -r" and get "2.2.20-idepci"? I really didn't know what that means as I am only aware of most distributions use the kernel 2.4.x or 2.6.x? Any explain please? Thank you. YH Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 08:17 -0500, Ryan D'Baisse wrote

Re: LDAP auth problems

2004-12-30 Thread Mart van de Wege
Romel Sandoval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I create a people.ldif file containing: > > dn: ou=people,dc=antalnet,dc=com > ou: people > objectClass: organizationalUnit > > But when I try to... > > #ldapadd -f people.ldif > SASL/DIGEST-MD5 authentication started > Please enter your password: > >

mplayer package compiled with jack support

2004-12-30 Thread Alex Polite
I use the mplayer package from here: deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main It lacks jack support. Does anyone know of a mplayer package compiled with jack support? alex -- Alex Polite http://polite.se -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Tool for finding and choosing access point.

2004-12-30 Thread Alex Polite
What debian packaged tool will let me choose a wireless access point to attach to? I have this in /etc/network/interfaces --- auto ath0 iface ath0 inet dhcp wireless_mode managed --- That's fine when I'm at home and there is only one access point in range,

Re: ide-scsi with 2 drives

2004-12-30 Thread Robert Epprecht
Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 09:31 pm, Robert Epprecht wrote: >> >> > Up to now I had one hd and one dvd writer and everything worked >> >> > fine. Now I have added a second hd and a dvd rom drive... >> >> > The trouble starts when I want to use ide-scs

Re: kernel version

2004-12-30 Thread Glenn English
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 08:45 +1300, YH wrote: > Thanks all for the help. How can I type the "uname -r" and get > "2.2.20-idepci"? I really didn't know what that means as I am only aware > of most distributions use the kernel 2.4.x or 2.6.x? Any explain please? 'uname -a' is a little less cryptic

xdm modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-13

2004-12-30 Thread jose isaias cabrera
Greetings! I just installed Debian on a Dell Inspiron 7500. It's running pretty good, but I loaded xdm and now it goes right into xdm and fails with the "modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-13" and I can't go back to the xterm. It's at the xdm logon screen. Two questions: 1. How do I sto

Re: PDF Form Editing.

2004-12-30 Thread Olav
Op do, 30-12-2004 te 13:29 -0600, schreef Hugo Vanwoerkom: > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > > > >> Hello All, > >> > >> I want to edit a PDF form, is there any utility ? > >> > >> TIA, > >> > >> > > > > Are you referring to a fillable PDF form, as one created in > > Acrobat Pro

Mysterious use of bandwidth? Any tools to nail it?

2004-12-30 Thread R G Cottrell
Hi all, While I'm waiting for my kernel to compile I've been noticing that from time to time there's a lot of activity on my modem at times when I'm not doing anything to cause any transfers. My modem only has a single data LED, so I can't tell whether the data is coming or going. My guess is tha

Re: Mysterious use of bandwidth? Any tools to nail it?

2004-12-30 Thread Steve Lamb
R G Cottrell wrote: Is there any simple tool that will show me (in realtime, preferably) any processes on my box that are accessing the PPP interface? If memory serves I believe "ntop" will suit your needs. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PG

Re: ide-scsi with 2 drives

2004-12-30 Thread Robert Epprecht
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Robert Epprecht wrote: > >> >> > /dev/hda hd >> >> > /dev/hdb dvd writer >> >> > /dev/hdc hd >> >> > /dev/hdd dvd rom > > bad idea .. esp if the drives are NOT the same ata-33, ata-66 or ata-100 > or ata-133 speeds I agree that

Re: xdm modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-13

2004-12-30 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:12:14 -0500, jose isaias cabrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings! > > I just installed Debian on a Dell Inspiron 7500. It's running pretty good, > but I loaded xdm and now it goes right into xdm and fails with the > "modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-13" an

Re: Mysterious use of bandwidth? Any tools to nail it?

2004-12-30 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:09:46 +1000, R G Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > While I'm waiting for my kernel to compile I've been noticing that > from time to time there's a lot of activity on my modem at times > when I'm not doing anything to cause any transfers. My modem only > has

New drive, problems with old drive

2004-12-30 Thread Scott Mohnkern
Critical info: Debian with 2.22 Kernel I386 infrastructure 2 120 GB hard drives We were having problems with the old drive, to the point it was getting memory errors on boot. We installed a new drive in, and put the old drive as master. Installed Debian on the new drive, no problems, and duri

Re: kernel version

2004-12-30 Thread YH
Thanks Glenn. I guess you are talking about Debian next release Sarge for 3.1? If I understand correctly that woody (As I installed 3.0 r2) uses 2.2 kernel, if it is correct I'll be really surprised, the 2.2 kernel was the version ages ago, wasn't? Kind regards, YH Glenn English wrote: On Fri,

Ignore question

2004-12-30 Thread Scott Mohnkern
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Re: ide-scsi with 2 drives

2004-12-30 Thread Robert Epprecht
Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > /dev/hda hd >> > > /dev/hdb dvd writer >> > > /dev/hdc hd >> > > /dev/hdd dvd rom >> > >> > I have found mixing hd's & cd'd on the same IDE controller to cause >> > issues. I have even had issues with the position of the drives on the

Portsentry Question

2004-12-30 Thread "Sergio Cuéllar"
Hi, I really not sure whats happening with portsentry, before I start the daemon I use nmap to see the open ports: And I get only: 22/tcp open ssh 25/tcp open smtp 80/tcp open http 111/tcp open rpcbind Then i use nestat too, and I get something like this: tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:111

Re: Mysterious use of bandwidth? Any tools to nail it?

2004-12-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 30 December 2004 12:09 pm, R G Cottrell wrote: > While I'm waiting for my kernel to compile I've been noticing that > from time to time there's a lot of activity on my modem at times > when I'm not doing anything to cause any transfers. That's normal. You are on the same broadcast do

Re: kernel version

2004-12-30 Thread Glenn English
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 09:37 +1300, YH wrote: > I guess you are talking about Debian next release Sarge > for 3.1? Well, the words sound right, but I don't know about the numbers. But at the Debian website, it's the current SARGE (testing) net install CD. Small download, and it gets the debs from

Re: kernel version

2004-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 09:37 +1300, YH wrote: > Thanks Glenn. I guess you are talking about Debian next release Sarge > for 3.1? > > If I understand correctly that woody (As I installed 3.0 r2) uses 2.2 > kernel, if it is correct I'll be really surprised, the 2.2 kernel was > the version ages ag

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