Re: Newest Firefox - Problems

2005-08-22 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 07:25:03PM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > Other new weirdness: some of my extensions appear to be broken / > non-functional; clicking on the little blue circle with a white arrow > (Updates Available) also causes the application to terminate. > > Anyone else seeing this?

Re: Newest Firefox - Problems

2005-08-22 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 07:25:03PM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > Anyone else seeing this? Solutions? Bug reports have started floating in now. At first glance the following seem to apply: http://bugs.debian.org/324173 http://bugs.debian.org/324186 http://bugs.debian.org/324311 http://bugs.debi

Compaq Health Driver with Kernel 2.6 on Sarge

2005-08-22 Thread Horst Kautschitz
Hi Folks: For two weeks I get two HP ProLiant DL380 and installed Sarge on it. Is there any possibility to integrate the Compaq Health Driver on Sarge with Kernel 2.6? The main goal will be the noice reduction of the Fans. TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: how to remove 'Games'

2005-08-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (21/08/05 14:40), qee wrote: > hi > if i have to remove whole group called 'Games' > instead of individual game, how do > i do this using command prompt. and also is the name > of the application displayed in KDE > same as the name of the package associated with it. I'd probably do someth

PPP Carrier Detect problem.

2005-08-22 Thread Louis Swart
Hi, I have a Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Intel x86 installation that has pppd version 2.4.3. I have a GPRS modem connected to /dev/ttyS0. I can connect and get a ppp0 interface. When I unplug the GPRS modem from the serial port I can see the modem signals change state including CD (Carrier Detect): >F

Re: PPP Carrier Detect problem.

2005-08-22 Thread M-L
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:32:52 +0200 "Louis Swart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Intel x86 installation that has pppd version > 2.4.3. > > I have a GPRS modem connected to /dev/ttyS0. > I can connect and get a ppp0 interface. > When I unplug the GPRS modem fro

Re: Upgraded kernels, now eth0 and framebuffer are gone

2005-08-22 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:27:37PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > They are complementary. The discover process runs at boot time to > load up statically attached hardware. This would typically be things > like PCI network cards, PCI sound cards, and things li

Default mysql-server won't even start on etch+sid for 3 weeks due to known bug?

2005-08-22 Thread Peter Valdemar Mørch
The bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=320869 shows that MySQL is not able to start up with its default configuration file on unstable(sid) + testing(etch)! This has been a known bug since Aug 2, and according to the bug report this has been fixed on sunday, 14 Aug, but the

Re: Re: SSL problem + Apache 1.3.33

2005-08-22 Thread Belikov Anton
Title: Re: Re: SSL problem + Apache 1.3.33 Hi all, I had a problem with the same symptoms, and in my case I got read of it by fixing virtual host definition. See below two VH sections; one of them doesn't work and the other works fine. Hope It can be usefull.   this doesn't work

Sieve: No access

2005-08-22 Thread Dirk Gawronska
I'd like to use sieve to filter my e-mail, but it doesn't work. Can anybody help? > sonne:~# sieveshell -u root localhost > connecting to localhost > unable to connect to server at /usr/bin/sieveshell line 174. When I use websieve, I get the following result: > System Error: unable to connect

Where is console.perms?

2005-08-22 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi list, Which package contains "console.perms"? It is used to grant permissions on /dev/ttyS0 to the user who has logged in via xdm and to revert the perms on logout. Thanks for your help, Heinrich Rebehn University of Bremen Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Department of Tel

Re: Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-22 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Markus Döbele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050822 07:13]: > I like your distribution a lot! Thanks, nice to hear. > A few days ago we finally released the first final version of our game "Lost > Labyrinth" for Linux. > The newest version at the moment is 1.0.1. Looks nice. > I also created a

problems with realplayer

2005-08-22 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I'm trying to play some Realplayer listening samples from the amazon.com website (using Firefox). >From realplayer.com I've successfully downloaded and installed the recent version of realplayer. However, when I click on the audio sample and choose realplay (the application I've installed), r

Re: xserver-xorg: - Matrox G550 Dualhead woes!

2005-08-22 Thread TreeBoy
On Sunday 21 Aug 2005 20:04, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > Yo! > > Environment: Matrox G550 on xorg from unstable on a (mostly) sarge > installation. 2 analog screens. Xinerama is used, bare xorg - no mga_hal > etc.; kernel linux-image-2.6.12 or kernel-image-2.6.8 doesn't matter; > 686-smp in both ca

Re: Mule client

2005-08-22 Thread Arash Bijanzadeh
I'm using etch also. Try adding this to your sources.listdeb http://www.vollstreckernet.de/debian/ testing amule wxCheers,Jonathan I added this  site but my apt still couldn't find the amule package! :( Are you sure it is there?! --Please don't cc: your posting to my personal address.Thank you

Re: tclConfig.sh and tkConfig.sh are not included in the binary distribution

2005-08-22 Thread Sourabh Bora
hi oliver ,   thanx a lot for your advice..It is working fine now.

Re: Mule client

2005-08-22 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La Arash Bijanzadeh ha escrit, a 22/08/05 12:29: > > I'm using etch also. Try adding this to your sources.list > deb http://www.vollstreckernet.de/debian/ testing amule wx > Cheers, > Jonathan > > > I added this site but my apt still couldn't find the amule package! :( > Are

Re: monitor PC2000 F17 69T technical informations?

2005-08-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alexander Schmehl wrote: * Csanyi Pal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050821 17:18]: I have the monitor PC2000 F17 69T. It was given to me yesterday, but without the manual. I need the technical informations bellow to set up my X Window: [..] Has anybody these informations? If so, please tell me! Tha

Re: tzfile Modifications for the United States

2005-08-22 Thread Urs Thuermann
Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since the new energy bill was signed in to law, the existing > tzfile information for all those parts of the United States that use > DST needs to be tweaked so the automatic change will occur at the > correct times. Will there be new tzfile se

LATEx help plzz ??

2005-08-22 Thread Sameen Khan
hi sir i want to LATEX only LATEX plz tell me the link frm whr i can download LATEX plzz pl reply me Sameen Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: LATEx help plzz ??

2005-08-22 Thread Billy Morgan
On Monday 22 August 2005 12:40, Sameen Khan wrote: > hi sir > > i want to LATEX only LATEX plz tell me the link frm > whr i can download LATEX plzz > > pl reply me > > Sameen I think he wants LATEX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

position independent executables (PIE) on Debian?

2005-08-22 Thread Urs Thuermann
Newer versions of gcc and binutils support generation of position independent executables (PIE) using the option -fpie for gcc and -pie for ld. the result is a ELF shared object that can be executed instead of a ELF executable. The difference is that PIE executables can be loaded at any address a

Re: how to remove 'Games'

2005-08-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 02:40:08PM -0700, qee wrote: > hi > if i have to remove whole group called 'Games' > instead of individual game, how do > i do this using command prompt. and also is the name > of the application displayed in KDE > same as the name of the package associated with it. I

Solved: Where is console.perms?

2005-08-22 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > Hi list, > > Which package contains "console.perms"? It is used to grant permissions > on /dev/ttyS0 to the user who has logged in via xdm and to revert the > perms on logout. > Never mind. After i found out that it has to do with pam, i found libpam-devperm, installed it

Re: Mule client

2005-08-22 Thread Arash Bijanzadeh
On 8/22/05, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: En/La Arash Bijanzadeh ha escrit, a 22/08/05 12:29:>> I'm using etch also. Try adding this to your sources.list> deb http://www.vollstreckernet.de/debian/ testing amule wx> Cheers,> Jonathan>>> I added this  site but my apt still

Re: Mule client

2005-08-22 Thread Roel Schroeven
Arash Bijanzadeh wrote: I'm using etch also. Try adding this to your sources.list deb http://www.vollstreckernet.de/debian/ testing amule wx Cheers, Jonathan I added this site but my apt still couldn't find the amule package! :( Are you sure it is there?! Did you run apt-ge

Re: boot logging

2005-08-22 Thread marc
Adam Hardy said... > marc on 20/08/05 16:43, wrote: > > Wackojacko said... > > > >>>Adam writes: > >>> > >>>OK. I'm with you so far. Now that I seem to have boot logging working, > >>>where is the actual output? Checking in /var/log didn't reveal anything. > >>> > >>>According to man, the default

Re: LATEx help plzz ??

2005-08-22 Thread Tudi LE BLEIS
Hi! On 8/22/05, Sameen Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i want to LATEX only LATEX I don't understand what you highlight here... > plz tell me the link frm > whr i can download LATEX plzz Did you had a look at www.ctan.org already? -- __ *

Snapshot/Rollback using LVM/EVMS

2005-08-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I am using debian linux and i want to make a system snapshot using LVM or EVMS. Now i am having running system with one partition (/dev/hda1 of 30GB, ~7GB used) and i can't modify or delete existing data. I want to take the snapshot (one or more) in some point, save it locally and rollback if

via-rhine network card problem

2005-08-22 Thread Colin JN Breame
Hello, I'm having some problems with the netinstaller and my network card. The netinstaller installs the core installation without problem. However, when it reboots from the harddrive, eth0 fails to come up with the message "No such device". I think i read somewhere that the via-rhine driver

Re: ANSI color code chart

2005-08-22 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2005-08-21 @ 19:36:44 (week 33) Tong wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a ANSI color code chart that can show me the code and > effect of ansi color codes. > > I remember that once I had one, but now I can't find it on my HD or on > Inet any more. > > The description was: > > ANSI terminal

Re: PPP Carrier Detect problem.

2005-08-22 Thread Louis Swart
>> Hi, >> >> I have a Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Intel x86 installation that has pppd version >> 2.4.3. >> >> I have a GPRS modem connected to /dev/ttyS0. >> I can connect and get a ppp0 interface. >> When I unplug the GPRS modem from the serial port I can >> see the modem signals change state including

Re: xserver-xorg: - Matrox G550 Dualhead woes!

2005-08-22 Thread Adrian von Bidder
[Brad: I've taken your ISP out of my blacklist - sorry about that.] On Monday 22 August 2005 00.07, you wrote: > On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > Starting X once with a single head xorg.conf solves the problem: The > > 'single head' X delivers identical signal to both outputs of

Re: xserver-xorg: - Matrox G550 Dualhead woes!

2005-08-22 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 22 August 2005 13.03, TreeBoy wrote: > On Sunday 21 Aug 2005 20:04, Adrian von Bidder wrote: [can you please trim your quotation when replying?] ... > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G550 AGP, Screen 0" > > Driver "mga" > >

Several partitions fragmented after BIOS update

2005-08-22 Thread Ville Matilainen
Hi, I updated my BIOS today without any problems. But I forgot to set the BIOS clock before booting to Debian which caused fsck to force checks on all partitions. Nothing weird in that, considering the system clock was 2 years off, but after fsck had checked the boot partition, it said "12 % non-c

Re: xdvi is giving warnings due to hyperref

2005-08-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
marius mikucionis wrote: I could not reproduce it, everything seems fine. (is your system up-to-date?) In my previous email, I have given all the version information of tetex-bin, xdvik both of which are upto date. Is there any other package that I need to update? Also please do not top p

dpkg -l / truncation of names

2005-08-22 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi, I would like to save the names of all the installed packages. # dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' Does the work, but some packages with long names are name truncated. What's the option to provide to display the full name? Thank you. -- Administration & Formation à l'administration de serveurs déd

Re: dpkg -l / truncation of names

2005-08-22 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:37:50PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi, > I would like to save the names of all the installed packages. > > # dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' > > Does the work, but some packages with long names are name truncated. > What's the option to provide to display the fu

Re: dpkg -l / truncation of names

2005-08-22 Thread Sebastian Kayser
Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > I would like to save the names of all the installed packages. > > # dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' > > Does the work, but some packages with long names are name truncated. > What's the option to provide to display the full name? a) You may try to call dpkg -l with CO

source code

2005-08-22 Thread hja
I want the xvkbd on-screen keyboard to appear in the kde login screen besides the original login window. What would be the easiest way to achieve this? If it is required to mod program, which source package to download? hja -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

quota questions

2005-08-22 Thread Markus . Grunwald
Hello, I went through the quota-mini-howto to install quota on out system. It seems to work but I have one question that the howto didn't mention: How does the user get information about his/her quota state, especially if his $HOME grows bigger than the soft limit ? Hmm. Is warnquota the only p

How to use my fonts with Xprint and OpenOffice.org?

2005-08-22 Thread martin f krafft
I ended up purchasing professional postscript fonts the other day, and while I can use them on-screen, I am yet failing to ban them to paper or even into a .ps file. The fonts consist of .pfb and .afm files, which I have installed to ~/.fonts. I have run type1inst in this directory, added the dire

Re: root partition (reiserfs) mounting read-only on boot

2005-08-22 Thread Pablo Santiago Blum de Aguiar
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 13:28 -0300, Pablo Santiago Blum de Aguiar wrote: > I'll use the manufacturer's diagnostic utility and run the tests, > just to be sure. I ran all the tests and they've completed successfully. I couldn't solve my problem yet and would very much like to receive some other hint

Re: quota questions

2005-08-22 Thread Craig M. Houck
A suer should be able to type quota -v to get that. Adding that to the shell's login would show them each time a user logged/terminaled in. At 04:42 PM 8/22/2005 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello, > >I went through the quota-mini-howto to install quota on out system. It >seems to work but I

vsftpd: problems with "chown_username"

2005-08-22 Thread Josep Lluís López Munné
Sent again (2005-8-22) as the first post (19/08/05) didn't appear on the list. Is there something wrong in this message? *** I am not subscribed to the list *** Please CC me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this is not the right place to post, please let me know. OS: Debian Sarge GNU/Linux vsftpd: 2.0.3-1

RAID

2005-08-22 Thread Veron Camandanta
Hi, I am new to Debian and want to create a RAID 1 from to HDs. Should I partition and format the two HDs first and then create the RAID array? If so, should I partion booth HDs in the same way or only one of them? Thanks in adwavce. -- ___ Surf

Re: Mule client

2005-08-22 Thread Werner Mahr
Am Montag, 22. August 2005 14:06 schrieb Arash Bijanzadeh: > Got it the Packages.gz is a null file and broken. Could you iform the > maintainer? That's me, and I'm reading here. I've just looked, and I saw a size of 8kb. -- MfG usw. Werner Mahr registered Linuxuser: 295882 pgpB6CCCbvGqq.pg

Exim4 woes, esmtp package, mailx (was "do I have to use Exim?")

2005-08-22 Thread Scott Fitzgerald
Reading over the thread I have to hope that I did sound as if I were knocking Exim. I am sure it is a fine mailer. It just is not working. I am migrating from Woody to Sarge. In Woody, the initial install got internal email to work "out of the box." What do I mean by this? I mean you could s

Re: LATEx help plzz ??

2005-08-22 Thread Kevin Carney
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 04:40 -0700, Sameen Khan wrote: > hi sir > > i want to LATEX only LATEX plz tell me the link frm > whr i can download LATEX plzz You can't have 'only LATEX' because it runs on top of TeX. Try: 'apt-get install tetex-bin' Also See:

Re: xserver-xorg: - Matrox G550 Dualhead woes!

2005-08-22 Thread TreeBoy
On Monday 22 Aug 2005 13:50, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Monday 22 August 2005 13.03, TreeBoy wrote: > > On Sunday 21 Aug 2005 20:04, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > [can you please trim your quotation when replying?] > > ... > > > > Section "Device" > > > Identifier "Matrox Graphics, I

Kernel panics when booting off SCSI

2005-08-22 Thread Joel Barker
I have been using two hard drives, an old IDE mounted at / and a brand new SCSI mounted on /home. A few days ago the IDE drive died. Fortunately, I had just copied all the data over to the SCSI drive (/dev/sda1). But when I try to boot off the SCSI drive, I get the following messags: Freeing un

Re: Exim4 woes, esmtp package, mailx (was "do I have to use Exim?")

2005-08-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 11:10:29AM -0400, Scott Fitzgerald wrote: > I am migrating from Woody to Sarge. In Woody, the initial install got > internal email to work "out of the box." What do I mean by this? I mean > you could set up multiple logins, and from one, you could type in the > command "m

firefox update causes segmentation fault

2005-08-22 Thread gnat
hi all, i installed mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge2) with aptitude, as recommended by the security list, and now when i try to launch firefox it causes a Segmentation fault. i am running sarge with the stock (straight from apt) 2.6 k7 kernel. i tried reinstalling the package to no avail. here

Apache Sigterm every sunday at 6:25

2005-08-22 Thread Thomas Finkl
Every Sunday at 6:25 [Sun Aug 21 06:25:10 2005] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down -- [Sun Aug 21 06:25:10 2005] [error] Init: Unable to read pass phrase [Hint: key introduced or changed before restart?] [Sun Aug 21 06:25:10 2005] [error] SSL Library Error: 218710120 error:0D094068:asn1 enc

Re: monitor PC2000 F17 69T technical informations? SOLVED

2005-08-22 Thread Csanyi Pal
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 10:24:56PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 03:04:46PM -0400, Kevin Carney wrote: > > > Perhaps PC2000 is not the manufacturer. I seem to remember a monitor > > Yes, You are right! > I have a look at the backside of the monitor and there see the > manu

Re: firefox update causes segmentation fault

2005-08-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
gnat wrote: hi all, i installed mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge2) with aptitude, as recommended by the security list, and now when i try to launch firefox it causes a Segmentation fault. i am running sarge with the stock (straight from apt) 2.6 k7 kernel. i tried reinstalling the package to n

Re: how to change desktop manager

2005-08-22 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 15:57 -0700, qee wrote: > hi > i am newbie, i have installed debian on my laptop, my > desktop manager is wmaker. > but i am also installing kde soon. how do i let debian > know whether to use wmaker or > kde my *display* manager lets me choose what desktop environment i

Re: firefox update causes segmentation fault

2005-08-22 Thread Oliver Lupton
gnat wrote: hi all, i installed mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge2) with aptitude, as recommended by the security list, and now when i try to launch firefox it causes a Segmentation fault. i am running sarge with the stock (straight from apt) 2.6 k7 kernel. i tried reinstalling the package to n

problem installing Kylix 3 Open Ed. on Debian (Sarge)

2005-08-22 Thread Michal Simovic
hi, i decided to try out Kylix, so i downloaded the "Open Edition". the installation seemingly worked well, but i can't run neigher of the IDEs (Delphi/C++). for instance, when running C++ IDE with "startbcb", i get: /usr/local/kylix3/bin/bcblin: error while loading shared libraries: libstd

Re: Exim4 woes, esmtp package, mailx (was "do I have to use Exim?")

2005-08-22 Thread Scott Fitzgerald
Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 11:10:29AM -0400, Scott Fitzgerald wrote: >> I am migrating from Woody to Sarge. In Woody, the initial install got >> internal email to work "out of the box." What do I mean by this? I mean >> you could set up multiple logins, and from one, you cou

Re: vsftpd: problems with "chown_username"

2005-08-22 Thread Josep Lluís López Munné
*** I am not subscribed to the list *** Please CC me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Update. I have found the following bug report: vsftpd: uploaded files always 0600 if chown_uploads is set (*356 days old)* http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=269193 I think it is

Re: Exim4 woes, esmtp package, mailx (was "do I have to use Exim?")

2005-08-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 01:12:38PM -0400, Scott Fitzgerald wrote: > In my zeal to find something simpler for what I wanted to do, I managed > to mess up my system to the point where I will format my disks and > re-install sarge again. Then I will stick to exim, as it is the default > for confir

Portmap trouble

2005-08-22 Thread Andrew Diakin
Hello, I remove symlink from rc2.d/, my init is 2, but after reboot portmap was started .What I must do with this? I don't want portmap in second level...

Re: Portmap trouble

2005-08-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/08/05 21:44), Andrew Diakin wrote: > Hello, I remove symlink from rc2.d/, my init is 2, but after reboot > portmap was started .What I must do with this? I don't want portmap in > second level... > $ aptitude remove portmap should do the trick, or: $ aptitude purge portmap Regards Clive

Re: xserver-xorg: - Matrox G550 Dualhead woes!

2005-08-22 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 22 August 2005 17.37, TreeBoy wrote: [g550] > Sorry - it's a long time since I played with one in dual-head mode. Thanks for the pointers - but there were no real differencies in the xorg.conf/XF86Config-4 files provided there. All I found were entries in RedHat's and freedesktop.org

Re: Portmap trouble

2005-08-22 Thread Andrew Diakin
I don't want remove portmap, sometimes i need it for nfs and this is not best decision to install portmap every time I need it. Where I must look for startup scripts for portmap, in rc2.d/ no link to init.d/portmap 2005/8/22, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On (22/08/05 21:44), Andrew Diakin

Re: RAID

2005-08-22 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 22 August 2005 17.46, Veron Camandanta wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Debian and want to create a RAID 1 from to HDs. Should I > partition and format the two HDs first and then create the RAID array? If > so, should I partion booth HDs in the same way or only one of them? If you're going t

Re: Apache Sigterm every sunday at 6:25

2005-08-22 Thread Ron Peterson
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 05:52:43PM +0200, Thomas Finkl wrote: > Every Sunday at 6:25 > > [Sun Aug 21 06:25:10 2005] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down > -- > [Sun Aug 21 06:25:10 2005] [error] Init: Unable to read pass phrase > [Hint: key introduced or changed before restart?] > [Sun Aug 21 0

Re: Portmap trouble

2005-08-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Andrew Diakin wrote: I don't want remove portmap, sometimes i need it for nfs and this is not best decision to install portmap every time I need it. Where I must look for startup scripts for portmap, in rc2.d/ no link to init.d/portmap Instead of completely removing the link, did you try cd

Re: position independent executables (PIE) on Debian?

2005-08-22 Thread Joe Smith
So is there a way to get PIE executables with random addresses on Debian? Yes, download the debian kernel source, and apply either the PaX, or Exec shield patch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel panics when booting off SCSI

2005-08-22 Thread Marty
Joel Barker wrote: I have been using two hard drives, an old IDE mounted at / and a brand new SCSI mounted on /home. A few days ago the IDE drive died. Fortunately, I had just copied all the data over to the SCSI drive (/dev/sda1). But when I try to boot off the SCSI drive, I get the following

Downgrading a package that is causing some problems in KDE

2005-08-22 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
Hi all, I performed an upgrade yesterday to my SID system. I know these are tough times with the migration to gcc 4.0 and everything, and that I should have been more careful, but I messed up. I am still not sure where. Now (after a reboot), when I am in KDE, nothing appears on the panel menu exce

Re: why upgrade kernel?

2005-08-22 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Matt Zagrabelny, > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 22:50 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Will newer > > versions of some packages eventually need a newer kernel? > > yes. for instance some desktop stuff is starting to use udev/hotplug. > this requires a 2.6 kernel. Can you indicate which o

Re: why upgrade kernel?

2005-08-22 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 12:18 -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: > According to Matt Zagrabelny, > > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 22:50 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Will newer > > > versions of some packages eventually need a newer kernel? > > > > yes. for instance some desktop stuff is starting to use u

Re: Downgrading a package that is causing some problems in KDE

2005-08-22 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- Ibrahim Mubarak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I performed an upgrade yesterday to my SID system. I know these are > tough times with the migration to gcc 4.0 and everything, and that I > should have been more careful, but I messed up. I am still not sure > where. Now (after a reboo

packages necessary for dist-upgrade

2005-08-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
When I do apt-get --download dist-upgrade, it downloads some packages which are new in the repository and are necessary to do the dist-upgrade. How can I get the list of these packages without actually downloading them? I tried sudo apt-get --download-only -s dist-upgrade But that does not giv

Re: dpkg -l / truncation of names

2005-08-22 Thread Carl Greco
Sebastian Kayser wrote: Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: I would like to save the names of all the installed packages. # dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' Does the work, but some packages with long names are name truncated. What's the option to provide to display the full name? a) You may try

Re: Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-22 Thread Markus Döbele
Hi! > Looks nice. Thanx! > > I also created a rpm version of the game. I don't know right now how to > > build a deb file. But it should be easy to install the game with alien. > > Alien is not a nice way to creat debian packages. Please take a look at > our New Maintainers Guide [1] which expl

Re: Downgrading a package that is causing some problems in KDE

2005-08-22 Thread Kent West
Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: >--- Ibrahim Mubarak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I performed an upgrade yesterday to my SID system. I know these are >>tough times with the migration to gcc 4.0 and everything, and that I >>should have been more careful, but I messed up. I am still not sure >>where. N

Re: firefox update causes segmentation fault

2005-08-22 Thread Krimgelas
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > gnat wrote: > >>hi all, >> >>i installed mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge2) with aptitude, as recommended >>by the security list, and now when i try to launch firefox it causes a >>Segmentation fault. >> >>i am running sarge with the stock (straight from apt) 2.6 k7 kern

Re: Kernel panics when booting off SCSI

2005-08-22 Thread Joel Barker
Marty wrote: > It's a udev quirl. You need the device file console in /dev. I usually copy > the device manually after cloning a disk. =BEGIN SNIPPET= # ls -l /dev/console crw--- 1 root tty 5, 1 Aug 18 09:32 /dev/console # echo 'testing write' >/dev/console testing write # cat -

Re: Bind 9.2.4-1 very slow in resolving uncached querres

2005-08-22 Thread Martynas Brijunas
Hi guys, now updated to bind 9.3.1 from etch. Added "-4" to /etc/default/bind9 so that OPTIONS="-4 -u bind". Still any query even with forward only to my ISP's DNS servers takes a few seconds. With logging enabled, some interesting results can be seen. This is what "dig www.google.com" gives me.

Re: Downgrading a package that is causing some problems in KDE

2005-08-22 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:36:33PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > > >--- Ibrahim Mubarak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I performed an upgrade yesterday to my SID system. I know these are > >>tough times with the migration to gcc 4.0 and everything, and that I > >>sho

Re: Bind 9.2.4-1 very slow in resolving uncached querres

2005-08-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Martynas Brijunas wrote: > It looks like the same query is repeated multiple times with the > interval of preciselly 5 seconds. > > Could anyone explain why this is happening? I am tearing my hair out Time to pull out the big guns, and sniff *all* the traffic going on tho

Re: ANSI color code chart

2005-08-22 Thread Tong
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:34:55 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: >> I'm looking for a ANSI color code chart that can show me the code and >> effect of ansi color codes. >> >> I remember that once I had one, but now I can't find it on my HD or on >> Inet any more. >> >> The description was: >> >> ANSI

Sarge on IBM X330

2005-08-22 Thread Bradley Alexander
Hi, I built sarge on an IBM X330. System specs, IBM X330, dual 1GHz PIIIs, 1GB RAM, dual 36GB u160 SCSI cards on a ServerRAID 4Lx, configured for mirroring. BIOS version 1.04, ServerRAID version 7.00. I installed sarge on the machine, but when I tried to boot the linux26 kernel, it wouldn't bo

Re: Boot Instal thru Loadlin and initrd image

2005-08-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 06:12, Avid LinuxHacker wrote: > A reply to my installation question in the users forum has raised a > concern that I am hoping someone here can resolve quickly. The > respondant to the loadlin & initrd boot/install question stated that it > is no longer possible to do

mozilla security: hangs after clicking on binary file

2005-08-22 Thread H. S.
Hi, Due to the various sshd dictionary (apparent) attacks I have been observing in my syslog, I tried a little seach on what script or worm or bot is doing this and discovered this site: http://dev.gentoo.org/~krispykringle/sshnotes.txt When I click on sshf on this url: http://dev.gentoo.org/~kr

Re: mozilla security: hangs after clicking on binary file

2005-08-22 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _H. S._, on 22/08/05 18:39,typed: > Hi, > > Due to the various sshd dictionary (apparent) attacks I have been > observing in my syslog, I tried a little seach on what script or worm or > bot is doing this and discovered this site: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~krispykringle/sshnotes.txt >

Re: Boot Instal thru Loadlin and initrd image

2005-08-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 00:43, Frans Pop wrote: > loadlin vmlinux /dev/ram rw root=/dev/ram initrd=initrd.gz ramdisk_size=1000 Always a stupid typo: vmlinux should of course be vmlinuz... > The ramdisk_size is probably a bit higher than strictly needed. pgpdkckExMFNn.pgp Description: PGP sign

Re: Downgrading a package that is causing some problems in KDE

2005-08-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
--- Ibrahim Mubarak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: First of all, how can I find out what version of a package is installed on my system without going through synaptic or dselect, [...] Have a look at the manpage of the 'apt-cache' command, especially the 'policy' part: $ apt-cache policy kdelibs-

Re: Sarge & ISA NE2000: Solved

2005-08-22 Thread Chris Phillips
--- Chris Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have just installed Sarge on my old PII at home > (after the fedora upgrade trashed the system). > > The system is up and running, however I cannot > figure > out how to get the ISA NE2000 ethernet card working > properly. > > If I

Re: Sarge & ISA NE2000

2005-08-22 Thread Chris Phillips
--- Chris Phillips Hi all, > > I have just installed Sarge on my old PIPIIt home > (after the fedora upgrade trashed the system). > > The system is up and running, however I cannot > figure > out how to get the ISA NE2000 etethernetard working > properly. > > If I do a > > momodprobeeneoiox34

Re: Boot Instal thru Loadlin and initrd image

2005-08-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 06:12, Avid LinuxHacker wrote: > > A reply to my installation question in the users forum has raised a > > concern that I am hoping someone here can resolve quickly. The > > respondant to the loadlin & initrd boot/install quest

Re: mailing list header exlanation

2005-08-22 Thread Will (sent by Nabble.com)
if you are talking about searching the debian lists, try this searhable archive: http://www.nabble.com/Debian-f24.html - it archives all Debian lists into a forum so that a user can cross search all articles, or drill down and search an individual list. using site:debian.org on Google is fine, but

Re: programming write to /var/run from /home

2005-08-22 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 06:18:47AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > A programming question: > > I want to have a program that runs in a user's /home dir. write to /var/run. > > That can be done by running the program with sudo. > > Is there any other way? E.g. programming with PAM? Examp

X11 video spec/boot problems

2005-08-22 Thread dsilei
'evening all, having dabbled with various distros, as well as debian-related applications (fink), i decided that it was finally time to give the mighty debian a spin. However, I am having problems starting up x11--despite going through xf86conf several times, and selecting the lowest requirements

Re: OT: Archives nearly useless? (Google doing evil?)

2005-08-22 Thread Will (sent by Nabble.com)
there is a searchable archive hosted by Nabble http://www.nabble.com/Debian-f24.html - you can cross search all debian lists there, or drill down and search an individual list. it's clean and fast. is that what you guys are trying to find? with regard to the Site:lists.debian.org on Google - this

udev + linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 solved: needs a newer e2fsprogs to build its initrd.

2005-08-22 Thread Tony Godshall
Hi, all. I had some trouble installing linux-image-2.6.12-1-686... it said I needed a newer udev. So I installed a newer udev, and linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 wouldn't install. Then udev wouldn't start, because it said my 2.6.11 wasn't good enough, so I lost access to my USB drive. http://bug

Re: Apt-Get udev and the Newest Kernel

2005-08-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:16:15 -0400, Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj, btw, as an insider, how broken is sid as of now? I run Sid, and the breakage due to C++ transition seems to be mostly behind me -- but I never was much out of sync. Upgrades from Sarge may still be

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