Re: Hide services for some user in samba

2005-11-02 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 02.11.2005 at 10:59 +0800, Chen Wei wrote: > > Set an 'invalid users' directive on that share. See 'man smb.conf' > > But the invalid users can still see that service, although they cannot > go into the service. How to make the service not listed in the > services list for that use

renamed interfaces or ifrename confuse other programs

2005-11-02 Thread Jörg Schütter
Hi I'm using ifrename to give my network interfaces other names (lan, wlan and testlan). Unfortunately this confuses a few network-tools, eg iptraff and netmon-applet. What would be the right way to solve the problems? - open a bug report for every program (#335882) - open a bug report against ifr

Re: Running slower after raid0

2005-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 23:51 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > That's why I qualified my statement with "large bits of data". > [snip] > > but if your files are less than one chunk-size... does that mean > it all gets written to one disk ?? With raid 0, I

Re: etch - gpg no_pubkey error when running apt-get update

2005-11-02 Thread Rich Stanton
Rich Stanton schrieb: I'm running an etch ppc system and get the following error when running apt-get update: W: GPG error: http://secure-testing.debian.net etch/security-updates Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 946AA6E

Re: Hide services for some user in samba-SOLVED

2005-11-02 Thread Wei Chen
Dave wrote: > On Wednesday, 02.11.2005 at 10:59 +0800, Chen Wei wrote: > > > > Set an 'invalid users' directive on that share. See 'man smb.conf' > > > > But the invalid users can still see that service, although they cannot > > go into the service. How to make the service not listed in the > >

ntpd won't set clock

2005-11-02 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi list, I try to use ntpd from openntpd 3.6.1p1-2 to set the system clock, but it refuses to do so: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] # ntpd -d -s ntp engine ready reply from 213.239.204.4: offset 3436.453723 delay 0.081319, next query 5s reply from 213.239.201.102: offset 3436.457766 delay 0.087383, nex

Re: nautilus cd-burner

2005-11-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (01/11/05 22:03), Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Check this out - cdrdao - amd64 -- gary > > > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/06/msg00562.html (or > > alien + cdrdao.rpm) FWIW I use cdrtoaster on amd64 and it works well - very light too.

Unidentified subject!

2005-11-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi. As you suggested I installed with kernel 2.4 and then upgraded to 2.6 (kernel-image-2.6-686). When I reboot the kernel 2.6 does not start. With the acpi=off option the booting stack with the following errors: pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 424: cannot open dev/console: N

Re: reduce write access to hard disk [solved - sort of]

2005-11-02 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Dear all, thanks for your suggestions on how to prolong the live of my flashdisk by reducing write access to it. It seems, the laptop mode, as proposed by some of you, does not work as expected, at least I get some error messages when starting up the laptop mode. I assume, the flash disk does n

Re: emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

2005-11-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:42:05AM +, s. keeling wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I recently moved from sarge to sid, and emacs is giving me some trouble. > > I had two lines in .emacs > > > > ;;(set-background-color "black") > > ;;(set-foreground-color "white") > > Sug

chmod mistake

2005-11-02 Thread Masatran (Rajasekaran Deepak)
I accidently executed "chmod -R a+rX ." on my home directory. I want to undo its effect. 1. Is there any way to undo its effect? (I do not have any recent backup, and the administrators do not maintain a backup.) 2. "find" in my home directory gives 1,300 files. Is there any utility that can be u

Re: chmod mistake

2005-11-02 Thread Joris Huizer
Masatran (Rajasekaran Deepak) wrote: I accidently executed "chmod -R a+rX ." on my home directory. I want to undo its effect. 1. Is there any way to undo its effect? (I do not have any recent backup, and the administrators do not maintain a backup.) 2. "find" in my home directory gives 1,300 fi

install stable with testing installer cd

2005-11-02 Thread MatB
Hi, I'm trying to install Sarge on a Dell SC1425 with scsi disks. Since the "stable" netinstall cd does not work (problems with the aic79xx module) i'm using the testing netinstall cd. However, at the point of downgrading, the process hangs while replacing the package passwd. Here's the error i get

Re: chmod mistake

2005-11-02 Thread David Dorward
On 02/11/05, Masatran (Rajasekaran Deepak) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2. "find" in my home directory gives 1,300 files. Is there any utility that > can be used to adjust their permissions quickly? (I will mostly be > recursively setting permissions on directories.) Something along the lines of:

problem with ctrl+alt+f7

2005-11-02 Thread mikes kikou
i have a serious problem when trying to switch form a console to x with ctrl+alt+f7(or alt+f7). when i do this, my computer stops responding and the only solution is the reset button i use debian sarge 3.1 with kde 3.4.1(same problem with default kde), and kernel 2.6.12(same problem with 2.6.8) my

A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread James Foster
Hello, I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it closes immediately. Can someone please confirm this behaviour? The page is: http://www.movieweb.com/forums/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D6036&e=9797 Thanks,

How to allow password-less login for guest in GDM?

2005-11-02 Thread Masatran (Rajasekaran Deepak)
Guest user has empty password. But when guest tries to login from GDM, it asks for a password and does not allow login with an empty password. How can I allow password-less login for guest in GDM? I could not find any option in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf . Am I looking in the right place? Password-less lo

Help: regarding comparing two directory structures

2005-11-02 Thread rajesh kumar
Hi,   I wish to compare tree stucures of two directories. that is to compare the subdirectories as well as their subdirectories and so on...only directories and subdirectories and their subdirectories. I am not interested about their contnets like files.   I am working on Solaris: Here is the

Re: problem with ctrl+alt+f7

2005-11-02 Thread mikes kikou
i commented module dri but after that i have no 3d acceleartion. but you re right that no problem after that. my problem exists only when i have 3d acceleration enabled. On 11/2/05, Daniel A Beller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may want to try commenting out the Load "dri" entry in X config fil

Re: problem with ctrl+alt+f7

2005-11-02 Thread Daniel A Beller
You may want to try commenting out the Load "dri" entry in X config file. Saw a similar problem when configure for local xsession and remote xsession to another host on vt10. On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, mikes kikou wrote: > i have a serious problem when trying to switch form a console to x > with ctrl+al

Re: chmod mistake

2005-11-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/11/05 12:49), David Dorward wrote: > > 2. "find" in my home directory gives 1,300 files. Is there any utility that > > can be used to adjust their permissions quickly? (I will mostly be > > recursively setting permissions on directories.) > > Something along the lines of: > > chmod -R 700

Re: problem with ctrl+alt+f7

2005-11-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
mikes kikou wrote: i have a serious problem when trying to switch form a console to x with ctrl+alt+f7(or alt+f7). when i do this, my computer stops responding and the only solution is the reset button i use debian sarge 3.1 with kde 3.4.1(same problem with default kde), and kernel 2.6.12(same p

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread James Caldow
Hi James, I am running on Debian Sid and the page you have indicated crashes my Firefox as well. Very strange! James Caldow James Foster wrote: Hello, I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that

Re: package download statistics

2005-11-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/1/05, John M. Gabriele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Bill West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > Does anyone know of a place that keeps track of downloads from debian > > mirrors by package? I figured that this information would be available all > > over the place, but I h

PCMCIA Wireless Card startup problems under Debian Sid

2005-11-02 Thread James Caldow
Hello, This is my first posting to the list so apologies in advance if this has already been asked. I have been a linux user for 4 years now and have tried all the major distros at some point (Mandrake, Red Hat, Fedora, SuSe, etc). I recently decided I was ready to move onto the supposedly m

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
James Foster wrote: >Hello, > >I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, >and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it >closes immediately. Can someone please confirm this behaviour? > >The page is: http://www.movieweb.com/forums/viewtopic.php%

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:37:56PM +1100, James Foster wrote: > I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, > and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it > closes immediately. Can someone please confirm this behaviour? > > The page is: http://ww

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread James Foster
On 11/3/05, Mitch Wiedemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Foster wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, > >and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it > >closes immediately. Can someone please confirm this beha

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/11/05 14:31), Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:37:56PM +1100, James Foster wrote: > > I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, > > and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it > > closes immediately. Can someone pleas

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
James Foster wrote: >On 11/3/05, Mitch Wiedemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>James Foster wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hello, >>> >>>I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, >>>and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it >>>closes immediatel

Re: Help: regarding comparing two directory structures

2005-11-02 Thread Jörg Schütter
Hello rajesh, On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 04:48:12 -0800 (PST) rajesh kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I wish to compare tree stucures of two directories. that is to > compare the subdirectories as well as their subdirectories and > so on...only directories and subdirectories and their > subdirect

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Kent West
James Foster wrote: I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it closes immediately. Can someone please confirm this behaviour? The page is: http://www.movieweb.com/forums/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D6036&e

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread James Foster
On 11/3/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Copying & pasting the source of that page into the W3C validator results > in 188 violations of HTML 4.0 Transitional coding. > > I suspect that if web sites would just LEARN TO CODE TO STANDARDS!! > (sorry, lost my head there for a moment), we wou

about properties

2005-11-02 Thread Nevruz Mesut Sahin
I bougth new computer which Linux is installed on it. how can I see the hardware properties of the computer by terminal  comands Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.

Re: ide: failed opcode was: unknown

2005-11-02 Thread James Vahn
Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: >Enabled Supported: > *NOP cmd > *READ BUFFER cmd > *WRITE BUFFER cmd > *Host Protected Area feature set > *Look-ahead >Write cache > *Power Management feature set

sa-exim configuration

2005-11-02 Thread Aaron Stromas
Hi,   My SA-exim seem to run but does let spam through. From the headers it seem sa-exim simply does not scan mail:   X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.108.137.150X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on localhost.localdomain); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Any suggestions why it d

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card startup problems under Debian Sid

2005-11-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
James Caldow: > > I was happy like this for a while and was loving everything about > Debian. Then I began to get adventurous. I wanted to see what I was > missing with Debian Sid. I liked the idea of more up to date software > and a more current development environment to play with. If you pl

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Marc PERRUDIN
James Foster a écrit : >Hello, > >I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, >and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it >closes immediately. Can someone please confirm this behaviour? > >The page is: http://www.movieweb.com/forums/viewtopic.p

Re: about properties

2005-11-02 Thread James Strandboge
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 06:03 -0800, Nevruz Mesut Sahin wrote: > I bougth new computer which Linux is installed on it. how can I see > the hardware properties of the computer by terminal comands > A good start is: lspci -vv Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it closes immediately. Can someone please confirm this behaviour? The page is: http://www.movieweb.com/forums/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D6036&e=9797

Re: about properties

2005-11-02 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Nevruz Mesut Sahin wrote: > I bougth new computer which Linux is installed on it. how can I see > the hardware properties of the computer by terminal comands > Here are a few commands that come to mind: cat /proc/cpuinfo -- displays info about your processor df -h -- displays disk usage inf

Why all the hype on 2.6.14?

2005-11-02 Thread Bruno Buys
Is it only my view, or there's a big hype on 2.6.14? If there is, why? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

identifying bottlenecks

2005-11-02 Thread Marc Brünink
Hi, I've an application which should be as fast as possible. Therefore I'm trying to identify the bottleneck of the system for this special program. The application just uses 50 % of the CPU according to top. So the bottleneck have to be somewhere else. Is there a program to monitor the usage

Re: renamed interfaces or ifrename confuse other programs

2005-11-02 Thread Jörg Schütter
Hello Marc, On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:30:08 - marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jörg Schütter said... > > Hi > > > > I'm using ifrename to give my network interfaces other names > > (lan, wlan and testlan). Unfortunately this confuses a few > > network-tools, eg iptraff and netmon-applet. > > Wh

getting java to compile and run

2005-11-02 Thread Neil Dugan
Hi, I have installed 'free-java-sdk' but it doesn't appear to have been setup correctly. When I ask it to comple a "hello world" type class (from a book) I get the following error message. ---cut--- $ jikes app.java Found 1 system error: *** Semantic Error: You need to modify your classpat

Re: ipw2200 issues

2005-11-02 Thread James Strandboge
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 07:13 +, Michael Perry wrote: > Daniel Nilsson wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've just about had enough of my problems with the ipw2200 driver and > > the 2.6.12 kernel. I used to have a rock solid wireless connection > > while I was using vanilla kernel 2.6.11.8 and ipw2200

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card startup problems under Debian Sid

2005-11-02 Thread James Caldow
Jochen Schulz wrote: James Caldow: I was happy like this for a while and was loving everything about Debian. Then I began to get adventurous. I wanted to see what I was missing with Debian Sid. I liked the idea of more up to date software and a more current development environment to play wit

Re: emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

2005-11-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I recently moved from sarge to sid, and emacs is giving me some trouble. > I had two lines in .emacs > > ;;(set-background-color "black") > ;;(set-foreground-color "white") > > which I commented after getting > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ emacs > Undefined color: "black" > [EM

Re: sa-exim configuration

2005-11-02 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 11/2/05, Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,   My SA-exim seem to run but does let spam through. From the headers it seem sa-exim simply does not scan mail:   X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.108.137.150X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on localhost.localdomain);

diagnosing wireless failure

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, very excited about my new wireless capabilities (using a d-link dwl-650+, acx100 drivers, works perfectly at home), and trying to get them to function on my university's wireless network. I have been following instructions for the network as laid out in the various "generic instructions

Re: nautilus cd-burner

2005-11-02 Thread James Strandboge
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 22:03 -0800, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Still, what about gnome cd-burner? Is there a way to make it work? As root do: dpkg-reconfigure --plow cdrecord Read the warning, then when it asks: Do you want the cdrecord binaries to be in

Re: nautilus cd-burner

2005-11-02 Thread James Strandboge
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 10:10 -0500, James Strandboge wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 22:03 -0800, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > > gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Still, what about gnome cd-burner? Is there a way to make it work? > > As root do: > > dpkg-reconfigure --plow cdrecord Oop

getting java to compile and run

2005-11-02 Thread Neil Dugan
Hi, I have installed 'free-java-sdk' but it doesn't appear to have been setup correctly. When I ask it to comple a "hello world" type class (from a book) I get the following error message. ---cut--- $ jikes app.java Found 1 system error: *** Semantic Error: You need to modify your classpath,

unsubscribe

2005-11-02 Thread Vinicius Zavam
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Re: ipw2200 issues

2005-11-02 Thread Daniel Nilsson
James Strandboge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Daniel Nilsson wrote: > > > > > > I've just about had enough of my problems with the ipw2200 driver and > > > the 2.6.12 kernel. I used to have a rock solid wireless connection > > > while I was using vanilla kernel 2.6.11.8 and ipw2200 driver version

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kent West wrote: James Foster wrote: I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it closes immediately. Can someone please confirm this behaviour? The page is: http://www.movieweb.com/forums/viewtopi

Re: problem with ctrl+alt+f7

2005-11-02 Thread loos
Same Problem with a Radeon Mobility 9100IGP, the problem began after the XFree86 -> X.org transition. I am using the standard etch driver. Michel Em Qua, 2005-11-02 às 06:47 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom escreveu: > mikes kikou wrote: > > i have a serious problem when trying to switch form a console to

gdm theme

2005-11-02 Thread salahuddin pasha
hello i want that my gdm would use theme clearlooks (always) how i can do that. thanks-- -salahuddin_66

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card startup problems under Debian Sid

2005-11-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hi James! A few words in advance: I am very sorry that you read my previous mail as a collection of insults. That was not my intention. Actually I tried to make fun of myself with the tags. Please bear with me, probably I just don't manage to communicate subtle humour in any other language than m

Useful GUI apps on low-mem computers?

2005-11-02 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Greetings all, Our local Free Software User Group has a large number of donated computers, each having 64MB of RAM and a PII or PIII processor. We are intending to configure these computers with a useful set of software and make them available for use by low-income people in our community. We ha

Re: Useful GUI apps on low-mem computers?

2005-11-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/11/05 10:56), Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > Greetings all, > > Our local Free Software User Group has a large number of donated > computers, each having 64MB of RAM and a PII or PIII processor. We are > intending to configure these computers with a useful set of software and > make them availab

Re: gdm theme

2005-11-02 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2005-11-02 21:37:58, salahuddin pasha wrote: > i want that my gdm would use theme clearlooks (always) > how i can do that. In /etc/gdm/gdm.conf, find the [gui] section and add (or modify) GtkTheme= Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistingu

Re: getting java to compile and run

2005-11-02 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2005-11-03 01:38:28, Neil Dugan wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed 'free-java-sdk' but it doesn't appear to have been > setup correctly. When I ask it to comple a "hello world" type class > (from a book) I get the following error message. > > ---cut--- > $ jikes app.java > Found 1 system erro

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Kent West
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Aside from that, how does one code to non-standards? You are taught non-standards? You copy from non-standards? You use tools that use non-standards? This is coding to standards: text goes here This is not coding to standards: text goes here Either use a tool

setting up wifi / interpreting errors

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Price
Hifolks, very excited about my new wireless connection (d-lnnk dwl-650+, on a thinkpad 600e, running a suspend2-enabled 2.6.13.4 kernel w/ the acx100 module added in using module-assistant). THe card works perfectly at home. yay! But at work I cannot associate with the network. Following the W

Re: diagnosing wireless failure

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Price
gaah sorry! not used to the tab commands on gmail. reposted in a sep thread. matt On 11/2/05, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > very excited about my new wireless capabilities (using a d-link > dwl-650+, acx100 drivers, works perfectly at home), and trying to get > them to

Re: Test iso without burning was: Re: virtual installation?

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Price
thank mitch, this looks great! It's slow enough that I haven't had a chance to explore it fully, but will report back in any case! thanks, matt On 11/1/05, Mitch Wiedemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > >On 11/1/05, Randall Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I'd l

Re: emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

2005-11-02 Thread ericradt
2005/11/2, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > I recently moved from sarge to sid, and emacs is giving me some trouble. > > I had two lines in .emacs > > > > ;;(set-background-color "black") > > ;;(set-foreground-color "white") > > > > which I commented after getting

Unexpected conversion to reiserfs

2005-11-02 Thread KayAubrey-Chimene
Hi, After a recent Sarge UPGRADE, my root has been converted to reiserfs. I don't recall selecting a conversion to this file system. It also rewrote etc/mtab. I had to reboot recently and the boot process triggered a manual fsck session. Any pointers as to why reiserfs was foisted on my comp

Re: Re: Printing flash web pages.

2005-11-02 Thread Mark J. Small
> Mark J. Small wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Today I was trying to print a colouring page for my daughter on the nickjr site. They use a flash application, and the only way to print the page is by pressing a little "print" button that is part of the flash content. > > > > When I push this

Re: pesky network connectivity on Dell PowerEdge 1850

2005-11-02 Thread Orville Canter
I solved this, sort of. There was another host on the switch that was answering arp requests (and pings) for my host's ip address. I tracked it down through the switch, but surprisingly, when I ran ifconfig -a on the offending host, no interface was configured to use that ip address. Yet it kep

RE: 2.6.14 image will not install (SOLVED), more

2005-11-02 Thread David Baron
Just upgraded to the -2 version. Made my own initrd. A good question is why lock the installation into the yaird stuff which may have some nice future capabiities but to my mind is not working adequately now. Let me choose. Still no alsa-audio. The realtime-lsm does not load and the error ask i

Re: what are different about the modules

2005-11-02 Thread ericradt
2005/10/31, Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:36:44AM +0800, biosedit wrote: > > hi > > what are different about the modulesalias char-major-13-32 mousedev > > alias char-major-13-33 mousedev > > alias char-major-13-34 mousedev > > alias char-major-13-35 mousedev > > ali

RE: 2.6.14 image will not install (SOLVED), more, corrected

2005-11-02 Thread David Baron
Just upgraded to the -2 version. Made my own initrd. A good question is why lock the installation into the yaird stuff which may have some nice future capabiities but to my mind is not working adequately now. Let me choose. Still no alsa-audio. The realtime-lsm does not load and the error ask i

Re: ipw2200 issues

2005-11-02 Thread James Strandboge
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 15:20 +, Daniel Nilsson wrote: > This is interesting... Could you tell me some more about your setup, are you > using WEP? What kind of access point are you using? Do you have a very good > signal from you access point? > I am not using WEP (no encryption, but with openv

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 23:37 +1100, James Foster wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, > and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it > closes immediately. Can someone please confirm this behaviour? > > The page is: http

Re: How to allow password-less login for guest in GDM?

2005-11-02 Thread Masatran (Rajasekaran Deepak)
* Masatran (Rajasekaran Deepak) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-11-02 > Guest user has empty password. But when guest tries to login from GDM, it > asks for a password and does not allow login with an empty password. > > How can I allow password-less login for guest in GDM? I could not find any > option

install fails on new hardware

2005-11-02 Thread David Koski
I have had much difficulty installing Debian on new hardware. I am using the latest unstable installer available a few days ago. I am trying to install the default 2.6 kernel and unstable to get the latest code. If I try to install testing the base install fails at about 75 percent. With unstabl

Re: renamed interfaces or ifrename confuse other programs

2005-11-02 Thread Jörg Schütter
Hello Marc, On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:01:43 - marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jörg Schütter said... > > Hello Marc, > > > > On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:30:08 - > > marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Jörg Schütter said... > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > I'm using ifrename to give my network i

Re: Test iso without burning was: Re: virtual installation?

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Kopp
> When I create an iso image of my custom Knoppix > CD, I test the image > > with the "qemu" program. That way I don't have to > burn a cd until I'm > > sure the iso is going to work. > > > > Here's the command that I use: > > qemu -m 128 -cdrom my_custom_cd.iso -boot d > -user-net > > Is not the

Re: Test iso without burning was: Re: virtual installation?

2005-11-02 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Robert Kopp wrote: >>When I create an iso image of my custom Knoppix >>CD, I test the image >> >> >>>with the "qemu" program. That way I don't have to >>> >>> >>burn a cd until I'm >> >> >>>sure the iso is going to work. >>> >>>Here's the command that I use: >>>qemu -m 128 -cdrom my

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread Jim Lynch
Debian sarge 1.0.4-2sarge5 Works fine with that web site for me. Jim. Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 23:37 +1100, James Foster wrote: Hello, I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card startup problems under Debian Sid

2005-11-02 Thread Ed Lawson
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 13:20:13 + James Caldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem started after a reboot. When the laptop rebooted the > Wireless card powered on but wouldn't connect. Once logged in I had to > manually do "ifup eth1" as root to get connected. Not a huge deal, but > anno

Re: install fails on new hardware

2005-11-02 Thread Sanjay Debian
On 11/2/05, David Koski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have had much difficulty installing Debian on new hardware. I am using thelatest unstable installer available a few days ago. I am trying to installthe default 2.6 kernel and unstable to get the latest code. If I try to install testing the base i

Re: emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

2005-11-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:05:40PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > I recently moved from sarge to sid, and emacs is giving me some trouble. > > I had two lines in .emacs > > > > ;;(set-background-color "black") > > ;;(set-foreground-color "white") > > > > which I comme

apt-get vs. dselect

2005-11-02 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi all. I should maybe spend more time in the archives but just looking for quick responses. I assume others running Etch noticed the large amount of updates today. When I run apt-get update;apt-get -u dist-upgrade I get a similar but different set of changes than if I use 'dselect'.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] using secure apt with the testing security archive

2005-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >wget http://secure-testing.debian.net/ziyi-2005-7.asc -O - | sudo apt-key > >add - > > > > I have just tried it, and I got a `404 Not found' : > > Have I missed something ? I forgot that secure-testing.debian.net is a round robin and some of the mirrors do not have that

Re: [ANNOUNCE] using secure apt with the testing security archive

2005-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Joe Smith wrote: > Because this is of interest to a very large portion of Debian's user base, > this posting might have been better posted on debian-user-announce. I know > that mail to that list should be minimal, but a proper announcement of > this to that group (to which ALL debian users real

Re: ntpd won't set clock

2005-11-02 Thread Mark Lijftogt
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:57:50AM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > Hi list, > > I try to use ntpd from openntpd 3.6.1p1-2 to set the system clock, but > it refuses to do so: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] # ntpd -d -s > ntp engine ready > reply from 213.239.204.4: offset 3436.453723 delay 0.081319, n

Re: Installing sarge with etch installer

2005-11-02 Thread Roy Franz
In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Daniel, I found a Sarge image with 2.6.12 at: http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/amd64/ that worked for me. I had to modprobe the ata_piix module, but after that it worked fine. Roy

Re: apt-get vs. dselect

2005-11-02 Thread Mark Lijftogt
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:44:07AM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Hi all. I should maybe spend more time in the archives but just > looking for quick responses. > > I assume others running Etch noticed the large amount of updates > today. > > When I run > > apt-get update;apt-get -u dist-up

Re: apt-get vs. dselect

2005-11-02 Thread John M. Gabriele
I've tried learning to use dselect in the past and have failed, even after carefully reading what docs I could find. My advice is to avoid dselect like the plague. --- Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. I should maybe spend more time in the archives but just > looking for quick

Re: emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

2005-11-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:35:36PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:05:40PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > I recently moved from sarge to sid, and emacs is giving me some trouble. > > > I had two lines in .emacs > > > > > > ;;(set-backgr

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB -> 1 GB lead to better performance?

2005-11-02 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On onsdag 02 november 2005, 02:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I know if I'm regularly filling up my RAM? If you're using KDE, ksysguard is nice. You can add a ksysguard applet to the panel, and you can fire up the ksysguard application. From there, you can drag an drop a sensor showing sw

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card startup problems under Debian Sid

2005-11-02 Thread James Caldow
Dear Ed Many thanks for your reply. I only signed up for the lists today and have missed the thread that you refer to. Your reply has fixed the problem for me perfectly! After adding the entries you mention the laptop now starts the wireless card perfectly. I am ecstatic :-) As for your issues,

Re: mailserver absolute noob question

2005-11-02 Thread Thomas
Mitch Wiedemann wrote: Thomas wrote: Hi there. I would like to setup a mailserver on my debian machine that can receive email from any host and that can be accessed by imap or pop3 (imap would be nice). I have seen some howtos on the net but they seemed way too complicated. The howtos i sa

Re: emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

2005-11-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Yeap, I'm screwed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ qiv -m -f fotos/cayos/*jpg qiv: can't parse color 'black' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card startup problems under Debian Sid

2005-11-02 Thread Ed Lawson
On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:18:08 + James Caldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As for your issues, I don't want to risk asking the obvious but have you > made sure that ACPI and/or APM packages are installed on your system? Yes, they are installed and I finally got some time to look at things.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] using secure apt with the testing security archive

2005-11-02 Thread Jerome BENOIT
It works great ! Thanks! Joey Hess wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: wget http://secure-testing.debian.net/ziyi-2005-7.asc -O - | sudo apt-key add - I have just tried it, and I got a `404 Not found' : Have I missed something ? I forgot that secure-testing.debian.net is a round robin and som

Re: apt-get vs. dselect

2005-11-02 Thread Mike Dobbs
Forget dselect. Debian has moved to aptitude. I think it's very nice. Take a look at the man page. Takes about 5 min to learn. Very handy if you run unstable. - Original Message - From: "Mark Lijftogt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 2:07 PM Subject: Re:

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