Disabling scripts in init.d *permanently*? apt-get dist-upgrade re-enables them! (did RTFM about update-rc.d)

2005-11-05 Thread Peter Valdemar Mørch
Using Nessus as an example, I know how to disable it from starting automatically with: # update-rc.d -f nessusd remove But then, two weeks down the road, a new version of nessus comes along, and after a dist-upgrade, the service is started automatically again, because the nessus package calls upd

Re: Problems moving from KDM to GDM

2005-11-05 Thread Seeker5528
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:03:14 - marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Due to bugs in KDM being unable to run remote sessions via XDMCP - which > have apparently been fixed in unstable [1] - I have had to move to GDM. > However, I've immediately hit a few problems that I hope experienced GDM > us

software RAID1 SATA

2005-11-05 Thread Bob Hutchinson
Hello list I originally posted this on debian-testing, but was advised to post here instead. Can anyone confirm/deny that Debian 3.1 can support software RAID1 on SATA discs? Any pointers appreciated. Thanks in advance, -- - Bob Hutchinson Midwales dot com -

Re: Serial ATA Hardware RAID recommendations?

2005-11-05 Thread Chris Boot
On 5 Nov 2005, at 3:25, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 04 Nov 2005, Chris Boot wrote: 1. Take 5/6 SATA disks for RAID 5/6/10 2. Allow them to be hot-plugged (with or without Jeff Garzik's in-progress SATA hotplug patches) 3. Do the work in hardware Then you certainly won't need an

Re: KVM switch and debian

2005-11-05 Thread rene koopal
In the past I had some problems with the 2.6.7 and 2.6.8 kernel in combination withe a wireless mouse keyboard and a kvm switch with a normal mouse this problem does not exist neither with the 2.6.6 of 2.6.12 kernel rene On 3 Nov 2005, at 20:52, mikepolniak wrote: On 09:44 Thu 03 Nov ,

Re: debianhelp new website

2005-11-05 Thread Björn Lindström
Rakotomandimby Mihamina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 06:55 -0800, gg234 (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: > >> This website might help for some users. > > Why didn't the webmaster of that site join an existant team instead of > creating a new instance? is it really worth to spare

Desktop installation of Gnome

2005-11-05 Thread Matt Allen
Dear Madam or Sir, I am have trouble installing the desktop on Debian version 3.1. I had first installed Debian around August or September this year and it worked. I can't install gnome onto my desktop. It crasses on me somewhere during the installation. I am a newbie with Debian. Would

Re: Disabling scripts in init.d *permanently*? apt-get dist-upgrade re-enables them! (did RTFM about update-rc.d)

2005-11-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Nov 2005, Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote: > Using Nessus as an example, I know how to disable it from starting > automatically with: > # update-rc.d -f nessusd remove > > But then, two weeks down the road, a new version of nessus comes along, > and after a dist-upgrade, the service is started au

Re: openoffice 2.0 fail on start (debian unstable)

2005-11-05 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, yzhh wrote: > Thanks for all your answers. > There is an update today in unstable dist. I installed it and all > things seem ok now. Only chinese chars displayed badly. But I think You are using sid, why are you not looking in the BTS? The problem was described there: see http://bugs.debian.o

Re: Disabling scripts in init.d *permanently*? apt-get dist-upgrade re-enables them! (did RTFM about update-rc.d)

2005-11-05 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote: > # update-rc.d -f nessusd remove > > But then, two weeks down the road, a new version of nessus comes along, > and after a dist-upgrade, the service is started automatically again, > because the nessus package calls update-rc.d to have the nessusd daemon > start

Re: Desktop installation of Gnome

2005-11-05 Thread Jim Lynch
Need more info. What utility are you using to install it with, synaptic, apt-get, dpkg, raw tar.gz files? What error message(s) are you getting? What have you tried? Jim. Matt Allen wrote: Dear Madam or Sir, I am have trouble installing the desktop on Debian version 3.1. I had first in

Root's Mail

2005-11-05 Thread Sean Whitton
Hi, I just renamed the user that root's mail was being redirected to on a fresh install. I assume I can change it to the new username in the exim config file - where is this? Or am I wrong? Do I need to do something else? Thanks. -- [ xyrael.net -- silentflame.com ] -- -- To UNSUBSCR

k3b not available

2005-11-05 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, i think i installed k3b using the debian packages (in testing) some time ago, however i cannot find it now using aptitude/apt-cache. has something changed? regards, -- Lubos [EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Root's Mail

2005-11-05 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:59:44PM +, Sean Whitton wrote: > I just renamed the user that root's mail was being redirected to on a fresh > install. I assume I can change it to the new username in the exim config file > - where is this? Or am I wrong? Do I need to do something else? So you edit

Re: TMPDIR problems

2005-11-05 Thread Martin Wilck
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >Nope. You are not missing anything. Most applications simply don't >honor TMPDIR. > > So, the only way to be safe frink om leaking sensitive data through /tmp would be a) having root encrypted or b) using tmpfs for /tmp. I'll opt for b). Yet I think TMPFS should be e

Re: Root's Mail

2005-11-05 Thread C Shore
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:59:44PM +, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Hi, > > I just renamed the user that root's mail was being redirected to on a fresh > install. I assume I can change it to the new username in the exim config file > - where is this? Or am I wrong? Do I need to do something else?

Mozilla break on last Testing update

2005-11-05 Thread Pooly
Hi, I've done an apt-get upgrade, and mozilla get upgraded. But now, I've loads of "XUL error" for incorrect entities like & XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location: chrome://messenger/content/SearchDialog.xul Line Number 40, Column 16:title="&searchDialogTitle.label;" -

Re: Root's Mail

2005-11-05 Thread James Strandboge
On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 08:30 -0500, C Shore wrote: > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:59:44PM +, Sean Whitton wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I just renamed the user that root's mail was being redirected to on a fresh > > install. I assume I can change it to the new username in the exim config > > file

Re: GRUB & Sarge & Win XP

2005-11-05 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 09:31:15AM +0100, Alessandro Ciorcalo wrote: > On 04/11/05, Ryan Nowakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:56:12PM +0100, Alessandro Ciorcalo wrote: > > > > title Windows XP Professional > > > #map (hd0) (hd1) > > > #map (hd1) (hd0) > > > rootnove

Re: Root's Mail

2005-11-05 Thread Dick Davies
On 05/11/05, James Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 08:30 -0500, C Shore wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:59:44PM +, Sean Whitton wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I just renamed the user that root's mail was being redirected to on a > > > fresh > > > install

iptables

2005-11-05 Thread Roy
I've been using Debian since the arrival of Sarge and found it excellent, compared to Mandrake.  On Mandrake I was able to configure iptables, as the file was located in etc/iptables, unfortunately being new to Debian i'm unable to find the location of iptable.   Could someone let me know th

Re: Getting Apache to transfer .sh file instead of trying to execute it as CGI

2005-11-05 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 16:19 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:03:26PM +0100, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: > > Does anyone here have any idea about how I can persuade Apache to treat > > this shell script as a normal text file ? > > I believe it is a mime-type issue. That is also

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-05 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, Did you check the sun.com website which claims that Solaris 10 > is the most advanced OS on the planet? Could anyone tell me what > grounds is the claim based upon. I was surprised to see that claim and > has anyone out there used it to tes

Re: iptables

2005-11-05 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 03:42:46PM +0100, Roy wrote: > I've been using Debian since the arrival of Sarge and found it > excellent, compared to Mandrake. On Mandrake I was able to > configure iptables, as the file was located in etc/iptables, > unfortunately being new to Debian i'm unable to find t

Re: rssh, nothing happens

2005-11-05 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:04:14AM +0100, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi, Hi, > I got rssh 2.2.3 (Debian packaged) > I creatd a test user. > > $ grep test /etc/passwd > test:x:1001:1001:,,,:/home/test:/usr/bin/rssh > > This is how I configured rssh: > > $ cat /etc/rssh.c

Re: iptables

2005-11-05 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Roy wrote: > I've been using Debian since the arrival of Sarge and found it > excellent, compared to Mandrake. On Mandrake I was able to configure > iptables, as the file was located in etc/iptables, unfortunately being > new to Debian i'm unable to find the location of iptable. > > Could someo

Re: Serial ATA Hardware RAID recommendations?

2005-11-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 05 Nov 2005, Chris Boot wrote: > >I'd suggest one that handles saf-te enclosures, and a saf-te enclosure > >(hotswap bay) to go with it. > > That certainly would be the way to go. Can anyone recommend hardware Note that a hotswap bay need not be capable of SAF-TE. > * 3Ware Escalade 9x

Re: GRUB & Sarge & Win XP

2005-11-05 Thread Alessandro Ciorcalo
On 05/11/05, Simo Kauppi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 'ntldr missing' could mean that it is really missing from the > Windows disk. I guess you can mount the Win disk from Linux and check if > the Win is missing some of its files. Thank you Simo, I have tried all possible combinations in the

Re: debian installer does not recognize uli sata controller

2005-11-05 Thread Michael Lampard
> hy *, > > i am refering to a post from july 2005 in debian-user ("Debian Installer > SATA detection"). > > i, too, have a shuttle st20g5 barebone which comes with a uli 1573 chipset > (which itself runs a uli 5287 sata controller). the website of uli > provides > information about how to instal

two problems: 1. dvd drives ; 2.speedtouch modem

2005-11-05 Thread Wodzu Wodzowski
Hy, It's me again ;) I've got tw problems; 1. First is with my dvd roms. I have one dvd writer and one dvd rom. Both are detected and mounted properly (think so..) but when I want to open dvd to take away my disc, I can't do that. There's no problem with dvd writer, because I can right-click on

Re: iptables

2005-11-05 Thread Jörg Schütter
Hello Roy, On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 15:42:46 +0100 "Roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been using Debian since the arrival of Sarge and found it > excellent, compared to Mandrake. On Mandrake I was able to > configure iptables, as the file was located in etc/iptables, > unfortunately being new to

Re: Mozilla break on last Testing update

2005-11-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 11/5/05, Pooly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,I've done an apt-get upgrade, and mozilla get upgraded. But now, I'veloads of "XUL error" for incorrect entities like &XML Parsing Error: undefined entityLocation: chrome://messenger/content/SearchDialog.xulLine Number 40, Column 16:title="&s

Re: Disabling scripts in init.d *permanently*? apt-get dist-upgrade re-enables them! (did RTFM about update-rc.d)

2005-11-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 11/5/05, Peter Valdemar Mørch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Using Nessus as an example, I know how to disable it from startingautomatically with:# update-rc.d -f nessusd removeBut then, two weeks down the road, a new version of nessus comes along,and after a dist-upgrade, the service is started aut

Re: Mozilla break on last Testing update

2005-11-05 Thread Pooly
2005/11/5, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 11/5/05, Pooly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've done an apt-get upgrade, and mozilla get upgraded. But now, I've > > loads of "XUL error" for incorrect entities like & > > > > > > XML Parsing Error: undefined entity > > Location:

Re: ATA 80GB disk recommendation

2005-11-05 Thread Colin
Bruno Buys wrote: > To me, simply there is no clear pattern on what brand is good or bad. I agree with you on that. Ironically, the only two hard drives that have failed on me were Maxtors: a 340MB (yes, megabyte) and a 120GB. The former failed with the usual seek errors and whatever before a d

Re: k3b not available

2005-11-05 Thread Colin
Lubos Vrbka wrote: > hi guys, > > i think i installed k3b using the debian packages (in testing) some time > ago, however i cannot find it now using aptitude/apt-cache. has > something changed? They are changing over to gcc 4.0 in testing so they had to remove some packages including k3b. I won'

Re: thunderbird and mail from the system

2005-11-05 Thread Adam Hardy
Michael Marsh on 17/05/05 13:18, wrote: On 5/17/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible to set up Thunderbird to pull up the mail from my mailbox on my debian box? Thunderbird calls this a "Unix movemail" account. I have one set up for cron output. I am trying to set up

Re: k3b not available

2005-11-05 Thread Pooly
2005/11/5, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Lubos Vrbka wrote: > > hi guys, > > > > i think i installed k3b using the debian packages (in testing) some time > > ago, however i cannot find it now using aptitude/apt-cache. has > > something changed? > Debian testing : [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]$ apt-cache

nautilus won't start

2005-11-05 Thread leon
Hi all, I'm running the lastest debian unstable. Everything seems perfect except a couple of glitches. Here is one. Nautilus won't start when gnome starts leaving the desktop blank. Firing up nautlius in terminal isn't able to start it either. Nautilus just sits there forever. Then I tried to rem

Why I use "stable"... was: Re: k3b not available

2005-11-05 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
> Colin wrote: > >Lubos Vrbka wrote: > > >>hi guys, >> >>i think i installed k3b using the debian packages (in testing) some time >>ago, however i cannot find it now using aptitude/apt-cache. has >>something changed? >> >> > >They are changing over to gcc 4.0 in testing so they had to remove

Re: k3b not available

2005-11-05 Thread Lubos Vrbka
They are changing over to gcc 4.0 in testing so they had to remove some packages including k3b. I won't be updating my system until k3b and hotplug is put back in. ok, thanks for info... i'm not so much concerned about hotplug (udev replaces it), but i'd like to have some software to burn cds

Re: k3b not available

2005-11-05 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Debian testing : [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]$ apt-cache search k3b k3b-i18n - Internationalized (i18n) files for k3b kipi-plugins - image manipulation/handling plugins for KIPI aware programs quodlibet-plugins - various contributed plugins for Quod Libet k3blibs - The KDE cd burning application libr

Dedicated Hosting, recommendations - Debian

2005-11-05 Thread Cliff Flood
Hi All, I'm currently using a RHEL server hosted with EV1 Servers that I want to move away from in favor of a similar hoster that offers Debian as an option. The machine should be in North America for certain reasons. Our current product has a 1000GB per month limit and we'd need something si

Re: Why I use "stable"... was: Re: k3b not available

2005-11-05 Thread Lubos Vrbka
These sorts of temporary inconveniences are why I switched back to using Debian "stable". I'm not complaining about "testing" and "unstable", but I just want to let people know that "stable" is a place where packages don't usually "disappear" from the repositories. If you want to help test the n

Re: iptables

2005-11-05 Thread Roy
- Original Message - From: "Mitch Wiedemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 4:11 PM Subject: Re: iptables > Roy wrote: > > > I've been using Debian since the arrival of Sarge and found it > > excellent, compared to Mandrake. On M

Re: thunderbird and mail from the system

2005-11-05 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/05/2005 11:10 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: > Michael Marsh on 17/05/05 13:18, wrote: > >> On 5/17/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Is it possible to set up Thunderbird to pull up the mail from my mailbox >>> on my debian box? >> >> >> >> Thunderbird calls this a "Unix movemail" acco

Re: What to do with attackers?

2005-11-05 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 01:00, Sat 05 Nov 05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 04 Nov 2005, Thomas wrote: > > recently, i can see ofthen brute force attacks in my ssh logfile. > > A friend of mine, who has the same ISP gets the same bruteforce attacks. > > > > What would be an adequate reaction to repeated

Re: creating symlinks in /proc

2005-11-05 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:33:33PM +0100, Jörg Schütter wrote: > Hi > > Is there a way to create symlinks in /proc? > I'm renaming my network interfaces w/ udev rules, so the name of > my wireless-card becomes eth_wlan. Kismet tries to find a file in > /proc/drivers/aironet/eth_wlan, but this dire

Re: thunderbird and mail from the system

2005-11-05 Thread Michael Marsh
On 11/5/05, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I solved the problem by adding myself to the mail group, since it's my > desktop computer. This is a known bug: > > #272956: mozilla-thunderbird: movemail permission problem > Forwarded to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239013 That

Re: k3b not available

2005-11-05 Thread James Vahn
Pooly wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp]$ apt-cache search k3b > k3b-i18n - Internationalized (i18n) files for k3b > kipi-plugins - image manipulation/handling plugins for KIPI aware programs > quodlibet-plugins - various contributed plugins for Quod Libet > k3blibs - The KDE cd burning application l

/var/www/ and the user ho like to edit web pages

2005-11-05 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hello! My system is Debian GNU/Linux Sarge. I have installed apache 1.3.33 I'm new to apache server. I try to set up access to user "webeditor" so he may to write his web pages in the /var/www/ directory in the webmin, but I don't know how to do that. I also try to add the user "webeditor" to

Re: Why I use "stable"... was: Re: k3b not available

2005-11-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 11:10:31AM -0500, Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > > Colin wrote: > > > >Lubos Vrbka wrote: > > > > > >>hi guys, > >> > >>i think i installed k3b using the debian packages (in testing) some time > >>ago, however i cannot find it now using aptitude/apt-cache. has > >>something chan

Re: software RAID1 SATA

2005-11-05 Thread Laurent CARON
Bob Hutchinson wrote: Hello list I originally posted this on debian-testing, but was advised to post here instead. Can anyone confirm/deny that Debian 3.1 can support software RAID1 on SATA discs? Any pointers appreciated. Thanks in advance, Hi, I'm currently using RAID1 and RAID5 o

Re: /var/www/ and the user ho like to edit web pages

2005-11-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 06:24:45PM +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > webeditor has ~/public_html/ directory. > Is it the better way that that user "webeditor" to edit his web pages in > this directory and somehow set up apache so we can see his homepage > from there? What I did for community.iconsf.or

Re: PCMCIA Wireless Card startup problems under Debian Sid

2005-11-05 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
James Caldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Using a Sarge net-install disc I set about the install process again > > Of course it is too late now, but: except for downgrades or totally > >hosed systems, there is no need to reinstall. Upgrading to sid or > >etch is as easy as adding the appropriat

Re: /var/www/ and the user ho like to edit web pages

2005-11-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 06:24:45PM +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hello! > > My system is Debian GNU/Linux Sarge. > I have installed apache 1.3.33 > > I'm new to apache server. > I try to set up access to user "webeditor" so he may to write his web > pages in the /var/www/ directory in the webmin, b

Re: /var/www/ and the user ho like to edit web pages

2005-11-05 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat November 5 2005 09:24 am, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hello! > > My system is Debian GNU/Linux Sarge. > I have installed apache 1.3.33 > > I'm new to apache server. > I try to set up access to user "webeditor" so he may to write his web > pages in the /var/www/ directory in the webmin, but I don't k

GnuCash (was: Re: JACK won't start)

2005-11-05 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:53:01PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On 11/4/05, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > have to wait for it to get sorted out. That's life with testing. (gnucash, > for example, is still broken.) > > Patrick Just out of curiosity, how is gnucash failing. I've

Re: GRUB & Sarge & Win XP

2005-11-05 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 04:20:50PM +0100, Alessandro Ciorcalo wrote: > On 05/11/05, Simo Kauppi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The 'ntldr missing' could mean that it is really missing from the > > Windows disk. I guess you can mount the Win disk from Linux and check if > > the Win is missing som

Re: GnuCash (was: Re: JACK won't start)

2005-11-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 11/5/05, Simo Kauppi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:53:01PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote:> On 11/4/05, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:[snip]> have to wait for it to get sorted out. That's life with testing. (gnucash, > for example, is still broken.)>> PatrickJust out of

Re: checkinstall (was qemu & vt's)

2005-11-05 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 03 November 2005 23:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Also wouldn't it be preferable to use checkinstall: > >>sudo checkinstall -D make install > >>this will make a trackable debian package (so you can uninstall when > >>you change kernels etc...). > > > > good idea, i wasn't aware of c

Subversion repository permissions

2005-11-05 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Hi all! There is just one thing that's painful about Subversion, but that's rather painful too: permissions... I have often thought I have got it right, but there is one thing that remains: There seems to be some rotating of the log.* files, and if that rotation is prompted by me using ssh, ev

Re: /var/www/ and the user ho like to edit web pages - OK

2005-11-05 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hello! Thank You all for help! I know now the right way on Unix / GNU/Linux systems of the handling web pages in /var/www/ and ~/*/public_html/ directories. -- Regards, Debian Junior Project, DebianEdu, Moodle -> :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) http://www.ektf.hu/~Csanyi.Pal (Up to now, it is in

quake4 installation

2005-11-05 Thread debianista.deb
hello    I'm run the quake4 for linux and it gives me this: Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing Quake IV.

sata_sis on 2.4.27 vs 2.6.8

2005-11-05 Thread Facundo Ariel Perez
I'm running a debian sarge on PIV / asus motherboard / using the 181 chipset for my serial ata 80 gb drive. It installs and runs ok using kernel 2.4.27 - but when I upgrade to kernel 2.6.8 the systems crash on while booting just after showing the disk's detailed information. I've tryed both a pre-

New kernel does not install

2005-11-05 Thread John Plate
Hi I've installed Debian stable, the kernel is 2.6.8. Next, I download kernel headers and source for 2.6.8. I copy the /boot/config... to /usr/src/kernel-source directory as .config. I do a make menuconfig and exit with no changes. Then I make a new kernel-image with: make-kpkg --rootcmd fake

Re: New kernel does not install

2005-11-05 Thread Wackojacko
John Plate wrote: Hi I've installed Debian stable, the kernel is 2.6.8. Next, I download kernel headers and source for 2.6.8. I copy the /boot/config... to /usr/src/kernel-source directory as .config. I do a make menuconfig and exit with no changes. Then I make a new kernel-image with: m

Re: New kernel does not install

2005-11-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Plate wrote: Hi I've installed Debian stable, the kernel is 2.6.8. Next, I download kernel headers and source for 2.6.8. I copy the /boot/config... to /usr/src/kernel-source directory as .config. I do a make menuconfig and exit with no changes. Then I make a new kernel-image with: mak

Re: New kernel does not install

2005-11-05 Thread David Koski
On Saturday 05 November 2005 11:54 am, Wackojacko wrote: > The stock debian kernels are designed to boot with 'initrd' so you need > to add the initrd (man make-kpkg as i don't use them) option to build > the initrd in the deb. Furthermore, if you are not running a stock kernel (for example you

Re: Finding old versions

2005-11-05 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On mandag 31 oktober 2005, 10:57, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Is there any way I can list this kind of old packages? > > One way is to look at the packages that are listed by aptitude on the > "Obsolete and Locally Installed Packages" or to use > apt-show-versions. Ah, great, apt-show-versions gave m

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2005-11-05 Thread Derek Broughton
John L Fjellstad wrote: > Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I pretty much think it _must_ be a corrupted DB, but rescanning has no >> effect. I really have to take the time to figure out how to put the DB >> into MySQL, because I really do like Amarok, otherwise (though it should

fetching mail from M$ Exchange using rpc over https

2005-11-05 Thread Peter Teunissen
Hi, My employer is moving it's mailservices tot M$ Exchange 2003. Now all external access has to go throug rpc over https. I'd like to use something similar to fetchmail to fetch my mail from the exchange server and and feed it to my own mailserver. Fetchmail doesn't seem to support rpc

Dell laptop - 350 airo card setup

2005-11-05 Thread RSiffredi
upon boot i get: cardmgr[75]: starting, version 3.2.2 cardmgr[75]: socket 0: 350 Series Wireless LAN Adapter cardmgr[75]: executing: modprobe airo cardmgr[75]: executing: modprobe airo_cs cardmgr[75]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: resource temp unavailable please advise - Original Message

Re: kernell panic

2005-11-05 Thread Aaron Stromas
Luigi, non so come aiutarti con questo problema, a parte di traduire in inglese. Here's the enlish translationo of the original post Ho all, I just installed Linux on my machine leaving a small windows partition, but I have a small problem: when I turn the computer on, after the GNU GRUB scree

aptitude: untrusted packages

2005-11-05 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Hi, Aptitude gave me a rather unexpected message today. $ aptitude -s upgrade <...> WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed! Untrusted packages could compromise your system's security. You should only proceed with the installation if you are certain that this is wh

Re: kdeaddons install dependency problem (etch)

2005-11-05 Thread marc
marc said... Anyone? As it happens, I can't install KDE either (the package, KDE itself is working just fine) - not that I wish to. Is there documentation somewhere on how to diagnose these faults with dependencies? Or am I supposed to reinstall from scratch - just like Windows? This problem

ipssend and RaidMan on IBM xSeries

2005-11-05 Thread Bruno Beaufils
I have got different IBM server (Netfinity 5000 and xSeries 336) with ServeRaid SCSI card controllers. I would like to manage disks drived by these controllers with the IBM software found on CD delivered with the servers. I am able to run both ipssend and RaidMan (a java GUI). The problem is tha

Re: New kernel does not install

2005-11-05 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2005-11-05 20:39:15, John Plate wrote: > Hi > > I've installed Debian stable, the kernel is 2.6.8. > > Next, I download kernel headers and source for 2.6.8. I copy the > /boot/config... to /usr/src/kernel-source directory as .config. > > I do a make menuconfig and exit with no changes. > >

Re: Speedstepping on MacMini

2005-11-05 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2005-11-05 22:31:16, Thorsten Johannvorderbrueggen wrote: > Hello all, > > i played with different kernel version But it won't work: > > powernowd: PowerNow Daemon v0.96, (c) 2003-2005 John Clemens > powernowd: Found 1 cpu: -- 1 thread (or core) per physical cpu > /sys/devices/system/cpu

Re: New kernel does not install

2005-11-05 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
I accidentally hit "Reply" instead of "List-Reply" Sorry about that. Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." -- R. Kulawiec -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Speedstepping on MacMini

2005-11-05 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
I accidentally hit "Reply" instead of "List-Reply" Sorry about that. Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." -- R. Kulawiec -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Firefox throbber problem

2005-11-05 Thread [KS]
Hello all, I noticed yesterday that when I hover the mouse over the firfox throbber (the round circle of dots just below the window-close button on top-right of window), the CPU usage goes to about 100%. It goes back down to normal after a few seconds. The time duration of the cpu usage surge look

What's the right way to rm packages?

2005-11-05 Thread s. keeling
I blew away CUPS last night, not noticing it was taking Gnome with it. In the past, I've mixed "aptitude remove" with "dpkg -r", then cleaning up after the result. What's the right way with aptitude? How do I not blow away $SOMEWANTEDPACKAGE correctly? I'm running sarge. -- Any technology dis

Re: udevd: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found

2005-11-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Oct 26 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > I see it on mounts caused by automount. I don't see it on mounts > > caused by mount. So, we have one possible culprit. > > I see it with manual mounting of removable media (e.g., CDs). Hmm... com

Re: HD in PIO Mode since kernel 2.6.14

2005-11-05 Thread Ricardo Teixeira
Andrey Andreev wrote: Ricardo Teixeira wrote: Since I updated to 2.6.14-1-686, hda is in PIO mode, and when I do hdparm -d1 /dev/hda i get "HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted". Im using the default kernel in the debian sid repositories, version 2.6.14-1-686. I have exactl

Re: Firefox throbber problem

2005-11-05 Thread leon
Interesting. Same in my laptop. On 05/11/05, [KS] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I noticed yesterday that when I hover the mouse over the firfox throbber > (the round circle of dots just below the window-close button on > top-right of window), the CPU usage goes to about 100%. It goes

Lilypond takes too long to build

2005-11-05 Thread Heimdall Midgard
The latest Debian lilypond source package (2.6.3-9) is taking too long to build. After over a day (24 hours!) the package is still building on my Sempron 2800+ (64 bit version running as plain i386). This is already more than twice as long as the time it takes the behemoth Openoffice.org to build (

sarge: 2.6.14 kernel panics on boot

2005-11-05 Thread Alex Teclo
I am having problems with a 2.6.14 kernel. I have two x86 machines, A and B. They do not have identical hardware. Machine A is running Debian woody with a 2.4.28 kernel. There is nothing on machine B at this point. I did a tar -zcvf of everything on machine A, then I did tar -zxvf of that tar fil

DDns & rndc.keys

2005-11-05 Thread Lars
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I'm trying to get Dynamic DNS to work. I'm following this howto: http://www.arda.homeunix.net/dnssetup.html The main problem is that i'm having problem with which key is used where? FX in the rndc.key file there is three keys. But what is the 3th f

Re: Root's Mail

2005-11-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Sean Whitton wrote: > I just renamed the user that root's mail was being redirected to on a > fresh > install. I assume I can change it to the new username in the exim config > file - where is this? Or am I wrong? Do I need to do something else? Check out /etc/aliases. -- Paul Johnson Email a

Re: sarge: 2.6.14 kernel panics on boot

2005-11-05 Thread mikepolniak
On 23:43 Sat 05 Nov , Alex Teclo wrote: > I am having problems with a 2.6.14 kernel. > ><><><><><><><><> > Here is the entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst on machine A: > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.14 > root (hd0,4) > kernel/vmlinuz- 2.6.14 root=/dev/ataraid/d0p7

Re: Mozilla break on last Testing update

2005-11-05 Thread Pooly
2005/11/5, Randall J. Parr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Pooly wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I've done an apt-get upgrade, and mozilla get upgraded. But now, I've > >loads of "XUL error" for incorrect entities like & > > > > > >XML Parsing Error: undefined entity > >Location: chrome://messenger/content/SearchDia

Re: New kernel does not install

2005-11-05 Thread Pooly
2005/11/5, Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 2005-11-05 20:39:15, John Plate wrote: > > Hi > > > > I've installed Debian stable, the kernel is 2.6.8. > > > > Next, I download kernel headers and source for 2.6.8. I copy the > > /boot/config... to /usr/src/kernel-source directory as .confi

Re: What's the right way to rm packages?

2005-11-05 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:21:43PM +, s. keeling wrote: > I blew away CUPS last night, not noticing it was taking Gnome with > it. In the past, I've mixed "aptitude remove" with "dpkg -r", then > cleaning up after the result. > > What's the right way with aptitude? How do I not blow away > $

Re: Best way to copy a video dvd

2005-11-05 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 21:25:40 -0800 "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > going to give it a try soon, see how it performs vs. dvd shrink. later ran k9copy on a test disk that I just did a copy of with dvdshrink - worked extremely well, although k9copy + vamps tend to suck a lot of CPU on my

Re: glxinfo, xorg in sarge claiming to not support certain visuals

2005-11-05 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:58:51 -0800 "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will have to see. I did some checking of this issue with new versions > of pclinuxos and kanotix. No problems related to the 3d, and no update - after filing a bug report against the backport version of xlibmesa-dri I

Re: GRUB & Sarge & Win XP

2005-11-05 Thread Alessandro Ciorcalo
On 05/11/05, Simo Kauppi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 04:20:50PM +0100, Alessandro Ciorcalo wrote: > > On 05/11/05, Simo Kauppi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The 'ntldr missing' could mean that it is really missing from the > > > Windows disk. I guess you can mount th

how can i do that

2005-11-05 Thread biosedit
hi,everyone i am install debain in my computer ... there is a document /data and some txt in /data some of them come from windows xp and some of them come form linux now i think aways have two txt file in my /data one is windows.txt on is linux now i must set a process to keep it how can i do that

Re: quake4 installation

2005-11-05 Thread Jason Dewayne Clinton
On Saturday 05 November 2005 01:28 pm, debianista.deb wrote: > /root/.setup10040: No such file or directory ./setup.sh: line 207: > /root/.setup10040: No such file or directory The setup program seems > to have failed on x86_64/glibc-2.0 Try changing to the CD's root directory and typing 'bash set

Re: What's the right way to rm packages?

2005-11-05 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 07:40:18PM -0500, Bill Marcum wrote: > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:21:43PM +, s. keeling wrote: > > I blew away CUPS last night, not noticing it was taking Gnome with > > it. In the past, I've mixed "aptitude remove" with "dpkg -r", then > > cleaning up after the result.

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