start-stop-daemon.... for the love of GOD! Why?

2005-12-12 Thread Mike
I'm baffled I can start this by running "/etc/init.d/mythbackend start" after the computer starts but when its starting up it just says its starting but never does. How on earth would I trouble shoot something like this if it isn't going to tell me why it isn't starting it? And can somebod

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 23:35 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > > Well, just use md5sum, sha1sum, etc. > > Against what, exactly? How do these verify the contents within that > discrete piece of the archive? The same way that RAR does. They tell you whether that discreet p

Re: start-stop-daemon.... for the love of GOD! Why?

2005-12-12 Thread schnitzel meister
On 12/12/05, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm baffled I can start this by running "/etc/init.d/mythbackend > start" after the computer starts but when its starting up it just says > its starting but never does. > > How on earth would I trouble shoot something like this if it isn't going >

Re: DMA not permitted since 2.6.14

2005-12-12 Thread David LIMA
Le dimanche 11 décembre 2005 à 23:52 +0100, Hendrik Sattler a écrit : > David LIMA wrote: > > > > I'm running Debian SID with linux-image-2.6-686, since few days i'm > > facing DMA problems after upgrading kernel to 2.6.14 (from stock). > > Hdparm reports "operation not permitted" when I try do a

Re: Problem with wajig rpm2deb command

2005-12-12 Thread Jim Holland
Hi On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Joey Hess wrote: > Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 19:09:45 -0500 > From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jim Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Problem with wajig rpm2deb command > > Jim Holland wrote: > > I was wanting to install a

Re: DMA not permitted since 2.6.14

2005-12-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
Hi David, I had the same problem with my laptop a while a ago (kernel 2.6.12). It went away once I compiled the PIIX driver statically into the kernel. (You seem to have loaded it as a module, that never worked in my case. I don't fully understand why; maybe it does not get loaded early enough

Re: problema al bootear

2005-12-12 Thread Gabriel
Levi Sandoval wrote: hola camaradas, escribo porque tengo un problema algo grave. Resulta ser que actualice a Sid hace varios dias, hoy corri un apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade al estar desempaquetando, me mando un mensaje que decia que el kernel instalado y el "actual" era el mismo,

Re: DMA not permitted since 2.6.14

2005-12-12 Thread David LIMA
Le lundi 12 décembre 2005 à 09:55 +0100, Florian Kulzer a écrit : > Hi David, > > I had the same problem with my laptop a while a ago (kernel 2.6.12). It > went away once I compiled the PIIX driver statically into the kernel. > (You seem to have loaded it as a module, that never worked in my cas

(Trouble at booting) Re: problema al bootear

2005-12-12 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:02:37AM -0300, Gabriel wrote: > Levi Sandoval wrote: > >/bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/dev: No such file or directory > >Waiting: 1 seconds for /sys/block/hda/dev to show up > >/bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/dev: No such file or directory > >Waiting: 2 seconds for /sys/block/hda/dev

Re: Errors Installing Asterisk package on Sarge using apt-get

2005-12-12 Thread Siju George
On 12/10/05, Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Siju George wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Unable to install Asterisk. could someone please tell me how to > > rectify this please? > > > > kind regards > > > > Siju > > Please check the BTS before posting. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr

CD/DVD burning

2005-12-12 Thread Fritz Wettstein
Which tool do you recommend for burning/authoring dvds? -- Telefonieren Sie schon oder sparen Sie noch? NEU: GMX Phone_Flat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/telefonie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: start-stop-daemon.... for the love of GOD! Why?

2005-12-12 Thread Andrew Cady
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:11:44AM -0700, Mike wrote: > I'm baffled I can start this by running > "/etc/init.d/mythbackend start" after the computer starts but when > its starting up it just says its starting but never does. > > How on earth would I trouble shoot something like this if it is

Re: (Trouble at booting) Re: problema al bootear

2005-12-12 Thread Paul Scott
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:02:37AM -0300, Gabriel wrote: Levi Sandoval wrote: /bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/dev: No such file or directory Waiting: 1 seconds for /sys/block/hda/dev to show up /bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/dev: No such file or directory Waiting: 2 se

Re: realplayer on gnome & sound

2005-12-12 Thread Bob Hutchinson
On Monday 12 Dec 2005 01:31, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I've had about the same experience with slackware 10.2 but I was using > trplayer down on the text level and failed with: > http://audio.federalnewsradio.com/stream/real/fnr.sml That file does not exist # wget http://audio.federalnewsradio.com/st

Re: apt and hplip

2005-12-12 Thread blah
> And most DDs who thought of adding it to Debian refrained from doing it, on > the express wishes of pykota's author. This is plain bullshit ! I've NEVER asked anyone to refrain from uploading PyKota to Debian. What I ask, again, is that if you upload an Official PyKota Debian package that you

Re: CD/DVD burning

2005-12-12 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 10:19:08AM +0100, Fritz Wettstein wrote: > Which tool do you recommend for burning/authoring dvds? > tovid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

scsi device naming / driver built in kernel 2.6.x

2005-12-12 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
Hi, can someone please give me a hint/a pointer to docs on how to solve the following problem: A server has both an internal and an external raid controler (scsi driver gdth and aic7xxx, respectively). Unfortunately the external raid becomes /dev/sda, the internal raid becomes /dev/sdb. When I bo

Re: Problem with wajig rpm2deb command

2005-12-12 Thread Graham
Received Mon 12 Dec 2005 7:46pm +1100 from Jim Holland: > Hi > > On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 19:09:45 -0500 > > From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Jim Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: Problem with wa

Re: anypne know what happened to this repository

2005-12-12 Thread Fritz Wettstein
I'm using the one from unstable. It's 2.0.0-4 for i386 and powerpc. -- 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

New User/No GUI

2005-12-12 Thread Charlie
This is my first post, please tell me if I am in the wrong place and possibly suggest where I need to be. I am fairly new to Linux. I have installed Suse and Ubuntu. I am really interested in Debian and have read everything in the install instructions. I have tried the auto install and the exp

Re: CD/DVD burning

2005-12-12 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 05:04:13AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 10:19:08AM +0100, Fritz Wettstein wrote: > > Which tool do you recommend for burning/authoring dvds? > > > > tovid > > Tovid, links of interest: (provides a link to a may be older deb) http://tovid.so

Re: (Trouble at booting) Re: problema al bootear

2005-12-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Dec 2005, Paul Scott wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > >On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:02:37AM -0300, Gabriel wrote: > > > > > >>Levi Sandoval wrote: > >> > >> > > > > > > > >>>/bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/dev: No such file or directory > >>>Waiting: 1 seconds for /sys/block/hda/dev to show

Last stable kernel is from May

2005-12-12 Thread Lazo Igor
Title: Last stable kernel is from May  Hello, I saw following question on our local/national linux support site without satisfying answer: Why last stable kernel is so old (May) if there were some serious security issues discovered later: http://secunia.com/product/2719/#advisories_2005 Plea

SOLVED, maybe: mail no longer vanishes, but new problems abound.

2005-12-12 Thread hendrik
My mail no longer vanished overnight. The big clue to the problem came when someone changed my root password. I presume someone had broken into my system and had been deleting the administrator's mail (mine) to evade discovery. At some point the invadoer got too bold and changed the root password.

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-12 Thread Sean Davis
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 08:00:45PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Sean Davis wrote: > > split(1). Been around since AT&T Version 6. > > Now verify each portion has no errors in it with split. Oh, wait, ya > can't. That's because it is just a rough split and not an actual archive > which can be v

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-12 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:35:32 -0600 Gnu-Raiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17:32, Sun 11 Dec 05, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 17:59 -0600, Gnu-Raiz wrote: > > --snip-- > > > will probably laugh at you. How else are you going to get a > > > uniform file size of say 15mb each in

Re: Old version of Midnight Commander

2005-12-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Jim Holland wrote: Hi all One of the reasons that I have switched over to using Debian is that its display of console utilities such as Midnight Commander works much better than Red Hat and derivatives from version 8 on. However I have still found a display problem (

Re: Last stable kernel is from May

2005-12-12 Thread Arafangion
On Monday 12 December 2005 23:17, Lazo Igor wrote: > Hello, > I saw following question on our local/national linux > support site without satisfying answer: > Why last stable kernel is so old (May) if there were > some serious security issues discovered later: > http://secunia.com/product/2719/#ad

Re: SOLVED, maybe: mail no longer vanishes, but new problems abound.

2005-12-12 Thread Arafangion
On Monday 12 December 2005 23:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My mail no longer vanished overnight. > The big clue to the problem came when someone changed my root password. > I presume someone had broken into my system and had been deleting > the administrator's mail (mine) to evade discovery. At

Re: apt and hplip

2005-12-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, blah wrote: > > And most DDs who thought of adding it to Debian refrained from doing it, on > > the express wishes of pykota's author. > > This is plain bullshit ! > I've NEVER asked anyone to refrain from uploading PyKota to Debian. Is it? That's good news! But you need to

can't link against libglut

2005-12-12 Thread Micha Feigin
I am trying to compile a test program that uses glut. Trying to link against the library using g++ -lglut test.cpp causes the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] g++-3.4 -Wall -lGL -lGLU -lglut -O test.cpp /usr/bin/ld: BFD 2.16.91 20051117 Debian GNU/Linux assertion fail ../../bfd/elflink.c:6193

RE: Last stable kernel is from May

2005-12-12 Thread Lazo Igor
Title: RE: Last stable kernel is from May Well, there are not only DoSes but also "Security Bypass", "Exposure of sensitive information" and even "System access" from local network What about http://secunia.com/advisories/16406/ Thanks > -Original Message- > From: Arafangion [mai

Re: CD/DVD burning

2005-12-12 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 12/12/05, Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tovid, links of interest: > > (provides a link to a may be older deb) > http://tovid.sourceforge.net/getting_started.html > > (main page) > http://tovid.sourceforge.net/index.html > > (nice guideline to be followed) > http://tovid.sourcef

Re: scsi device naming / driver built in kernel 2.6.x

2005-12-12 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 12/12/05, Gebhardt Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > can someone please give me a hint/a pointer to docs > on how to solve the following problem: > > A server has both an internal and an external raid controler > (scsi driver gdth and aic7xxx, respectively). Unfortunately > the externa

Re: Last stable kernel is from May

2005-12-12 Thread Dick Davies
http://squishy.cc/blog/?p=85 ps: that signature is ridiculous. On 12/12/05, Lazo Igor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, there are not only DoSes but also "Security Bypass", > "Exposure of sensitive information" and even "System access" > from local network > > What about http://secunia.com/a

Re: SOLVED, maybe: mail no longer vanishes, but new problems abound.

2005-12-12 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:16:49PM +1100, Arafangion wrote: > On Monday 12 December 2005 23:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My mail no longer vanished overnight. > > The big clue to the problem came when someone changed my root password. > > I presume someone had broken into my system and had been

[jerome: Re: apt and hplip]

2005-12-12 Thread Jerome Alet
Sorry, I forgot to CC the list. bye Jerome Alet --- Begin Message --- On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:29:42AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, blah wrote: > > > And most DDs who thought of adding it to Debian refrained from doing it, > > > on > > > the express wishes o

Re: scsi device naming / driver built in kernel 2.6.x

2005-12-12 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
Hi, On Monday 12 December 2005 14:52, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > There is a work out with udev See the article in > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/126. > same principle can be applied for your USB hard drive. (should probably read ... can be applied for your SCSI hard drive) Sorry, I fo

Re: DMA not permitted since 2.6.14

2005-12-12 Thread Hendrik Sattler
David LIMA wrote: > Le dimanche 11 décembre 2005 à 23:52 +0100, Hendrik Sattler a écrit : >> David LIMA wrote: >> > >> > I'm running Debian SID with linux-image-2.6-686, since few days i'm >> > facing DMA problems after upgrading kernel to 2.6.14 (from stock). >> > Hdparm reports "operation not p

Re: Last stable kernel is from May

2005-12-12 Thread Josh King
> Hello, > I saw following question on our local/national linux > support site without satisfying answer: > Why last stable kernel is so old (May) if there were > some serious security issues discovered later: > http://secunia.com/product/2719/#advisories_2005 > > Please note I'm not asking about

Re: umsdos under 2.6

2005-12-12 Thread Iñaki Silanes
Martin Lefebvre wrote: > On 12/9/05, Iñaki Silanes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have a USB pendrive formatted as umsdos (I think), and I just can't >> mount it with my Debian Etch 2.6 kernel machine. >> > > Try vfat... works with my 2 usbdrives Thanks, Martin. I mention in my po

Re: dist-upgrade: why "remove"?

2005-12-12 Thread Iñaki Silanes
Roby wrote: [snip] > gparted was still on the "will be REMOVED" list and really was removed. > > As an experiment, I entered "apt-get install gparted" ... expecting apt to > complain and abort. Instead, it installed gparted and two libraries. [snip] Maybe gparted had been installed as a requ

Re: umsdos under 2.6

2005-12-12 Thread Martin Lefebvre
On 12/12/05, Iñaki Silanes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, Martin. I mention in my post that I have tried "-t msdos" and it > doesn't work. "-t vfat" gives the very same error: > > Bart:~# mount /dev/autousb /mnt/usb/ -t msdos > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/autous

Re: umsdos under 2.6

2005-12-12 Thread Martin Lefebvre
On 12/12/05, Martin Lefebvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well if -t vfat gives you the same error, you can try redoing the > filesystem on the USB drive. I've seen that happen when the device is > not properly unmounted, or if something bad happened to it (mine was > dropped... still works, but

Re: Last stable kernel is from May

2005-12-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josh King wrote: >> Hello, I saw following question on our local/national linux >> support site without satisfying answer: Why last stable kernel is >> so old (May) if there were some serious security issues >> discovered later: >> http://secunia.com/

Re: DMA not permitted since 2.6.14

2005-12-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
Hi David, First of all, I do not have the exact same controller that you have (mine is an Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller). However, since I had the same problems when I tried to use PIIX as a module, I hope what I write below might be helpful to you. My 2.6.14 kernel was comp

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-12 Thread hendrik
Some thing I wish for are A diagnostic index -- solutions indexed by symptom. IBM once had one of these for OS/2. It starts with common classes of complaints, like, the screen stays black, and ends up in a tree of possibilities. Obvious things like "make sure it's turned on". Unobvious things

Re: sort amarok playlists on multiple fields?

2005-12-12 Thread Iñaki Silanes
Matt Price wrote: > anyone know a way to sort amarok playlists on multiple fields? so, > for instance, can one sort > First by Artist >Then by Album >Then by track number > > so that the playlist goes through your collection album by album? I am using amaroK 1.3, and I think that if

Re: tools Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-12 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:13:55AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > webmin is the purrfect example to me of what's broken, > but is agoo dstart for beginners that like to point-n-click > because if you looked at the files, what to change in the config > files would be deep void > - it's

Re: start-stop-daemon.... for the love of GOD! Why?

2005-12-12 Thread Maxim Vexler
On 12/12/05, Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > You could try putting a sulogin immediately before the mythbackend > script in your runlevel then running mythbackend manually. If it works > you've ruled out ordering and should check for environment problems by > stopping mythbackend

linux on acer 9100...

2005-12-12 Thread Tony
they could it are to us problems of kernel (debian 3.1) compatibility whit a notebook acer 9104wlmi? To the Acer they do not know to say nothing...

Re: SOLVED, maybe: mail no longer vanishes, but new problems abound.

2005-12-12 Thread Mike McCarty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My mail no longer vanished overnight. The big clue to the problem came when someone changed my root password. So you were rooted, as some supposed. [snip] As soon as I noticed this, I took my machine offline and began a reinstall from scratch. [and had some problem

Re: DMA not permitted since 2.6.14

2005-12-12 Thread David LIMA
Le lundi 12 décembre 2005 à 15:29 +0100, Hendrik Sattler a écrit : > David LIMA wrote: > > Le dimanche 11 décembre 2005 à 23:52 +0100, Hendrik Sattler a écrit : > >> David LIMA wrote: > >> > > >> > I'm running Debian SID with linux-image-2.6-686, since few days i'm > >> > facing DMA problems after

Re: Firefox - Disabling Extensions w/o Running

2005-12-12 Thread Greg Norris
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 06:38:54PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On 12/11/05, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The best way to do that, actually, is to right-cllck on suspect > > extensions, and select 'Disable'. That way, if it's not the > > offender, it's easy to re-enable it.

source packages install

2005-12-12 Thread Fritz Wettstein
How do I install a source package for example cpio? This package doesn't show up in dselect and as far as I know the name of the source package is the same as the binary. -- 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++

Re: DMA not permitted since 2.6.14

2005-12-12 Thread David LIMA
Le lundi 12 décembre 2005 à 16:02 +0100, Florian Kulzer a écrit : > Hi David, > > First of all, I do not have the exact same controller that you have > (mine is an Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller). > However, since I had the same problems when I tried to use PIIX > as a module,

Re: source packages install

2005-12-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Fritz Wettstein wrote: > How do I install a source package for example cpio? This package doesn't > show up in dselect and as far as I know the name of the source package is > the same as the binary. > Are you referring an upstream source tarball or a Debian source package? -Roberto -- Roberto

Re: source packages install

2005-12-12 Thread Martin Lefebvre
go with checkinstall... really simple: # ./configure ... # make # checkinstall it generates and installs a fresh debian package for you On 12/12/05, Fritz Wettstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I install a source package for example cpio? This package doesn't > show up in dselect and as

Re: tools Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya hendrik On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've never been able fo figure out what webmin does in sufficient > detail to enable me to use it. i know webmin is broken in terms of creating the correct config files ... ( or good enuff for some .. but not the silly boat i want )

install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Marty Landman
Hi, I've downloaded Samba as a .deb file. Is there an easy way for me to install from that? Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Webmaster's Bulletin Board: http://bbs.face2interface.com/ Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: New User/No GUI

2005-12-12 Thread Kent West
Charlie wrote: This is my first post, please tell me if I am in the wrong place and possibly suggest where I need to be. This is the place. I am really interested in Debian and have read everything in the install instructions. I have tried the auto install and the expert26 install. In

Re: Sarge CD Install location problem

2005-12-12 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 05:04:49PM -0700, Hodgins Family wrote: > Good afternoon! > > >I have an old pentium box that's a candidate for a sarge install. > >It has a hdd and a cd. The bios does not detect the cd, and the > >boot order can only be set to A:/C: or C:/A:. Hence, it cannot be > >set t

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! Hi, I've downloaded Samba as a .deb file. Is there an easy way for me to install from that? dpkg -i should work. Check the dpkg man pages for exact syntax. Rob P.S. How come you didn't bring it in through apt-get or synaptic or aptitude (just curious!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: linux on acer 9100...

2005-12-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/12/05 16:32), Tony wrote: > they could it are to us problems > of kernel (debian 3.1) compatibility > whit a notebook acer 9104wlmi? > To the Acer they do not know to say nothing... I'm not sure what you're asking but if it helps we've got two Aspires running Debian (2003WLMi and 1524WLMi);

Re: Sarge CD Install location problem

2005-12-12 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! I have an old Pentium box, and have two copies of SBM, downloaded at diferent times. ONe of them just gives me the message "SBMK" and gives up. I've had that happen on some of my boxes, too. Never got around to figuring out what the problem was. The other will only read my C

Re: linux on acer 9100...

2005-12-12 Thread Tony
ehm.. I would want to be made excuses for my English bad one... Well.. I would want to only know if the pentium m760 can have problems with the kernel of debian the 3.1 as far as the management of the energetic saving.. particular for the technologies Centrino.   2005/12/12, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL P

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Marty Landman
At 11:23 AM 12/12/2005, Hodgins Family wrote: Hi, I've downloaded Samba as a .deb file. Is there an easy way for me to install from that? dpkg -i should work. Check the dpkg man pages for exact syntax. I'm probably doing this all wrong, have put the distro in /root/debs ---

Re: source packages install

2005-12-12 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 04:17:30PM +0100, Fritz Wettstein wrote: > How do I install a source package for example cpio? This package doesn't > show up in dselect and as far as I know the name of the source package is > the same as the binary. Do you have proper source resource entries in your /etc/a

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Martin Lefebvre
On 12/12/05, Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > UNCLELEO:~# ls -Al debs > total 2184 > -rw-r--r--1 root root 20 Dec 10 18:25 Packages.gz > -rw-r--r--1 root root 2225400 Dec 10 17:59 > samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.deb

hidden symbol `__fini_array_end' in bitmap_test is referenced by DSO

2005-12-12 Thread Micha Feigin
When trying to link programs against glut I keep getting the error: /usr/bin/ld: BFD 2.16.91 20051206 Debian GNU/Linux assertion fail ../../bfd/elflink.c:6203 /usr/bin/ld: bitmap_test: hidden symbol `__fini_array_end' in bitmap_test is referenced by DSO /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonreprese

Where does LVM store its data?

2005-12-12 Thread hendrik
Where does LVM store its data -- where it identifies where its logical partitions are. Can I take a volume that's managed by LVM and physiclaly carry it from one machine to another, and expect the other machine to understand it (assuming its kernel contains LVM support, and assuming the partitions

Re: source packages install

2005-12-12 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:06:04AM -0500, Martin Lefebvre wrote: > go with checkinstall... > > really simple: > > # ./configure ... > # make > # checkinstall > > it generates and installs a fresh debian package for you I think he might still at the point of haveing to he told how and where from

panel appears at the top of the screen (not at the bottom)

2005-12-12 Thread Dieter Faulbaum
In a Debian etch system I want only one panel (version 2.10.2) in a Gnome-session (with sawfish) and I want it at the bottom of the screen. The Panel Properties dialog shows "Bottom" for the Orientation. But everytime I start the session, the panel is shown at the top of the screen and I have to d

Re: Where does LVM store its data?

2005-12-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where does LVM store its data -- where it identifies > where its logical partitions are. Can I take a volume > that's managed by LVM and physiclaly carry it from one > machine to another, and expect the other machine to > understand it (assuming its kernel contains LVM s

Applied Rheology - contents December 2005

2005-12-12 Thread contents
Dear Colleague, Please find below a list of selected recent articles, reviews, reports & newsletters published in Applied Rheology, international journal for the study and characterization of complex and technologically important materials. Applied Rheology is indexed in Science Citation Index

Re: tools Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-12 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 08:09:57AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya hendrik > > On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've never been able fo figure out what webmin does in sufficient > > detail to enable me to use it. > > i know webmin is broken in terms of creating the correct >

Re: Thanks for aptitude...

2005-12-12 Thread marc
Joey Hess said... > Adam Hardy wrote: > > Do apt/dselect and aptitude share the same database as far as the > > currently installed modules are concerned, ignoring whether the packages > > were installed by apt or by aptitude? > > "apt/dpkg/aptitude use different databases" is a frequent statete

Re: Sarge CD Install location problem

2005-12-12 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 09:32:42AM -0700, Hodgins Family wrote: > Good morning! > > >I have an old Pentium box, and have two copies of SBM, downloaded at > >diferent times. ONe of them just gives me the message "SBMK" > >and gives up. > > I've had that happen on some of my boxes, too. Never got

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Marty Landman
At 11:48 AM 12/12/2005, Martin Lefebvre wrote: dpkg -i samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.deb UNCLELEO:~# dpkg -i samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.deb dpkg: error processing samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.deb (--install): cannot access archive: No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing:

Re: DMA not permitted since 2.6.14

2005-12-12 Thread David LIMA
Le lundi 12 décembre 2005 à 16:54 +0100, David LIMA a écrit : > Le lundi 12 décembre 2005 à 16:02 +0100, Florian Kulzer a écrit : > > Hi David, > > > > First of all, I do not have the exact same controller that you have > > (mine is an Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller). > > Howev

No install directory in jigdo image

2005-12-12 Thread Aaron Stromas
Greetings,   I got a jigdo image for stable and burned a CD. After a couple of attempts of booting a RedHat box with that CD and not getting the Debian installer to run (before you ask, the boot sequence has CD first), I looked at the CD. It has no tools nor install directories. That explains why t

FW: DHCP Issue

2005-12-12 Thread Ed Paris
Hi There,Hi There, I recently installed sarge on our local server.  I am having an error during boot that says DHCP server install failed.  I looked for my /etc/dhcpd.conf file to see what was there.  There was no file. I tried to reload DHCP but install said my version was the latest

Re: New User/No GUI

2005-12-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
Other distros use level 5 to start the GUI; Debian however has levels 2 through 5 which are identical. It is up to the sysadmin (you) to customize the levels to your taste. I can understand this is more flexible, but it can be confusing for someone new to Debian. All Linux doc's state runlev

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Hodgins Family
Howdy! At 11:48 AM 12/12/2005, Martin Lefebvre wrote: dpkg -i samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.deb UNCLELEO:~# dpkg -i samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.deb dpkg: error processing samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.deb (--install): cannot access archive: No such file or directory Errors were encountered while

[Fwd: Re: (Trouble at booting) Re: problema al bootear]

2005-12-12 Thread Paul Scott
Oops!, I didn't send this to the list. Paul Anthony Campbell wrote: On 12 Dec 2005, Paul Scott wrote: Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:02:37AM -0300, Gabriel wrote: Levi Sandoval wrote: Waiting: 8 seconds for /sys/block/hda/dev to show up /bin/cat:

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Marty Landman wrote: I'm probably doing this all wrong, have put the distro in /root/debs UNCLELEO:~# ls -Al debs total 2184 -rw-r--r--1 root root 20 Dec 10 18:25 Packages.gz -rw-r--r--1 root root 2225400 Dec 10 17:59 samb

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Marty Landman
At 01:09 PM 12/12/2005, Hodgins Family wrote: I was wondering why you plunked the file into /root/deb. Why not just move it to /home and retry the dpkg command (as root obviously!) UNCLELEO:~# dpkg -i /root/debs/samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package samba. (Rea

Re: Re: source packages install

2005-12-12 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 07:16:23PM +0100, Fritz Wettstein wrote: > In /etc/apt/source.list everything is commented by #, in the mean time > I've also commented the cdrom entries, made a apt-get update and a > apt-get upgrade. This didn't change anything: the apt-get install cpio > always result

Re: Re: source packages install

2005-12-12 Thread Fritz Wettstein
In /etc/apt/source.list everything is commented by #, in the mean time I've also commented the cdrom entries, made a apt-get update and a apt-get upgrade. This didn't change anything: the apt-get install cpio always results in "cpio is allready up to date" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of samba: samba depends on samba-common (= 3.0.20b-1woody1); however: Package samba-common is not installed. samba depends on libacl1; however: Package libacl1 is not installed. samba depends on libattr1; however: Package libattr1 is not i

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:30:34PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 01:09 PM 12/12/2005, Hodgins Family wrote: > > >I was wondering why you plunked the file into /root/deb. Why not just move > >it to /home and retry the dpkg command (as root obviously!) > > UNCLELEO:~# dpkg -i /root/debs/samba_3

wireless problems from hotplug changes; was: Re: (Trouble at booting)

2005-12-12 Thread Paul Scott
Anthony Campbell wrote: I thought it might have been something to do with needing udev, which I don't use. Rashly, I installed it on my laptop and the consequence was that it removed hotplug and now I shall have to reinstall everything in order to get my wireless connection to work (don't ask wh

Re: Where does LVM store its data?

2005-12-12 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:17:04PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Where does LVM store its data -- where it identifies > > where its logical partitions are. Can I take a volume > > that's managed by LVM and physiclaly carry it from one > > machine to another, and e

Re: (Trouble at booting) Re: problema al bootear

2005-12-12 Thread Paul Scott
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:02:37AM -0300, Gabriel wrote: Levi Sandoval wrote: /bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/dev: No such file or directory Waiting: 8 seconds for /sys/block/hda/dev to show up /bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/dev: No such file or directory Waiting: 16 second

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Marty Landman
At 01:27 PM 12/12/2005, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: If your CD works for installation, but fails afterwards, there might be something wrong with your config. Maybe you should try to get some sarge CDs and install sarge. I've tried installing RH 9 since I already have the CD's for that as well

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Marty Landman
At 01:48 PM 12/12/2005, Andrei Popescu wrote: As it just said, you need all those packages listed there in order to install samba. Don't remeber from your original post...do you have internet? No. Not sure why though. :( My nic works and I can ping out, ssh in from my workstation and out to o

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 02:33:43PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 01:48 PM 12/12/2005, Andrei Popescu wrote: [...] > UNCLELEO:~# ping -c 1 google.com > ping: unknown host google.com What do you get if you do (for example) 'ping -c 1 64.233.187.99'? > UNCLELEO:~# route add default 192.168.0.1 >

Problems solved

2005-12-12 Thread Kelly Harding
Sorted the problems with LVM2/Debian/XFS. Problems turned out to be caused by Debian going into a bit of a tizwoz about device files. A reboot sorted it all out. Thanks to all those that offered help/advice etc. Much appreciated! Thanks, Kelly begin:vcard fn:Miss Kelly Harding n:Harding;Ke

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Marty Landman wrote: No. Not sure why though. :( My nic works and I can ping out, ssh in from my workstation and out to other network boxes. UNCLELEO:~# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:32:CC:42 inet addr:192.168.0.222 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

Re: source packages install

2005-12-12 Thread Fritz Wettstein
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 07:16:23PM +0100, Fritz Wettstein wrote: > In /etc/apt/source.list everything is commented by #, in the mean time > I've also commented the cdrom entries, made a apt-get update and a > apt-get upgrade. This didn't change anything: the apt-get install cpio > always result

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