Apache error [emerg] (38) Function not implemented: couldn't create accepte lock

2005-12-19 Thread debian
Hello, I still have problems with apache 2. I installed 2 new identical servers and i have the same error on both when trying to start Apache: [warn] pid file /var/run/apache2.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous apache run ? [emerg] (38)Function not implemented: Couldn't create accep

etch install partitioner fails, no CD

2005-12-19 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
I burned a Dec 10 weekly Etch 1 of 15 CD to try the installer. Seems to work fine until we try the auto-partitioner. I had already prepared my 6 GB test drive with ext3 on hda1 and swap on hda2. Autopartitioner blew that away and replaced it with an LVM partition. Then it reported failure. I boo

Re: apt-get source picks the wrong repository

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 11:43, Daniel Webb wrote: > I've been using Debian for 5 years, so I thought I understood how package > priorities work, but apparently I don't. Why is it pulling the packages > from unstable instead of stable? > > $ apt-get source -b fakeroot If you have deb-src lines poi

Partitioning problem -- no writepermission to partitiontable

2005-12-19 Thread Søren Christensen
Hi! Trying to install sarge (net-inst.) on a laptop (Compaq Presario 2100), but fails to partitionate harddisk. Using Knoppix, qtparted started via root-konsole, qtparted reports: Unable to open /UNIOINFS/dev/hdc read-write (Read-only file system). /UNIONFS/dev/hdc has been opened read-only. Usi

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 01:08:34AM -0600, D. Michael McFarland wrote: > It seems this file is not contained in linux-source-*. I expect it > would be installed along with linux-image-*, and to be in the source > package for linux-image-*; I haven't downloaded that (yet) because it > appears to con

hd error after kernel upgrade

2005-12-19 Thread Carlos Alberto Pereira Gomes
Hi, I've just upgraded my Sid box with the new linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 package but I've been receiving the following messages on /var/log/messages: Dec 15 19:36:09 ecs kernel: hda: status error: status=0xd0 { Busy } Dec 15 19:36:09 ecs kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Dec 15 19:36:10

font from 'xterm' in 'konsole'

2005-12-19 Thread Dana Sibera
I quite like konsole's features, but I prefer the font used in an xterm - however no fonts that I seem to be able to select from konsole's Settings->Font->Custom dialog seems to match that. How can I get the font in Konsole to be the same as that used by a default xterm? Thanks, Dana -

Re: font from 'xterm' in 'konsole'

2005-12-19 Thread Dana Sibera
On 19/12/2005, at 9:45:13PM, Dana Sibera wrote: I quite like konsole's features, but I prefer the font used in an xterm - however no fonts that I seem to be able to select from konsole's Settings->Font->Custom dialog seems to match that. How can I get the font in Konsole to be the same as

Re: problem installing mysql-doc

2005-12-19 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 02:52:16PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > Peter Nuttall wrote: > > From a brief peek at the qa site for the package[1], It appears that > > mysql-doc has been removed from debian. The bug report[2] explains > > why. > > Yup, that explains it. > > > So, I guess the Apt

cant start gaim, amule and bluefish etc.

2005-12-19 Thread Stuart
I upgraded my debian etch several days ago, it seems that i got problems starting these programs: gaim, amule, bluefish etc. the error shown in the terminal: $ amule & Cheching if there is an instance already running... *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x0888ac38 *** &

Re: cant start gaim, amule and bluefish etc.

2005-12-19 Thread Paras pradhan
I also had the same problem.. Worked on it a lot.. but not successful.. finally re-installed everything. But some apps worked with MALLOC_CHECK set as: $ MALLOC_CHECK_=1 gedit & Paras. On 19 Dec 2005 03:00:03 -0800, Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I upgraded my debian etch several days

Re: [audio problem] Audio skips

2005-12-19 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:41:25PM +0100, belbo wrote: > Peter Nuttall wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 04:26:22PM +0100, belbo wrote: > > > [...] > > The only thing that springs to mind is that you might have X niced to > > some value like 10 and its stealing too much cpu time. renice can fix >

Re: Partitioning problem -- no writepermission to partitiontable

2005-12-19 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2005/12/19, Søren Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > > Trying to install sarge (net-inst.) on a laptop (Compaq Presario 2100), > but fails to partitionate harddisk. > > Using Knoppix, qtparted started via root-konsole, qtparted reports: > Unable to open /UNIOINFS/dev/hdc read-write (Read-only

2 mice under gpm with udev

2005-12-19 Thread Richard Lyons
Maybe this time I can ask a less stupid question... Until now, on various thinkpads with 2.4 and 2.6 kernels (<2.6.10), I have plugged in a USB mouse and it Just Worked. That is to say both the little red tit and the usb mouse were functional at once. And what worked for gpm was reproduced in X

preventing dhclient writing to root console

2005-12-19 Thread Richard Lyons
I'm new to dhcp, and finding it more of a complication than a simplification. I thought it would obviate the need to run bind on a local box, but name resolution within the net seems to be dependent on reserving IPs for all known boxes at the Netgear router and running bind on one that is always o

Font Size

2005-12-19 Thread Paddy Hackett
How do I make larger fonts overall on Debian SUSE 10. The fonts are especially small on emacs. When I make them larger the next time I go into it is back to scratch small again. Also the windows fonts are rather small and difficult to enlarge and keep that way. Paddy Hackett - Original Mes

can't configure linux-image

2005-12-19 Thread Richard Lyons
Since installing kernel-image-2.6-686, every time apt-get, aptitude and friends run I get a stack of error messages about linux-image not being configured (see below). But when I run dpkg --configure it fails too (see below). Nonetheless, the system is running with the 2.6.14-2-686 kernel. How

An usuail order by ALTERNATE

2005-12-19 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Hi, this is just to inform you that I will never ever again order anything in your company. This is because of the "perfect" job done by your Call-Center-Team. Short history: 15.12.2005, 15.23h - I orgerd a 1024MB USB from G.A.I.L., seconds later I transfered the required amount to the Alternate

patching debian source: fails!

2005-12-19 Thread Renato Serodio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hello All, I'm trying to patch some debian sources, namely bash. I had managed to so with an earlier version (3.0), but with version 3.1 I'm not making it. I've traced the problem with patching bash with the w

Booting Debian directly into a 'regular user account

2005-12-19 Thread Obiajulu Odu
Title: Booting Debian directly into a 'regular user account Hi, Is there any way to configure Debian Sarge to boot directly into a 'regular user' account without entering user name or password?  In other words boot directly into a '$' prompt.  The Debian machine will not be connected to int

Re: [audio problem] Audio skips

2005-12-19 Thread belbo
Peter Nuttall wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:41:25PM +0100, belbo wrote: [...] >>Yes, my Xorg has -10 priority. And Gnome is quite slow even with -10. X How >>can >>I put value down? Which value can I try? Does it make any sense increase >>player >>priority? Audio never skipped, probably an

patching debian source: fails!

2005-12-19 Thread Renato Serodio
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hello All, I'm trying to patch some debian sources, namely bash. I had managed to so with an earlier version (3.0), but with version 3.1 I'm not making it. I've traced the problem with patching bash with the way sou

resolvconf difficulties

2005-12-19 Thread Renato Serodio
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hello all, I'm having a hard time with resolvconf, and I can't begin to figure where the problem lies. Here's the story: - I use DHCP at work and a static configuration at home. Here's my interfaces file: auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback #iface eth0 i

1030 - Got error 28 from table handler

2005-12-19 Thread Nevruz Mesut Sahin
Hello friends mysql server gave error whic is belowed. What can I do if you have any suggestion I will bi please toy you. Thanks from now.   server name  www.siberstore.com   1030 - Got error 28 from table handlerselect SUM(tax_rate) as tax_rate from tax_rates tr left join zones_to_geo_zones za

resolvconf difficulties

2005-12-19 Thread Renato Serodio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I'm having a hard time with resolvconf, and I can't begin to figure where the problem lies. Here's the story: - - I use DHCP at work and a static configuration at home. Here's my interfaces file: auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback #ifac

Re: resolvconf difficulties

2005-12-19 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/19/05, Renato Serodio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a hard time with resolvconf, and I can't begin to figure > where the problem lies. Here's the story: > > - I use DHCP at work and a static configuration at home. Here's my > interfaces file: Have you considered using laptop-net in

Re: patching debian source: fails!

2005-12-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 01:52:17PM +0100, Renato Serodio wrote: > And that's the thing.. In 3.0 I got a directory with the sources, and > I just had to patch the files. In addition, every howto around seems > to depend on this source dir being created. Now, if I simply extract > this last tgz file,

Re: etch install partitioner fails, no CD

2005-12-19 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:52:07AM -0800, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > > I burned a Dec 10 weekly Etch 1 of 15 CD to try the installer. > Seems to work fine until we try the auto-partitioner. > I had already prepared my 6 GB test drive with ext3 > on hda1 and swap on hda2. Autopartitioner blew t

Re: resolvconf difficulties

2005-12-19 Thread Renato Serodio
Hello Michael, I did go into laptop-net, but decided on taking guessnet instead. At the time, I not running any, since I only jump between these two nets. Resolvconf is indeed recommended by a series of packages I use, and it addresses my needs, that's why I stick to it. Renato -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Font Size

2005-12-19 Thread Felix Miata
Paddy Hackett wrote: > How do I make larger fonts overall on Debian SUSE 10. The fonts are So which is it, SuSE 10, or Debian, and which desktop environment? > especially small on emacs. When I make them larger the next time I go into > it is back to scratch small again. Also the windows fonts

Re: Partitioning problem -- no writepermission to partitiontable

2005-12-19 Thread Søren Christensen
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:30:05PM +0100, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > 2005/12/19, Søren Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi! > > > > Trying to install sarge (net-inst.) on a laptop (Compaq Presario 2100), > > but fails to partitionate harddisk. > > > > Using Knoppix, qtparted started via root-konso

Re: resolvconf difficulties

2005-12-19 Thread Renato Serodio
Hello Michael, I did go into laptop-net, but decided on taking guessnet instead. At the time, I not running any, since I only jump between these two nets. Resolvconf is indeed recommended by a series of packages I use, and it addresses my needs, that's why I stick to it. Renato -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: cant start gaim, amule and bluefish etc.

2005-12-19 Thread Stuart
Paras pradhan, Thanx a lot, the programs could be also started by valgrind, eg. $ valgrind amule & i dun noe y, maybe it's debian's internal error...i guess btw, r u using debian etch as well? and got this problem just after the upgraded? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Font Size

2005-12-19 Thread Stuart
Hi Paddy Hackett, as i know in debian, u can adjust ur system font size in the menu: Desktop -> Preference -> Font Regards, Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > search [0], I am a bit hesitant to get that combination. Does anyone on > the list have any firsthand experience with Barracuda drives on a 3114 > controller? What have you encountered? Bad question. You need to know exactly *WHICH* Barracuda driv

Re: Font Size

2005-12-19 Thread Jon Dowland
Hello, Please do not reply to an existing message with a new question. Post your new question without references, or your message may be lost in threaded mail readers. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Partitioning problem -- no writepermission to partitiontable

2005-12-19 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
[Bero: please see my comments below about additional qtparted bugs] On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, [iso-8859-1] S?ren Christensen wrote: > I'm not able to change the size of the one partition containing Win > XP. > > Well, here is another clue: qtparted reports, that support for ntfs > filesystem is not

Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 19 December 2005 09:31, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Roberto Sanchez wrote: >> search [0], I am a bit hesitant to get that combination. Does >> anyone on the list have any firsthand experience with Barracuda >> drives on a 3114 controller? What have you encou

Evolution Contacts crashing or how to remove Evo configuration

2005-12-19 Thread B-Fly
The Contact part of Evolution is giving me some problems. Since I removed all contacts from my addressbook, Evolution crashes when I try to add or import a new contact. Any idea how to fix this? One way to fix it, is of course to reinstall/reconfigure Evolution. This is however not as easy as I t

Re: NIC PnP

2005-12-19 Thread Dave Whelan
The trouble is I don't have a floppy working on this old PC, besides which I only have debian linux installed: no DOS. There must be a way to do it using Linux; isn't there? Regards, Dave. -Original Message- From: Andrew M.A. Cater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date

Re: Partitioning problem -- no writepermission to partitiontable

2005-12-19 Thread Søren Christensen
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:51:51PM +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > [Bero: please see my comments below about additional qtparted bugs] > > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, [iso-8859-1] Søren Christensen wrote: > > > I'm not able to change the size of the one partition containing Win > > XP. > > > > W

fusefs + smbfs

2005-12-19 Thread fabrizio
hi everybody. At the moment i'm using smbmount and smbfs utilities, but i'm not satisfied with this tool, cause using gnome with nautilus and browsing dirs or shares is really slow and not efficient. so i'm looking at fusefs + smbfs. is someone using it? how are the performances? is it better than

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:11:04 +0200 (MET DST) Szakacsits Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Ballard) writes: > > > You can't mount a [ntfsclone] image that has been saved with > > --save-image. > > If you want a compressed and mountable image then use ntfsclone wi

Re: Evolution Contacts crashing or how to remove Evo configuration

2005-12-19 Thread Niall Donegan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 B-Fly wrote: > One way to fix it, is of course to reinstall/reconfigure Evolution. This > is however not as easy as I thought. I purged Evolution and the > evolution-data-server and removed the ~/.evolution directory. But when I > reinstall Evolution,

Re: Partitioning problem -- no writepermission to partitiontable

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Søren Christensen wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:30:05PM +0100, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: 2005/12/19, Søren Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] However the issue still stands, I'm not able to change the size of the one partition containing Win XP. Well, here is another clue: qtparted re

Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 19 December 2005 09:39, Gene Heskett wrote: And I made a post to this list, instantly answered by a 5kb chunk of undecipherable html from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. How the hell do we get rid of this? >On Monday 19 December 2005 09:31, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >>On Sun, 18 Dec 200

Re: README files

2005-12-19 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:18:32PM -0700, Ed Paris wrote: | | Hi There, | | I want to read the README.Debian.gz file. I have tried to use vi and nano | and all I get is gibberish. How should I access this file in English? | Thanks. That file is a plain text file, but it is compressed using th

Re: Partitioning problem -- no writepermission to partitiontable

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Søren Christensen wrote: [snip] The partition list lists two partitions, a small "unused" partition of 7 MB and a large partition which occupies the rest of the disk, formatted with ntfs. Containing Win XP. Can anyone guide me throug this proces? Here's my setup for a dual boot Compaq Presa

UOL Anti-Spam

2005-12-19 Thread Niall Donegan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 19 December 2005 09:39, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And I made a post to this list, instantly answered by a 5kb chunk of > undecipherable html from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > How the hell do we get rid of this? Good luck w

Re: NIC PnP

2005-12-19 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/18/2005 08:00 PM, Dave Whelan wrote: > I can't get my 3c509 working for aliant dsl, does anyone know how I can check > whether PnP is enabled on this NIC? > Regards, > Dave Whelan. Dave, I have that card working fine on a sarge box with kernel 2.4.27. From the syslog: > Dec 19 10:05:57 lo

Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Gene Heskett wrote: > And I made a post to this list, instantly answered by a 5kb chunk of > undecipherable html from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > How the hell do we get rid of this? - add the bozo to the "reject" list of your mta - do not buy goods/services from that entity

Re: NTFS write status (was: Re: What would I do without partimage?)

2005-12-19 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Is NTFS support safe to use for writing? It depends on what NTFS implementation you use. There are almost a dozen different one which people greatly confuse and they often credit one's faults to an unrelated one. If you use the one from the open sou

Re: NTFS write status (was: Re: What would I do without partimage?)

2005-12-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:02:47 +0100 (MET) Szakacsits Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > Is NTFS support safe to use for writing? > > It depends on what NTFS implementation you use. There are almost a dozen > different one which people greatl

Re: README files

2005-12-19 Thread Steve Block
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:43:16AM -0500, Derrick Hudson wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:18:32PM -0700, Ed Paris wrote: | | Hi There, | | I want to read the README.Debian.gz file. I have tried to use vi and nano | and all I get is gibberish. How should I access this file in English? | Tha

popt Isn't Quite Right

2005-12-19 Thread Martin McCormick
I am trying to install some software that needs the popt libraries. A poster on another list said I needed popt-dev which I found and installed with no change in the results. This system has had libpopt0 all along and got popt-dev last night with no effect. A little piece of the configur

Re: UOL Anti-Spam

2005-12-19 Thread Steve Block
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:49:42PM +, Niall Donegan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 19 December 2005 09:39, Gene Heskett wrote: And I made a post to this list, instantly answered by a 5kb chunk of undecipherable html from <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Can't get gaim running from withion sarge

2005-12-19 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I re-installed debian on my laptop, keeping it on stable. I've tried to install gaim, and got it installed, so I thought. Once I got it installed, I attempted to run gaim, and I keep getting this error; gaim gaim: relocation error: /usr/lib/libaspell.so.15: undefined symbol: _ZTVN10__cxxabiv120__

K3B & etch

2005-12-19 Thread Rodney D. Myers
Any ideas when K3B will be re-introduced back into etch? -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty no

Re: UOL Anti-Spam

2005-12-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 19 December 2005 10:49, Niall Donegan wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 19 December 2005 09:39, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> And I made a post to this list, instantly answered by a 5kb chunk >> of undecipherable html from <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: UOL Anti-Spam

2005-12-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 19 December 2005 10:55, Steve Block wrote: >On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:49:42PM +, Niall Donegan wrote: >>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >>Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Monday 19 December 2005 09:39, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> >>> And I made a post to this list, instantly

Re: Booting Debian directly into a 'regular user account

2005-12-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 14:07 +0100, Obiajulu Odu wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to configure Debian Sarge to boot directly into a > 'regular user' account without entering user name or password? In > other words boot directly into a '$' prompt. The Debian machine will > not be connected to int

Re: can't configure linux-image

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
its scary, but maybe apt-get --purge remove linux-image-2.6-686 which should get all three of them and then apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 IOW, start over? I faced this with the recent yaird/2.6/14 breakage and as scary as it seems to remove the whole kernel, it doesn't break unless you

Re: NIC PnP

2005-12-19 Thread Dave Whelan
Thanks Ralph, I've got the driver but no syslog info. Dave. -Original Message- From: Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: December 19, 2005 11:57 AM Subject: Re: NIC PnP >On 12/18/2005 08:00 PM, Dave Whelan wrote: >> I can't get my 3c509 working for alian

Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-19 Thread Tom Vier
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:29:15AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > search [0], I am a bit hesitant to get that combination. Does anyone on > the list have any firsthand experience with Barracuda drives on a 3114 > controller? What have you encountered? Here's the blacklist of seagate drives fr

difficult international font question.

2005-12-19 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, Generally I run my desktop in English and fonts and everything look great. Unfortunately, when I have to deal w/ Chinese it's not so good... the default chinese font is very hard to read in normal (smallish) sizes, and w/ font anti-aliasing turned on it makes it even more difficult. Anyway, I

Re: hd error after kernel upgrade

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Carlos Alberto Pereira Gomes wrote: <> > Am I missing some configuration or boot parameter? Any hint? Currently 2.6.14 and yaird are broken. see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343042 there are a number of solutions, but IMO the easiest is to downgrade yaird to tes

Re: UOL Anti-Spam

2005-12-19 Thread Niall Donegan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gene Heskett wrote: > Wel, sufficient bounces have been sent their way by now, by me, that if > they wanted to do something about it, they would have. The fact that > they haven't says volumes, and should really result in the serial > numbered meth

Re: [audio problem] Audio skips

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Jollans
belbo wrote: >Peter Nuttall wrote: > > >>On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:41:25PM +0100, belbo wrote: >> >> >[...] > > >>>Yes, my Xorg has -10 priority. And Gnome is quite slow even with -10. X How >>>can >>>I put value down? Which value can I try? Does it make any sense increase >>>player >>>

Re: popt Isn't Quite Right

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
look in configure and see where it is trying to find popt. maybe its looking in the wrong place? A Martin McCormick wrote: I am trying to install some software that needs the popt libraries. A poster on another list said I needed popt-dev which I found and installed with no change in

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-19 Thread Ron Peterson
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:20:08AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > Redhat puts the configs used in the srpm under ./configs ; perhaps > putting the debian config file in a seperate package (kernel-config-*) > would be a good idea. It seems like the easiest solution would be to simply ensure that the

Simple cron.daily script problem

2005-12-19 Thread David Baron
I have something like mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/clamscan o ro clamdscan .. /mnt/clamscan/a-directory umount /mnt/clamscan The mount point is not the fstab mount point and the disk is not mounted to its normal mount point when this script is run. The clamdscan cannot access the directory becau

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:01:44PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: > It seems like the easiest solution would be to simply ensure that the > distributed kernels are compiled to put config.gz in /proc. That > would certainly remove any ambiguity about which config file to look > at. That is one solutio

apt-get openoffice dependency problems

2005-12-19 Thread Caleb Walker
Hello all, Perhaps because my subject was not specific enough, I did not get a response. I really need to get this computer up and usable but for now, I cannot get over this dependency issue. I dont even want openoffice installed right now. Please let me know. I recently installed a new compute

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Chinook wrote: I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that I'm expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to install. I AM NOT :-) looking for a heated debate of which is best (whatever that means), but rather which might better facilitate a couple personal gen

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Chinook wrote: I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that I'm expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to install. I AM NOT :-) looking for a heated debate of which is best (whatever that means), but rather which might better

Re: can't configure linux-image

2005-12-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday, 19 December 2005 at 8:42:55 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > its scary, but maybe > > apt-get --purge remove linux-image-2.6-686 > > which should get all three of them and then > > apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 > > IOW, start over? > > I faced this with the recent yaird/

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Kent West wrote: Chinook wrote: am trying to decide which Linux to install. 1) My wife will be using it for documents and communication. I'm sure OpenOffice will satisfy the documents use, and she prefers Thunderbird and Firefox for communications. Oh yes, she says she has to have her ca

Re: Install from usb-stick

2005-12-19 Thread Thierry
Mirko Parthey wrote: On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:49:39PM +0100, thierry wrote: Installing from a usb-stick using either of the 2 way on this link: http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/ch04s04.html I have the following problem: Boots is OK, I can choose language, keyboard, but then the ne

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-19 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 01:08:34AM -0600, D. Michael McFarland wrote: > > Redhat puts the configs used in the srpm under ./configs ; perhaps > putting the debian config file in a seperate package (kernel-config-*) > would be a good idea. Is there a wishlis

Re: Automatic Debian Installation - Problems on creating the image

2005-12-19 Thread Thierry
Kenni wrote: Hi, I'm doing a custom Debian CD, not remastered, just a edited image with information on how to install. However, I'm not able to create a *.iso file that the Debian Installer will accept. The bootloader works fine, so does the installation untill it searches for the cd, which it

Re: cant start gaim, amule and bluefish etc.

2005-12-19 Thread Paras pradhan
Yes using etch. I got the error while installing some packages. but don't know exaclty which one. Paras. On 19 Dec 2005 06:04:45 -0800, Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paras pradhan, > > Thanx a lot, the programs could be also started by valgrind, eg. > $ valgrind amule & > > i dun noe y, ma

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Brad Sims wrote: I have a 300GB external HD that contains a current / with the exeption of /proc/ /tmp/ /mnt/ /dev/ and /sys/... It looks like you also don't have /backup on there. What else did you not mention that you don't put on your backups? :-) Is it possible do a bare-metal restore usi

Re: reply-to munging (Re: Shutdown w/o root password.)

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Jon Dowland wrote: On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:11:43PM -0300, Gabriel wrote: And please, I know sometimes happens, but send the replys to the list. That's why we all should add a reply-to field on the messages we send to the list. (although I forgot to do this with this message :-P) No, we sh

Re: Simple cron.daily script problem

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
does it work running the script from a shell? that is, have you tested it outside of cron? maybe mount -t vfat,users? or some umask? chmod your /mnt etc etc etc A David Baron wrote: I have something like mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/clamscan o ro clamdscan .. /mnt/clamscan/a-directory umount

Re: Automatic Debian Installation - Problems on creating the image

2005-12-19 Thread Kenni
> How are you burning the iso? Are you sure that it's > not a "raw" iso on > the CD and not a true iso image? > Thierry K3B, Nero, mounted as IDE/SCSI device in VMWare, it doesn't matter, the file structure on the CD is equal to the filestructure I want to burn. The bootloader works correct and th

Re: popt Isn't Quite Right

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
don't forget to cc the list. Umm... I'm saying you have to pass a flag to configure telling it where popt is or you have to edit configure and change the location it uses to find popt. I'm not up on my configure flags but there should be on like --include-path or something like that. try conf

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Felix Miata wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:11:43PM -0300, Gabriel wrote: And please, I know sometimes happens, but send the replys to the list. That's why we all should add a reply-to field on the messages we send to the list. (although I forgot to do this with this

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
moving slightly OT, but I was thinking the other day about my critical backups. they arent very big, a few MB. I currently backup to another machine on my network, which I know is not really secure. (why would the fire only burn half the office? why would the thief only take one of three machin

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Gabriel wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:11:43PM -0300, Gabriel wrote: And please, I know sometimes happens, but send the replys to the list. That's why we all should add a reply-to field on the messages we send to the list. (although I forgot to do this with this messag

Re: Suggestions for vrms package?

2005-12-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/12/05 08:35), Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi there, people. > > I'm currently one of the maintainers of the "virtual Richard > M. Stallman" package (vrms), whose purpose is to indicate to the user > which packages installed in his system are not Free Software. > > The package had active develop

Re: ext3 trouble

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: BTW, I'd prefer it if you didn't top-post. I'm just back on this list, so missed the beginning of this thread. is this the same problem I'm getting with fsck errors on reboot? I don't think so. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,

Re: How do I get my Kernel Back?

2005-12-19 Thread David R. Litwin
> Do to the recent problems with yaird and the new Kernel Image (suffice> it to say), I have... removed my one and only kernel image. >> How do I get it back?in knoppix, you first have to mount all your debian partitions tosoewhere, e.g.:/ to /mnt/debian/usr to /mnt/debian/usr/home to /mnt/debian/h

Re: Partitioning problem -- no writepermission to partitiontable

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
You may find that it all works better if you boot into windows and turn off virtual memory. also maybe turn off system restore. In the past, those two items have written unmoveable blocks on the disk and prevent the partition from being properly resized. Its been a over a year now, though, so t

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/12/05 10:17), Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > moving slightly OT, but I was thinking the other day about my critical > backups. they arent very big, a few MB. I currently backup to another > machine on my network, which I know is not really secure. (why would the > fire only burn half the

Re: ext3 trouble

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: BTW, I'd prefer it if you didn't top-post. I generally hate top-posting too, unless I'm replying to nothing specific in the previous post. the idea being that people don't have to wade through the rest of the message thread to see that my po

Re: ext3 trouble

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: BTW, I'd prefer it if you didn't top-post. open mouth, insert keyboard. on reviewing some of my other posts, I see that I've been doing a lot of top-posting since I came back to this list. ah well... not for lack of good intent. ;) A I'm

Re: Partitioning problem -- no writepermission to partitiontable

2005-12-19 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > You may find that it all works better if you boot into windows and turn off > virtual memory. also maybe turn off system restore. In the past, those two > items have written unmoveable blocks on the disk and prevent the partition > from being pr

Re: Monitor daemon for exim4 logs

2005-12-19 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
Monique Y. Mudama wrote on Dec, 15: [...] > > Would anybody have recommendations of lightweight monitors for exim4 > > logs, something appropriate to a standalone machine with a single > > user ? [...] > Not a daemon, but I have this in my crontab: > @daily /usr/sbin/exim4 -bp | /usr/bin/mail

Re: Automatic Debian Installation - Problems on creating the image

2005-12-19 Thread Joey Hess
Kenni wrote: > The problem has nothing to do with my changes - even if I take an > original Debian cd, and run a "cp -a * /test1/", and afterwards creates > a image of the files, I receive the same error. You need to copy the .disk directory too. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digita

Re: starting wireless connection on boot

2005-12-19 Thread martin jakubik
On 12/17/05, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > did you include > > auto wlan0 > > ? No - I did now, and it works! Thanks a lot. > ls /etc/rc?.d where ? is the runlevel you're interested in. each symlink > has a S or K and a number in the front of the name. such as > > S35networ

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