Re: GPG error on apt-get update

2006-01-07 Thread Chinook
Chinook wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Bernd Prager wrote: Hi, I'm getting a GPG error when I execute an apt-get update: ... But root has the required keys in the pubring: I've been following this issue and also did: debian1:/home/leec# wget http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2005.asc -O - | s

How to disable 'rivafb' at boot ?

2006-01-07 Thread alan bonard
Can anyone suggest how to disable 'rivafb' at boot ?I've unsuccessfully used boot parameters includingvideo=vga16:offconsole=[device] console =ttyc0console=tty1Adam.

ipw2200 on debian (sid) running kernel 2.6.14-2-386

2006-01-07 Thread Rishi
Hi I have an IBM Thinkpad R50e with Debian SID (unstable). The kernel is 2.6.14-2-386 I am trying to get the wireless card to work. When I run 'modprobe ipw2200' ... it throws this error in /var/log/messages... == Jan 7 01:11:19 woi-l

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2006-01-07 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 30 December 2005 16:50, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Bryan G wrote: >> i found this, I haven't installed it yet but it claims to replace >> realplayer without the problems of realplayer taking over your PC >> http://www.codecguide.com/download_real.htm > > I find that mplayer is a far bette

cupsd segmentation fault

2006-01-07 Thread Daniele Cortesi
Hello there! It's since quite a long time (months) that I've a problem with cupsd. If I set it to use Basic authentication (which is the default) to grant access to administration web pages (localhost:631) it exits with a segfault just after reading my password. Following is the output launching

Re: How to disable 'rivafb' at boot ?

2006-01-07 Thread Linas Zvirblis
alan bonard wrote: Can anyone suggest how to disable 'rivafb' at boot ? Did you try "video=vesafb"? If you do not want any frame buffer, not loading the modules (assuming they are compiled as modules) should do it. Search the list for "loadable kernel modules" if you do not know how to prev

Re: ssh to remote machine with user login problem

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 02:07:01PM +0200, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > Hello, > > > Hi, > > > > Thanks for your mail.I have tried to copy .ssh folder from root to the > > users account and the permissions are 600 and the file is owned by the user > > and still i am getting the enter the password

Re: java for jabref

2006-01-07 Thread Morten Gulbrandsen
Ryan Nowakowski wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 11:49:47PM +0100, Morten Gulbrandsen wrote: is this the next way ? http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/142 Yes Hello Ryan, hello List readers and subscribers! Thanx, it is done and it works, both for mozilla and K

Re: java for jabref

2006-01-07 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Please, what is the common way for java development under debian sarge? Is it better to develop under solaris and simply run and test it under debian ? netbeans and eclipse are both open source, so they should qualify for debian. Eclipse 3.1 is already in Debian Unstable. I was pretty sur

Re: Burning CDs from ISO image - possible?

2006-01-07 Thread Ken Heard
Thanks, Steef, for the tip. I was always suspicious of the -scanbus option in 2.6.X kernels. I will try it next time I burn a CDROM. -- Ken Heard Research Associate Museum Studies Program

Re: newbies needing help for graphic login

2006-01-07 Thread Richard Lyons
It is difficult to know which branch of this thread to re-enter. I'm happy to have started an interesting discussion, and to hear various personal histories on the way. But I was initially trying to suggest a much smaller-scale intervention. I hope you'll all forgive me if I recap. It is obviou

Apache, Debian and Mysql

2006-01-07 Thread Jon Miller
Does anyone know how to make apache2 authenticate against a MySQL database on a Debian Sarge system? Want to create a login dialog box for users trying to access the webserver. But also want to be able to enter the data or edit in MySQL. Thanks Jon L. Miller, ASE, CNS, CLS, MCNE, CCNA Directo

Re: No comments (responding to questions on the list)

2006-01-07 Thread Ken Heard
Rafi Gabzu wrote: Hi , In the last two weeks I stopped receiving answers to the questions I post in this mailing list , till now it was very help full. What happened ? something that I did ...? Thanks, Rafi I did my own survey of posts to this list and discovered that fully half of the

Re: Apache, Debian and Mysql

2006-01-07 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:54:29 +0800 "Jon Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how to make apache2 authenticate against a MySQL > database on a Debian Sarge system? Want to create a login dialog box > for users trying to access the web

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2006-01-07 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:47:43PM -1000, Bryan G wrote: > i found this, I haven't installed it yet but it claims to replace realplayer > without the problems of realplayer taking over your PC > http://www.codecguide.com/download_real.htm Looked at the site. It seems to be Windows software. --he

debian amd64 and ati propietary driver

2006-01-07 Thread Toshiro
Anybody managed to successfully use the ATI drivers with the AMD64 Debian port? Every time I tried I get an error saying that the fglrx module can't be loaded (even if I previously load it manually). I'm using sid port. Toshiro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: debian amd64 and ati propietary driver

2006-01-07 Thread Michael Dominok
Hi, On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 11:34 -0200, Toshiro wrote: > Anybody managed to successfully use the ATI drivers with the AMD64 Debian > port? yepp, i'm typing this mail on such a system. Have you taken a look at: http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian/fglrx-installer.html And b.t.w.: There's

Re: debian amd64 and ati propietary driver

2006-01-07 Thread Toshiro
Hi Michael, Thanks for information! Did you have to compile a new kernel or does it work with the kernel images provided by Debian? Toshiro. > On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 11:34 -0200, Toshiro wrote: > > Anybody managed to successfully use the ATI drivers with the AMD64 Debian > > port? > > yepp, i'm

Re: debian amd64 and ati propietary driver

2006-01-07 Thread Michael Dominok
Hi Toshiro, On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 11:49 -0200, Toshiro wrote: > Did you have to compile a new kernel or does it work with the kernel images > provided by Debian? No. asterix:~$ uname -a Linux asterix 2.6.12-1-amd64-k8 #1 Wed Sep 28 02:31:26 CEST 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux That's the linux-image-2.

Re: debian amd64 and ati propietary driver

2006-01-07 Thread Michael Dominok
Oops. On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 15:03 +0100, Michael Dominok wrote: > Hi Toshiro, > > On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 11:49 -0200, Toshiro wrote: > > Did you have to compile a new kernel or does it work with the kernel images > > provided by Debian? > > No. It should have been: "No & Yes." -- To UNS

Re: java for jabref

2006-01-07 Thread Morten Gulbrandsen
Linas Zvirblis wrote: Please, what is the common way for java development under debian sarge? Is it better to develop under solaris and simply run and test it under debian ? netbeans and eclipse are both open source, so they should qualify for debian. Eclipse 3.1 is already in Debian U

Re: GPG error on apt-get update

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 07:44:39PM -0500, Chinook wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > >Bernd Prager wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>I'm getting a GPG error when I execute an apt-get update: > >>... > >> > >>But root has the required keys in the pubring: > > I've been following this issue and also did: > debian1:/

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 08:15:35AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:47:43PM -1000, Bryan G wrote: > > i found this, I haven't installed it yet but it claims to replace realplayer > > without the problems of realplayer taking over your PC > > http://www.codecguide.com/dow

authentication not working with ldap server

2006-01-07 Thread Julien Motch
Hello, I have recently installed a debian sarge with ldap and samba so it can act as a domain controller. Everything seems to happen correctly (samba can access the ldap server in admin mode to populate it). The problem is that it can not authenticate neither from a windows station (to join the

Re: ipw2200 on debian (sid) running kernel 2.6.14-2-386

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 02:53:31PM +0530, Rishi wrote: > Hi > > I have an IBM Thinkpad R50e with Debian SID (unstable). The kernel is > 2.6.14-2-386 > > I am trying to get the wireless card to work. > > When I run 'modprobe ipw2200' ... it throws this error in /var/log/messages... > > =

Re: hyperthreading not working (?)... /proc/cpuinfo shows 2 cpus

2006-01-07 Thread Ishwar Rattan
What is meant by not working? /proc/cpuinfo shows two processors: cpu 0 and cpu 1. -ishwar On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Brandon Simmons wrote: > running kernel 2.6.13. I built my own kernel and enabled HT and > the system seems to recognize two processors. > > Here is /proc/cpuinfo: > > /

Focus in KDE with kwin, New Widows Have Inferiority Complex

2006-01-07 Thread Win Smith
How do I configure KDE and kwin so that the window for a new application launched from an existing application, an icon, or the panel gets focus automatically and doesn't appear below other windows? This was the default behavior in gnome with the sawfish or metacity window managers. Here are exam

Re: No comments (responding to questions on the list)

2006-01-07 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Ken Heard wrote: Rafi Gabzu wrote: Hi , In the last two weeks I stopped receiving answers to the questions I post in this mailing list , till now it was very help full. What happened ? something that I did ...? Thanks, Rafi I did my own survey of posts to this list and discovered that fu

Re: OpenOffice on a mixed system

2006-01-07 Thread Chris
There are some HowTo`s on using pinning on mixed systems. I've had good luck with installing GUI stuff (KDE etal) from unstable on an otherwise testing system this way. Chris On Saturday 07 January 2006 08:46, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Tyler Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm running Etch, bu

Re: OpenOffice on a mixed system

2006-01-07 Thread Tyler Smith
Thanks! I commented out the sid repos, updated, and then upgraded without a problem. At the moment my OpenOffice install from Sid is the same version as is currently in Etch. The previous warnings consisted of a long list of dependency problems, as identified by aptitude, which was suggesting

pthread function in testing print weird messages to stderr

2006-01-07 Thread Britton Kerin
This minimal program, test_threads.c: #include #include #include #include int thread_return; void * thread_function (void *arg) { int idx; for ( idx = 0 ; idx < 3 ; idx++ ) { sleep (1); printf ("thread_arg: %d\n", *((int *)arg)); }

Re: GPG error on apt-get update

2006-01-07 Thread Chinook
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 07:44:39PM -0500, Chinook wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Bernd Prager wrote: Hi, I'm getting a GPG error when I execute an apt-get update: ... But root has the required keys in the pubring: I've been following this issue and also did: debian1:/home/

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2006-01-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 03:28:01PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Unpack the codecs into it. [I copied the all*codecs.tar.bz there, > unpacked it, creating an all*codecs directory, changed into that > directory and copied everything to the level above]. ... and violate the terms of the origina

Re: "superblock last write time is in the future" on boot

2006-01-07 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 19:20:52 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "date -u" will tell you what the system thinks is the UTC time. If the > output is different from plain "date", then it certainly thinks it is in > some timezone. I'm also running testing. I've noted that

Re: logrotate + mysql = "Help!"

2006-01-07 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 1/5/06, Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe if you add the verbose switch there, next time it runs it > will give you more detail (though perhaps more than you want). Done. I await the next cron run. Thanks, -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am

UBS disk problems

2006-01-07 Thread Z F
Hello everybody, I was searching the web, saw that some people have similar problem, but I could not find a solution... The problem is that I have a USB hard drive and when it is plugged in, it is detected fine and works on small files. If a large file is copied to the drive, something bad happen

usb cdrom on X30 thinkpad

2006-01-07 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Please, if this is a FAQ, I am really sorry, my googling cannot find it. My Sarge installation booted fine of the usb cdrom and I proceeded to install and run a 2.6.8 kernel. Beautiful, thankyou. I've been using it for a few weeeks. But I am defeated trying to access the CDROM. I do not know h

dpkg blows up on etch amd64

2006-01-07 Thread Aaron Stromas
Greetings,When I run apt-get upgrade it fails, apparently, kernel(!) - "Unable to handle paging request"!Any suggestions how to get back to normal? TIA,sella:/home/ams# apt-get upgradeE: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. sella:/home/ams# dpkg

Re: No comments (responding to questions on the list)

2006-01-07 Thread Chinook
Ken Heard wrote: Rafi Gabzu wrote: Hi , In the last two weeks I stopped receiving answers to the questions I post in this mailing list , till now it was very help full. What happened ? something that I did ...? Thanks, Rafi I did my own survey of posts to this list and discovered that ful

Re: PSC 2350 and hpoj with SID ...

2006-01-07 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 01:39:09AM +0100, Hervé Piedvache wrote: A little late, but better late than never... > Hello, Hi, > I have a serious trouble to make running hpoj with my PSC 2350 ... I have a PSC 2350 and I'm using hplip instead. According to the description of the hpoj: "Upstream de

ext3 and hashed directories (dir_index) in Sarge

2006-01-07 Thread Carlos Rodrigues
Hi! I have a bunch of machines running Debian Sarge, all of them using ext3 and linux 2.6. Now, I've noticed that the Debian installer doesn't format ext3 with hashed directories (dir_index) enabled. Why is this? Other distributions like Fedora enable this by default. Is this because the 2.4 kern

How do I manually set the MTU on a PPP Connection?

2006-01-07 Thread Tyson Varosyan
Those whom have followed previous threads learned that for whatever reason, when I dial-up using pppd or wvdial, I have an MTU of 0 automatically assigned. This caused all kinds of fun issues. What I have been doing is manually changing it after I connect via ifconfig ppp0 mtu 1500 This stands in

Re: How do I manually set the MTU on a PPP Connection?

2006-01-07 Thread John Hasler
Tyson Varosyan writes: > ...when I dial-up using pppd or wvdial... It isn't "pppd or wvdial". Wvdial is a pppd configurator. > Apparently every time a connection is made, the MTU is reset. Edit /etc/ppp/options. You should find a line reading '#mtu '. If the line reads 'mtu 0' you've found you

Trouble with nvidia glx.

2006-01-07 Thread sebastien marbrier
Hi, When I have installed the nvidia driver included with Sarge it worked but it was awfully slow. Since I have both upgraded the kernel to 2.6.14 and the nvidia driver to 1.0-8178. Now Xfree86 crashes each time I load the glx module but I can't find any error message in the XFree86.0.log fi

sarge: "busy inodes after unmount"

2006-01-07 Thread Carlos Rodrigues
Hi! I have a machine (Debian Sarge, kernel 2.6) which is serving files over NFS and Samba. When I shut it down, sometimes I see a message "VFS: Busy inodes after umount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds." What's up with this? BTW, does anyone know if it is possible to do a text search (report body and

SOLVED: dpkg blows up on etch amd64

2006-01-07 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 1/7/06, Ernest jw ter Kuile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 07 January 2006 20:55, Aaron Stromas wrote:> Greetings,>> Pid: 17468, comm: dpkg Not tainted 2.6.12-1-amd64-genericEtch has these other two kernel :linux-image-2.6.12-10-em64t-p4 linux-image-2.6.12-10-amd64-k8the first one runs b

Supported Hardware - Monitor

2006-01-07 Thread Robert Thompson
Title: Supported Hardware - Monitor Hello all,    I am researching using Debian over Windows, but I just bought a Dell Wide Aspect Ratio Monitor when my Hard drive gave up on me. Now, I am looking at buying a new hard drive and taking the opportunity to switch to Debian. Thanks Eric

openoffice 2.0 for testing hangs

2006-01-07 Thread Elaine Tsiang YueLien
It hangs on file opening and closing. oo 1.x no longer available for downpinning. There is a bug report at openoffice.org: issue 60064. Anyone else having this? Any suggestion on how to work around this in the mean time? Elaine -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Digital Camera

2006-01-07 Thread Robert Thompson
Title: Digital Camera Hello All,    I also have a digital camera that I love. It is a Sony that uses a USB to connect to the computer. Question is: How does digital cameras work with Debian? Thanks Eric

possible firefix security problem??

2006-01-07 Thread hendrik
Running relatively up-to-date Debian sarge system. Followed a link to a rater nice site, www.irateradio.com It runs a Java applet that (1) downloads some random music files (2) plays them and allows you to rate them (3) compares your ratins with the ratings others provided in its database

Printer / Stampante Brother HL-5030

2006-01-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(English) I do not succeed to make to work under the printing Debian (sarge) Brother Hl-5030, while on Mandriva Linux 2006 it works correctly. Device says to me "Unableto find usb": I have activated "beh", driver ppd and the new version of cups. How I make to copy the configuration working u

Re: Supported Hardware - Monitor

2006-01-07 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Robert. On Jan 07 2006, Robert Thompson wrote: >I am researching using Debian over Windows, but I just bought a > Dell Wide Aspect Ratio Monitor when my Hard drive gave up on me. Now, > I am looking at buying a new hard drive and taking the opportunity to > switch to Debian. First of all

Re: java for jabref

2006-01-07 Thread Andy Streich
> >> Please, what is the common way for java development under debian sarge? > >> > >> Is it better to develop under solaris > >> and simply run and test it under debian ? > >> > >> netbeans and eclipse are both open source, so they should qualify > >> for debian. I'm using Netbeans 4.1 from:

Re: Digital Camera

2006-01-07 Thread mvephoto
Hi. Generally speaking, pretty good. However, I tend to move away from the issue of having a digital camera "work" with my computer(s), and use a card-reader instead. This is a] usually faster, b] saves on battery life of the camera and c] a cardreader is most likely "plug and play" and will be

RE: How do I manually set the MTU on a PPP Connection?

2006-01-07 Thread Tyson Varosyan
Hi John, Thanks for the clarification on the whole wvdial thing. Far as the setting, no it was not set to 0, it was commented out. I still have no idea why my MTU was set to 0. I had no firewall software running on the machine at the time. Only the default min. load of Debian "linux26" and pppd.

Re: "superblock last write time is in the future" on boot

2006-01-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 07 Jan 2006, David E. Fox wrote: > 'date -u' is correct (UTC), dates are set coorectly in the filesystem > for instance but the log entries are in UTC. That doesn't match the > behavior in sarge. It doesn't match the behaviour in my sid system either (where it logs in local time). It is

How do I automate this?

2006-01-07 Thread Tyson Varosyan
I want my box to run these 2 commands as it boots - before anyone even logs in. I want the computer to run modprobe usbserial vendor=0xc88 product=0x17da maxSize=2048 pause for about 3 seconds and then run wvdial verizon How do I do that? Thanks, Tyson Varosyan Technical Mana

Re: Digital Camera

2006-01-07 Thread David Berg
> On January 7, 2006 06:31 pm, Robert Thompson wrote: > > Hello All, > >I also have a digital camera that I love. It is a Sony that uses a USB > > to connect to the computer. Question is: How does digital cameras work with > > Debian? I have a Sony DSC P8 and it is just a mass storage device.

OpenOffice.org HUGE fonts, ugly UI

2006-01-07 Thread Brian Clark
Hi Debian users, I just upgraded my testing's OpenOffice.org, and the user interface fonts are huge. My wild guess says maybe 24 point. In addition to that, I now see a super ugly silvery user interface which doesn't look like my currently configured GTK 1 or 2 themes. ~$ dpkg -l | grep openoffi

Re: How do I automate this?

2006-01-07 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Tyson Varosyan wrote: I want my box to run these 2 commands as it boots - before anyone even logs in. I want the computer to run modprobe usbserial vendor=0xc88 product=0x17da maxSize=2048 You can load modules with all the necessary options using modconf program (apt-get installabl

Re: OpenOffice.org HUGE fonts, ugly UI

2006-01-07 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Brian Clark wrote: Hi Debian users, I just upgraded my testing's OpenOffice.org, and the user interface fonts are huge. My wild guess says maybe 24 point. In addition to that, I now see a super ugly silvery user interface which doesn't look like my currently configured GTK 1 or 2 themes. ~$

Re: possible firefix security problem??

2006-01-07 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 07:44:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Running relatively up-to-date Debian sarge system. > > Followed a link to a rater nice site, www.irateradio.com > > It runs a Java applet that > (1) downloads some random music files > (2) plays them and allows you to rate t

Re: Digital Camera

2006-01-07 Thread ML
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 11:31 am, Robert Thompson wrote: > Hello All, >I also have a digital camera that I love. It is a Sony that uses a USB to > connect to the computer. Question is: How does digital cameras work with > Debian? > > Thanks > Eric > I have one, an

Re: Trouble with nvidia glx.

2006-01-07 Thread Adam Porter
Where did you get the glx module? You didn't mention installing the nvidia-glx package. If nothing else works, you might try switching to Xorg (I know it's not in Sarge, but neither is 2.6.14 or the new nVidia drivers. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: OpenOffice.org HUGE fonts, ugly UI

2006-01-07 Thread Brian Clark
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 09:53:43PM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Brian Clark wrote: > >Hi Debian users, > >I just upgraded my testing's OpenOffice.org, and the user interface > >fonts are huge. My wild guess says maybe 24 point. In addition to that, > >I now see a super ugly silvery user i

Re: Mobile Phone Software

2006-01-07 Thread Adam Porter
Bitpim might be what you need. I've no idea if it supports your phone, but it's a really nice cross-platform Python app that will even let you backup your entire phone (all the internal filesystem structure), along with nice interfaces for more prominent features. It's even in Debian. :) -- T

Re: Digital Camera

2006-01-07 Thread Roman Makurin
В сообщении от Воскресенье 08 января 2006 03:31 Robert Thompson написал(a): > Hello All, >I also have a digital camera that I love. It is a Sony that uses a USB > to connect to the computer. Question is: How does digital cameras work with > Debian? > Try digikam if you are kde user :) otherwis

Re: How can I prevent custom build packages from downgrading

2006-01-07 Thread Adam Porter
You can use apt preferences to pin the packages you want. Aptitude might have a simpler way, and Synaptic also lets you do this, but if you want to do it the low-level way, you can find help in the apt (and perhaps apt-src and apt-build) man pages, and on Google. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: apt ignores apt.conf settings

2006-01-07 Thread Adam Porter
Where did you find those settings for "APT::Periodic"? I've never heard of them, and my searches turned up dry. Are you expecting that setting those will cause apt-get or aptitude to automatically download new packages? I don't think that's the case; something has to actually execute the command

Re: APT options and dpkg

2006-01-07 Thread Adam Porter
Well, you're a DD, so you oughta know more than me, but I'll bite. :) Can you be more specific than, "this does not work"? Have you tried purging and reinstalling the package? I guess you could also get the file out of the package and replace it manually. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

RE: TCP not working over ppp connection (WAS: 5th day using Linux...)

2006-01-07 Thread Adam Porter
Tyson Varosyan wrote: > Also, why would my post be burred? I am unfamiliar with the way this > mailing list works but have been surprised by the low number of > responces... I do not want to SPAM the list, but I really need to get my > box online... You posted your first message by replying to ano

Re: GPG error on apt-get update

2006-01-07 Thread Adam Porter
Chinook wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: >> Bernd Prager wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm getting a GPG error when I execute an apt-get update: >>> ... >>> >>> But root has the required keys in the pubring: > > I've been following this issue and also did: > debian1:/home/leec# wget http://ftp-master.debian.or

Re: Streaming video

2006-01-07 Thread Adam Porter
Mark, just FYI, your mail client isn't sending "References:" headers, so your replies aren't showing up in the same thread. You may want to switch clients, or use an NNTP interface, like GMANE. Makes it harder to track threads and follow up. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

LVM and disk failure

2006-01-07 Thread Daniel Webb
I've been Googling for the answer to this and failing, so: What happens when you have a 2-disk LVM volume group and disk 1 fails? Obviously this will depend on the filesystem you put on top of the volume, right? So which filesystems will recover gracefully if you chop them in half like that? It'

Re: Linux Distribution Chooser

2006-01-07 Thread Chris Howie
Steve Lamb wrote: > Or the system is going to have multiple users who might want different DEs. And if that's the case then you select both of them during the install. >>I still haven't >>uninstalled Gnome, something I've been meaning to do for a long time, but >>haven't had the willpower to spen

Re: Linux Distribution Chooser

2006-01-07 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
Chris Howie wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Or the system is going to have multiple users who might want different DEs. And if that's the case then you select both of them during the install. I still haven't uninstalled Gnome, something I've been meaning to do for a long time, but haven

Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2006-01-07 Thread Robert Brockway
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Maxim Vexler wrote: On 11/25/05, Robert Brockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone wanting to lock the root account (not a good idea IMHO) should have a root enabled session (sudo, su or whatever) put to the side and not touched during the procedure. This session would

Re: LVM and disk failure

2006-01-07 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 20:20, Daniel Webb wrote: > What happens when you have a 2-disk LVM volume group and disk 1 fails? > Obviously this will depend on the filesystem you put on top of the volume, > right? So which filesystems will recover gracefully if you chop them in half > like that? > > It'

Re: Peeking inside initrd

2006-01-07 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:04:47PM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How do I peek inside an initrd produce by make-kpkg (2.6.14 kernel, I > > think yaird produced the file)? > > > > zcat initrd-flavor > tinit > > and then mounting tinit on a loopback, but

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 02:15:07PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 03:28:01PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > Unpack the codecs into it. [I copied the all*codecs.tar.bz there, > > unpacked it, creating an all*codecs directory, changed into that > > directory and copied ever

Re: How to disable 'rivafb' at boot ?

2006-01-07 Thread salahuddin pasha
put "rivafb" in u r /etc/hotplug/blacklist On 1/7/06, alan bonard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone suggest how to disable 'rivafb' at boot ? > > I've unsuccessfully used boot parameters including > > video=vga16:off > console=[device] > console =ttyc0 > console=tty1 > > Adam. > -- -salahu

Re: sudo: unable to lookup [MYHOSTNAME] via gethostbyname() [SOLVED]

2006-01-07 Thread John O'Hagan
>Anyone know what this error message means? > >sudo: unable to lookup viewmaster via gethostbyname() > >"viewmaster" is the hostname I chose for my laptop. Sudo seems to work >normally, but the message appears whenever I use it. [...] It seems that etherconf puts an entry of the form HOST

Re: LVM and disk failure

2006-01-07 Thread Daniel Webb
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 09:02:20PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > If you've got enough spindles, each physical volume is typically a RAID1 > or RAID5. Then you can add and remove physical volumes from > your volume group as needed. A single disk failure is harmless. > > Other than adding and removin

Re: No comments (responding to questions on the list)

2006-01-07 Thread Chinook
Chinook wrote: Ken Heard wrote: Rafi Gabzu wrote: Hi , In the last two weeks I stopped receiving answers to the questions I post in this mailing list , till now it was very help full. What happened ? something that I did ...? Thanks, Rafi I did my own survey of posts to this list and dis

Re: LVM and disk failure

2006-01-07 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 22:15, Daniel Webb wrote: > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 09:02:20PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > Well, yes, but supposing you *do* have a failure? Then what? Half the > filesystem is still there on the second disk, is it recoverable, and if not, > why not? You may get some of the d

hotplug problem

2006-01-07 Thread John and Holly Klug
Package: hotplug Version: 0.0.20040329-22 Kernel: 2.6.8-2-386 Every time I connect my SanDisk 12 in 1 USB flash reader or disconnect it, I get many stuck hotplug processes that I must kill. About 30 processes get stuck on each connect and disconnect. I use the flash memory on a KVM switch, and

Re: newbies needing help for graphic login

2006-01-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:11:29 -0500 kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andy Streich wrote: > > >Agreed. I use a similar strategy. I just want to give the newbie the > >option > >to do that -- after they have a solid working setup. Until then, a > >"debian-newcomer" list (or deb

Re: No comments (responding to questions on the list)

2006-01-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:13:30 -0500 kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: > > > Rafi Gabzu wrote: > > > >> Hi , > >> In the last two weeks I stopped receiving answers to the questions I > >> post in this mailing list , till now it was very help full. > >> What happened

Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]

2006-01-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
It has been suggested by several people in this thread to have a 'debian-newcomer' list. Question: Is there real interest in having this and how many users will subscribe in order to help the newcomers (from "doze" or Mac or other distros)? A name or nick as an answer i think will do. I'll star