Re: Routing, Bridging and VPN

2006-02-18 Thread Dexter
In shorewall you generaly define one ZONE for each interfacace like this: /etc/shorewall/interfaces ## #ZONEINTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS VPN tun0detect dropunclean,blacklist,tcpflags N

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Daniel Johnson
There are other tools for managing software that are front ends to apt. I primarily use aptitude. It is powerful interactive, and available from the command line. It will take some learning though so you will need to read a significant part of the manual to use it effectively. synaptic is pro

Re: Gnome in testing

2006-02-18 Thread Paul Wise
Joseph Smidt wrote: > I believe you, however why does distrowatch still say testing only has > gnome 2.10: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=debian Perhaps they track it manually? > http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/meta-gnome2.html still says gnome 2.12 > has still not entered testing

Re: File System - a stupid question ;)

2006-02-18 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Friday 17 February 2006 16:38, Wodzu Wodzowski wrote: > I want to install Debian on laptop, but I want to have ReiserFS/Reiser4 or > XFS file system. I've found that I can convert/create partition with one of > above file system. Can I install Sarge on Reiser/XFS partition?? > ReiserFS and XFS

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-18 Thread Shane
Hello, again.   Thank you to the people who tried to help.  I realize and did when I wrote, that I furnished litle data.  What I gave you was what the system gave me.  I have managed to get X back up so that I can respond, or in most cases ignore.   I did not disparage Debian, in fact if I di

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-18 Thread john gennard
I am most grateful to the seventeen persons who responded to my request; it would take up a lot of list space to reply to each. In a few weeks, I'll be 76 and do not need to use a battery as I've no intention or need to take the machine outdoors. I could easily buy a new battery,

Hanging during boot-up following dbus upgrade

2006-02-18 Thread John Halton
I'm running Etch (with a handful of packages from Sid) on my desktop PC, connected to the internet by a cable modem. Following the recent upgrades to Gnome 2.12 and KDE 3.5, I had about 40 packages that were being held back by aptitude. I set about clearing these manually, and one of the chang

Re: aptitude upgrade: 181 packages have been kept back:

2006-02-18 Thread steef
Luc Saffre wrote: Hello, `aptitude upgrade` suddenly tells me that a lot of packages have been kept back. Is there an explanation to why this can happen? I did not ask to keep them from being upgraded. I am on "testing" for some weeks now and did already several successful `aptitude update`/`apt

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 18 February 2006 04:32, john gennard wrote: > I am most grateful to the seventeen persons who >responded to my request; it would take up a lot of list >space to reply to each. > > In a few weeks, I'll be 76 and do not need to >use a battery as I've no intention or need to take the >mach

Re: udev problem

2006-02-18 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Schmidt wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2006 23:37, Deephay wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >> I have a problem with udev here: every time when I >>was booting the computer, the udev always show some lines >>like this on the console: >>"udevd_even: run p

Etch dependency failures

2006-02-18 Thread David Jarvie
I'm running Etch. For a few weeks now, whenever I do my regular (more than once a week) 'aptitude dist-upgrade', I get messages about unmet dependencies. The original ones were about libpaper1 and libpaper-utils, but in the last week or so more have started appearing each time. I'm surprised th

enlightenment 0.16.8 in debian

2006-02-18 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, does anyone know when does enlightenment 0.16.8 make it to debian sid? afaik, the current version (0.16.7) conflicts with 0.17 and it shoud be fixed in 0.16.8... regards, -- Lubos [EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:46:36PM -0700, Charles wrote: > I've just downloaded and installed the "sarge" distribution on a computer I > use for a test bed. Since I'm used to hosing this box and reinstalling to > learn more, most of the hardware present is fairly generic and well supported > ac

list and usenet

2006-02-18 Thread Baron Christophe
is this a usenet list ? What is usenet? Can I use this list using email? Forgive I understand noting about what is related to network. Christophe ___ Nouveau : téléphonez moins cher av

Re: splashy in sid

2006-02-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:04:03 -0800 L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have dell inspiron 600m with sid. I tried to install bootsplash with > kernel patches. But failed. Then I tried splashy. This also didn't > give me boot splash. Any body with sid got working splashy? I saw in > dmesg I ha

sources and deb

2006-02-18 Thread Baron Christophe
Howto from sources to deb packages? AAA 1) What are the informations added to the sources 2) Is there a database in my computer concerning what is installed on it? 3) The outputs of the installing commands "apt-get", "dpkg -i" and so on, are they saved/stored somewhere, or should I save them if

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:05:22 +0100 (CET) Baron Christophe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is this a usenet list ? > What is usenet? > Can I use this list using email? Yes. If you want to post send the e-mail to debian-user@lists.debian.org If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL P

apt-move archive not being picked up by apt

2006-02-18 Thread Chris Stiles
Hi -- I have the following cron job that runs nightly : /usr/bin/apt-get update && /usr/bin/apt-get autoclean && /usr/bin/apt-get -dy dist-upgrade && /usr/bin/apt-move update && /usr/bin/apt-get update This downloads updates currently needed, and puts them into an apt-move style archive in /usr/

Re: cannot load color "black"

2006-02-18 Thread Digby Tarvin
Interesting, I have seen the same thing a couple of times recently - and my configuration is unusual enough that it may narrow down the cause a bit.. 1. I am using a NCD X-Terminal on a local lan as my terminal server, so I know that the problem has nothing to do with the xorg server. 2. The sc

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 03:44:18AM -0500, Shane wrote: > Thank you to the people who tried to help. I realize and did when I > wrote, that I furnished litle data. What I gave you was what the system > gave me. I have managed to get X back up so that I can respond, or in > most cases ignore. Ok

Re: sought: silent PC suitable as a gateway

2006-02-18 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-02-17 @ 21:50:33 (week 07) martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach J.A. de Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.02.17.2125 +0100]: > > I am not sure of where you are located, but considering you wrote your > > book German too (and a good read it was!) you might want to take a look > > What, it's

Re: splashy in sid

2006-02-18 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 2/18/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed splashy and added vga=792 to the kernel. Do you get 1024x768 > at the console? Yes. I have vga=791 as options -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042

Re: cannot load color "black"

2006-02-18 Thread Deephay
Thx for your experience. I am not very much sure what's the meaning of this sentence: > an application that wasn't dealing properly with a remote x-term You mean the installation of some apps / libs affects the system? I have installed openoffice recently, not sure if that affects.. Cheers, Deep

Re: splashy in sid

2006-02-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:44:48 + L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/18/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just installed splashy and added vga=792 to the kernel. Do you get > > 1024x768 at the console? > Yes. I have vga=791 as options Sorry, can't help any further

Re: apt-move archive not being picked up by apt

2006-02-18 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Chris Stiles (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have the following cron job that runs nightly : > > /usr/bin/apt-get update && > /usr/bin/apt-get autoclean && > /usr/bin/apt-get -dy dist-upgrade && > /usr/bin/apt-move update && > /usr/bin/apt-get update > > This downloads updates currently

Re: Etch dependency failures

2006-02-18 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 2/18/06, David Jarvie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm running Etch. For a few weeks now, whenever I do my regular (more thanonce a week) 'aptitude dist-upgrade', I get messages about unmetdependencies. The original ones were about libpaper1 and libpaper-utils, but in the last week or so more have

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-18 Thread Felix Miata
Baron Christophe wrote: > is this a usenet list ? No > What is usenet? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet > Can I use this list using email? Yes. Some email apps are also newsreaders for Usenet, e.g. M$ Outhouse, M$ Outbreak Excess, Netscape 4/6/7, Mozilla, SeaMonkey and Thunderbird. -- "

Re: apt-move archive not being picked up by apt

2006-02-18 Thread Chris Stiles
On 2/18/06, Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This downloads updates currently needed, and puts them into an > > apt-move style archive in /usr/mirror, which is then picked up like so > > in sources.list: > > > > deb file:/usr/mirror/debian testing main > > > > However, even if a f

Re: Failing Sarge net install

2006-02-18 Thread Glenn Taylor
charles norwood wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 17:53 -0400, Glenn Taylor wrote: M-L wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:44 pm, Glenn Taylor wrote: > Bruno Buys wrote: > > Glenn Taylor wrote: > > > >> I am trying to install sarge on an old PC that has been running RedHat > >> 8.0 fo

Re: Routing or iptables problem, or masquerading?!

2006-02-18 Thread jb701
Problem solved! Worked out that what I was really trying to do was use the linux box as a bridge, installed brudge-utils and now everything works. - Joe I have got a bit further with my networking problem, using a linux box as a router, now I have a different problem. I have five machines

Re: about change document root

2006-02-18 Thread Oddbjørn Hansen
Nevruz Mesut Sahin wrote: I want to change apache document root to remote machine disk. I wrote document root "10.0.0.121/mydisk" but iti did not work does any body knows please help. Not strictly a Debian question, but... You will have to share the document root from your remote machine to t

Restricting POP3 / IMAP access from certain interface

2006-02-18 Thread mslinuz
This might be wierd. Is there a way to limit / block several mail users access from certain interface(s) ? For example: I've got a mail server with 2 network interface eth0 + eth1. I want to block user A from accessing pop3 service via eth0 but allow only from eth1. User B is allowed to access from

Re: enabling wireless

2006-02-18 Thread Magnus Therning
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:52:23AM -0600, David Berg wrote: >I just switched my laptop from the default ubuntu install to Debian >Sarge and the Atheros wireless card (pci not pcmcia) is not recognized >as wireless. iwconfig sees it but says there are supposedly "no >wireless extentions". Can I ge

Re: udev problem

2006-02-18 Thread Magnus Therning
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 06:01:03PM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote: >On 2/17/06, John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thursday 16 February 2006 23:37, Deephay wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I have a problem with udev here: every time when I >> > was booting the computer, the udev always show some

Re: udev problem

2006-02-18 Thread Jonathan Dill
Magnus Therning wrote: Haven't found any cons. I removed the initramfs package to trigger kernel upgrades to use yaird. IME yaird produces MUCH smaller ramdisks. The sequence in which you install / remove the packages seems significant, however. On a second box, I thought I would get "smart

Re: gui for apache?

2006-02-18 Thread mslinuz
Mark Grieveson wrote: >> >> >> Mark Grieveson wrote: >> >> > On Sarge, I had a webserver, where I would set stuff up via Webmin. > Is there a gui for apache that comes with Etch? >>> >>> >>> >>> You mean in sarge you can set up apache via webmin ? >>> Then I believe you can do that

Re: Hanging during boot-up following dbus upgrade

2006-02-18 Thread cody chamberlain
I am experiencing a similar problem. Mine isn't during boot, however, because my iface is set to no auto. When I 'ifup eth0' or 'eth1' it hangs after: bound to 192.168.1.67 -- renewal in 300 seconds. If I wait long enough, it closes itself. However, if I jsut close the terminal, the ip address wa

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Charles
- Original Message - From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 3:54 AM Subject: Re: New install and newbie questions On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:46:36PM -0700, Charles wrote: I've just downloaded and installed the "sarge" distribution on a co

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-18 Thread John Hasler
Shane wrote: > However, when I run pppconfig and it sets up files that I have to change, > most notably so far the /etc/ppp/peers/provider file, to make it fail > less badly, I think there3 is something very wrong. Please post _exactly_ what you did, the _exact_ error messages, the full contents o

Re: enabling wireless

2006-02-18 Thread David Berg
On 2/18/06, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:52:23AM -0600, David Berg wrote: > >Sarge and the Atheros wireless card (pci not pcmcia) is not recognized > >as wireless. iwconfig sees it but says there are supposedly "no > > Is the correct kernel module(s) load

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, john gennard wrote: > a. Is it harmful to use the Laptop with Adapter > WITHOUT any battery on board? You have got a IBM ThinkPad. It is higly doubtful that the machine would care if the battery is plugged in or not, but it is certain that if it does, the manual warns a

teamspeak on systray

2006-02-18 Thread debianista . deb
hello I installed the teamspeak and it works okay but the icon on systray doesn't exist :( where can I enable that option? please thanks :-)

Re: cannot load color "black"

2006-02-18 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 10:54:27PM +0800, Deephay wrote: > Thx for your experience. > I am not very much sure what's the meaning of this sentence: > > an application that wasn't dealing properly with a remote x-term > You mean the installation of some apps / libs affects the system? To really und

Re: gui for apache? Webmin Dead?

2006-02-18 Thread Morgan Reed
Ok, obviously I have been living under a rock, why is webmin no good anymore? is Jamie Cameron no longer maintaining it? Is there an alternative to webmin that has taken the crown? I for one was always a fan of webmin as a nice GUI way to manage a server without needing to install a windo

Re: Etch dependency failures

2006-02-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 10:23:18AM +, David Jarvie wrote: > I'm running Etch. For a few weeks now, whenever I do my regular (more than > once a week) 'aptitude dist-upgrade', I get messages about unmet > dependencies. The original ones were about libpaper1 and libpaper-utils, but > in the la

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
john gennard wrote: a. Is it harmful to use the Laptop with Adapter without any battery on board? My laptop (used Thinkpad 390 from E-bay with DOA battery) required that the battery, even though totally dead, be in the laptop to run off of the adaptor. Without the battery, the circuit

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:00:32 -0700 "Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I should 1) Add the 14 CD's and the two update CD's via "apt-cdrom add", > 2) activate all sources in Synaptic, 3) run "apt-get update" and "apt-get > upgrade" and I'll have an up-to-date system. You need at least: d

Firefox corrupted config?

2006-02-18 Thread Bill Moseley
firefox: Installed: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-2 Dist-upgrade on Sid a few days ago and now about:config in firefox now shows: XML Parsing Error: syntax error Location: about:config Line Number 1, Column 1: age id="find-status-icon"/> ^ Anyone else seeing this? -- Bill

Re: Firefox corrupted config? [SOLVED]

2006-02-18 Thread Bill Moseley
Silly me, I had firefox still open on another desktop from before the upgrade. On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:58:16AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > firefox: > Installed: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-2 > > Dist-upgrade on Sid a few days ago and now about:config in firefox > now shows: > > > XML

Re: gui for apache? Webmin Dead?

2006-02-18 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 2/18/06, Morgan Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, obviously I have been living under a rock, why is webmin no good > anymore? is Jamie Cameron no longer maintaining it? > > Is there an alternative to webmin that has taken the crown? > > I for one was always a fan of webmin as a nice GUI w

has webmin disapeared on Etch/Sid?

2006-02-18 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi, I cannont "apt-get install" webmin anymore on a Etch/Sid. The package is not found. I use ftp.fr.debian.org mirror and tried with some others but it's the same. What happened? http://www.apt-get.org does not contain anything relevant either. -- A powerfull GroupWare, CMS, CRM, ECM: CPS (Open

Re: has webmin disapeared on Etch/Sid?

2006-02-18 Thread Adam James
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 19:17 +0100, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > I cannont "apt-get install" webmin anymore on a Etch/Sid. > The package is not found. I use ftp.fr.debian.org mirror and tried with > some others but it's the same. > What happened? Webmin was removed from unstable at the request

Re: has webmin disapeared on Etch/Sid?

2006-02-18 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 19:17 +0100, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi, > I cannont "apt-get install" webmin anymore on a Etch/Sid. http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2006/01/msg00144.html -- A powerfull GroupWare, CMS, CRM, ECM: CPS (Open Source & GPL). Opengroupware, SPIP, Plone, PhpBB, JetSpe

Re: has webmin disapeared on Etch/Sid?

2006-02-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 07:17:24PM +0100, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi, > I cannont "apt-get install" webmin anymore on a Etch/Sid. > The package is not found. I use ftp.fr.debian.org mirror and tried with > some others but it's the same. > What happened? > http://www.apt-get.org does not co

Re: has webmin disapeared on Etch/Sid?

2006-02-18 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 13:31 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: [webmin & webmin-* package] > Any takers are welcome! even non-debian developers can do it! Ok, let's say I'll try to take it. - Where could I find the latest source package? I am _not_ going to rebuild the entire package. - I switch to the ment

How to move away gui buttons on emacs

2006-02-18 Thread Juraj Fedel
I want let that toolbar for mouse use go away. How to do that? Juraj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xmms in sid

2006-02-18 Thread steef
hi all, want to install the latest xmms, debian_way: so i need sid. i am running sarge on one of my two hdś, as my production-system. so i need to update from sarge to sid to install this latest xmms. what are the risks for the os on my production_hd when i mix sarge up with sid-packages by ch

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Charles
- Original Message - From: "Andrei Popescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 10:48 AM Subject: Re: New install and newbie questions On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:00:32 -0700 "Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So I should 1) Add the 14 CD's and the two update CD

test_seamonkey

2006-02-18 Thread steef
test test [something funny happening to my fonts on seamonkey_mail] s. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cant route out

2006-02-18 Thread Brent Clark
Hi all I seem to have a very weird problem. I have a gateway that allows me to route into the LAN etc, but for some reason I cant get traffic out. I have apprended a route like below to help me if its getting that far, and it defiantly is. $IPT -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -s 10.0.0.0/24 -j

Re: xmms in sid

2006-02-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:07:01 +0100 steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > > want to install the latest xmms, debian_way: so i need sid. > i am running sarge on one of my two hdś, as my production-system. > > so i need to update from sarge to sid to install this latest xmms. You don't need

Re: How to move away gui buttons on emacs

2006-02-18 Thread Angelina Carlton
Juraj Fedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want let that toolbar for mouse use go away. How to do that? > Juraj I have this in my ~/.emacs ;; no menubar, scrollbar, toolbar or blinky-blinky (tool-bar-mode nil) (menu-bar-mode nil) (scroll-bar-mode nil) (blink-cursor-mode nil) -- -Angelina

cant route out

2006-02-18 Thread Brent Clark
Hi all I seem to have a very weird problem. I have a gateway that allows me to route into the LAN etc, but for some reason I cant get traffic out. I have apprended a route like below to help me if its getting that far, and it defiantly is. $IPT -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -s 10.0.0.0/24 -j

Re: Clock jumps forward.

2006-02-18 Thread David Baron
> > Every few days, I find my clock two hours fast. Easy enough to reset but > > ... why? > > > > I am running 2.6.15 kernel, Sid, and time is updated using ntp. Since my > > time zone is universal + two hours, maybe the two hours means something. > > Make sure you have your timezone correctly conf

Re: Hanging during boot-up following dbus upgrade

2006-02-18 Thread John Halton
cody chamberlain wrote: I am experiencing a similar problem. Mine isn't during boot, however, because my iface is set to no auto. When I 'ifup eth0' or 'eth1' it hangs after: bound to 192.168.1.67 -- renewal in 300 seconds. If I wait long enough, it closes itself. However, if I jsut close the t

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:12:12 -0700 "Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also did my first > reinstall and watchd it closely. It is said there are Debian users than didn't reinstall in 10 (ten) years. Debian supports direct upgrading from one release to another (stable or not). I remember

Re: Restricting POP3 / IMAP access from certain interface

2006-02-18 Thread Allan Wind
As your restrictions are based on the imap/pop credentials, you would need to find servers that support such policies (or enhance existing ones). I am not aware of any servers that can do that. You may be able to find servers that can bind to specific interfaces and then configure each instance t

Re: splashy in sid

2006-02-18 Thread David R. Litwin
This also didn't give me boot splash. Any body with sid got working splashy? I do indeed hsve Splashy working with Sid. Please post your GRUB menu.list (or the LILO equivalent). We'll start there and see what we can do.Cheers.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils. —My hover-craft is full of eels.—[

Need xserver-xorg 6.8.2 debs (was Re: Xorg not working with Matrox G550?? MGAGetBOARDHANDLESize)

2006-02-18 Thread Bill Moseley
What the hell is going on with Xorg? I did a dist upgrade again to xserver-xorg 6.9.0 and again I can't get X to start. Last time this came up I had to downgrade xserver-xorg to 6.8.2 but now I don't have that .deb around any more. Where can I grab the old packages? Seems like the driver that c

Re: Etch dependency failures

2006-02-18 Thread David Jarvie
On Saturday 18 February 2006 15:08, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On 2/18/06, David Jarvie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running Etch. For a few weeks now, whenever I do my regular (more > > than once a week) 'aptitude dist-upgrade', I get messages about unmet > > dependencies. The original ones we

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 12:12:12PM -0700, Charles wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Andrei Popescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 10:48 AM > Subject: Re: New install and newbie questions > > > >On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:00:32 -0700 > >"Charles" <[EMA

Re: Etch dependency failures

2006-02-18 Thread David Jarvie
On Saturday 18 February 2006 16:21, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 10:23:18AM +, David Jarvie wrote: > > I'm running Etch. For a few weeks now, whenever I do my regular (more > > than once a week) 'aptitude dist-upgrade', I get messages about unmet > > dependencies. The original on

Re: Clock jumps forward.

2006-02-18 Thread David Baron
On Friday 17 February 2006 23:12, Mirko Parthey wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 05:27:50PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > Every few days, I find my clock two hours fast. Easy enough to reset but > > ... why? > > > > I am running 2.6.15 kernel, Sid, and time is updated using ntp. Since my > > time z

Fwd: Reposting-2.6.15-1-686 Kernel Wont Upgrade

2006-02-18 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Reposting since I got no reply as seems to be the case for me lately. This is a problem I can't resolve and hope for some help. I see a lot of these upgrading issues on the list, but no solution for me. Thanks for any reconsideration. Not subscribed-plz copy my email. Leonard Chatagnier --- Leona

Re: splashy in sid

2006-02-18 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 2/18/06, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This also didn't give me boot splash. Any body with sid got working > splashy? > > > I do indeed hsve Splashy working with Sid. Please post your GRUB menu.list > (or the LILO equivalent). We'll start there and see what we can do. relevent

Re: splashy in sid

2006-02-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:31:01 -0800 L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/18/06, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This also didn't give me boot splash. Any body with sid got working > > splashy? > > > > > > I do indeed hsve Splashy working with Sid. Please post your GRUB

Re: Need xserver-xorg 6.8.2 debs (was Re: Xorg not working with Matrox G550?? MGAGetBOARDHANDLESize)

2006-02-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
Bill Moseley wrote: What the hell is going on with Xorg? I did a dist upgrade again to xserver-xorg 6.9.0 and again I can't get X to start. Last time this came up I had to downgrade xserver-xorg to 6.8.2 but now I don't have that .deb around any more. Where can I grab the old packages? It sh

Re: splashy in sid

2006-02-18 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 2/18/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only difference I can spot is the 'splash' which I don't have Initially I also didn't have it. As it didn't work, I saw in ubuntu forums with this addition to kernel option. Hence I added it. Even then no use. -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgan

long term problem with firefox cpu usage ocntinues

2006-02-18 Thread Matt Price
Upgraded recently to firefox 1.5, andhtought for a while that my longstanding issues with cpu usage were solved. Now I'm having the same problems I had long ago -- cpu up to as high as 98+ percent when opening new tabs, loading certain pages, performing actions like e.g. quitting firefox. I hav

Re: kernel compile volume picture.

2006-02-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
L.V.Gandhi wrote: Today I compiled kernel with same config but for enabling dell laptop option and disabling radeonfb. But when I boot with new kernel and do login through kdm, I get volume picture as given in attachment. I don't know how to remove it? Why does it appear? You mean you login th

Trying to fix sound after suspend to disk on dektop.

2006-02-18 Thread Nick Lidakis
I'm running Debian Sid kernel 2.6.15 on an Asus A8V deluxe and a Sound Blaster Live value PCI card, ATI Radeon 9000 Pro, and Athlon 3500+. After getting the stock kernel's suspend to disk working via echo -n disk > /sys/power/state, I have been using that mechanism instead of shutting down the

Re: has webmin disapeared on Etch/Sid?

2006-02-18 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Ok, let's say I'll try to take it. - Where could I find the latest source package? I am _not_ going to rebuild the entire package. - I switch to the mentors mailing list. Some people have expressed an interest in picking webmin up. See ht

Re: has webmin disapeared on Etch/Sid?

2006-02-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 07:48:00PM +0100, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 13:31 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > [webmin & webmin-* package] > > Any takers are welcome! even non-debian developers can do it! > > Ok, let's say I'll try to take it. > - Where could I find the latest s

Re: xmms in sid

2006-02-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
steef wrote: hi all, want to install the latest xmms, Just curious, why? H debian_way: so i need sid. i am running sarge on one of my two hdś, as my production-system. so i need to update from sarge to sid to install this latest xmms. what are the risks for the os on my production_hd

Re: long term problem with firefox cpu usage ocntinues

2006-02-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 04:42:52PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > so it would bereally niceto know what exactly makes firefox behave > this way. Hi Matt, you should google about firefox issue because as of late I saw an article where they exmplained that its memory uses was a 'feature' and not a 'bug

File attributes being set after upgrade

2006-02-18 Thread David Jarvie
Since my latest dist-upgrade today, many of my files are having file attributes (as displayed by lsattr) set, and as far as I can tell, this didn't happen before. At any rate, seemingly randomly, various of my files are becoming undeletable for no apparent reason. I seem to have to log in as ro

Re: splashy in sid

2006-02-18 Thread David R. Litwin
> The only difference I can spot is the 'splash' which I don't haveInitially I also didn't have it. As it didn't work, I saw in ubuntu forums with this addition to kernel option. Hence I added it.Even then no use.When you boot in to Debian, what exactly do you see? Is there any comment made with th

Re: File attributes being set after upgrade

2006-02-18 Thread David Jarvie
On Saturday 18 February 2006 22:21, David Jarvie wrote: > Since my latest dist-upgrade today, many of my files are having file > attributes (as displayed by lsattr) set, and as far as I can tell, this > didn't happen before. At any rate, seemingly randomly, various of my files > are becoming undele

latest on botnets

2006-02-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/ has some unbelievable numbers: the average botnet (network of compromised PC's) has 36,8000 members! None of these can be Debian boxes running chkroot regularly, right? They are all M$ boxes. Is that a believable number? H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

debian pine source build 4.62

2006-02-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
A little earlier today I lost something on the order of 15,000 messages after having initially viewed them with a new build of pine. There's likely some serious instability going on somewhere. I had used fetchmail to download messages and exim was used to post what i have to the internet. Si

Re: latest on botnets

2006-02-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/ > has some unbelievable numbers: the average botnet (network of > compromised PC's) has 36,8000 members! > > None of these can be Debian boxes running chkroot regularly, right? no ... chkroot will try to

Re: debian pine source build 4.62

2006-02-18 Thread ke6isf
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Jude DaShiell wrote: A little earlier today I lost something on the order of 15,000 messages after having initially viewed them with a new build of pine. Define "lost". Were they deleted from /var/spool/mail/$user entirely, or did pine put them in a different directory?

Re: Need xserver-xorg 6.8.2 debs (was Re: Xorg not working with Matrox G550?? MGAGetBOARDHANDLESize)

2006-02-18 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 10:50:41PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Debian maintainers, kernel developers, etc. flat-out refuse to have > anything to do with a problem which involves closed-source modules. > This is not necessarily because of "politics"; they are just being > pragmatic. After all, th

DHCP problem following Etch upgrade

2006-02-18 Thread John Halton
This is the same problem as in my previous thread ("Hanging during boot-up following dbus upgrade") but a response on that thread has enabled me to narrow it down a bit. dhcp-client (I assume) is pausing indefinitely at the "bound to 80.x.xxx.x -- renewal in 56953 seconds" message. This appli

Sarge and RAID

2006-02-18 Thread Sion Dafydd
Hi! I've successfully got Sarge and RAID working when using the following configuration: boot, swap and root partition as seperate RAID1 partitions, plus a large partition also as RAID1, all these partitions are mirrored on two 250 GB drives. I get no problem with this configuration. I've come in

Re: Sarge and RAID

2006-02-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Sion Dafydd wrote: > I've come into posesion of a spare 40 GB drive which I want to use to > hold the boot, swap and root partitions, while the two 250GB disks > mirror one large partition. Well, for some reason using this > configuration /dev/md0 does not get initilaized on

Re: DHCP problem following Etch upgrade

2006-02-18 Thread John Halton
John Halton wrote: This is the same problem as in my previous thread ("Hanging during boot-up following dbus upgrade") but a response on that thread has enabled me to narrow it down a bit. dhcp-client (I assume) is pausing indefinitely at the "bound to 80.x.xxx.x -- renewal in 56953 seconds"

Re: kernel compile volume picture.

2006-02-18 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 2/18/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > Today I compiled kernel with same config but for enabling dell laptop > > option and disabling radeonfb. But when I boot with new kernel and do > > login through kdm, I get volume picture as given in attachment. I > > do

Re: Sarge and RAID

2006-02-18 Thread Sion Dafydd
Got this solved, it helps if I load the modules for my SATA disks first!! Apologies for the posts. On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 23:17:01 +, "Sion Dafydd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi! > > I've successfully got Sarge and RAID working when using the following > configuration: boot, swap and root part

Re: splashy in sid

2006-02-18 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 2/18/06, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, given you're kernel name, I assume that you have compiled it yourself. > Are you sure that you have done it in such a way as to allow a boot splash? > (I'm not sure what you would need to compile in to a kernel for splashy as > I've no

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