Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks

2006-06-14 Thread Brent Clark
Sorry, couldnt resist http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1026 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

google earth error (opengl error)

2006-06-14 Thread Surachai Locharoen
I run google earth for linux. And found the error below. I read in the internet but not found suitable solution. Do u have any suggestion? I use i915 intel chipset. ERROR!  sizeof(I830DRIRec) does not match passed size from device driver libGL warning: 3D driver returned no fbconfigs. libGL e

Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks

2006-06-14 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 03:04, Brent Clark wrote: > Sorry, couldnt resist > > http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1026 After reading this sentence in the above article "Once again I should have probably read the manual, but I figured I've done this before." I think there is no need to give

Re: price of the 3 debian cds much more expensive than what it is told on the website

2006-06-14 Thread bruno doutriaux
what is the gui of debian sarge ?(graphical user interface)2006/6/13, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [debian-www isn't really the most appropriate list for this type ofquestion; adding debian-user to the Cc list. Please direct replies, if any, there, removing debian-www from the list]On Tue,

dvdrip: transcode failiure

2006-06-14 Thread Vegard L. Rekaa
Hi list, I'm trying to rip my first dvd, with the debian-etch package "dvdrip". Dvdrip uses transcode, wich halts and gives this errormessage upon launch:most relevant excerpt from output--- [...snip...][transcode] warning : (dl_loader.c) loading "/usr/lib/transcode/expo

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:30:12 -0400 "Patrick Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/11/06, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 01:14:29PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > Thanks for that little rant; it made my day. I recently switched > > > from mozilla to

Re: gdm fails after 3.1r2 desktop install

2006-06-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:43:19 -0500 Phil Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (My first attempt to install any Linux system so bear with me please!) > > I did what appeared to be a clean installation of 3.1r2, but on first > startup gdm says: > > GDM: Xserver not found: /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audi

Re: price of the 3 debian cds much more expensive than what it is told on the website

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
* bruno doutriaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 09:18:34 +0200]: > what is the gui of debian sarge ? > (graphical user interface) > What do you want? You can have Gnome, KDE, Xfce, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, Blackbox (to name a few), all of the preceding or none. By default, if 'desktop environme

Re: Network Installation

2006-06-14 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 00:39 +0200, Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann wrote: > Hello, > > I've tried to install sarge over netowrk but I failed to do it for the > following reasons > > Infrastructure: > Internet access via DSL WLAN Router **ONLY WLAN* with WPA, > The target computer uses successfully AS

Re: google earth error (opengl error)

2006-06-14 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 14/06/06, Surachai Locharoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I run google earth for linux. And found the error below. I read in the internet but not found suitable solution. Do u have any suggestion? I use i915 intel chipset. ERROR! sizeof(I830DRIRec) does not match passed size from device driv

Re: Setting up email [solved]

2006-06-14 Thread Søren Christensen
Quoting Søren Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: some weeks ago a had a fatal breakdown of my harddisk, I only managed to save user-data in /home partition. On a new computer I'm now setting email. During installation I specified smarthost, but I cannot send mail anyway. I recall something about

Re: google earth error (opengl error)

2006-06-14 Thread Andreas Ehn
Kumar Appaiah wrote: Sure. DRI isn't enabled. Check whether your kernel has the i915 module. And check that you are using the i810 Xorg/XFree86 driver, depending on your distro, X etc. Also, if you are using Xorg 7.0 on Debian (Etch or Sid), DRI is broken, and I had to get the latest version at

Re: Setting up email

2006-06-14 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 08:42:50 +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: >some weeks ago a had a fatal breakdown of my harddisk, I only managed >to save user-data in /home partition. > >On a new computer I'm now setting email. During installation I >specified smarthost, but I cannot send mail anyway. > >I

Re: Where does Debian store packages on my local disk drive...

2006-06-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 07:11:25PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > I've been using Debian for a few months now, but for the first time > I've got a Debian box hooked to an internet connection. So now I can > finally download Debian packages directly to my work box from the net, > and software in

Re: Problems with slapd not starting after upgrade

2006-06-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/06/06 20:22), Juliet Kemp wrote: > I'm running testing on a Sparc box, and have just upgraded slapd to the > latest version (2.3.23), only to discover that it now won't start, at > all. The same applies to the version in unstable, & an attempt at > downgrading to stable was unproductive

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2006 #1340

2006-06-14 Thread Andy Beuth
Am Mittwoch, den 14.06.2006, 02:56 -0500 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > E-Mail-Nachricht-Anlage > > Weitergeleitete Nachricht > > > > debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2006 : Issue 1340 > > > > Today's Topics: > > Learn about a hard drive... [

apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Hi list, I am running Debian unstable without x, except that some console apps seem to require some of the x infrastructure. Lately my apt-get upgrade, dist-upgrade, install, and remove all seem to fail because of a package or two that are neither fully installed or removed. I can't seem to fin

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
* Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 05:42:43 -0400]: Try: apt-get remove --purge X11-common apt-get dist-upgrade -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where does Debian store packages on my local disk drive...

2006-06-14 Thread Joris
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 05:18 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: >> I've got another Debian box at home that isn't wired to the net yet. > run this script on the debian system that you want to update: > apt-get -y --print-uris upgrade|awk '{print $1}'|grep deb|cut -d\' -f2 > it will output a list of URLs t

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Hi Dave, On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:02:30PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > * Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 05:42:43 -0400]: > > Try: > apt-get remove --purge X11-common > apt-get dist-upgrade > > Here is what happens when I do the remove: Script started on Wed 14 Jun 2006

selinux: audit2allow missing module

2006-06-14 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, audit2allow (from package policycoreutils) returns the following error:     Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/audit2allow", line 27, in ? import commands, sys, os, pwd, string, getopt, re, selinux ImportError: No module named selinux     Where can I grab python module 'seli

Re: price of the 3 debian cds much more expensive than what it is told on the website

2006-06-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Ubuntu and Kubuntu are not Debian; while based on Debian, they really are different distributions, with different goals. The main differences are the fact that Ubuntu (and its sisters kubuntu and edubuntu) have strict 6-month release cycles, while Debian does not; and the fact that the default Ub

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Joris Huizer
Charles Hallenbeck wrote: Package x11-common is not installed, so not removed Hmm, you could try `dpkg --purge x11-common` HTH, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Simone Soldateschi
On 6/14/06, Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Dave,On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:02:30PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote:> * Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 05:42:43 -0400]:>> Try: > apt-get remove --purge X11-common> apt-get dist-upgradeI had a similar problem two days a

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
Ok, it looks like x11-common can't do anything because somethings hosed with debconf. Try apt-get -f install debconf, or dpkg-reconfigure debconf, and see what happens there. -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Hi, Joris On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:37:17PM +0200, Joris Huizer wrote: > Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > >Package x11-common is not installed, so not removed > > Hmm, you could try `dpkg --purge x11-common` Unfortunately I get the same familiar output: Script started on Wed 14 Jun 2006 06:38:49 A

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:39:07PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > Ok, it looks like x11-common can't do anything because somethings hosed > with debconf. > Try apt-get -f install debconf, or dpkg-reconfigure debconf, and see what > happens there. The apt-get -f install debconf gives me the same c

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
* Simone Soldateschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 12:36:47 +0200]: > A debian user suggested me to fix the problem using synaptic and filtering > defective packages.. it did the job. Sorry. Here, he can't do that because he isn't even running X, only some components of it are needed for his

Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks

2006-06-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Wednesday 14 June 2006 03:04, Brent Clark wrote: Sorry, couldnt resist http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1026 After reading this sentence in the above article "Once again I should have probably read the manual, but I figured I've done this before." I th

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Hi Simone, On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:36:47PM +0200, Simone Soldateschi wrote: > > I had a similar problem two days ago trying to update 'libwx2.6-dev' from > backports. > 'apt-get' failed package upgrade due to unmet dependencies and I was unable > to fix the problem with 'apt -f install'. > A

Re: windows in xen on intel core-duo?

2006-06-14 Thread Linas Žvirblis
> qemu ? yes, but not raw, you need a disc-image Both QEMU and VMware emulate an entire computer which has its own hardware. This means that once you boot Windows from within QEMU (it can boot from real disks), it will need to reconfigure itself to run on emulated hardware. And, as we all know, Wi

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Joris Huizer
Charles Hallenbeck wrote: Hi, Joris On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:37:17PM +0200, Joris Huizer wrote: Charles Hallenbeck wrote: Package x11-common is not installed, so not removed Hmm, you could try `dpkg --purge x11-common` Unfortunately I get the same familiar output: Script started on

Re: windows in xen on intel core-duo?

2006-06-14 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:56:37PM +0300, Linas Žvirblis wrote: > 1.4. Does Xen support Microsoft Windows? > > The paravirtualized approach we use to get such high performance has > not been usable directly for Windows to date. However Xen 3.0 added > Intel VT-x support to enable the runnin

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
* Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 06:50:32 -0400]: > > Do I dare try to remove debconf? I better do a backup first, this is > getting serious 'Eek!' said I, and yes, do a backup. Then, yank it out. Then, pull debconf from the testing repository manually and install with

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Hi Joris, When I add either the --force-depends or the --force-all option to the dpkg --purge x11-common command, they also fail to remove the package. When I then do an apt-get -f install, I get the same familiar failure as I reported earlier. I may have to save what I can and reinstall my sy

Re: gdm fails after 3.1r2 desktop install

2006-06-14 Thread Dmitri Minaev
On 6/14/06, Phil Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please install the X server or edit /etc/gem/gem.conf to point to the right place. I wonder, why it is gem.conf instead of gdm.conf... What if you link /etc/gdm to /etc/gem? -- With best regards, Dmitri Minaev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Dave, On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 06:12:29PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > * Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 06:50:32 -0400]: > > > 'Eek!' said I, and yes, do a backup. > > Then, yank it out. Yeah, but I can't yank it out! It is not fully installed, and nothing in my arsenal

Re: selinux: audit2allow missing module

2006-06-14 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-06-14, 12:22:27 (+0200) skrifaði Bruno Costacurta: > Hello, > audit2allow (from package policycoreutils) returns the following error: > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/audit2allow", line 27, in ? > import commands, sys, os, pwd, string, getopt, re, selinux > Imp

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Joris Huizer
just thinking aloud, maybe `apt-get --reinstall install debconf` could help out on debconf, and then also on x11-common... I hope? HTH, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Joris Huizer
one more note, in case you have aptitude installed, you may try using that, too, as it is known to be handle conflicts and brakage slightly different from apt-get; The interactive interface can show what is broken and such (just calling out a few suggestions now) HTH, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Printing IRC channel

2006-06-14 Thread Roger Leigh
For anyone wanting help with setting up or using printing-related stuff on Debian, or for help with problems, I've created a #debian-printing IRC channel on irc.debian.org. This might also be useful for development. This isn't intended to be a substitute for [EMAIL PROTECTED] or for the bug track

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 08:40:03AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > The new dialog is supplied by GTK, not GNOME, so it will show up in > XFce too. Just an advance warning ;-) Ah, but who do you think controls GTK now? Hint... it ain't the GIMP people. -- Marc Wilson | New York's got the ways

Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks

2006-06-14 Thread Juergen Erhard
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:27:38AM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Wednesday 14 June 2006 03:04, Brent Clark wrote: > > Sorry, couldnt resist > > > > http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1026 > > After reading this sentence in the above article > > "Once again I should have probably read

gnome upgrade

2006-06-14 Thread Paras pradhan
hi all:I have a desktop system in which gnome 2.10 is running absoultely fine. I have installed it using etch repoistory around 4 months back. Now i see there is gnome 2.14 in etch. I want to know how do i upgrade only gnome core files from my 2.10 to 2.14 without upgrading my other applications.

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
* Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 13:58:57 +0200]: > one more note, in case you have aptitude installed, you may try using > that, too, as it is known to be handle conflicts and brakage slightly > different from apt-get; The interactive interface can show what is > broken and such

SOLVED(sort of): OT: deleting tables from mysql using wildcard

2006-06-14 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >> I have a lot of tables in a mysql database starting with "phpWeb"; I > >> want to delete them. I can delete them one-by-one with a command like: > >> > >>drop table phpWebmod_modules; > >> > >> Rather than trying to delete all 20-30 similar tables, a w

Public build servers for Debian/Ubuntu packages?

2006-06-14 Thread Magnus Therning
Does anyone know if there's a service where I can upload my Debian source packages that will attempt to compile them for other .deb distros and let me download the results? Specifically I want to take a few source packages and get Ubuntu (Breezy/Dapper) packages out. It'd be great to get Sarge pac

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
* Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 07:43:57 -0400]: > Yeah, but I can't yank it out! It is not fully installed, and nothing in > my arsenal can yank it out. Ok,then: Look at /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst and see what's in that file-perhaps we can hack a fix from there.

Re: SOLVED(sort of): OT: deleting tables from mysql using wildcard

2006-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> Kent West wrote: [snip] > Not as much work as it could have been; way more than it should > have been. A simple "drop table phpWeb*" would have been SO much > easier. Oh, well, that's a mysql issue, not Debian.

deleting rivafb

2006-06-14 Thread hendrik
Trying to set up my AMD64 with the 2.6.15 kernel. When I compile the nvidia kernel modules, it tells me that they are incompatible with the rivafb functionality, and I have to disable this in the kernel (which is a stock Debian kernel) before I can use them. How do I go about this? Presumably s

Re: Learn about a hard drive...

2006-06-14 Thread Dimitar Vukman
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:16:57 -0700 "Redefined Horizons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What bash command would I use to list information about the hard > drives installed on my computer? What comes to my mind is: 1. su to become root fdisk -l 2. cat /etc/fstab 3.

Re: deleting rivafb

2006-06-14 Thread Linas Žvirblis
> When I compile the nvidia kernel modules, it tells me that > they are incompatible with the rivafb functionality, and I have to > disable this in the kernel (which is a stock Debian kernel) before I can > use them. If it is built as a module (and I guess it is), that is really easy. > How do

CUPS + printer configuration override from clients

2006-06-14 Thread Eugen Wintersberger
Hi there, I Debian (testing) on our server together with Windows and Ubuntu Clients. Since some time my users cannot change from non-duplex to duplex printing. If duplex printing is switched on for a certain printer on the CUPS server the printer will always print double sided no matter if I dea

Re: CUPS + printer configuration override from clients

2006-06-14 Thread Roger Leigh
Eugen Wintersberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since some time my users cannot change from non-duplex to duplex > printing. If duplex printing is switched on for a certain printer > on the CUPS server the printer will always print double sided no matter > if I deactivate duplex printing on th

Re: Public build servers for Debian/Ubuntu packages?

2006-06-14 Thread Bradley Alexander
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 14:39 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > Does anyone know if there's a service where I can upload my Debian > source packages that will attempt to compile them for other .deb > distros and let me download the results? > > Specifically I want to take a few source packages and get

Re: CUPS + printer configuration override from clients

2006-06-14 Thread Eugen Wintersberger
Sorry I meant I have Debian (testing) . and that my users cannot change from duplex to non-duplex printing. One should not do five things at the same time. Eugen On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 16:35 +0200, Eugen Wintersberger wrote: > Hi there, > I Debian (testing) on our server together wi

Fwd: Debian sarge 3.1\apache2 not surpport cgi

2006-06-14 Thread Rocky Ou
-- Forwarded message --From: Rocky Ou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Jun 6, 2006 6:59 PM Subject: Re: Debian sarge 3.1\apache2 not surpport cgiTo: Jiann-Ming Su <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 6/6/06, Jiann-Ming Su <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/5/06, Rocky Ou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >y mach

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > Retrieving bug reports... Done > Preconfiguring packages ... > x11-common failed to preconfigure, with exit status 1 > Setting up debconf (1.5.2) ... > dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Err

Re: System configuration profile manager

2006-06-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Roberto Bernetti wrote: Thank for the hint. SCPM can manage printing and video too I wonder if is there anything more similar. I'm not using those tools too heavily, but some of them (laptop-net, IIRC) support scripts to run, when a network is 'entered' or 'left'. You can easily script somet

Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks

2006-06-14 Thread Bill Thompson
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:52:06 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, everyone knows that they should read the manual first, but who > actually does? Especially, if one just wants to try a new release. And especially if the Distro you are using is meant to be "User Friendly".

logcheck vs postfix/mysql

2006-06-14 Thread Lars
Hi I'm trying add new rules to logcheck, but as soon as it get dynamic my new rules fails. For instance whenever postfix checks user/password in my mysql-table, it's written i the log and i get a mail. Here i tried to add new rules, but only the static works. # Extras - Mysql Connection ^\w{3} [

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread John Miller
Why not just keep x11-common? It looks like a whole ton of X libraries are already installed. Otherwise, figure out which programs depend on each individual library, either by dpkg --show , or by trying to remove each library individually. Up until a month or two ago (when I gave it away), I ran

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 12:21:32 -0400]: : > > set -e > > Then re-run this apt-get -f install and we should be able to figure out > what's really wrong. > This will tell you where in the script it's exiting... -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks

2006-06-14 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 6/14/06, Brent Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry, couldnt resist http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1026 Hi Brent, Since the author made a lot of wrong points about the Debian project, release cycle and distribution i wrote this blog entry (as seen on planet.debian.org): http://st

Message-ID Suffix Change Mozilla Thunderbird

2006-06-14 Thread Anthony Simonelli
I'm using Mozilla-Thunderbird with my MS Exchange IMAP server at work. When I send an email to the Internet, my Postfix MTA gives the following message: forged name in Message-ID: header: and rejects the email. I've successfully sent email from Kmail by changing the Message-ID Suffix in the Co

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread John Miller
Apologies for not reading the original message closely enough. I got stuck on the 'x11-common' part and didn't pay enough attention to the debconf error. If debconf is having trouble, that's really weird. Perhaps doing a dpkg -r debconf, then doing a clean reinstall of debconf? Using wget to do

Re: Fwd: Debian sarge 3.1\apache2 not surpport cgi

2006-06-14 Thread John Miller
What do the server logs say? The /var/log/apache2 directory, for instance? What user is your web server running as? Can you view regular HTML files placed in the /~lover/mytest.cgi directory? --John Rocky Ou wrote: > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: *Rocky Ou* <[EMAIL PROT

dvd movie playing

2006-06-14 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi all the debian listers. In order to play dvd movies, I downloaded from: ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/pool/main/libd/libdvdcss/ the package libdvdcss2_1.2.9-0.0_i386.deb, and want to install it by hand. 1) How to do so? `apt-get' doesn't do the job. 2) Will that package be enough to pl

Re: dvd movie playing

2006-06-14 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:25:06 +0200 Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all the debian listers. > > In order to play dvd movies, I downloaded from: > > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/pool/main/libd/libdvdcss/ > > the package libdvdcss2_1.2.9-0.0_i386.deb, and want to install it

Re: dvd movie playing

2006-06-14 Thread Wackojacko
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi all the debian listers. In order to play dvd movies, I downloaded from: ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/pool/main/libd/libdvdcss/ the package libdvdcss2_1.2.9-0.0_i386.deb, and want to install it by hand. 1) How to do so? `apt-get' doesn't do the job. 2) Will that

How to find play length of .ogg file using python?

2006-06-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am writing a program using pygame to play musical sound cues. I need a way to determine the play length of a sound file. I can get the length of .mp3 files with python-pymad. I have also installed python-pyogg and python-pyvorbis. It seems that I should be able to get the length of .ogg f

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 23:57 +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > * Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 12:21:32 -0400]: > > : > > > > set -e > > > > Then re-run this apt-get -f install and we should be able to figure out > > what's really wrong. > > > This will tell you where in the script it's

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Hi Joey, On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:21:32PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > Edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/x11-common.config and > /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst and add a new line as the second > line of each script: > > set -e > > Then re-run this apt-get -f install and

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 06:55 -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > Hi Simone, > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:36:47PM +0200, Simone Soldateschi wrote: > > > > I had a similar problem two days ago trying to update 'libwx2.6-dev' from > > backports. > > 'apt-get' failed package upgrade due to unmet depend

Re: gnome upgrade

2006-06-14 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:17:22 +0545 "Paras pradhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all: > > I have a desktop system in which gnome 2.10 is running absoultely fine. I > have installed it using etch repoistory around 4 months back. Now i see > there is gnome 2.14 in etch. I want to know how do i up

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed (solved?)

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
The strange problem of the "not fully installed or removed" packages I have been reporting has been resolved, but I do not understand it. It seems that a short while ago I have switched shells from bash to zsh to explore its new features. I did it gradually, first doing a usermod for each of my

Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks

2006-06-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 15:16 +0200, Juergen Erhard wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:27:38AM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 June 2006 03:04, Brent Clark wrote: > > > Sorry, couldnt resist > > > > > > http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1026 > > > > After reading this sent

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 6/13/06, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:07:18PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > It's a shame that people still think of this as a concern: > For the vast majority of people, I'd suggest that using > GTK-apps or QT-apps in mutual exclusion is a serious case of > p

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 02:26:18PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 23:57 +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > > * Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 12:21:32 -0400]: > > > > Chuck needs to have a large scrollback and paste it to here for us to > understand the entire functiona

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Michael Marsh
On 6/14/06, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And returning to the original topic, I don't get the hate for the GTK file picker. Given a choice, I will take the QT version, but ever since I learned that you can just start typing a path, it hasn't bothered me much. Of course, I also usually

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed (solved?)

2006-06-14 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 10:51, Charles Hallenbeck wrote (edited): > changing the symbolic link > /bin/sh to point to /bin/zsh instead of /bin/bash. > > I changed the link to point to /bin/bash again, [ran apt commands > successfully > > But why? I do upgrades at least once a day, and they usuall

nvidiia kernel patch with the 2.6.15-486 kernel

2006-06-14 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Hi all, I think the kernel number in the subject line is the correct one. Anyway, it's the kernel for an AMD 64 cpu with the 32 bit version of Etch installed. What I'm looking to do is install the kernel patch with module-assistant but it tells me there is no kernel source for any such kern

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 6/14/06, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/14/06, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And returning to the original topic, I don't get the hate for the GTK > file picker. Given a choice, I will take the QT version, but ever since > I learned that you can just start typing a

Re: How to find play length of .ogg file using python?

2006-06-14 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am writing a program using pygame to play musical sound cues. I need > a way to determine the play length of a sound file. I can get the > length of .mp3 files with python-pymad. I have also installed > python-pyogg and python-

Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks

2006-06-14 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 6/14/06, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (...) Some DDs don't even acknowledge/close a fixed bug, 3-4 years after its been fixed. It's of course not in the Debian's best practices list and you're welcome to help us fixing the problem sending a summary to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you've s

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Marsh wrote: > Where the suckitude of the new GTK file picker really shines is when > you need to specify that a file should be opened with a program in > /usr/bin. Unless they've fixed that recently. I really don't like > typing "/usr/bin/xine" and then waiting a minute for the "OK" butt

upgrade only if installed

2006-06-14 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I would like to upgrade a package only if it is installed. If the package is not already installed, I would not want it to be installed. Is this possible? Currently when I use apt-get install apt-get does not distinguish between whether the package has already been installed or not. Is there

changing user id for all files in a file system

2006-06-14 Thread Johannes Zellner
Hello, is there a simple and fast way to change the user id for all files in the file system, say from 1234 to 5000? -- Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Toshiro
> > > Thanks for that little rant; it made my day. I recently switched from > > > mozilla to firefox and the new file dialog is driving me up the wall... > > > > Ah, if it were only a rant. The problem is that the Gnomies actually > > feel they're in the right. > > I'd noticed recently that file d

Re: upgrade only if installed

2006-06-14 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 04:00:19PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > I would like to upgrade a package only if it is installed. If the package is > not already installed, I would not want it to be installed. Is this possible? There's probably a nice prepackaged way to do it, but you could firs

Quality Dentistry "Half Price" Grand Opening

2006-06-14 Thread Quality Dentistry
Title: Quality Dentistry Contact us now and you can have dental implants for £ 1.598 £ 799 dental crowns for £ 498 £ 249. For more information please contact us by e-mail or phone: +44 (0) 208 1333 155. If you wish to unsubscribe, please reply to this mail with subject “unsubscri

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 12:33 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 6/14/06, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6/14/06, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And returning to the original topic, I don't get the hate for the GTK > > > file picker. Given a choice, I will take the QT v

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > set -e Of course that should have been -x, the point being to see where the script is failing. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: changing user id for all files in a file system

2006-06-14 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:02:43PM +0200, Johannes Zellner wrote: > is there a simple and fast way to change the user id for all files in > the file system, say from 1234 to 5000? sudo find / -uid [old UID] |xargs -i sudo chown [new UID] '{}' -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 3

Sound with ATI IXP150 AC'97

2006-06-14 Thread Nicolas Sabouret
Hi all, I use debian etch on my Compaq laptop and I don't understand how the sound card works. I installer alsa packages, the sound card was detected and some applications (like gcompris) work perfectly. However, most other sound application (e.g. esd) don't work. It appears that the system has no

MP3s from an analog signal ?

2006-06-14 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] A friend of mine uses a "user friendly" Windoze box to record (with permission) radio shows in background, on a predetermined schedule. It's the last thing he still needs Windoze for. We'd like to replace that setup with a cron-driven she

Another APT Issue-Where Are The Linux-Images

2006-06-14 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
I now have only 2.6.8 and 2.6.16 kernels in my cache file, while a short time ago I had from 2.4.18-bf2.4 to 2.6.16 and everything in between. Aptitude removed a working installed 2.6.15 linux-image before I could blink and I would like to reinstall it but its not there. I did do an autoclean but

Re: MP3s from an analog signal ?

2006-06-14 Thread Wackojacko
Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] A friend of mine uses a "user friendly" Windoze box to record (with permission) radio shows in background, on a predetermined schedule. It's the last thing he still needs Windoze for. We'd like to replace that

Mailman and Postfix in Debian Unstable

2006-06-14 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear Siggy, dear All, for any strange reason, postfix rejects emails sent from my yahoo-Account to my [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailinglist with the following message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 80.254.163.99 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Relay access denied Giving up on 8

Hardware 3D Support

2006-06-14 Thread Max Velasques
Hi, I have a laptop with Debian Sid and I would like to activate the hardware 3D support. The video chip is the follow: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) My Xorg.conf has the follow lines: Section "Module" .

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