Re: OOo2 from backports questions

Anthony Simonelli wrote: Marc, Your original problem is the very reason I just sent my email today entitled "OpenOffice.org 2.0 users beware!". This explains that the libfreetype6 security upgrade causes the saving problem and that you must downgrade to the previous version and hold that packa

Re: tiger reports `-' listening on socket

On 6/23/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: clearly there is something going on here that I don't understand. Set a cron for the 'root' user: 1 * * * * lsof -i Unless the culprit is dying randomly that should catch something -- WC (Bill) Jones -- http://youve-reached-the.endo

Re: Can not use Gnome in Debian Sid

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:44:01 -0400 Sridhar Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard van der Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06/06/23 11:56] > typed : > > ... when i open a menu in the top -bar the last two (places & > > System) are opening OK, but when i open the application menu it > > starts fl

Re: mounting USB mass storage devices

Hi, Willie Wonka wrote: > Got a /etc/fstab entry like this? > > dev/sda /media/usbkey autorw,user,noauto 0 0 Not only mounting does not work but also more fundamental things. shire:/home/kosik# cat /dev/sda cat: /dev/sda: No such device or address shi

Re: mounting USB mass storage devices

This solution is not always work. For example if you want mount another usbkey obviously the device will be other than /dev/sda, more over if this device hangs before for some reason again you will need another device. I don't know how work the mount automatically, but this is not the way and t

Re: xdm source .bash_profile[SOLVED]

All, I followed the Derek's suggestion and now my $PATH is set inside X. Cheers, Pavlos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 31r2 DVD Download Problem

Hi joedi! You wrote: > I have tried downloading the R2 package from both iinet in australia and > your swiss site as well, both times i get a file size of 384MB total to be > downloaded yet it says 4.4GB next to the file name This is a common problem that occurs if your current operating system

Re: how to restore a hidden partition

For some reason, I did not receive the following message and I found it out from Google search. To be hornest, I'm hesitate to be instered in this one. The reasons are: 1. The program is pretty new and unlik Knoppix there is no official review for that yet. 2. The release date is a bit controve

Re: how to restore a hidden partition

For some reason, I did not receive the following message and I found it out from Google search. To be hornest, I'm hesitate to be instered in this one. The reasons are: 1. The program is pretty new and unlik Knoppix there is no official review for that yet. 2. The release date is a bit controve

Re: Can not use Gnome in Debian Sid

On Saturday 24 June 2006 16:25, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:44:01 -0400 > > Sridhar Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Richard van der Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06/06/23 11:56] > > > > typed : > > > ... when i open a menu in the top -bar the last two (places & > > > System)

Re: Debian package of the day

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 07:13:24PM -0700, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > I read a post once in which someone bemoaned the passing of dselect, > because it highlighted newly-minted packages. With apt*, he rarely knew > of that new software, unless he just stumbled across it. I thought that > was a pre

Re: Replying to list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Patterson wrote: > * Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-23 > 13:13:50 -0700]: > >> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:30:49PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> > >> yes. bring on the brick-bats! >> > Hear,

Re: Question not addressed in FAQ.

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 03:34:37AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Lynn, > could you post your /etc/apt/sources.list > here hoping you will soon be using Sarge and maybe you can try to document > your > fun path from woody to ssarge on the debian wiki (http://wiki.debian.org)! > cheers, even better

New IRC-Channel located Bremen/Germany

Hi @all, there's a new Open-Source-Linux channel at irc.freenode.rog. #lug-bremen It's concerning a local linux-user-group located in Bremen/Germany. Cu l8r! -- Freedom for Tibet! Best Regards, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

lilo refuses

Weird message from lilo -t -v: Warning: LBA addressing assumed Reading boot sector from /dev/fd0 Fatal: Trying to map files from unnamed device 0x000c (NFS/RAID mirror down?) OK. My RAID, a software RAID, is not down, and contains /home and /usr as LVM volumes. Can lilo not use it? /deb/fd0 h

Re: mounting USB mass storage devices

Matej Kosik wrote: > shire:/home/kosik# cat /dev/sda > cat: /dev/sda: No such device or address Now why would you do that ? It'll make your pager ('cat', in this instance) go bonkers! CTRL+C to stop it > shire:/home/kosik# fdisk /dev/sda > Unable to open /dev/sda As a ty

Re: iptables log target logs everything to tty*. Why?

Derek Martin wrote: On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 12:58:42AM +0200, Erik Persson wrote: I tried with klogd -c 0 but the messages just kept on coming. It seems that the minimal allowed log level for kernel messages was set to 4 on the router and klogd -c 0 thus didn't change the kernel log level as I

Apt-get exit error status 10

I have seen lots of posts about this exit error but nothing specific on how to fix this.  Any ideas.  I was trying to install the acidbase package to get base-1.2.5 and it continually fails.   I tried to reinstall xserver-xorg based on one reading I did and it installed with no issues.  But

kdewallet : how to add application into access control ?

Hello, I installed kdewallet but every time I started application using it (ie. kmail) I have to re-enter its password. How to add kmail into allowed access control to avoid this cumbersome procedure ? kdewallet manager propose an Access Control menu but it seems impossible to add an applicati

Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 06:53:58PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: > > Willie Wonka wrote: > and this too; > > > so 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' should do the trick - there's a way > (through the Priority option to mak

Re: OOo2 from backports questions

Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > as it was. I'm not going to change it all back, now that I have the > backports version working, however. Besides, now I can probably get rid > of those last vestiges of KDE. Hmm ... We need some new virtual packages: nuke_*, as in nuke_kde, nuke_gnome,

Troubleshooting NIS

I'm trying to setup some servers at school.  I'm using NIS because I've use it before an it was easy.   ypserv and ypbind come up as running on their respective machines, but the client machine - at first seemed to authenticate and then give "can';t write to /home folder" messages and now seems

Re: iptables log target logs everything to tty*. Why?

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 01:51:38PM +0200, Erik Persson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk > 3 4 1 7 Cool, I didn't realize this file existed in the /proc filesystem. Time to review the documentation... ;-) > man proc reveals that the 1 is the lowest value

Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

On 6/24/06, Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a related problem. When I use dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, everything apparently goes well, except the results of the reconfiguration never get written anywhere. There is no warning or error produced, but no xorg.conf file anywhe

Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 09:34:38 -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: [...] > I have a related problem. When I use dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, > everything apparently goes well, except the results of the > reconfiguration never get written anywhere. There is no warning or error > produced, but

automount of usb devices at the OK/Daemon/Kernel not in kde / gnome

Gnome seems to automount usb drives when inserted. Is there a way to get this functionality outside of the GUI?Like when not running any gui just text vterminals? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kdewallet : how to add application into access control ?

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 15:22:39 +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello, > > I installed kdewallet but every time I started application using it (ie. > kmail) I have to re-enter its password. > How to add kmail into allowed access control to avoid this cumbersome > procedure ? kdewallet manager

Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 04:47:06PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 09:34:38 -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > So, if I understand you correctly, you don't have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf > file at all, and "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" refuses to generate > one? (Usually peo

marillat

Is deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main broken? From about ten days it could not be accessed thanks francesco pietra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: marillat

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Francesco Pietra wrote: > Is > > deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main > > broken? From about ten days it could not be accessed It's changed to deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is

Re: marillat

Francesco Pietra wrote: > Is > > deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main > > broken? From about ten days it could not be accessed > > thanks > francesco pietra > > The URL has changed. Change your sources.list line to the following: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ etch main

Re: Can not use Gnome in Debian Sid

Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06/06/24 04:26] typed : > > Make sure that all of the following packages are installed: > > gnome-menus > libgnome-menu2 > menu > menu-xdg > > That should fix it. Thanks!!! I didn't have menu installed. It works fine now. > > menu-xdg is recom

dual promise card problems

I'm currently running 2 Ultra 133 TX2 Promise controller cards, I cannot seem to get both of them to work at the same time under debian, they were confirmed working under gentoo so I know they "should" work ^^.  So far I have tested the cables, the pci slots, the cards and the bios on the cards, th

Re: Can not use Gnome in Debian Sid

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 11:58:13 -0400 Sridhar Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06/06/24 04:26] typed : > > > > Make sure that all of the following packages are installed: > > > > gnome-menus > > libgnome-menu2 > > menu > > menu-xdg > > > > T

Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

On 6/24/06, Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > which dpkg-reconfigure refuses to update.) That's right. Except that Bill Jones just told me where I can download a default copy. I did so, repeated my attempt to reconfigure after copying the new xorg.conf to /etc/X11, and I get the sa

Re: marillat

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Francesco Pietra wrote: Is deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main broken? From about ten days it could not be accessed It's changed to deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main Has anyone gotten demirror to

Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:47:53 -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 04:47:06PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 09:34:38 -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > > > So, if I understand you correctly, you don't have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > file at all,

Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

Try dexconf. A couple of weeks ago I had trouble configuring xorg.conf to work with my Wacom tablet. When my manual edits of xorg.conf caused problems, dexconf wiped out the file and replaced it with a pure vanilla version. Eventually I found successful manual edits to make the Wacom tablet wor

Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 12:54:28PM -0400, Bill Jones wrote: > > Is this an ATI or nVidia video card? I do not use an xorg.conf file > on my ATI systems; however for nVidia systems the file I pointed you > to will work unless your xorg system is broken in some unknown way. Hi Bill, My video syst

Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 04:47:06PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 09:34:38 -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > > > So, if I understand you correctly, you don't have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > file at all, and "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" re

Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 07:30:23PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > It would be interesting to know if running > > md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf > /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum Nope. I generated the md5sum as you suggested, ran dpkg-reconfigure again, the dialogue looked good again, but the file remai

customizing scripts /etc/init.d

Is there a "Debian way" to modify startup scripts? Changes might include: deactivating automatic startup of a given daemon.. changing the daemon's running options.. adding a new script.. etc. Additionally, is the debian bootup process documented anywhere? Thanks, cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: customizing scripts /etc/init.d

cga2000 wrote: > Is there a "Debian way" to modify startup scripts? Changes might > include: deactivating automatic startup of a given daemon.. changing the > daemon's running options.. adding a new script.. etc. > > Additionally, is the debian bootup process documented anywhere? > > Thanks, >

Problems mirroring debian-multimedia

I am repeating this issue to give it it's own subject line and thread. Since the change from marillat to debian-multimedia I have not yet found a satisfactory way of mirroring debian-multimedia. The site does not seem to offer anonymous rsync or ftp, and wget and debmirror don't work as I expec

[solved] Re: no key strokes from remote console when no keyboard attached

just for completeness: to have the keyboard driver enabled regardless whether a keyboard is attached or not, one solution is to return Zero in the atkbd_probe() function of the atkbd input module if the atkbd->connect() function was called for the serio Kbd port. so far, frank. Frank Hemp

Re: Replying to list

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:36:15 + "Lynn Kilroy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use MSN Hotmail. Seems MSN Hotmail doesn't work quite the same way your > cludgy e-mail clients {oft mentioned in your article} do. I've never liked web-based email. Enough said. :) > Furthermore, most common user

Re: kdewallet : how to add application into access control ?

On Saturday 24 June 2006 17:05, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 15:22:39 +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I installed kdewallet but every time I started application using it (ie. > > kmail) I have to re-enter its password. > > How to add kmail into allowed access co

Re: marillat

It worked fine. However, why it complains of not being able to open source packages for debian-multimedia when I did not ask for them (no src)? deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ etch main francesco Pietra On Saturday 24 June 2006 18:12, Rick Friedman wrote: > Francesco Pietra wrote: > > Is

Re: customizing scripts /etc/init.d

cga2000 wrote: Is there a "Debian way" to modify startup scripts? [...] Install quick-reference-en and read § 3.4.4 "Reconfigure Installed Packages." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: customizing scripts /etc/init.d

cga2000 wrote: > Is there a "Debian way" to modify startup scripts? Changes might > include: deactivating automatic startup of a given daemon.. changing the > daemon's running options.. adding a new script.. etc. I too would like to know more about this myself; As a start -- Found this info;

cron and kmessage

My actual problem is that I want to display a message at specific times (every 0th, 30th minute of hour) on the user's screen. I thought I can do this with cron and kmessage. I edited the crontab entry as 0,30 * * * *kdialog --msgbox "test message" But then it does not display the dialog o

Re: cron and kmessage

Þann 2006-06-24, 19:51:58 (-0400) skrifaði Kamaraju Kusumanchi: > My actual problem is that I want to display a message at specific times > (every > 0th, 30th minute of hour) on the user's screen. I thought I can do this with > cron and kmessage. > > I edited the crontab entry as > > 0,30 * *

Re: Problem with kernel-package

I have solved my problem.  I installed fakeroot, then modified ~/.kernel-pkg.conf to use it (1).  Kernel compiles successfully, and .debs are generated in the parent directory ("~/src" in my case.)  I installed the linux-image .deb on the target machine successfully as well. (1) I added a line: "ro

pulling my hair: doodle 0.6.5-3 update / doodled unstoppable

running sid on i386 What's up here? I can't get doodle to be updated. "/etc/init.d/doodled stop" does not stop doodle! I cannot even kill it. with aptitude: :~# ps aux |grep doodle root 4601 0.1 0.3 3808 1600 ?Ssl 20:07 0:00 /usr/bin/doodled -d /var/lib/doodle/doodle.db -L

Re: Replying to list

* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-24 05:00:28 -0500]: > What problem do you see with Tbird? Nothing, really, for quick basic setup, it's terrific, and using imap mailboxes does indeed let you switch between mua's at will.. Tbird out of the box, though, does not let me sort mailboxes t

Re: X Windows not installed

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Le jeudi 22 juin 2006 ? 20:03 +0800, Dr Bean a ?crit : > > I don't think I have X Windows installed. How do I now install > > it? > [...] > > I have now a perfectly good console-based linux system, but exec > > startx doesn't give me X Windows. This i

proper ifconfig start

How would one adjust debian so when ifconfig runs to bring up a network interface card it does so only in nonpromiscuous mode? This is not a Linux default and as such offers would-be packet sniffer installers an open invitation to install their tools on systems of this type. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: enable 1024 x 768 display resolution?.

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 13:10 -0700, Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: > > > Default User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > Is there an easy way to add display resolution 1024 x 768 to > the > selectable choices from the screen resolution gui in Gnome? >

replying "to list"

Gee, I almst hate to ask, but: I use the defult Evolution email client in Debian stable. When I choose "reply to list" when replying to a post on debian-user@lists.debian.org instead of putting that in the to: field, it puts the word Debian underlined in the to: field instead. How can I chang

[testing] HELP - lost X

OK Please help before I install Ubuntu or something I should have really read the wiki (now I've managed to lose that page) to upgrade xorg to 7.0. It started to grab all the needed packages and then there are total conflicts between packages that depend on xserver-common (6.9, latest vers

Re: Troubleshooting NIS

Phil wrote: I'm trying to setup some servers at school. I'm using NIS because I've use it before an it was easy. ypserv and ypbind come up as running on their respective machines, but the client machine - at first seemed to authenticate and then give "can';t write to /home folder" messages

Re: Troubleshooting NIS

- THIS IS JUST A TEST. PLEASE DISREGARD THIS REPLY! - On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 12:38 +1000, Gerard Sharpe wrote: > Phil wrote: > > I'm trying to setup some servers at school. I'm using NIS because I've

spell check problem in Evolution

Evolution won't spell check. :-( The settings/spell-check window has "enable" greyed out, and the box listing language dictionaries installed is empty. But ... I have ispell, iamerican, and wamerican, wamerican-large and even wamerican-small all installed (at least according to Synaptic). Any

update loses prism54 firmware

I did an upgrade of my testing install today and everything went basically smoothly (a goof up on my part caused the xorg upgrade to fail a couple of times, but I figured it out). One thing that wasn't expected was that my wireless card stopped working. /var/log/syslog was complaining that th

SOLVED (was Re: Problems mirroring debian-multimedia)

Marty wrote: Since the change from marillat to debian-multimedia I have not yet found a satisfactory way of mirroring debian-multimedia. The site does not seem to offer anonymous rsync or ftp, and wget and debmirror don't work as I expect them to. Replying to my own posting, I have found what

Re: how to restore a hidden partition

Today I have tried QTParted in Knoppix Live CD on the drive which was used as a USB mass storage device in the past. Unfortunately, it gives me a error message saying "Critical error during ped_disk_new!" Could anyone explain to me what's wrong with the disk? The disk was mounted by Knoppix as /

Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

David E. Fox wrote: > OK > > Please help before I install Ubuntu or something > > I should have really read the wiki (now I've managed to lose that page) > to upgrade xorg to 7.0. It started to grab all the needed packages and > then there are total conflicts between packages that depend on

Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 01:18:44PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Try dexconf. A couple of weeks ago I had trouble configuring xorg.conf > to work with my Wacom tablet. When my manual edits of xorg.conf caused > problems, dexconf wiped out the file and replaced it with a pure vanilla > versi

Re: Debian package of the day

Steve Kemp wrote: On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 07:13:24PM -0700, Aaron Maxwell wrote: I read a post once in which someone bemoaned the passing of dselect, because it highlighted newly-minted packages. With apt*, he rarely knew of that new software, unless he just stumbled across it. I thought th

Re: customizing scripts /etc/init.d

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 02:23:32PM EDT, cga2000 wrote: > Is there a "Debian way" to modify startup scripts? Changes might > include: deactivating automatic startup of a given daemon.. changing the > daemon's running options.. adding a new script.. etc. > > Additionally, is the debian bootup proce

Re: [testing] HELP - lost X

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:14:03PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I think I'd just let aptitude do what it wants, and then clean up afterward: > > aptitude update > aptitude dist-upgrade > > and see what happens. I might do that - in fact I went ahead and "did" it - but aborted at the end, saved th

Re: replying "to list"

Le samedi 24 juin 2006 à 21:18 -0500, Default User a écrit : > Gee, I almst hate to ask, but: > > I use the defult Evolution email client in Debian stable. When I choose > "reply to list" when replying to a post on debian-user@lists.debian.org > instead of putting that in the to: field, it puts t

Re: spell check problem in Evolution

Le samedi 24 juin 2006 à 22:32 -0500, Default User a écrit : > Evolution won't spell check. > > :-( > > The settings/spell-check window has "enable" greyed out, and the box > listing language dictionaries installed is empty. But ... > > I have ispell, iamerican, and wamerican, wamerican-large a

Re: X Windows not installed

Le dimanche 25 juin 2006 à 09:28 +0800, Dr Bean a écrit : > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > > Le jeudi 22 juin 2006 ? 20:03 +0800, Dr Bean a ?crit : > > > I don't think I have X Windows installed. How do I now install > > > it? > > [...] > > > I have now a perfectly good console-ba