Re: Debian packages tag tools

2006-07-02 Thread Forrest Smith
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 01:55:52AM -0400, T wrote: > Hi > > I saw now Debian packages almost all come with tags. E.g.: > > Tag: admin::forensics, hardware::storage, interface::commandline, > role::sw:utility, use::scanning > > Is there any tools to search tools based on the tags? apt-get ins

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

2006-07-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 23:08:43 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 04:00:09PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: [...] > > > > Is that line above showing me that after removing > > > > kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686...that I'll then be either "upgraded to" or > > > > "installed" or

Re: eth0: flipped to 10baseT appears on login prompt

2006-07-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 20:11:56 +0300, Mikko Fallenius wrote: > > This appears because of something like the following in syslog.conf > > # *.=debug;*.=info;\ > > # *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty8 > > There are no entries in syslog.conf for /dev/tty1 (local console) > or any other c

Re: Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

2006-07-02 Thread Mumia W.
Kristian Lampen wrote: Maybe this question is asked already several times, but I did not found the answer in the Net right now. Because sometimes late at night you have no time to crawl all over the internet to get it work, I ask this question again! I run Etch with the recent updates on an Acer

aptitude update gpgv error

2006-07-02 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, i can see the following error when doing aptitude update on my freshly installed etch i386 system: W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release: Unknown error executing gpgv W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems when i try to execute gpgv

Re: Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

2006-07-02 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 01:09 +0200, Kristian Lampen wrote: > I run Etch with the recent updates on an Acer Aspire Laptop. But since > several weeks I have a font problem under X(org). The "normal" letters > all look good, but instead of special letters like "öäü..." I see just > white Boxes with

Re: Did Libranet ever make available the source code for their Admin utility and their other add-ons?

2006-07-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:46:46AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > > On Jul 1, 2006, at 1:34 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Robert Glueck wrote: > >>Libranet took Debian, added their famed Admin utility, an > >>installer and a bunch of other perks t

apt-file problem - no output

2006-07-02 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, me again :( together with the problems reported before, there is another one. i installed apt-file on my i386 etch box. i did apt-file update, however using apt-file search doesn't provide any output (i replaced the address of our institutional debian mirror with xx.xx.xx in the fol

What's up with Debian package repository of etch / i386 ?

2006-07-02 Thread Maxim Vexler
Hi everyone Does any one have any idea what is happening : http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/debian/dists/etch/Contents-i386.gz http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Contents-i386.gz http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Contents-i386.gz They are all 1k in size. And it breaks

Nvidia Driver Problems

2006-07-02 Thread David Baron
After attempting to use Debian's version which crashed when trying to run any DRI application, I returned to the same version number from Nvidia. Works fine ... until the next bootup in which case the X simply does not start up. The log reveals a nearly complete sequence, no errors. The bootup l

Re: GPG error during apt-get upgrade

2006-07-02 Thread James Westby
On (01/07/06 20:00), Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I'm getting the following error when running "apt-get upgrade": > > Reading package lists... Done > W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org stable/updates Release: > Unknown error executing gpgv > W: GPG error: http://security.debian.or

Re: aptitude update gpgv error

2006-07-02 Thread James Westby
On (02/07/06 11:31), Lubos Vrbka wrote: > hi guys, > > i can see the following error when doing aptitude update on my freshly > installed etch i386 system: > > W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release: Unknown > error executing gpgv > W: You may want to run apt-get update t

Re: aptitude update gpgv error

2006-07-02 Thread Lubos Vrbka
W: GPG error: http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release: Unknown error executing gpgv W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/06/msg00061.html are you sure it applies to our problem as well? i can't see any reference

Re: mplayer packages for offline install

2006-07-02 Thread Thomas Jollans
Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear Debian user, I am taking the first eight CDs of Debian Sarge to a low bandwidth location for install. These CDs have most of the software I need. Now, I know that mplayer insn't in Sarge. What I would like to know is, which packages are to be taken so that all dependen

Re: Nvidia Driver Problems

2006-07-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 13:41:22 +0300, David Baron wrote: > After attempting to use Debian's version which crashed when trying to run any > DRI application, I returned to the same version number from Nvidia. Works > fine ... until the next bootup in which case the X simply does not start up. >

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

2006-07-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 04:22:08PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: > Hi all; > I have a few quick questions about how to upgrade ONLY certain apps/pkgs... Then get the source of newer version and compile it yourself under stable environment. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-system.en.ht

Re: pinpointing the cause of a full lockup: denemo under KDE

2006-07-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Well, I guess that means you really are experiencing a hard lock. Yes, you could run several sessions on your remote machine (or even the local, if the screen remains intact) with various 'tail -f ` instances running and straces redirected, maybe a top too all in the

Re: Nvidia Driver Problems

2006-07-02 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 02 July 2006 15:54, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 13:41:22 +0300, David Baron wrote: > > After attempting to use Debian's version which crashed when trying to run > > any DRI application, I returned to the same version number from Nvidia. > > Works fine ... until the nex

Root can't run scanner

2006-07-02 Thread Haines Brown
Having read much on setting up a scanner, its embarrassing that I cannot get it to work. I have an Epson 3490 Photo printer attached via the usb bus to debian sarge. I'm running kernel 2.6.8-2-686, which means I'm using libusb rather than the kernel's scanner module ($ lsmod | grep scanner return

rhythmbox

2006-07-02 Thread Adam Hardy
Just did a general upgrade in etch and accepted all bugs and have problems now with rhythmbox, which won't play any MP3s now. it'll play OGG files, but not MP3s. Trying to fix it, I came across some directions for testing files with gstreamer, and I realise that rhythmbox considers itself a Gnome

Tempus Fugit: Founding Fathers in Modern America

2006-07-02 Thread tempusfugit
Tempus Fugit: A Novel Available at Amazon.com, BN.com, Powells.com and lawrencerowe.com What would our Founding Fathers do if they suddenly found themselves in the present-day United States? Would they be pleased with the current state of America? Journey with our Founders as they discover ai

Problem Stopping mplayer

2006-07-02 Thread Thomas H. George
I start mplayer from mozilla and listen to a radio station not available locally - works perfectly. There is a hitch though. If mozilla is stopped there is no longer a window for mplayer. I stop it from a console by getting its pid and killing it. This works but shouldn't there be a better

Re: rhythmbox

2006-07-02 Thread Thomas Jollans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Hardy wrote: > Just did a general upgrade in etch and accepted all bugs and have > problems now with rhythmbox, which won't play any MP3s now. it'll play > OGG files, but not MP3s. > Trying to fix it, I came across some directions for testing file

Re: Limiting bandwidth used

2006-07-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Kjell Rune Skaaraas wrote: Hi I'm sharing an ADSL connection with my landlord, and need my Debian box (running etch) to cap the bandwidth use (just its own use, it's not acting as a router). Is there any way to do this that doesn't involve setting up a massively complex traffic shaper, tons of

Re: rhythmbox

2006-07-02 Thread Adam Hardy
Thomas Jollans on 02/07/06 15:05, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: Just did a general upgrade in etch and accepted all bugs and have problems now with rhythmbox, which won't play any MP3s now. it'll play OGG files, but not MP3s. Trying to fix it, I came across some directions for testing files with gstr

Re: Nvidia Driver Problems

2006-07-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 16:40:14 +0300, David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 02 July 2006 15:54, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 13:41:22 +0300, David Baron wrote: > > > After attempting to use Debian's version which crashed when trying to run > > > any DRI application, I returned to th

Re: rhythmbox

2006-07-02 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
Gstreamer will be used as a backend for phonon in KDE 4 so it'll not hurt you. But all this packages: gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly (for playing mp3s -- mad decoder) libgstreamer0.10-0 should be installed d

OOo check and radio buttons

2006-07-02 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
The radio and check buttons appears 2 (radio) and 3 (check) times in OpenOffice.org: http://bitassa.com/stuff/ooocheckandradio.png Seems that is after the last dist-upgrade to OOo 2.0.3-1 I don't see this bug with reportbug. Any workaround? Have more cases and then we can send one bug? (Is

Etch Beta 2 / USB Floppy

2006-07-02 Thread Bob Smither
Hi All, I am trying to install the testing distribution on a PIII Sony Viao laptop. The laptop cd drive cannot be used to boot from (3rd party PCMCIA drive) and the floppy is a usb drive. I am using the boot.img, root.img files from etch beta 2: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/mai

Re: OOo check and radio buttons

2006-07-02 Thread Lothar Braun
On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 17:31 +0200, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > The radio and check buttons appears 2 (radio) and 3 (check) times in > OpenOffice.org: http://bitassa.com/stuff/ooocheckandradio.png > > Seems that is after the last dist-upgrade to OOo 2.0.3-1 > > I don't see this bug with reportbu

Re: pinpointing the cause of a full lockup: denemo under KDE

2006-07-02 Thread Joey Hess
Arthur Marsh wrote: > What could be logged from multiple text terminal sessions that might > give a hint? Running all applications with strace output redirected to > terminal sessions? Monitoring all syslog output to yet another terminal > session? You could try to use the magic sysreq key to g

Re: How to perform search in gnome terminal?

2006-07-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Roberto C. Sanchez: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > > Search for a word or an expression in the whole terminal `history'. > > This is very useful, almost indispensable in some cases. > > I used to use that quite often with KDE graphical environment, > > before switching to Gnome. > > Assuming you a

Re: OOo check and radio buttons

2006-07-02 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
Try to change gtk-engine or kde theme or try to switch between openoffice.org-gnome and openoffice.org-kde and see what happens =) В Вск, 02/07/2006 в 17:31 +0200, Benjamí Villoslada пишет: > The radio and check buttons appears 2 (radio) and 3 (check) times in > OpenOffice.org: http://bitassa.com

Perfect Commerce inbound Viruswall has deleted a message

2006-07-02 Thread Perfect Commerce Viruswall2 Notification
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xorg + translucent windows

2006-07-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, After about a year I finally got translucent windows to work. I have a dual-seat setup: 2 monitors/videocards/keybds/mice/xservers + sid. A year ago I had TNT2 AGP + MX440 PCI cards, that needed NVIDIA driver 7167 which would hang in the "screen frozen but mouse moves" bug using sid and a

Re: OOo check and radio buttons

2006-07-02 Thread Lothar Braun
Hi, On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 20:14 +0400, Vitaliy Ischenko wrote: > Try to change gtk-engine or kde theme > or try to switch between openoffice.org-gnome and openoffice.org-kde > and see what happens =) That solved the problem. I installed openoffice.org-gnome and now everything looks fine :) But i

gnucash fails altogether after upgrading xorg; maybe xfs or defoma problem?

2006-07-02 Thread hendrik
Except for a few font problems, the xorg upgrade (from 6.9 to 7) seemed to work. During the upgrade, there were a few package problems, easily resolved using aptitude's suggestions. First it wanted to install an xfree86 package to fix things, but the second alternative was xfs, which I chose.

Jumpdrive Not A Block Device?

2006-07-02 Thread Thomas H. George
I cannot access my Jumpdrive from a Etch box with a 2.6.15 kernel. I have successfully used this Lexar 256 MB Jumpdrive Pro (usb 2.0) with Sarge box and a 2.6.11 kernel compiled from source. With Sarge it is recognized as SCSI device sda and located at /dev/sda1. It can be mounted and has a

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-07-02 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 10:54:10PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:20:48 -0400 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > DVD's are more likely to survive EMP. Relevant if your data have to > > survive a nuclear war if you do. > > Ironic, given the fact that I've written many DDV-RWs

Re: Etch Beta 2 / USB Floppy

2006-07-02 Thread Joey Hess
Bob Smither wrote: > I am trying to install the testing distribution on a PIII Sony Viao > laptop. The laptop cd drive cannot be used to boot from (3rd party > PCMCIA drive) and the floppy is a usb drive. > > I am using the boot.img, root.img files from etch beta 2: > > http://ftp.nl.debian.org/

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-07-02 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:54:49AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > > On Jul 1, 2006, at 11:52 PM, David E. Fox wrote: > > [Long discourse on backups and how they were done ten years ago.] > > > > >>2. External hard disks are slightly less portable than DVD's. > >> > >>3. External hard disks *might* t

Re: OOo check and radio buttons (SOLVED)

2006-07-02 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
A Diumenge 02 Juliol 2006 18:14, Vitaliy Ischenko va escriure: > Try to change gtk-engine or kde theme > or try to switch between openoffice.org-gnome and openoffice.org-kde > and see what happens =) Solved! I've installed openoffice.org-kde and now have fine radio and check buttons. Thanks :)

Re: pinpointing the cause of a full lockup: denemo under KDE

2006-07-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Joey Hess wrote: Arthur Marsh wrote: What could be logged from multiple text terminal sessions that might give a hint? Running all applications with strace output redirected to terminal sessions? Monitoring all syslog output to yet another terminal session? You could try to use the magic sys

Re: rhythmbox

2006-07-02 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
В Вск, 02/07/2006 в 17:22 +0100, Adam Hardy пишет: > Vitaliy Ischenko on 02/07/06 16:27, wrote: > > Gstreamer will be used as a backend for phonon in KDE 4 so it'll not > > ... > > libgstreamer0.10-0 > > I have them all. > > >Maybe it will fix your problem, if not try to do > > this in console

Re: Etch Beta 2 / USB Floppy

2006-07-02 Thread Colin
Bob Smither wrote: Hi All, I am trying to install the testing distribution on a PIII Sony Viao laptop. The laptop cd drive cannot be used to boot from (3rd party PCMCIA drive) and the floppy is a usb drive. I am using the boot.img, root.img files from etch beta 2: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/deb

Re: OOo check and radio buttons

2006-07-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
Lothar Braun wrote: Hi, On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 20:14 +0400, Vitaliy Ischenko wrote: Try to change gtk-engine or kde theme or try to switch between openoffice.org-gnome and openoffice.org-kde and see what happens =) That solved the problem. I installed openoffice.org-gnome and now ever

Re: gnucash fails altogether after upgrading xorg; maybe xfs or defoma problem?

2006-07-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:19:28 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Except for a few font problems, the xorg upgrade (from 6.9 to 7) seemed > to work. During the upgrade, there were a few package problems, easily > resolved using aptitude's suggestions. First it wanted to install an > xfree86 pa

Re: Did Libranet ever make available the source code for their Admin utility and their other add-ons?

2006-07-02 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jul 2, 2006, at 3:53 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:46:46AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: On Jul 1, 2006, at 1:34 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Glueck wrote: Libranet took Debian, added their famed Admin utility, an inst

Re: gnucash fails altogether after upgrading xorg; maybe xfs or defoma problem?

2006-07-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:19:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Now I cannot get gnucash to work (mission-critical problem), and both > emacs and xemacs give me empty boxes for characters (workaround found). > > > > The gnucash problem is critical. I really *need* it fixed, and soo

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

2006-07-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 09:43:56AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 23:08:43 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 04:00:09PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > Is that line above showing me that after removing > > > > > kernel-image-2

Re: xmgrace partly broken under debian

2006-07-02 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:15:19AM -0600, edwardsa wrote: > I'm running amd64 debian. Xmgrace does not allow me to enter text in the > Filter area of the Read sets window. This is true under both KDE and > gnome. Because I have not updated xmgrace in a very long time, and > because it has been w

Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

2006-07-02 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 10:24:22PM -0400, Chase James wrote: > Would changing all mentions of woody to sarge in my apt/sources.list then > doing a dist-upgrade fix the problem: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > aptitude: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2 > E: Broken package

Re: rhythmbox

2006-07-02 Thread Adam Hardy
Vitaliy Ischenko on 02/07/06 18:16, wrote: В Вск, 02/07/2006 в 17:22 +0100, Adam Hardy пишет: Vitaliy Ischenko on 02/07/06 16:27, wrote: Gstreamer will be used as a backend for phonon in KDE 4 so it'll not ... libgstreamer0.10-0 I have them all. Maybe it will fix your problem, if not try to

Re: Problem Stopping mplayer

2006-07-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:00:49AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > In contrast, mplayer takes over the current mozilla window displaying > play/pause/stop buttons in the lower left corner of an otherwise blank > window. To continue accessing the web it is necessary to open another > navigat

etch - no /dev/lp0

2006-07-02 Thread Artem Zolochevskiy
hi all There is no /dev/lp0 on fresh installed etch. I must load lp module manually. Is it ok? What programm is responsible for module loading? -- Artem Zolochevskiy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bash socket /dev/tcp

2006-07-02 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
How can I obtain /dev/tcp (and /dev/udp) onto debian? Bash seems compiled without socket support. Why? -- Openclose.it - Idee per il software libero http://www.openclose.it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SOLVED: gnucash fails altogether after upgrading xorg; fonts needed ocnfiguring

2006-07-02 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 07:42:14PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:19:28 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Except for a few font problems, the xorg upgrade (from 6.9 to 7) seemed > > to work. During the upgrade, there were a few package problems, easily > > resolved us

Re: Bash socket /dev/tcp

2006-07-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Andrea Ganduglia wrote: How can I obtain /dev/tcp (and /dev/udp) onto debian? Bash seems compiled without socket support. Why? Could you elaborate? I think that you are confusing UNIX domain sockets with network sockets. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto

Re: etch - no /dev/lp0

2006-07-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 21:29:17 +0300, Artem Zolochevskiy wrote: > hi all > > There is no /dev/lp0 on fresh installed etch. > I must load lp module manually. Is it ok? What programm is responsible for > module loading? lp0 is one of the devices that currently pose some sort of chicken and egg pr

Re: etch - no /dev/lp0

2006-07-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
> > There is already a bug report, featuring profanity on both sides: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351668 > ooh that's lovely. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Is it possible to install ftp servers w/o 421 Service not available errors?

2006-07-02 Thread Dirk
Seriously, I've tried proftpd, vsftpd and another one I don't remember on different machines (all with debian) and randomly they bitch around giving me 421! Is it possible to run a ftp server with debian? Or will I finally have to switch to FreeBSD like so many did since they've started putting un

Re: Is it possible to install ftp servers w/o 421 Service not available errors?

2006-07-02 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 2 2006 13:13, Dirk wrote: > Seriously, > I've tried proftpd, vsftpd and another one I don't remember on different > machines (all with debian) and randomly they bitch around giving me 421! > > Is it possible to run a ftp server with debian? Or will I finally have > to switch to FreeBSD

Re: Etch Beta 2 / USB Floppy

2006-07-02 Thread Bob Smither
On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 13:11 -0400, Colin wrote: > Can you boot from a USB flash memory drive? You can try and install > Debian that way. I should have mentioned this in my first post - The bios does not support booting from a pen drive. Thanks, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: rhythmbox

2006-07-02 Thread Hans van Middendorp
On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 15:48:20 +0100 Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Jollans on 02/07/06 15:05, wrote: > > Adam Hardy wrote: > >> Just did a general upgrade in etch and accepted all bugs and have > >> problems now with rhythmbox, which won't play any MP3s now. it'll > >> play OGG file

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-07-02 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 00:54:49 -0600 Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Plug in a USB drive, rsync, unplug it and store is somewhere safe. > Done. > > Anything else is a waste of time, which is the most precious thing > you have. People with nothing better to do mess around with > remo

Re: Problem Stopping mplayer

2006-07-02 Thread Derek
Tell mozilla to open it with gmplayer,then when your done you can just quit it. On 7/2/06, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:00:49AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > In contrast, mplayer takes over the current mozilla window displaying> play/pause/stop buttons in the l

Midi files S.O.S.

2006-07-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi, listers. I'm looking for a program that allows to modify midi files, i.e. adjust tone and speed and cancel traces: they're called midi sequencers, aren't they? Well, I've been trying: brahms timidity rosegarden amarok audacity muse , but none of them will help: timidity seems to work, but it

changing icon theme in debian without a DE installed?

2006-07-02 Thread Nick Lidakis
I've tried Googling this to no avail. I have the file manager Thunar installed. I'm trying to figure out how to change the icons that Thunar (or all of my GTK2 apps for that matter, e.g. Abiword) is using. It seems to using the the stock gnome icons I have installed. I don't have Gnome or Xfce

Xwindows and Emacs

2006-07-02 Thread Paul E Condon
Long ago, I was a RedHat user. When I moved to Debian, I kept a copy of a file, .Xresources, that made Emacs display under X in a way that I liked. Now in trying to use Etch, I discover that the file doesn't work quite the way I want under xserver-xorg. I want to tweek it, but can't find docs that

mess

2006-07-02 Thread Francesco Pietra
While my amd64 debian etch is in order, 32 bit debian etch has suffered much and is now in a state of semi-mess. Kernel booted is linux-image-2.6-15-1-k7: but #aptitude shows also a collection of kernels, partly broken: BA linux-image-2.6-486 BA linux-image-2.6-686 BA linux-image-2.6-686-smp iA l

mess

2006-07-02 Thread Francesco Pietra
I forgot to present the problem of wine failure to launch also to the wine list. While my amd64 debian etch is in order, 32 bit debian etch has suffered much and is now in a state of semi-mess. Kernel booted is linux-image-2.6-15-1-k7: but #aptitude shows also a collection of kernels, partly br

Re: mplayer packages for offline install

2006-07-02 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 07:50:38 +0530 "Kumar Appaiah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debian user, > > I am taking the first eight CDs of Debian Sarge to a low bandwidth > location for install. These CDs have most of the software I need. You could get the version (assuming there is one) in sarge b

Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-02 Thread Alejandro
Dear all, I have DEbian Sarge and I want to upgrade to Etch (testing). I have read that I have to modify the sources.list file with the correct repositories and then execute "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade". My question is this: is it convenient to keep the security repository like "stabl

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-02 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 21:05:26 -0300 Alejandro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have DEbian Sarge and I want to upgrade to Etch (testing). I have read > that I have to modify the sources.list file with the correct > repositories and then execute "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade".

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alejandro wrote: > Dear all, > > I have DEbian Sarge and I want to upgrade to Etch (testing). I have read > that I have to modify the sources.list file with the correct > repositories and then execute "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade". > > My

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-02 Thread Derek
Use etch instead of testing,that way when etch becomes stable you wont be upgrading to testing again.Here is my sources.list# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20060302)]/ etch main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-freedeb-src ht

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-02 Thread Alejandro
Ron Johnson escribió: > Alejandro wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I have DEbian Sarge and I want to upgrade to Etch (testing). I have read >>> that I have to modify the sources.list file with the correct >>> repositories and then execute "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade". >>> >>> My question

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-02 Thread Derek
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates maindeb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates mainis what it should be On 7/2/06, Alejandro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ron Johnson escribió:> Alejandro wrote:>>> Dear all,>> I have DEbian Sarge and I want to upgrade to Etch (testing). I have r

apt-get question?

2006-07-02 Thread Ishwar Rattan
How can one install a package downloaded as: apt-get install -d gcc-3.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get question?

2006-07-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Ishwar Rattan wrote: How can one install a package downloaded as: apt-get install -d gcc-3.4 If you download it first, then a simple `apt-get install gcc-4.3` later will install it. This is because apt looks in the local package cache before going to the network. -Roberto -- Roberto

Re: Is it possible to install ftp servers w/o 421 Service not available errors?

2006-07-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Dirk wrote: Seriously, I've tried proftpd, vsftpd and another one I don't remember on different machines (all with debian) and randomly they bitch around giving me 421! Interesting. What steps (exactly) have you taken? Have you enabled inbound FTP in the /etc/hosts.allow? Are you inetd setti

Re: apt-get question?

2006-07-02 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 21:08:44 -0400 (EDT) Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can one install a package downloaded as: > >apt-get install -d gcc-3.4 hopefully it is either in your present directory or in the archive directory - probably /var/cache/apt/archives ... do #dpkg -i .

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 08:15:03PM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > from http://www.debian.org/security/ > > You can use apt to easily get the latest security updates. This > requires a line such as > > deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free > > in your /etc/apt/sour

Re: mess

2006-07-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:46:51PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > While my amd64 debian etch is in order, 32 bit debian etch has suffered much > and is now in a state of semi-mess. alright, I'll tackle this, but I don't use amd64 and so there may be other issues. > > Kernel booted is > linux-

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-02 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:00:22 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 08:15:03PM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > > > from http://www.debian.org/security/ > > > > You can use apt to easily get the latest security updates. This > > requires a line such as >

Re: Jumpdrive Not A Block Device?

2006-07-02 Thread Hubert Chan
On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:41:00 -0400, "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > With Etch it is recognized as SCSI device sdb and located at /dev/sg1. > It cannot be mounted, mount fails with a message that /dev/sg1 is not > a block device. The sg* devices are generic SCSI devices. Each SCSI

Re: Bash socket /dev/tcp

2006-07-02 Thread Mumia W.
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Andrea Ganduglia wrote: How can I obtain /dev/tcp (and /dev/udp) onto debian? Bash seems compiled without socket support. Why? Could you elaborate? I think that you are confusing UNIX domain sockets with network sockets. -Roberto He is probably talking about this

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-02 Thread Derek
etch and testing are the same thing,using testing instead of etch could lead to a accidental upgrade.On 7/2/06, Shawn Lamson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:00:22 -0700Andrew Sackville-West < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 08:15:03PM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote:>

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 07:40:18PM -0700, Derek wrote: > etch and testing are the same thing,using testing instead of etch could lead > to a accidental upgrade. testing is a train station in the Denian line. etch is the train car currently parked at the testing station for repairs and modification

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:21:12PM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:00:22 -0700 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 08:15:03PM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > > > > > from http://www.debian.org/security/ > > > > > > You can use apt

Re: Jumpdrive Not A Block Device?

2006-07-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:05:37PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > > Huh? You're trying to use a CD burning program to write to a USB stick? > I can't imagine that that would have any chance of working. > maybe he's trying to reinvent the match? you know, burning stick? god, I kill myself. A si

rsync weirdness

2006-07-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
This is not Debian-specific (at least I don't think it is), but I will ask here regardless. I have recently acquired a MacBook (a graduation gift from my parents). Anyhow, while I was recently traveling, I did some work on it. When I try to rsync back to either of my workstations (both runni

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-02 Thread amateur
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 07:52:28PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 07:40:18PM -0700, Derek wrote: > > etch and testing are the same thing,using testing instead of etch could lead > > to a accidental upgrade. > > testing is a train station in the Denian line. etch is t

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-02 Thread Felipe Sateler
Derek wrote: > etch and testing are the same thing,using testing instead of etch could > lead to a accidental upgrade. That upgrade is not accidental: normally, you want to track either stable, testing or unstable, you don't want to track the next release. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: E-CVs.net Support

2006-07-02 Thread nelly fakat
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Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 11:04:27PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > This is not Debian-specific (at least I don't think it is), but I will > ask here regardless. I have recently acquired a MacBook (a graduation > gift from my parents). Anyhow, while I was recently traveling, I did > some work o

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:55:47PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Derek wrote: > > > etch and testing are the same thing,using testing instead of etch could > > lead to a accidental upgrade. > That upgrade is not accidental: normally, you want to track either stable, > testing or unstable, you don

Re: Xwindows and Emacs

2006-07-02 Thread marciotex
Hi Paul $ man xrdb can help you. $ xrdb -query $ xrdb -load are good starts. Regards, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Long ago, I was a RedHat user. When I moved to Debian, I kept a copy > of a file, .Xresources, that made Emacs display under X in a way that > I liked. Now in

Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: have you lost the rsync-data on the receiving end? I actually use rdiff-backup myself, but istm that if you lose the rsync data on the receiving end, then it will try to sync everything. Maybe I don't understand what you're doing though. I don't think I have lost

etch vs sarge

2006-07-02 Thread BAGI Akos
Hi List! I run services on sarge in two major parts: - qmail,clamav,spop3, ssmtp,rblsmtp and - apache2,mysql 4.1,php4 I'm considering to dist-upgrade from sarge to etch(testing) I would like to use mysql5 and php5 if it's not a to big deal to change. My question is: Can the dist-upgade do it fo

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