Re: apt has wrong links

2006-07-17 Thread John O'Hagan
On Monday 17 July 2006 12:56, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > On 7/16/06, John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 17 July 2006 02:51, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > > [...] > > > > > Can anyone tell me just what the error messages I was getting to start > > > with meant? > > > > > >

Re: USB mouse not working, after installation Kernel 2.6.17

2006-07-17 Thread Pol Hallen
> After installation Kernel 2.4 --> 2.6.17 my USB mouse > stopped working > (Just working touch pad). Could u try others usb device?! what say lsusb? and dmesg? U also can look xorg.conf for verify that your configuration is right :-) > Do I did something wrong with installation Kernel? maybe :-

/etc/rc2.d/ several links

2006-07-17 Thread Pol Hallen
Hey all :-) I have several doubt about several script into /etc/rc2.d In /etc/rc2.d read: dbus-1, dirmngr, binfmt-support, stop-bootlogd Are they really useful (or however) essentials?! They are that since installation of os. Thanks :-) Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sequential background tasks

2006-07-17 Thread Gary R. Leaf
T wrote: hi I find that in many cases I need my background tasks to be executed in sequence. Ie, I need background task-b to start right after background task-a has properly started. So far I haven't found a good way to do it. I used task-a & sleep 2; task-b & but that 'sleep 2' has change

Re: Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version

2006-07-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:57:03AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > >Setting up linux-image-2.6.14-2-686-smp (2.6.14-6bpo1) ... > >Running depmod. > >Finding valid ramdisk creators. > >Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version > >2.6.14-2-686-smp on running kernel 2.4.27-2-686-smp

Re: Unidentified subject!

2006-07-17 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Bassam wrote: i recently installed debian sarge by netinst minimal cd and the installer did not recognise my motorola sb5100 cable modem which was conneted by usb i have no router, it was a direct connection this is a cable modem distributed by Optus which is a very larg

Re: Sequential background tasks

2006-07-17 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 06:36:55AM -0400, Gary R. Leaf wrote: > >hi > > > >I find that in many cases I need my background tasks to be executed in > >sequence. Ie, I need background task-b to start right after background > >task-a has properly started. > > > >So far I haven't found a good way to do

Chatting with Debian GNU/Linux (was: A question about chatting)

2006-07-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My sister wants to chat with MS Windows users who use a chat > program called `messenger'. > Can she do that using Debian GNU/Linux, and will any IRC client > be fine? A command line tool would be better, as `ircii'. Many thanks to Rob, Kelly and Alej

Re: little project

2006-07-17 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le samedi 15 juillet 2006 à 14:51 -0700, Felipe Leon a écrit : > the harddrive (20 gb) I had from a broken laptop Your project will make a nice use of Debian, but I can predict that the harddrive will fail (too) soon (a few years? months?). Install the SMART tools and check the drive now, then mak

Re: Something has gone wrong with Mutt

2006-07-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 06:08:52PM +, p wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 12:08:56PM -0400, Alec Berryman wrote: > > > > Fetchmail is downloading messages but mutt is not displaying them? I > > > have not changed any settings and I saw nothing in the latest > > > dist-upgrade of testing which

Re: kernel 2.6.17 and Realtime-lsm-source

2006-07-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 11:15:24PM +1000, John O'Hagan wrote: > #m-a update > > which checks which module packages are already on your system; and > > #m-a a-i realtime-lsm > > (auto-install) which ensures you have the kernel headers and other necessary > packages installed, downloads the modul

Re: CUPS (Sid) not printing.

2006-07-17 Thread David Baron
On Monday 17 July 2006 05:04, Katipo wrote: > David Baron wrote: > >Jobs get queued and simply stay that way? > > > >What's happening? > > > >Using latest 2.6.17 kernel, Sid > > Happened to me too. > Reinstalling foomatic modules fixed it. Did that, does not help. Some more info: NO lp module wa

Re: [Etch] Text disappearing in Gnome

2006-07-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is happening in different places : - desktop icons : I open an application that is hiding the icon, then when I close the application part of the icon text disappeared. After I move the mouse over the missing text it is visible again. - firefox : On some site there i

Re: Encoding avi's to DVD format

2006-07-17 Thread Dominique Dumont
John Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a whole bunch of home movies which I'd like to encode into DVD > format. I would like to do this with a selection screen as well. The > command that I want to run in my mind is: > > encode --use-an-index mymovie1.avi mymovie2.avi mymovie3.avi --out

Re: CUPS (Sid) not printing. (SOLVED?)

2006-07-17 Thread David Baron
On Monday 17 July 2006 15:17, David Baron wrote: > On Monday 17 July 2006 05:04, Katipo wrote: > > David Baron wrote: > > >Jobs get queued and simply stay that way? > > > > > >What's happening? > > > > > >Using latest 2.6.17 kernel, Sid > > > > Happened to me too. > > Reinstalling foomatic modules

Installing Debian with Raid and LVM , help

2006-07-17 Thread Eduardo
Hi, I tried to install Debian in my machine with 2 sata hd's and first I created a partition with the whole size of the disk in both of HD's and set bootable them.. Then I configured it with the option to configure Software Raid and created the md0 device. This md0 device I put it to work as a Ph

Re: [Fwd: Re: Why?]

2006-07-17 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 16:20 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Owen Heisler writes: > > Still, I was thinking more of packages like "login" that could surely be > > considered "essential" for 99% of Debian systems out there, along with > > the common frontends to apt for package management, like aptitude

Re: kde headers not found, kdelibs-dev needed?

2006-07-17 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:55:15AM -0400, H.S. wrote: > I am guessing I need kdelibs-dev package. However, if I try to install > this, apt-get says it wants to remove gnome and gnome-core etc! What am > I missing here? Nothing. That's how it works. -- Marc Wilson | Cheit's Lament: If you

RE: Daylight Savings Time Extended

2006-07-17 Thread Tony Heal
Yes I did check the change log and it states: - debian/patches/90_glibc232-timezones.dpatch: Update to tzdata2005h But I can not find out what the 'Update to tzdata2005h' consisted of Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Ron Joh

RE: Daylight Savings Time Extended

2006-07-17 Thread Tony Heal
in fact the change log at debian.org for he stable branch states: - debian/patches/90_glibc232-timezones.dpatch: Update to tzdata2006b But that is still no help. Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Tony Heal [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: Sequential background tasks

2006-07-17 Thread T
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:10:43 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> I find that in many cases I need my background tasks to be executed in >> sequence. Ie, I need background task-b to start right after background >> task-a has properly started. >> >> So far I haven't found a good way to do it. I used >> >

Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended

2006-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maybe ask the D-D? Tony Heal wrote: > in fact the change log at debian.org for he stable branch states: > > - debian/patches/90_glibc232-timezones.dpatch: Update to tzdata2006b > > But that is still no help. > > > > -Original Message- >

Re: Sequential background tasks

2006-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 T wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:10:43 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> I find that in many cases I need my background tasks to be executed in >>> sequence. Ie, I need background task-b to start right after background >>> task-a has properly started.

RAID, mdadm shift dev point

2006-07-17 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
Hi, I have a problem with unexpected raid behavior. On my machine I have configured two raid5 (raid software, mdadm) over 5 disks + 1 spare disk. md0: sda1 sdb1 sdc1 sdd1 sde1 [U] (spare: sdf1) md1: sda2 sdb2 sdc2 sdd2 sde2 [U] (spare: sdf2) Now. I have set fails sdb2 on md1 ~$ mdadm --f

Inode Errors

2006-07-17 Thread Peter Collins
Hi, Sorry for the lack of information but I am having problems at home with inode errors on one of my harddrives, I have run fsck -y which found loads of problems and didn't really help, My question is as I have a hardware RAID1 setup, if I replace SDA with a new drive, do you think it would mirror

Re: RAID, mdadm shift dev point

2006-07-17 Thread Guillaume
Andrea Ganduglia a écrit : Hi, I have a problem with unexpected raid behavior. On my machine I have configured two raid5 (raid software, mdadm) over 5 disks + 1 spare disk. md0: sda1 sdb1 sdc1 sdd1 sde1 [U] (spare: sdf1) md1: sda2 sdb2 sdc2 sdd2 sde2 [U] (spare: sdf2) Now. I have set fa

video file information

2006-07-17 Thread Pol Hallen
Hey all :-) i need a program (or script) to do a check of information of video file (resolution, which codecs uses, etc) which program i could use?! thanks! ;-) Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fwd: Re: Why?]

2006-07-17 Thread John Hasler
Owen Heisler writes: > What does the installer do now, if tasksel is not used? You get everything up through "standard" plus a few "base" packages that are "optional" priority but are in "base" because some users may need them to proceed with the installation. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: kde headers not found, kdelibs-dev needed?

2006-07-17 Thread Mumia W.
On 07/17/2006 09:48 AM, Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:55:15AM -0400, H.S. wrote: I am guessing I need kdelibs-dev package. However, if I try to install this, apt-get says it wants to remove gnome and gnome-core etc! What am I missing here? Nothing. That's how it works. Not

APT can't find packages...

2006-07-17 Thread Redefined Horizons
I'm having some trouble installing a couple of Debs. I've got them in a repository on my local hard drive. I've run dpkg-scanpackages on the repository and I can see the packages in Synaptic. When I try to install the packages Synaptic tells me how much disk space is required and alerts me that it

Re: CUPS (Sid) not printing. (SOLVED?)

2006-07-17 Thread Arthur Marsh
David Baron wrote: On Monday 17 July 2006 15:17, David Baron wrote: On Monday 17 July 2006 05:04, Katipo wrote: David Baron wrote: Jobs get queued and simply stay that way? What's happening? Using latest 2.6.17 kernel, Sid Happened to me too. Reinstalling foomatic modules fixed it. Did tha

Re: Sequential background tasks

2006-07-17 Thread Mumia W.
On 07/17/2006 03:59 AM, T wrote: [...] { task-a ; task-b ; } & to avoid needlessly forking. This is the common theme for all the answers so far. But the problem is that my background tasks are real background tasks, eg. emacs and tk scripts, that they'd not finish and return. So I guess th

Re: Unidentified subject!

2006-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 12:50:43PM +1000, Bassam wrote: > i recently installed debian sarge by netinst minimal cd and the > installer did not recognise my motorola sb5100 cable modem which was > conneted by usb > i have no router, it was a direct connection its been a long time for me, but when

Re: How do I turn on LVM on RAID in 32-bit etch?

2006-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 09:26:33PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A fresh install from the debian-testing-i386-netinst > CD, donloaded 2006 07 15, on partition /dev/hda2 on my AMD64 box. > It now dual-boots 32-bit or 64-bit etch. > > I don't remember any such problems when I installed the 64-bi

Re: Sequential background tasks

2006-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 10:59:30AM +0200, T wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:10:43 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> I find that in many cases I need my background tasks to be executed in > >> sequence. Ie, I need background task-b to start right after background > >> task-a has properly started. >

Re: Going back to stable

2006-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 09:51:42AM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: > > On Jul 15, 2006, at 5:53 AM, Dave Ewart wrote: > > >On Saturday, 15.07.2006 at 01:00 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> > >>That is not exactly supported. Especially since there are *huge* > >>differences between stable and uns

Re: [Fwd: Re: Why?]

2006-07-17 Thread Owen Heisler
On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 10:16 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Owen Heisler writes: > > What does the installer do now, if tasksel is not used? > > You get everything up through "standard" plus a few "base" packages that > are "optional" priority but are in "base" because some users may need them > to pr

Re: APT can't find packages...

2006-07-17 Thread Arthur Marsh
Redefined Horizons wrote: I'm having some trouble installing a couple of Debs. I've got them in a repository on my local hard drive. I've run dpkg-scanpackages on the repository and I can see the packages in Synaptic. When I try to install the packages Synaptic tells me how much disk space is req

Re: kde headers not found, kdelibs-dev needed?

2006-07-17 Thread H.S.
Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:55:15AM -0400, H.S. wrote: I am guessing I need kdelibs-dev package. However, if I try to install this, apt-get says it wants to remove gnome and gnome-core etc! What am I missing here? Nothing. That's how it works. Well, it turns out this i

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-17 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 02:06 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:51:03 -0500 Jay C Vollmer wrote: > > On Thursday 13 July 2006 21:24, Carl Fink wrote: > > > I'm not an electrochemist, but modern Li-ion batteries don't develop > > > memory, they just lose capacity each time they're ch

Re: kde headers not found, kdelibs-dev needed?

2006-07-17 Thread H.S.
Mumia W. wrote: On 07/17/2006 09:48 AM, Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:55:15AM -0400, H.S. wrote: I am guessing I need kdelibs-dev package. However, if I try to install this, apt-get says it wants to remove gnome and gnome-core etc! What am I missing here? Nothing. That's

Re: /dev/video absent

2006-07-17 Thread kruton
Hello folks, I am reposting my problem again.. I am hoping to get a webcam (a TV tuner card later) working on a Debian/Unstable box with 2.6.17-1-486 kernel and evga's graphics card with nVidia GForce 6600LE chipset. The webcam in concern is a Logitech Quickcam IM. The material I dug up from the n

Re: ssh in debian

2006-07-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Christopher Nelson wrote: On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 11:33:34PM +0200, mattias jonsson wrote: how to activate ssh in debian? i run colinux debian Client or server? (I'm assuming here that colinux lets linux talk to the host's networking, I don't how to set it up if it doesn't) The client should

Re: Why?

2006-07-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Paul E Condon wrote: On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 10:40:07AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: But some posters to this thread seem to be unaware that selecting "Desk top" during install of Debian causes -both- kde -and- gnome to be installed. So, I believe almost all of those n

Re: Installing Debian with Raid and LVM , help

2006-07-17 Thread S Scharf
On 7/17/06, Eduardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I tried to install Debian in my machine with 2 sata hd's and firstI created a partition with the whole size of the disk in both of HD'sand set bootable them..Then I configured it with the option to configure Software Raid and created the md0 device

Re: Installing Debian with Raid and LVM , help

2006-07-17 Thread Eduardo
But the /boot will be under RAID, right? On 7/17/06, S Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/17/06, Eduardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I tried to install Debian in my machine with 2 sata hd's and first > I created a partition with the whole size of the disk in both of HD's > and set boot

Re: video file information

2006-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pol Hallen wrote: > Hey all :-) > > i need a program (or script) to do a check of information of video file > (resolution, which codecs uses, etc) > > which program i could use?! > > thanks! ;-) Using this command: $ apt-cache search video info |

Re: kde headers not found, kdelibs-dev needed?

2006-07-17 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:56:09PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > The difference between using apt-get and dselect to install kdelibs > seems to be huge here. As opposed to the difference between attempting to install two different packages. Gee, wonder why that might make the behavior different. -- M

CD writer wear out?

2006-07-17 Thread Art Edwards
I have had several CD burners die. They read just fine, but they stop writing after a very finite number (say tens) of CD's. My hardware vendor says that this is rare. Has anyone else had this experience? Is there something I should be doing? Art -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Installing Debian with Raid and LVM , help

2006-07-17 Thread S Scharf
On 7/17/06, Eduardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But the /boot will be under RAID, right?Yes. You create /dev/md0 for /boot and /dev/md1 for the LVM. Seehttp://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-11.html fora similiar setup

Re: CUPS (Sid) not printing. (SOLVED?)

2006-07-17 Thread David Baron
On Monday 17 July 2006 18:50, Arthur Marsh wrote: > > I went into http://localhost:631/ and "started" the printer. > > > > I never had to do this before so how to I make this happen automatically? > > If you put > > lp > > in /etc/modules > > and reboot, is /dev/lp0 created with the correct permiss

Re video file information

2006-07-17 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
On 7/17/06, Pol Hallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i need a program (or script) to do a check of information of video file (resolution, which codecs uses, etc) which program i could use?! Hello, I think mplayer can do that. It displays some information when the file is played. To install it,

Re: RAID, mdadm shift dev point

2006-07-17 Thread S Scharf
On 7/17/06, Guillaume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrea Ganduglia a écrit :> Hi, I have a problem with unexpected raid behavior. On my machine I have> configured two raid5 (raid software, mdadm) over 5 disks + 1 spare disk.>> md0: sda1 sdb1 sdc1 sdd1 sde1 [U] (spare: sdf1) > md1: sda2 sdb2 sdc2

Re: Sequential background tasks

2006-07-17 Thread T
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:58:33 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> >> I find that in many cases I need my background tasks to be executed >> >> in sequence. Ie, I need background task-b to start right after >> >> background task-a has properly started. >> >> >> >> So far I haven't found a good w

Re: CD writer wear out?

2006-07-17 Thread T
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:54:03 -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > I have had several CD burners die. They read just fine, but they stop > writing after a very finite number (say tens) of CD's. 10? that's absurd. and then you need to reboot, or it just won't burn any further? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Cannot install openoffice

2006-07-17 Thread S Scharf
On 7/15/06, Christopher Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 09:31:44AM +0200, Pol wrote:> As i try to install openoffice in debian/testing i get:>> apt-get install  openoffice.org-bin>> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >   openoffice.org-bin: Depends: libmyspell

Re: Installing Debian with Raid and LVM , help

2006-07-17 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:03:09PM -0400, S Scharf wrote: > > My recollection is that you cannot have the /boot directory > on a Logical Volume. I created two RAID partitions, one > for the /boot directory and one for the LVM for everything > else. My experience is that , using LILO, you can't ha

Re: Sequential background tasks

2006-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 T wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:58:33 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [snip] >> does this mean you need to start task-a, wait a little and then start task >> b to run concurrently with task-a? > > Exactly. > > One example is my TK script. I

Re: CD writer wear out?

2006-07-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon July 17 2006 12:54 pm, Art Edwards wrote: > I have had several CD burners die. They read just fine, but they stop > writing after a very finite number (say tens) of CD's. My hardware vendor > says that this is rare. Has anyone else had this experience? Is there > something I should be doing?

Re: kde headers not found, kdelibs-dev needed?

2006-07-17 Thread H.S.
Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:56:09PM -0400, H.S. wrote: The difference between using apt-get and dselect to install kdelibs seems to be huge here. As opposed to the difference between attempting to install two different packages. Gee, wonder why that might make the behavio

Re: Sequential background tasks

2006-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 04:09:32PM +0200, T wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:58:33 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > >> >> I find that in many cases I need my background tasks to be executed > >> >> in sequence. Ie, I need background task-b to start right after > >> >> background task-a has p

Question about variably depending packages

2006-07-17 Thread Jerry DuVal
Can a package have a variable depends in the control file?    I have created the following packages   test-database_1_i386.deb test-application_1_i386.deb test-storage_1_i386.deb   On my server I have a /etc/test.properties   IP=192.168.1.60 DATABASEIP=192.168.1.65 STORAGEIP=19

Re: Chatting with Debian GNU/Linux

2006-07-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Through Gaim I'm also trying to chat via ICQ, but when asked for >> a room name I don't know what to put there. >> A hint about the proper syntax or what on earth I should >> type in there? (I've never chatted before.) Kai Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: CUPS (Sid) not printing. (SOLVED?)

2006-07-17 Thread Roger Leigh
David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 17 July 2006 18:50, Arthur Marsh wrote: >> > I went into http://localhost:631/ and "started" the printer. >> > >> > I never had to do this before so how to I make this happen automatically? >> >> If you put >> >> lp >> >> in /etc/modules >> >> an

rsync error

2006-07-17 Thread Pupeno
Hello, I have a Debian Sarge server that makes a daily backup to an rsync server, while doing that I always get an error. The error is: rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 1 bytes: phase "unknown" [sender]: Connection reset by peer (104) rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (65734 bytes r

Re: How do I turn on LVM on RAID in 32-bit etch?

2006-07-17 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:55:42AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 09:26:33PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A fresh install from the debian-testing-i386-netinst > > CD, donloaded 2006 07 15, on partition /dev/hda2 on my AMD64 box. > > It now dual-boots 32-bit or

Re: CD writer wear out?

2006-07-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Jul 17 16:00 -0500]: > On Mon July 17 2006 12:54 pm, Art Edwards wrote: > > I have had several CD burners die. They read just fine, but they stop > > writing after a very finite number (say tens) of CD's. My hardware vendor > > says that this is rare. Has any

[OT] LinuxFormat old KDE programming articles in PDF

2006-07-17 Thread H.S.
Hi, I was wondering if somebody has old articles regarding development in KDE by LinuxFormat lying around. There are most PDFs available here (in LXF Archives page): http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=5 I am looking for these KDE

Re: RAID, mdadm shift dev point

2006-07-17 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
On 7/17/06, S Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/17/06, Guillaume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrea Ganduglia a écrit : > > Now, for emulate disaster scenario I have halted machine and phisically > > remove > > /dev/sdb. System booted well but /dev point has been shifted by one > > position

Re: Installing Debian with Raid and LVM , help

2006-07-17 Thread Eduardo
On 7/17/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:03:09PM -0400, S Scharf wrote: > > My recollection is that you cannot have the /boot directory > on a Logical Volume. I created two RAID partitions, one > for the /boot directory and one for the LVM for everything

Re: Installing Debian with Raid and LVM , help

2006-07-17 Thread Eduardo
So, I'm stuck here... look what I did: I have 2 sata hd, the sda is 160Gb and sdb is 80 Gb. First I create 1 partition in both HD's using 200 mb, to set as /boot for LILO. This is the md0. Then I create other partition in both HD's using the left space, and create the md1 device. With 79.8 Gb.

USB serial adapters

2006-07-17 Thread Digby Tarvin
I have just tried connecting a USB serial adapter to my Debian Etch system, and happily it seems to have been recognised and worked right out of the box But these things seem to come with very little documentation, and what I havn't yet discovered how to interrogate it to find out what baud ra

Re: Installing Debian with Raid and LVM , help

2006-07-17 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 07:43:59PM -0300, Eduardo wrote: > On 7/17/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:03:09PM -0400, S Scharf wrote: > >> > >> My recollection is that you cannot have the /boot directory > >> on a Logical Volume. I created two RAID partiti

Re: RAID, mdadm shift dev point

2006-07-17 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:42:50AM +0200, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > On 7/17/06, S Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I imagine that it should be possibe to write a set of udev rules to fix the > >mount point for each > >drive. > > I imagine too, but how? I seem to remember that just this poi

Digital Camera Flash Memory won't Mount

2006-07-17 Thread Mike McCarty
My girlfriend has a Sony Mavica MVC FD200 with Flash Memory cards. The card reader is a Dazzle USB card reader. It mounts just fine with Windows XP, but does not mount with Debian. Googling around produced simply reports of problems reading these things at all. One recommended using Belkin, but a

Re: Digital Camera Flash Memory won't Mount

2006-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: > My girlfriend has a Sony Mavica MVC FD200 with Flash Memory > cards. The card reader is a Dazzle USB card reader. It mounts > just fine with Windows XP, but does not mount with Debian. > > Googling around produced simply reports

resizing /var

2006-07-17 Thread Rick Pasotto
I have /var as a logical volume and have expanded it. Now I need to run resize2fs to actually use the extra space. In order to run resize2fs /var needs to be unmounted but practically everything uses /var so I would need to stop pretty much all services. What is the best way to handle this? Should

Re: kernel 2.6.17 and Realtime-lsm-source

2006-07-17 Thread John O'Hagan
On Monday 17 July 2006 21:19, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 11:15:24PM +1000, John O'Hagan wrote: [...] > > > > One little quirk I've noticed on my system is that a freshly-built > > realtime module won't load at first until I reboot. It's fine after that. > > Maybe a dpkg-reconf

xorg: Ctrl + Alt + F7 does'nt bring me back to WindowMaker

2006-07-17 Thread CN Liou
Hi! I don't know since when Ctrl+Alt+F7 does not bring me back to WindowMaker any more. Once I switch from WindowMaker to console by hitting Ctrl+Alt+F1 ~ F6, I lose my GUI forever and killing process xinit is my only "solution" to this problem for the time being. Helps will be much appre

Re: resizing /var

2006-07-17 Thread Richard Blumel
Rick Pasotto wrote: I have /var as a logical volume and have expanded it. Now I need to run resize2fs to actually use the extra space. In order to run resize2fs /var needs to be unmounted but practically everything uses /var so I would need to stop pretty much all services. What is the best way

Re: resizing /var

2006-07-17 Thread Raquel Rice
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:17:55 -0700 Richard Blumel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rick Pasotto wrote: > > I have /var as a logical volume and have expanded it. Now I need > > to run resize2fs to actually use the extra space. In order to > > run resize2fs /var needs to be unmounted but practically > >

Re: Sequential background tasks

2006-07-17 Thread T
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:54:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> does this mean you need to start task-a, wait a little and then start >>> task b to run concurrently with task-a? >> >> Exactly. [...] >> >> It sound a bit confusion but the bottom line is, yes, I need to do >> exactly what you've descri

Re: xorg: Ctrl + Alt + F7 does'nt bring me back to WindowMaker

2006-07-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 7/17/06, CN Liou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi!I don't know since when Ctrl+Alt+F7 does not bring me back to WindowMakerany more. Once I switch from WindowMaker to console by hitting Ctrl+Alt+F1~ F6, I lose my GUI forever and killing process xinit is my only "solution" to this problem for the ti

Re: xorg: Ctrl + Alt + F7 does'nt bring me back to WindowMaker

2006-07-17 Thread Michael Marsh
On 7/17/06, CN Liou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't know since when Ctrl+Alt+F7 does not bring me back to WindowMaker any more. Once I switch from WindowMaker to console by hitting Ctrl+Alt+F1 ~ F6, I lose my GUI forever and killing process xinit is my only "solution" to this problem for the t

Re: Question about variably depending packages

2006-07-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 05:10:10PM -0400, Jerry DuVal wrote: > Can a package have a variable depends in the control file? > Hi Jerry, I would suggest that you post this to the debian-mentors list as they would know alot more than the average debian-user. cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/

xorg: Ctrl+Alt+F7 doesn't bring back WindowMaker

2006-07-17 Thread CN Liou
Hi! I don't know since when Ctrl+Alt+F7 does not bring me back to WindowMaker any more. Once I switch from WindowMaker to console by hitting Ctrl+Alt+F1 ~ F6, I lose my GUI forever and killing process xinit is my only "solution" to this problem. Helps will be much appreciated. Regards,

Re: CD writer wear out?

2006-07-17 Thread Willie Wonka
Art Edwards wrote: > I have had several CD burners die. They read just fine, but they stop > writing after a very finite number (say tens) of CD's. My hardware vendor > says that this is rare. Has anyone else had this experience? Is there > something I should be doing? You must be joking! You're "

Re: resizing /var

2006-07-17 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le mardi 18 juillet 2006 04:46, Rick Pasotto a écrit : > I have /var as a logical volume and have expanded it. Now I need to run > resize2fs to actually use the extra space. In order to run resize2fs > /var needs to be unmounted but practically everything uses /var so I > would need to stop pretty

Re: xorg: Ctrl + Alt + F7 does'nt bring me back to WindowMaker

2006-07-17 Thread CN Liou
I know Bastille will log to 7, moving X to a higher vt. Try running "fgconsole" to find out which tty X is using. It might be 8 or 9. fgconsole reports 7. Regards, CN -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xorg: Ctrl + Alt + F7 does'nt bring me back to WindowMaker

2006-07-17 Thread Kent West
CN Liou wrote: >> I know Bastille will log to 7, moving X to a higher vt. Try running >> "fgconsole" to find out which tty X is using. It might be 8 or 9. > > fgconsole reports 7. I had a similar (but not exact) problem last week; turns out my /var partition was full. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCR

need help logging into sarge for i386

2006-07-17 Thread mike williams
OS username:mike pass:1   when i try to type in the pass,nothing goes into the space,but when i type in the name,it works. how can i fix this or take out the whole password bit

Re: xorg: Ctrl + Alt + F7 does'nt bring me back to WindowMaker

2006-07-17 Thread CN Liou
Doesn't Alt-F7 (no Ctl) do it? It doesn't. Regards, CN -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: need help logging into sarge for i386

2006-07-17 Thread Kent West
mike williams wrote: > OS username:mike > pass:1 > > when i try to type in the pass,nothing goes into the space,but when i > type in the name,it works. how can i fix this or take out the whole > password bit When you type in the password, you don't see any feedback; this is by design. It's suppo

Re: need help logging into sarge for i386

2006-07-17 Thread Mihira Fernando
mike williams wrote: OS username:mike pass:1 when i try to type in the pass,nothing goes into the space,but when i type in the name,it works. how can i fix this or take out the whole password bit Unless I'm mistaken, it doesnt show anything when you type the password in command prompt.