apt-proxy

2006-10-13 Thread Gilberto Martins
Hi.I am using apt-proxy to provide a Debian mirror to my network.This afternoon, I tried to install kde, by typeing "apt-get install kde" in a client. It almost worked, but it stucked.After searching among many log files, I found that "libgadu3_1.7~rc2-1_i386.deb" and "ekg_1.7~rc2-1_i386.deb" were

Re: non-free

2006-10-13 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Thursday, 12. October 2006 13:13, Roger Johansen wrote: > > Could someone please tell me the difference between: > > > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free > > and > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib > > > > I have the last one in m

Re: "Testing" Installation Headache

2006-10-13 Thread T
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:31:43 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > I > have several live CDs and Knoppix comes up fine, although grml doesn't. not directly answering your question, but if you post this (and details) in grml mlist, it is very likely that the problem be resolved. -- Tong (remove u

Re: How to synchronise NFS uid

2006-10-13 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 12.10.06 21:49, HXC wrote: > There are folders in my NFS share that I would like to keep private. I > gave the same permissions as my home folder (my username). Unfortunatly > my username has the same UID as the computer computer thus my username > becomes the username of the clients computer

Re: How to synchronise NFS uid

2006-10-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:23:47AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 12.10.06 21:49, HXC wrote: > > There are folders in my NFS share that I would like to keep private. I > > gave the same permissions as my home folder (my username). Unfortunatly > > my username has the same UID as the co

dchroot & schroot

2006-10-13 Thread T
Hi I have both dchroot & schroot installed on my box, but I want to just keep one. On seeing: schroot shares most of its options with dchroot, but offers vastly more functionality. I decided to remove schroot because I don't need those fancy functionality. but I can't because: The following pac

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:30:58PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I will agree that, if you only have a few commands that you regularly > want timed, then an alias is probably the easiest way to do it. > > I have the following alias: alias pr='pr -F -l 59', and it works just > fine, no recursio

Re: PostgreSQL Missing Function Error

2006-10-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:42:40AM +1000, Duncan McDonald wrote: > Hi All. I was wondering whether someone could help me explain a weird > PostgreSQL error I've encountered. > > I have two machines running Sarge stable, the first has been operating as a > database server for some time and the ot

Re: apt-proxy

2006-10-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 04:12:22AM -0300, Gilberto Martins wrote: > Hi. > > I am using apt-proxy to provide a Debian mirror to my network. > This afternoon, I tried to install kde, by typeing "apt-get install kde" in > a client. It almost worked, but it stucked. > After searching among many log fi

Re: printing from chroot

2006-10-13 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 12.10.06 13:58, James Richardson wrote: > What is the best way to print from a chroot? I'd say, printing to print server running on localhost interface. (cups or , lpr(-ng(), doesn't matter) -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive

Re: How to synchronise NFS uid

2006-10-13 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:23:47AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > Note that NFS was created (by SUN microsystems) for homogenous networks > > where all people/computers used same shared password databases (e.g. NIS, > > formerly known as YP). > > > > For this reason is it (was) not saf

dchroot and program parameters

2006-10-13 Thread T
Hi, how to use dchroot for program with parameters? I never seems to get it working: $ dchroot -d ls --color=auto -lF E: unknown option color I: Run "dchroot --help" to list usage example and all available options $ dchroot -d ls "--color=auto -lF" E: unknown option color I: Run "dchroot

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-13 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 12.10.06 19:10, José Alburquerque wrote: > Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute > the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the > prompt of a bash shell. you could try to insert the current date into your prompt (PS1) string, if you want

ted (unstable)

2006-10-13 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, after update and upgrade ted doesn't work fine. When I open a new file I get: appFont.c(812) aff->affFontFamilyName="Helvetica" afe->afeXfontFamilies=0x0 appFont.c(813) encoding=8 PS_Encodings[encoding].fcX11Registry="iso8859" appFont.c(814) encoding=8 PS_Encodings[encoding].fcX11Encoding=

Re: non-free

2006-10-13 Thread Roger Johansen
Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thursday, 12. October 2006 13:13, Roger Johansen wrote: > > > Could someone please tell me the difference between: > > > > > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib > non-free > > > and > > > deb http://security.debian.org/

Re: Re: Frequent kernel crashes on old non-ACPI hardware with 2.6.16+

2006-10-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, >Can you provide more information on your hardware? Output from a plain: > >lspci > >would be a start, as would the dmesg output. Okay, attaching those two. >On my 1998 era PII machine with BIOStar M6TLC motherboard (Intel 440LX >chipset), dmesg reports "ACPI disabled in BIOS". I also pur

Re: PostgreSQL Missing Function Error

2006-10-13 Thread Duncan McDonald
Hi Roberto, Thanks for the reply. No I didn't use the 'createlang' command, isn't that for adding new languages to postgreSQL? The earth distance functions are installed as standard with the main package and both machines got the default installation. Also both machines seem to have the ear

Re: non-free

2006-10-13 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 13.10.06 10:57, Roger Johansen wrote: > This is the content of my sources.list file: > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib > deb http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ stable main > deb-src http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ stable main in this case, you don't even need the '

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-13 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-10-12 @ 19:10:33 (week 41) José Alburquerque wrote: > Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute > the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the > prompt of a bash shell. > > Currently, I have my bash prompt set up so that it displays t

Re: Install on HP Pavilion DV6119US?

2006-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
Okay, solved. Thanks to a message in this list, I knew the problem lay in ntfsresize. I tried using Alt-F2 to switch to the second VT of the Debian installer, but for no reason I can figure out, any command to BusyBox that would access the filesystem (including ls or df) froze the computer. So I

Re: dchroot & schroot

2006-10-13 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-10-12, 21:03:03 (-0400) skrifaði T: > Hi > > I have both dchroot & schroot installed on my box, but I want to just keep > one. On seeing: > > schroot shares most of its options with dchroot, but offers vastly > more functionality. > > I decided to remove schroot because I don't need th

E: pyracerz: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2

2006-10-13 Thread HXC
When I try to remove pyracerz I get this error: E: pyracerz: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 Anyone knows how to solve this? I couldn't find it at bugs.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Configure to share Window XP printer (before it was set up samba)

2006-10-13 Thread rocky
Hey clve, Thanks very much for your reply! Could you tell me where can I find 'samba/windowsprinting howto' please? I suspect I did not go through this documentation. Thanks, Rocky -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

More Pavilion problems

2006-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
The install got to the point of "remove the CD and reboot". And it won't boot. During bootup it reaches the line: Checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs and then it never returns. I have to power down. Same in safe mode. This is 2.17.1. (I believe--I didn't think to look. In any

Re: Locales broken after Xorg upgrade

2006-10-13 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 12:01:34PM -0700, H. S. Teoh wrote: > [Please Cc: replies to me, I'm not subscribed to this list.] > > After the latest Xorg upgrade (unstable), my locale settings don't work > anymore. [snip] > Any clues as to what might be wrong? I'm seeing this too and it's a real pai

Re: Configure to share Window XP printer (before it was set up samba)

2006-10-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/10/06 21:01), rocky wrote: > Hey clve, > > Thanks very much for your reply! > > Could you tell me where can I find 'samba/windowsprinting howto' > please? I suspect I did not go through this documentation. http://excess.org/docs/linux_windows_printing.html Regards Clive -- www.cliveme

Re: Help offered 2 - opinion wanted about debian.org

2006-10-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
HXC wrote: I also wondered what the community finds about the colours and layout used for the website Does it need to be upgraded? Do find a new layout or other colours more appealing? If so what do you have in mind? Or do you think the current theme is just fine? The current theme and colors

Re: Problems with apt-listbugs

2006-10-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/10/06 06:57), Michael Ott wrote: > I got the following error during upgrade: > Fetched 7301kB in 54s (134kB/s) > Reading package fields... Done > Reading package status... Done > Retrieving bug reports... 0% W: unsupported proxy `false' > Error retrieving bug reports > Retry downloading bug

apache2 apr_filename_of_pathname

2006-10-13 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Hi all, since one week I cannot update my debian, since I always get the following: 13:27 h1siglushkov /home/glushkov # apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Correcting dependencies...Done The following extra packages will be installed: apache2-mpm-p

Re: apt-proxy

2006-10-13 Thread Gilberto Martins
WOW!!!It did worked out. But, why this weird problem with FTP backends ?Thanks Have you tried switching to an HTTP backend?Regards,-Roberto

Re: How to synchronise NFS uid

2006-10-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:11:47AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:23:47AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > Note that NFS was created (by SUN microsystems) for homogenous networks > > > where all people/computers used same shared password databases (e.g

Re: PostgreSQL Missing Function Error

2006-10-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 07:17:28PM +1000, Duncan McDonald wrote: > Hi Roberto, > > Thanks for the reply. > > No I didn't use the 'createlang' command, isn't that for adding new > languages to postgreSQL? > > The earth distance functions are installed as standard with the main > package and bot

Re: Configure to share Window XP printer (before it was set up samba)

2006-10-13 Thread rocky
On Oct 5, 9:50 pm, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On (04/10/06 20:08),rockywrote:> I installed cups and ln -s `which smbspool` > /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb > > > After that I usehttp://localhost:631/adminto add yourprinter > > addprinter > >Windowsprintervia SAMBA (as device) > > smb:

Re: apt-proxy

2006-10-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 08:47:26AM -0300, Gilberto Martins wrote: > WOW!!! > > It did worked out. But, why this weird problem with FTP backends ? > Thanks > > Could be a bug. The %7e is a URL encoding, which is often used to encose special characters in URLs, so that the browser and server don

Re: apache2 apr_filename_of_pathname

2006-10-13 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-10-13, 13:44:19 (+0200) skrifaði Ivan Glushkov: > Hi all, > > since one week I cannot update my debian, since I always get the following: > > 13:27 h1siglushkov /home/glushkov # apt-get -f install > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Correcting dependenci

Re: E: pyracerz: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2

2006-10-13 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-10-13, 12:08:13 (+0200) skrifaði HXC: > When I try to remove pyracerz I get this error: > > E: pyracerz: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 > > Anyone knows how to solve this? I couldn't find it at bugs.debian.org Installing pyracerz and removing with apt-get wo

Non-interactive apt-get?

2006-10-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey Folks! I'm in the process of rolling out a rather large grid of Linux nodes, many of which are Debian. I'm having some difficulties in automating certain aspects of my Debian roll-outs, and I'm hoping you can provide some insight. The issue in brief: I'm trying to fully automate apt-get. I

Unable to start courier-imap?

2006-10-13 Thread Jan Johansson
I am trying to set up courier-imap and courier-imap-ssl (4.1.1-3) in Etch, but I constantly run into vthe below when starting courier-imap haven:/var/mail/Eriks Maskiner/erik/new# /etc/init.d/courier-imap start Starting Courier IMAP server:/etc/init.d/courier-imap: xrealloc: ../bash/subst.c:512: c

Re: Non-interactive apt-get?

2006-10-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:34:27PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey Folks! > > I'm in the process of rolling out a rather large grid of Linux nodes, > many of which are Debian. I'm having some difficulties in automating > certain aspects of my Debian roll-outs, and I'm hoping you can provide

Re: Configure to share Window XP printer (before it was set up samba)

2006-10-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/10/06 22:51), rocky wrote: > LIJIANG:/home/lover# tail -f /var/log/cups/error_log gives me the > following message. > > D [13/Oct/2006:13:41:52 +0800] SendCommand: 5 file=8 > D [13/Oct/2006:13:41:52 +0800] AcceptClient: 7 from localhost:631. > D [13/Oct/2006:13:41:52 +0800] ReadClient: 7 PO

Re: non-free

2006-10-13 Thread Juha Tuuna
On Friday, 13. October 2006 10:17, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > I think you misunderstood the question. He asked, which one should he have > included in sources.list. Yes, true. I noticed that my self just _after_ having sent the mail. Sorry about that. -- -=[JT]=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Compiz and XGL on Debian

2006-10-13 Thread Gilberto Martins
A very basic help: 1) How can I search for these topics among the many posts in the list ? 2) Anybody knows how to make Compiz and Xgl work on Debian ? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

extremely slow 3w-9xxx

2006-10-13 Thread Pim Bliek
Hi All, I have a 3ware 9550SX-4LP RAID controller with 4x 300 GB SATA drives on them in RAID5 config. Furthermore, I installed Debian testing on LVM (only /boot on a normal partition). I used the ISO from 3Ware to install: http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=14860 and I am running their 2.6.8

Install debian on 965 type motherboard

2006-10-13 Thread Amir Roth
Has anyone been successful in installing Debian on an Intel 965 chipset with ICH8 SATA IDE controller? I was unable to do so with the latest Etch netinst (in latest I mean 10102006). The problem is that the installer does not recognize the CDROM. Anyone? Please? Amir

make-jpkg (java-package) on jdk-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin failed

2006-10-13 Thread KLEIN Stéphane
Hi, I would like build debian package for jdk-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin I test on stable and testing. I do : fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin I've this : """ /home/stephane/jdk-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin: line 419: /etc/mailcap: Permission denied /home/stephane/jdk-1_5_0_09-linux-i5

Re: make-jpkg (java-package) on jdk-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin failed

2006-10-13 Thread KLEIN Stéphane
2006/10/13, KLEIN Stéphane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I would like build debian package for jdk-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin I test on stable and testing. I do : fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin I've this : """ /home/stephane/jdk-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin: line 419: /etc/mailcap: Permi

Re: problem playing vcd with totem

2006-10-13 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 12:19 +0545, Basanta Shrestha wrote: > I am turning to this list expecting a small help. I am using debian > etch. gnome 2.14, totem, totem-xine 1.4.5 .. > > I have a vcd/dvd drive. when I insert dvd, it automatically opens up > totem movie player and plays movie -no problem!

Re: Compiz and XGL on Debian

2006-10-13 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 10:39 -0300, Gilberto Martins wrote: > 1) How can I search for these topics among the many posts in the list ? > 2) Anybody knows how to make Compiz and Xgl work on Debian ? Using Google to search the archives is prefered, eg: compiz site:http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/

Re: Unable to start courier-imap?

2006-10-13 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 14:49 +0200, Jan Johansson wrote: > I am trying to set up courier-imap and courier-imap-ssl (4.1.1-3) in > Etch, but I constantly run into vthe below when starting courier-imap > > haven:/var/mail/Eriks Maskiner/erik/new# /etc/init.d/courier-imap start > Starting Courier IMAP

[Resolved] Re: make-jpkg (java-package) on jdk-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin failed

2006-10-13 Thread KLEIN Stéphane
2006/10/13, KLEIN Stéphane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 2006/10/13, KLEIN Stéphane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I would like build debian package for jdk-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin > > I test on stable and testing. > > I do : > > fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin > > I've this : > > """ > /ho

Re: Compiz and XGL on Debian

2006-10-13 Thread Petteri
Gilberto Martins kirjoitti pe 13. lokakuuta 2006 10:39:27: > A very basic help: > > 1) How can I search for these topics among the many posts in the list > ? You could use google groups interface for searching: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user > 2) Anybody knows how to make Compi

Re: apache2 apr_filename_of_pathname

2006-10-13 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: Þann 2006-10-13, 13:44:19 (+0200) skrifaði Ivan Glushkov: Hi all, since one week I cannot update my debian, since I always get the following: 13:27 h1siglushkov /home/glushkov # apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Corr

Re: eth#_rename

2006-10-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 12:37:37 -0700, Githogori Nyangara-Murage wrote: > Did I miss something? What is this eth1_rename stuff? > Why won't my regular specification for my second NIC > work anymore - i.e. plain eth1? Check the udev rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules. (I am assumi

Re: 'stty sane' in insane

2006-10-13 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 04:39:20PM -0400, T wrote: > Hi > > In my script, I always use 'stty sane' to set my tty to a sane stage, after > temporally changing any tty attributes. > > But for recent month or two, my BS key often stop working, only today did I > finally track it down to the 'stty s

Re: Install debian on 965 type motherboard

2006-10-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 07:47:43 +, Amir Roth wrote: > Has anyone been successful in installing Debian on an Intel 965 > chipset with ICH8 SATA IDE controller? > > I was unable to do so with the latest Etch netinst (in latest I > mean10102006). The problem is that the installer does not recogn

Install Linux without CD-ROM

2006-10-13 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, I've an older laptop that does not allow to boot from CD-ROM but from FDD, HDD and LAN. What is the easiest way to install Debian on that device? Thank you. Regards, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-13 Thread José Alburquerque
J.A. de Vries wrote: You could use PROMPT_COMMAND for this. I do to create a sort of statusbar in my shells (with the added help of tput). Found out about this last night using man. :-) I've copied the relevant parts of the code I wrote for that below. Just add it to your bashrc, adjust the

Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-13 Thread José Alburquerque
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the prompt of a bash shell. Currently, I have my bash prompt set up so that it displays the current date. If I can print the date just before each command is ex

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-13 Thread José Alburquerque
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: you could try to insert the current date into your prompt (PS1) string, if you want it this way. also, looking at 'man bash', there's special variable: PROMPT_COMMAND If set, the value is executed as a command prior to issuing each primary prompt. If I

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-13 Thread José Alburquerque
José Alburquerque wrote: Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the prompt of a bash shell. Oops. Sorry about re-send. Just ignore this please. -- Sincerely Jose Alburquerque -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Install Linux without CD-ROM

2006-10-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Christian Christmann wrote: Hi, I've an older laptop that does not allow to boot from CD-ROM but from FDD, HDD and LAN. What is the easiest way to install Debian on that device? You will find different options in the release and installation instructions. http://www.de.debian.org/release

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-13 Thread Dave Whiteley
Looking at things differently... Can you not use the unix "time" command to display the process times on completion? Dave -- Dave Whiteley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +44 (0)113 343 2059 Faculty of Engineering The University of Leeds. Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

How to PIN a package?

2006-10-13 Thread Mirto Silvio Busico
Hi all, I had to downgrade openoffice to version 2.0.3. Now I need to avoid that this package will b e upgraded again. Following the manuals I put in apt files (in /etc/apt): apt.conf: APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM

Re: Install Linux without CD-ROM

2006-10-13 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:30:24AM +0200, Christian Christmann wrote: > Hi, > > I've an older laptop that does not allow to boot from > CD-ROM but from FDD, HDD and LAN. > > What is the easiest way to install Debian on that device? You could install SBM (Smart Boot Manager) on the HDD and use t

Install debian on 965 type motherboard

2006-10-13 Thread Roth Amir
Has anyone been successful in installing Debian on an Intel 965 chipset with ICH8 SATA IDE controller? I was unable to do so with the latest Etch netinst (in latest I mean 10102006). The problem is that the installer does not recognize the CDROM. Anyone? Please? Amir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Two questions about boot scripts

2006-10-13 Thread cothrige
I don't particularly like gdm and so I made the script in init.d nonexecutable. I feel, though, this was likely the wrong way. What is the right way to do it? The whole Debian bootscript system is somewhat intimidating to a Slackware user, and so I am hesitant to go in there willy-nilly. Also,

Re: "Testing" Installation Headache

2006-10-13 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: [cut] My question is; is there any recovery option other than a re-install? I have several live CDs and Knoppix comes up fine, although grml doesn't. I think the directions here should work: http://forums.osdir.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=251 They did. Many thank

Re: "Testing" Installation Headache

2006-10-13 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
M-L wrote: [cut] I had this same problem with testing [Etch] The installer didn't finish. I also didn't use the option to install any software, just the base system. So I just turned off the computer and allowed it to boot. What I did then was:- login as root Here are my notes:- 1. Typing #

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-13 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:32:03AM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote: > However, I do admit that using time for commands is probably a lot > better. Besides, I can never get a "precise" time with just inserting > the date in the prompt because if the terminal sits idle for some time, > the time in

Re: "Testing" Installation Headache

2006-10-13 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
T wrote: On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:31:43 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: I have several live CDs and Knoppix comes up fine, although grml doesn't. not directly answering your question, but if you post this (and details) in grml mlist, it is very likely that the problem be resolved. Thanks fo

choppy sound with via ingame, sb resets on reboot

2006-10-13 Thread B. Hoffmann
Hello list, on a new installation of Etch, up to date, have a sound problem. The onboard chip is a Via 8235 and was detected on install and works fine except giving choppy sound which slows the game down significantly when playing lxdoom (yes a bit of retro fun). Put in an old SB Live 512 (PCI),

Re: Broken X fonts in emacs21, emacs bug?

2006-10-13 Thread edwardsa
By now, you have probably fixed this problem, but I have been wrestling with font issues for several weeks now. I include a rough webpage with a recipe that has led to consistently pleasing fonts in both gnome and KDE. Art Edwards Daniel Johnson wrote: Twice now I have found emacs21 display s

Re: More Pavilion problems

2006-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 12:41:37AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > And it won't boot. During bootup it reaches the line: > > Checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs > > and then it never returns. I have to power down. Same in safe mode. This > is 2.17.1. (I believe--I didn't think to look

Re: Compiz and XGL on Debian

2006-10-13 Thread 0x7a337230
On 10/13/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 10:39 -0300, Gilberto Martins wrote: > 1) How can I search for these topics among the many posts in the list ? > 2) Anybody knows how to make Compiz and Xgl work on Debian ? Using Google to search the archives is prefer

Re: Trouble with cron

2006-10-13 Thread Serban Udrea
cothrige wrote: * Johannes Wiedersich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: As said by michael in another reply, the alternatives are overriden by EDITOR or VISUAL. Yes, that would make sense, but I had unset these in trying to get vi to work with crontab. I guess I had assumed that vi would be the

Re: Trouble with cron

2006-10-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 07:36:53PM +0200, Serban Udrea wrote: > > Hello, > > I am on Slackware 10.1 box right now and the man page for crontab states > that crontab -e will use /usr/bin/vi or VISUAL. It does not mention > EDITOR. On this box if VISUAL is not set, vi is run. If I set VISUAL to

Name for Etch+1?

2006-10-13 Thread Dave Ewart
Current Testing is Etch, which will be the next stable release: Debian 4.0 Once Etch is released, the next Testing branch needs a new name. Anyone know what it's going to be called? If no decision has yet been made, anyone care to speculate? I think we're running out of characters from the firs

Re: Name for Etch+1?

2006-10-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 06:46:24PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > Current Testing is Etch, which will be the next stable release: Debian > 4.0 > > Once Etch is released, the next Testing branch needs a new name. Anyone > know what it's going to be called? If no decision has yet been made, > anyone c

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-13 Thread José Alburquerque
Dave Whiteley wrote: Looking at things differently... Can you not use the unix "time" command to display the process times on completion? Dave I take it you're referring to the same command already mentioned by Roberto and others. Right? -- Sincerely Jose Alburquerque -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Name for Etch+1?

2006-10-13 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 18:46 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > Once Etch is released, the next Testing branch needs a new name. Anyone > know what it's going to be called? If no decision has yet been made, > anyone care to speculate? I think we're running out of characters from > the first Toy Story fil

Re: Two questions about boot scripts

2006-10-13 Thread derek
Hellocreate the script in /etc/init.d/lets say its named myscriptmake it executablethen do /usr/sbin/update-rc.d myscript defaultsthat will create a sym link in all the run levelsDerek On 10/13/06, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't particularly like gdm and so I made the script in init.dn

Re: Two questions about boot scripts

2006-10-13 Thread Dekxter
GDM is disabled by running: # update-rc.d -f gdm remove On 10/13/06, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't particularly like gdm and so I made the script in init.d nonexecutable. I feel, though, this was likely the wrong way. What is the right way to do it? The whole Debian bootscript s

debian 2.6.18 sound bug

2006-10-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Yesterday I tried linux-image-2.6.18-1-k7 with linux-headers-2.6.18-1-k7 (because I have a K7 processor). I installed the closed source Nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8774-pkg1.run manually. That 2.6.18 derivative has a bug in it: if you have the VIA VT8237 chipset the onboard soun

Re: How to synchronise NFS uid

2006-10-13 Thread Aleksei Dzhulai
Use pam-ldap, nss-ldap to centralize uid/gids. Roberto C. Sanchez писал(а): > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:11:47AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:23:47AM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > > Note that NFS was created (by SUN microsystems) for homogeno

Re: Two questions about boot scripts

2006-10-13 Thread cothrige
* derek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello > create the script in /etc/init.d/ > lets say its named myscript > make it executable > then do /usr/sbin/update-rc.d myscript defaults > that will create a sym link in all the run levels > Derek That sounds straightforward enough. Many thanks. Patrick

Re: Two questions about boot scripts

2006-10-13 Thread cothrige
* Dekxter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > GDM is disabled by running: > # update-rc.d -f gdm remove Thanks a lot. I can't believe how much trouble I was having just trying to figure that little item out. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Broken X fonts in emacs21, emacs bug?

2006-10-13 Thread edwardsa
OK, so this is the real fix. Move FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/" to the top (above the misc). I don't understand why, but this gives great fonts for xemacs21. I've revised the web page accordingly. Art Edwards Daniel Johnson wrote: Twice now I have found emacs21 display squares i

Re: How to synchronise NFS uid

2006-10-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 06:17:31AM -0700, Aleksei Dzhulai wrote: > Use pam-ldap, nss-ldap to centralize uid/gids. > > I know that LDAP will serve up user accounts and uids. However, NFS is still vulnerable to anyone who has root on their own machine. The point is, if you trust your users, or do

Re: Trouble with cron

2006-10-13 Thread cothrige
* Serban Udrea ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, Howdy, > I am on Slackware 10.1 box right now and the man page for crontab states > that crontab -e will use /usr/bin/vi or VISUAL. It does not mention > EDITOR. On this box if VISUAL is not set, vi is run. If I set VISUAL to > something els

Re: How to PIN a package?

2006-10-13 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/13/2006 04:59 AM, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: Hi all, I had to downgrade openoffice to version 2.0.3. Now I need to avoid that this package will b e upgraded again. Following the manuals I put in apt files (in /etc/apt): apt.conf: ---

Re: Two questions about boot scripts

2006-10-13 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/13/2006 10:57 AM, cothrige wrote: I don't particularly like gdm and so I made the script in init.d nonexecutable. I feel, though, this was likely the wrong way. What is the right way to do it? The whole Debian bootscript system is somewhat intimidating to a Slackware user, and so I am he

GRUB Configuration

2006-10-13 Thread Gilberto Martins
Hi. The Scenery: I want to configure GRUB to show all the options without timeout. I tried "timeout=0", but it made de default option start automatically The Questions: 1) How can I configure GRUB without timeout ? I just want it to show the optons and wait for operation 2) How can I configure i

upgrade

2006-10-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, With synaptic you can upgrade a particular package. Is there an apt-get command to do so also? Thanks! H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: upgrade

2006-10-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:04:28AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > > With synaptic you can upgrade a particular package. > > Is there an apt-get command to do so also? > apt-get upgrade Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.

Re: sudoers

2006-10-13 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Critchlow wrote: Does anyone have any information on the package "sudoers", such as what it is and why and what? $ man sudo Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I can expla

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-13 Thread Mike McCarty
Martin Möller wrote: Hi all, I'm experiencing a significant increase of spam. The messages mostly contain a few words and a number as subject and a senseless html body (randomly arranged words) as well as a GIF attachment. I've been having a serious problem with someone spoofing my e-mail addr

Debian Weekly News?

2006-10-13 Thread Wulfy
I haven't had the last two edition of Debian Weekly News. I thought that I'd somehow become unsubscribed from the list, but when I went to the site, it seems I have all of them and the October editions that I'm missing haven't been sent. Any idea what's wrong? The only thing I can think of i

installing Debian on a dual boot Fedora Core 5/Windows PC

2006-10-13 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian folks? I run Fedora Core 5 and Windows on my PC in a dual boot situation using GRUB. If I install Debian too will it be OK? Will I end up with two GRUBs? What happens here? Michael Fothergill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: GRUB Configuration

2006-10-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri October 13 2006 12:29, Gilberto Martins wrote: > Hi. > > The Scenery: > I want to configure GRUB to show all the options without timeout. > I tried "timeout=0", but it made de default option start automatically > > The Questions: > 1) How can I configure GRUB without timeout ? I just want it

Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-13 Thread Peter Westlake
I believe that the dispute between the Mozilla Corporation and the Debian Project is highly damaging to both sides and to Free Software in general, so I have set up an online petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/debffx/ urging them to find a way to let Debian carry on distributing Firefox.

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