Re: Device: /dev/hda, ATA error count increased from 0 to 2

2007-01-04 Thread Jacques Normand
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:40:01AM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: ... > Jan 2 07:38:13 reidster kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete Error } > Jan 2 07:38:17 reidster kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { > UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=8152823, high=0, low=8152823, sect

Re: MODERATOR - NEWS GROUP

2007-01-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:06:54PM +, Gary Roach wrote: > Check out a couple of not so on topic entries. Please refrain from replying to spams on-list, and especially quoting context from them. This only serves to make statistical-classification filters less reliable. -- Jon Dowland -- T

Re: SSH doesn't work with RSA keys

2007-01-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:27:36PM -0300, Alejandro wrote: > 1) What are the lines I should setup in > /etc/ssh/sshd_config from the server side Just > *AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keys* or what else > ??? You shouldn't need to put anything. The sshd server in Debian will assume a d

Re: No file /usr/include/gtk/gtk.h

2007-01-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 12:51:13AM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > gcc -Wall -o file file.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0` > > sovled my problem but I don't figure out `pkg-config --cflags --libs > gtk+-2.0`: snip > there are a lot of options ... Yep: what's the problem? If you are having t

Re: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple

2007-01-04 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 22:49 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: >Not sure if it's standard gtk/gnome file open dialog, but it's the > one used to pick application when opening an attachement and downloading > files (it's probably used in other places as well). > >The dialog has two parts - left pa

Re: TCP wrapper and sendmail

2007-01-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 09:05:05AM -0600, Amal Phadke wrote: > I would like to reject mails from IPs without reverse DNS > with "sendmail: ALL EXCEPT UNKNOWN" line in > /etc/hosts.allow. (Mail originating from such IPs is > almost exclusively spam). A rule like "ALL EXCEPT UNKNOWN" will not permit

Re: gtk-gnutella problems

2007-01-04 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Gerard Robin wrote: > I am afraid I can't help you but I use gtk-gnutella > 0.96.1svn12109-1 too (with unstable) and it works fine for me. Hmm.. maybe it has something to do with the fact that I have a firewall on a separate machine? Anyway I filed a bug about this, and quickly received an answe

Manual java alternative

2007-01-04 Thread Marko Randjelovic
I installed jdk1.6.0 in /opt by running sun's package "jdk-6-linux-amd64.bin". Now I need to update alternatives, but there are 64 of them and that would be to complicated. I made a file .jdk.jinfo in /usr/lib/jvm and tried to run update-java-alternatives, but it looks like it doesn't work. I

Re: SSH doesn't work with RSA keys

2007-01-04 Thread Sebastian Helms
Hi, * on Jan 03, 2007, Alejandro wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:50:40PM -0300, Alejandro wrote: > > > >>People, I have generated the key pair RSA from my root linux's user and > >>then I copy my RSA public key to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys from the > >>linux ssh server. After that I edit t

Re: SSH doesn't work with RSA keys

2007-01-04 Thread Sebastian Helms
Hi again, * on Jan 04, 2007, I wrote: > * on Jan 03, 2007, Alejandro wrote: > > >On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:50:40PM -0300, Alejandro wrote: > > > > > >>People, I have generated the key pair RSA from my root linux's user and > > >>then I copy my RSA public key to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys from t

Re: Manual java alternative

2007-01-04 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Marko. Marko Randjelovic, 04.01.2007 11:34: > Or is there some Debian package for jdk6 or jdk-1.5.0_8, > since this newest 1.5.0_10 made me problems? Look at here: http://snapshot.debian.net/cgi-bin/packages.cgi?package=sun-java5&details=details Regards, Mathias -- debian/rules signa

fglrx drivers: screen flickers

2007-01-04 Thread Inko IA
Hello! I have a problem with the Ati fglrx drivers. I have 3d acceleration, but when I go to console mode typing ctrl+alt+f1 and return to graphic mode ctrl+alt+f7, or also when I log out from session to start with another user (so I think it is when is changing resolution), the screen starts fli

Re: Annoying beep!

2007-01-04 Thread Chris
On Thursday 04 January 2007 03:26, John O'Hagan wrote: > On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:50, Colin wrote: > > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > That got covered a while ago here. > > > I think it is as much as rmmod pcspkr > > > > It would be better to blacklist pcspkr in /etc/modprobe.d > > Agreed, exce

Re: Annoying beep!

2007-01-04 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Chris wrote: > >I'm have a testing/unstable system and am using KDE. The system beeps > >from the PC speaker fairly regularly, although I haven't figured out if it > >occurs at a regular interval. I've turned off all sounds in > >system-notifications in the Control center, and I know it is t

etherconf package not found in testing

2007-01-04 Thread Justin Hartman
Hi all I'm trying to install etherconf via apt-get in testing. The package however can not be found so I checked the testing packages net section [0] only to find this package is not there. It is in the stable version [1] however. Anyone know what the substitute is for this package in testing? -

Re: RE: Update Your Account Information [Qurb #668742]

2007-01-04 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Paul Bransford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is this spam or a legitimate message? On 04.01.07 07:29, Henrik Enberg wrote: > It's not spam in the sense that it is an unsolicitated commercial > message, but it is ceartanly spam in every other sense. One can only > hope that the list-master kic

Re: Manual java alternative

2007-01-04 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hello Marko. Marko Randjelovic, 04.01.2007 11:34: Or is there some Debian package for jdk6 or jdk-1.5.0_8, since this newest 1.5.0_10 made me problems? Look at here: http://snapshot.debian.net/cgi-bin/packages.cgi?package=sun-java5&details=details Regards, Mat

Re: Manual java alternative

2007-01-04 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hello Marko. Marko Randjelovic, 04.01.2007 11:34: Or is there some Debian package for jdk6 or jdk-1.5.0_8, since this newest 1.5.0_10 made me problems? Look at here: http://snapshot.debian.net/cgi-bin/packages.cgi?package=sun-java5&details=details Regards, Mat

Re: Manual java alternative

2007-01-04 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Marko. Marko Randjelovic, 04.01.2007 12:37: > Mathias Brodala wrote: >> Marko Randjelovic, 04.01.2007 11:34: >> >>> Or is there some Debian package for jdk6 or jdk-1.5.0_8, >>> since this newest 1.5.0_10 made me problems? >>> >> >> Look at here: >> http://snapshot.debian.net/cgi-bin/p

Re: Manual java alternative

2007-01-04 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hello Marko. Marko Randjelovic, 04.01.2007 12:37: Mathias Brodala wrote: Marko Randjelovic, 04.01.2007 11:34: Or is there some Debian package for jdk6 or jdk-1.5.0_8, since this newest 1.5.0_10 made me problems? Look at here: http://snaps

Re: Manual java alternative

2007-01-04 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Marko. Marko Randjelovic, 04.01.2007 12:54: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/apt# apt-get install sun-java5-bin=1.5.0-08* > sun-java5-demo=1.5.0-08* sun-java5-doc=1.5.0-08* > sun-java5-fonts=1.5.0-08* sun-java5-jdk=1.* sun-java5-jre=1.5.0-08* > sun-java5-source=1.5.0-08* > Reading package lists... D

Re: etherconf package not found in testing

2007-01-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 01:16:38PM +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: > Hi all > > I'm trying to install etherconf via apt-get in testing. The package > however can not be found so I checked the testing packages net section > [0] only to find this package is not there. It is in the stable > version [1]

Re: Is it possible to use an usb hub in debian?

2007-01-04 Thread kawanokami
Thank you for your kind replies... I cannot be too picky over which model to choose since I have only a number of stores close to home and mail orders are usually quite expensive (spending 10€ over a 40€ purchase would be absurd if I can avoid it)... But my laptop has only two usb2.0 ports (that ar

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Re: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple

2007-01-04 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 22:49 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: >Not sure if it's standard gtk/gnome file open dialog, but it's the > one used to pick application when opening an attachement and downloading > files (it's probably used in other places as well). > >The dialog has two parts - left pa

Re: fglrx drivers: screen flickers

2007-01-04 Thread António Jorge Mota Vasconcelos
Hello! Try to remove the "Modeline" from your xorg.conf. Or you could see if your laptop has a "problem" with ATI drivers... Mine has... It's a HP NX7010 with a ATI Mobility 9200 (M9) and it didn't work with ATI drivers after 8.18.xxx giving a refresh rate problem too. :( Check this link: http

Re: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple

2007-01-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:49:52PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > Not sure if it's standard gtk/gnome file open dialog, but it's the > one used to pick application when opening an attachement and downloading > files (it's probably used in other places as well). > > The dialog has two parts - le

conky and enlightenment on etch

2007-01-04 Thread Jakub Narojczyk
Hi I have few questions about conky usage. 1) Does conky has some sort of maximum length of .conkyrc that it can parse? I have as much as 10 - 15 partitions but I cant display file system usage of all of them. Currently i display only 5 of them. When I try to add more image of displayed by con

Re: gtk-gnutella problems

2007-01-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Gerard Robin wrote: I am afraid I can't help you but I use gtk-gnutella 0.96.1svn12109-1 too (with unstable) and it works fine for me. Hmm.. maybe it has something to do with the fact that I have a firewall on a separate machine? Anyway I filed a bug about this, and

Re: gtk-gnutella problems

2007-01-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Gerard Robin wrote: I am afraid I can't help you but I use gtk-gnutella 0.96.1svn12109-1 too (with unstable) and it works fine for me. Hmm.. maybe it has something to do with the fact that I have a firewall on a separate machine? Anyway I fil

Re: gtk-gnutella problems

2007-01-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Gerard Robin wrote: I am afraid I can't help you but I use gtk-gnutella 0.96.1svn12109-1 too (with unstable) and it works fine for me. Hmm.. maybe it has something to do with the fact that I have a firewall on a separat

Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-04 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian users, A couple of my friends who were using Sarge, on machines with 128 MB of RAM and 256 MB of RAM have complained that an upgrade from Sarge to Etch has slowed their machine down considerably. This is irrespective of the Window Manager. Is there any particular reason why this could

Re: Unable to Unmount Flash Drive

2007-01-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 08:56:25PM +, Volker Braun wrote: > This will show all programs that have files open under any > directory: > > /usr/sbin/lsof | grep Just a quick note, /usr/sbin/lsof +D might be quicker. > PS: Please avoid excessive crossposting. Agreed. I've paired it down to ju

Re: Manual java alternative

2007-01-04 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Now you can try two more things: 1) Give the exact version number instead of the wildcard *. 2) Just download the packages and install them manually via dpkg. Regards, Mathias Thanks, now I can start Eclipse (solution 2). Yet, I would like to use new Java 6. I was monitoring memory usage

emacs, UTF-8, japanese -- how?

2007-01-04 Thread hendrik
I'm using emacs (GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2005-03-17 on trouble, modified by Debian) on a sarge system. The default locale is en.CA.UTF-8. I've recently found out how to edit Japanese (meta-X set-input-methis and choose "japanese") but I am unable t

Re: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple

2007-01-04 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 07:26 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > They're the standard GNOME dialogs, and you're absolutely right. They fall > into the Microsoft Error: cool-looking, terrible usability. But apparently > GNOME is immune to user comments. > > They are inferior (and this is embarassing) to th

Re: conky and enlightenment on etch

2007-01-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jakub Narojczyk: > > 1) Does conky has some sort of maximum length of .conkyrc that it can > parse? I have as much as 10 - 15 partitions but I cant display file > system usage of all of them. Currently i display only 5 of them. When I > try to add more image of displayed by conky get scrambled.

Re: emacs, UTF-8, japanese -- how?

2007-01-04 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 09:22 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hmmm. my etch AMD-64 system also says it uses emacs 21.4.1 Has > emacs become static? Do I need a post-etch emacs? Try the emacs-snapshot packages. I'm not sure if they are in etch or only in unstable. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson

Re: fglrx drivers: screen flickers

2007-01-04 Thread Hal
Inko IA wrote: [...] Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection I also had a problem with dri... I solved typing this before "Section "DRI" Section "Extensions" Option"Composite" "Disable" EndSection bye, Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: webbased SSH server/client

2007-01-04 Thread celejar
On 1/2/07, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi List, I'm looking for a ssh client that runs on a webserver. Something I can connect to using a regular web browser and then connect to a ssh server from that server (Instead of the connection originating from the client) Trying to circumvent a fire

Re: webbased SSH server/client

2007-01-04 Thread Michael Ott
Hi! > >I'm looking for a ssh client that runs on a webserver. Something I can > >connect to using a regular web browser and then connect to a ssh server > >from that server (Instead of the connection originating from the client) > > > >Trying to circumvent a firewall that only let's out port 80 an

Re: TCP wrapper and sendmail

2007-01-04 Thread Amal Phadke
Jon Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 09:05:05AM -0600, Amal Phadke wrote: >> I would like to reject mails from IPs without reverse DNS >> with "sendmail: ALL EXCEPT UNKNOWN" line in >> /etc/hosts.allow. (Mail originating from such IPs is >> almost exclusively spam). > > A rule like "ALL EX

Re: Installation fails on Toshiba 410CDT

2007-01-04 Thread celejar
On 1/2/07, Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] BTW I looked into DSL. Thanks for the URL, but if I can, I'd rather stick to vanilla Debian. Cheers. -- Regards Stephen Also see grml [0], which is closer to vanilla Debian. Celejar [0] http://grml.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: emacs, UTF-8, japanese -- how?

2007-01-04 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:53:53PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 09:22 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hmmm. my etch AMD-64 system also says it uses emacs 21.4.1 Has > > emacs become static? Do I need a post-etch emacs? > > Try the emacs-snapshot packages. I'm not

IP Address networking - best way?

2007-01-04 Thread Justin Hartman
A very newbie question and one that I hope you guys can shed some light on. I currently have a server with an IP range of 70.87.206.50/4 and I need to configure the server to see all 5 IP addresses. Currently my /etc/network/interfaces is configured as: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static a

unable to parse package file; aptitude effectively dead.

2007-01-04 Thread hendrik
While I'm waiting for someone to *fix* bug 405506, does anyone have an idea how to recover from it? Is a reinstall in order? Yesterday aptitude reported Unable to parse package file /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates This happened on an etch that was just installed the same day from a previous-day n

Re: unable to parse package file; aptitude effectively dead.

2007-01-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 10:45:29AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While I'm waiting for someone to *fix* bug 405506, does anyone have an > idea how to recover from it? Is a reinstall in order? I doubt it. you may have to use apt-get to install a fix but you shouldn't have to reinstall. > >

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 07:34:13PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > A couple of my friends who were using Sarge, on machines with 128 MB > of RAM and 256 MB of RAM have complained that an upgrade from Sarge to > Etch has slowed their machine down considerably. This is irrespect

Re: SSH doesn't work with RSA keys

2007-01-04 Thread michael
On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:50:40 -0300, Alejandro wrote > People, I have generated the key pair RSA from my root linux's user and > then I copy my RSA public key to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys from the > linux ssh server. After that I edit the sshd_config file and put permit > rootlogin no and the corre

Re: unable to parse package file; aptitude effectively dead.

2007-01-04 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 10:45 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While I'm waiting for someone to *fix* bug 405506, does anyone have an > idea how to recover from it? Is a reinstall in order? > > Yesterday aptitude reported > Unable to parse package file /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates > This happene

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-04 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 04/01/07, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: maybe its a memory issue? My understanding is that the etch kernel is much bigger than the sarge kernel. that is entirely anecdotal as I have no sarge box to compare to. Do you think I should suggest compiling a new kernel, lean? Of course, I thought th

Re: IP Address networking - best way?

2007-01-04 Thread Larry Irwin
On Thursday, January 04, 2007 Justin Hartman wrote: Currently my /etc/network/interfaces is configured as: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 70.87.206.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 70.87.206.49 I thought that adding the following would allow me to assign and use the

Re: MODERATOR - NEWS GROUP

2007-01-04 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:32:01AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:06:54PM +, Gary Roach wrote: > > Check out a couple of not so on topic entries. > It seems to me that much of this spam includes graphic images (presumably that contain ads but I don't open them). Could

Re: IP Address networking - best way?

2007-01-04 Thread Larry Irwin
Forget my last email... too quick on the keyboard... The "auto" declaration is for physical interfaces only... It should have looked like this when you were done: #Physical interface auto eth0 #Base address iface eth0 inet static address 70.87.206.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 gatewa

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:56:25PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On 04/01/07, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >maybe its a memory issue? My understanding is that the etch kernel is > >much bigger than the sarge kernel. that is entirely anecdotal as I > >have no sarge box to compare to. > > Do you t

Re: unable to parse package file; aptitude effectively dead.

2007-01-04 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While I'm waiting for someone to *fix* bug 405506, does anyone have an > idea how to recover from it? Is a reinstall in order? > > Yesterday aptitude reported > Unable to parse package file /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates > This happened on an etch that was just installe

jfs trouble? Re: unable to parse package file; aptitude effectively dead.

2007-01-04 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 05:20:55PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 10:45 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > While I'm waiting for someone to *fix* bug 405506, does anyone have an > > idea how to recover from it? Is a reinstall in order? > > > > Yesterday aptitude reported >

Re: unable to parse package file; aptitude effectively dead.

2007-01-04 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 08:04:43AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 10:45:29AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > While I'm waiting for someone to *fix* bug 405506, does anyone have an > > idea how to recover from it? Is a reinstall in order? > > I doubt it. you may

Re: MODERATOR - NEWS GROUP

2007-01-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:30, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:32:01AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:06:54PM +, Gary Roach wrote: > > > Check out a couple of not so on topic entries. > > It seems to me that much of this spam includes graphic imag

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-04 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear Debian users, A couple of my friends who were using Sarge, on machines with 128 MB of RAM and 256 MB of RAM have complained that an upgrade from Sarge to Etch has slowed their machine down considerably. This is irrespective of the Window Manager. Is there any particular

Re: MODERATOR - NEWS GROUP

2007-01-04 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 12:09:19PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:30, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:32:01AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:06:54PM +, Gary Roach wrote: > > > > Check out a couple of not so on t

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-04 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 18:11 +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > I think it is memory issue. Programs generally are using more memory > with new releases. Use 'free' command to see your memory situation. > 'top' can tell you which processes are consuming most memory. You can > use also System Monit

Re: MODERATOR - NEWS GROUP

2007-01-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 01:05:39PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > The other thing I've noticed is that a new spam will have a subject > starting with Re: . Could not the list filter verify that the subject > Re'd actually exists in the list archive within a set time frame (30 > days?). but then

Re: unable to parse package file; aptitude effectively dead.

2007-01-04 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 11:49:39AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > While I'm waiting for someone to *fix* bug 405506, does anyone have an > > idea how to recover from it? Is a reinstall in order? > > > > Yesterday aptitude reported > > Unable to parse package file /var/l

problem with dhcp and a special feedback...

2007-01-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hello, with debian (i tried the latest net-install) - but also with a lot of other distros - i have a special problem: i can't get a dhcp-connection. only with zenwalk there is (latest version 4) not the slightest problem. i asked - very generally - them, what the differences could be that mad

mkinitramfs-kpkg failed to create initrd image.

2007-01-04 Thread Matt Miller
Under etch I'm trying to use "dpkg -i" to install a .deb I built using make-kpkg. I'm passing "--initrd" to make-kpkg, since I'm booting off a software RAID device. I've done this before on this same machine without a problem, but this one is giving me: ... Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ra

Python2.4.4-1 examples usage?

2007-01-04 Thread Ishwar Rattan
I just updated to python2.4, it also installed a python-examples package. How does one use this package? Import into python interpreter does not work.. -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mkinitramfs-kpkg failed to create initrd image.

2007-01-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 07:35:02PM +0100, Matt Miller wrote: > Under etch I'm trying to use "dpkg -i" to install a .deb I built using > make-kpkg. I'm passing "--initrd" to make-kpkg, since I'm booting > off a software RAID device. I've done this before on this same > machine without a problem, b

Re: Installation fails on Toshiba 410CDT

2007-01-04 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 10:14:33AM -0500 or thereabouts, celejar wrote: > On 1/2/07, Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > >BTW I looked into DSL. Thanks for the URL, but if I can, I'd rather > >stick to vanilla Debian. > Also see grml [0], which is closer to vanilla Debian. > > Cel

moving x fonts from old installation

2007-01-04 Thread Paul Scott
I have some X fonts on a partition from an old (sid) installation that I would like to move to this installation. I have been Googling for a while without finding an answer. TIA for any help. Paul Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-04 Thread andy
Marko Randjelovic wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear Debian users, A couple of my friends who were using Sarge, on machines with 128 MB of RAM and 256 MB of RAM have complained that an upgrade from Sarge to Etch has slowed their machine down considerably. This is irrespective of the Window Manage

Re: Unable to Unmount Flash Drive [Solved]

2007-01-04 Thread Baz
On 1/2/07, davide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Baz wrote: > Hello - > > I'm getting the following error message every time I attempt to unmount my > USB flash drive. > > Error > > Cannot unmount volume > > The volume was probably mounted manually on the command line. > > Details > > Device to unm

gift-gnutella

2007-01-04 Thread Alan Ianson
I have been using the gift package to connact to the gnutella and openft networks but I'm not connecting to the gnutella network on my current etch-amd64 box. Connecting to openft does work. Anyone else having success with gift have any pointers? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 4, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 07:34:13PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear Debian users, A couple of my friends who were using Sarge, on machines with 128 MB of RAM and 256 MB of RAM have complained that an upgrade from Sarge to Etch has s

Re: unable to parse package file; aptitude effectively dead.

2007-01-04 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 01:09:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 11:49:39AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > While I'm waiting for someone to *fix* bug 405506, does anyone have an > > > idea how to recover from it? Is a reinstall in order? > >

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 07:21:10PM +, andy wrote: > Marko Randjelovic wrote: > >I think it is memory issue. Programs generally are using more memory > >with new releases. Use 'free' command to see your memory situation. > >'top' can tell you which processes are consuming most memory. You can

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-04 Thread Łukasz Andrzejak
Hi, On 1/4/07, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A couple of my friends who were using Sarge, on machines with 128 MB of RAM and 256 MB of RAM have complained that an upgrade from Sarge to Etch has slowed their machine down considerably. This is irrespective of the Window Manager. Is the

Re: MODERATOR - NEWS GROUP

2007-01-04 Thread Kent West
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 01:05:39PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: The other thing I've noticed is that a new spam will have a subject starting with Re: . Could not the list filter verify that the subject Re'd actually exists in the list archive within a set time fra

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 07:21:10PM +, andy wrote: Marko Randjelovic wrote: I think it is memory issue. Programs generally are using more memory with new releases. Use 'free' command to see your memory situation. 'top' can tell you which processes are consumin

Re: MODERATOR - NEWS GROUP

2007-01-04 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 10:16:11AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 01:05:39PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > The other thing I've noticed is that a new spam will have a subject > > starting with Re: . Could not the list filter verify that the subject > > Re'd ac

spambayes mail filter

2007-01-04 Thread Ishwar Rattan
Is any one using spabayes under Linux? The web page only talks about Windoz+Outlook-Express? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MODERATOR - NEWS GROUP

2007-01-04 Thread Mike McCarty
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: That is not a solution. Spammers can always use .ps files to send their spam. Besides not every email containing a graphic image is spam. For example, one might be attaching a .jpg screenshot with a font problem he is having on his computer. Respectfully, I would

Re: etch: evolution + gmail

2007-01-04 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 15:54 -0500, draeath wrote: > On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 16:09 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > Are you running NetworkManager too? > > I really don't know. I just installed using the business card ISO for > etch (installer RC1) and I set up static networking using the > curses-ba

Re: MODERATOR - NEWS GROUP

2007-01-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:25:34 -0600 Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Mike, > Respectfully, I would very much prefer not to see images posted to the > list, under any circumstances. If there is a problem such as you > mentioned, then those who wish to respond to the issue should receiv

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-04 Thread andy
Łukasz Andrzejak wrote: Hi, On 1/4/07, *Kumar Appaiah* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: A couple of my friends who were using Sarge, on machines with 128 MB of RAM and 256 MB of RAM have complained that an upgrade from Sarge to Etch has slowed their machine do

Re: Clone root partition

2007-01-04 Thread T
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:00:38 -0500, Marty wrote: > For cloning root filesystem drives I use a small script that > performs an rsync backup followed up by fixups to the /dev directory, > /etc/fstab, and /etc/lilo.conf and then runs lilo -r to make the backup > bootable. (A similar approach coul

Re: unable to parse package file; aptitude effectively dead.

2007-01-04 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 02:52:53PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 01:09:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 11:49:39AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > While I'm waiting for someone to *fix* bug 405506, does anyone ha

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:47:48 + andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As an aside, having just double checked, I am supposed to be running > 1GB of RAM but it is only showing a total of 758MB. Is this typical > rounding off and 1GB is in reality only 758MB, or is it typical for > the full amount no

Re: mkinitramfs-kpkg failed to create initrd image.

2007-01-04 Thread Matt Miller
> > Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk. > > mkinitramfs-kpkg failed to create initrd image. > > there is an initrd support option in menuconfig I think I selected the necessary options: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18$ grep -i ram .config CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="" CONFIG_

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-04 Thread Łukasz Andrzejak
On 1/4/07, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Łukasz Andrzejak wrote: Hi, On 1/4/07, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A couple of my friends who were using Sarge, on machines with 128 MB > of RAM and 256 MB of RAM have complained that an upgrade from Sarge to > Etch has slowed their m

Re: spambayes mail filter

2007-01-04 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:24:59PM -0500 or thereabouts, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > Is any one using spabayes under Linux? The web > page only talks about Windoz+Outlook-Express? Hi Ishwar: I've been using it for a couple of years. Mind you with a simple smarthost configuration, only. I'm happy wi

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
andy wrote: Łukasz Andrzejak wrote: Hi, On 1/4/07, *Kumar Appaiah* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: A couple of my friends who were using Sarge, on machines with 128 MB of RAM and 256 MB of RAM have complained that an upgrade from Sarge to Etch has slowed the

Re: MODERATOR - NEWS GROUP

2007-01-04 Thread Mike McCarty
Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:25:34 -0600 Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Mike, Respectfully, I would very much prefer not to see images posted to the list, under any circumstances. If there is a problem such as you mentioned, then those who wish to respond to the is

Re: spambayes mail filter

2007-01-04 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 04 January 2007 21:24, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > Is any one using spabayes under Linux? The web > page only talks about Windoz+Outlook-Express? > > -ishwar Hi Ishwar. I'm not using spambayes, but am finding that bogofilter works well. I'm using it directly with downloaded mail to Kmail.

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-04 Thread andy
Łukasz Andrzejak wrote: On 1/4/07, *andy* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Łukasz Andrzejak wrote: Hi, On 1/4/07, *Kumar Appaiah* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: A couple of my friends who were using Sarge, on machines wit

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-04 Thread Łukasz Andrzejak
On 1/4/07, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Your kernel config is off: for 1GB: ... CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G is not set CONFIG_VMSPLIT_3G_OPT=y # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G is not set # CONFIG_VMSPLIT_1G is not set ..

Re: mkinitramfs-kpkg failed to create initrd image.

2007-01-04 Thread Matt Miller
> Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk. > mkinitramfs-kpkg failed to create initrd image. > ... > I'm guessing that I'm missing something else in > menuconfig. Loadable module support. If I exclude it then mkinitramfs-kpkg fails, and if I include it then mkinitramfs-kpkg succeeds. This is

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-04 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:07:45PM +0100 or thereabouts, ?ukasz Andrzejak wrote: > Hi, [ ...] > To add something actually usefull - i reccomend htop (a better top) and > xrestop (checks running apps for memory footprint x-resource wise) to check > what takes the most resources. Hey, Thanks for t

the IP packet size of sarge

2007-01-04 Thread Serena Cantor
I use sarge's default kernel (386-2), 2.4 kernel I am writing application that use UDP So I want to my UDP fit in one IP packet how to find out the size of IP packet of sarge? IP packet size of Windows XP? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Ma

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-04 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 08:47:48PM +, andy wrote: > ?ukasz Andrzejak wrote: > >Hi, > > > >On 1/4/07, *Kumar Appaiah* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> wrote: > > > >A couple of my friends who were using Sarge, on machines with 128 MB > >of RAM and 256 MB of RAM have com

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