Re: Is there a C# for Debian-Etch?

2007-04-07 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
Dennis G Wicks writes: > I was trying to install a package, Gnome-RDP, and it popped > up a message that it can't find c#. > Is there one? If so where? Can't find one on debian.org. Debian etch incudes mono-gmcs which is a C# compiler. See http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?k

Re: problem with Chinese file names

2007-04-07 Thread didier gaumet
On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:00:36 -0700, Li Wei wrote: > I use sarge, have a file that use Chinese (GB code) in file name. > > reading/writing it in ext2 seems OK, but I have problem copying to > vfat partition. Hi, maybe mount your vfta partition with the appropriate codepage option will sol

Lisp IDE

2007-04-07 Thread andy
Hi folks Just a quick question: aside from Emacs, is there a Common Lisp IDE for Debian Etch? Ideally, I had something in mind like the Dr Scheme IDE (although not with the different language levels and pedagogic set up) or Python's Idle, something with a text window and an interpreter as par

Re: Building i386 Disk on AMD64 -- chroot Fails: Exec format error

2007-04-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Miller wrote: > I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, and I want to > build an etch i386 system on it. I partitioned the drive, and used > debootstrap to lay down a minimal i386 system on the drive. The problem > is that I w

Re: Disk Space Calculation - Some Space missing - Where did it Go?

2007-04-07 Thread Siju George
On 4/7/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 13:40 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:26:46PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > > > > So where did 27 ( 500 -473 ) GB go? > > > > Is there any error in my Calculations? > > disk drive manufacturers

Re: Building i386 Disk on AMD64 -- chroot Fails: Exec format error

2007-04-07 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 4/7/07, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Miller wrote: > I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, and I want to > build an etch i386 system on it. I partitioned the drive, and used > debootstrap to lay down a minimal i38

Re: Beautifying Debian Etch

2007-04-07 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:14:35 -0400 (EDT) eklektik wrote: >For me the problem is that etch default look and feel is totally > out of date. Even those who doesn't have artistic training can sense > that the artworks are amateurish. When I showed the artworks to my > graphic designer friends they w

Re: problem with Chinese file names

2007-04-07 Thread Li Wei
I add codepage=936 to mount options, it doesn't help. Thanks anyway! didier gaumet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:00:36 -0700, Li Wei wrote: > I use sarge, have a file that use Chinese (GB code) in file name. > > reading/writing it in ext2 seems OK, but I have problem co

when etch will be officially released

2007-04-07 Thread Li Wei
it's long overdue, when etch will become stable? How unstable is it now(how many bug it has now)? - TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV.

KDE system tray - erratic behaviour

2007-04-07 Thread Ken Heard
The system tray on the KDE panel does not display icons for some of the applications I designate in the KDE menu editor to be displayed there. For instance, I want Kjots and Knotes icons to be in the system tray and so indicated in the KDE menu; but they do not appear. Another example: the ade

Re: when etch will be officially released

2007-04-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 02:45:56AM -0700, Li Wei wrote: > it's long overdue, No it's not - it's been there for years - it's just that it's been labelled as testing :) > when etch will become stable? > How unstable is it now(how many bug it has now)? > Sometime tomorrow [Sunday 8 April]. Rel

Re: Beautifying Debian Etch

2007-04-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jakub Narojczyk wrote: eklektik napisał(a): Hello, I installed Etch recently, with the help of the good people of this mailing list. Now, it works perfectly, but I hate its look. So I decided that I completely redesign the desktop. Now the work is complete and I wrote a short article in my b

Re: KDE system tray - erratic behaviour

2007-04-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:55:14 +, Ken Heard wrote: > The system tray on the KDE panel does not display icons for some of the > applications I designate in the KDE menu editor to be displayed there. For > instance, I want Kjots and Knotes icons to be in the system tray and so > indicate

ntfs in etch

2007-04-07 Thread Dmitri Samsonov
Hello! ntfs-3g was delete from Etch. [1] Is there any other way ("true way") to work with NTFS (write) in Debian Etch? Or now we can't work with NTFS at all? (Of course, i know about experimental, unstable -- but it's not a "true way", isn't it?) [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugre

Re: bios time is not shown by debian

2007-04-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 18:38:30 -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I have dual booting sony vaio laptop booting both vista and etch. System > time ie bios time is shown by vista. But etch shows 7 hrs less. I am in PDT. > Both linux and windows are configured to PDT time zone. In rcS, utc=no is > there

Re: when etch will be officially released

2007-04-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 02:45:56AM -0700, Li Wei wrote: it's long overdue, No it's not - it's been there for years - it's just that it's been labelled as testing :) when etch will become stable? How unstable is it now(how many bug it has now)? Sometime tomorr

Re: How to hide config error in Aptitude?

2007-04-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 11:35:11 +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > This NTLMAPS makes a config error due to which Aptitude complains everytime > I run it. I configured NTLMAPS manually; how can I inform Aptitude that its > configuration was successful? Are you sure that you configured the packag

Re: Debian User List

2007-04-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
Andrew Malcolmson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I've found the biggest challenge in settting up fast moving features > like Xen on Debian is finding *current* documentation. A Debian Wiki > package page would I think get the attention needed to achieve this. I think this is a great idea a

Re: when etch will be officially released

2007-04-07 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 02:45:56AM -0700, Li Wei wrote: > it's long overdue, > when etch will become stable? > How unstable is it now(how many bug it has now)? > Very very soon, but you can install it now if you wish. It's stable enough for a miss

Re: Lisp IDE

2007-04-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
andy wrote: Hi folks Just a quick question: aside from Emacs, is there a Common Lisp IDE for Debian Etch? Ideally, I had something in mind like the Dr Scheme IDE (although not with the different language levels and pedagogic set up) or Python's Idle, something with a text window and an interp

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You'll lose the permission bits and owner/group, etc. (Maybe even > > > filename case, but I'm not sure). Use tar if all you have is > > > fat32. > > > > Note too that FAT32 maximum file size is 4GB. > > > > Also might want to note that you WILL

Re: when etch will be officially released

2007-04-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Apr 07 08:45 -0500]: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 02:45:56AM -0700, Li Wei wrote: > > it's long overdue, > > when etch will become stable? > > How unstable is it now(how many bug it has now)? > I've been using Etch on my home computer and I really have had

Re: Debian User List

2007-04-07 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 02:54:47PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Andrew Malcolmson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > I've found the biggest challenge in settting up fast moving features > > like Xen on Debian is finding *current* documenta

Re: Debian User List

2007-04-07 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 02:54:47PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Andrew Malcolmson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > I've found the biggest challenge in settting up fast moving features > > like Xen on Debian is finding *current* documenta

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just because distributions default to something doesn't mean that > other things don't work on them. The beauty of Debian is that almost > everything is available in the repositories. You can use whatever you > feel most comfortable with. The only way you w

Re: Help compiling source package (autoconf) - AM_SANITY_CHECK not found

2007-04-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 15:44 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > I am trying to compile ImageMagick from source (trying to cross compile it > actually with mingw, but I have the same problem with native compilation). > Configure runs file, but that when I try to do make I get the error: > > configuring Im

Re: KDE system tray - erratic behaviour

2007-04-07 Thread Ken Heard
Florian Kulzer wrote, in part: The system tray should simply keep its icons from session to session, i.e. if you have some icons in the system tray when you log out they should appear again when you log in the next time. For me they did not. The only problem I have with some of the icons in

Re: KDE system tray - erratic behaviour

2007-04-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Heard wrote: [snip] > > Another example: the adept-notifier package is supposed to show an icon > in the system tray on log in by any user if there are packages to be > upgraded. For one user the system tray icon display was inadvertently > remov

Re: Newbie = Networking Question?

2007-04-07 Thread Randy Patterson
On Friday 06 April 2007 20:16, Glen Pfeiffer wrote: > On 04/06/2007 05:20 PM, Randy Patterson wrote: > > I have searched for a way to mount that directory to the local > > file systems and use it from there but can't seem to find > > exactly how to do that. I would like to mount it to something > >

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're better off just installing all three and test them out. I > > think they are pretty feature-equivalent these days. > > As I had stated previously I installed from the > debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso image. If I take your suggestion, > whi

Re: when etch will be officially released

2007-04-07 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 08:48:44AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Apr 07 08:45 -0500]: > > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 02:45:56AM -0700, Li Wei wrote: > > > it's long overdue, > > > when etch will become stable? >

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:26:53PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 10:46, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had > > > Sarge i

Re: KDE system tray - erratic behaviour

2007-04-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 13:04:02 +, Ken Heard wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote, in part: > > > The system tray should simply keep its icons from session to session, > > i.e. if you have some icons in the system tray when you log out they > > should appear again when you log in the next time. >

Re: bios time is not shown by debian

2007-04-07 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 4/7/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 18:38:30 -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I have dual booting sony vaio laptop booting both vista and etch. System > time ie bios time is shown by vista. But etch shows 7 hrs less. I am in PDT. > Both linux and windows are

Re: Two video cards / Xorg crashes in sid

2007-04-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 17:01 -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > When it crashes, the screen goes black and the CPU usage increases > (the CPU fan goes mad :)). > > > If you have time, try each card separately and see if you can pinpoint > > the crash to a specific configuration. > > Done! I didn't ge

Re: ntfs in etch

2007-04-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 15:13 +0400, Dmitri Samsonov wrote: > ntfs-3g was delete from Etch. [1] > > Is there any other way ("true way") to work with NTFS (write) in > Debian Etch? > > Or now we can't work with NTFS at all? (Of course, i know about > experimental, unstable -- but it's not a "t

bad sign

2007-04-07 Thread S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)
I am getting this message at the time of updating source list. shanazsoft:/home/ibrahim# apt-get update Get:1 http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid Release.gpg [189B] Get:2 http://ftp.no.debian.org sid Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://ftp.no.debian.org sid Release Err http://ftp.no.debian.org sid Rel

Re: Lisp IDE

2007-04-07 Thread andy
Miles Fidelman wrote: andy wrote: Hi folks Just a quick question: aside from Emacs, is there a Common Lisp IDE for Debian Etch? Ideally, I had something in mind like the Dr Scheme IDE (although not with the different language levels and pedagogic set up) or Python's Idle, something with a te

Help compiling source package (autoconf) - AM_SANITY_CHECK not found

2007-04-07 Thread Micha Feigin
I am trying to compile ImageMagick from source (trying to cross compile it actually with mingw, but I have the same problem with native compilation). Configure runs file, but that when I try to do make I get the error: configuring ImageMagick 6.3.3 checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu c

Re: Beautifying Debian Etch

2007-04-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > >Apparently, personal tastes can vary very widely. > Oh yes. That is why there are so many different programs (or suites of programs. One of the first things I do when installing any system is to replace the default the

Re: when etch will be officially released

2007-04-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 06:26 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 02:45:56AM -0700, Li Wei wrote: > >> it's long overdue, > > > > No it's not - it's been there for years - it's just that it's been > > labelled as testing :) > > > >> when etch will

Re: problem with Chinese file names

2007-04-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 23:00 -0700, Li Wei wrote: > I use sarge, have a file that use Chinese (GB code) in file name. > > reading/writing it in ext2 seems OK, but I have problem copying to > vfat partition. > > __ fat (vfat or no

Re: ntfs in etch

2007-04-07 Thread steef
Owen Heisler wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 14:41 +, steef wrote: Dmitri Samsonov wrote: ntfs-3g was delete from Etch. [1] Is there any other way ("true way") to work with NTFS (write) in Debian Etch? Or now we can't work with NTFS at all? (Of course, i know about experimental

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 11:19 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:40:57AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > Yes, I did find that and used it now. But, I did an install of the Gnome > > core; > > > > aptitude install gnome-core > > > > The Gnome option doesn't appear under the

Re: Newbie Questions - Program dir?

2007-04-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:37:28PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am in the process of RTFM, I'm in chapter 4 :-) and have googled > > without really finding an answer. When installing non-Debian packages > > (EsayEclipse for PHP) from tar.gz file

Re: IDE to USB Adapter

2007-04-07 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 01:34 +0200, Matt Miller wrote: > > > If I reboot my computer with the device already plugged in then the > > > device is not recognized until I unplug it and plug it back in. > > > > Since the kernel will see it as a USB drive, you probably don't have > > to reboot. > > Y

Re: MBR Confusion?

2007-04-07 Thread Wackojacko
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:30:57 +0200, Matt Miller wrote: I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted my AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 etch onto the external drive. Now I can't boot my box without the external drive

Re: shared memory in computational chemistry

2007-04-07 Thread Dave Ewart
On Friday, 06.04.2007 at 15:39 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > 1) How to set shmmax in debian? For the running kernel, echo a value to /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax - to make it a permanent setting (i.e. set automatically at subsequent reboots), include the setting in /etc/sysctl.conf: kernel.shmmax

Re: ntfs in etch

2007-04-07 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 14:41 +, steef wrote: > Dmitri Samsonov wrote: > > ntfs-3g was delete from Etch. [1] > > > > Is there any other way ("true way") to work with NTFS (write) in > > Debian Etch? > > > > Or now we can't work with NTFS at all? (Of course, i know about > > experimental, un

Re: bad sign

2007-04-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: > I am getting this message at the time of updating source list. > > shanazsoft:/home/ibrahim# apt-get update Get:1 > http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid Release.gpg [189B] > Get:2 http://ftp.no.debian.org sid Release.gpg

[Fwd: Re: ntfs in etch]

2007-04-07 Thread steef
Dmitri Samsonov wrote: Hello! ntfs-3g was delete from Etch. [1] Is there any other way ("true way") to work with NTFS (write) in Debian Etch? Or now we can't work with NTFS at all? (Of course, i know about experimental, unstable -- but it's not a "true way", isn't it?) [1] http://bu

Re: IDE to USB Adapter

2007-04-07 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 09:57 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 01:34 +0200, Matt Miller wrote: > > > > If I reboot my computer with the device already plugged in then the > > > > device is not recognized until I unplug it and plug it back in. > > > > > > Since the kernel will see

Re: kino problem: No GLIBC_2.4 - Thanks

2007-04-07 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:20:26AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 09:01 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I installed kino with apt-get. Capture from my video camera worked fine > > but export to dvd failed. Help showed mjpegtools was required. When > > apt-cache search co

Re: Beautifying Debian Etch

2007-04-07 Thread cga2000
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 04:53:16AM EDT, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:14:35 -0400 (EDT) eklektik wrote: > >For me the problem is that etch default look and feel is totally > > out of date. Even those who doesn't have artistic training can sense > > that the artworks are amateur

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:33:09PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 11:19 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:40:57AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > > Yes, I did find that and used it now. But, I did an in

Re: bios time is not shown by debian

2007-04-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 07:11:23 -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On 4/7/07, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 18:38:30 -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > > I have dual booting sony vaio laptop booting both vista and etch. > > > System time ie bios time is shown by vista. But etch shows

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:40:57AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Saturday 07 April 2007 09:11, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > As I had stated previously I installed from the > > > debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso image. If I take your suggestion, > >

Re: Help compiling source package (autoconf) - AM_SANITY_CHECK not found

2007-04-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:51:45 -0400 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 15:44 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I am trying to compile ImageMagick from source (trying to cross compile it > > actually with mingw, but I have the same problem with native compilation). > > Conf

Re: Beautifying Debian Etch

2007-04-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 11:47 -0400, cga2000 wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 04:53:16AM EDT, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:14:35 -0400 (EDT) eklektik wrote: > > >For me the problem is that etch default look and feel is totally > > > out of date. Even those who doesn't have art

Re: shared memory in computational chemistry

2007-04-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 16:06 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Friday, 06.04.2007 at 15:39 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > > 1) How to set shmmax in debian? > > For the running kernel, echo a value to /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax - to > make it a permanent setting (i.e. set automatically at subsequent

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Randy Patterson
On Saturday 07 April 2007 09:11, Michael Pobega wrote: > > As I had stated previously I installed from the > > debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso image. If I take your suggestion, > > which sounds like a good one, when I boot will I be given a choice > > of which system to start or will I have to man

Opera browser broken by latest etch upgrade

2007-04-07 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Greetings: After doing an 'aptitude upgrade' this morning (which brought a boatload of X changes), I can no longer use opera due to a segmentation fault upon startup. The problem seems to be related to the QT library; here is some gdb output: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [

Re: Opera browser broken by latest etch upgrade

2007-04-07 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Mark Zimmerman. Mark Zimmerman, 07.04.2007 18:04: > After doing an 'aptitude upgrade' this morning (which brought a > boatload of X changes), I can no longer use opera due to a > segmentation fault upon startup. This is a known problem. Either downgrade libx11-6 and libx11-devto version 2:1

Re: Beautifying Debian Etch

2007-04-07 Thread John Hasler
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > But here is a question; why did you choose Rodent as a default when there > are so many awesome icons are available on the gnome look site? Many of us couldn't care less about "awesome". I care no more about how "pretty" my computer screen is than I do about how "pretty"

Re: Opera browser broken by latest etch upgrade

2007-04-07 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 10:04:04AM -0600, Mark Zimmerman wrote.. > After doing an 'aptitude upgrade' this morning (which brought a boatload of > X changes), I can no longer use opera due to a segmentation fault upon > startup. The problem seems to be related to the QT library; here is some gd

Re: MBR Confusion? (was: Building i386 Disk on AMD64 -- chroot Fails: Exec format error)

2007-04-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:30:57 +0200, Matt Miller wrote: > > I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted my > > AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 etch > > onto the external drive. > > Now I can't boot my box without the external drive attached,

Re: Newbie Questions - Program dir?

2007-04-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am in the process of RTFM, I'm in chapter 4 :-) and have googled > without really finding an answer. When installing non-Debian packages > (EsayEclipse for PHP) from tar.gz files, where is the best place to > put them in the dir structure so that all

Re: shared memory in computational chemistry

2007-04-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 15:39 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: [context clipped] > QUESTIONS: > 1) How to set shmmax in debian? shmmax is auto set on the Linux Kernel these days, you can set it but it may or maynot be changed by the kernel itself. But based on documentation of the default kernel VM

Re: Beautifying Debian Etch

2007-04-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] >>>Displaying a home directory with a picture of a house, depicting >>> the 'settings' with a spanner? Children will like it, but as an adult >>> I feel insulted. >> I agree 100%. >> >> And it's not just that I feel insul

Re: Opera browser broken by latest etch upgrade

2007-04-07 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Thanks, the weekly snapshot works great. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IDE to USB Adapter

2007-04-07 Thread Matt Miller
> > problems being caused by not connecting things in the right order > > 1. Adapter - HD > > 2. Power - HD > > 3. Adapter - USB/Computer > > > > Disconnect in reverse. Yes, this was apparently part of my problem. I do need to connect things in the order you say above or the device is not recogni

Need to extract Files from DOS Backup Archive to Linux

2007-04-07 Thread Martin McCormick
After some Google searches that didn't turn up anything that looked like a positive hit, maybe somebody here can help. DOS has a program called backup that will put your hard drive image on a series of floppies. Each floppy is full until the last one and has 1 large file called ba

Re: MBR Confusion?

2007-04-07 Thread Matt Miller
> > I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted > > my AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 > > etch onto the external drive. > > > > Now I can't boot my box without the external drive attached, > > because grub complains with "error 21." > > So boot

Re: Beautifying Debian Etch

2007-04-07 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 12:03:29 -0400 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 11:47 -0400, cga2000 wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 04:53:16AM EDT, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > > On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:14:35 -0400 (EDT) eklektik wrote: > > > >For me the problem is that etch default look and fe

Etch upgrade problem with font server

2007-04-07 Thread Terrence Branscombe
Yesterday, I took the leap and upgraded from Sarge to Etch by following the Etch release notes as best I could. The upgrade appeared to work very well, but for some font problems. I'm very new to debian and linux, so may have made some poor decisions during the upgrade. The xfs font server I

Re: MBR Confusion?

2007-04-07 Thread Matt Miller
> > I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted my > > AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 etch > > onto the external drive. > > > > Now I can't boot my box without the external drive attached > > you're done. > > It looks like the MBR of your Etch

Re: Etch upgrade problem with font server

2007-04-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 10:39 -0700, Terrence Branscombe wrote: > Yesterday, I took the leap and upgraded from Sarge to Etch by following > the Etch release notes as best I could. The upgrade appeared to work > very well, but for some font problems. I'm very new to debian and > linux, so may hav

Re: shared memory in computational chemistry

2007-04-07 Thread Dave Ewart
On Saturday, 07.04.2007 at 12:08 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 16:06 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > > On Friday, 06.04.2007 at 15:39 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > > > > 1) How to set shmmax in debian? > > > > For the running kernel, echo a value to /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax

Re: Beautifying Debian Etch

2007-04-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 19:34 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 12:03:29 -0400 Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 11:47 -0400, cga2000 wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 04:53:16AM EDT, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > > > On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:14:35 -0400 (EDT) eklektik wrot

Re: shared memory in computational chemistry

2007-04-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 18:53 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Saturday, 07.04.2007 at 12:08 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 16:06 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > > > On Friday, 06.04.2007 at 15:39 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > > > > > > 1) How to set shmmax in debian? > > > >

how to fix dependance errors

2007-04-07 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I have a problem to install both latex-beamer and lyx. the reason is that each package creates the file beamer.layout, that is if I installed lyx-common the file is created, and i I try to install latex-beamer I get error like this E: /opt/etch/lyx-common_1.5.0~beta1-2_all.deb: trying to ov

Re: Need to extract Files from DOS Backup Archive to Linux

2007-04-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 12:33 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > After some Google searches that didn't turn up anything > that looked like a positive hit, maybe somebody here can help. > > DOS has a program called backup that will put your hard > drive image on a series of floppies. Each

Re: Building i386 Disk on AMD64 -- chroot Fails: Exec format error

2007-04-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Hart wrote: > Matt Miller wrote: >> I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, and I want to >> build an etch i386 system on it. I partitioned the drive, and used >> debootstrap to lay down a minimal i386 system on the drive. The

Problems with unison merges

2007-04-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I'm trying to keep two gaim configurations in sync with unison-gtk 2.13.16-5, and am getting non-zero exit codes with the following: # gaim.prf root = /home/nospam/.gaim root = ssh://remote//home/nospam/.gaim merge = Name * -> diff3 -m CURRENT1 OLD CURRENT2 > NEW backup = Name

Re: MBR Confusion?

2007-04-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Matt Miller wrote: I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted my AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 etch onto the external drive. Now I can't boot my box without the external drive attached, because grub complains with "error 21." So boot into

Re: shared memory in computational chemistry

2007-04-07 Thread Dave Ewart
On Saturday, 07.04.2007 at 14:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 18:53 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > > On Saturday, 07.04.2007 at 12:08 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 16:06 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > > > > On Friday, 06.04.2007 at 15:39 -0700, Francesco

Dell Inspiron 9400, Debian Etch Issues

2007-04-07 Thread Alejandro Salas
Hello everyone, I installed Etch, kernel 2.16.16-4-686. I have an Intel Core Duo 2 2.16Ghz... Almost everything is running fine, but I still have a couple of issues. * No sound: I tried to compile the latest alsa driver, but when compiling I got a message that I have those drivers already in the

Re: Debian User List

2007-04-07 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:04:48 GMT "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nah, the kids these days think MLs are old hat and frumpy compared to > web forums. You can't point and click on anything in slrn or mutt. And they can't see those trite 'emoticons' either - the animated faces that jump u

Re: how to fix dependance errors

2007-04-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
"abdelkader belahcene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have a problem to install both latex-beamer and lyx. > > the reason is that each package creates the file beamer.layout, that > is if I installed lyx-common the file is created, and i I try to > install latex-beamer I get error like thi

Re: Debian User List

2007-04-07 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:01:14 + Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thing about English that makes it popular is that one can really mess up > the grammar and still be understood. Ditto the spelling. Spammers do it all the time: "Oradder from Calanada and salve maloney" :). > Joe --

Re: Need to extract Files from DOS Backup Archive to Linux

2007-04-07 Thread Martin McCormick
Sven Arvidsson writes: > I did find an app that sounds like what you want, dosrestore on this > page, http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/software/ > > From the info in this page, it sounds like the file format may depend on > with which version the backups were made, so it might not work. Sound

Re: bios time is not shown by debian

2007-04-07 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 4/7/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The HWCLOCKPARS variable is only effective during boot-up and shutdown, when /etc/default/rcS is read (sourced) by /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh. If you want to run hwclock yourself you still have to specify the "--directisa" option explicitly. I w

Re: MBR Confusion?

2007-04-07 Thread Matt Miller
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo chroot /mnt/debinst /bin/bash > > chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format error > > I got into this thread late... but this is the error that you get when > the chrooted disk is not mounted with -o exec That doesn't seem to explain my problem: [EMAIL PR

Re: ntfs in etch

2007-04-07 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 4/7/07, Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The ntfs partition was probably mounted ro though; ntfs-3g provides rw access to ntfs. When I tried to modprobe ntfs-3g, i got msg FATAL: Module ntfs_3g not found. I am running etch. lvgvaio:~# uname -a Linux lvgvaio 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Mon

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Re: ntfs in etch

2007-04-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/7/07, Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > The ntfs partition was probably mounted ro though; ntfs-3g provides > > rw access to ntfs. > > > > > When I tried to modprobe ntfs-3g, i got msg FATAL: Module ntfs_3g not > found. I am runnin

setting the right time zone

2007-04-07 Thread andy
Hello On my partner's Etch machine, the time zone seems to default to one that is not appropriate. I am wanting the time zone for England, but whenever my partner logs in, the system time shows Guernsey which is one hour ahead of UK BST. I've checked the BIOS clock and that is accurate. I've

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Michael M.
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 07:29 -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, > > > RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse?

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