Re: Newbie help how to enlarge root partition

2007-04-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
John Fleming wrote: > I'm the guy that recently dd'd hda (40GB) to hdb (160GB) and then put > the larger drive in the first position, making it now the new hda. I > knew I would then be using only 40GB of the 160GB HDD. I thought it > would be easy to enlarge the 40GB root partition, but this new

Disable ipv4 fragmentation

2007-04-25 Thread J HU
Dear experts, I'm developing an C++ application with sockets in a debian with a version of kernel 2.6.x. The idea of my application is to send messages using UDP sockets and have only one receiver socket which receive all the message that are for him, so to do that I create the socket like f

Ruby Gems and Debian packages of Ruby Gems

2007-04-25 Thread Glen Pfeiffer
I searched the archives and the web but I have not found helpful answers to these questions. 1. What are the drawbacks of using the Debian packaged ruby applications like 'rails' instead of the available gem? 2. What are the benefits of using the Debian packaged ruby applications like 'rail

Re: texlive document source files

2007-04-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 23:14:15 +, Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-04-24, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > Try to put the .bst files into > > > > ~/texmf/bibtex/bst/ > > > > That did it, thanks! This is the most confusing part of latex for me - > installing files and sorting out search paths just d

Re: Disable ipv4 fragmentation

2007-04-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 24 avril 2007 à 11:33 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > I'm working with sockets in a debian with a version of kernel 2.6.x, and > > I'd like to disable the fragmentation of the ipv4 introduce. > > I have read that there was the option of modified the file > > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_alw

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-25 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John L Fjellstad wrote: > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Now that is a good reason. AFAIK, as of the newer kernels (forget >> which release) all drives are now sdX, so this issue becomes moot. I >> can see why UUID is a good idea, but a L

upgrade etch

2007-04-25 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hope those who know will not be hurt by these naive questions in face of the extensive instructions on Debian website. I'm using i386 and amd64 etch. Now want to move to 4.0 etch, though I can't do that immediately because the amd64 machine is computing, while the i386 machine is ssh linked to the

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-25 Thread Wackojacko
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John L Fjellstad wrote: Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Now that is a good reason. AFAIK, as of the newer kernels (forget which release) all drives are now sdX, so this issue becomes moot. I can see why UUID is a good idea,

hdparm SCSI

2007-04-25 Thread yag
Hi, and sorry if this appeared twice, I believe my first post did not get through. After upgrading to the latest Ubuntu release, which ships a 2.6.20 kernel, all the drives are treated as SCSI ones. That's fine, there's probably a good reason for that. The only thing is that I'm now not able to u

Re: More Nvidia Problems

2007-04-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:14:26 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any ideas or must we wait until Sid finally gets straightened out? We'll be waiting a long time ;-) Just because you gave me this opp

Re: upgrade etch

2007-04-25 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:50:18 -0700 (PDT) Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hope those who know will not be hurt by these naive > questions in face of the extensive instructions on > Debian website. I'm sure they won't be :-) > > I'm using i386 and amd64 etch. Now want to move to 4.0

Fwd: upgrade etch

2007-04-25 Thread Francesco Pietra
I forgot to ask how to prevent that during upgrading: ---X (and KDE/GNOME) are added to amd64? ---GNOME in i386 is replaced by KDE? ---iceweasel in i386 is replaced by GNOME's browser (which lacks remote control, thus not serving my needs) Thanks francesco --- Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTE

postgresql problem? : etch

2007-04-25 Thread Erle Pereira
Just upgraded one of my servers to etch. (really a new install) - new system, had dumped sarge on it earlier, but never deployed. now: etch (i386) - net install source: ftp://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ (never used this source before, this was the first server setup in france) Anyway, I install

Re: libXfont.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Init_FreeType

2007-04-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 19:34:05 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:48:36 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> After upgrade to Debian release 4.0 I suffer some problems, the big one >>> is that the connection to X server be come

Re: More Nvidia Problems

2007-04-25 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > > >> Just because you gave me this opportunity. ;-) > >> This is one of the reasons I run Sidux. I can sail the stormy waters of >> Sid in a boat that floats nicely on the waves, although I admit some of >>

Re: incorrect times displayed

2007-04-25 Thread Steve Kleene
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Re: incorrect times displayed

2007-04-25 Thread Steve Kleene
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:23:35 -0400, I wrote: > I also tried adding this at the end of /etc/defaults/rcS: > > HWCLOCKPARS="--directisa" > > and rebooted. That didn't fix it either. Thanks anyway for the suggestion. On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:26:03 +0200, Florian Kulzer replied: > Just to make sure

Re: postgresql problem? : etch

2007-04-25 Thread Andrea S. Gozzi
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 16:46 +0530, Erle Pereira wrote: > these are the two commands I had to use. > > as "postgres" user > 1. /usr/lib/postgresql/7.4/bin/initdb -D /var/lib/postgresql/ > > as root: > 2. su -c '/usr/lib/postgresql/7.4/bin/pg_ctl -D /var/lib/postgresql/ > -l /var/lib/postgresql/log

Re: X11 display terribly slow after upgrade

2007-04-25 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Zlatko Calusic wrote: > ... > > CONFIG_AGP=y > CONFIG_AGP_VIA=y > CONFIG_DRM=y > CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=y > > On the other machine, xorg.conf is identical (I just commented out > AGPMode and GARTSize), but I don't have anything compiled in the > kernel. That's an unrelated question, but I would be gla

Re: Icedove: Disable Ctrl-Enter, keyboard shortcuts more generally.

2007-04-25 Thread Alexander McLeay
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:21:35 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Alexander. > > Alexander McLeay, 23.04.2007 11:55: >> Icedove has a feature where if you press Ctrl-Enter, it offers to send the >> email. If you press Ctrl-Enter, Enter, it sends the email. Is it possible >> to disable this, so p

Re: More Nvidia Problems (solved)

2007-04-25 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 24 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >After accidently losing the (proprietory) kernel module, I rebuild it with > >their .run program (after having downgraded a lot of stuff to the lib6c > > from stable/testing since the Sid one produced unrunnable results). > > > >1. Kicks about i

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-25 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:02:00PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > John L Fjellstad wrote: > > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Well, my Kubuntu system runs 2.6.20 and havs everything as sdX (when it > > was hdX before), and my Debian system runs 2.6.18 and still has hdX, > > some somewhere i

Re: upgrade etch

2007-04-25 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:00:16PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:50:18 -0700 (PDT) > Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using i386 and amd64 etch. Now want to move to 4.0 > > etch, > > Please be aware that etch *is* version 4.0. Could you please verify > wha

Re: incorrect times displayed

2007-04-25 Thread steef
Steve Kleene wrote: On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:23:35 -0400, I wrote: I also tried adding this at the end of /etc/defaults/rcS: HWCLOCKPARS="--directisa" and rebooted. That didn't fix it either. Thanks anyway for the suggestion. On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:26:03 +0200, Florian Kulzer replie

Re: plextor px-230a Err in debian installation

2007-04-25 Thread Bill Smith
MH CA wrote: Hi I have a plextor CD Writer on my PC , after booting from CD writer and running setup checks , debian throws an error that says can not find the CD ROM device while it`s booting from this device ! what` s the problem? thanks I have had similar problems with a Plextor DVD writ

Re: Irresponsible user stories!

2007-04-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Johannes Wiedersich wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > Celejar wrote: >> I don't think that protecting Windows machines with firewalls and >> shutting down services is particularly difficult. > > But maybe more difficult than > aptitude install > ;-) It's

Re: security for a home system

2007-04-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:16:47AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted >> to gmane.linux.debian.user: >> > >> It never hurts to have a border r

Re: Debian User List

2007-04-25 Thread Michael M.
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 19:29 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 18:06 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 05:53:35PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > > > conky? > > > > Yeah, but doesn't Conky embed on the desktop? And as far as I know > > window managers lik

Re: laptop harddrive noise

2007-04-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Adam Hardy wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > I installed etch onto a new pc which is made up of a low energy > consumption mobo and two 2.5 inch laptop 120 gig harddrives. > > The low energy consumption was my priority because I want to leave the > machine

Re: incorrect times displayed

2007-04-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 07:48:47 -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:23:35 -0400, I wrote: > > > I also tried adding this at the end of /etc/defaults/rcS: > > > > HWCLOCKPARS="--directisa" > > > > and rebooted. That didn't fix it either. Thanks anyway for the suggestion. > > On

Re: texlive document source files

2007-04-25 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-04-25, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was always too lazy to figure out the intricacies of latex's path > searches. For any given type of file I just do something like this > > $ locate -br '.*\.bst$' | sed 's|/bst/.*|/bst/|' | sort -u > /usr/share/texmf-texlive/bibtex/bst

Re: Exim4 EHLO/STARTTLS/AUTH and buggy client

2007-04-25 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:11:33 -0400 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 09:01 -0700, Mark wrote: > > Hi -- > > > > Just trying Exim, coming from a long time of Sendmail. Curious how > > this might be handled, if it can be. I realize this is a buggy mail > > client probl

Re: laptop harddrive noise

2007-04-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
Paul Johnson wrote: Adam Hardy wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: I installed etch onto a new pc which is made up of a low energy consumption mobo and two 2.5 inch laptop 120 gig harddrives. The low energy consumption was my priority because I want to le

Re: [OT] Re: Debian User List

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 19:30 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:26:46AM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > > "Michael Pobega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > But then again, each generation has it's faults. Just look at the 60s! > > > > Hey, watch it, bub; the '60s were the

Re: Exim4 EHLO/STARTTLS/AUTH and buggy client

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 09:58 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:11:33 -0400 > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 09:01 -0700, Mark wrote: > > > Hi -- > > > > > > Just trying Exim, coming from a long time of Sendmail. Curious how > > > this might be hand

Re: hdparm SCSI

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 11:15 +0100, yag wrote: > Hi, and sorry if this appeared twice, I believe my first > post did not get through. > > After upgrading to the latest Ubuntu release, which ships > a 2.6.20 kernel, all the drives are treated as SCSI ones. > That's fine, there's probably a good reas

Re: libXfont.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Init_FreeType

2007-04-25 Thread Wayne Topa
Florian Kulzer([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 19:34:05 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:48:36 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: <> > > You seem to have some non-Debian X libraries on your system. My

Etch / ThinkPad 600E / How to blacklist the soundcard?

2007-04-25 Thread Michael Lueck
Significant changes have been made between Sarge and Etch. The files mentioned long long ago to cure PnP trying to load an AC97 driver for a ThinkPad 600E with integrated CS423x chip are no longer there. Where has the inequivalent functionality been moved? Michael Lueck wrote: > Antonio-Blasco B

Re: security for a home system

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 00:45 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to > gmane.linux.debian.user: > > > > > rsync uses ssh as the transport layer, similar to scp. > > Interesting. I did not know that... for some reason, I thought it was in >

Image sizing in Konqueror

2007-04-25 Thread Ken Heard
Is it possible -- by means of an extension perhaps -- to make large, dense images, e.g. jpegs, to fit the window when opened in KDE Konqueror? This kind of reduction is possible in Iceweasel, but I would like the same thing in Konqueror. Ken Heard -- To UNSUB

Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-25 Thread Ken Heard
All the dates of e-mails in Icedove are backwards at least in my boxes, i.e., day-month-year, instead of year-month-day. Likewise, the times are in 12 hour notation, followed by AM or PM. My locale preferences in KDE are set as year-month-day and 24 hour time and date formats. Apparently the

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-25 Thread Wackojacko
Wackojacko wrote: Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John L Fjellstad wrote: Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Now that is a good reason. AFAIK, as of the newer kernels (forget which release) all drives are now sdX, so this issue becomes moot. I can see why UU

Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am having trouble getting a USB pen drive to mount. I am running an up-to-date Etch box. My /etc/fstab is: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # /dev/hda2 /

Re: security for a home system

2007-04-25 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:30:33AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 00:45 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to > > gmane.linux.debian.user: > > > > > > rsync uses ssh as the transport layer, similar to scp. > > > > Int

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:01:02AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am having trouble getting a USB pen drive to mount. I am running an > up-to-date Etch box. > > My /etc/fstab is: > > # /etc/fstab: static file s

Re: [solved]: web alternative to knockd for a "secure" sshd server?

2007-04-25 Thread Nick Demou
On 4/23/07, Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Nice idea. Is it easy to support sshd-httpd on the same port also? > > Yes - assuming that the httpd client doesn't use pooling or the like, > which stops the client from "talking" immediately upon connection: > [...] > I did do

Re: Image sizing in Konqueror

2007-04-25 Thread Matthew K Poer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Heard wrote: > Is it possible -- by means of an extension perhaps -- to make large, > dense images, e.g. jpegs, to fit the window when opened in KDE > Konqueror? This kind of reduction is possible in Iceweasel, but I would > like the same thing in

Re: Etch / ThinkPad 600E / How to blacklist the soundcard?

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 10:28 -0400, Michael Lueck wrote: > Significant changes have been made between Sarge and Etch. The files > mentioned long long ago to cure PnP trying to load an AC97 driver for > a ThinkPad 600E with integrated CS423x chip are no longer > there. Where has the inequivalent fun

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:01:02AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am having trouble getting a USB pen drive to mount. I am running an up-to-date Etch box. My /etc/fstab is: # /etc

[solved] Mysql database interface problem with Sympa Debian upgrade to 5.3.2

2007-04-25 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
Copy of http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2007/04/25/solved-mysql-database-interface-problem-with-sympa-debian-upgrade-to-532 I upgraded the Sympa mailing list manager to 5.2.3-2 using the Debian package from the "Testing" repository. The database part of the upgrade procedure was a bit f

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:43:52AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:01:02AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > > That was probably copied from the Sarge installation that used to be on > this box. I thought that I had used the pen drive sinc

Re: Help needed with server setup at work

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 22:58 +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:35:04 -0400 > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 22:22 +0200, Rico Secada wrote: [snip for brevity] > > > > Personally, I'd use a cluster/distributed filesystem with back links or > > refe

Re: Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-25 Thread John Hasler
Ken writes: > Is there a way to set date and formats user-wide, even system-wide? man locale -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 07:59 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:02:00PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > > John L Fjellstad wrote: > > > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Well, my Kubuntu system runs 2.6.20 and havs everything as sdX (when it > > > was hdX before)

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 08:43 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snippage] > That was probably copied from the Sarge installation that used to be on > this box. I thought that I had used the pen drive since I converted to > Etch, but it is possible that I had not. If so, then where should I > check to

the mysql postgresql question.

2007-04-25 Thread Dave Patterson
Hi all - is it possible to go with one database system for all package dependencies? Package foo depends on mysql for install, Package bar allows postgresql or mysql but requires one or the other. Package umpty-scratch prefers postgresql. Is it necessary to have both database systems installed

Re: Etch / ThinkPad 600E / How to blacklist the soundcard?

2007-04-25 Thread Michael Lueck
Greg Folkert wrote: princess:~# modprobe -l | grep cs423 Mine comes back with... /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/kernel/sound/oss/cs4232.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/kernel/sound/isa/opti9xx/snd-opti92x-cs4231.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-6

ra0-tool lets disappear ' floppy' ??!!l

2007-04-25 Thread steef
hi you all out there, got a strange problem. when i install a wireless asuscard, i.e. the driver; rt2500-source (debian; etch) 'floppy' disappears without a trace out of 'system, storage media'. manipulating /etc/fstab has no results. floppy does not come back 'no device etc.' i tested th

Re: Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-25 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler wrote: > Ken writes: >> Is there a way to set date and formats user-wide, even system-wide? > > man locale locale doesn't seem to have an effect for Icedove. My system date today is 25/04/2007, but Icedove shows it as 4/25/2007, which te

moved system to different partition; grub boot problems

2007-04-25 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I recently had some problems with my sata drive (sda), so I got an IDE drive, did a fresh install of etch to partition 1 (hdc1), put home on partition 4 (hdc4), and left partition 2 blank. I then copied my sid system from sda10 to hdc2, using dd. Everything looks fine in hdc2, and when I mou

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-25 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] > How about posting it here? > > - > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > > # /dev/hda3 > UUID=456600fd-b794-4931-8703-bd

Re: Etch / ThinkPad 600E / How to blacklist the soundcard?

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 12:40 -0400, Michael Lueck wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > princess:~# modprobe -l | grep cs423 > > Mine comes back with... > > /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/kernel/sound/oss/cs4232.ko > /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/kernel/sound/isa/opti9xx/snd-opti92x-cs4231.ko > /lib/modules/2.6

Re: laptop harddrive noise

2007-04-25 Thread Sam Leon
Miles Fidelman wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: Adam Hardy wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: I installed etch onto a new pc which is made up of a low energy consumption mobo and two 2.5 inch laptop 120 gig harddrives. The low energy consumption was my prio

Re: Etch / ThinkPad 600E / How to blacklist the soundcard?

2007-04-25 Thread Michael Lueck
Greg Folkert wrote: Many, all I can say is sorry... it appears ISA has fallen on the floor in Debian, and it might slip into a crack soon, if something isn't done. Still, SOMETHING that remains in Etch thinks it needs to load a driver, and all I am trying to stop. It is not that I want the dri

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 19:13 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > [snip] > > How about posting it here? > > > > - > > > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > > # > > # > > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > > > > # /dev/hda3 > > U

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 08:43 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snippage] That was probably copied from the Sarge installation that used to be on this box. I thought that I had used the pen drive since I converted to Etch, but it is possible that I had not. If so, then where shoul

Re: Etch / ThinkPad 600E / How to blacklist the soundcard?

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 13:32 -0400, Michael Lueck wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > > Many, all I can say is sorry... it appears ISA has fallen on the > floor > > in Debian, and it might slip into a crack soon, if something isn't > done. > > Still, SOMETHING that remains in Etch thinks it needs to

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 08:43 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snippage] That was probably copied from the Sarge installation that used to be on this box. I thought that I had used the pen drive since I converted to Etch, but it is possible that I had

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:01:02 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am having trouble getting a USB pen drive to mount. I am running an > up-to-date Etch box. [...] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /media/pen > mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist > > I have, in fact, tried two separate pen d

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 08:43 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snippage] That was probably copied from the Sarge installation that used to be on this box. I thought that I had used the pen drive since I convert

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 14:26 -0300, Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 08:43 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > [snippage] > >> That was probably copied from the Sarge installation that used to be on > >> this box. I thought that I had used the pen drive since

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-25 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 19:13 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> Greg Folkert wrote: >> [snip] >>> How about posting it here? >>> >>> - >>> >>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information. >>> # >

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 10:56 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I am using a stock debian kernel package: linux-image-2.6.16-2-k7 Please update to the Etch Kernel. linux-image-2.6.16-2-k7 does not even exist in the Stable repository. "linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7" And BTW, installing "linux-image-2.6-k7"

Re: the mysql postgresql question.

2007-04-25 Thread Bob McGowan
Dave Patterson wrote: Hi all - is it possible to go with one database system for all package dependencies? Package foo depends on mysql for install, Package bar allows postgresql or mysql but requires one or the other. Package umpty-scratch prefers postgresql. Is it necessary to have both dat

Re: Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-25 Thread Ken Heard
Joe Hart wrote, in part: locale doesn't seem to have an effect for Icedove. My system date today is 25/04/2007, but Icedove shows it as 4/25/2007, which tells me that because I use a US English version of IceDove, it uses it's own settings. My experience exactly: that IceDove uses its own set

MySQL install on Etch

2007-04-25 Thread whitelined
Hi, I'm having a problem installing MySQL 5 on etch. Currently, when MySQL goes through set up, the following error happens: Error in my_thread_global_end(): 1 threads didn't exit Then the process just hangs. I've tried purging, and reinstalling MySQL, but it still doesn't set up. Sometimes it

Re: Etch / ThinkPad 600E / How to blacklist the soundcard?

2007-04-25 Thread Michael Lueck
Simply adding the following line to file: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist blacklist snd_cs46xx solved the trouble. For some reason Linux mis-detects the cs423x chip as a cs46xx chip which is Crystal's PCI chip. -- Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Newbie Samba help

2007-04-25 Thread Jan Sneep
I just installed the latest OS using a NetInst CD and during the install I checked the boxes for "File Server" and "Print Server" and I have been to HYPERLINK "http://localhost:901"Http://localhost:901 to verify that Samba is up and running.   I can "see" the Debian server from my Win XP machines,

Re: xkb options

2007-04-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:38:57 -0500 "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070424 08:42]: > > I understand that. I'm actually currently using dvorak7m to teach > > myself touch typing using the dvorak keymapping, and I'm using an > > ordinary qwerty keyboard

Re: Irresponsible user stories!

2007-04-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:29:37 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > I don't think that protecting Windows machines with firewalls and > > shutting down services is particularly difficult. > > But maybe more difficult than > aptitude install > ;-) Well, on this

Re: Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 19:08:35 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Hasler wrote: > > Ken writes: > >> Is there a way to set date and formats user-wide, even system-wide? > > > > man locale > > locale doesn't seem to have an effect for Icedove. My

Re: Newbie Samba help

2007-04-25 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 25.04.2007 at 14:58 -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: > I just installed the latest OS using a NetInst CD and during the install I > checked the boxes for "File Server" and "Print Server" and I have been to > HYPERLINK "http://localhost:901"Http://localhost:901 to verify that Samba is > up and

Re: cups and samba stop working after upgrade to etch

2007-04-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 16:22:43 -0400, Bill Shofner wrote: > On 04/24/2007 12:43:57 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> I think you can now also restore the rest of your system (your libc6 >> version was OK, by the way.) I would do it like this: >> >> 1) Comment out all unofficial repositories (including

Re: Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-25 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 19:08:35 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> John Hasler wrote: >>> Ken writes: Is there a way to set date and formats user-wide, even system-wide? >>> ma

kernel 2.6.20 generates kernel panic at boot

2007-04-25 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Hi I updated the linux sources (debian package) from 2.6.18 to 2.6.20. Copied the previous .config and issued a make oldconfig However, the new kernel does not boot: it freezes with a kernel panic when trying to mount the root partition... My laptop is a sony vaio... On other computers (desktop

Re: [OT] Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-25 Thread Michael M.
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 19:08 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Granted days like 12/04 could be confused for the 12th of April, but > really mean the 4th of December. Still, your system should know the > real day, and really so should you. Therefore, I am not asking for a > fix, rather I am just pointing

Re: xkb options

2007-04-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070425 14:07]: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:38:57 -0500 > "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestions. Any recommendations about typing tutor > software or resources? I'm currently using dvorak7m, and I've tried > gtypist. Though I alre

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:01:02 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am having trouble getting a USB pen drive to mount. I am running an up-to-date Etch box. [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /media/pen mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist I have, in fact

RE: Newbie Samba help

2007-04-25 Thread Jan Sneep
You are asked to setup a non-root user as part of the NetInst. This is the User that I setup. -Original Message- From: Dave Ewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 25, 2007 3:15 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Newbie Samba help On Wednesday, 25.04.2007 at 14:58 -040

Re: Idea for weekly/monthy wallpaper/themes package

2007-04-25 Thread Anson Gardner
On Friday 20 April 2007 01:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the replies, everyone. > > We seem to have two basic ideas: > > 1. A Debian package, updatable with apt. > 2. A GUI app that would manage all the different things and ways to > be updated. > deb http://debian.websterwood.com/ e

Re: libXfont.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Init_FreeType

2007-04-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:15:47 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Florian Kulzer is reported to have said: [...] > > You seem to have some non-Debian X libraries on your system. My guess is > > that you have to get rid of them. I would start by (temporarily) > > removing the symlink /usr/X11R6/lib/libX

apache2 and proxy

2007-04-25 Thread michael
I'm a bit confused. I have the following snippet at the end of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf ### MKB: only 130.88.*.* to access citations Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from 130.88 which seems to stop ALL access (giving a 403) whereas it used to allow me to use a proxy 130.88.96.66 (squid2.um

Re: Newbie Samba help

2007-04-25 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 25.04.2007 at 16:14 -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: > You are asked to setup a non-root user as part of the NetInst. This is > the User that I setup. That's not enough for Samba. You probably need to create the user for Samba too, via smbpasswd. As I said, please send your /etc/samba/smb.

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 14:26 -0300, Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 08:43 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snippage] That was probably copied from the Sarge installation that used to be on this box. I thought that I had used the pen drive si

Re: teTeX --> TeX live: When to migrate?

2007-04-25 Thread KS
Russell L. Harris wrote: >> Johannes Wiedersich escribió: >>> Are there any issues to be aware of or is it just an 'aptitude install >>> texlive'? > > Very important! For TeXLive to operate properly, it appears that you > must purge all the teTeX configuration files before installing > TeXLive.

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 13:11:44 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:01:02 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> >>> I am having trouble getting a USB pen drive to mount. I am running an >>> up-to-date Etch box. [...] >>> The output from dmesg shows: >>>

SEGV and ABRT with vim in mailx

2007-04-25 Thread cls
I still use mailx as my main mail user agent, with vim as VISUAL (v and ~v commands) editor. It's efficient, with helpers like metamail, and multiple xterms. I use vim's "set mouse=a" feature. vim catches mouse input, unless shift is down, where the xterm gets it as usual. Since upgrading Sarge

Dis-upgrade using apt-get

2007-04-25 Thread ISHWAR RATTAN
I have a small debian-3.1r3 system. I want to upgrade it to debian-4.0r0. Is there a way to dist-upgrade for the installed software (including dependencies) only?, to keep the extra stuff out that #apt-get dist-upgrade wants to download and install. -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

COMPOSITE

2007-04-25 Thread gaidin
I found that with XAA and Composite disable, I am getting performance back -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help needed with server setup at work

2007-04-25 Thread Rico Secada
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:05:22 -0400 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 22:58 +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:35:04 -0400 > > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 22:22 +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > [snip for brevity] > >

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