Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

On Tue, 15 May 2007, Tim Johnson wrote: auto lo iface lo inet loopback allow-hotplug eth0 -- That caused major problems on one Mandrake system I had. -- A. Talsta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

How to get the original configuration of a package

Dear All, Recently I accidentally deleted the directory: /etc/apache2, could anybody help me to restore the original one when I first got by "apt-get install apache2"? Thanks. Sincerely, Gang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Get wirless working

On 16 May 2007, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007 06:51:09 -0400 > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:31:32AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > On Tue, 15 May 2007 17:56:56 -0400 > > > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > > > ht

Re: video overlay on external display with Radeon Mobility M6 LY

> [snip] > I figured at the time that it is possibly a hardware problem, ie. that > the graphics card cannot resize a moving picture instantly to the 1400 > resolution of the lcd and the 1024 resolution of the projector and > didn't persue this further. Maybe I am wrong. > Yes, there is a pro

Linux counter down?

It's nearly a week since my automated weekly email to "machine-registration" at the Linux Counter failed to be delivered. Now I find I cannot connect to http://counter.li.org/ either. Is it just me? Apologies if this is an inappropriate place to mention this, but I see quite a few of the regula

fetchmail: POP3< -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir

Hi all, I've got this problem and is unable to fetch mails now. The more detailed log is: , | fetchmail: POP3> USER william | fetchmail: POP3< +OK | fetchmail: POP3> PASS * | fetchmail: POP3< -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir | fetchmail: unable to scan $HOME/Maildir | fetchmail: Authoriza

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

On May 16, 10:30 am, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 05/16/07 03:15, Atis wrote: > > > [snip] > >> Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the "-- ". > > >> (Web gmail is *not* a proper MUA.) > > > If you miss it, why don't you request for it. > > I don't use gmail, so don't have any s

Re: dpkg-reconfigure of xserver-xorg creates problem for users!

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 04:55:53 +, Bruce M. Ward wrote: > Thanks guys. > > Yes, Michael, problem user cannot start using startx. > > Since there is a possibility that it may involve groups here are the two > users (renamed). > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups problem > problem : problem dialo

Re: Upgrade of kernel fails due to lack of space

2007/5/16, Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I know, you can always scold me for not enough space. But this is an old box with a small hard disk: df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda7 133M 93M 33M 74% / tmpfs 126M 0

Re: Linux counter down?

Bob Cox wrote: > It's nearly a week since my automated weekly email to > "machine-registration" at the Linux Counter failed to be delivered. > > Now I find I cannot connect to http://counter.li.org/ either. > Is it just me? > > Apologies if this is an inappropriate place to mention this, but I s

Re: kernel or ppp problem?

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 09:16:22PM -0700, Eugene Stemple wrote: > To all: >Problem resolved with the aid of James at stev dot org. > Closing this thread. There is no bug in either ppp or > kernel ppp support. Good. But what was the problem? >Chalk up another "plus" for Linux community us

Re: [OT] Postfix - STARTTLS problem: 454 4.3.0 TLS not available due to local problem

On 5/17/07, Mihira Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: did you install : # libsasl2 (the Cyrus SASL library) # libsasl2-modules (the mechanisms for the SASL library) # libsasl2-modules-sql Yes I have these installed. Except that the sql one I didn't have but installed just now. Still same prob

Re: How to get the original configuration of a package

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 15:14:01 +0800, Gang Qin wrote: >Dear All, > >Recently I accidentally deleted the directory: /etc/apache2, could >anybody help me to restore the original one when I first got by > "apt-get install apache2"? Re-install? You can always put it in a QEMU/VMWare

Re: How to get the original configuration of a package

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 03:14:01PM +0800, Gang Qin wrote: > Dear All, > > Recently I accidentally deleted the directory: /etc/apache2, could > anybody help me to restore the original one when I first got by > "apt-get install apache2"? Perhaps you can restore them from backups? I

Re: [OT] Postfix - STARTTLS problem: 454 4.3.0 TLS not available due to local problem

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 02:54:34PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/17/07, Mihira Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >did you install : > ># libsasl2 (the Cyrus SASL library) > ># libsasl2-modules (the mechanisms for the SASL library) > ># libsasl2-modules-sql > > Yes I have these installed. Exc

Traffic monitoring in small office

Hey, In my office, we have 11 computers. We have 2 2M broad band accounts from our ISP. We use a router combines 2 income cable and use 2 8 ports switches to make every computer have the Internet access. The problem is right now we got very unstable Internet access. Therefore, I'm thinking of ins

Re: How to get the original configuration of a package

Gang Qin wrote: Dear All, Recently I accidentally deleted the directory: /etc/apache2, could anybody help me to restore the original one when I first got by "apt-get install apache2"? Thanks. Sincerely, Gang You can try to purge the package and then install it again. Perhaps dpkg--reco

Re: Traffic monitoring in small office

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 02:26:30AM -0700, rocky wrote: > Hey, > > In my office, we have 11 computers. We have 2 2M broad band accounts > from our ISP. We use a router combines 2 income cable and use 2 8 > ports switches to make every computer have the Internet access. The > problem is right now w

Re: how to disable XEmacs font-lock-mode?

On 5/16/07, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can I disable font-lock-mode in Emacs (actually XEmacs)? It appears that, upon seeing the first line of a Perl script: #!/usr/bin/perl Emacs sets font-lock-mode. But I do not wish to use font-lock mode when working with Perl scr

Re: How to get the original configuration of a package

On Thu, 17 May 2007 15:14:01 +0800 Gang Qin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > Recently I accidentally deleted the directory: /etc/apache2, could > anybody help me to restore the original one when I first got by > "apt-get install apache2"? > Thanks. > > Sincerely, > Gang

Re: Get wirless working

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:19:06AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 16 May 2007, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Wed, 16 May 2007 06:51:09 -0400 > > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:31:32AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > > On Tue, 15 May 2007 17:56:56

Re: Get wirless working

Liam O'Toole wrote: Whats' more, those modules are included in the standard kernel image these days. The difference however is that Ubuntu packages the firmware, whereas Debian does not. That is likely to confound the uninitiated. That's what I thought, but as it seems some people is having

Re: Packaged version of killfile?

Karl E. Jorgensen wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 07:49:55AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Karl E. Jorgensen wrote in Article >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to >> gmane.linux.debian.user: >> >> > Despite searching everywhere (I thin

Re: Really slow xterm

Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-05-16 15:59:10 -0500, cothrige wrote: >> I have installed xterm via apt, running etch, and have noticed that it >> scrolls really slowly. I compared it to rxvt by running `time ls` in >> /usr/bin with rxvt taking 0.572s and xterm running at 4.63

Re: Get wirless working

On Thu, 17 May 2007 11:39:21 +0100 yag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > Whats' more, those modules are included in the standard kernel image > > these days. The difference however is that Ubuntu packages the > > firmware, whereas Debian does not. That is likely to confound t

Re: Packaged version of killfile?

On Wed May 16, 2007 at 03:27:41 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> This is a function of your MUA, most decent mail readers and all news > >> readers worthy of being called such support highlight/kill by thread, > >> usually in a single keystroke. > > > > I have to admit my ignorance then. I'm a kee

Re: Traffic monitoring in small office

rocky wrote: Hey, In my office, we have 11 computers. We have 2 2M broad band accounts from our ISP. We use a router combines 2 income cable and use 2 8 ports switches to make every computer have the Internet access. The problem is right now we got very unstable Internet access. Therefore, I'm

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

Serena Cantor wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? Openoffice.org has Impress, which is probably what you're looking for. It's deprecating Powerpoint at this point. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

Ron Johnson wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the "-- ". > > (Web gmail is *not* a proper MUA.) Do they support threads yet? Reply-to-list? -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

Chris Bannister wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:46:21AM -0400, Manaen Schlabach wrote: >> Their MS outlook defaults to top posting...therefore it must be ok. >> Microsoft said so =_) > > It could be argued that it defaults to pu

Re: Bug???

piter_p_92 wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > I've had some problem with testing ver. of debian: he don't founding hdd. > I heard that some people have this problem too. I don't know is anybody > who reported about this bug so i'm writing. Thx Is it a bug, o

Re: Re: apache2 - SSL

Yo he tenido el mismo problema. En realidad el problema es que al intentar una conexión SSL desde el cliente "Firefox" el servidor no es capaz de atender el servicio SSL en el puerto 443. El problema se soluciona revisando su configuración de los dominios virtuales definidos en el server. Si quie

Re: LVM and RAID

On Wednesday 16 May 2007 22:52:13 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 02:29:10PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I intend to install LVM and RAID-1 on a two disks system. > > Is there any order or procedure to respect when installing both together > > ? Some HOWTO

Re: Canon PowerShot A570IS

See this too: http://sign-el-soft.hu/cgi/ng-xim.en.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

On 2007-05-17, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Serena Cantor wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > >> Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? > > Openoffice.org has Impress, which is probably what you're looking for. > It's deprecat

keyboard tweaking without X

Hi, I'm trying to figure out if I can do without X for my regular computing needs. Most of what I do is text-based, primarily emacs, mutt, slrn. However, I find emacs in particular is easier to deal with in X, as there is better support for function keys. Stuff like xmodmap is a great tool, so I c

Re: [not-OT] Postfix - STARTTLS problem: 454 4.3.0 TLS not available due to local problem

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 11:45 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/17/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why is this OT? Postfix is packaged for Debian, by Debian. > > > > This might be related to TLS entropy problem when there is not enough > > activity or "randomness" from the system. > > >

Re: Get wirless working

Liam O'Toole wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007 11:39:21 +0100 yag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's what I thought, but as it seems some people is having problems with this I better ask before actually dropping Ubuntu and adopting Debian for good. Isn't it just a matter of installing the ipw2200

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

Tyler Smith wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > On 2007-05-17, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Serena Cantor wrote in Article >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to >> gmane.linux.debian.user: >> >>> Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoin

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 04:30 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Serena Cantor wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > > > Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? > > Openoffice.org has Impress, which is probably what you're looking for. > It's depre

list running applications

Hello, I have been play with the ps command and trying various options. Is there an option combo that will show me just the running applications: firefox, gvim, mutt, etc? Or another Linux command that will show me just the applications I have opened in various terminals? I'm looking for the equiv

etch to lenny upgrade

I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old one by changing etch references to lenny. My current sources.list deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free When I do, "apt

Re: how to disable XEmacs font-lock-mode?

Kushal Kumaran escribe: > The easy way: > > M-x customize-groupfont-lock > > See "Font Lock Global Modes" in that customization group. Use it to > turn off font-lock for perl-mode. > > Note: I've checked this out in emacs only. Probably is the same way > in XEmacs too. > Putting this in your

Re: list running applications

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 06:15:54AM -0700, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > Hello, > > I have been play with the ps command and trying various options. Is > there an option combo that will show me just the running applications: > firefox, gvim, mutt, etc? Or another Linux command that will show me > just

Bloat in desktop environments

Memory requirements of desktop environments, from : * XFCE 4: 128 MB * Gnome 2: 384 MB * KDE 3:512 MB Gnome, and KDE are slow, and resource-hungry. Why not make something with less bloat, like XFCE, as the default desktop environment in Debian? E

Re: etch to lenny upgrade

Try running it as root. sudo aptitude upgrade or su - aptitude upgrade Hope it helps, Chaim On Thursday 17 May 2007 16:42:19 Randy Patterson wrote: > I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old one > by changing etch references to lenny. > > My current sources.list >

Re: etch to lenny upgrade

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:42:19AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old one > by > changing etch references to lenny. > > My current sources.list > > deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free > deb-src

Re: keyboard tweaking without X

Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm trying to figure out if I can do without X for my regular > computing needs. Most of what I do is text-based, primarily > emacs, mutt, slrn. However, I find emacs in particular is easier > to deal with in X, as there is better support for function keys. > Stuff

Re: Bloat in desktop environments

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 07:31:16PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > Memory requirements of desktop environments, from > : > > * XFCE 4: 128 MB > * Gnome 2: 384 MB > * KDE 3:512 MB > > Gnome, and KDE are slow, and resource-hungry. Why not make

amarok / libgpod destroys iPod playlists

Hello, I have a problem using my iPod with amarok from etch. Whenever I use the iPod with amarok I loose the contents of all my iPod playlist except the first one. I can see the playlists within the iPod, but they are empty. It seems to be a libgpod0 problem. When I use my iPod in the office (s

Re: etch to lenny upgrade

On Thursday 17 May 2007 09:06, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:42:19AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old > > one by changing etch references to lenny. > > > > My current sources.list > > > > deb ftp://debian.mirr

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

On 2007-05-17, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> That would be great news, but why do you have that impression? >> Powerpoint is still the standard at my school and at any conferences I >> have attended in the last year. > > OpenOffice's format is the only format recognized by many of

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:32:46PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? Lots of folks create a presention in tex [ or similar markup languages] and then turn them into pdf file or to html/javascript. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my

Re: etch to lenny upgrade

Randy Patterson (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the > old one by changing etch references to lenny. > > My current sources.list > > deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free > deb-src ftp://debian.mirrors.t

Re: keyboard tweaking without X

On 2007-05-17, Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, I do know that to get rid of caps lock completely and make it > into a control key so that it's actually *useful*, you can edit (as > root, of course) the file /etc/console-tools/remap and uncomment > the sed statement found there. >

Re: fetchmail: POP3< -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 03:46:30PM +0800, William Xu wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got this problem and is unable to fetch mails now. The more > detailed log is: > > , > | fetchmail: POP3> USER william > | fetchmail: POP3< +OK > | fetchmail: POP3> PASS * > | fetchmail: POP3< -ERR unable to sca

Re: Grub without Linux.

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 08:41:36PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2007 08:51:25 -0700 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:12:02PM +0800, Mr. Ray Chan wrote: > > > 1. Use a Win98 startup disk to start the system; > > > 2. After your s

Re: In case of troubles with a well known forum

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:25:18PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 07:52:10AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Andrei Popescu wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > > > > > In case of new "offenders" please direct them to this thread (lin

[Fwd: Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?]

Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-05-17, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Serena Cantor wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? Openoffice.org has Impress, which is probably what you're lo

Re: Etch Xorg memory leak?

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 02:43:15PM +0200, Hervé Piedvache wrote: > Le dimanche 13 mai 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty a écrit : > > I'm having trouble with Xorg under Etch i386 and similar annoyance under > > amd64. > > > > Over time, xorg takes up more and more memory. On my i386, I only have > I had

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

On Thu, 17 May 2007 10:26:23 -0400 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:32:46PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > > Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? > Lots of folks create a presention in tex [ or similar markup languages] > and then turn them int

Re: etch to lenny upgrade [more info]

On Thursday 17 May 2007 08:42, Randy Patterson wrote: > I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old one > by changing etch references to lenny. > > My current sources.list > > deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free > deb-src ftp://debian.mir

[OT, sorry] Re: keyboard tweaking without X

Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-05-17, Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Well, I do know that to get rid of caps lock completely and make it > > into a control key so that it's actually *useful*, you can edit (as > > root, of course) the file /etc/console-tools/remap

Re: Etch Xorg memory leak?

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:22:00AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 05/13/2007 06:51 AM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >I'm having trouble with Xorg under Etch i386 and similar annoyance under > >amd64. > > > >Over time, xorg takes up more and more memory. [...] > > I also installed Etch on a computer

Re: bash scripting question

Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-05-17, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Some general comments, mostly aimed at making your code cleaner without changing what it does. First, both 'echo' and 'printf' put their results on standard out. Your call of 'printf' is inside command substitution, so

Re: Re: apache2 - SSL

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:00:03AM -0300, Puerta Marcelo wrote: > Yo he tenido el mismo problema. > > En realidad el problema es que al intentar una conexión SSL desde el > cliente "Firefox" el servidor no es capaz de atender el servicio SSL en > el puerto 443. > > El problema se soluciona revisa

Re: Etch Xorg memory leak?

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:17:34PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:22:00AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > > On 05/13/2007 06:51 AM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > Try out the VESA driver and see if the problem recurs. > Would if I could. On the i386, dpkg-reconfigur

Re: Grub without Linux.

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:47:05PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a machine with two disks. /dev/hda has > Windows 98; /dev/hdb has Debian Etch. Grub > starts either system. The root partition for > Grub is in Debian, (hd1,0). > > I want to move the Debian drive to another > ma

Re: configuring midnight commander for use via ssh

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:48:18AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > The Gnome desktop is installed on both machines. Also, midnight > commander (the original mc, not Gnome commander) is installed on both > machines, and works perfectly when accessed from the local keyboard. > > After starting

Re: [OT] Postfix - STARTTLS problem: 454 4.3.0 TLS not available due to local problem

Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/17/07, Mihira Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> did you install : >> # libsasl2 (the Cyrus SASL library) >> # libsasl2-modules (the mechanisms for the SASL library) >> # libsasl2-modules-sql > > Yes I have these installed. Except that the sql one I didn't have but > i

Re: Etch Xorg memory leak?

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:31:09PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:17:34PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:22:00AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > > > On 05/13/2007 06:51 AM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > > > Try out the VESA driver and see if t

Re: etch to lenny upgrade [more info]

Randy Patterson kirjoitti to 17. toukokuuta 2007 10:50:02: > When I execute; > > dpkg -l > > I get the following relevant lines of information. [all other lines snipped.] > > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed > |

Can't access tty problems (initramfs)

I'm getting the infamous "Can't access tty; job control turned off" message when I try to invoke the ash shell during my initial bootup. My kernel is 2.6.21.1 and I'm using busybox 1.5.0. I understand that ash requires a controlling tty rather than the console. Though, I don't understand all the

Re: Indic scripts in terminal

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 06:58:49PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > My 'LANG' is 'ta_IN.UTF-8'. I am on an up-to-date Debian Testing computer. > > I am using Latin script, and Tamil script in Gnome Terminal. The display > gets slightly garbled around the Tamil text. I guess that this is because

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:52:15PM -0700, pedxing wrote: > > > I would like > > > to configure things so that, for instance, when I (ok, actually my > > > wife) use konqueror to copy songs to my mp3 player, when the copy > > > dialog says 100%, I can immediately unmount the device without > > > hav

Re: Indic scripts in terminal

Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: My 'LANG' is 'ta_IN.UTF-8'. I am on an up-to-date Debian Testing computer. I am using Latin script, and Tamil script in Gnome Terminal. The display gets slightly garbled around the Tamil text. I guess that this is because Vim is aware of Unicode characters that combine

Re: Control Center Problems in KDE 3.5.5

David Dawson wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> aptitude -F '%?p%?v' search '~i~dkde' | awk '/3\.5\.6/{print $1,$2}' > Thanks. > This is what I get from the above command: > kde-i18n-engb 4:3.5.6-1 > kde-i18n-eo 4:3.5.6-1 > kde-i18n-fr 4:3.5.6-1 > > Is any package there likely to be involved? I

Re: Packaged version of killfile?

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:44:25PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Wed May 16, 2007 at 03:27:41 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > >> This is a function of your MUA, most decent mail readers and all news > > >> readers worthy of being called such support highlight/kill by thread, > > >> usually in a s

Re: Packaged version of killfile?

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:01:41PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:44:25PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > > On Wed May 16, 2007 at 03:27:41 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > >> This is a function of your MUA, most decent mail readers and all news > > > >> readers worthy

Re: Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard

[ You accidentally sent this message to me personally and to debian-powerpc-REQUEST. I put this back on debian-user since I don't follow the powerpc list (and the "-request" address is wrong for normal list mails anyway). ] On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:43:31 +0200, Matthias Brennwald wrote: >

Re: [OT] Postfix - STARTTLS problem: 454 4.3.0 TLS not available due to local problem

On 5/18/07, Mihira Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> comment this out for the moment. you can re enable it once everything is >> working as expected. > How would I know it is working without these lines uncommented? not all the lines. Comment just this line : smtpd_tls_auth_only = yes

Re: Etch Xorg memory leak?

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 12:58 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:31:09PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:17:34PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:22:00AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > > > > On 05/13/2007 06:51 AM, Dougla

Re: amarok / libgpod destroys iPod playlists

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 15:56 +0200, Jörg Becker wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem using my iPod with amarok from etch. Whenever I use the iPod > with amarok I loose the contents of all my iPod playlist except the first > one. I can see the playlists within the iPod, but they are empty. > > It

Re: fetchmail: POP3< -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/07 02:46, William Xu wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got this problem and is unable to fetch mails now. The more > detailed log is: > > , > | fetchmail: POP3> USER william > | fetchmail: POP3< +OK > | fetchmail: POP3> PASS * > | fetchmail:

Re: keyboard tweaking without X

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:45:04 +, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to figure out if I can do without X for my regular > computing needs. Most of what I do is text-based, primarily emacs, > mutt, slrn. However, I find emacs in particular is easier to deal with > in X, as there is bette

Re: [etch] apt_preferences issues

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 22:43:18 +0200, Jakub Narojczyk wrote: > Florian Kulzer napisał(a): > >> To me that looks like the pinning worked and I do not understand how apt >> can think of "upgrading" to the same version. Is your currently >> installed gimp a version from another repository? >> What h

Slow nfs mounts after sarge2etch upgrade

Hello, I just upgraded from sarge to etch, and afterwards my NFS mounts were very slow (5-10 minutes each mount). After the mounting the connection speed is OK. I googled for that, but I couldn't find any hints. Did I find a bug, and if yes, where should i report it? Thanks in advance. Chris

Re: Control Center Problems in KDE 3.5.5

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 18:08:02 +, David Dawson wrote: > David Dawson wrote: > > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > >> aptitude -F '%?p%?v' search '~i~dkde' | awk '/3\.5\.6/{print $1,$2}' > > Thanks. > > This is what I get from the above command: > > kde-i18n-engb 4:3.5.6-1 > > kde-i18n-eo 4:3.5.

Re: list running applications

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/07 08:15, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > Hello, > > I have been play with the ps command and trying various options. Is > there an option combo that will show me just the running applications: > firefox, gvim, mutt, etc? Or another Linux command

Re: LVM and RAID

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 02:30:37PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > On Wednesday 16 May 2007 22:52:13 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 02:29:10PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > > > > > I intend to install LVM and RAID-1 on a two disks system. > > > Is there any order or pro

Re: Bloat in desktop environments

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 07:31:16PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > Memory requirements of desktop environments, from > : > > * XFCE 4: 128 MB > * Gnome 2: 384 MB > * KDE 3:512 MB > > Gnome, and KDE are slow, and resource-hungry. Why not make

Re: bzip2 gzip binaries empty after usage

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:09:56PM -0700, Jay Wilton wrote: > Hello, > > I have a new build of debian etch 4.0. When I try to > unpack a tar.bz2 file it fails silently. ala > tar jxvf example.tar.bz2 , just fails with no error. > > file /bin/bzip2 > /bin/bzip2: empty > > I reinstall with a: a

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:00:57AM -0400, Brendan wrote: > On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 05/15/07 15:52, pedxing wrote: > > >>> I would like to configure things so that, for instance, when > > >>> I (ok, actually my wife) use konqueror to copy songs to my > > >>> mp3 player, whe

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:55:18PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:01:57PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 05/15/07 20:37, H.S. wrote: > > > pedxing wrote: > > >> Lenny AMD64. > > >> > > >> When I write to a USB device (stick or mp3 player), I notice that > > >> the writes

do anyone work on translating the maint-guide ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello ,.. i don't want to start working (translating ) on some thing that some one allready started: translating the package creation guide : debian new maintainer guide into hebrew. if so i would like to join to help. - -- - -- Could you at least us

Re: list running applications

On May 17, 3:40 pm, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting question. I don't think Linux/Unix systems "think" > about things like that. After all, there are so many daemons > running. Are daemons considered applications? > No, the idea is to get a quick look at programs you star

Re: list running applications

BartlebyScrivener wrote: > I have been play with the ps command and trying various options. Is > there an option combo that will show me just the running applications: > firefox, gvim, mutt, etc? I think what you mean is that you want to see just processes that are running under your ID. 'ps -u u

Re: Returned mail: Data format error

To send mail to me, you need to add [laundry] to the end of the subject line (eg: Subject: Random message [laundry]). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: list running applications

BartlebyScrivener wrote: I have been play with the ps command and trying various options. Is there an option combo that will show me just the running applications: firefox, gvim, mutt, etc? Or another Linux command that will show me just the applications I have opened in various terminals? I'm l

Re: list running applications

BartlebyScrivener wrote: > Hello, > > I have been play with the ps command and trying various options. Is > there an option combo that will show me just the running applications: > firefox, gvim, mutt, etc? Or another Linux command that will show me > just the applications I have opened in various

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