Re: Xorg keyboard broke on todays upgrade

2007-06-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:51:34 -0700 ss11223 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 3, 5:40 pm, ss11223 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a machine running "testing" on which I did an 'apt-get dist- > > upgrade' today. Now my > > keyboard won't work under xorg (the mouse works fine, and the > > key

Re: does etch have package that allow user bypass Internet censorship

2007-06-04 Thread Serena Cantor
Chinese police has most advanced filter technology in the world. but I believe police don't think this list is worth of monitoring because there are too few Chinese here. Even if police find out what I do here (this is very very unlikely), I don't believe I'll be punished. I just get some dang

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micha Feigin wrote: > The downside with the latex option is videos open in an external window and > for > better or worse you have less support for transitions (usually better because > they tend to distract the crowd) and exact positioning of text an

Re: Emacs 22 for Etch

2007-06-04 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Monday 04 June 2007 05:59:04 Deboo ^ wrote: > How can I get Emacs 22 to install on etch without pinning? I can't > find a backports release. What are all the backports websites out > there? Have a look at the initial post of the thread "I am ANGRY with Debian" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: spaces.live.com

2007-06-04 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:13:33 -0400 "A. Ben Hmeda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonathan Kaye wrote: > > gustavo halperin wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I'm using gaim in order to chat with my friend over MSN > >> protocol. But when I try to get information from my friends I get > >> an addres

Re: File Notes

2007-06-04 Thread Deboo ^
On 6/2/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quote from the "CLI Magic: Use Extended Attributes for better file management" page (which is at http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/06/13/1352241&tid=113&tid=70&tid=89 ): I'm using getfattr and setfattr for now. Actually I made two s

Anyone have success with bootsplash package?

2007-06-04 Thread Eric A. Bonney
I have tried installing this package on two of my three machines and had no success with it. I have verified that I have frame buffer support compiled into the kernal and I have also even installed the patch that is listed in apt-get, but nothing seems to work. At one point I was able to get

backup script modification help

2007-06-04 Thread Haines Brown
I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that I've named "mirror". The script used is: find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirror|^/proc" | cpio -pdmuv /media/mirror/"$1" 2>&1 | cat -vt Since installing Etch, this script has not worked well because it does not like to backu

Re: Macromedia Flash Video

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:39:56 +0300 gustavo halperin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank for your answer, but my problem isn't download the videos. I > already done it. > My problem is that some of the videos that I downloaded I can see > with mplayer a

Re: backup script modification help

2007-06-04 Thread Atis
On 04 Jun 2007 07:15:49 -0400, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that I've named "mirror". The script used is: find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirror|^/proc" | cpio -pdmuv /media/mirror/"$1" 2>&1 | cat -vt Since installing

Re: backup script modification help

2007-06-04 Thread Wackojacko
Haines Brown wrote: I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that I've named "mirror". The script used is: find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirror|^/proc" | cpio -pdmuv /media/mirror/"$1" 2>&1 | cat -vt Since installing Etch, this script has not worked well because it

Re: backup script modification help

2007-06-04 Thread Roby
Haines Brown wrote: > I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that > I've named "mirror". The script used is: > > find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirror|^/proc" | cpio -pdmuv > /media/mirror/"$1" 2>&1 | cat -vt > > Since installing Etch, this script has not worked well

Re: Emacs 22 for Etch

2007-06-04 Thread Deboo ^
On 6/4/07, Rakotomandimby Mihamina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have a look at the initial post of the thread "I am ANGRY with Debian" I couldn't really understand the initial post. Was the anger due to Emacs22 not beign in Etch or just the GFDL documentation part? And does that have to do anyth

Re: Is Etch Stable is really stable?

2007-06-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 08:19:53AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > But how do you assemble them into a repository-like unofficial CD? > What commands will do this? I think, to summarize, that you have the contents of /var/cache/apt/archives that you have md5sum verified and you want to know how to save

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:19:54AM +0700, Ms Linuz wrote: > I've been googling but haven't found any clue yet. > I want to hotplug my ide disk so i can put it on my computer while the > computer's running. > Then just automatically mount ( or at least detected for mounted manually > later ) like us

Re: backup script modification help

2007-06-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 07:15:49AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that > I've named "mirror". The script used is: > > find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirror|^/proc" | cpio -pdmuv > /media/mirror/"$1" 2>&1 | cat -vt > > Since instal

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-04 Thread Romain Francoise
cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was aware that gNewSense was derived from Ubuntu, but I suppose I > had not given much thought to how Ubuntu themselves handle these > things. Do they just redistribute these things straight from Debian? > I suppose I simply assumed that they would include

Re: backup script modification help

2007-06-04 Thread Michael G. Hansen
Haines Brown wrote: > I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that > I've named "mirror". The script used is: > > find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirror|^/proc" | cpio -pdmuv > /media/mirror/"$1" 2>&1 | cat -vt You could try "find -xdev" which prevents find from entering

Re: cannot access machine after apt-get dist-upgrade

2007-06-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:58:55AM +, Robert Cates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > this is going to be my new server, so there's no GUI, only text mode, and > it gets all the way to the login prompt, but the machine will not take > keyboard (USB, which is what I always used) input.

Re: Packages wedged in sarge -> etch upgrade ( and apt-get vs. aptitude)

2007-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Moseley wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 11:54:04AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: [snip a long description of what didn't go smoothly on an upgrade from sarge to etch] You didn't read the release notes (at least the most relevant sections) [1], did

Re: backup script modification help

2007-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 07:15:49AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: >> I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that >> I've named "mirror". The script used is: >> >> find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirr

desktop icon for audio CD

2007-06-04 Thread Easthope
Debian users, At Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:49:04 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote, "What happens is that an icon pops up on your desktop after you insert a pluggable device or removable media, but it is not mounted." Yes; for a USB storage stick, an icon appears in the xfce4 desktop in etch here. For an audi

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/07 22:19, Ms Linuz wrote: I've been googling but haven't found any clue yet. I want to hotplug my ide disk so i can put it on my computer while the computer's running. Then just automatically mount ( or at least detected for mounted manually later ) like usb storage. As a former windows

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Atis
On 6/4/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 06/03/07 22:19, Ms Linuz wrote: > I've been googling but haven't found any clue yet. > I want to hotplug my ide disk so i can put it on my computer while the > computer's running. > Then just automatically mount ( or at least detected for mount

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-06-04 15:18:45 +0200, Romain Francoise wrote: > It's very simple: Debian is no longer upstream for emacs-snapshot in > Ubuntu, the packages are taken from my personal repository. > > See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs-snapshot/1:20070529-1 Is there a way to use the Ubuntu pack

iceweasel font print problem

2007-06-04 Thread Mark Copper
Hi, I recently upgraded from oldstable to stable. In particular, I upgraded to the Iceweasel browser. I seem to be having trouble communicating font size to the printer. I did not have this problem with oldstable Firefox. A page I want to print renders fine on screen but does not obey the sam

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:55:05 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can plug a raw drive directly into a running system? I don't > believe you. Some Thinkpads, some laptops, can do this. > As Douglas says, IDE doesn't support hot-swa

KMail not working under Gnome/Lenny

2007-06-04 Thread Atis
Hi, Today i aptidude'upgraded my system, and KMail stopped working. At first i wasn't able to send emails (it complained that can't connect to gmail), I rebooted (today's upgrade was quite large), and now it doesn't load at all (just hanging). P.S. None of KDE apps shows icon in tray area, inste

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/07 10:23, Atis wrote: On 6/4/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 06/03/07 22:19, Ms Linuz wrote: > I've been googling but haven't found any clue yet. > I want to hotplug my ide disk so i can put it on my computer while the > computer's running. > Then just automatically mount

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/07 10:28, Andrew J. Barr wrote: On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:55:05 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can plug a raw drive directly into a running system? I don't believe you. Some Thinkpads, some laptops, can do this. As Douglas says, IDE doesn't support hot-swapping.

identity of author of a submission

2007-06-04 Thread Easthope
Readers, Why are some of my submissions listed under peasthope while others are under Easthope? Is this being fixed? Thanks, ... Peter E.

gnome terminal stays in foreground

2007-06-04 Thread BartlebyScrivener
Hello, I have a site launcher that I made with Python that I can use to start the default browser with a specific url. Kind of like a commandline version of bookmarks. When I run the script from gnome terminal, the browser launches and the site comes up, but it's in the background UNDER the gnome

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Atis
On 6/4/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 06/04/07 10:23, Atis wrote: > On 6/4/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 06/03/07 22:19, Ms Linuz wrote: >> > I've been googling but haven't found any clue yet. >> > I want to hotplug my ide disk so i can put it on my computer whil

Re (3): configuring a SMC router with Debian Iceweasel

2007-06-04 Thread Easthope
Ron & anyone else who might be interested, On Apr 16, 8:31 pm, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you ping 192.168.123.254? Problem solved after a tip from SMC tech. support. The systems which fail to connect were attempting to negotiate link parameters. Correct parameters should be im

Re: backup script modification help

2007-06-04 Thread Haines Brown
Mike et al, Thanks for the fix and the suggestions. I understood the script just to the extent I could mess it up ;-( -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:40:40 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With any 2.5" drive, or only drives certified by Lenovo? Any drive, any laptop. I think ACPI supports IDE hotswap. > Besides, laptops only have 1 hard drive, no? Some lapto

Re: Etch / Samba server weirdness

2007-06-04 Thread Michael Lueck
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: No offense, but that is not a very useful bug report. If you really want to help out, you need to also send the following as a follow-up to the initial bug report: - your related configuration file(s) - commands which produce the strange behavior - excerpts of log f

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-04 Thread Joey Hess
Romain Francoise wrote: > It's very simple: Debian is no longer upstream for emacs-snapshot in > Ubuntu, the packages are taken from my personal repository. Is there some reason why you're not maintaining the package in Debian, given that you're a DD and it currently has no maintainer? -- see sh

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-04 Thread cothrige
* Romain Francoise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > It's very simple: Debian is no longer upstream for emacs-snapshot in > Ubuntu, the packages are taken from my personal repository. > > See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs-snapshot/1:20070529-1 > Thanks for that info. Does that then m

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-04 Thread Romain Francoise
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there some reason why you're not maintaining the package in Debian, > given that you're a DD and it currently has no maintainer? http://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/2007/03/msg00012.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/2007/04/msg2.html --

Re: Etch / Samba server weirdness

2007-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Lueck wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >> No offense, but that is not a very useful bug report. If you really >> want to help out, you need to also send the following as a follow-up to >> the initial bug report: >> >> - your related configu

printer setup

2007-06-04 Thread bobsetch
Back again. I finally have etch gnome up and running again but am still having problems with my hp printer. I've tried using gnome desktop to setup the printer and everything seems to be ok until I print the test page and nothing happens. When I looki at the que iI see status: job stopped. I'v

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-04 Thread Romain Francoise
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to use the Ubuntu packages from Debian with > apt-get? Try adding Ubuntu sources in your sources.list and see what happens... but I don't think it'll work. -- ,''`. : :' :Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `. `'

Re: Strange reaction to keyboard at first login

2007-06-04 Thread cothrige
* Chris Bannister ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 09:21:36AM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > Is this a stock Debian kernel or a self compiled one? > Is this from the CLI or from a GUI? (i.e x or no x) Sorry, I should have mentioned that I am running a 2.6.20.12 kernel that I compi

Re: identity of author of a submission

2007-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Easthope wrote: > Readers, > > Why are some of my submissions listed under > peasthope while others are under Easthope? Because some have From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and others From: "Easthope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It looks like you are using differe

Re: backup script modification help

2007-06-04 Thread Wei Chen
On 6/4/07, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Haines Brown wrote: > I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that > I've named "mirror". The script used is: > > find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirror|^/proc" | cpio -pdmuv > /media/mirror/"$1" 2>&1 | cat -vt > > Since

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Jostein Elvaker Haande
Ron Johnson wrote this at Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:40:40AM -0500 > Besides, laptops only have 1 hard drive, no? You have a few laptop vendors that has gone over to delivering machines with two drive bays, and infact two drives as well. These are usually found on high end machines, either as means t

Re: printer setup

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:04:23PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Back again. I finally have etch gnome up and running again but am still > having problems with my hp printer. I've tried using gnome desktop to setup > the printer and everything seems to be ok until I print the test page and >

Re: hwclock & /dev/rtc

2007-06-04 Thread Bob McGowan
Paul Wise wrote: Hi all, [Please CC me, I'm not subscribed] Can anyone tell me why hwclock --directisa works on this laptop (Dell Inspirion) but /dev/rtc does not (linux 2.6.21 from Debian sid)? # hwclock --directisa --show Fri Jun 1 15:36:11 2007 -0.377827 seconds # hwclock --show select()

Re: Exim delivering to local user accounts not Maildir

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:40:32AM +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: > Hi guys > > I simply can not figure this one out. I have setup Exim to use the > Maildir delivery method and NOT mbox however all my mail is being > delivered to /var/mail/user instead of /home/user/Maildir > > Has anyone experienc

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-04 Thread joe
On Monday 04 June 2007 19:01:10 Romain Francoise wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is there a way to use the Ubuntu packages from Debian with > > apt-get? > > Try adding Ubuntu sources in your sources.list and see what > happens... but I don't think it'll work. > > -- > ,''

Re: printer setup

2007-06-04 Thread Bob McGowan
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:04:23PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back again. I finally have etch gnome up and running again but am still having problems with my hp printer. I've tried using gnome desktop to setup the printer and everything seems to be ok until I

Moving from *dm to the console

2007-06-04 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Hi, During 7 years I have seen no other distro than SUSE. I think it's a pity that it is not a European distro any more. Much of its hype, its ideals and its friendly character has gone. And when its new owner went to collaborate with a company that clearly has far from noble intentions, it defini

Re: mutt question

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 05:06:16PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:09:30PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:57:31AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > > > What is the contents of your /etc/email-addresses file? > > > > I am currently

Re: Need a little help with my network configuration

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 04:34:48PM +0200, Chris wrote: > Hi, > [,...] > > Every time I boot, I have to re-enter the passphrase again, but I want it to > connect automatically at boot. I tried to set up an interface > in /etc/network/interfaces (I don't really need network-manager). But I >

Re: cannot access machine after apt-get dist-upgrade

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:43:35PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:36:45PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:03:06PM +, Robert Cates wrote: > > > I've just decided to upgrade my Sarge server to Etch, which the process > > > itself

Re: Need a little help with my network configuration

2007-06-04 Thread Chris
On Monday 04 June 2007 20:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 04:34:48PM +0200, Chris wrote: > > Hi, > > [,...] > > > Every time I boot, I have to re-enter the passphrase again, but I want it > > to connect automatically at boot. I tried to set up an interface > > in /etc/ne

Re: hwclock & /dev/rtc

2007-06-04 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/04/2007 12:54 PM, Bob McGowan wrote: Paul Wise wrote: Hi all, [Please CC me, I'm not subscribed] Can anyone tell me why hwclock --directisa works on this laptop (Dell Inspirion) but /dev/rtc does not (linux 2.6.21 from Debian sid)? # hwclock --directisa --show Fri Jun 1 15:36:11 2007

Re: Moving from *dm to the console

2007-06-04 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/04/2007 01:07 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: [...] One of my main questions now is how to log in on the console, which I prefer to using *dm, and start different window managers from there. In SUSE it goes like this: startx but in Debian this does not work. [...] I have no ~/.xinitrc,

Re: cannot access machine after apt-get dist-upgrade

2007-06-04 Thread Robert Cates
From: Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Robert Cates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: cannot access machine after apt-get dist-upgrade Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:27:43 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from murphy.debian.org ([70.103.162.31]) by bay0-mc6-f15

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-04 Thread Romain Francoise
Hi again, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does that then mean that the Ubuntu Emacs does include the docs > that Debian removes? It's a bit more complicated than that because there are several Emacs package suites in Debian: - Emacs 21 is packaged in Debian as two source packages, emacs

MySQL 4.0 (sarge) --> MySQL 5.0 (etch) -- Please do "REPAIR TABLE"

2007-06-04 Thread Jarek Buczyński
Hi I've upgrades sarge to etch. I've got problem with MySQL 5 (previously I had MySQL 4). MySQL server tells me: -- Table upgrade required. Please do "REPAIR TABLE `adresy`" to fix it! ... Version: '5.0.32-Debian_7etch1-log' socke

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Monday 04 June 2007 17:23:49 Atis, vous avez écrit : > On 6/4/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 06/03/07 22:19, Ms Linuz wrote: > > > I've been googling but haven't found any clue yet. > > > I want to hotplug my ide disk so i can put it on my computer while the > > > computer's r

Re: Moving from *dm to the console

2007-06-04 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 08:07:54PM +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Hi, > > So what is the Debian way, I wonder. Am I missing something? > > TIA, > S.H. > Well, if you don't want a display manager you could always use apt-get to remove it, and it s

Re: How to "force" Iceweasel to remember login

2007-06-04 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:45:18 -0500 Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a site I visit frequently that requires a username/password > combo. However, the text in the page doesn't trigger Iceweasel's offer > to remember the password. Is there some way to force it to store it? > > Y

Re: cannot access machine after apt-get dist-upgrade

2007-06-04 Thread Bonnel Christophe
Robert Cates a écrit : From: Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Robert Cates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: cannot access machine after apt-get dist-upgrade Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:27:43 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from murphy.debian.org ([70.103

Re: Moving from *dm to the console

2007-06-04 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Mumia W. wrote: > I have no ~/.xinitrc, and when I type "startx," the default Gnome > desktop comes up. > > You can type "startx /usr/bin/gnome-session" to get Gnome. > > If you want KDE, you can do this: "startx /usr/bin/startkde" And type "startx /usr/bin/" to start some window manager, e.g.

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/07 11:24, Andrew J. Barr wrote: On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:40:40 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With any 2.5" drive, or only drives certified by Lenovo? Any drive, any laptop. I think ACPI supports IDE hotswap. Interesting. I don't plan on getting any arrows in my back,

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/07 12:57, joe wrote: On Monday 04 June 2007 19:01:10 Romain Francoise wrote: Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Is there a way to use the Ubuntu packages from Debian with apt-get? Try adding Ubuntu sources in your sources.list and see what happens... but I don't think it'll w

Re: KMail not working under Gnome/Lenny

2007-06-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 18:28:51 +0300, Atis wrote: > Hi, > > Today i aptidude'upgraded my system, and KMail stopped working. > At first i wasn't able to send emails (it complained that can't > connect to gmail), I rebooted (today's upgrade was quite large), and > now it doesn't load at all (just h

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/07 10:51, Atis wrote: On 6/4/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 06/04/07 10:23, Atis wrote: > On 6/4/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 06/03/07 22:19, Ms Linuz wrote: >> > I've been googling but haven't found any clue yet. >> > I want to hotplug my ide disk so

Scenario of a failed upgrade - advice request

2007-06-04 Thread Felix Karpfen
This posting - sent via gmane - is my second attempt to send this posting. If the first attempt ultimately reached its intended destination, then I apologise for wasting time and bandwidth. The original message read as follows: | I have acquired a DVD set of the official release of Debian 4.0 and

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:51:42 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06/04/07 11:24, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > > Any drive, any laptop. I think ACPI supports IDE hotswap. > > Interesting. I don't plan on getting any arrows in my back, though

Re: How to "force" Iceweasel to remember login

2007-06-04 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Jun 04 14:56 -0500]: > > http://kb.mozillazine.org/User_name_and_password_not_remembered Thank you! That link was most helpful. - Nate >> -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | Successfully Microsoft Amateur radio exams; ham radio; Linux in

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/07 16:36, Andrew J. Barr wrote: On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:51:42 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 06/04/07 11:24, Andrew J. Barr wrote: Any drive, any laptop. I think ACPI supports IDE hotswap. Interesting. I don't plan on getting any arrows in my back, though! I'd feel

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:11:15 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You must not have installed Debian in a while! (That's a good > thing...) For almost 2 years (probably more), all SATA devices have > been sd. And within two more, IDE ("PA

Re: Emacs 22 for Etch

2007-06-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:29:04AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > How can I get Emacs 22 to install on etch without pinning? I can't > find a backports release. What are all the backports websites out > there? > I don't use emacs, however my search of what is in Etch leads me to believe that only emacs 2

Re: Re (3): configuring a SMC router with Debian Iceweasel

2007-06-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 08:38:22AM -0700, Easthope wrote: > Ron & anyone else who might be interested, > > On Apr 16, 8:31 pm, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you ping 192.168.123.254? > > Problem solved after a tip from SMC tech. support. > The systems which fail to connect were a

Re: hwclock & /dev/rtc

2007-06-04 Thread Paul Wise
[please CC me, I'm not subscribed] On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 13:36 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > > $ lsmod|grep rtc > > rtc12372 0 # lsmod|grep rtc rtc12760 0 I have the rtc module loaded already and hwclock only works when --directisa is used. For now I've mo

Problems with Atheros® 802.11b/g wireless-LAN in Debian Etch

2007-06-04 Thread Fernando C. Estrada
Hi! I'm new in Debian O.S., I used Ubuntu Feisty first in my Toshiba Satellite M100 SP1022 Laptop, and Ubuntu detect automatically my wireless, but in Debian Etch this not function. I used the madwifi directions and the situation is the same. Can anyone give me a tip to solve that? At the bottom,

apache+ssl

2007-06-04 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Allison wrote: OK, at one point in my life I had something working for a very brief period that looked like https. Unfortunately after a few days... it stopped. Never got it working again... I've found a number of mailing lists in search engines that talk about openssl s_client -connec

Problem with rssh and chroot() (amd64 / testing)

2007-06-04 Thread Sebastien JUST
Hi, I've got a problem configuring rssh with a chroot jail. When I try to sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get disconnected immediatly. I've used the script in /usr/share/doc/rssh/examples and configured /etc/rssh.conf like this : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log$ cat /etc/rssh.conf | grep -v "^#" logfaci

Slow web browsing redux

2007-06-04 Thread Carl Fink
So today I tried k-meleon on my XP laptop. It's like lightning. Subjectively it's 2-3 times faster than FireFox. All web searches indicate that the closest equivalents under Linux are Galeon and Epiphany. Both are enormously slower than k-meleon, and neither has the key feature of supporting FF

Problem with rssh and chroot()

2007-06-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I've got a problem configuring rssh with a chroot jail. When I try to sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get disconnected immediatly. I've used the script in /usr/share/doc/rssh/examples and configured / etc/rssh.conf like this : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log$ cat /etc/rssh.conf | grep -v "^#" logfacili

Re: Moving from *dm to the console

2007-06-04 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/04/2007 03:06 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Mumia W. wrote: I have no ~/.xinitrc, and when I type "startx," the default Gnome desktop comes up. You can type "startx /usr/bin/gnome-session" to get Gnome. If you want KDE, you can do this: "startx /usr/bin/startkde" And type "startx /usr/bi

Re: Emacs 22 for Etch

2007-06-04 Thread Deboo ^
On 6/5/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't use emacs, however my search of what is in Etch leads me to believe that only emacs 20 and 21 are available in Etch. If you can't find a backport, you can always get the source package and backport it yourself: http://people.conne

Re: Problems wi th Atheros® 802 .11b/g wireless -LAN in Debian Etch

2007-06-04 Thread Hugh Lawson
"Fernando C. Estrada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > I'm new in Debian O.S., I used Ubuntu Feisty first in my Toshiba > Satellite M100 SP1022 Laptop, and Ubuntu detect automatically my > wireless, but in Debian Etch this not function. I used the madwifi > directions and the situation is th

LNE100TX lan card detected as eth2

2007-06-04 Thread Charles Roberts
system: etch I installed a new lan card(Linksys model LNE100TX). The system detected it and installed the tulip module but the network was not working. I executed "ifconfig -a" and it showed the new lan card as eth2 ( the mac address was the new lan card) . It should have been eth0. /etc/udev/

Re: hwclock & /dev/rtc

2007-06-04 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/04/2007 06:12 PM, Paul Wise wrote: [please CC me, I'm not subscribed] On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 13:36 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: $ lsmod|grep rtc rtc12372 0 [...] No I didn't write that. Bob McGowan wrote that. Please be more careful with the attributions. -- To UNSUB

Objective data instead of subjective wooliness (was Re: Slow web browsing redux)

2007-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/07 18:36, Carl Fink wrote: So today I tried k-meleon on my XP laptop. It's like lightning. Subjectively it's 2-3 times faster than FireFox. All web searches indicate that the closest equivalents under Linux are Galeon and Epiphany. Both are enormously slower than k-meleon, and neithe

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch problems

2007-06-04 Thread Luis Hidalgo
Hi, Thanks for all of the suggestions, they were really helpful. I wasn't trying to get the X app to configure the network settings, I just wanted to monitor network traffic (as in "Oh, it's not flashing, the network is probably down" type of way). By the way, eth1 is a firewire port which was no

Re: Macromedia Flash Video

2007-06-04 Thread gustavo halperin
Andrew J. Barr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:39:56 +0300 gustavo halperin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank for your answer, but my problem isn't download the videos. I already done it. My problem is that some of the videos that I downloaded I ca

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-06-04 19:57:00 +0200, joe wrote: > If there is no Debian version of the package you are interested in > installing, then it would be wise to either switch to using Ubuntu, > or you should ask the developers to create Debian packages, or > contacting a DD for information on creating your own

Re: apache+ssl

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 07:50:14PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Tom Allison wrote: > > > >OK, at one point in my life I had something working for a very brief > >period that looked like https. > >Unfortunately after a few days... it stopped. Never got it working > >again... > > I've found a numb

console too long after stopping x

2007-06-04 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I'm using fluxbox without a dm. When I exit from fluxbox and return to the console, the text scrolls off the bottom of the screen so that the active prompt is not visible. This seems to also effect any other virtual consoles that I was logged into before starting x. Exiting from the console an

Re: cannot access machine after apt-get dist-upgrade

2007-06-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 07:16:54PM +, Robert Cates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > >On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:58:55AM +, Robert Cates > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > >> this is going to be my new server, so there's no GUI, only text mode, > >and > >> it gets all the w

Re: LNE100TX lan card detected as eth2

2007-06-04 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 21:14 -0400, Charles Roberts wrote: > system: etch > I installed a new lan card(Linksys model LNE100TX). The system detected > it and installed the tulip module but the network was not working. I > executed "ifconfig -a" and it showed the new lan card as eth2 ( the mac > ad

Re: printer setup

2007-06-04 Thread Mark Grieveson
> I've tried cups but it asks for a user name and password but does not > accept mine and I have to cancel out of cups. I assume that since I'm > not on line this option will nt work. You would need to use the root user, and the root password. Go to http://localhost:631, and, when asked, use root

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 09:34:34 +0700 "Ms Linuz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anybody here have a windows box ??? > Try it plug the ide drive while the computer's running. > Go to device manager and do some 'scan for new device'. > If the drive is formatt

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-04 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-06-05, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using fluxbox without a dm. When I exit from fluxbox and return to > the console, the text scrolls off the bottom of the screen so that the > active prompt is not visible. ... > The only things that are now changed from > defaul

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