Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,12.Aug.08, 08:41:47, Aniruddha wrote: > Thanks for the tip, this sounds like a good idea especially since I > don't expect the label to change that much ^^ Can I rerun e2label on a > mounted partition? The man page isn't that informative. I *think* it works, but this is your data... >

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-12 Thread Bob Cox
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:37:02 +1000, Alex Samad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:58:01AM -0700, Vwaju wrote: > > Here is my response to your helpful observations. > > > > > > I edited /etc/network/interfaces to look like this: > > > > > > > # The loopback network inter

Re: [Debian-User] Debian + non ose virtualBox

2008-08-12 Thread Philipp Hübner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey, Javier Vasquez schrieb: > Yes I did. I can see in the devices tab of virtualbox the usb > devices, but they're always grayed... I also included filters > (automatically picked BTW by virtualbox), but that doesn't help a > thing. I think the p

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:43:14AM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 11:15 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:32:04AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Tue,12.Aug.08, 01:04:00, Aniruddha wrote: > > > > Regularly my hard disk device names change ( e.g. from sdc

How do I chroot in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Aniruddha
I've used chroot numerous times with Gentoo and I wonder if this procedure differs for Debian. Here's the procedure I used with Gentoo, can I use the same procedure on a mounted Debian partition? > # cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/ > # mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc > # mount -o bind

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 18:10 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > What do you mean with 'rm /etc/blkid.tab'? > > this is where blkid stores is db of information, I have found when you > have label/uuid problems then it is good to remove this, have a look at > man blkid > Thanks! I have a look at it. -

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 10:26 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > I *think* it works, but this is your data... > > > I suspect that running update-grub isn't mandatory, I can always update > > menu.lst by hand right? > > Of course, but if you update the kernel stanza directly your changes > will be o

Re: Best fs for imapserver?

2008-08-12 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Eric Persson wrote: I'm looking to improve the performance on one of our imap-servers since its getting slow on large folders with 100k or more files in them. The imapserver is courier imap(using maildir format), and I'll hope to keep that as of now. However, I read that reiserfs was more eff

Re: How do I chroot in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Aniruddha wrote: > I've used chroot numerous times with Gentoo and I wonder if this > procedure differs for Debian. Here's the procedure I used with Gentoo, > can I use the same procedure on a mounted Debian partition? > >> # cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/ >> # mount -t proc none /mnt/gen

Re: State of 64bit desktop

2008-08-12 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 03:47:41PM +0100, kj wrote: > Is this move viable or should I rather invest in a second box (won't > come for free). I don't want to mess around with 32bit chroots - did > that before and I didn't like it one bit. I have 64-bit Debian on 2 PC's and Ubuntu-64-bit on a l

Re: problem with gnu emacs

2008-08-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-08-12 08:43:00 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-08-12 05:51 +0200, Zach Uram wrote: > > When I run emacs I see this error: > > > > emacs: /usr/local/lib/libpng12.so.0: no version information available > > (required by emacs) > > Try moving that file out of the way. In general, it is n

[OT] Cases for pcengines hardware

2008-08-12 Thread Martin
Hi, I'm looking for cases for pcengines hardware, the ones I could find can only hold the board itself (http://pcengines.ch/case1c2blk.htm) but I'm looking for something that can hold multiple disks (2.5" preferrably). As an alternative a case that is plugged in over USB and filled with a couple o

Re: How do I chroot in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 11:38 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Aniruddha wrote: > > I've used chroot numerous times with Gentoo and I wonder if this > > procedure differs for Debian. Here's the procedure I used with Gentoo, > > can I use the same procedure on a mounted Debian partition? > > > >>

How do i make debian livecd

2008-08-12 Thread darren naidoo
I want to make a live dvd with all the features. What command can i use to copy my whole hard drive. _ Sent from my phone using flurry - Get free mobile email and news at: http://www.flurry.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

How do i make debian livecd

2008-08-12 Thread darren naidoo
I want to make a live dvd with all the features. What command can i use to copy my whole hard drive. _ Sent from my phone using flurry - Get free mobile email and news at: http://www.flurry.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: State of 64bit desktop

2008-08-12 Thread Aniruddha
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:47 +0100, kj wrote: > Hi guys, > > At work I'm starting to push the limits of my RAM with MySQL/InnoDB on > my workstation (I do dev/testing on my workstation). I have 64bit > hardware, capable of taking 8gb memory. > > What I'm worried about is the tools I use. In pa

How do i make debian livecd

2008-08-12 Thread darren naidoo
I want to make a live dvd with all the features. What command can i use to copy my whole hard drive. _ Sent from my phone using flurry - Get free mobile email and news at: http://www.flurry.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: what's the best IDE for C programming in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread James Youngman
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 6:09 AM, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seeing how powerful it is, but knowing how powerful emacs is, or can > be, I wonder what emacs based tools exist for performing similarly in > emacs? A few pointers to some more powerful code tools in emacs would >

Re: How do I chroot in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Aniruddha wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 11:38 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> Aniruddha wrote: >>> I've used chroot numerous times with Gentoo and I wonder if this >>> procedure differs for Debian. Here's the procedure I used with Gentoo, >>> can I use the same procedure on a mounted Debian p

setting the system time?

2008-08-12 Thread Zach Uram
My new install of Debian 4.0 seems to have the wrong time, it says right now: Tue Aug 12 09:42:34 UTC 2008 but the correct time is: Tue Aug 12 05:42:00 EST 2008 How can I set this? I want it set once and for all so even after server reboot it shall still be correct. Thanks, Zach -- To UNSUB

Re: setting the system time?

2008-08-12 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, "Zach Uram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My new install of Debian 4.0 seems to have the wrong time, it says > right now: > > Tue Aug 12 09:42:34 UTC 2008 > > but the correct time is: > > Tue Aug 12 05:42:00 EST 2008 The time itself seems to be correct. Note that it says UTC, not EST. You ca

running CGI scripts in apache? please help

2008-08-12 Thread Zach Uram
I noticed darcsweb put the CGI file in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi /usr/share/doc/darcsweb/README.Debian says I should be able to access my darcs repo which i made in /var/ww/darcs/ by going to http://www.mydomain.org/darcsweb yet when I do nothing happens, so how do I get it to use the file in

Re: setting the system time?

2008-08-12 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 05:43 -0400, Zach Uram wrote: > My new install of Debian 4.0 seems to have the wrong time, it says right now: > > Tue Aug 12 09:42:34 UTC 2008 > > but the correct time is: > > Tue Aug 12 05:42:00 EST 2008 > > How can I set this? I want it set once and for all so even after

Re: running CGI scripts in apache? please help

2008-08-12 Thread hhding.gnu
Zach Uram wrote: I noticed darcsweb put the CGI file in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi /usr/share/doc/darcsweb/README.Debian says I should be able to access my darcs repo which i made in /var/ww/darcs/ by going to http://www.mydomain.org/darcsweb yet when I do nothing happens, so how do I get it

Problems printing PDF documents

2008-08-12 Thread andy
Hi Can anyone please help me debug this problem. I'm trying to print from computer B to a printer attached at computer A. All documents print just fine, except for PDFs. I have occasional success printing PDFs through KPDF, but no luck whatsoever using acroread. I have included the output of

Re: How do i make debian livecd

2008-08-12 Thread Luca Bruno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:25:46 -0700 (PDT) darren naidoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to make a live dvd with all the features. What command can i use to > copy my whole hard drive. > > _ > Sent from my phone using f

Re: State of 64bit desktop

2008-08-12 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:25:26AM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > How much memory do you have? 32-bit Linux support up to 64 GB of memory > and 32 processors. Only if you use a PAE-enabled kernel. In my experience it is better to use 64-bit when you have memory > 4G. Regards Johann -- Johann Spie

Re: what's the best IDE for C programming in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread mike
Have you let Emacs into your heart? Are you typing in its holy word, brother? Amen brother! Praise RMS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0

2008-08-12 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Shachar Or wrote: On Saturday 09 August 2008 08:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 11:37:47AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Shachar Or wrote: there is both a gspca-source and gspca-modules-... packages. IIRC, the spca5xx is being repla

Re: PHP on Apache

2008-08-12 Thread Shachar Or
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 09:26, Zach Uram wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's libapache-mod-php5 and libapache2-mod-php5. > > Shalom Shachar, > > Are you sure all I need to do to support PHP on my webserver is to > install libapache-mod-php5

Re: setting the system time?

2008-08-12 Thread Shachar Or
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 12:43, Zach Uram wrote: > My new install of Debian 4.0 seems to have the wrong time, it says right > now: > > Tue Aug 12 09:42:34 UTC 2008 > > but the correct time is: > > Tue Aug 12 05:42:00 EST 2008 > > How can I set this? I want it set once and for all so even after > s

Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0

2008-08-12 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue August 12 2008, Bret Busby wrote: > If I cannot run the webcam with Debian 4.0, to record videoclips, does a > converter exist for Debian 4.0, that can convert .wmv files into .mpeg > files, so that the files cam be platform independent? I did a google for linux wmv converter found lots of

Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0

2008-08-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/8/12 Bret Busby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Running m-a a-i qc-usb might have been easy, but it does not result in an > application that I can run. > > I still do not have an application that runs on Debian 4.0, that will allow > me to record video with sound, from the Logitech QuickCam Communicate

Weird font problem

2008-08-12 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
Hi all, I have a weird font problem on my new laptop: Fonts in X only work for kde4 apps, everything else (Iceweasel, openoffice, gnome in general, and kde3 apps) looks like the attached screenshot. I've already tried: - running 'fc-cache -fv' - running 'dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config' - ru

Re: System copy

2008-08-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
darren naidoo wrote: Hi i want to do a system copy of my main partition to dvd and must be bootable. Using deb 4.0r3. Have 3 primary parts and 2 logicals. Whats commands can i use? http://www.mondorescue.org/ man mondo Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/12/08 03:21, Aniruddha wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 10:26 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: I *think* it works, but this is your data... I suspect that running update-grub isn't mandatory, I can always update menu.lst by hand right? Of course, but if you update the kernel stanza directly yo

Re: setting the system time?

2008-08-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/12/08 05:18, Aniruddha wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 05:43 -0400, Zach Uram wrote: My new install of Debian 4.0 seems to have the wrong time, it says right now: Tue Aug 12 09:42:34 UTC 2008 but the correct time is: Tue Aug 12 05:42:00 EST 2008 Why isn't it EDT? How can I set this? I

Re: running CGI scripts in apache? please help

2008-08-12 Thread Star Liu
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Zach Uram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed darcsweb put the CGI file in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi > > /usr/share/doc/darcsweb/README.Debian says I should be able to access > my darcs repo which i made in /var/ww/darcs/ by going to > http://www.mydomain.org

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-08-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 02:10:07AM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TD> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:10:17PM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away. > wrote: > TD> If lynx thinks there's no color-style file, it'll construct a style from > TD> the "C

Re: setting the system time?

2008-08-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 05:43 -0400, Zach Uram wrote: > My new install of Debian 4.0 seems to have the wrong time, it says right now: > > Tue Aug 12 09:42:34 UTC 2008 > > but the correct time is: > > Tue Aug 12 05:42:00 EST 2008 > > How can I set this? I want it set once and for all so even after

Re: instabillity with eclipse on lenny

2008-08-12 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
martin wrote: Hi, I'm running eclipse (3.3 and 3.4) under debian lenny. Last week the program runned fine without any problems. This week however, the program is very instable and crash on regular basis (can be after 5 minutes sometimes). The only differers is that I have been updating my len

Re: Weird font problem

2008-08-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
Quoting "cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi all, I have a weird font problem on my new laptop: How did you install the system, did you use the "desktop" task or manual package selection? In other words, is it possible that some "standard" font packages are missing? Did you c

Re: SVN Behind Proxy

2008-08-12 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:12:35PM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: > I am trying to get some source code with SVN. My access to Internet is > behind proxy. How do I set the SVN (I use subversion package) so that > I can access the source code? > > Here's the command I should write (example) > $ svn chec

Re: SVN Behind Proxy

2008-08-12 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:12 AM, Zaki Akhmad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to get some source code with SVN. My access to Internet is > behind proxy. How do I set the SVN (I use subversion package) so that > I can access the source code? Hi. Please check the file "~/.subve

Re: SVN Behind Proxy

2008-08-12 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:12:35PM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: >> I am trying to get some source code with SVN. My access to Internet is >> behind proxy. How do I set the SVN (I use subversion package) so that >> I can access the source code? >> >> Here's the command I should

Re: Weird font problem

2008-08-12 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On 2008-08-12, you wrote: > Quoting "cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have a weird font problem on my new laptop: > > How did you install the system, did you use the "desktop" task or manual > package selection? In other words, is it possible that some "standard" > font packag

No sound problems on Intel board

2008-08-12 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sometime over the last few days I lost all sound on my system. Its an intel board - audio apps tell me they can't open the sound device, but when the system boots I hear a pop in the speakers as the drivers are loaded. here's the relevant output

Re: [OT] Cases for pcengines hardware

2008-08-12 Thread Nick Lidakis
Martin wrote: Hi, I'm looking for cases for pcengines hardware, the ones I could find can only hold the board itself (http://pcengines.ch/case1c2blk.htm) but I'm looking for something that can hold multiple disks (2.5" preferrably). As an alternative a case that is plugged in over USB and filled

Keyboard : setup AltGr+e to produce é

2008-08-12 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, I bought an Asus Eee (model 900) with Linux Xandros installed which I switched to Debian Lenny. With the Xandros I got the combination AltGr+e producing é, but no longer with Debian (same with á ..etc.. present on the Asus Eee keyboard UK model). How can I setup this combination ? Sho

Re: State of 64bit desktop

2008-08-12 Thread kj
Thanks for all the replies. With regards to the chroot, I tried this a few years ago when the chroot idea just came about. It was kinda messy then but don't ask me the details. It looks like things are more viable now, I'll give it a go. Just need to order another drive first. Aniruddha w

Re: How do I chroot in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 12:32 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Aniruddha wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 11:38 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > >> Aniruddha wrote: > >>> I've used chroot numerous times with Gentoo and I wonder if this > >>> procedure differs for Debian. Here's the procedure I

Re: Keyboard : setup AltGr+e to produce é

2008-08-12 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:58:53 +0200 Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I bought an Asus Eee (model 900) with Linux Xandros installed which I > switched to Debian Lenny. With the Xandros I got the combination > AltGr+e producing é, but no longer with Debian (same with á ..etc.

Re: How do I chroot in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Aniruddha wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 12:32 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> Aniruddha wrote: >>> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 11:38 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Aniruddha wrote: > I've used chroot numerous times with Gentoo and I wonder if this > procedure differs for Debian. Her

Re: chkrootkit infected ports 2881

2008-08-12 Thread Adam Hardy
s. keeling on 06/08/08 03:55, wrote: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thomas Preud'homme wrote: I don't think it's that important. chkrootkit seems a little hazardous=20 since there was a bug about chkrootkit killing a random process (in=20 fact one of its test was sending a signal to process 12

Re: chkrootkit infected ports 2881

2008-08-12 Thread Martin
Hi, On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The question is, what do I replace chkrootkit with, especially if stuff like > rkhunter's not much better? tripwire maybe? apt-cache show tripwire Description: file and directory integrity checker Tripwire is a tool th

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 07:21 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Instead, check out: > # tune2fs -L > > I added labels to mounted devices using this method. And if I'm > remembering incorrectly, then the command will hopefully return an > error message. > > -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA >

Re: TTY 1 to 6 are garbled

2008-08-12 Thread Bob McGowan
Aniruddha wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 17:07 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: I've just returned (Friday) from a week away, during which my system was shut down. On restarting, I took advantage and did an update/upgrade in single user mode, which included a reboot due to kernel upgrade. On rebooting

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/12/08 11:00, Aniruddha wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 07:21 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Instead, check out: # tune2fs -L I added labels to mounted devices using this method. And if I'm remembering incorrectly, then the command will hopefully return an error message. What is the differen

What is the best way to manage 3rd party debs?

2008-08-12 Thread Aniruddha
There are several 3rd party debs (nero, cedega, barry) I want to install. However from a security pov it doesn't seem wise to just blindly install a deb. They can overwrite existing (core) system files and possibly cause other harm. So here are some solutions I've come up with. 1 Check the content

Re: What is the best way to manage 3rd party debs?

2008-08-12 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:46:51PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > They can overwrite existing (core) system files and possibly cause other > harm. No, they can't. Not without your expressed consent... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} dpkg --force-help dpkg forcing options - control behaviour when problems fo

Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0

2008-08-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:42:11PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > Okay. > > Running m-a a-i qc-usb might have been easy, but it does not result in > an application that I can run. no. it just builds the drivers. > > I still do not have an application that runs on Debian 4.0, that will > allow m

Re: What is the best way to manage 3rd party debs?

2008-08-12 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 12:52 -0400, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:46:51PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > > They can overwrite existing (core) system files and possibly cause other > > harm. > > No, they can't. Not without your expressed consent... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} dpkg

Re: No sound problems on Intel board

2008-08-12 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 10:21 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Sometime over the last few days I lost all sound on my system. Its an > intel board - audio apps tell me they can't open the sound device, but > when the system boots I hear a

Re: Problems printing PDF documents

2008-08-12 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 11:30 +0100, andy wrote: > Hi > > Can anyone please help me debug this problem. > > I'm trying to print from computer B to a printer attached at computer A. > All documents print just fine, except for PDFs. I have occasional > success printing PDFs through KPDF, but no luc

Re: State of 64bit desktop

2008-08-12 Thread s. keeling
s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > kj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi guys, > > Not to mention other people? :-| > > > At work I'm starting to push the limits of my RAM with MySQL/InnoDB on > > my workstation (I do dev/testing on my workstation). I have 64bit > > hardware, capable of taking

Re: setting the system time?

2008-08-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Zach Uram wrote: My new install of Debian 4.0 seems to have the wrong time, it says right now: Tue Aug 12 09:42:34 UTC 2008 but the correct time is: Tue Aug 12 05:42:00 EST 2008 How can I set this? I want it set once and for all so even after server reboot it shall still be correct. I used

Re: Problems printing PDF documents

2008-08-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:30:12 +0100 andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello andy, > success printing PDFs through KPDF, but no luck whatsoever using > acroread. I have included the output of the "diagnosis" from the print You might need the cups-bsd (cupsys-bsd in Etch) package installed, if it's

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-08-12 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TD> On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 02:10:07AM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: >> thomas, i know you're awesome. & i know you're trying really hard >> to help me. for some reason, my brain is broken on this. i do not TD> You don't have to run it

Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade

2008-08-12 Thread Mark Phillips
I have a Debian testing system and I ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. I now have this problem with python and all packages that depend on python - they cannot be installed (see rhytmbox example below). Setting up python (2.5.2-1) ... running python rtupdate hooks for python2.5.

Re: setting the system time?

2008-08-12 Thread Shachar Or
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 21:09, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Zach Uram wrote: > > My new install of Debian 4.0 seems to have the wrong time, it says right > > now: > > > > Tue Aug 12 09:42:34 UTC 2008 > > > > but the correct time is: > > > > Tue Aug 12 05:42:00 EST 2008 > > > > How can I set this? I w

Re: Problems printing PDF documents

2008-08-12 Thread andy
Aniruddha wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 11:30 +0100, andy wrote: Hi Can anyone please help me debug this problem. I'm trying to print from computer B to a printer attached at computer A. All documents print just fine, except for PDFs. I have occasional success printing PDFs through KPDF, b

Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0

2008-08-12 Thread Bret Busby
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:58:15 -0700 From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0 On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:42:11PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: Okay. Runnin

Re: Problems printing PDF documents

2008-08-12 Thread andy
Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:30:12 +0100 andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello andy, success printing PDFs through KPDF, but no luck whatsoever using acroread. I have included the output of the "diagnosis" from the print You might need the cups-bsd (cupsys-bsd in Etch)

Re: Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade

2008-08-12 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
>=20 > depend on python - they cannot be installed (see rhytmbox example >=20 > below). >=20 > =20 >=20 > Setting up python (2.5.2-1) ... >=20 > running python rtupdate hooks for python2.5... >=20 > INFO: using old version '/usr/bin/python2.3' >=20 > file does not exist: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-pac

Re: Problems printing PDF documents

2008-08-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:26:00 +0100 andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello andy, > These are up-to-date for both the Lenny (print server) and Etch > (client) machines. Well, there goes that theory. :-( -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radneve

Re: No sound problems on Intel board

2008-08-12 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:29:19 +0200 Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 10:21 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > > Sometime over the last few days I lost all sound on my system. Its > > an intel board - audio apps te

Re: Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade

2008-08-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:07:09PM -0400, Mark Phillips wrote: > I have a Debian testing system and I ran apt-get update and apt-get > > dist-upgrade. I now have this problem with python and all packages that > > depend on python - they cannot be installed (see rhytmbox example > > below). > >

Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0

2008-08-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 02:21:13AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:58:15 -0700 >> From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0 >>

Re: What is the best way to manage 3rd party debs?

2008-08-12 Thread Hubert Chathi
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:52:07 -0400, "Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:46:51PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: >> They can overwrite existing (core) system files and possibly cause >> other harm. > No, they can't. Not without your expressed consent... [...] They

RE: Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade

2008-08-12 Thread Mark Phillips
-Original Message- From: Eugene V. Lyubimkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:30 AM To: Mark Phillips Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade >=20 > depend on python - they cannot be installed (see

RE: Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade

2008-08-12 Thread Mark Phillips
I don't have a man entry for apt-file. What is it and how do I use it to solve this problem?? thanks! Mark -Original Message- From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:01 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Help...I hosed my sys

difference between NEW and Extra packages in dpkg install

2008-08-12 Thread NewDeb
Hi all, I am a Debian newbie and was wondering what is the difference between the NEW and Extra packages that are installed when dpkg -i is used. Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/difference-between-NEW-and-Extra-packages-in-dpkg-install-tp18950973p18950973.html S

Re: No sound problems on Intel board

2008-08-12 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 16:21, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Sometime over the last few days I lost all sound on my system. Its an > intel board - audio apps tell me they can't open the sound device, but > when the system boots I hear a pop i

Re: difference between NEW and Extra packages in dpkg install

2008-08-12 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
NewDeb wrote: > Hi all, > > I am a Debian newbie and was wondering what is the difference between the > NEW and Extra packages that are installed when dpkg -i is used. > > Thanks NEW packages - packages recently came to repository Extra - packages with priority extra -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin ak

Re: What is the best way to manage 3rd party debs?

2008-08-12 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 14:41 -0400, Hubert Chathi wrote: > > No, they can't. Not without your expressed consent... > [...] > > They can't, if they just use the normal Debian archive contents. > However, packages can do all sorts of things via installation scripts. > > Then again, the package

Re: difference between NEW and Extra packages in dpkg install

2008-08-12 Thread NewDeb
Thanks for replying !! So is it safe to assume that "Extra" list of packages is always a subset of the New Packages list. Thanks again, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > > NewDeb wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am a Debian newbie and was wondering what is the difference between the >> NEW and Extra pa

Re: What is the best way to manage 3rd party debs?

2008-08-12 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Aniruddha wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 14:41 -0400, Hubert Chathi wrote: >>> No, they can't. Not without your expressed consent... >> [...] >> >> They can't, if they just use the normal Debian archive contents. >> However, packages can do all sorts of things via installation scripts. >> >> T

Re: Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade

2008-08-12 Thread charlie derr
Mark Phillips wrote: I don't have a man entry for apt-file. What is it and how do I use it to solve this problem?? thanks! Mark aptitude update aptitude install apt-file apt-file update and then apt-file search filename will tell you what packages filename appears in good l

Re: difference between NEW and Extra packages in dpkg install

2008-08-12 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
NewDeb wrote: > Thanks for replying !! > So is it safe to assume that "Extra" list of packages is always a subset of > the New Packages list. No. These categories are completely different. > > Thanks again, > > Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> NewDeb wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am a Debian newb

How to find dependency information for a package ?

2008-08-12 Thread NewDeb
Hi all, I am trying to find the exhaustive list of dependencies of a particular package (For example, package tomcat5_5.0.30-12etch1_all.deb) From what I have read so far, there seem to be many ways of doing this and I tried out the following, but find that the information is different in all, s

Re: difference between NEW and Extra packages in dpkg install

2008-08-12 Thread NewDeb
Perhaps I need to understand why these 2 categories are called out separately - what is the significance of saying that to install a package A, package X, Y are "NEW"ly installed and package Z is "Extra". Is it safe to say that the list of packages which were not there before but are now "brought

Re: What is the best way to manage 3rd party debs?

2008-08-12 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 22:49 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > If 3rd party deb doesn't contain 'Replaces' field, dpkg will refuse any try > to break any > file owned by existing packages. > That sounds good, but what about a deb created by checkinstall? According to Martin Krafft this can stil

Re: What is the best way to manage 3rd party debs?

2008-08-12 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Aniruddha wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 22:49 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> If 3rd party deb doesn't contain 'Replaces' field, dpkg will refuse any try >> to break any >> file owned by existing packages. >> > > That sounds good, but what about a deb created by checkinstall? > According to

Re: [Fwd: Re: No sound problems on Intel board]

2008-08-12 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > > > Sometime over the last few days I lost all sound on my system. Its > > an intel board - audio apps tell me they can't open the sound device, > > but when the system boots I hear a pop in the speakers as the drivers > > are loaded. > > > >

Re: How to find dependency information for a package ?

2008-08-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/12/08 15:09, NewDeb wrote: Hi all, I am trying to find the exhaustive list of dependencies of a particular package (For example, package tomcat5_5.0.30-12etch1_all.deb) From what I have read so far, there seem to be many ways of doing this and I tried out the following, but find that the

Re: difference between NEW and Extra packages in dpkg install

2008-08-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/12/08 14:27, NewDeb wrote: Hi all, I am a Debian newbie and was wondering what is the difference between the NEW and Extra packages that are installed when dpkg -i is used. Why are you installing with dpkg instead of apt-get or aptitude? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Do not

Re: What is the best way to manage 3rd party debs?

2008-08-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.08.12.1742 -0300]: > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 22:49 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > > If 3rd party deb doesn't contain 'Replaces' field, dpkg will > > refuse any try to break any file owned by existing packages. > > That sounds good, but what about

Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0

2008-08-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:05:11PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 02:21:13AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > >> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:58:15 -0700 > >> From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: deb

flash in lenny with iceweasel 3

2008-08-12 Thread Steve S
Hi all I'm running a freshly installed lenny (lenny beta2 netinst) + Gnome and Iceweasel 3.0.1. I have 2 questions: 1) libflashplayer.so On my old system (sarge, dist-upgraded to testing), I had flash working with flashplugin-nonfree. I did some research (including the last flash-related thread

Configure error

2008-08-12 Thread Oscar Corte
Hi all I'm receiving the next error message upon executing configure on a MySQL source distribution. checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check See `config.log' for more details. I'll appreciate any hints in order to kn

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