Re: please help, destroyed ext3 root partition

2009-04-02 Thread orange
well, I figured it out myself.. here is menu.lst entry for winxp that works fine here in case someone needs it: title Microsoft Windows XP Professional rootnoverify (hd1,0) map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader +1 I suspect the 'makeactive' command might have something to d

Re: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.

2009-04-02 Thread Nhadie
Hi, You simply need to edit the file: /etc/network/interfaces Although, from the IP address you provided i'm not sure how it can reach your gateway, coz looking at it, seems like IP and Gateway are not on the same subnet. Regards, Ron hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've a host which

Re: No Sound after Experiment with KDE4

2009-04-02 Thread Mitja Podreka
Kent West wrote: I had a perfectly working Debian Sid/KDE3 box. Then I added experimental to my sources.list file and installed enough KDE4 stuff to play with it for a day or so. If I recall correctly, sound worked for the first few hours, but by the time I got tired of KDE4, I noticed sound

Re[2]: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.

2009-04-02 Thread hongyi . zhao
On Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 14:00, a...@samad.com.au wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:41:44PM +0800, hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've a host which has windowsxp installed on it and has the following >> ip configurations: >> >> - >> Ph

Re: acroread issue

2009-04-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:26:06 +0800 Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello Jerome, > acroread-debian-files 0.0.32 Hasn't fixed the problem for me. Weirder still. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" It's becoming an obsession

Re: No Sound after Experiment with KDE4

2009-04-02 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 31 Mar 2009, Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Kent West wrote: > >> > > > > Okay, so as no one has provided any hints as to where to go, the > > only thing left is to try alsaconf. I had something like this a few months ago. It might have been kde4 issues, or not, I don't quit

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,02.Apr.09, 11:32:26, Bret Busby wrote: Search for PAE for more info if you are interested. Personally, I think you would be better off finding a 64-bit Xeon for that machine (http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12028_div/12028_div.html lists it as an

Re: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.

2009-04-02 Thread Hongyi Zhao
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:20:09 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: >The config file you need is /etc/network/interfaces. Mine is: > >$ cat /etc/network/interfaces | grep -v \# > >auto lo >iface lo inet loopback > >allow-hotplug eth0 >iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.1.10 > netmask 255.25

Re: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.

2009-04-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,02.Apr.09, 15:25:46, Hongyi Zhao wrote: > This is _NOT_ my case. I mean, in my case, the IP and Gateway are not > on the same subnet. In this case, I must also add some route in order > to send the packet from my host the Gateway first but I don't know how > to do it. 'man route' should

Re: fetchmail and DNS resolution

2009-04-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 Apr 2009, Mike McClain wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 11:38:40PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 01:29:31PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > > I lost a hard drive and am attempting to restore it. > > > In a new bare installation of Sarge I can browse the web > > >

Re: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.

2009-04-02 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 02.04.2009 at 12:41 +0800, hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: > - > Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1B-FC-2E-2B-6C > Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No > IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 210.73.34.32 > Subnet Mask

Re: acroread issue

2009-04-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 07:56:02 +0100 Brad Rogers wrote: Hello Brad, Replying to my own post; > > acroread-debian-files 0.0.32 > Hasn't fixed the problem for me. Weirder still. Christian told me to edit (as root or sudo) /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/AcroVersion and change 8.1.3 to 8.1.4 All no

Re: acroread issue

2009-04-02 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi Brad ! You may say it to Christian Marillat: debian-multimedia.org Brad Rogers wrote: On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:26:06 +0800 Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello Jerome, acroread-debian-files 0.0.32 Hasn't fixed the problem for me. Weirder still. -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_ne

Re: install daemon without starting it

2009-04-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
>> is it possible to install a daemon from a Debian package without having >> it automatically started afterwards? At the risk of starting a holy war, and kind of highjaking, shouldn't Debian *not* start just-installed daemons by default? Or at least ask while installing if such daemon is to be st

Re: acroread issue

2009-04-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 07:56:02 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:26:06 +0800 > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Hello Jerome, > > > acroread-debian-files 0.0.32 > > Hasn't fixed the problem for me. Weirder still. I had the same problem as initially reported in this thread by Marcelo

Re: install daemon without starting it

2009-04-02 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/4/2 Nuno Magalhães : >>> is it possible to install a daemon from a Debian package without having >>> it automatically started afterwards? > > At the risk of starting a holy war, and kind of highjaking, shouldn't > Debian *not* start just-installed daemons by default? Or at least ask > while in

Re[2]: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.

2009-04-02 Thread hongyi . zhao
On Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 16:10, da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk wrote: > On Thursday, 02.04.2009 at 12:41 +0800, hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: >> - >> Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1B-FC-2E-2B-6C >> Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No >> I

Re: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.

2009-04-02 Thread Alex
hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 16:10, da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk wrote: > >> On Thursday, 02.04.2009 at 12:41 +0800, hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: >> > > >>> - >>> Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1B-FC-2E-2B-6C >>>

Re: install daemon without starting it

2009-04-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,02.Apr.09, 09:26:56, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > >> is it possible to install a daemon from a Debian package without having > >> it automatically started afterwards? > > At the risk of starting a holy war, and kind of highjaking, shouldn't > Debian *not* start just-installed daemons by default?

Re[2]: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.

2009-04-02 Thread hongyi . zhao
On Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 17:18, trace.localh...@gmail.com wrote: > hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 16:10, da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk wrote: >> >>> On Thursday, 02.04.2009 at 12:41 +0800, hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >> >> --

Re: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.

2009-04-02 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 02.04.2009 at 17:40 +0800, hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: > > Can you run a traceroute and reply back with the results? > > C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>tracert www.google.cn > > Tracing route to google.cn [203.208.33.100] > over a maximum of 30 hops: > > 1<1 ms<

Re[2]: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.

2009-04-02 Thread hongyi . zhao
On Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 17:54, da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk wrote: > On Thursday, 02.04.2009 at 17:40 +0800, hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: >> > Can you run a traceroute and reply back with the results? >> >> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>tracert www.google.cn >> >> Tracing route to google.c

Re: acroread issue

2009-04-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:43:10 +0800 Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello Jerome, > You may say it to Christian Marillat: > debian-multimedia.org You may have noticed (in another message from me) that I did, and he told me the fix. Very quick response I got. I'm a happy bunny now. :-) -- Regards _

.Xresources problem

2009-04-02 Thread Kybernetiker
I have Debian Lenny basic system with X Window, Ice WM, and xdm installed. When I try to configure Xterm, X.org seems to ignore the "~/.Xresources" file. The command xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources doesn't do any good. I also tried creating .xinitrc file with the entry xrdb -load $HOME/.Xresources

Re: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.

2009-04-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 06:02:05PM +0800, hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 17:54, da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk wrote: > > On Thursday, 02.04.2009 at 17:40 +0800, hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: > [snip] > > specified somewhere. > > > What does "route print" give you from Win XP?

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-02 Thread Justin The Cynical
Andrei Popescu wrote: *snip* The one starting with "Personally, I think..." and ends with enumerating compatibility issues with some other OSes? My point was that PAE isn't exactly the best idea out there, there are known issues with it (the list of other operating systems and environments

Re[2]: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.

2009-04-02 Thread hongyi . zhao
On Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 18:12, a...@samad.com.au wrote: [snip] > do you have a vpn up it looks like a point to point setup very strange. To be frankly, I cann't see the infrastructure of this network considering that I'm not the network admin of my institute. I post my issue here

Re: .Xresources problem

2009-04-02 Thread Thorny
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:54:57 +0300, Kybernetiker posted: > I have Debian Lenny basic system with X Window, Ice WM, and xdm installed. > When I try to configure Xterm, X.org seems to ignore the "~/.Xresources" > file. > > The command xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources doesn't do any good. > > I also tried

Re: acroread issue

2009-04-02 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi Alex, 2009/4/1 Alex Samad : > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 08:10:02AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: >> Hello Jerome, >> >> I installed acroread-debian-files 0.0.32 from debian-multimedia.org, >> and now acroread is working. Many thanks! > > any reason not to use evince ? > I would love to use e

Re[2]: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.

2009-04-02 Thread hongyi . zhao
On Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 19:05, trace.localh...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] > Show us your arp table too C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>arp -a Interface: 210.73.34.32 --- 0x2 Internet Address Physical Address Type 159.226.135.129 00-0b-fd-50-52-80 dynamic --

Re: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.

2009-04-02 Thread Alex
hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 18:12, a...@samad.com.au wrote: > > [snip] > > >> do you have a vpn up it looks like a point to point setup very strange. >> > > To be frankly, I cann't see the infrastructure of this network > considering that I'm not the

Re: question about grub-install

2009-04-02 Thread Thorny
[...] > And why does it say > "install GRUB images under the directory ..."? > > Isn't it installing something in the MBR? Not is a directory? Or do I > *really* misunderstand what grub-install does? What is a "GRUB image"? Or > am I parsing this incorrectly? > In the documentation that you are

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Justin The Cynical wrote: Question was can it be done with a machine that has 32bit processors. Answer was yes it can be done with a bigmem kernel, but there are potential compatibility problems, here are a few other major operating systems and environments that have pr

Re: firmware-linux

2009-04-02 Thread Thorny
[...] > Testing is pretty darn manageable, even for those of us who aren't > compiling our own kernels. No offence meant, but you might want to > recalibrate your ideas about the expertise required to run it. > I hear your opinion, however, from my experience with questions that have been asked o

problem with chmod

2009-04-02 Thread Bret Busby
I have created a new data partition for a Ubuntu/Debian dual boot system, using gparted from the Debian 4 installation. Now I have to figure out how to make the new data partition accessible. chmod (from the Debian system) seems to be designed to frustrate. it used to be that using a syntax

Re: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.

2009-04-02 Thread Alex
hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 19:05, trace.localh...@gmail.com wrote: > > [snip] > > >> Show us your arp table too >> > > C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>arp -a > > Interface: 210.73.34.32 --- 0x2 > Internet Address Physical Address Type >

Re: acroread issue

2009-04-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 07:56:02 +0100 Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:26:06 +0800 > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Hello Jerome, > > > acroread-debian-files 0.0.32 > > Hasn't fixed the problem for me. Weirder still. > Check the acrobat version. Not sure if it's in experimental but appran

Re: problem with chmod

2009-04-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 07:55:59PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > I have created a new data partition for a Ubuntu/Debian dual boot > system, using gparted from the Debian 4 installation. > [snip] > " > chmod 777 /data I think when you use octects you have to prefix with 0 so try chmod 0777 /dat

Re: problem with chmod

2009-04-02 Thread Alex
Bret Busby wrote: > > I have created a new data partition for a Ubuntu/Debian dual boot > system, using gparted from the Debian 4 installation. > > Now I have to figure out how to make the new data partition accessible. > > chmod (from the Debian system) seems to be designed to frustrate. > > it us

side-by-side display of two files with latex

2009-04-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
I need to typeset a document in which a pair of files are displayed side-by-side, each in its own column, so that the reader easily may compare the two files. The problem is that each file spans several pages; so the left column of each page must be a continuation of the left column of the pre

Re: ext3 external journal

2009-04-02 Thread Felix Resch
Hi, today i realised that tune2fs is able to change the uuid of the journal (partition/fs?) so i was able to fsck the volume and i am looking forward to get it back online within the day. Thouh i am still unclear about the semantics of the 'force' flag of tune2fs. Any hints? greets Felix Resch

Re: acroread issue

2009-04-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 15:07:21 +0300 Micha Feigin wrote: Hello Micha, > Check the acrobat version. Not sure if it's in experimental but > appranly acroread-data Thanks Micha, already done, as you may have seen elsewhere. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is /

Re: problem with chmod

2009-04-02 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Bret Busby wrote: > I have created a new data partition for a Ubuntu/Debian dual boot > system, using gparted from the Debian 4 installation. > > Now I have to figure out how to make the new data partition accessible. > > chmod (from the Debian system) seems to be designed to frustrate. > > it use

Re: .Xresources problem

2009-04-02 Thread Marc Auslander
xrdb -query to see what you actually have. if there are NO X clients, the resource data base is reset. so you have to make sure there is a long running X client before you try to set the resources. finally, I don't think XTerm is the right name. IIRC, its Xterm for the class, and xterm for the p

Re: problem with chmod

2009-04-02 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > > I know that is how the syntax used to be, because I remember a person (on a > UNIX system) losing his account, when he accidentally entered > chmod . > , which changed his . file permissions to zero, and not even the sysadmin > could save his

mondo/mindi failure

2009-04-02 Thread Gregory Guthrie
After an upgrade to lenny, Mondo backup fails. I get the message: Calling MINDI to create boot+data disks Your boot loader is GRUB and it boots from /dev/hda /var/tmp.mondo.12739/tmp.mondo.30564 Mindi failed to create your boot+data disks. ---promptpopup---1--- Fatal error. Debian kernel package k

Re: .Xresources problem

2009-04-02 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 08:56:12AM EDT, Marc Auslander wrote: > finally, I don't think XTerm is the right name. IIRC, its Xterm for > the class, and xterm for the program. The class name is XTerm.. as with many X clients whose name starts with the letter 'x' (but not all .. xpdf for instance).

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-02 Thread Justin The Cynical
Bret Busby wrote: And, from that, and, the material that has so far been posted, my understanding is: 1. the original poster actually has 4 x 64 bit CPU's in his server that he was asking about, and 2. the response above indicates that yes, 4G (and maybe more) RAM can be used with 32 bit CPU's

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread Joey L
> > > make-kpkg -rfakeroot --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image > sudo dpkg -i ../linux-image-2.6.29custom1.0_deb > > Maybe that should sort things out. Let me know if you face further > problems. > Sorry - i tried to run that command but it gave an error - something that rfakeroot is

acroread, ERROR: Cannot find installation directory.

2009-04-02 Thread H.S.
Hello, Since last few days at least, I am getting this error when I try to start acroread: $> acroread ERROR: Cannot find installation directory. This is on Debian Testing, fully updated, and acroread 8.1.3-0.0. I have taken a look at the other current thread on acroread, I am sure if this is t

Re: install daemon without starting it

2009-04-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, Apr 02 2009, Nuno Magalhães wrote: >>> is it possible to install a daemon from a Debian package without having >>> it automatically started afterwards? > > At the risk of starting a holy war, and kind of highjaking, shouldn't > Debian *not* start just-installed daemons by default? Or at le

Re: install daemon without starting it

2009-04-02 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 02.04.2009 at 10:12 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > At the risk of starting a holy war, and kind of highjaking, > > shouldn't Debian *not* start just-installed daemons by default? Or > > at least ask while installing if such daemon is to be started > > automatically (like sshd does

Re: acroread, ERROR: Cannot find installation directory.

2009-04-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:07:10 -0400 "H.S." wrote: Hello H.S., > $> acroread > ERROR: Cannot find installation directory. Exactly the same error as I got. After upgrading the acroread-debian-files to version 0.0.32, I had to change (as root or sudo) /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/AcroVersion to

Re: No Sound after Experiment with KDE4

2009-04-02 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: Okay, so as no one has provided any hints as to where to go, the only thing left is to try alsaconf. But from what I've been able to ascertain, alsaconf is considered poorly-written and poorly-maintained by the Debian developers, and he

Re: .Xresources problem

2009-04-02 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:54 +0300 Kybernetiker wrote: > I have Debian Lenny basic system with X Window, Ice WM, and xdm > installed. When I try to configure Xterm, X.org seems to ignore the > "~/.Xresources" file. > The file "~/.Xresources" contains the only line: > > XTerm*font: -*-terminus-*-*-

Re: acroread, ERROR: Cannot find installation directory.

2009-04-02 Thread H.S.
Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:07:10 -0400 > "H.S." wrote: > > Hello H.S., > >> $> acroread >> ERROR: Cannot find installation directory. > > Exactly the same error as I got. After upgrading the > acroread-debian-files to version 0.0.32, I had to change (as root or > sudo) /usr/

Re: problem with chmod

2009-04-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Alex Samad wrote: On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 07:55:59PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: I have created a new data partition for a Ubuntu/Debian dual boot system, using gparted from the Debian 4 installation. [snip] " chmod 777 /data I think when you use octects you have to pr

Re: install daemon without starting it

2009-04-02 Thread Jukka Salmi
Sven Joachim --> debian-user (2009-04-01 18:07:34 +0200): > On 2009-04-01 17:23 +0200, Jukka Salmi wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > is it possible to install a daemon from a Debian package without having > > it automatically started afterwards? > > Temporarily create an executable /usr/sbin/policy-rc.

Re: acroread, ERROR: Cannot find installation directory.

2009-04-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:07:10 -0400 "H.S." wrote: > Hello, > > Since last few days at least, I am getting this error when I try to > start acroread: > > $> acroread > ERROR: Cannot find installation directory. > > > This is on Debian Testing, fully updated, and acroread 8.1.3-0.0. I have > tak

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread thveillon.debian
Joey L a écrit : > > make-kpkg -rfakeroot --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image > sudo dpkg -i ../linux-image-2.6.29custom1.0_deb > > Maybe that should sort things out. Let me know if you face further > problems. > > > > > Sorry - i tried to run that command but it g

Re: problem with chmod

2009-04-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: If I use the format above, no error is returned; it just doesn't do anything. " chmod 777 /data You're changing the permissions of the directory... bretnewworkstation:~# ls -l /data total 16 drwx-- 2 root root 16384 2009-04-02 17:34 lost+

Re: problem with chmod

2009-04-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Bret Busby wrote: I know that is how the syntax used to be, because I remember a person (on a UNIX system) losing his account, when he accidentally entered chmod . , which changed his . file permissions to zero, a

Re: usb drive (ntfs file system) not mounted automatically in debian 5.0 lenny

2009-04-02 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Jonatán Guadamuz Espinoza wrote: El mié, 01-04-2009 a las 07:09 -0800, Vivek Sahukar escribió: I have debian 5.0 lenny installed on my laptop; with windows xp service pack 2 installed in separate partitions of hard drive. my flash drive (vfat filesystem) is automatically mounted when it's pl

Re: side-by-side display of two files with latex

2009-04-02 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 06:59:38AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I need to typeset a document in which a pair of files are displayed > side-by-side, each in its own column, so that the reader easily may > compare the two files. I don't know about latex, but perhaps mgdiff would do what you

Re: problem with chmod

2009-04-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Bret Busby wrote: >had set the permissions on the . file of his account, to 000, and, as >such, had made the . file on his account, completely inaccessible to >everyone, including the superuser, and, as the . file is the root of the >account, he had effectively made his account, totally inacc

Re: side-by-side display of two files with latex

2009-04-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Russell L. Harris wrote: I need to typeset a document in which a pair of files are displayed side-by-side, each in its own column, so that the reader easily may compare the two files. The problem is that each file spans several pages; so the left column of each page must be a continuation of

Re: acroread, ERROR: Cannot find installation directory.

2009-04-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:07:10 -0400 > "H.S." wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Since last few days at least, I am getting this error when I try to >> start acroread: >> >> $> acroread >> ERROR: Cannot find installation directory. >> >> >> This is on De

Re: mondo/mindi failure

2009-04-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Gregory Guthrie wrote: After an upgrade to lenny, Mondo backup fails. I get the message: Calling MINDI to create boot+data disks Your boot loader is GRUB and it boots from /dev/hda /var/tmp.mondo.12739/tmp.mondo.30564 Mindi failed to create your boot+data disks. ---promptpopup---1--- Fatal error

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread Joey L
> > > > > > fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version -mykernel --revision 1 > kernel-image kernel-headers > > > Change the "mykernel" string and revision number to differentiate your > builds. > > You are booting from a lvm it seems, maybe with root on lvm. Do you have > a separate /boot ? A

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Re: announcement

2009-04-02 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 23:30 +0530, Jeffrin Jose wrote: > hello all, > > I have a good news to announce. > I have started a Fundamnetal Research(as i call ) on Installers and > Builders. > > You can see the scratch work at > http://www.trueangle.org/ and > http://www.gnuresearch.com/ > All supp

Re: announcement

2009-04-02 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 18:25 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 11:30:10PM +0530, Jeffrin Jose wrote: > > hello all, > > > > I have a good news to announce. > > I have started a Fundamnetal Research(as i call ) on Installers and > > Builders. > > > > You can see the scratch wor

Re: Why no Skype packages?

2009-04-02 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Dieder Vervoort wrote: > The problem is that a lot of windoze users are using Skype. So if you want > to call them you need Skype ( if you don't have a Skype handset of course) Or you can try and convince them to use Ekiga. -- thanks for letting me change the m

Re: OT: eSATA card/chip opinions

2009-04-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 20:34, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 07:46:06PM -0700, Kelly Clowers > (kelly.clow...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> MASSCOOL PCI-e 4 port SATA2 (SIL3132 Chip) Model XWT-PCIE10 >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815280008 >> (uses sata_sil2

Re: install daemon without starting it

2009-04-02 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:12:54 -0500 Manoj Srivastava wrote: ... > There are mechanisms by which the site admin can tailor the > selection of daemons that start -- but the default should be I > installed it, and I installed it for a reason, so I want the thing > running. But perhaps I

Re: No Sound after Experiment with KDE4

2009-04-02 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 02 Apr 2009, Kent West wrote: > > Apparently my regular Debian setup is flipping a bit on the sound > circuitry itself that requires a power-off to fix. At least, that's > the way it seems to me. But I have no clue as to how to track this > down further. If you look in /etc/udev you w

USB stick two devices into one

2009-04-02 Thread Rob Gom
Hi Debian Users, I own an USB 2 GB stick. Unfortunately it is reported to system as two separate devices: [ 3151.418037] usb-storage: device found at 2 [ 3151.418041] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning [ 3156.416261] usb-storage: device scan complete [ 3156.417734] scsi 2:0:0

Re: Debian RAM supporting.

2009-04-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
> 2. the response above indicates that yes, 4G (and maybe more) RAM can be > used with 32 bit CPU's and 32 bit OS, with (what I understand to be, > basically) a software patch to allow access to the memory that lies outside > the limits of a 32 bit OS, but using that patch has its own problems, and

Re: side-by-side display of two files with latex

2009-04-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Can this be done in LaTeX? perhaps with the minipage environment? I don't think minipage will give you an easy solution. But in any case, I'd ask on comp.text.tex. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: install daemon without starting it

2009-04-02 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 02:23:38PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:12:54 -0500 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > There are mechanisms by which the site admin can tailor the > > selection of daemons that start -- but the default should be I > > installed it, and I installed it

compaq_mouse_problem

2009-04-02 Thread steef
hi list, my mother in law gave me an rather old hp_compaq evo_N115 (1 gigaherz processor) laptop. i installed lenny (stable) on it. but to my surprise my external ps2 logitech three wheel mouse does not work at all: the little arrow does not move over the screen of the compaq /etc/X11?xorg.

more aptitude confusion

2009-04-02 Thread Rick Pasotto
Today 'aptitude -s install safe-upgrade' included audacity and audacity-data. I upgraded them and now audacity doesn't work. So I go to /var/cache/apt/archives so I could downgrade to the previous version. However, the most recent .deb file is timestamped March 5 -- almost a month ago and the versi

Re: USB stick two devices into one

2009-04-02 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Rob Gom wrote: > Hi Debian Users, > I own an USB 2 GB stick. Unfortunately it is reported to system as two > separate devices: > > Is it possible to convert stick to be single device? I don't need > second one... And two windows about new device connected can be a bit > irritating... > It shoul

lvm and multiboot

2009-04-02 Thread zhang zhengquan
Hello, Debian community, I have got a 250G harddisk that I can use for a debian lenny installation. I have met with partition size problems before so this time I would use LVM. and since it will be a server so /var /srv etc will grow in size later on. at the same time I would like to have 50G left

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread Joey L
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Joey L wrote: > > >> > >> fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version -mykernel --revision 1 >> kernel-image kernel-headers >> >> >> Change the "mykernel" string and revision number to differentiate your >> builds. >> >> You are booting from a lvm it seems, may

Re: install daemon without starting it

2009-04-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
> suggesting that there can be perfectly common use cases where I want > the thing installed, and eventually even running, but not just yet, or > right now. Or not by root (e.g. mpd). Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: USB stick two devices into one

2009-04-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 2, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Rob Gom wrote: Hi Debian Users, I own an USB 2 GB stick. Unfortunately it is reported to system as two separate devices: Is it possible to convert stick to be single device? I don't need second one... And two windows about new device connected can be a bit irritatin

Re: problem with chmod

2009-04-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 09:42:38AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Bret Busby wrote: [snip] > > ... but looking at the contents of the directory. To check the > permissions on /data itself, try > > ls -l -d /data how easy it is to miss the simple things ... > [snip] -- You can't che

Re: more aptitude confusion

2009-04-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-02 21:09 +0200, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Today 'aptitude -s install safe-upgrade' included audacity and > audacity-data. I upgraded them and now audacity doesn't work. So I go to > /var/cache/apt/archives so I could downgrade to the previous version. > However, the most recent .deb file is

micropolis - shared memory extension error

2009-04-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: I just installed micropolis (the GPL-licensed version of SimCity), but when I invoke it, it reports 'Darn, X display ":0" doesn't support the shared memory extension.' Then it just sits there, frozen and unresponsive. xdpyinfo reports that MIT-SHM, which I understand IS the shared memory

Re: announcement

2009-04-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,02.Apr.09, 12:38:53, John W Foster wrote: [snip unwanted message] > Why is this on a Debian List??? Because it's spam? Please do not answer (and definitely don't quote) to messages that look like spam. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enou

Re: USB stick two devices into one

2009-04-02 Thread Rob Gom
Thanks for both suggestions. Unfortunately it's not U3 drive, but USB disk pro something. I haven't been able to find a way to remove it from my pendrive. I will try to write an udev rule, however it will work only on my system ... Regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread thveillon.debian
Joey L wrote : > Tom - thanks for the reply - > Do you think that is the issue ??? > I am running mirrored drives for /boot. I can not boot off of lvm. > I have the rest of my drives on software raid5 and i have created lvm > volume groups and put my / filesystem allong with everything else on th

Re: Apple OS X printing [solved] and zeroconf'ing problems

2009-04-02 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Ross Boylan wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 19:50 -0400, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Ross Boylan wrote: ... It sees the services. Ross Maybe your router is blocking the service. Sorry - can't think of anything else. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re : lvm and multiboot

2009-04-02 Thread Eloillaf Mhamed
- Message d'origine De : zhang zhengquan À : debian-user@lists.debian.org Envoyé le : Jeudi, 2 Avril 2009, 19h13mn 30s Objet : lvm and multiboot Hello, Debian community, I have got a 250G harddisk that I can use for a debian lenny installation. I have met with partition size problem

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread Joey L
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:22 PM, thveillon.debian < thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Joey L wrote : > > Tom - thanks for the reply - > > Do you think that is the issue ??? > > I am running mirrored drives for /boot. I can not boot off of lvm. > > I have the rest of my drives on software

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread thveillon.debian
Joey L wrote : > > Tom - thanks for the points..but need more help !! please > > I did as you said - > 1. echo -e "raid1\nmd_mod\nraid456" >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules > 2. update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.29 > > and i saw that the modules all loaded successfully. > But i still got the error that i

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread thveil...@gmail.com
thveillon.debian wrote : > > I see nothing that strikes me as odd in your conf, outside of the fact > that you only have a single user entry for your new kernel. > I think you need to add lvm mapper module to the initrd, echo dm-mod to > /etc/initramfs-tools/modules like you did for md-mod and rai

Re: problem with apt

2009-04-02 Thread Marco Vittorini Orgeas
* Long Wind [2009-04-01 09:42:23 +0800]: > When apt-get installs a package > it will install packages that the package depends > When I remove the package, the depended packages are not removed. > > Is there a command (or a way) to remove the depended packages? Try with apt-log: http://mavior.e

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-02 Thread Joey L
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:13 PM, thveil...@gmail.com wrote: > thveillon.debian wrote : > > > > I see nothing that strikes me as odd in your conf, outside of the fact > > that you only have a single user entry for your new kernel. > > I think you need to add lvm mapper module to the initrd, echo dm-

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