Re: How does Squeeze initialize PS1 ?

2010-08-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Paul! Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm debugging some bash scripts and reading the scripts that come as > part of Squeeze installation. I find several places where there are > statements the set a value from variable PS1, BUT all of them seem > to be in scripts that only get executed if PS1 is alread

autotools troubles on Squeeze

2010-08-21 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, my box is a daily updated Squeeze box: today I get trouble with autotools: I suspect that the issues come from autoconf which was upgraded recently from 2.65-4 to 2.67-2 . As I cannot really identify the misbehaviour, I would like to downgrad to autoconf 2.65-4 : where can we get the

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-21 Thread Angus Hedger
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Jangita wrote: > Hello Good people, > Questions are (without starting a "which is the best" war...) > > 1. For GUI: I've chosen GNome, any reason why I should choose otherwise? If you want a gtk+ based DE, try xfce, I find KDE a bit "flashy" for my tastes, but y

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 08. 2010 01:07:50 je Andreas Rönnquist napisal(a): On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:40:32 +0200 Jangita wrote: > Hello Good people, > > Questions are (without starting a "which is the best" war...) > > 2. Email: I've seen evolution, but I'm leaning towards thunderbird... > good or bad choice

Re: autotools troubles on Squeeze

2010-08-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:01:09 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > my box is a daily updated Squeeze box: today I get trouble with > autotools: > I suspect that the issues come from autoconf which was upgraded recently > from 2.65-4 to 2.67-2 . > As I cannot really identify the misbehaviour, I would like

Re: autotools troubles on Squeeze

2010-08-21 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks for the link: meanwhile I have begun to track the bug. I will give me some time to fix the bug before to downgrade autoconf. Jerome On 21/08/10 18:45, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:01:09 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: my box is a daily updated Squeeze box: today I get trouble

Re: konqueror media protocol not supported

2010-08-21 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:37:16 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Using Squeeze, konqueror Version 4.4.5 (KDE 4.4.5). > > If I do konqueror -> F9 -> click on "storage media" link in the left > tab, an error pops up saying "protocol not supported media" > > Anyone know how to fix that? I fairly

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 20. 08. 2010 16:01:31 je Camaleón napisal(a): I now use GNOME. I "used" KDE 3.x branch which I liked *a lot*, but switched to GNOME as soon as KDE4 entered into scene. +1 -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com Please reply to the list

Re: autotools troubles on Squeeze

2010-08-21 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, it appeared that the line AX_CFLAGS_GCC_OPTION(-std=c99) in my configure.ac files now confuses autoconf. More precisely, the equal `=` causes the confusion. Any idea how to to fix it ? Thanks in advance, Jerome On 21/08/10 19:01, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Thanks for the link: meanwhi

mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'

2010-08-21 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I am trying to mount an IDE disk from an old (broken) machine. I am using a USB adaptor. After attaching the IDE disk to the USB adaptor, I cannot do anything with the disk. dmesg reveal: [13927.196346] usb-storage: device scan complete [13927.503084] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access

Re: mount: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'

2010-08-21 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi there, > >  I am trying to mount an IDE disk from an old (broken) machine. I am > using a USB adaptor. After attaching the IDE disk to the USB adaptor, > I cannot do anything with the disk. > > dmesg reveal: > > [13927.196346] usb-stor

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:06:18PM -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 08/20/2010 12:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:08:31 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> Luckily Evolution has nothing to do with Mono. Actually, I don't know

Re: understanding kernel panic message

2010-08-21 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:36:03 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > So what does it actually mean when I get the message "kernel panic: not > syncing"? I can't seem to find a reference, in any of the obvious > places, as to what the various kernel-generated oops and panic messages > actually mean - can s

Re: understanding kernel panic message

2010-08-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:36:03 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: So what does it actually mean when I get the message "kernel panic: not syncing"? I can't seem to find a reference, in any of the obvious places, as to what the various kernel-generated oops and panic messages actuall

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-21 Thread Ingo Kasten
Am 20.08.2010 09:30, schrieb David Baron: I built this kernel for first time with new PATA rather than the old deprecated drivers. These are compiled-in, no initrd. Get cannot find block error, [2,22] or something like that. Possibilities: 1. Need to compile in VIA's driver as well. Not doing th

Re: googleearth 5.2

2010-08-21 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Friday 20 August 2010 16:48:58 hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Friday 20 August 2010 16:14:58 hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I can't get it to work on Lenny and i386, what distribution do you run? Hugo Squeeze. Did you install using googleearth-pac

Re: understanding kernel panic message

2010-08-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 08:24:19 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> Better if you upload to some place the full error log or a snapshot if >> the "panic" comes at installation time. >> >> When does the error occur? >> > The Lenny version of the Xen Hypervisor has a known bug t

Re: Send an email on . . .

2010-08-21 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/19/2010 02:06 PM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 19/08/10 vr said: > >> I've read about swatch and logwatch so far but the documentation I've >> found is older. Are these the current best tools? Or can someone point me >> at something that worked better than them that was not a full blown >>

contents of a CD (lenny) and what packages are needed for the basic (minimal) set OS

2010-08-21 Thread Vladimir
contents of a CD (lenny) and what packages are needed for the basic (minimal) set OS contents of each directory of the distribution and location of packages for a minimal installation (on CD) содержание КД (lenny) и какие пакеты нужны для базовой (минимальной ) установки содержание каждого кат

Sqeeze install: partition table not written

2010-08-21 Thread brownh
I'm restarting a query regarding a grub2 error 15 when trying to do a a boot after a netboot install of Debian squeeze from a USB-key and a boot hang when I do a netinst install from the USB-key. Thinking I needed to fix GRUB2, I booted debianLive from a usb-key, and found that I only have one par

Re: contents of a CD (lenny) and what packages are needed for the basic (minimal) set OS

2010-08-21 Thread gun_smoke
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 07:08:41PM +0400, Vladimir wrote: > contents of a CD (lenny) and what packages are needed for the basic (minimal) > set OS > You only need CD1 for a basic system. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: gdm crashes unexpectedly every now and then

2010-08-21 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:22:01 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > I've had 2 instances recently in which gdm unexpectedly crashed and > restarted. This morning, the log reported the following: (...) > Aug 20 06:33:21 tibouchina kernel: [481166.096053] > [drm:i915_gem_do_execbuffer] *ERROR* 2020 obje

Re: gdm crashes unexpectedly every now and then

2010-08-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:37:23 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:22:01 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > >> I've had 2 instances recently in which gdm unexpectedly crashed and >> restarted. This morning, the log reported the following: > > (...) > >> Aug 20 06:33:21 tibouchina kernel

Re: gdm crashes unexpectedly every now and then

2010-08-21 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Camaleon -- That certainly looks like my problem! Now for my next ignorant question: where do I go to find the kernel command line, so I can see whether it includes a "vga=" clause? I am using squeeze with all normal default options, if that helps any. -PT

Cups+gutenprint color balance shot.

2010-08-21 Thread Gary Roach
Hi; I have been doing all of my color printing on my Win2K system directly attached to an Epson stylus photo RX680 printer. All is well. I just installed a new computer on my office network that runs on linux. I am using Samba and Cups+gutenprint v5.2.5 with the Win2K/Epson printer as my netw

Re: gdm crashes unexpectedly every now and then

2010-08-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:04:32 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > Camaleon -- > > That certainly looks like my problem! Not that fast :-) I would look first at your xorg log, the cause of your X crash can be totally unrelated to the bug's one. > Now for my next ignorant > question: where do I go

Re: gdm crashes unexpectedly every now and then

2010-08-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Camaleón wrote: > Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > > Now for my next ignorant question: where do I go to find the > > kernel command line, so I can see whether it includes a "vga=" > > clause? I am using squeeze with all normal default options, if > > that helps any. > > It is located in GRUB's menu file

Re: konqueror media protocol not supported

2010-08-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Camaleón wrote: >On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:37:16 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> Using Squeeze, konqueror Version 4.4.5 (KDE 4.4.5). >> >> If I do konqueror -> F9 -> click on "storage media" link in the left >> tab, an error pops up saying "protocol not supported media" In my konqueror [

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-21 Thread David Baron
On Friday 20 August 2010 12:18:11 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > I built this kernel for first time with new PATA rather than the old > > deprecated drivers. These are compiled-in, no initrd. Get cannot find > > block error, [2,22] or something like that. > > > > > > > >

Re: autotools troubles on Squeeze

2010-08-21 Thread Alberto Luaces
Jerome BENOIT writes: > Hello List, > > it appeared that the line > > AX_CFLAGS_GCC_OPTION(-std=c99) > > in my configure.ac files now confuses autoconf. > More precisely, the equal `=` causes the confusion. > > Any idea how to to fix it ? > Try quoting it: AX_CFLAGS_GCC_OPTION([-std=c99]) -- A

Re: Cups+gutenprint color balance shot.

2010-08-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4c7008fe.6060...@verizon.net>, Gary Roach wrote: >Testing shows that switching between CYMK and RGB makes no difference. >Pure magenta, yellow and cyan print correctly. The ligh colors red, >yellow and blue print correctly but none of the other colors on the >color selector are correct. I don't

Re: Cups+gutenprint color balance shot.

2010-08-21 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:12:30AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > I have been doing all of my color printing on my Win2K system directly > attached to an Epson stylus photo RX680 printer. All is well. I just > installed a new computer on my office network that runs on linux. I am > using Samba an

Re: xpdf fonts and xresources

2010-08-21 Thread Mathias Bauer
Hi! * Andreas Goesele schrieb am Sa, 07.08.2010 um 12:51 (+0200): > for me the xpdf fonts are too small. So I changed them by putting > xpdf*fontList: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 > into .Xresources > > But this leaves the fontsize of the textareas ("Page", Search > field, pr

Re: gdm crashes unexpectedly every now and then

2010-08-21 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Camaleon -- I've looked at several of the Xorg.#.log and Xorg.#.log.old files, and no error is reported there. All that I can see, in fact, appears to be startup information, not real log information (no datestamps are present, for example). Am I looking in the wrong place? Bob -- I followed you

Re: Cups+gutenprint color balance shot.

2010-08-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:12:30 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > I have been doing all of my color printing on my Win2K system directly > attached to an Epson stylus photo RX680 printer. All is well. I just > installed a new computer on my office network that runs on linux. I am > using Samba and Cups+gute

Re: gdm crashes unexpectedly every now and then

2010-08-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:40:36 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > Camaleon -- I've looked at several of the Xorg.#.log and Xorg.#.log.old > files, and no error is reported there. All that I can see, in fact, > appears to be startup information, not real log information (no > datestamps are present, fo

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:02:26 -0400 (EDT), David Baron wrote: > > The MB of the current machine is an older "AOpen" with a VIA chipset. > The new one will be a Winsonic with Intel chipset. That has both SATA and IDE > and my current disks will be placed on the IDE as now. I don't have any first-h

Re: Cups+gutenprint color balance shot.

2010-08-21 Thread Gary Roach
Thanks for the return. The RX680 is listed as one the printers in the Cups setup program. Here is the file you requested. # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.4.4 # Written by cupsd # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS RUNNING Info Epson Stylus Photo RX680 Location Here MakeModel Epson Sty

Re: gdm crashes unexpectedly every now and then

2010-08-21 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Camaleon -- OK, I've posted a concatenation of the last 3 Xorg log files to http://pastebin.com/eXhSQyEL . I'm pretty sure that the last one of the 3 (Xorg.20.log) was the one which was in use at the time of the problem, the next-most-recent (Xorg.0.log.old) was the one which started at that time

Re: Cups+gutenprint color balance shot.

2010-08-21 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 02:23:22PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > Thanks for the return. > > The RX680 is listed as one the printers in the Cups setup program. > > Here is the file you requested. > # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.4.4 > # Written by cupsd > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS

Re: gdm crashes unexpectedly every now and then

2010-08-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:29:32 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > Camaleon -- > > OK, I've posted a concatenation of the last 3 Xorg log files to > http://pastebin.com/eXhSQyEL . Thanks! :-) > I'm pretty sure that the last one of the > 3 (Xorg.20.log) was the one which was in use at the time of th

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-21 Thread Scarletdown
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 20. 08. 2010 16:01:31 je Camaleón napisal(a): >> >> I now use GNOME. I "used" KDE 3.x branch which I liked *a lot*, but >> switched to GNOME as soon as KDE4 entered into scene. >> > > +1 > I dropped KDE myself after 4 was foisted on us. Aft

what is the difference between w95 FAT32 and w95 FAT32 (LBA)

2010-08-21 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
While running cfdisk, it lists various file system types. Is there a document which explains the difference between similar file systems? In particular, if I want to have a windows XP type of filesystem, do I go with "07 HPFS/NTFS" or "86 NTFS volume set" or "87 NTFS volume set"? Similarly, If

kvm Vs qemu-kvm Vs qemu -enable-kvm

2010-08-21 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi all, I could not google out and get an effective information on what is the difference between the above. Can someone explain me please ? I am talking here about the user space application only and not the kernel module or kqemu. I can see kvm is supplied by the kvm developer site whi

Re: kvm Vs qemu-kvm Vs qemu -enable-kvm

2010-08-21 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 8/21/10, Bhasker C V wrote: > Hi all, > > I could not google out and get an effective information on what is the > difference between the above. Can someone explain me please ? > > I am talking here about the user space application only and not the > kernel module or kqemu. > > I can see

Re: what is the difference between w95 FAT32 and w95 FAT32 (LBA)

2010-08-21 Thread Memnon Anon
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi writes: > While running cfdisk, it lists various file system types. Is there a > document which explains the difference between similar file systems? [...] > Similarly, If I want to create FAT32 partition so that I can exchange files > between windows and Linux, should I

Re: what is the difference between w95 FAT32 and w95 FAT32 (LBA)

2010-08-21 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Memnon Anon wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi writes: > >> While running cfdisk, it lists various file system types. Is there a >> document which explains the difference between similar file systems? > [...] >> Similarly, If I want to create FAT32 partition so that I can exchange >> files between w