Re: debian-newbe problems w. ssh & .profile

2003-01-19 Thread B.
Hej Oliver! I'm a newbie in Debian, too, not in LinuX in general... At 13:50 19.01.2003 +0100, you wrote: Hi folks, I just installed debian, and that´s why I installed debian, makes me trouble now;) ! I have to setup ssh, to use it with the windows TTSSH client. This only understands ssh < 1

New User

2003-05-29 Thread b
Been using 3.0 for about a week. Love it. Hard to install, but hey. :) I have 2 'easy' issues: 1. Soundcard doesn't work under KDE as user, but it does under root. (I know, don't use X as root, t'was an accident). Error Dialog: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing t

getting source

1999-11-14 Thread b-
hi, hope i'm sending this to the right person. how can i get access to the source for debian packages? specifically, i'm looking for the source for debian's "dump" package. i thought i send a note to debian before contacting the author, in case there is a standard way users can access the sourc

Re: getting source

1999-11-14 Thread b-
thanx for the information. On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: > > try adding: > > deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > deb-src ftp://ftp.pandora.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US > main contrib non-free > > to your /etc/apt/sources.list change

Intermittent virt-manager crashes

2019-09-24 Thread B
I use virt-manager to run my local KVM virtual machines. It's great, but about a year ago I started having crashes once every day or two. The app just crashes. The VMs are fine. I re-open and reconnect to my session and everything is still running, so it's incontinent but not a huge disrupti

Re: Hard disks auto-spinning-down

2019-09-30 Thread B
On 9/29/19 4:30 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: Any thoughts on where I might look to find settings that can be tweaked to make it spin down when idle? See sdparm and hdparm tools. hdparm is probably the wrong tool because it's for internal drives connected to IDE/ATA/SATA busses. The reason sdp

Re: Re: GNOME 3 Alt-Tab takes two hands now

2011-11-30 Thread B
Check out +. My initial impression is that is behaves much like our beloved + of old. It even seems to be "workspace exclusive".

Re: Problem mit dd beim Image zurücksichern

2006-01-19 Thread B
um Partitionen zu imagen und aus dem Image zu restoren. Starte 'mal partimage mit root-Rechten im Terminal! Das kommt mit all Deinen Anforderungen klar! B.

totem: audio device busy

2006-02-06 Thread B
Hej all, I have a little trouble on my laptop with the application totem: Whenever I try to open an audio file with totem (mp3, wav, wma) it gives me 'An error occured. The audio device is busy. Is another application using it?'. Other applications (rhythmbox) play without any trouble...

Screensaver doesn't open up again

2005-10-14 Thread B
Hello all, I'm using Debian Sarge on my Desktop and have a Problem: Leaving the PC alone for lunch (round about 1 hour) I use the 'lock screen' command from the 'action' menue. Coming back, I want to open the desktop again, but sometimes (every 5th time or so) neither on mouse-shaking nor on

Re: apache-php file creation question

2005-10-14 Thread B
Hej Michael, your PHP-Script runs as www-data, same as your apache does. Try the following steps: 1. write your output to /var/tmp . Every user is allowed to write there. Check if your php script really puts out. 2. chmod for the target directory. Don't change the perissions for the files

How to get an email notification every time a package is updated upstream?

2024-06-29 Thread B
My objective is to get an email notification when an update is available for a specific Debian package. It sounds simple. Something like this should already exist, right? The requirements are trivial. Yet after doing a lot of research I can't find an existing solution that doesn't have prob

Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated upstream?

2024-06-29 Thread B
On 6/29/24 9:30 PM, John Crawley wrote: rmadison will fetch data about package versions available in the Debian repositories. Its output might be usefully parsed by a script. Thank you! I totally forgot about madison. https://qa.debian.org/madison.php

Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated upstream?

2024-06-29 Thread B
On 6/29/24 7:48 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: Your Subject header includes the word "upstream". This word appears *nowhere* else in the entire email, and it completely moves the goalposts. Are you looking for notifications that a new Debian*package* has become available, or are you looking for noti

Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated upstream?

2024-06-30 Thread B
On 6/30/24 1:55 AM, Michael Kjörling wrote: I will readily admit that it doesn't immediately meet all of your criteria, but one possible venue especially if you are only interested in a few specific packages might be to point e.g. rss2email at the package events RSS feed available through trac

Re: How to get an email notification every time a package is updated

2024-06-30 Thread B
Darn and I liked your wiki. I didn't know you were a toxic. On 6/30/24 11:43 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: Can I ask why? You can. I have a funny feeling we won't get an answer. The fact that B is interested in unstable*primarily* (it's the first thing mentioned) tells us an enormous amount.

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Re: packages with configuration prompt twice

2003-02-18 Thread Daniel B.
Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:32:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > When I install packages that require configuration, each one goes > > through configuration (its sequence of questions on the console, or > > its Dialog-based menus) twice. > > All packages, or just some?

Re: packages with configuration prompt twice

2003-02-18 Thread Daniel B.
Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:32:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > When I install packages that require configuration, each one goes > > through configuration (its sequence of questions on the console, or > > its Dialog-based menus) twice. > > > > Is this normal, or do

Re: File systems -- reiser vs. ext3

2003-02-18 Thread Daniel B.
Paul Johnson wrote: > ... > My pick of ext3 was the fact that all the tools that work with ext2 > work just as readily with ext3. I was also able to convert within a > few minutes from ext2 on the command line. What do you use to convert? Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSU

Re: Mozilla/Netscape mass bookmark editing (was: More detailed post ...)

2003-02-19 Thread Daniel B.
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > ... > > (Well, when Mozilla gets the ability to edit bookmarks as well as > > Netscape Communicator 4, then I will upgrade.) > > Start moving. Does Mozilla now let one edit a bunch of bookmarks without having to close and open the bookmark properties window repeatedly?

Re: File systems -- reiser vs. ext3

2003-02-19 Thread Daniel B.
Hall Stevenson wrote: > ...(see this page, > http://www.zip.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html, for full info), etc, > ... Is anyone else having trouble accessing that page (unknown host)? Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: packages with configuration prompt twice

2003-02-19 Thread Daniel B.
Joey Hess wrote: > > Daniel B. wrote: > > All. (Everything that I've installed recently and that has interactive > > configuration has prompted twice.) > > What does 'debconf-show debconf' say? # debconf-show debconf * debconf/priority: low * debconf/f

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-19 Thread Daniel B.
Levi Waldron wrote: > > On February 13, 2003 07:28 pm, Daniel Barclay wrote: > >... > > Are you using DMA? > > ... I didn't do anything outside of a > normal stock installation to turn DMA support on or off. The Linux kernel and some IDE controllers don't work together, and can cause several f

Re: packages with configuration prompt twice

2003-02-19 Thread Daniel B.
Joey Hess wrote: > > Daniel B. wrote: > > * debconf/showold: true > > This is your problem. You should dpkg-reconfigure debconf and turn it > off. (or 'echo set debconf/showold false | debconf-communicate') Are you sure? When I run "dpkg-reconfigure

coordinated dpkg/dpkg-* documentation?

2003-02-23 Thread Daniel B.
Is there any coordinated documentation on the dpkg* family of commands, e.g., something that gives a good orientation to what commands are available and how to use them together? Chapter 6 of the Debian Reference has a lot of information but it's a bit scattered (not in a good order) and it does

Re: A bug?

2003-02-23 Thread Daniel B.
Russell Shaw wrote: > ... > Doesn't that mean that any assumptions about font and window sizes by > X apps is all wrong? Instead of 1pt being 1/72", it's more like 1/60", Actually, 1 point is always 1/72". (That's the definition of a point.) But you are absolutely correct that many assumptions a

getting gnome-session to use /etc/gnome/default.wm

2003-02-23 Thread Daniel B.
Does anyone know what it takes to get /etc/gnome/default.wm to take effect? When GNOME creates my ~/.gnome* directories, it always creates ~/.gnome/default.wm, with WM=sawfish regardless of what I put in /etc/gnome/default.wm. In the Debian-default /etc/gnome/default.session, is the line: 2,R

Re: Cd destroyed in cd drive

2003-02-24 Thread Daniel B.
James Tappin wrote: > ... The > problem of going above 52 speed is that the CD stretches of the order of 1 > track pitch at that speed Is that really a problem? (The laser tracks the actual position of the track (as opposed to its nominal or unstretched position), and the servo mechanism has to

Re: Debian SID ISOs

2003-03-21 Thread Muralikrishnan B
On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 09:30, Sharninder wrote: > is there a place from where i can ISO images for debian SID, and > does SID have kde3.1 ? I guess fsn.hu might have it. Try googling ! rgds -- mkb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

"spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7."

2003-10-19 Thread Daniel B.
Is this something I need to do something about: Oct 18 20:29:30 dsb kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. I'm running 2.4.18 with SMP (AMD Athlon MPs). Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-19 Thread Daniel B.
nquering nation or tribe. > > > > Why do people think that Europeans > > ..here we go: "Europeans"? Is "Europe" any less part of Asia than > India and China? ;-) A: Huh? How does that relate to what the previous posters wrote? B: Yes. Absolutely.

Re: "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7."

2003-10-19 Thread Daniel B.
Bob Proulx wrote: > > Daniel B. wrote: > > Is this something I need to do something about: > > Oct 18 20:29:30 dsb kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. > > Just ignore it. It basically means that you do not have anything > connected to the parallel port. That

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-19 Thread Daniel B.
John, John Hasler wrote: > > Daniel B quotes: > > > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 05:51:16 -0500, > > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >

Re: "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7."

2003-10-20 Thread Daniel B.
Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:09:35PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > > > Daniel B. wrote: > > > > Is this something I need to do something about: > > > > Oct

Re: package for bug regarding system installation and boot logo

2003-10-20 Thread Daniel B.
Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:32:19PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > What's the right package or pseudo-package to use to report a bug > > about the boot logo in a new installation? > > Is this a logo that's displayed before the kernel is loaded? No, I don't think so. It

Re: disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2003-10-20 Thread Daniel B.
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Daniel Barclay wrote: > > Is it possible to disable the boot logo from LILO (e.g., via a kernel > > boot parameter)? > > > > With vga=ask in lilo.conf, when I boot and select a video mode, it seems > > LILO changes the video mode but the kernel immediately changes the mo

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Daniel B.
Ron Johnson wrote: > > Hey, Linux is Perfect!!! You must be an Evil Windows Troll!!! > > But seriously: > > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:08, James D. Freels wrote: > > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in > > Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt

Re: [Waaaaaay OT] Grammer

2003-10-24 Thread Daniel B.
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:59:35PM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:15:30AM -0700, Tom wrote: > > >... > > > > > > Octopus is greek. The correct plural is octopuses damn it! > > > > ... so shouldn't it be 'octopedes' IIRC? Harala

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Daniel B.
"Stephen L. Scott" wrote: > > specifically - the instructions are as follows below... > ... > > top active screen: > -- > > [ctrl]+[alt]+[prnscr]copy to clipboard > [shift]+[insert] paste from clipboard - or any program paste option You mean window. Doesn't that only

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Daniel B.
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > ... > > | - You won't get the same data displayed by the graphical interface > | (which you'd [expect] it to print if it supported printing). > > Maybe, maybe not. What data is this, exactly? Whatever the graphical interface is currently set to display. (That

Re: package for bug regarding system installation and boot logo

2003-10-25 Thread Daniel B.
Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:44:53PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > > The little penguin at the top of the screen while the kernel is loading? > > >Bugs for that should be filed against "kernel", I believe. > > That is only displayed with > > Pa

Re: Using an IDE CD-writer via scsi emulation

2003-11-10 Thread Daniel B.
Derek Chew En-Hock wrote: > ... > 1) Add SCSI Emulation support by running 'modconf' and selecting the > 'ide-scsi' module > 2) Add 'append="hdc=ide-scsi"' to the correct kernel image section > under the Kernel Command line options in lilo.conf > e.g. image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > read-o

advice on using FVWM with Gnome 2.2 backport on woody

2003-09-07 Thread Daniel B.
Does anyone have any advice for using FVWM with Gnome 2.2 (on woody)? The initial problem I'm having is that something in Gnome, apparently the file manager, is creating a full-screen windows named Desktop; when I lower some other window, it disappears because it gets lowered to behind the Desktop

Re: where is netscape 4 in testing?

2003-09-07 Thread Daniel B.
Bijan Soleymani wrote: > .. > The number of websites that work in mozilla but fail in netscape 4 is > about 10 to 1 ... Huh? The number of websites that work in Mozilla but fail in Netscape 4 is one measurement. What's the other one? (You need two things to be able to say there's a 10-to-1 rati

is ${PATH} in pam_env.conf supposed to see PATH set by login.defs?

2003-09-11 Thread Daniel B.
In /etc/security/pam_env.conf, is ${PATH} supposed to "see" the value of PATH set by /etc/login.defs? If I set PATH in login.defs (using ENV_PATH=xxx) and set PATH=${PATH}:yyy in pam_env.conf, the setting from login.defs doesn't show up (PATH gets set to ":yyy"). If I remember correctly (I looke

is ${HOME} supposed to work in pam_env.conf?

2003-09-11 Thread Daniel B.
/etc/security/pam_env.conf gives an example containing ${HOME}. However, ${HOME} doesn't work (it evaluates to nothing) when invoked by logging in on a console. (This is on woody.) Is ${HOME} supposed to work in pam_env.conf? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUB

no shell login initialization when logging in with Gnome? (Gnome 2.2/woody)

2003-09-11 Thread Daniel B.
When I log in using Gnome, login-time shell initialization doesn't seem to have taken place (as if nothing invoked bash with -login). More specifically: - In gdmlogin, I select Gnome Session and log in. - I start an xterm (either from a window manager menu or from the Gnome menu bar at the top)

adsl

2003-09-12 Thread elisa . b
Dear sir or madam, I am a student doing research about ADSL i Belgium. I would like to know who are the adsl providers in belgium, what are the main regulations and how is the market in general arranged. Thank you in advance for your answer. Best regards, Elisa Cepelkova --> Created by

Re: no shell login initialization when logging in with Gnome?(Gnome 2.2/woody)

2003-09-12 Thread Daniel B.
James Strandboge wrote: > ... > This is a bug in sid right now. I am waiting for the fix to be applied > and will roll it out to the backport. Thanks. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

what is password to set mysql root user password?

2003-09-13 Thread Daniel B.
The mysql-server package says (e.g., in /usr/share/doc/mysql-server/README.Debian) to set the MySQL root user password using: /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password' However, when I try that, it asks for a password. So what is the password I need to enter to set the password?

Re: No sourcing of ~/.profile at login

2003-09-16 Thread Daniel B.
Paul Smith wrote: > > .. If you're using a graphical login manager like GDM or > XDM, then these methods of login never actually invoke a login shell, Why not? (Why shouldn't logging in via GDM execute your login-time shell initialization?) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To U

Re: No sourcing of ~/.profile at login

2003-09-18 Thread Daniel B.
Ashish Ariga wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 09:56, Daniel B. wrote: > > Paul Smith wrote: > > > > > > .. If you're using a graphical login manager like GDM or > > > XDM, then these methods of login never actually invoke a login shell, > > >

is ${PATH} in pam_env.conf supposed to see PATH set by login.defs?

2003-09-21 Thread Daniel B.
In /etc/security/pam_env.conf, is ${PATH} supposed to "see" the value of PATH set by /etc/login.defs? If I set PATH in login.defs (using ENV_PATH=xxx) and set PATH=${PATH}:yyy in pam_env.conf, the setting from login.defs doesn't show up (PATH gets set to ":yyy"). If I remember correctly (I looke

is ${HOME} supposed to work in pam_env.conf?

2003-09-21 Thread Daniel B.
/etc/security/pam_env.conf gives an example containing ${HOME}. However, ${HOME} doesn't work (it evaluates to nothing) when invoked by logging in on a console. (This is on woody.) Is ${HOME} supposed to work in pam_env.conf? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUB

Re: No sourcing of ~/.profile at login

2003-09-21 Thread Daniel B.
"Michael C." wrote: > > In linux.debian.user, Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul Smith wrote: > > > > > > .. If you're using a graphical login manager like GDM or > > > XDM, then these methods of login never actually invoke

Re: No sourcing of ~/.profile at login

2003-09-21 Thread Daniel B.
Bob Proulx wrote: > > ... And > $HOME/.xsession is a more general purpose way of doing it. Except that it's inconsistent: If you log in using different interfaces (console vs. graphical), you get different environments (without intentionally asking for differences). It also means that you h

Re: No sourcing of ~/.profile at login

2003-09-21 Thread Daniel B.
Bob Proulx wrote: > ... > When you log in at a graphics console the profile is not sourced. > The > Xsession script uses /bin/sh and does not know what shell you will be > using. Why doesn't it (or some part of the GDM/etc. login process) know your default shell the same way /bin/login knows

can kernel 2.4.21 from testing source be installed without removing 2.4.18 from woody?

2003-09-22 Thread Daniel B.
Can a kernel-image 2.4.21 package from testing (built from source) be installed on woody without removing a kernel-image 2.4.18 package from woody? It seems that: - testing's 2.4.21 kernel package depends on module-init-tools, but - testing's module-init-tools conflicts with woody's modutils,

Re: Verislime

2003-09-23 Thread Daniel B.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > > Seems like if Verisign is now hosting all NXDOMAIN domains, then they > should pay for them just like the rest of us, after all. How can we plug a certain nasty loophole that exits: If they just pay themselves, no money moves. > Anyone care to calculate how

Re: can kernel 2.4.21 from testing source be installed withoutremoving 2.4.18 from woody?

2003-09-24 Thread Daniel B.
David Z Maze wrote: > > "Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can a kernel-image 2.4.21 package from testing (built from source) be > > installed on woody without removing a kernel-image 2.4.18 package from > > woody? > > > > It se

Re: can kernel 2.4.21 from testing source be installed without removing 2.4.18 from woody?

2003-09-26 Thread Daniel B.
Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 04:10:06 +0200, Daniel B. wrote: > > > What's the newest packaged kernel that can be used on woody (without > > removing a stable kernel)? > > 2.4.22 -- just compile your own. The relevant packages: > kernel-sou

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

2003-09-30 Thread Daniel B.
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > alex wrote: > ... > > > Is there something that prevents manufacturers from clearly stating that > > a product is fully suitable for Linux? It's done for MS Windows. Is > > this some kind of legal or technical issue, or is it some kind of > > 'business arrangement'? >

kernel messages to virtual console instead of to log file/etc.

2003-09-30 Thread Daniel B.
Although I have /etc/syslog.conf set up to send most messages elsewhere, I still get messages like: EXT2-fs: Unrecognized mount option bs and EXT2-fs: blocksize too small for device. dumped directly to the current virtual console (when I'm in a text console). (This is on woody with kernel

how to build Debian 2.4.20, -21, or -22 kernel package for woody?

2003-10-01 Thread Daniel B.
What exactly do I need to do to build locally for woody a Debian kernel package based on a kernel version from testing or unstable? I've tried some combinations starting with "apt-get source", but ended up with a kernel package that requires other packages that are not in woody (and which in fact

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-10-02 Thread Daniel B.
Mike Mueller wrote: > > It seems that the safest form of information push is > unformatted text. Wouldn't it be sufficient to limit the formats to those that don't have the expressive power to command the receiver to do arbitrary things? For example, HTML can't hijack a browser (or HTM

Re: Do we really need to worry about viruses

2003-10-02 Thread Daniel B.
"Jamin W. Collins" wrote: > .." > > Aye, but you do have backups right? Are your backup locations > accessible as mounted file systems where your user has ready read/write > access to them? I would certainly hope not. Do you backups every day? Every minute? Every instant? If not, the user'

Re: Do we really need to worry about viruses

2003-10-02 Thread Daniel B.
Alan Shutko wrote: > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... > > And a click-thru virus (or is it really a trojan?) can only do > > damage to files that you have privs to touch (unless there's a bug > > in Java or JavaScript). > > ... But just saying "A virus > can't hurt a user unless i

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-10-02 Thread Daniel B.
Ron Johnson wrote: >... > > BTW what Linux email software allows users to run executable attachments by > > clicking on them? > > None, now. What exactly do you mean? Doesn't much e-mail software support opening attachments, and isn't that opening configurable (if not in the e-mail client, th

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-10-02 Thread Daniel B.
"Monique Y. Herman" wrote: > > On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 17:47:02 -0400, Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > Mike Mueller wrote: > >> > >... > > Similarly, executable formats like Java, which has a comprehensive > > security model,

Re: how to build Debian 2.4.20, -21, or -22 kernel package for woody?

2003-10-02 Thread Daniel B.
Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > > On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 02:40:09 +0200, Daniel B. wrote: > > > What exactly do I need to do to build locally for woody a Debian kernel > > package based on a kernel version from testing or unstable? > > (1) ... > (2) ... > ... Oooh.

Re: how to build Debian 2.4.20, -21, or -22 kernel package for woody?

2003-10-04 Thread Daniel B.
Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > > On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 02:40:09 +0200, Daniel B. wrote: > > > What exactly do I need to do to build locally for woody a Debian kernel > > package based on a kernel version from testing or unstable? > > (1) ... > ... > (6) ...install yo

"modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-22" when booting - what to fix?

2003-10-04 Thread Daniel B.
If modprobe is complaining: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-22 that means that the kernel doesn't know which module handles major device number 22, right? That means that whichever module is supposed to handle major device number 22 hasn't been loaded and hasn't "told" t

Re: how to build Debian 2.4.20, -21, or -22 kernel package for woody?

2003-10-05 Thread Daniel B.
I wrote: ... > > > ... to build locally for woody a Debian kernel > > > package based on a kernel version from ... unstable? ... > However, when booting, after these normal messages: ... > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET 4.0. > Journalled Block Device driver loaded > > I got th

Re: how to build Debian 2.4.20, -21, or -22 kernel package for woody?

2003-10-05 Thread Daniel B.
Bob Proulx wrote: > > Daniel B. wrote: > > Can anyone tell me what has changed in the kernel regarding initrd > > images between woody and unstable? > > Isn't the initrd built on the fly at install time by mkinitrd? > Therefore you would need to look at what

Re: how to build Debian 2.4.20, -21, or -22 kernel package for woody?

2003-10-05 Thread Daniel B.
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Daniel B. wrote: > > > Agh! Should it really be this hard to upgrade a kernel? > > > > Do you _really_ need an initrd? Not that I know of. I was just trying to do things the Debian way and consistently with the rest of my system. (M

Re: how to build Debian 2.4.20, -21, or -22 kernel package for woody?

2003-10-06 Thread Daniel B.
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > ... > > BTW, what kernel are you compiling (sorry, late to the thread) Debian's 2.4.22-2, with Debian's 2.4.22-2 k7-smp config. file. > and what IDE chipset do you have? AMD 768 (amd7441) (dual-Athlon motherboard). Of course, thanks to the still-extant, long-time

Re: man dangling symlink question

2003-10-09 Thread Daniel B.
"Monique Y. Herman" wrote: > > Subject: Re: man dangling symlink question Well, I guess that's better than "man dangling from high bridge on fraying rope" ... :-) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Tool to bounce mails

2003-10-10 Thread Daniel B.
Paul Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 12:31:08PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > I wonder what the legal ramifications are, as well as wondering how > > likely it would be that teergrubing would result in retaliation that > > would

Re: man dangling symlink question

2003-10-10 Thread Daniel B.
"Monique Y. Herman" wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 15:57 GMT, Daniel B. penned: > > "Monique Y. Herman" wrote: > >> > >> Subject: Re: man dangling symlink question > > > > Well, I guess that's better than "man dangling

Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably

2003-10-10 Thread Daniel B.
"Monique Y. Herman" wrote: > > On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 19:15 GMT, Rob Dupuis penned: > > Hi All. > > > > My one of my hard drives has a whole load of errors on it. ...> > Um, you do realize that if the hard drive is causing fsck to blow > chunks, it's because the hard drive is defective and needs

Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably

2003-10-10 Thread Daniel B.
"Monique Y. Herman" wrote: > ... > > If you already have it booted up, I believe that > tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 > will totally disable any automatic checking of the drive in the future. Doesn't that just prevent checking a filesystem that appears to be clean? Once a filesystem is known to have erro

Why "X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting." when in "script" command subshell?

2003-10-10 Thread Daniel B.
I get: X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. if I try to run "startx&" from inside subshell created by the "script" command? Why is that? (Is something about the subshell necessarily different such that startx can't run? Or is startx confused (is there a bug)?) Thanks, Danie

Re: Tool to bounce mails

2003-10-10 Thread Daniel B.
Paul Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 10:33:24AM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > > http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2001may/gee20010511005839.htm ? > > Nice logo...where's the content? What do you mea

Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably

2003-10-10 Thread Daniel B.
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Daniel B. wrote: > > The Linux kernel has had and still has a number bugs that can corrupt > > the filesystem data on an IDE disk, especially when using DMA. > >... > > Daniel > > While DMA related corruption may be the problem in

Re: Tool to bounce mails

2003-10-11 Thread Daniel B.
Paul Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:49:32AM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > > > Nice logo...where's the content? > > > > What do you mean? > > Ah, Konq 3.2 only shows the logo and a big b

Re: Lighter window managers

2002-10-21 Thread B. Yuksel
If you are looking for something tight, try BlackBox or if you are a complete minimalist, ratpoison should be just for you. - From: Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Lighter window managers "rjshaw" == rjshaw wri

Re: Lighter window managers

2002-10-21 Thread B. Yuksel
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Lance Simmons wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:04:42PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > > > I gave ratpoision and ion a try last week, and really liked them both, > > but found that when running a program like Gimp, that each window that > > Gimp brings up for toolbox, etc b

CHM and WMV files on debian ?

2002-11-11 Thread B T
Hi, Could you please tell me how I may view windows html help files (with .chm extension) and windows media video files (with .wmv extension) on my debian linux. sincerely B Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: CHM and WMV files on debian ? Thank you

2002-11-12 Thread B T
Thank you. I deeply appreciate all your replies. extract_chmlib works great. Wonder if the links (2.1) developers would be interested to incorporate this into their already awesome graphic browser. sincerely b thomas On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 09:18:15AM -0800, tony mollica wrote: > Hello. H

Permissions on a vfat partition

2003-08-22 Thread Rich B
All, I've got a dual boot laptop with Sarge & Win2k. My problem is that when I mount the fat32 partition only root can access it. Any other user account gets "Permission denied" when trying to access anything on the partition. I can't even do an "ls" as a normal user. My fstab entry currently

Your Understanding And Cooperation

2003-09-03 Thread H B
Harrison Bello Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not be apprehensive by this mail as I humbly seek YOUR PATIENCE, UNDERSTANDING and COOPERATION in regard to my below plight. Once again, do not be apprehensive considering its magnitude and the fact that we have not meet before. I am contacting

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-25 Thread Daniel B.
Andrew Pritchard wrote: > > I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen > a lot of these types of messages: > > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete Error } > Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {

Re: IDE hard disk problem...

2003-03-25 Thread Daniel B.
David Roundy wrote: > > Hello everyone. I've been getting the following error message (repeatedly, > but with different sectors): > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2620329, sector=2620256 > end_request: I/

Different install prefix for dpkg-buildpackage

2003-03-29 Thread Muralikrishnan B
How can get I dpkg-buildpackage to install the source package i'm compiling in a different path (just like ./configure --prefix=/custom/path) ? rgds --mkb -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Different install prefix for dpkg-buildpackage

2003-03-30 Thread Muralikrishnan B
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 03:12, David Z Maze wrote: > Muralikrishnan B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How can get I dpkg-buildpackage to install the source package i'm > > compiling in a different path (just like ./configure > > --prefix=/custom/path) ? >

Mozilla 1.0.2 failing to start (solution to script problem)

2003-04-01 Thread b-gomer
I'm not sure where to report this problem, but I had it and here's the solution. Mozilla was upgraded from 1.0.0 to 1.0.2 in the proposed-updates directories. However, dselect failed to modify the bash script that starts Mozilla (or I messed up the installation). Thus, nothing happened when I t

compiling xfree86 on a debian system

2003-01-03 Thread b d
should I just download the source from xfree86 and compile it as one large behemoth and not worry about trying to use packages due to the complicated nature of X? Any thoughts or help appreciated... Thanks b. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus

Problems - Upgrade to Sid from CDs

2003-01-08 Thread Muralikrishnan B
I have Debian Woody installed (with X windows & Desktop env selected thru tasksel). Now, I\'ve got an 8 CD set for Sid (fsn.hu). Removed all other entries from sources.list & did an apt-cdrom add for these 8 CDs. Now when a try apt-get dist-upgrade, it says no packages to be upgraded. when I point

Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.

1999-06-08 Thread Jim B
That also happened to me a few weeks ago while I was running Netscape. I heard my drive going nuts, and I ran df to check the free space. Well, the free space kept getting lower and lower and ... finally my machine stopped and I got a Kernel Panic. After I rebooted however, fsck found bad sector

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