dpkg needing to allocate 700MB of memory?

t;by hand", but the result was the same. Yeah, nasty thing to do.. but I'm freaking out, you know? ;-) Is anybody else going through this? I didn't find any bugreports nor related messages in debian-dpkg, and I'm starting to guess there could be something b0rked on my disk a

[solved] Re: dpkg needing to allocate 700MB of memory?

Cristian Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Hi all. I hope you can give me a clue about this: > >I got stuck trying to upgrade a package with apt, and then trying to do >it with the downloaded package, with dpkg: > >/usr/bin/dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/wajig_

Re: dpkg needing to allocate 700MB of memory?

Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:14:52PM -0300, Cristian Gutierrez said >>I even tried downloading 1.10.18 (.17 was on my system, an unstable >>one, BTW), unpacking it and installing it "by hand", but the result >>was the sa

Re: Xawtv

. :-) http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200309/msg02929.html Also, there should be a way to find the parameters Koppix sets up for the different modules loaded. If you can get bttv's parameters, you should be done. Greetings, -- Cristian Gutierrez http

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

c. It could be some [weird] cron job or something. Try this to obtain top's snapshots to a file in background while playing: $ top -b -d 10 > top.txt & $ nifty-game After some 40 secs os sluggishness, exit the game, kill top ("pkill top") and check top.txt. Lo

Re: ssh + X11

t; and "bgr233" parameters if your connection is too slow. I hope this helps you. ... y Feliz Dieciocho! :-D -- Cristian Gutierrez Linux user #298162 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier `Naturally, a sysadmin's entire per

Re: Need help watching TV in Linux

ferent frequencies, so I >can't tune both well at the same time. Has anyone had this problem >also? (For people in Spain, this happens to me with La Primera, La >Segunda and some others). Que si me ha pasado? Esos canales no llegan a sudamerica aun... ;-) Saludos! -- Cristian Gu

Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc

rom one of the debian servers and use zgrep to see what package >owns what file. I did "apt-get install wajig", and now I'm able to do: wajig whichpkg some_file It has a lot of other options. I found it when I looker for a way to check the integrity of installed packages. "waj

Re: strange xawtv problem...

ut stream: 303 > >As a workaround, disable the GLX extension in your XF86Config. I have >the same problem on one of my machines and haven't found another way >around this so far. Or try: $ xawtv -nogl If that works, you could still do some tuxracing ;-) -- Cristian Gutierr

Re: Hi, how can I add a key map to show the desktop undergnome&sawfish?? Thanks

form *arbitrary actions* (nice!, I have gamma, vol and keyboard ratio controlled this way). Hope this helps! -- Cristian Gutierrez Linux user #298162 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier There is no mechanical problem so difficult that

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

ere bug reporting/fixing (although it's my duty to encourage you to do so ;-) >Just my thoughts --> lemme know if I'm way off base. I've just tried... :o) -- Cristian Gutierrez Linux user #298162 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dcc.uc

Re: emacs -nw and emacsclient

and the buffers are still alive when I get home again. This even works for "collaborative editing", without restorting to screen and under X. -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier [EMAIL PROTECTED]Jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: passwordless ssh-login

use your ~/.ssh/options to save yourself >typing if you're often logging in to multiple machines with different >usernames on each by using "nicknames" for each remote account. [...] At least on my (sid) system, it's ~/.ssh/config. And thanks a lot. That was useful

Re: ssh & X11 Authentication Issue - Advice Please

n', you could also try starting a new sshd process listening in verbose-mode in some other port, and look for more clues there. HTH, -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier [EMAIL PROTECTED]Jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "As

Re: ssh & X11 Authentication Issue - Advice Please

logs of connection attempts to A and B (note: server logs, you'll need superuser privileges for this) >X11 forwarding is not the problem, this is for X... correct ? the >authentication issue.. that is bothering me is the password >prompting.. That would be key related .. ?

Re: ssh & X11 Authentication Issue - Advice Please

entication because of this directory (and private keys inside) not being chmod'ed 600. HTH, -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier [EMAIL PROTECTED]Jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "355/113 -- Not the famous irrational number P

Re: Webcam

Error log for Damon L. Chesser; dumped on Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 02:52:25PM -0600: > I would like to buy a digital cam that can also be a web cam. Nothing > to fancy, just a decent camera. Any sugestions? I use Libranet (deb > based) and debian, testing. Yup. Stay away from "Logitech ClickSmart

Re: adding an attatchment using the mail command?

mutt -a some_file -a other_file ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] < mesage_body.txt and works pretty good :-) -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier [EMAIL PROTECTED]Jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] the premature program optimization is the root of all evils

Re: Documentation and Usability

opy-pasteable error messages in some dialog boxes, the possibly missing display elements, etc. Some of the questions and answers in MSW-related forums and newsgroups involve a lot of imagination regarding to screen navigation and iconography. In Linux(should I say Unix?)-land almost anything is a cut-

Re: Documentation and Usability

very sad compared to the kind of interaction you can have, with the owners of the very fingers who wrote the software you're using. That's what the users can do when they're only spectators, I guess... -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier [EM

Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck

with C-g (unlike before, when it seemed to be doing all the hard work with its "utterly efficient" elisp file handling routines, and listening to noone meanwhile ;-) Well, I hope you save me the kicking. My gonads need some rest. -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.

Re: voodoo3 direct rendering.

accelerates when using 16 bpp. And since XFree 4.3, up to 1024x768 only (since it has 16MB and higher resolutions caused crashes). Do your settings comply to that? -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier [EMAIL PROTECTED]Jabber:[EMA

Re: vim and emacs together

y piece of cake. Is there are solution for it ? Yes, and it's called M-x viper-mode :-) -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier [EMAIL PROTECTED]Jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Multitasking /adj./ 3 PCs and a chair with wheels !&qu

Re: OT: Praise of KDE3.2 and Sid's X

Kent West wrote: [...] > Ah-h. In the world of Debian, upgrades just make things better. So > much better than those upgrades in the world of *. So much > better. You were doing so well until... you named it. Ha! -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.

Re: sftp sources?

ssh. Say, they have ssh access to host X where X is outside their university network and can use a proxy on Y:8000 (Y could be X itself). Now they can forward their localhost:8000 to Y:8000 ssh'ing through X, and set APT to use localhost:8000 as a proxy. -- Cristian Gutierrez

Re: Better program than Putty?

gets "alt-enter fullscreen mode" ported to the unix version, I'm sold! [ That's the only bit I enjoy on a Win* system: a fast, configurable 80x24 VT even with nice antialiased fonts :-) ] Uh, and I was recently told that TeraTerm can set up ssh tunnels "dynamicly&qu

Re: Better program than Putty?

or x-terminals like gnome-terminal and others. I suppose the goal is to have a KDE-based one, and as such it should re-implement the form with KDE widgets. (yes, I like dashes) -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Taking notes

way to be able to post-process lists, items and other stuff on you notes, you could use some tags (like [IMPORTANT], [CONCLUSION], etc.) to look for them with grep or other standard tools. HTH, -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?

e same time thinking "It would be so neat WindowMaker had this feature... but I don't think so, pity me...". Thanks! :-) -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier [EMAIL PROTECTED]Jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] «UNIX is like Sex:

Re: sftp sources?

blish the tunnel. There are some tools to automate this (autossh for example), but then you'll need some public-key authentication going on to avoid entering the password every time. HTH, -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sed trouble: "\'a to á" etc

spanish]{babel} % spanish section headers With that I happily type accented (accentuated?) characters without leaving the comfortable us-layout, and TeX likes them too :-) Espero que te sirva, Saludos! -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: SSL capable FTP _client_?

11.0) | | If this option is used twice, the second will again | disable silent failure. | [...] ` Does this help? -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier [EMAIL PROTECTED]Jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In

Re: ssh -X from A through B to C

Where to I go to hunt this >down? Try: ssh -X B xclock ..to see if B allows X to be forwarded. And: ssh -X B ssh -X C xclock ..to see is C allows the same from B. If either of them fails (not showing you a clock), repeat it with verbosity enabled (-v) and try to figure something out of th

Re: ssh -t B sftp C

Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: >Cristian Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>ssh -X B ssh -X C xclock > >Is i possible to do something similar with sftp? The following creates >an sftp line from b to c, but I wish to create a line from a to c. > >ssh -t B sftp C

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

tch from one to the other (using "source" command). That should do :-) -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier [EMAIL PROTECTED]Jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Optimist: "The glass is half full." Pessimist: "The gl

Re: ssh -X from A through B to C

Mark Gillingham wrote: > >On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 12:36 AM, Cristian Gutierrez wrote: >% ssh -X -v web2.mydomain.org /usr/X11R6/bin/xcalc >[...] >Error: Can't open display: As someone else already pointed out in answer on this thread, you may be missing the x

Re: Better program than Putty?

Vineet Kumar wrote: >* Cristian Gutierrez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040208 22:07]: >>Uh, and I was recently told that TeraTerm can set up ssh tunnels >>"dynamicly" (no reconnection needed); that would be a killer too... > >You know that openssh can do that, right? > &g

Re: Remote access PC support

shes" to keep mouse cursor more-or-less updated. And since we're tunneling through SSH, add its own compression (-C) too. Just don't expect it to be useful in art appreciation ;-) -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier [EMAIL PROTECTED]