apt-get connect takes forever, download instantaneous

2001-12-09 Thread Seth Delackner
First, hello and thanks. Please be gentle, this is my first debian-users post. Whilst installing debian-stable I am encountering the most bizarre behavior: During the apt-setup stage, using ftp or http, the "Connecting" stage of opening an apt mirror takes upwards of a minute, but the actual file

Re: apt-get connect takes forever, download instantaneous

2001-12-10 Thread Seth Delackner
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:06:44AM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Just a thought, > > try ping www.debian.org. if it takes a while to resolve the ip address, > then the problem is something to do with the dns server (yours / > external) > > you could also try dig www.debian.org and see how long t

'swapon -s' shows used: 0. Even when thrashing!

2001-12-11 Thread Seth Delackner
This is a stock potato 2.2.19 kernel from my initial installation of debian about 2 days ago. In the logs it definitly shows "Adding Swap:..." and no errors. 'free' and 'swapon -s' show that I have 64 megs of swap space on my swap partition that are completely empty. So why does it refuse to use

Re: Sharing dotfiles between diverse accounts

2001-12-14 Thread Seth Delackner
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:51:32PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > You can try Coda filesystem; http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu. It seems a lot of people are thinking about sharing .dot files this week. I asked this same sort of question on the NYLUG list and someone said Coda was seriously unfinished and sugge

Re: VNC

2001-12-14 Thread Seth Delackner
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:07:43PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that as long as you don't kill the server, everything would be as > what you left out. Interesting... It's kinda neat, I think. Next time you > logged in to the remote host using the xvncviewer, you'd get your last > deskto

Re: evolution

2001-12-14 Thread Seth Delackner
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:34:39PM -0400, m(y) wrote: > Les paquets necessaires pour installer la version developpement > d'evolution sur un systeme debian sont disponsible à: > ftp://spidermonkey.ximian.com/pub/evolution-snapshot/debian-potato-i386/ > > Je crois qu'il y avait un "apt source" non-

Re: Win2000 , Debian Dual Boot

2001-12-16 Thread Seth Delackner
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 11:33:32PM -0500, Akintayo Holder wrote: > Try GRUB. [snip] > map (hd0) (hd1) [Windows thinks it is on the first disk] > map (hd1) (hd0) > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > boot I am running potato and when I run grub, the "map" command is not recogniz

Re: fetchmail questions

2001-12-16 Thread Seth Delackner
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 01:29:26PM -0500, dman wrote: > The same thing happens with elm. The issue is telling the MUA that > the folders are "inboxes" (able to receive mail). mutt treats all > folders this way (and, for elm users, it has almost the same > keybindings and better screen real estate

Re: ALSA and mp3

2001-12-16 Thread Seth Delackner
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 03:31:18PM +0100, José Luis Ayala wrote: > Hi, > > I've just configured my sound car (Intel 820 chipset AC'97) with ALSA > (unstable) but it does not work properly. I can listen to the sound events of > the desktop and CDs (with the gnome utility) but I can't

Re: CD RW problems

2001-12-26 Thread Seth Delackner
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 07:47:28PM +, Steve Knight wrote: > I use 'mkisofs' under Debian. If you're also using cdrecord for the actual burning, I've been hit by the problem that it screws up the last couple files on any ISO. Just about the only fix someone seems to have mentioned for this myst

cdrecord corrupts last files on a disc. 'read ahead' bug?

2002-01-02 Thread Seth Delackner
In various comments the author of cdrecord blames some kernel read-ahead bug for his cdrecord program damaging the last few files on any ISO that you burn. I just want to know if anyone else has either seen this problem or fixed it? Every image I burn is useless, not to mention that if I tell cd

vorbis RC3 + Potato X11 = complete crash (not even pingable!)

2002-01-07 Thread Seth Delackner
Anyone else seeing this problem? If so much as: $ ogg123 -d oss foo.ogg & $ startx My entire machine instantly always crashes to the degree that I can't even ping it. Vorbis is from the alienized rpm packages from www.vorbis.com, X is the basic Potato installation version. Audi

cdrecord corrupts last part of every ISO burned

2002-01-07 Thread Seth Delackner
In various comments the author of cdrecord blames some kernel read-ahead bug for cdrecord damaging the last few files on any ISO that you burn. I just want to know if anyone else has either seen this problem or fixed it? Every image I burn is useless, not to mention that if I tell cdrecord to do

Re: partition resize

2002-01-09 Thread Seth Delackner
> On Wednesday 09 January 2002 11:40, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: > > As far, as I know, parted works only on ext2fs I don't know if the gnu documentation is correct, but it claims that parted works on ext2fs, fat and fat32, with the option of growing or shrinking and copying them all. But no, I don't