Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2002 #713
On Thursday 01 August 2002 1:54 am,
debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2002 : Issue 713
>
> Today's Topics:
> Re: Root login in graphical envirome [ martin f krafft
> <madduck@debian.org ] Re: ot -- Re: Full-screen editor in [ Richard Cobbe
> <cobbe@airmail.net> ] Re: php and ImageJpeg [
> expert@bapat.net (Expert User) ] Re: Rejig apt Config Now That Woody [
> Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.c ] Re: the older debian user; Debian Se
> [ Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net ] Re: printing landscape PDFs
> [ Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@optimalco. ] *** I BADLY WANT OUT !!!!!!!!!***
> (u [ "Aydos João" <jucaaydos@hotmail.com ] Re: Full-screen editor in /bin
> [ Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> ] How Do I download Debian from the ne [
> Kristen Brown <kd7ied@yahoo.com> ] Re: *** I BADLY WANT OUT !!!!!!!!!** [
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> ] Re: Drop in kernel replacement?
> [ "John W. M. Stevens" <john@betelgeu ] Re: printing landscape PDFs
> [ Carlos Sousa <csousa@tvtel.pt> ] Re: Gdk-WARNING **: locale not suppo
> [ Paul E Condon <pecondon@quiknet.com ] Re: *** I BADLY WANT OUT
> !!!!!!!!!** [ "John W. M. Stevens" <john@betelgeu ] Re: *** I BADLY WANT
> OUT !!!!!!!!!** [ "John W. M. Stevens" <john@betelgeu ] Re: *** I BADLY
> WANT OUT !!!!!!!!!** [ Nick <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk> ] Re: *** I BADLY
> WANT OUT !!!!!!!!!** [ Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au> ] Re: How Do I
> download Debian from th [ Steve Juranich <sjuranic@ssli-mail. ] Re: pgp
> encoding was Re: Apache / ph [ Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au> ] Re:
> How Do I download Debian from th [ Carl Fink <carl@fink.to> ] masqdialer
> not in woody? Replacement [ Ed Lawson <k1vp@grizzy.com> ]
> also sprach Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@optimalco.com> [2002.08.01.0125 +0200]:
> > 'sudo xfoo' doesn't work for me, either; it's the same connection
> > refused error (which is particularly annoying because vim complains even
> > when run sans GUI).
>
> interesting. i must admit that xauth is way too mysterious for me to
> know how to fix that. but maybe someone knows why mine works and yours
> doesn't...
> Are you using the right http headers?
> I am using ImageJpeg to show scaled images and it works fine for me.
>
> If you can post the code snippet, may be I can help.
>
> -nak
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 05:21:25PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> > I am trying to create/manipulate images in php. I have cut-n-pasted
> > scripts from www.php.net and other sources but I can't get an image to
> > display in my browser.
> >
> > I'm running 'testing' and everything I've checked (apache, php, libs)
> > seems to be ok. The only clue I have is that the filesize shown in the
> > apache log is much too small but shows a 200 status. Shouldn't I be able
> > to ImageCreateFromJpeg() and then ImageJpeg() to display an unmodified
> > image?
> >
> > What could I be doing wrong or have wrong on my system?
> >
> > --
> > "It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
> > -- Gore Vidal
> > Rick Pasotto rickp@telocity.com http://www.niof.net
> >
> >
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> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 03:13:59AM +0100, Nick wrote:
> > I've been running Woody-testing for a while, so now that Woody is
> > released do I need to amend my apt config files to take account of the
> > fact that Woody = stable and Sarge = testing ?
>
> It depends on configuration.
>
> > I've been using the "pinning" method to ensure I get updates from
> > testing unless I specify unstable, so I currently have :
> >
> > =========================< cut >===========================
> > MYBOX:/etc/apt# cat sources.list
> > [...]
> > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main
> > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
> > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main
> > non-free
> > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US main
> > non-free
> >
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
> >
> > MYBOX:/etc/apt# cat preferences
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=testing
> > Pin-Priority: 900
> >
> > Package: *
> > Pin: release a=unstable
> > Pin-Priority: 50
> > =========================< cut >===========================
> >
> > Presumably, with these config settings a straight apt-get will now get
> > me packages from Sarge ..
>
> Yes.
>
> > I've seen a post from Vineet Kumar on 3.Jul.2002 at
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200207/msg00346.html
> > which suggests you can use the release codenames instead of
> > descriptive names in the config files - i.e.
>
> Depend on config file.
>
> > use "woody" instead of "stable"
> > use "sarge" instead of "testing"
> > use "sid" instead of "unstable"
> >
> > So, e.g. in "sources.list" :
> > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ woody main
> > instead of
> > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main
>
> Yes.
>
> > Is this true ?
> > Is it the Right Thing To Do ?
>
> If you want to track potato, please. If you are tracking woody or
> sarge, no.
>
> At least /etc/apt/preferences must use testing/stable/unstable.
> So there may be an issue. (I wish preference accepts codename but it
> does not.)
> scripsit Carlos Sousa:
> > On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:54:57 -0700 Thanasis Kinias
> >
> > <tkinias@optimalco.com> wrote:
> > > render fine with gv, ggv, etc., but I can't print the little beasts
> > > because they come out printed portrait and truncated at the right
> > > margin. I've tried manually specifying landscape in gv and ggv, but
> > > the result is a mess. I can't find a way to specify rotation as an
> > > option on lprng's lpr.
> > >
> > > This must be a common issue, as there are a lot of such PDFs out on
> > > the Web. What workarounds have been found? Am I missing something
> > > obvious?
> >
> > Yes, unfortunately very common. Happens also with some postscript files.
> > The only way I've managed to print these kinds of documents was:
> >
> > 1) Convert the PDF to Postscript;
> >
> > 2) Install the psutils package. In it there are a few invaluable tools
> > that will enable you to apply changes to .ps files, like rotate, scale,
> > translate, even prepare for n-up and booklet printing.
>
> pstops seems to be the one, but the man page isn't exactly transparent.
> It appears to want 'pstops L infile.ps outfile.ps' (or R to rotate the
> other way), but the resulting PS file renders as totally blank. Do you
> have handy what switches you used?
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 09:04:33PM -0300, Aydos Jo?o wrote:
> > 1) I sent and BLANK e-mail to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org with
> > the subject: unsubscribe
>
> If you know what address you subscribed from, try "unsubscribe
> my@email.address" (replacing my@email.address with the address in
> question, of course).
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 10:25:40PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote:
> > I have seen quite a few messages on this list concerning kernel
> > upgrades. Since I have been using the bf2.4 kernel since
> > installation time, I tried to install an optimized i686 kernel.
> >
> > I was hoping that after apt-get, lilo + initrd and reboot everything
> > would be fine.
> >
> > It wasn't. I have yet to investigate what is missing. But I would
> > like some general information about the process of selecting and
> > installing a kernel.
> >
> > Why install initrd? To enable kernel selection at boot time (and get
> > the old system back when something fails)?
> >
> > I have now /initrd on my system, but this directory is empty.
>
> It should be empty.
>
> But there should also be an /initrd.img, which should be a symbolic
> link to the appropriate initrd image in /boot.
>
> On my 2.4.18, SMP system, /initrd.img links to:
>
> /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-686-smp
>
> > In
> > /boot there is a initrd.img file. After I boot I get a selection
> > menu? Is this all there is to preparing a system for a kernel
> > upgrade?
>
> You'd better make sure you change your lilo.conf file (if you are
> using lilo, of course) to use initrd:
>
> image=/vmlinuz
> label=Linux
> read-only
> initrd=/initrd.img
>
> > Is bf2-4 a kernel with everything imaginable enabled and will I have
> > to load extra modules for my system when using the i686 kernel?
>
> Weirdly enough, the initrd.img for smp i686 does not have the
> ide-scsi module in it. I had to rebuild my initrd image to
> include this.
>
> If you are forced to muck around with your initrd image, read
> up on:
>
> losetup
> mkcramfs
>
> > Apart from the fun of trying out new stuff and learning, will there
> > be a real world performance difference when I use an optimized
> > kernel?
>
> A little bit.
>
> John S.
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 12:10:15PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > > But when I do this I get the following message
> > > prior to the opening of galeon:
> > >
> > > Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> >
> > in a shell run this:
> >
> > echo $LC_ALL
> > echo $LANG
> >
> > if the value is en_US (as I expect it is) then you need to edit
> > /etc/locale.gen.
> >
> > Here is my file:
> >
> > en_US ISO-8859-1
> > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
> >
> > There is a comment at that top of the file explaining what it is, where
> > to get info and what to do when you are done editing.
>
> The comment gives an option of using dpkg-reconfigure locales, which I
> exercised. It uses a gui and was totally painless. Your listing of
> your file was a help. Without it I would have been at a loss. There
> are so many choises.
>
> Thanks.
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 09:04:33PM -0300, Aydos Jo?o wrote:
> > It must be a bug somewhere.
> >
> > 1) I sent and BLANK e-mail to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org with
> > the subject: unsubscribe
> >
> > 2) I am sending it from exactly the same address where I subscribed to.
> >
> > 3) I have tried this process 4 times already exactly as described.
> >
> > 4) Never I received any sort of confirmation about the unsubscription.
>
> It may be a bug due to the fact that you appear to have a non-ASCII
> character in your email address (your name).
>
> John S.
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 09:04:33PM -0300, Aydos Jo?o wrote:
> > It must be a bug somewhere.
>
> Most likely, the use of non-ASCII characters in your name
> is breaking the unsubscribe script.
>
> Mutt, for instance, cannot "reply" to your emails unless I
> change the reply address by hand.
>
> John S.
> On 0, Nick <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 21:04:33 -0300, you wrote:
> > >1) I sent and BLANK e-mail to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org with
> > > the subject: unsubscribe
> >
> > WRONG.
> >
> > You need to send an email with NO SUBJECT, BUT WITH A MESSAGE BODY
> > containing the single word "unsubscribe".
> >
> > OK ?
>
> Huh? In direct contradiction to the bit of advice at the end of each
> email?
>
> Tom
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