Debian

Errors on upgrading from etch to lenny
On 3-May-08, at 2:07 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 10:28:33 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: May I ask how to resolve errors (sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned error code 1) about exim4-daemon-light at exim4 bsd-mailx mailx as the result of upgrading... 6 May 2008 22:23

locking screen after suspend/hibernate
I want my screen to be locked when resuming from suspend/hibernate. I don't use any desktop environment, so I tried uncommented the following line from /etc/hibernate/common.conf : LockXtrLock yes and installed xtrlock. This does nothing, though. A little script on resume would do just fine, I suppose but I d... 6 May 2008 22:23

Most inexpensive debian friendly laserjet printer? total cost of ownership including laserink?
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 12:58:25AM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, I tend to print out a lot of documentation on the software for projects that I work on. Therefore I go through alot of laserjet cartidges on my postscript compatible hp laserjet 1200 printer. My latest cartridge just needs to be r... 6 May 2008 22:23

swap help please
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 03:42:09PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: Anyway removing uswsusp did the trick. Since I used purge to remove it a reinstall of it went great. The guy on that forum just removed it and not purged it, so that is why his reinstall didn't work. Its all fixed now, thanks for the repl... 6 May 2008 22:23

Not sure who this should be sent too.....?
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 09:51:01AM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: Hi, I get this error message when trying to open a recent document in LyX [..] See also: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478998 (So you don't need to report it anywhere.) The right report is #475523 which is al... 6 May 2008 22:23

swap partition question?
I have a 1Gb primary swap partition (/dev/sda1) and fdisk -l shows that. But the command # swapon /dev/sda1 says that ..:/dev/sda1: is invalid argument. I made an entry in /etc/fstab (too): /dev/sda1 none swap sw 0 0 but swapon -a still syays that it is invalid argument! Any pointers? -ishwar ... 6 May 2008 22:23

Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to install Etch in a new box which has an Intel dual core CPU and a 250 gB SATA hard drive. Since the instructions in the Etch Installation Guide have not been helpful, I was consequently left with my intuition, which unfortunately proved insufficient fo... 6 May 2008 23:27

[OT] SkyDSL in Europe
Hello, In the place where I life (very mobile), I can not get ADSL or even a telephone line without paying 17.300 Euro to the German Telecom for installing 5km telephone cabel or 12.000 Euro in Frace to the Telecom to install 4km telephone cable. Using GSM is limited to the contry where you have gotten... 6 May 2008 22:23

Replace Ubuntu with Debian
Am 2008-04-29 22:40:22, schrieb Igor: I just noticed an unfortunate circumstance, though. Dell installed a 32-bit OS on my 64-bit machine. In my opinion, that is a rather dumb thing to do. It also means that I might have to also figure out a way to migrate to a 64-bit environment. I'm not quite sure how to ... 6 May 2008 22:23

Most inexpensive debian friendly laserjet printer? total cost of ownership including laserink?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/04/08 23:58, Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, I tend to print out a lot of documentation on the software for projects that I work on. Therefore I go through alot of laserjet cartidges on my postscript compatible hp laserjet 1200 printer. My latest c... 6 May 2008 23:27