Re: Strange reaction to keyboard at first login

On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 09:21:36AM -0500, cothrige wrote: > I have a strange thing happening when I try to login immediately after > boot. It only happens once, and then everything is fine, but it still > bugs me. After booting, which seems completely normal, the first time > I touch the keyboard

Re: Is Etch Stable is really stable?

On 6/4/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However, I think you can just plop the files down into /var/cache/apt/archives after you've installed a minimal base system including apt. I had thought to do this before when you advised before to make the unofficial cd. But didn't know if it wou

Re: does etch have package that allow user bypass Internet censorship

On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:26:23PM -0500, Klein Moebius wrote: > * Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-03 03:09:33 -0700]: > > > Thanks! Don't worry. I know the government allow what, doesn't allow what. > > If you post > > antigovernment message in popular BBS, or protest before governmen

Re: Macromedia Flash Video

Andrew J. Barr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:13:17 +0300 gustavo halperin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I can successfully Macromedia Flash Video from almost all the home pages like youtube, but some of there I can see locally using mpl

Re: Xorg keyboard broke on todays upgrade

On 06/03/2007 08:02 PM, ss11223 wrote: Further update, I created a new user and gnome works. Something in the gnome config for my default user got corrupted and killed the keyboard. Any easy way to correct this without losing all of my settings? Stuart Use the gconf-editor and search for k

Re: Is Etch Stable is really stable?

On 06/03/2007 09:49 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: About half of the files passed and are moved from the cache. About half, that is about 171 MB is left in /var/cache/apt/archives.If I can get a quick way to somehow check these, I'll move them or else leave them after taking the output of dpkg --get-selecti

Emacs 22 for Etch

How can I get Emacs 22 to install on etch without pinning? I can't find a backports release. What are all the backports websites out there? Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: does etch have package that allow user bypass Internet censorship

* Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-03 03:09:33 -0700]: > Thanks! Don't worry. I know the government allow what, doesn't allow what. If > you post > antigovernment message in popular BBS, or protest before government building, > then you'll quickly > run into trouble. I don't believe

hotplugging ide harddrive

I've been googling but haven't found any clue yet. I want to hotplug my ide disk so i can put it on my computer while the computer's running. Then just automatically mount ( or at least detected for mounted manually later ) like usb storage. As a former windows user, I can easlly do it on m$win by

Re: Etch / Samba server weirdness

On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:11:55PM -0400, Michael Lueck wrote: > > 1) Wrong / Missing Windows group memberships (domain groups, etc...) > 2) Inability to use the 'net' command to assign the permission to add > workstations to the domain for a special account > 3) Inability to make the domain admi

Etch / Samba server weirdness

I am noticing weirdness testing Etch / Samba. Specifically: 1) Wrong / Missing Windows group memberships (domain groups, etc...) 2) Inability to use the 'net' command to assign the permission to add workstations to the domain for a special account 3) Inability to make the domain admin group prin

Re: Macromedia Flash Video

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:13:17 +0300 gustavo halperin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I can successfully Macromedia Flash Video from almost all the home > pages like youtube, but some of there I can see locally using > mplayer. So the are an

Re: Is Etch Stable is really stable?

I think that FAILED message is saying that there was a filename in the md5sums.gz that didn't exist; checking its md5sum failed because it didn't exist. To check this, did any of those FAILED lines refer to files that you actually have? I dod not get any errors containing just the FAILED word,

Macromedia Flash Video

Hello, I can successfully Macromedia Flash Video from almost all the home pages like youtube, but some of there I can see locally using mplayer. So the are any way to connect the Macromedia-mozilla-plugin and mplayer or any way to see these videos that I can't see with mplayer ? Thank you

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:52:27 cothrige wrote: > * Wesley J. Landaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Well since gNewSense is a derivative of Ubuntu which derives from > > Debian, by default the emacs docs would be out as well, unless they add > > them back in themselves. Looking at gNewSense, I go

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

* Wesley J. Landaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Well since gNewSense is a derivative of Ubuntu which derives from Debian, by > default the emacs docs would be out as well, unless they add them back in > themselves. Looking at gNewSense, I got the impression that they only > removed things a

Re: Xorg keyboard broke on todays upgrade

On Jun 3, 8:10 pm, ss11223 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 3, 5:40 pm, ss11223 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have a machine running "testing" on which I did an 'apt-get dist- > > upgrade' today. Now my > > keyboard won't work under xorg (the mouse works fine, and the keyboard > > works

Re: Files used when a terminal window opens

Charles Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > After logging in on a gnome window, I often go to "Accessories" > and "root terminal". I have several shell variable setting and > some other small tasks at the beginning. When I first set the > system up, I had a file that did these things for me. How

Re: (solved) Re: does etch have package that allow user bypass Internet censorship

Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 06/03/2007 12:37 AM, Serena Cantor wrote: > > > I'm in mainland China. The government block some Web sites and some Web > > > pages. > > > > I believe the software is called either Tor or Torfree. > > Great! It's tor. It works! Now I can see all pages b

Re: Is Etch Stable is really stable?

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 03:03:18AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 6/3/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thankyou, I like mc but I already used a for loop to move the passed > debs to another directory. I'd however like to know why did the other > 400 files failed. Actually the error message fr

Re: Xorg keyboard broke on todays upgrade

On Jun 3, 5:40 pm, ss11223 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a machine running "testing" on which I did an 'apt-get dist- > upgrade' today. Now my > keyboard won't work under xorg (the mouse works fine, and the keyboard > works on the > non-x screens). > > As far as I can tell, none of my xorg c

re: nv and radeon will work, until X restarts

Hmmm, it does the same thing with the "official" 64-bit nvidia driver. I'm going to replace this crap radeon card with a spare old one, I think. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

nv and radeon will work, until X restarts

Had the same trouble with onbaord nvidia and a pci radeon card. Just one note: I was able to get this setup to work, either as two separate desktops, or with xinerama. However, it only works from a cold start. Any restarting of the Xserver or display manager causes the radeon card to go dead

Exim delivering to local user accounts not Maildir

Hi guys I simply can not figure this one out. I have setup Exim to use the Maildir delivery method and NOT mbox however all my mail is being delivered to /var/mail/user instead of /home/user/Maildir Has anyone experienced anything like this or can point me in the right direction here? -- Regards

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

On Thursday 31 May 2007 20:56:45 cothrige wrote: > One could go with gNewSense, http://www.gnewsense.org/, which is what > Richard Stallman uses. It appears to be Ubuntu stripped of anything > that the maintainers would consider non-free. I am assuming that > would not mean Emacs docs, as RMS end

Re: Is Etch Stable is really stable?

On 6/3/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you're not in the mood to write a script, you can use mc (Midnight Commander). MC has two panes, and you can have one pane view the directory and the other view md5sums.gz. In the directory pane, you can tag (using Control-T) the files that you s

Xorg keyboard broke on todays upgrade

I have a machine running "testing" on which I did an 'apt-get dist- upgrade' today. Now my keyboard won't work under xorg (the mouse works fine, and the keyboard works on the non-x screens). As far as I can tell, none of my xorg config files have changed. Is this just me, or did this last upgrad

desktop icon for audio CD

Debian users, At Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:49:04 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote, "What happens is that an icon pops up on your desktop after you insert a pluggable device or removable media, but it is not mounted." Yes; for a USB storage stick, an icon appears in the xfce4 desktop in etch here. For an audi

Re: Fonts quality in Desktop with Iceweasel

Hello Florian. Disabling bitmaps and changing Xft.hinting to "1" and Hintstyle to "hintmedium" is giving much more screen quality, the same than Redhat, this was the issue. Now is Ok. Many thanks for your help. Josep > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ awk '/fontconfig/,/^$/{if (/^(Na|Va)/) print}' >

Files used when a terminal window opens

After logging in on a gnome window, I often go to "Accessories" and "root terminal". I have several shell variable setting and some other small tasks at the beginning. When I first set the system up, I had a file that did these things for me. However, I want to change a few things and I've fo

Re: video news site

On Sunday 03 June 2007 18:20, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > Hello. I cannot get the following video news site working: > > > > >.200 70531.wvclipoftheweek0529> > > > > > > I use Etch, with epiphany. I have w32codecs, mplayer,

Re: Security question: are these vulnerabilities addressed?

Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 12:50:51AM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: >> Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 12:07:23AM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: >> >> Postgres completely fell apart, and it took many hours to pi

Re: spaces.live.com

Jonathan Kaye wrote: gustavo halperin wrote: Hello, I'm using gaim in order to chat with my friend over MSN protocol. But when I try to get information from my friends I get an address like that: .spaces.live.com But I can't see this page from linux, only from windows, do you know any way

Re: video news site

> > Hello. I cannot get the following video news site working: > > > > > 70531.wvclipoftheweek0529> > > > > I use Etch, with epiphany. I have w32codecs, mplayer, and > > mozplugger installed. Epiphany has both jav

Re: cannot access machine after apt-get dist-upgrade

On 06/03/2007 06:58 AM, Robert Cates wrote: Hi, this is going to be my new server, so there's no GUI, only text mode, and it gets all the way to the login prompt, but the machine will not take keyboard (USB, which is what I always used) input. As I was saying, I can see during the bootup tha

Re: Transient lenny upgrade problem with libc6 - SOLVED

On 6/3/07, John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Just to share a problem - and its solution - that I'm surprised doesn't happen more often with Testing: Did a dist-upgrade yesterday using adept (frontend for aptitude), previewing the changes first to check for breakages. After the upgrad

Re: spaces.live.com

Jonathan Kaye wrote: gustavo halperin wrote: Hello, I'm using gaim in order to chat with my friend over MSN protocol. But when I try to get information from my friends I get an address like that: .spaces.live.com But I can't see this page from linux, only from windows, do you know any

Re: Re: Media player

Etch has debian-multimedia-keyring, installing which seems to solve the problem. -- Question everything -- Karl Marx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Icedove

On 06/03/07 07:41, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: me too, but another problem is that it does not open the browser when clicking on an url :-( Works for me... really? Are you using gnome? I'm using KDE... Yes, I do use GNOME (since FF/tbird use GTK and seem to have an affinit

Re: Icedove

On 6/3/07, Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: >> me too, but another problem is that it does not open the browser when >> clicking on an url :-( > > Works for me... really? Are you using gnome? I'm using KDE... Ditto for me, using FVWM. See bug #425790, which is pr

Need a little help with my network configuration

Hi, I have a box with a usb-nic which uses the zd1211rw module. The box is dist-upgraded to the testing level. I can connect to the router using network-manager and from kde with network-manager-kde just fine. eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"cjwlan" Nickname:"zd1211" Mode:Managed

Transient lenny upgrade problem with libc6 - SOLVED

Hi, Just to share a problem - and its solution - that I'm surprised doesn't happen more often with Testing: Did a dist-upgrade yesterday using adept (frontend for aptitude), previewing the changes first to check for breakages. After the upgrade libc6 (and three other related packages) were bro

(solved) Re: does etch have package that allow user bypass Internet censorship

Great! It's tor. It works! Now I can see all pages blocked by government. I love Mumia W! Thanks!! --- "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06/03/2007 12:37 AM, Serena Cantor wrote: > > I'm in mainland China. The government block some Web sites and some Web > > pages. > > > > > > I bel

Strange reaction to keyboard at first login

I have a strange thing happening when I try to login immediately after boot. It only happens once, and then everything is fine, but it still bugs me. After booting, which seems completely normal, the first time I touch the keyboard this pops up on screen: "input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as

kernel time sync error 0001

Hello, After updating my Debian Testing server today I get from logcheck e-mail's with the following; System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-= Jun 3 14:56:51 minidragon ntpd[26102]: kernel time sync error 0001 I did look in /var/log/aptitude and noticed that ntp was upgraded [UPGRADE] ntp 1:4.2.2.p4+dfsg-

Re: Icedove

Ron Johnson wrote: >> me too, but another problem is that it does not open the browser when >> clicking on an url :-( > > Works for me... > really? Are you using gnome? I'm using KDE... -- Lorenzo Bettini, PhD in Computer Science, DSI, Univ. di Firenze ICQ# lbetto, 16080134 (GNU/Linux Us

Re: Security question: are these vulnerabilities addressed?

On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 12:50:51AM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 12:07:23AM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > >> Postgres completely fell apart, and it took many hours to piece things > >> back together. > > > > Did you have a

Re: Kernel-image upgrade question

On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 09:20:55PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 09:01:56PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > The concern is that if something goes wrong with the upgrade, you may be > > forced to do a reinstall. When I tried updating one of my boxes, > > some

Re: cannot access machine after apt-get dist-upgrade

Hi, this is going to be my new server, so there's no GUI, only text mode, and it gets all the way to the login prompt, but the machine will not take keyboard (USB, which is what I always used) input. As I was saying, I can see during the bootup that the network cards are not started, but I ca

iceape-browser crashes on http://www.i-dac.com/game/door/door3.html

Hello, iceape-browser crachses wen I start the game: http://www.i-dac.com/game/door/door3.html I am using unstable (kernel 2.6.18) with an old box, but a while ago it worked fine (slowly, but it worked). Is it the new version of iceape which is not supported by this old machine ? (very old bo

Re: Problem sasl2-sql.

password_format: plaintext is a default if not set nothing about password_format in smtpd.conf. I have tried like below: password_format: crypt (for md5 and blowfish) or password_format: crypt_trad (2 character salt crypt) but not works.sasl2 allways use planintext format. i am using; libsasl

Re: does etch have package that allow user bypass Internet censorship

XieXie(Thanks)! government block wikipedia, I use google search Psiphon and visit 2 sites of 1st search result page, both are blocked. Maybe the rest are blocked too. The page entry is interested: psiphon.ca/download.php NOTE: If you live in a country that censors your Internet access, you DO

Re: Printers won't run

The first printer is a windows printer, HP Deskjet 6540, IP connected, and all of my windows computers can send to it just fine. Just not my Debian Etch. I have never done such a thing before. Assuming that you are using CUPS go to localhost:631/help/ get yourself a cup of coffee and start re

Re: does etch have package that allow user bypass Internet censorship

Thanks! Don't worry. I know the government allow what, doesn't allow what. If you post antigovernment message in popular BBS, or protest before government building, then you'll quickly run into trouble. I don't believe government have time monitor this list. This list is high-traffic, but few

Re: Debian Etch can not startx

On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 01:14:37AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 04:45:30AM +, rocky wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I got a very old PC which was purchased 6 years ago. I use Debian > > netinstall CD installed the base Debian etch system. I have been > > trying to install basic G

Re: does etch have package that allow user bypass Internet censorship

On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 10:37:10PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > I'm in mainland China. The government block some Web sites and some Web pages. > There are anonymizing routers and web servers set up which may allow users to circumvent government censorship in countries where this is prevalent. Co

Re: Debian Etch can not startx

On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 04:45:30 - rocky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > I got a very old PC which was purchased 6 years ago. I use Debian > netinstall CD installed the base Debian etch system. I have been > trying to install basic GUI on it. Therefore I execute the following > command:[QUO

Re: Debian Etch can not startx

On 06/02/2007 11:45 PM, rocky wrote: [...] I was trying dpkg-reconfigure xfree86 but it seems this does not bring me the interfaces where I can reconfigure my x-window-system. Can any of you give me some hint on how can I get over these problems please? Thanks a lot in advance! Try this: #

Re: does etch have package that allow user bypass Internet censorship

On 06/03/2007 12:37 AM, Serena Cantor wrote: I'm in mainland China. The government block some Web sites and some Web pages. I believe the software is called either Tor or Torfree. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: does etch have package that allow user bypass Internet censorship

Serena Cantor wrote: > I'm in mainland China. The government block some Web sites and some Web > pages. > > > > Luggage? GPS? Comic books? > Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search > http://sear

Re: spaces.live.com

gustavo halperin wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using gaim in order to chat with my friend over MSN protocol. But > when I try to get information from my friends I get an address like > that: .spaces.live.com > > But I can't see this page from linux, only from windows, do you know > any way to see

Re: video news site

Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Mark Grieveson wrote: > >> Hello. I cannot get the following video news site working: >> > >> >> I use Etch, with epiphany. I have w32codecs, mplayer, and mozplugger >>

Re: video news site

Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I cannot get the following video news site working: > > > I use Etch, with epiphany. I have w32codecs, mplayer, and mozplugger > installed. Epiphany has both jav