Re: tc download always to "default" [solved]

2010-03-22 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Bruno Wolff III : >> My problem is all the traffic is caught by "classid 1:10", the >> default class. >> Nothing is trapped by "classid 1:301" -> "classid 1:426" >> At a first glance, would you see something wrong in these? >I took a quick look and didn't see anything obvious. But I haven't >pla

Re: Wifi Can't Connect

2010-03-22 Thread Alexander Samad
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Mark wrote: > On Monday 22 March 2010 04:32:08 pm Andrei Popescu wrote: >> Please post the output of: [snip] > ~# /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 > wlan0     IEEE 802.11abg  ESSID:"Radio Free Universe" >          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:23:97:77:1

Re: Mail clients attaching files (was Re: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system)

2010-03-22 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:29:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-22 21:56, Mike Viau wrote: >> Attached for you convenience! >> sourced from: Debian Lenny > > Next time you attach such a file, I suggest that you add a ".txt" so > that your email/webmail app knows that it is a text file,

Re: Wifi Can't Connect

2010-03-22 Thread Freeman
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:30:42AM -0400, Mark wrote: . . . > >> } > My /etc/network/interfaces files reads: > > >> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system > >> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). > >> > >> # The loopback network

Re: Wifi Can't Connect

2010-03-22 Thread Mark
On 3/22/10 11:03 PM, Jack Schneider wrote: Hi, Mark Have you got wpa-supplicant /installed/loaded ? You need that for wpa access, I believe... FWIW Jack Good question, Jack. I had not remembered that there was actually a wpasupplicant package. I did have it installed. I just upgraded it,

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 22, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Clive McBarton wrote: prepends it with sufficiently many (3 suffices?) good nameservers, so it never gets used and everything is fine. Nothing is 100.000% certain, of course. But as long as your 3 are independent of each other -- i.e. not subject to a single

RE: Intel Core i5 integrated graphics

2010-03-22 Thread Mike Viau
Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:23:37 -0500 wrote: > > Frank Miles put forth on 3/22/2010 10:54 AM: > > > The straight Intel board may be a better choice for most. I needed the > > RS-232 port, which is available with the Gigabyte board (external > > connector added) > > but not (so far as I could det

RE: Mail clients attaching files (was Re: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system)

2010-03-22 Thread Mike Viau
Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:29:05 -0500 wrote: > > On 2010-03-22 21:56, Mike Viau wrote: > > Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:29:01 -0400 wrote: > > > > > > On 23:37 Fri 19 Mar , Mike Viau wrote: > > > > > > My output with the suggestion above. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > debian:~# dpkg --dry-run --pu

Re: Any incompatibility with Ethernet adapters?

2010-03-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jason Filippou put forth on 3/22/2010 12:42 PM: > Hi, > > My mobo's network card's crashed and I was wondering if I'd have to be > weary on which would be the next one I'd have to purchase as far as > Debian compatibility is concerned. Are there ethernet adapters out > there that have incompatibil

Mail clients attaching files (was Re: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system)

2010-03-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-22 21:56, Mike Viau wrote: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:29:01 -0400 wrote: > > On 23:37 Fri 19 Mar , Mike Viau wrote: > > > > My output with the suggestion above. > > > > > > > > > > > > debian:~# dpkg --dry-run --purge $(join -v2 <(awk '{if ($2=="install") > > > > print $1}' < debian-

Re: Intel Core i5 integrated graphics

2010-03-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Frank Miles put forth on 3/22/2010 10:54 AM: > The straight Intel board may be a better choice for most. I needed the > RS-232 port, which is available with the Gigabyte board (external > connector added) > but not (so far as I could determine) with the Intel board. Lame excuse Frank. ;) Y

Re: Wifi Can't Connect

2010-03-22 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:23:23 -0400 Mark wrote: > I had wifi, now I don't. > > I just upgraded my kernel (using aptitude) from 2.6.26-686 to > 2.6.32-3-686 and followed that with "aptitude full-upgrade", which > removed a number of packages (that I wasn't using anyway) because I > had previously

Re: Iceweasel not remembering saved passwords

2010-03-22 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:49:08 -0500 Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > All of a sudden Iceweasel has forgotten my userid and > password for Paypal. All the others seem to be fine. > > Also, it will not offer to remember the info when I logon to > Paypal. Again, other sites are working correc

Re: Iceweasel not remembering saved passwords

2010-03-22 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:49:08 -0500 Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > All of a sudden Iceweasel has forgotten my userid and > password for Paypal. All the others seem to be fine. > > Also, it will not offer to remember the info when I logon to > Paypal. Again, other sites are working correc

RE: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-22 Thread Mike Viau
Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:29:01 -0400 wrote: > > On 23:37 Fri 19 Mar , Mike Viau wrote: > > > > My output with the suggestion above. > > > > > > > > > > > > debian:~# dpkg --dry-run --purge $(join -v2 <(awk '{if ($2=="install") > > > > print $1}' < debian-5.04-base-selections | sort) <(dpkg > > >

Re: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-22 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 23:37 Fri 19 Mar , Mike Viau wrote: > > > My output with the suggestion above. > > > > > > > > > debian:~# dpkg --dry-run --purge $(join -v2 <(awk '{if ($2=="install") > > > print $1}' < debian-5.04-base-selections | sort) <(dpkg --get-selections | > > > awk '{if ($2=="install") print $1}' |

Re: IBM thinkpad X60 on debian..

2010-03-22 Thread Lubos Rendek
thanks for a tip...! I will look it up...I'm not sure but I think that x60 has also an option for SSD?! On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Alok G. Singh wrote: > If you care about power, you'd probably be better off with a low-power > CPU model (X61s, for example). The X200 and X300 have an optio

Re: IBM thinkpad X60 on debian..

2010-03-22 Thread Lubos Rendek
> What do you mean by "Debian's power management"? I suppose I meant a kernel coming with stable version of Debian. If I would have a choice I would prefer a stable version of Debian without major tweaks. I'm teaching couple classes at local uni so I do not want to break something during the presen

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-22 19:39, Tom H wrote: I'd want *proof* (i.e., booting into different distros) that different mkswap invocations generate different UUIDs. I have no idea what proof I can provide except to say that I have been caught by that. I installed a second distribution and I could either n

Re: IBM thinkpad X60 on debian..

2010-03-22 Thread Alok G. Singh
If you care about power, you'd probably be better off with a low-power CPU model (X61s, for example). The X200 and X300 have an option for SSD which will save some more power. I've been using my X61s with sid for the past 2 years and haven't had a problem. Everything works, with free software (exc

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:51:15 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-22 17:05, Paul E Condon wrote: >> cmpq:~# blkid >> /dev/hda1: UUID="990189bc-f7ce-41a6-9d8f-64a35349875e" TYPE="ext3" >> /dev/hda2: LABEL="HDA2" UUID="5a02e986-8aa3-4790-aa3f-41f7f565533f" >> TYPE="ext3" >> /dev/hda3: LABE

Iceweasel not remembering saved passwords

2010-03-22 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; All of a sudden Iceweasel has forgotten my userid and password for Paypal. All the others seem to be fine. Also, it will not offer to remember the info when I logon to Paypal. Again, other sites are working correctly. Any ideas what the trouble might be or how I can fix it and g

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2010 #504

2010-03-22 Thread Jason Filippou
> Has this card worked for you with Linux in the past?  Or is this a > fresh install? It's been working for me well for both Windows and Linux for a certain amount of months. Over the last few weeks I've been having trouble connecting to my router and have been seeing abnormal behavior from the Et

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-22 Thread Tom H
>>> I'd want *proof* (i.e., booting into different distros) that different >>> mkswap invocations generate different UUIDs. >> I have no idea what proof I can provide except to say that I have been >> caught by that. >> I installed a second distribution and I could either not prevent it >> from r

Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-22 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 17.03.2010 09:05, schrieb Mark Allums: > Gnash is a noble effort. Gnash sucks. I want choice, and my choice is > Adobe Flash. Installing Gnash screws up Flash. Right now, I can refuse > to update GNOME on Squeeze any further, but the time will come when that > will not be a viable option.

Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

2010-03-22 Thread Mark
>On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Elmer E. Dow wrote: [snip] > >So I used dban on the partitions to assure a fresh start, then reinstalled > XP using the built-in restore feature. I expected that XP would do what it > did during the last installation session: allocate the >whole drive to > itself

Re: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-22 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Zuelow wrote: >> Yet, relying on the immutability of /etc/resolv/conf is like >> relying on >> the persistence of files on /tmp: just DON'T! >> > > 2nd note that my suggestion to make /etc/resolv.conf immutable was not to > keep his changes, b

Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

2010-03-22 Thread Elmer E. Dow
I have an IBM R40 laptop which had WinXP and Debian Lenny installed. Due to a problematic upgrade to XP SP2, I decided to use the built-in system restore to reinstall XP. Also, I wanted to play around with Lenny more, so I decided that I'd reinstall two versions of Lenny, too. So I used dban on

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-22 17:05, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] You answered my question --- I didn't know about blkid utility. With this one can give every partition a meaningful labels like --- LABEL="hda1" or whatever is displayed as the system device one one runs blkid without options in order to get

Re: Wifi Can't Connect

2010-03-22 Thread Mark
On Monday 22 March 2010 04:32:08 pm Andrei Popescu wrote: > Please post the output of: > > lspci | grep -i wireless ~# lspci | grep -i wireless 0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02) On Monday 22 March 2010 05:22:33 pm Florian Kul

Re: Manage window: change positions, etc.

2010-03-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-22 16:06, Olivier Cailloux wrote: Hi all, I would like to do automate two related tasks on my debian box (stable), preferably without changing my window manager (because I am happy with it and would prefer a simple solution if available). [snip] the one I am currently in. E.g. if

Re: Any incompatibility with Ethernet adapters?

2010-03-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-22 13:23, Jason Filippou wrote: [snip] Hi, 1. My motherboard is an MSI P965 Neo F and, as I didn't feel like opening my computer case and looking to find the exact model of the network adapter, I googled a bit and found the following here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?I

Re: Wifi Can't Connect

2010-03-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,22.Mar.10, 16:23:23, Mark wrote: > I had wifi, now I don't. Please post the output of: lspci | grep -i wireless (or whatever lspci line is relevant for you wireless interface) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailm

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-22 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100322_020950, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-21 23:51, Paul E Condon wrote: > >On 20100321_181749, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On 2010-03-21 17:52, Tom H wrote: > >>*You* should not need to set the UUID. It should just magically be > >>there. > >>$ /sbin/blkid -t TYPE=swap > >>/d

Re: pivot_root. unmount old root

2010-03-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:19:40 -0400 (EDT), Katharina Haselhorst wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> You would probably want to run all the executable files in /etc/rc6.d >> in alphabetical order, supplying the "stop" parameter, with the >> exception of the last one, which on my system is S90reboot. >

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 21:33 -, Jen wrote: > Hello, > > I can't read your message. I'm not sure if its because of the screen > reading software I'm using, so could you send it in plain text, in > case it's my accessibility software? Well, no idea why you couldn't read it. The only thing i ca

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-22 Thread Angus Hedger
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Jen wrote: > Hello, > > I can't read your message. I'm not sure if its because of the screen reading > software I'm using, so could you send it in plain text, in case it's my > accessibility software? > > Cheers, > Jen! Hey, Its a problem with the -trunk kernel

Re: Wifi Can't Connect

2010-03-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 16:23:23 -0400, Mark wrote: > I had wifi, now I don't. > > I just upgraded my kernel (using aptitude) from 2.6.26-686 to > 2.6.32-3-686 and followed that with "aptitude full-upgrade", which > removed a number of packages (that I wasn't using anyway) because I > had previous

Re: Booting from newly installed Kernel package?

2010-03-22 Thread Jen
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Manage window: change positions, etc.

2010-03-22 Thread Olivier Cailloux
Hi all, I would like to do automate two related tasks on my debian box (stable), preferably without changing my window manager (because I am happy with it and would prefer a simple solution if available). 1) Change the task bar position of some windows. I use a software (namely, eclipse) whic

Re: pivot_root. unmount old root

2010-03-22 Thread Katharina Haselhorst
You would probably want to run all the executable files in /etc/rc6.d in alphabetical order, supplying the "stop" parameter, with the exception of the last one, which on my system is S90reboot. that's what I was doing - only with runlevel 0 without doing the actual halt at the end. Then run

Debug files for kget?

2010-03-22 Thread Aioanei Rares
Hey, I got a crash from kget and besides installing kde{base,libs}-dbg, I have no idea what other *-dbg files to install in order to get a meaningful backtrace for reporting. Anyone can please help ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Debian squeeze on Samsung N220: almost working very well but no control of brightness

2010-03-22 Thread pch0317
Eric S Fraga wrote: Can anybody please suggest what I might be able to try to control the brightness levels? At best, it would be to gain control via the blue function keys but direct commands are fine as well. In my laptop function keys don't work, so I change brightness with command: su ro

VMWare Player as debian package

2010-03-22 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hello, Has anyone tried to package VMWare-Player as debian package ? I am not able to find anything up-to-date for things related to vmware. I am not very incline to run the shell (.bundle) script as root. Thank you, -- Mathieu Ps: no flame please, I was given a vmware image. -- To UNSUBSCR

Wifi Can't Connect

2010-03-22 Thread Mark
I had wifi, now I don't. I just upgraded my kernel (using aptitude) from 2.6.26-686 to 2.6.32-3-686 and followed that with "aptitude full-upgrade", which removed a number of packages (that I wasn't using anyway) because I had previously always used apt-get (and I understand the consequences of

Re: Any incompatibility with Ethernet adapters?

2010-03-22 Thread Wayne
Jason Filippou wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Aioanei Rares wrote: On 03/22/2010 07:42 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: Hi, My mobo's network card's crashed and I was wondering if I'd have to be weary on which would be the next one I'd have to purchase as far as Debian compatibility is conc

Re: pivot_root. unmount old root

2010-03-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:03:58 -0400 (EDT), Katharina Haselhorst wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> Maybe it's time to step back and ask a more basic question. >> What is it that you are trying to accomplish? I know that you are trying >> to do a pivot_root. But *why* are you trying to do a pivot_ro

Re: IBM thinkpad X60 on debian..

2010-03-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Lubos Rendek: > > Can anyone suggest a notebook which would be a perfect choice for > installing Debian in terms of hardware support and power management. I > do not need anything fancy what I'm more concerned about is that it > should have VGA out, long battery life and easy to carry. I am runni

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-22 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-03-22 15:33:20, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 22 March 2010 18:46, Tony Nelson > wrote: ... > > p.s. I hate screen. > > > > Why? I actually like it. Besides having to learn a new set of odd keybindings, I use the scrollback of a terminal a lot, and entering a mode to do it was not satisfacto

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 22 March 2010 18:46, Tony Nelson wrote: > On 10-03-21 18:52:36, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I am managing a small embedded device that I SSH into over the LAN. >> To run commands, I use KDE Konsole, and to transfer files I use >> Konqueror and SFTP. I understand that SFTP also runs over SSH, so is >>

Re: Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> I can have as many open connections as I want, it's on the LAN. But I >> would _prefer_ just one terminal window for both commands (SSH) and >> file transfers. > > > You might like to try this. > > 1) Add to ~/.ssh/config > ControlMaster auto > ControlPath /tmp/%h%p%r > (man ssh_config for expla

Re: Any incompatibility with Ethernet adapters?

2010-03-22 Thread Aioanei Rares
Jason Filippou wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Aioanei Rares wrote: On 03/22/2010 07:42 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: Hi, My mobo's network card's crashed and I was wondering if I'd have to be weary on which would be the next one I'd have to purchase as far as Debian compatibility

Problem with CIFS resource

2010-03-22 Thread pch0317
Hi, I use fstab to mount CIFS resource: /1.2.3.4/my_resource /mnt/resource cifs credentials=/etc/file 0 0 All files which was copied to /mnt/resource have attributes: rwxrwSrwx I know, that "S" is when user or group ID is set, but execute bit is disable. My problem is that I can't,

Re: Any incompatibility with Ethernet adapters?

2010-03-22 Thread Jason Filippou
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Aioanei Rares wrote: > On 03/22/2010 07:42 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> My mobo's network card's crashed and I was wondering if I'd have to be >> weary on which would be the next one I'd have to purchase as far as >> Debian compatibility is concerned.

Re: Intel Core i5 integrated graphics

2010-03-22 Thread Pasi Oja-Nisula
On 2010-03-22, Frank Miles wrote: > with the RealTek chip, but as of now it's running fine - running the > Debian/testing (squeeze) with the 2.26.32 kernel, and the RealTek > driver out of nonfree. I got the same kernel from backports and the network chip started to work. I'm still using old 3c

Re: Iceweasel (from backports) keeps busy cursor at startup

2010-03-22 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:09:57 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 10:21 +, Camaleón wrote: >> I think I will forward this thread to the backport list so someone >> there could explain or fix this in any upcoming release. > > Hmm . . . having read this, I wonder if we h

Re: IBM thinkpad X60 on debian..

2010-03-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 05:02 +1100, Lubos Rendek wrote: > Can anyone suggest a notebook which would be a perfect choice for > installing Debian in terms of hardware support and power management. I > do not need anything fancy what I'm more concerned about is that it > should have VGA out, long bat

Re: Any incompatibility with Ethernet adapters?

2010-03-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 20:09 +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote: > On 03/22/2010 07:42 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: > 3. A google search like '$card linux' will likely show you if the > card has drivers and works well with linux. http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ is also a good place to search for information on

Re: Iceweasel (from backports) keeps busy cursor at startup

2010-03-22 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 10:21 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:15:49 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 10:10 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > >> Try explicitly setting StartupNotify=false in the .desktop file. > > > > That did the trick! What does that do?

Re: Any incompatibility with Ethernet adapters?

2010-03-22 Thread Aioanei Rares
On 03/22/2010 07:42 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: Hi, My mobo's network card's crashed and I was wondering if I'd have to be weary on which would be the next one I'd have to purchase as far as Debian compatibility is concerned. Are there ethernet adapters out there that have incompatibility problems

Re: pivot_root. unmount old root

2010-03-22 Thread Katharina Haselhorst
Hello, Maybe it's time to step back and ask a more basic question. What is it that you are trying to accomplish? I know that you are trying to do a pivot_root. But *why* are you trying to do a pivot_root? Why do you think you need to do it? What is the real-world problem that you are trying t

IBM thinkpad X60 on debian..

2010-03-22 Thread Lubos Rendek
Hi Guys, Can anyone suggest a notebook which would be a perfect choice for installing Debian in terms of hardware support and power management. I do not need anything fancy what I'm more concerned about is that it should have VGA out, long battery life and easy to carry. At the moment I'm thinking

Any incompatibility with Ethernet adapters?

2010-03-22 Thread Jason Filippou
Hi, My mobo's network card's crashed and I was wondering if I'd have to be weary on which would be the next one I'd have to purchase as far as Debian compatibility is concerned. Are there ethernet adapters out there that have incompatibility problems with Debian or Linux in general? I know that so

RE: Sun Java plugin doesn't work in Squeeze

2010-03-22 Thread Roger Morgan
--- On Mon, 3/22/10, James Zuelow wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Roger Morgan [mailto:halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com] > > > Sent: Monday, 22 March, 2010 09:02 > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Sun Java plugin doesn't work in Squeeze > > > > I've tried to run the Sun J

Re: [semi-SOLVED] Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-22 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:37:38 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2010-03-20 21:57:24 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Well, a quick search seems to indicate that some DEs already have this, > > e.g. Gnome, with its /etc/gnome/defaults.lst. I guess you want > > something that's DE independent. > > But ev

RE: Sun Java plugin doesn't work in Squeeze

2010-03-22 Thread James Zuelow
> -Original Message- > From: Roger Morgan [mailto:halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Monday, 22 March, 2010 09:02 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Sun Java plugin doesn't work in Squeeze > > I've tried to run the Sun Java plugin in both Iceweasel and > Firefox on Squeeze wit

Sun Java plugin doesn't work in Squeeze

2010-03-22 Thread Roger Morgan
I've tried to run the Sun Java plugin in both Iceweasel and Firefox on Squeeze without any success. The error I get from the Sun test page http://www.java.com/en/download/installed.jsp?detect=jre&try=1 in the Java console is as follows. Does anybody know how to fix this? or what is wrong? some in

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-22 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-03-21 18:52:36, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I am managing a small embedded device that I SSH into over the LAN. > To run commands, I use KDE Konsole, and to transfer files I use > Konqueror and SFTP. I understand that SFTP also runs over SSH, so is > there a way to send files in Konsole as well?

Re: Comparison of using Sidux as opposed to Squeeze

2010-03-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nuno Magalhães: > > I don't really notice unstable to be unstable, except when it is :) > Granted if you upgrade often you're more likely to run into trouble. In my experience, upgrading daily (or even twice a day) is almost totally painless. Sure, you may hit a few more bugs on the way, but the

RE: why does resolv.conf change?

2010-03-22 Thread James Zuelow
> -Original Message- > From: Sjoerd Hardeman [mailto:sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl] > Sent: Saturday, 20 March, 2010 03:47 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: why does resolv.conf change? > > Clive McBarton schreef: > > To make my original question more precise: I want the st

Re: Comparison of using Sidux as opposed to Squeeze

2010-03-22 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 15:19, ZephyrQ wrote: > Anyone had any experience using Sidux and how usable was it compared to > Squeeze? I don't really notice unstable to be unstable, except when it is :) Granted if you upgrade often you're more likely to run into trouble. For my daily use, unstable i

Re: Intel Core i5 integrated graphics

2010-03-22 Thread Frank Miles
Hi Pasi: I have the same MB and processor. I have had a few issues, particularly with the RealTek chip, but as of now it's running fine - running the Debian/testing (squeeze) with the 2.26.32 kernel, and the RealTek driver out of nonfree. It's so annoying to have gotten a board thinki

Re: Comparison of using Sidux as opposed to Squeeze

2010-03-22 Thread Andrew Winnenberg
> Anyone had any experience using Sidux and how usable was it compared to > Squeeze? I have both a Sidux and a Squeeze install at the moment. Usability wise they're roughly the same, though Sidux is generally faster about getting fixes in place. Neither Sidux nor Squeeze will be as stable as... st

Re: don't open any e-mails sent from my hotmail account

2010-03-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 04:10:04AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Han Huynh put forth on 3/21/2010 10:20 PM: > > > I think someone broke into my hotmail account and sending some type of > > e-mails out. Please ignore all e-mails from my hotmail account. > > > > My yahoo account if fine. If you

Comparison of using Sidux as opposed to Squeeze

2010-03-22 Thread ZephyrQ
I keep a fairly vanilla Lenny box to do most of my personal/work stuff get frustrated when I want to play a newer game and/or upgrade some software that is requiring a newer library. Usually backports aren't available and/or too unwieldy. My question is how usable is Sidux? I've read a few accou

Re: [OT] iceweasel vs. Firefox

2010-03-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:54:22 -0400 (EDT), Alok G. Singh wrote: > > Apparently it is no longer an issue[1]. > > Footnotes: > [1] http://glandium.org/blog/?p=933 I wouldn't say that. As some of the follow-up comments have noted, the Firefox logo is not the only issue. The Mozilla project still

Re: Wireless - RTL 8187b + wicd + wpa_supplicant - naughty behaviour

2010-03-22 Thread Wayne
Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote: <---SNIP---> Here are some outputs # uname -a Linux casa 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 22:40:40 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux That is not the current kernel. Many problems have been reported with it. Upgrade the kernel to 2.6.32-3 and report back if yoy st

Re: SCSI module eata no longer loading automatically from initrd on Sid on i386

2010-03-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:50:57 -0400 (EDT), Arthur Marsh wrote: > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:28:24 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:25:45 -0400 (EDT), Arthur Marsh wrote: >>> Hi, I have a DPT 2044W SCSI adaptor in this pc for a non-boot disk ... >> So what's the problem? > >

Re: Not able to change password with passwd

2010-03-22 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Florian Pressler schreef: Sjoerd Hardeman lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> writes: Mar 22 13:24:48 fp passwd[2001]: pam_winbind(passwd:chauthtok): valid_user: wbcGetpwnam gave WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND So you're trying to authenticate against a windows domain controller. Is that indeed your setup? Abs

Re: pivot_root. unmount old root

2010-03-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:38:12 -0400 (EDT), Katharina Haselhorst wrote: > Since I'm doing a pivot_root before trying to umount the old root there > are still several processes keeping some files open inside the old root > subdirs. Init is still running, als well as rc and one shutdown script > (at

Re: Not able to change password with passwd

2010-03-22 Thread Florian Pressler
Sjoerd Hardeman lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> writes: > > Mar 22 13:24:48 fp passwd[2001]: pam_winbind(passwd:chauthtok): valid_user: > > wbcGetpwnam gave WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND > So you're trying to authenticate against a windows domain controller. Is > that indeed your setup? Absolutely not. I won

Re: Iceweasel (from backports) keeps busy cursor at startup

2010-03-22 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:21:51 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) > I think I will forward this thread to the backport list so someone there > could explain or fix this in any upcoming release. I've got mail :-) A kind user from the backports mailing list has replied to my SOS¹. Basically, the intere

Re: Not able to change password with passwd

2010-03-22 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Florian Pressler schreef: Hi there! 1) The output in /var/log/auth.log when I try changing the password is the following: Mar 22 13:24:48 fp passwd[2001]: pam_winbind(passwd:chauthtok): valid_user: wbcGetpwnam gave WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND So you're trying to authenticate against a windows doma

Re: Not able to change password with passwd

2010-03-22 Thread Florian Pressler
Hi there! 1) The output in /var/log/auth.log when I try changing the password is the following: Mar 22 13:24:48 fp passwd[2001]: pam_winbind(passwd:chauthtok): valid_user: wbcGetpwnam gave WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND 2) The output of lsattr /usr/bin/passwd is the following: airf...@fp:/$ lsattr /u

Re: Not able to change password with passwd

2010-03-22 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
also, make sure output of lsattr as below (only a wild guess here) # lsattr /usr/bin/passwd --- /usr/bin/passwd somebody/something might have done something to your system -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my

Re: Not able to change password with passwd

2010-03-22 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Nairolf Relsserp schreef: Hi, recently I set up a new server using Debian testing. When I tried adding a new user a few days later, I noticed that it was impossible to set a password for the user. The error-message ist "System error" together with the information that the password is unchan

Re: Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-22 Thread Clive Standbridge
> I can have as many open connections as I want, it's on the LAN. But I > would _prefer_ just one terminal window for both commands (SSH) and > file transfers. You might like to try this. 1) Add to ~/.ssh/config ControlMaster auto ControlPath /tmp/%h%p%r (man ssh_config for explanation). 2) Fir

tc download always to "default"

2010-03-22 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, This is my simple topology: LAN <--> (eth1)[gateway](eth2) <--> Internet The gataway NATs (Masquerade) but there is no trouble about this. I would like to limit the DOWNLOAD bandwidth per host. Download is: Internet -> gateway -> eth1 -> LAN Host LAN is 10.15

Re: Iceweasel (from backports) keeps busy cursor at startup

2010-03-22 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:15:49 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 10:10 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> Try explicitly setting StartupNotify=false in the .desktop file. > > That did the trick! What does that do? Thanks - John It's documented here: *** Startup notification h

Re: Iceweasel (from backports) keeps busy cursor at startup

2010-03-22 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 10:10 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2010-03-22, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 22:08 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> On 2010-03-21, Camaleón wrote: > >> > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:13:22 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> > > >> >> On 2010-03-21, Camaleón

Re: Iceweasel (from backports) keeps busy cursor at startup

2010-03-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-03-22, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 22:08 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2010-03-21, Camaleón wrote: >> > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:13:22 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> > >> >> On 2010-03-21, Camaleón wrote: ---SNIP--- >> > >> > Just creating a new launcher seems to s

Re: Iceweasel (from backports) keeps busy cursor at startup

2010-03-22 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 22:08 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2010-03-21, Camaleón wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:13:22 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > >> On 2010-03-21, Camaleón wrote: > > > > (...) > > > >>> Is someone seeing that behavior or it's just me? > >>> > >>> If yes, I could report it

Small Game RectsFight

2010-03-22 Thread Рустам
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Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,19.Mar.10, 17:28:20, Greg Madden wrote: > I was refering to what Debian calls a 'base' intall and 'standard'. When you > install Debian (net install) the base system is installed, then a reboot is > done > to install any 'tasksel' (gnome the default or alternate desktops) items. i > th

Re: don't open any e-mails sent from my hotmail account

2010-03-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Han Huynh put forth on 3/21/2010 10:20 PM: > I think someone broke into my hotmail account and sending some type of > e-mails out. Please ignore all e-mails from my hotmail account. > > My yahoo account if fine. If you don't know it already just replace hotmail > with yahoo. It's the same ID

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> I can have as many open connections as I want, it's on the LAN. But I >> would _prefer_ just one terminal window for both commands (SSH) and >> file transfers. > > First of all, I believe the ssh protocol (not necessarily the ssh > program) already support exactly what you want: logging in and,

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
> You are getting many responses, so perhaps this idea has already been > rejected, however --- I use ssh AND sshfs. I get shell access to the > remote machine with ssh and for file access I mount the portion of the > remote fs that a want on a local mount point. I know there are a lot > of machina

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
>>   As others have commented, you can use scp or sftp. >> >>   However, I can imagine that embedded might not have the >> sftp service or the scp executable. >> >>   If that's your case, you can always do: >> >> # cat file | ssh remote 'cat > destinaton' > >  Pardon my replying to myself, but I've

Re: How to obtain UUID of drives (squeeze udev lacks vol_id)

2010-03-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-21 23:51, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20100321_181749, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-21 17:52, Tom H wrote: *You* should not need to set the UUID. It should just magically be there. $ /sbin/blkid -t TYPE=swap /dev/sdb1: TYPE="swap" LABEL="swap1" \ UUID="c69f59ff-b928-4232-b44c-8da0f12c5