Re: Remove nvidia driver and reinstall nouveau

2011-01-27 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 28 January 2011 07:12:43 Joe Riel wrote: > Is there a nice way to remove the nvidia driver and replace > it with the nouveau driver (which was originally installed > with Debian squeeze)? > > I tried modifying xorg.conf and > removing /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-common.conf; that > par

Re: Remove nvidia driver and reinstall nouveau

2011-01-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-28 07:12 +0100, Joe Riel wrote: > Is there a nice way to remove the nvidia driver and replace > it with the nouveau driver (which was originally installed > with Debian squeeze)? If you have used the Debian packages in non-free, definitely. If you have run NVidia's installer, I'm n

Re: Strange behaviour of files in /proc Explanation??

2011-01-27 Thread Lisi
On Friday 28 January 2011 05:02:14 Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 00:56 Fri 28 Jan, Lisi (lisi.re...@gmail.com) wrote: > > On Thursday 27 January 2011 19:41:06 Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > on 17:43 Thu 27 Jan, Lisi (lisi.re...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > On my main desktop running Lenny and KDE 3.5.10, I

Recommendation for buy Hardware

2011-01-27 Thread Alfonso Ruiz
Hello. I would like ask a recommendation about HDs for Linux, because I use Squeeze and don´t want have the same problems that people that bought WD20EARS disks, my budget is limited. I plan buy one ST32000641AS for my desktop/server and one ST2000DL003 for use for backups purpose via an externa

Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm [SOLVED]

2011-01-27 Thread Joe Riel
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:38:35 -0800 Joe Riel wrote: > Is there some trick to enabling the bell in an xterm? > > $ xset q | grep bell > bell percent: 100bell pitch: 400bell duration: 100 > > But echoing ^G, > > $ echo -v -g > > makes no beep. A partial solution, anyhow. I've foun

Remove nvidia driver and reinstall nouveau

2011-01-27 Thread Joe Riel
Is there a nice way to remove the nvidia driver and replace it with the nouveau driver (which was originally installed with Debian squeeze)? I tried modifying xorg.conf and removing /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-common.conf; that partially worked, however, glx didn't work because of the differ

Re: Mount all filesystems in fstab, weird problem

2011-01-27 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:03:04 -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> LABEL=cache31 /lfs/cache31 ext3 noauto,user,dev,suid,exec 0 0 # >> /dev/sdc1 > ^^ Ha! Thx -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.

Re: Problem with memory on apache

2011-01-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 27 January 2011 15:35:57 Jesus arteche wrote: > tehre is > some way to limit the php or apache for not exceding the memory...? Yes. . . . Oh! You're still there. I guess you want me to explain how. Tune the StartServers, MinSpareServers, MaxSpareServers, MaxClients, and MaxReques

Re: Squeeze volatile?

2011-01-27 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 15:00 Thu 27 Jan, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. (b...@iguanasuicide.net) wrote: > In <201101271411.30097.rei...@bellatlantic.net>, Andrew Reid wrote: > > Hi all -- > > > > I'm finally getting around to migrating some systems to squeeze, and > >I noticed that as of now there is no "squeeze-volatile" r

Re: Mount all filesystems in fstab, weird problem

2011-01-27 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 04:32 Fri 28 Jan, T o n g (mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com) wrote: > Hi, > > Somehow my fstab entries are not all mounted by default: > > $ grep -A2 devpts /etc/fstab > devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=06220 0 > LABEL=cache21 /lfs/cache21 ext3 noauto,user,dev,suid,exec

Re: Strange behaviour of files in /proc Explanation??

2011-01-27 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 00:56 Fri 28 Jan, Lisi (lisi.re...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Thursday 27 January 2011 19:41:06 Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 17:43 Thu 27 Jan, Lisi (lisi.re...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > On my main desktop running Lenny and KDE 3.5.10, I can open files in > > > /proc with cat, vi or OOo. I can open th

squeeze mplayer autocomplete -dvd-device path

2011-01-27 Thread Bob
I tend to watch my DVDs off my nas box as my HTPC has no moving parts & I don't want a whining optical drive in the room. I use a command like mplayer -aid 128 -channels 6 -af hrtf -dvd-device /mnt/smb_rip/ dvd://1 or if I'm not using my headphones mplayer -aid 128 -afm hwac3, -dvd-device /mn

Re: /etc/X11/Xsession.d

2011-01-27 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:59:21PM EST, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > Anywhere I can read more about /etc/X11/Xsession.d? > > I want to use it to start an app when X starts, synergyc to be exact, > following the steps from > http://tacticalcoder.com/blog/2009/05/using-synergy-software-kvm-with-osx- >

Mount all filesystems in fstab, weird problem

2011-01-27 Thread T o n g
Hi, Somehow my fstab entries are not all mounted by default: $ grep -A2 devpts /etc/fstab devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=06220 0 LABEL=cache21 /lfs/cache21 ext3 noauto,user,dev,suid,exec 0 0 # /dev/sdb2 LABEL=cache31 /lfs/cache31 ext3 noauto,user,dev,suid,exec 0

Re: Strange behaviour of files in /proc Explanation??

2011-01-27 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 27 January 2011 19:41:06 Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 17:43 Thu 27 Jan, Lisi (lisi.re...@gmail.com) wrote: > > On my main desktop running Lenny and KDE 3.5.10, I can open files in > > /proc with cat, vi or OOo. I can open them neither with KWord nor with > > KWrite, neither of which can

Re: 7zr compress include subdirs?

2011-01-27 Thread godo
On 01/27/2011 10:28 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Trying to use 7zr, used example 1 from the man: 7zr a -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on archive.7z dir1 But my 'dir1' has subdirs and they are empty when I expand 'archive.7z'. I note a -r flag but with the warning: -r[-|0] Recurse

free jewel case insert: Debian 5.0.8 Official i386 xfce+lxde-CD

2011-01-27 Thread Eric De Mund
All, Made for myself; perhaps also useful to others. Jewel case insert has SHA512 checksum on cover. Available at: http://ixian.com/ead/debian/debian-508-i386-xfce+lxde-CD-1--b.odt http://ixian.com/ead/debian/debian-508-i386-xfce+lxde-CD-1--b.pdf Text reads: +---

Re: ntp & synaptic

2011-01-27 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 27/01/2011 16:50, Paul Cartwright ha scritto: My system rebooted yesterday. I had a 3 hour power outage due to a tree falling on the power lines down the street. After I got a few emails, telling me my date was wrong, I noticed that it said it was tomorrow already. I tried to change it, but wh

Re: Ubuntu -> LMDE: migrate packages using `aptitude` alone?

2011-01-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 07:32:39PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 26 January 2011 17:20:05 Rob Owens wrote: > > [M]aybe there is a way to convince apt/aptitude > > to tell you what applications were installed purposedly (not > > automatically installed to resolve dependencies).

Re: Squeeze volatile?

2011-01-27 Thread Andrew Reid
On Thursday 27 January 2011 15:35:03 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 02:11:30PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote: > > Hi all -- > > > > I'm finally getting around to migrating some systems to squeeze, and > > I noticed that as of now there is no "squeeze-volatile" repository, > > alt

Re: 7zr compress include subdirs?

2011-01-27 Thread Wayne Topa
On 01/27/2011 04:28 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Trying to use 7zr, used example 1 from the man: 7zr a -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on archive.7z dir1 But my 'dir1' has subdirs and they are empty when I expand 'archive.7z'. I note a -r flag but with the warning: -r[-|0] Recurse

Creating an encrypted directory using ecryptfs - cannot umount

2011-01-27 Thread John Magolske
I'm trying to create an encrypted directory using ecryptfs such that I can switch it between being encrypted to non-encrypted at will. I did: # aptitude install ecryptfs-utils # modprobe ecryptfs # mkdir encrypted-directory # chmod 700 encrypted-directory # mount -t ecryptfs encrypted-di

Re: weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
[top-posting fixed] On Jo, 27 ian 11, 19:42:07, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > I got a "key expired" warning for opera on one machine. Could you please > > post the exact message (copy-paste)? > > > The message wording is correct. Assuming by that you mean that my guess was correct, see Christ

Problem with memory on apache

2011-01-27 Thread Jesus arteche
Hi guys, I have a vps, and it has installed a web application PHP5+Mysql. The problem is that sometimes it crash and we have to restart the vps. The apache error log is: [error] (12)Cannot allocate memory: fork: Unable to fork new process I read about this on google, and the problem is that the

Re: Squeeze volatile?

2011-01-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 02:11:30PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote: > > Hi all -- > > I'm finally getting around to migrating some systems to squeeze, and > I noticed that as of now there is no "squeeze-volatile" repository, > although "squeeze-backports" exists. > > Does anyone know if there

7zr compress include subdirs?

2011-01-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Trying to use 7zr, used example 1 from the man: 7zr a -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on archive.7z dir1 But my 'dir1' has subdirs and they are empty when I expand 'archive.7z'. I note a -r flag but with the warning: -r[-|0] Recurse subdirectories (CAUTION: this flag

Re: Linux disk partition encryption

2011-01-27 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:25:40 + (UTC) T o n g wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:02:52 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > >> Further, does disk encryption access the partition directly? I mean, > >> does the 'cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdxn' care what type of partition > >> (ext2/3, fat, etc) /dev/sdxn i

Re: disable shutdown in System menu in gnome (not splash screen)

2011-01-27 Thread Mah Fellow Murkuhn
On lists.debian.org, > > Maria McKinley wrote: > > Hello all, > > I cannot believe how difficult this is to figure out. In Debian Lenny, Shut > Down appears in the System menu in the top panel by default, for all > users. In Debian Squeeze, this does not appear to be the case. I have > looked in

Re: Squeeze volatile?

2011-01-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201101271411.30097.rei...@bellatlantic.net>, Andrew Reid wrote: > Hi all -- > > I'm finally getting around to migrating some systems to squeeze, and >I noticed that as of now there is no "squeeze-volatile" repository, >although "squeeze-backports" exists. > > Does anyone know if there are pl

Re: Squeeze volatile?

2011-01-27 Thread John Hasler
Dr. Ed Morbius writes: > You should find that your AV and spam-filter packages update > frequently if you're tracking testing/unstable. Testing is frozen. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: Strange behaviour of files in /proc Explanation??

2011-01-27 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 17:43 Thu 27 Jan, Lisi (lisi.re...@gmail.com) wrote: > On my main desktop running Lenny and KDE 3.5.10, I can open files in /proc > with cat, vi or OOo. I can open them neither with KWord nor with KWrite, > neither of which can even see them. > > Can anyone explain this?? These are virtual

Re: Any package for surveys?

2011-01-27 Thread elbbit
On 27/01/11 19:23, Jarrod Slick wrote: Thank you for taking the time to reply Jarrod. I appreciate your argument. > On 1/27/11 12:08 PM, elbbit wrote: >> I am not going anywhere and the world will become self-aware in my >> presence. It is why I have been born. > You sound like a sociopath. You

Re: weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Fothergill
The message wording is correct. Regards Michael Fothergill > > I got a "key expired" warning for opera on one machine. Could you please > post the exact message (copy-paste)? > > Regards, > Andrei > -- > Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mail

Re: display off center

2011-01-27 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 10:45 Thu 27 Jan, shawn wilson (ag4ve...@gmail.com) wrote: > my display is shifted to the right about 2 inches - this is x windows and > console. i'm guessing there's a getty setting or something to fix this or > it's a video card / driver issue? the screen's osd won't allow me to shift > it any

Re: Squeeze volatile?

2011-01-27 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 14:11 Thu 27 Jan, Andrew Reid (rei...@bellatlantic.net) wrote: > > Hi all -- > > I'm finally getting around to migrating some systems to squeeze, and > I noticed that as of now there is no "squeeze-volatile" repository, > although "squeeze-backports" exists. > > Does anyone know if t

Re: Any package for surveys?

2011-01-27 Thread Jarrod Slick
On 1/27/11 12:08 PM, elbbit wrote: I am not going >> anywhere and the world will become self-aware in my presence. It >> is why I have been born. You sound like a sociopath. I am on the outside of the matrix. You have no idea how great it is out here. Unplug, and free your mind, just like

Re: [squeeze] Can't run KDE apps as root (Alt+F2)

2011-01-27 Thread S D
--- On Thu, 1/27/11, S D wrote: > In Lenny I was able to run > Konqueror as root, when it was needed, but I can't do it in > KDE 4.4.5 that comes with Squeeze. Filed a bug report, for more info see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=611272 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Squeeze volatile?

2011-01-27 Thread Andrew Reid
Hi all -- I'm finally getting around to migrating some systems to squeeze, and I noticed that as of now there is no "squeeze-volatile" repository, although "squeeze-backports" exists. Does anyone know if there are plans for such a thing? Lenny-volatile was what allowed me to keep using

Re: Any package for surveys?

2011-01-27 Thread elbbit
On 27/01/11 17:04, Bill Moran ... Thank you for taking the time to reply Bill. I am glad you challenge me. Someone needs to! > In response to elbbit : >> On 27/01/11 14:41, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >>> Hi Simon, >> Thanks for taking the time to reply Andrew. >> >>> elbbit wrote: I held off

Re: weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 27 ian 11, 15:13:44, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > I don't remember getting this kind of warning in the past. I would be > upgrading openoffice and opera (this I think is a non free commercial > browser and maybe that is causing the warning here... not sure and > ttfopensymbol). I got a "

Re: How to start gdm by default

2011-01-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 27 ian 11, 03:22:12, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > It's still activated as the bootup service: > > % update-rc.d gdm defaults > gdm already in /etc/runlevel.conf: No change. > > $ grep gdm /etc/runlevel.conf > 01 0,1,6 - /etc/init.d/gdm > 30 - 2,3,4,5 /e

Re: ntp & synaptic

2011-01-27 Thread Brad Alexander
The ntp package is the one that contains the daemon. ntpdate is the app for brute force adjustments. [storm@defiant ~]$ dpkg -l | grep ntp ii ntp 1:4.2.6.p2+dfsg-1+b1 Network Time Protocol daemon and utility programs [storm@defiant ~]$ apt-file list n

Re: ntp & synaptic

2011-01-27 Thread Slicky Johnson
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:42:11 -0500 Paul Cartwright wrote: ---8<--- > As far as the time being wrong, what is the "Normal" ntp package that > gets installed, or could be installed? I have a package installed, > ntpdate, but it doesn't look like it has a daemon. I tried ntpd & > openntpd but wh

Problem Accessing Phone Modem

2011-01-27 Thread David Baron
On a Sid system after upgrading to a newer MB, neither minicom nor my speakerphone plasma applet can access my modem (older analog Rockwell chip), tried both my old ISA and a newer PCI card, same result. I am letting BIOS setup use the default or normal options for the serial ports. There are t

Re: help

2011-01-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 27 ian 11, 14:59:08, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > > True... I think sudo is only installed if you disable root logins, > otherwise you're just stuck with su. What do you mean by "stuck"? Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.de

Strange behaviour of files in /proc Explanation??

2011-01-27 Thread Lisi
On my main desktop running Lenny and KDE 3.5.10, I can open files in /proc with cat, vi or OOo. I can open them neither with KWord nor with KWrite, neither of which can even see them. Can anyone explain this?? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: Linux disk partition encryption

2011-01-27 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:40:39 +0100, Erwan David wrote: > CBC would be a very bad idea for random access and modification. I thought so. Thanks for the confirmation. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSU

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, elbbit wrote: > On 27/01/11 16:21, will trillich wrote: > > That's quite an assertion. How can I confirm it HAS been compromised, as > > opposed to thinking it's a possibility? > > There is no way to know for sure unless you dissect the code running the > machine. Depending on

Re: help

2011-01-27 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 27 January 2011 12:20:52 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > sudo aptitude install chromium-browser > > Or not... is sudo part of the standard installation? At least in the   > minimal install, there's no sudo. Nor in the full standard installation. But then chromium-browser is not avail

Re: help

2011-01-27 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 27 January 2011 02:35:08 Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > As far as chrome goes, you can easily do this by opening up a terminal > (command prompt) and typing: > > sudo aptitude install chromium-browser The OP said that he has installed Lenny. chromium-browser is not in the Lenny repo

Re: Repositories now in use for Etch.

2011-01-27 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 27 January 2011 15:45:19 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Lisi writes: > > My Google and Debian.org foo seem to have gone AWOL. I even thought that > > this question had been answered on this list and searched my emails. All > > to no avail. I know, or think that I know, that Etch has "fal

Re: weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Christopher Judd
On Thursday 27 January 2011 11:28:00 Michael Fothergill wrote: > Thanks for pointing this out.. My apt sources file looks like this: > > Vigor20:/etc/apt# more sources.list > > > deb http://deb.opera.com/opera lenny non-free > > What would the command be to do the key ring installation and

Re: apt-get/aptitude. Ist it true...

2011-01-27 Thread Joey Hess
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 24 January 2011 19:59:51 peter_someone wrote: > > ...that since lenny it's safe to mix the two because a. apt-get now > > handles (or can handle)orphans similarly thanks to autoremove and also > > uses the same database or better yet, has the same markings

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-27 Thread elbbit
On 27/01/11 16:21, will trillich wrote: > That's quite an assertion. How can I confirm it HAS been compromised, as > opposed to thinking it's a possibility? There is no way to know for sure unless you dissect the code running the machine. Depending on your paranoia quotient you will either reinsta

Re: Any package for surveys?

2011-01-27 Thread elbbit
On 27/01/11 14:41, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi Simon, Thanks for taking the time to reply Andrew. > elbbit wrote: >> I held off writing back because I have just launched a new website at: >> http://www.tibble.net/ >> >> Wait! Don't go! This isn't spam! Please! Just listen! > Yes, it looks ve

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-27 Thread will trillich
That's quite an assertion. How can I confirm it HAS been compromised, as opposed to thinking it's a possibility? On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, will trillich wrote: > > In kern.log there's only > > Jan 23 23:04:59 darth kernel: [640847

Re: weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Fothergill
> are not signed. you need to install *-keyring packages for that > repositories. > please port your sources.list contents.. Thanks for pointing this out.. My apt sources file looks like this: Vigor20:/etc/apt# more sources.list # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.7 _Lenny_ - Official amd64

Re: problem with debian list

2011-01-27 Thread Alexander Wirt
Cyber Security Forum schrieb am Thursday, den 27. January 2011: > This is the message below > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at cpoproxy2-pub.bluehost.com. > I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. > This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't

Re: problem with debian list

2011-01-27 Thread Alexander Wirt
Cyber Security Forum schrieb am Thursday, den 27. January 2011: > Dear Sir, > > > > I think that I have problem with debian list. In 90% my mail is > rejected with this message: > > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at cpoproxy1-pub.bluehost.com. > I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your me

Re: help

2011-01-27 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:20:52 -0200 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Qui, 27 Jan 2011, "Robert Blair Mason Jr." wrote: > > As far as chrome goes, you can easily do this by opening up a > > terminal (command prompt) and typing: > > > > sudo aptitude install chromium-browser > > Or not... is sudo

Re: Repositories now in use for Etch.

2011-01-27 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Lisi writes: > My Google and Debian.org foo seem to have gone AWOL. I even thought that > this > question had been answered on this list and searched my emails. All to no > avail. I know, or think that I know, that Etch has "fallen over the cliff" > now that Squeeze is on the point of going

display off center

2011-01-27 Thread shawn wilson
my display is shifted to the right about 2 inches - this is x windows and console. i'm guessing there's a getty setting or something to fix this or it's a video card / driver issue? the screen's osd won't allow me to shift it anymore (it was off ~4 inches). 08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidi

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, will trillich wrote: > In kern.log there's only > Jan 23 23:04:59 darth kernel: [64084756.601774] exploit[25161]: segfault at > 10c00b ip sp deadc01d error 6 > Jan 23 23:05:08 darth kernel: [64084765.528734] NET: Registered protocol > family 5 There is no mistery. Yo

ntp & synaptic

2011-01-27 Thread Paul Cartwright
My system rebooted yesterday. I had a 3 hour power outage due to a tree falling on the power lines down the street. After I got a few emails, telling me my date was wrong, I noticed that it said it was tomorrow already. I tried to change it, but when I selected "Adjust date & time" from the syst

Re: help

2011-01-27 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 26 January 2011 19:16:31 Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 26. Januar 2011 schrieb Padilla Juan Leon II: > > greetings ! > > Hi Padilla, > > > i just installed my debian 5.0.7 in my laptop. > > Good choice! > > > i just want to install 3 things in my debian OS > > > > 1 google chro

Re: Linux disk partition encryption

2011-01-27 Thread Erwan David
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 03:06:39PM CET, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI said: > On Qui, 27 Jan 2011, Celejar wrote: > >>Now another question, which nobody seems to have noticed/mentioned. > >> > >>Since CBC encryption is a "recursive algorithm, the encryption of the n-th > >>block requires the encryption of

Re: weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
are you using third-party repositories? like debian-multimedia or similar? error says that repositories from which packages are about to be installed are not signed. you need to install *-keyring packages for that repositories. please port your sources.list contents.. Regards Roman

Repositories now in use for Etch.

2011-01-27 Thread Lisi
My Google and Debian.org foo seem to have gone AWOL. I even thought that this question had been answered on this list and searched my emails. All to no avail. I know, or think that I know, that Etch has "fallen over the cliff" now that Squeeze is on the point of going Stable, and is now in th

weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Folks, I just got a message from the package update manager: It says" Warning You are about to install software that can't be authenticated! Doing this could allow a malicious individual to damage or take control of your system." I would be upgrading 25 packages if I clicked on the apply bu

Re: [squeeze] Can't run KDE apps as root (Alt+F2)

2011-01-27 Thread godo
On 01/27/2011 02:10 PM, S D wrote: Hi, Just installed Debian Squeeze. In Lenny I was able to run Konqueror as root, when it was needed, but I can't do it in KDE 4.4.5 that comes with Squeeze. What I did: Alt+F2, then select the app to run as root (tried Dolphin and Konqueror), then check "Run

Re: OT Re: help

2011-01-27 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qui, 27 Jan 2011, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: In , shawn wilson wrote: Congratulations, you just hijacked a thread. When people use subjects like 'help', 'debian', etc, that might happen. Not more his fault than the OP that used the same bad subject. Thread hijacking is not based on t

Re: OT Re: help

2011-01-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , shawn wilson wrote: >> Congratulations, you just hijacked a thread. > >When people use subjects like 'help', 'debian', etc, that might happen. Not >more his fault than the OP that used the same bad subject. Thread hijacking is not based on the Subject header, but rather the In-Reply- To and

Re: Any package for surveys?

2011-01-27 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Simon, elbbit wrote: I held off writing back because I have just launched a new website at: http://www.tibble.net/ Wait! Don't go! This isn't spam! Please! Just listen! Yes, it looks very spammy to me For anyone who is half in the know about the goings on in the world, and are a

Re: [squeeze] Can't run KDE apps as root (Alt+F2)

2011-01-27 Thread godo
Sorry correction I can't write like root when I open gwim with Alt+2 but can in shell # gvim /etc/test.txt - # gvim work # gimp work Gvim work in your way also (ALT+2, different user, root) Looks like some problem with KDE app only. -- Bye, Goran D

Re: [squeeze] Can't run KDE apps as root (Alt+F2)

2011-01-27 Thread godo
On 01/27/2011 02:58 PM, S D wrote: --- On Thu, 1/27/11, godo wrote: No in that way. Thanks for checking that out. Strange. Not sure why it no longer works. Used to in Lenny. Bug? I never use it that way but I'm notice something else if I start in terminal like 'su' i get this: # /usr/b

Re: Linux disk partition encryption

2011-01-27 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:06:39 -0200 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Qui, 27 Jan 2011, Celejar wrote: > >> Now another question, which nobody seems to have noticed/mentioned. > >> > >> Since CBC encryption is a "recursive algorithm, the encryption of the n-th > >> block requires the encryption of

Re: Linux disk partition encryption

2011-01-27 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qui, 27 Jan 2011, Celejar wrote: Now another question, which nobody seems to have noticed/mentioned. Since CBC encryption is a "recursive algorithm, the encryption of the n-th block requires the encryption of all preceding blocks, 0 till n-1." [1] Now, does it mean if my HD has a bad block in

Re: Linux disk partition encryption

2011-01-27 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:25:20 + (UTC) T o n g wrote: > Thanks everyone who commented. > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:07:21 +0100, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > > >> - First very noob question, I don't want whole disk encryption, just > >> want to encrypt some selected already partitioned pa

Re: [squeeze] Can't run KDE apps as root (Alt+F2)

2011-01-27 Thread S D
--- On Thu, 1/27/11, godo wrote: > No in that way. Thanks for checking that out. Strange. Not sure why it no longer works. Used to in Lenny. Bug? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

OT Re: help

2011-01-27 Thread shawn wilson
> Congratulations, you just hijacked a thread. > When people use subjects like 'help', 'debian', etc, that might happen. Not more his fault than the OP that used the same bad subject.

Re: Linux disk partition encryption

2011-01-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Sjoerd Hardeman: > Celejar schreef: >> >> Oh, basically the Evil Maid attack. Fair enough. But then you have to >> make sure the attacker can't flash the BIOS ... >> > Bother to explain how it works? If you have an encrypted partition, > no adapted kernel will ever be able to access it. Of cour

Re: Linux disk partition encryption

2011-01-27 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:03:58 +0100 Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Celejar schreef: > > On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:24:07 +0100 > > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > >> Celejar: > >>> Brad Alexander wrote: > >>> > Linux admins used LUKS, and as a further step, I put /boot (the only > partition that can

interfaces tab missing in network-admin on Squeeze

2011-01-27 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi, I have with network-admin a problem already reported in several forums and bug reports(and in a previous post): the "interfaces" tab is missing. The only fix I found was to install gnome-network-admin, but as already said in the previous thread, this isn't possible on Squeeze. Before doing a

Re: [squeeze] Can't run KDE apps as root (Alt+F2)

2011-01-27 Thread godo
Does it work for you if you do it the way I did it? That is, Alt+F2, type Dolphin, then click on the "wrench" in the "Run Dolphin", then check "Run as a different user" checkbox, enter the username (root) and password. Does Dolphin starts with root's privileges for you in this case? Thanks

Re: [squeeze] Can't run KDE apps as root (Alt+F2)

2011-01-27 Thread S D
--- On Thu, 1/27/11, godo wrote: > Works for me. > 1. Just check "Run as a different user" check-box (without > username) > 2. Like normal user type in terminal $xhost + > 3. K>System>Dolphin -that will trigger KDE su window > and type su password Does it work for you if you do it the way I did

Re: [squeeze] Can't run KDE apps as root (Alt+F2)

2011-01-27 Thread godo
On 01/27/2011 02:10 PM, S D wrote: Hi, Just installed Debian Squeeze. In Lenny I was able to run Konqueror as root, when it was needed, but I can't do it in KDE 4.4.5 that comes with Squeeze. What I did: Alt+F2, then select the app to run as root (tried Dolphin and Konqueror), then check "Run

[squeeze] Can't run KDE apps as root (Alt+F2)

2011-01-27 Thread S D
Hi, Just installed Debian Squeeze. In Lenny I was able to run Konqueror as root, when it was needed, but I can't do it in KDE 4.4.5 that comes with Squeeze. What I did: Alt+F2, then select the app to run as root (tried Dolphin and Konqueror), then check "Run as a different user" checkbox, enter

Re: help

2011-01-27 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qui, 27 Jan 2011, "Robert Blair Mason Jr." wrote: As far as chrome goes, you can easily do this by opening up a terminal (command prompt) and typing: sudo aptitude install chromium-browser Or not... is sudo part of the standard installation? At least in the minimal install, there's no s

Re: Linux disk partition encryption

2011-01-27 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 26 Jan 2011, Brad Alexander wrote: Because if your laptop gets stolen, the odds are that they will not get the USB drive. Thus, it is another layer of security. Plus, if they have /boot, they will be prompted for the passphrase, which means they can brute force it. Only if the user is u

Re: How to start gdm by default

2011-01-27 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 03:22:12AM +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I need to start gdm by default on one of my boxes, which is currently > booting into text mode. > > I do have gdm installed: > [cut] > > Where should I tweak? Is above enough? You might want to look in /etc/X11/default-display

Re: Ubuntu -> LMDE: migrate packages using `aptitude` alone?

2011-01-27 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2011-01-27 00:20, Rob Owens wrote: > I would try to get a list of those applications that you really care > about. I fully agree with Rob, having done what you want to do already several times. - the selections and print them - use an old-school pencil to mark what you want - install your new

Re: editing /var/lib/dpkg/available

2011-01-27 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 22:36 +, Waqqas Dadabhoy wrote: > I played around with Zimbra a while ago, but have removed it now. I > get the following error whenever I use apt-get: > > warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 8727 package > 'zimbra-ldap': > error in Version string '6.

Re: Linux disk partition encryption

2011-01-27 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Celejar schreef: On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:24:07 +0100 Jochen Schulz wrote: Celejar: Brad Alexander wrote: Linux admins used LUKS, and as a further step, I put /boot (the only partition that cannot be encrypted) on a USB stick, so that if anyone got the laptop, they had no access to the data.

Re: aptitude upgrade errors

2011-01-27 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 07:13 +, Kelly Harding wrote: > hi > > have been getting following errors when tryign to upgrade my Debian sid box: > > dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line [...] > Results in inability to upgrade any packages on the system. > Anyone come

Looking advice for buy hard disks

2011-01-27 Thread Alfonso Ruiz
Hello. I would like ask here for advice about HDs for Linux, because I use Squeeze and don´t want have the same problems that people that bought WD20EARS disks. I plan buy one ST32000641AS for my desktop/server and one ST2000DL003 for use for backups purpose via an external esata box. The ST2000

Re: aptitude upgrade errors

2011-01-27 Thread godo
On 01/27/2011 08:13 AM, Kelly Harding wrote: hi have been getting following errors when tryign to upgrade my Debian sid box: dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 29666 package 'virtualbox-2.1': error in Version string `2.1.4-42893_Debian_lenny': invalid character