Re: dig knows while ping doesn't

2011-02-16 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 03:59 +, T o n g wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:20:58 +, T o n g wrote: > > > I can't explain the following myself: . . . > > > > -- dig knows the host maroon. > > -- yet ping doesn't know the host maroon. > > - It actually happens to all of my local hosts short n

Re: Way to have terminal/console application stack in gnome like in KDE 3.5's kicker?

2011-02-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 22:18 Wed 16 Feb, D G Teed (donald.t...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > on 20:51 Wed 16 Feb, D G Teed (donald.t...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Having lost KDE 3.5 in the squeeze update, and not being satisfied > > > with the new KDE 4.* (frankly, I t

Re: Migration from Lenny to Squeeze: any feedback about configuration upgrade issues ?

2011-02-16 Thread Dominique Dumont
[ Sorry for the late reply ] Le jeudi 10 février 2011 02:55:36, Rob Owens a écrit : > > Did you have other configuration issues ? > > I didn't have any major issues, but I did have to manually merge several > config files. If I know I modified the config file previously, I keep > my existing con

Re: Squeeze: how to change login manager

2011-02-16 Thread mihkel
Hi. Try dpkg-reconfigure gdm(3) or dpkg-reconfigure slim Hoang Le writes: > I'm using default Squeeze with Gnome. I've tried SLIM login manager and want > to > go back to gdm3 but don't know how to switch back. Now my debian doesn't start > any login manager, so I must start gdm3 manually from

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 04:10:11PM EST, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 15:09:23 -0700 [..] > Good to know, thanks - I've heard that before. The keyboard is the one > thing about which I'm really dissatisfied with my Acer Aspire, although > that's not Linux specific. Not sure which particul

Re: Squeeze update => disk unbootable

2011-02-16 Thread Frank Miles
Firstly, thanks Tom for asking about the udev version. Since I cannot boot the system I can't ask udev directly; however in /var/cache/apt/archives, the only udev pkg is 164-3. - I think I'm closer to understanding the problem. To clear up one thing: the system is partway to grub-2.

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal - SOLVED

2011-02-16 Thread Csanyi Pal
Ron Johnson writes: > On 02/16/2011 02:08 PM, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Csanyi Pal writes: >> >>> Joe Riel writes: >>> I started a similar thread about two weeks ago. Finally resolved it by switching from the nvidia driver to the nouveau driver. Why that made a difference is beyond

Re: squeeze fails to install

2011-02-16 Thread David Christensen
On 02/16/2011 07:01 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: Every installation medium that I've tried fails. Those trials include net-install-iso, mini-iso, full-diskOne-iso. . .with both linux and bsd kernels. ... > HP pavilion (ze4400) It sounds like you have a hardware problem. The following is an outline o

Gnash killing my CPU

2011-02-16 Thread Noah Duffy
I finally noticed a tend today. Whenever I have a web browser open, my laptop's fan goes nuts and the temperature shoots up to a level I don't like it to be at when I'm ONLY browsing the web. I opened up the system monitor and one of my processors was was 100% with the other not to far behind. I

Re: Cleaning DHCP and Host Info for New LAN

2011-02-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:22 PM, Bob wrote: > On 02/17/2011 06:38 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> I'm working with some embedded systems where the OS will be Squeeze on a CF >> card. The idea is to have a basic setup that will be stored in a zip file >> and when it's time to create a new system, the fi

Re: Way to have terminal/console application stack in gnome like in KDE 3.5's kicker?

2011-02-16 Thread D G Teed
On my LUG, someone provided a clue... there is a solution which works for gnome. It causes open windows to be grouped in the gnome panel. It isn't obvious where this is. In the bottom left corner of the screen, you've got the widget to "hide all windows and show the desktop". To the right of tha

Re: dig knows while ping doesn't

2011-02-16 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:20:58 +, T o n g wrote: > I can't explain the following myself: . . . > > -- dig knows the host maroon. > -- yet ping doesn't know the host maroon. - It actually happens to all of my local hosts short names, unless the domain name is appended. - My DNS server is DNSm

Re: Cleaning DHCP and Host Info for New LAN

2011-02-16 Thread Bob
On 02/17/2011 06:38 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm working with some embedded systems where the OS will be Squeeze on a CF card. The idea is to have a basic setup that will be stored in a zip file and when it's time to create a new system, the files will be unzipped onto a new CF card, then the c

dig knows while ping doesn't

2011-02-16 Thread T o n g
Hi, I can't explain the following myself: $ dig maroon ; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2 <<>> maroon ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34832 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;

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2011-02-16 Thread Orn Palsson
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Re: Help configuring grub-pc

2011-02-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:24:59 -0500 (EST), Charles Kroeger wrote: > > If you have grub2 then use Rescatux..doesn't everyone use grub2 anyway? Everyone most assuredly does *not* use grub2. There's grub-legacy, extlinux, lilo, and others. I don't use grub2. As for a rescue disk, for as often as I

squeeze fails to install

2011-02-16 Thread Neal Hogan
I have another thread started that is not getting much traffic given the significance of the situation: installation. Every installation medium that I've tried fails. Those trials include net-install-iso, mini-iso, full-diskOne-iso. . .with both linux and bsd kernels. What information do those th

Re: Way to have terminal/console application stack in gnome like in KDE 3.5's kicker?

2011-02-16 Thread D G Teed
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 20:51 Wed 16 Feb, D G Teed (donald.t...@gmail.com) wrote: > > Having lost KDE 3.5 in the squeeze update, and not being satisfied with > the > > new KDE 4.* (frankly, I think it is very poorly designed), I am looking > for > > a desktop >

Re: Squeeze: how to change login manager

2011-02-16 Thread Hoang Le
Thank you, it's very useful, I don't need to remember every individual configure* command anymore. For you, it might be best to install a package called 'configure-debian'. > If you call this up from the command line (as already described) you will > be able to configure your whole system like thi

Re: Way to have terminal/console application stack in gnome like in KDE 3.5's kicker?

2011-02-16 Thread peasthope
Donald, From: D G Teed Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:51:27 -0400 > Let's say I have 50 Konsole or gnome-terminal windows open, each to a > different remote box. I want to click on the panel area and select one by > name which is already open. ... what options are there > for managing many open

Re: Two email accounts

2011-02-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 15:18 Wed 16 Feb, Gary Roach (gary719_li...@verizon.net) wrote: > I am trying to consolidate most of my applications onto a new > machine. I have two separate email accounts, one for technical stuff > and one for general email. I wish to have these two accounts on the > same machine but complete

Re: Way to have terminal/console application stack in gnome like in KDE 3.5's kicker?

2011-02-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 20:51 Wed 16 Feb, D G Teed (donald.t...@gmail.com) wrote: > Having lost KDE 3.5 in the squeeze update, and not being satisfied with the > new KDE 4.* (frankly, I think it is very poorly designed), I am looking for > a desktop > which can stack running terminal sessions. > > Let's say I have 50

Way to have terminal/console application stack in gnome like in KDE 3.5's kicker?

2011-02-16 Thread D G Teed
Having lost KDE 3.5 in the squeeze update, and not being satisfied with the new KDE 4.* (frankly, I think it is very poorly designed), I am looking for a desktop which can stack running terminal sessions. Let's say I have 50 Konsole or gnome-terminal windows open, each to a different remote box.

Re: Configuring QLogic QLA4010c on Debian on Sparc

2011-02-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
RR put forth on 2/16/2011 1:14 PM: > All through this though I'm assuming that since the kernel modules seem to > be loaded already and if I'm planning to configure the HBAs via config files > I don't need the driver that is available from Qlogic for the Redhat and > Suse packages as I don't have

Re: Cleaning DHCP and Host Info for New LAN

2011-02-16 Thread shawn wilson
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I'm working with some embedded systems where the OS will be Squeeze on a CF > card. The idea is to have a basic setup that will be stored in a zip file > and when it's time to create a new system, the files will be unzipped onto a > new CF ca

Re: why can't I access trinity repo

2011-02-16 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 23:30 +0100, deloptes wrote: > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 23:02 +0100, deloptes wrote: > >> I recently updated my firewall rules and since then I can't update from > >> trinity repo. Is it a coincidence or something is wrong with my firewall > >>

Re: Two email accounts

2011-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:18:21 -0800 Gary Roach wrote: > I am trying to consolidate most of my applications onto a new machine. I > have two separate email accounts, one for technical stuff and one for > general email. I wish to have these two accounts on the same machine but > completely separa

Re: Debootstrap

2011-02-16 Thread Peter Smith
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > > Seems to be #561991š which is fixed in wheezy/sid, but not in squeeze. > > Sven > > > š http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561991 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "un

Using /etc/apt/*.d directories

2011-02-16 Thread Brad Alexander
I've kind of ignored this since what I had was working, plus I haven't found any docs on it. At some point (lenny?), debian transitioned from monolithic files to breaking them up into smaller files in their .d directories. Specifically, I wanted to know best practices with /etc/apt/apt.conf and /et

Two email accounts

2011-02-16 Thread Gary Roach
I am trying to consolidate most of my applications onto a new machine. I have two separate email accounts, one for technical stuff and one for general email. I wish to have these two accounts on the same machine but completely separated. I'm running squeeze on an i5-750 system with kde desktop

Cleaning DHCP and Host Info for New LAN

2011-02-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm working with some embedded systems where the OS will be Squeeze on a CF card. The idea is to have a basic setup that will be stored in a zip file and when it's time to create a new system, the files will be unzipped onto a new CF card, then the card will be put in a new system. Of course t

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:13:17 -0500 shawn wilson wrote: ... > whatever you get as long as the hardware isn't too strange. strange might be > a gsm modem, fingerprint reader, dual mode graphics, no name 802.11 card - > stuff like that. Not sure what you mean by a 'no name 802.11 card' - they all

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal - SOLVED

2011-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2011 02:08 PM, Csanyi Pal wrote: Csanyi Pal writes: Joe Riel writes: I started a similar thread about two weeks ago. Finally resolved it by switching from the nvidia driver to the nouveau driver. Why that made a difference is beyond me, but it did. I'm using nvidia driver now.

Re: upgrade using aptitude

2011-02-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
Heddle Weaver: > On 16 February 2011 20:06, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Qi Qi: >>> >>> I have been using debian unstable. After debian 6.0 released, aptitude >>> upgrading asks me to remove gnome, gnome-core, and >>> gnome-desktop-enviroment,etc. >> >> I doubt that you are using (safe-)upgrade. You

Re: why can't I access trinity repo

2011-02-16 Thread deloptes
John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 23:02 +0100, deloptes wrote: >> I recently updated my firewall rules and since then I can't update from >> trinity repo. Is it a coincidence or something is wrong with my firewall >> rules?! > > There was a problem with that repository today. T

USB3/xhci and hibernate/suspend to disk

2011-02-16 Thread Andre [debian]
Hi, I've got a clean install of debian 6.0 squeeze, and am trying to get sleep/hibernate (suspend to ram/disk) to work. I'll document what I have working first (to help anyone else searching for answers), and hopefully someone can help me past where I'm currently stuck... I'm writing this up at

Re: Debootstrap

2011-02-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-16 23:07 +0100, Joey Hess wrote: > Peter Smith wrote: >> Last four lines of debootstrap.log: >> >> - >> Preparing to replace coreutils 8.5-1 (using .../coreutils_8.5-1_i386.deb) ... >> Unpacking replacement coreutils ... >> dpkg: ../../src/archives.c:823: tarobject: Assertion `r ==

Re: why can't I access trinity repo

2011-02-16 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 23:02 +0100, deloptes wrote: > I recently updated my firewall rules and since then I can't update from > trinity repo. Is it a coincidence or something is wrong with my firewall > rules?! There was a problem with that repository today. The mirrors were working fine but the m

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-16 Thread shawn wilson
2011/2/16 Nuno Magalhães > Hi > > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 03:21, Kumar Appaiah > wrote: > > On a related topic, could you please tell me which of the current > > ThinkPads have the same basic (awesome) feature-set which the old > > favourites (T61, T42 etc.) had? I am genuinely unaware, and wante

Re: Debootstrap

2011-02-16 Thread Joey Hess
Peter Smith wrote: > Last four lines of debootstrap.log: > > - > Preparing to replace coreutils 8.5-1 (using .../coreutils_8.5-1_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement coreutils ... > dpkg: ../../src/archives.c:823: tarobject: Assertion `r == stab.st_size' > failed. > Aborted dpkg does a sani

why can't I access trinity repo

2011-02-16 Thread deloptes
I recently updated my firewall rules and since then I can't update from trinity repo. Is it a coincidence or something is wrong with my firewall rules?! Err http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net squeeze/main Sources Unable to connect to ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net:http: Err http://p

Re: [aptitude] - resolving dependencies takes a long time

2011-02-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 16 February 2011 14:51:31 KS wrote: > Hello all, > > I have noticed that aptitude has been behaving differently since after > the squeeze release. I have a debian/unstable box and when I try to do a > safe-upgrade with aptitude, it starts with "Resolving dependencies" > and uses 1

no network connection with Wheezy

2011-02-16 Thread Steve Kleene
From: Steve Kleene To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: no network connection with Wheezy I installed Wheezy (testing) with a netinst CD, at which point it obviously had a network connection. On booting, though, it does not. If I transfer the Ethernet cable to the adjacent Lenny machine, t

Re: Sticking with Lenny

2011-02-16 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 15:03:35 Camaleón wrote: > So, no more packages for lenny on D-M? No - and D-M needs to be removed, or at least commented out, from sources.list. Or, of course, one can live with the errors that are thrown up every time that one upgrades. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: xterm question

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:39:39PM EST, Mike McClain wrote: [..] > That said the complexities of 'nix is a broad subject and though > I've been a user for many years there is still so much I don't > know that it's easy to get overwhelmed. Rob's shortcut for instance: > uxterm -fn -misc-fixed

Re: Hibernate works, but resume reboots midway

2011-02-16 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
On 02/16/2011 06:33 PM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Rakhesh Sasidharan schreef: Hi, I am using Squeeze (Linux) on a netbook (an Ideapad S10). Pretty standard install from the first CD, using GNOME, custom partitions - with /boot an a primary partition and the rest of the space an encrypted partition

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-16 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 03:21, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On a related topic, could you please tell me which of the current > ThinkPads have the same basic (awesome) feature-set which the old > favourites (T61, T42 etc.) had? I am genuinely unaware, and wanted to > know if all the ones available to

Debootstrap

2011-02-16 Thread Peter Smith
Hello I have some trouble getting debootstrap, fakeroot and fakechroot working together. Any suggestions on what i am doing wrong? $ export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin $ fakeroot -s fakechroot.save fakechroot debootstrap --variant=fakechroot squeeze /tmp/debian-sq

Re: fresh squeeze install fails to partition

2011-02-16 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:14 PM,   wrote: >> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:46:55 -0800 >> David Christensen wrote: >> >>> On 02/15/2011 04:43 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: >>> > My goal was to install the debian GNU/bsd system, but things seemed >>> > to be

Re: Apt Crippled

2011-02-16 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 12 February 2011 22:54:16 David Baron wrote: > On Saturday 12 February 2011 21:30:20 debian-user-digest- > > requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > > For several days (after squeeze release), I have been getting the > > > following > > > > > > error and can no longer run anything in apt,

[aptitude] - resolving dependencies takes a long time

2011-02-16 Thread KS
Hello all, I have noticed that aptitude has been behaving differently since after the squeeze release. I have a debian/unstable box and when I try to do a safe-upgrade with aptitude, it starts with "Resolving dependencies" and uses 100% of one core on my Quad-Core AMD. This goes on for a long

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal - SOLVED

2011-02-16 Thread Csanyi Pal
Csanyi Pal writes: > Joe Riel writes: > >> I started a similar thread about two weeks ago. Finally resolved it >> by switching from the nvidia driver to the nouveau driver. Why that >> made a difference is beyond me, but it did. > > I'm using nvidia driver now. So this can cause the problem!

Keyboard Mapping Strangeness

2011-02-16 Thread Alan Chandler
Recently (since Squeeze release and my decision to change back to unstable) my gnome desktop keyboard default as moved from Gbr to USA (as witnessed by the little icon to the left of time on my top panel). If I go edit keyboard settings and ensure that United Kingdom is the default layout, and

Re: Middle button copy/paste

2011-02-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 08:15 Tue 15 Feb, Curt Howland (howl...@priss.com) wrote: > After updating Sid yesterday, middle button paste isn't working. > > One of the most handy and wonderful features of UNIX is just ... gone. > > I edited my /etc/X11/xorg.conf to EmulateThreeButtonMouse "yes", which > is the only pla

Educación Virtual Diplomados online

2011-02-16 Thread unicolombia
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Re: Configuring QLogic QLA4010c on Debian on Sparc

2011-02-16 Thread RR
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> No. What I'm saying is that Qlogic never shipped, and does not ship, a > >> SPARC/Linux binary of its utility package. And they don't ship the > source. > >> If > >> that package is required to program that HBA, then you're hosed, > sc

Re: upgrade using aptitude

2011-02-16 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 01:18:02PM -0600, Qi Qi wrote: > Thanks, Freeman. The problem is solved. I just manually keep back evolution's > upgrade in aptitude, and then all the others were upgraded smoothly. Now > my debian is on unstale version. My source list do jumping among stable, > testing, and

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-16 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 23:00 Wed 09 Feb, Bob Proulx (b...@proulx.com) wrote: > Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > My avoiding use of GNOME/KDE (and hence network-manager and its GUI > > interfaces) doesn't help matters much. I suspect that if I were to run > > one or the other, I'd have fewer problems in that department. > >

Re^2: UVC cameras

2011-02-16 Thread peasthope
* From: Sjoerd Hardeman * Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:24:00 +0200 > Better, try luvcview or guvcview, specialised programmes to just grab > the output of the camera. They also allow to alter the settings, maybe > you can fix things. Thanks for the tip. The camera is now a Microsoft (R

Re: Trying to Switch from Ubuntu to Debian

2011-02-16 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 11:38 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 16 February 2011 11:18:47 Sam Leon wrote: > > I honestly don't know how in the world my sound even works. I don't have > > pulseaudio or jack or any other daemons installed: > > ALSA is sufficient in many desktop situa

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal

2011-02-16 Thread Csanyi Pal
Joe Riel writes: > I started a similar thread about two weeks ago. Finally resolved it > by switching from the nvidia driver to the nouveau driver. Why that > made a difference is beyond me, but it did. I'm using nvidia driver now. So this can cause the problem! -- Regards, Paul

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal

2011-02-16 Thread Csanyi Pal
Chris Jones writes: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:33:45AM EST, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Chris Jones writes: >> I can hear beep, but if I try to hit Down key when in empty >> commandline at prompt, then I can't hear beep. > > OK. And this happens whichever the terminal, not just rxvt..? IOW, if > you

Re: xterm question

2011-02-16 Thread Mike McClain
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 02:56:42AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > but I don't do bind much.. just thought I'd tell Mike that nothing in > the stupid computer is ???above his head???.. Thanks Chris for the vote of confidence. Since I've programmed in awk, several versions of basic (5?), C, Forth,

Re: Gnome, the screensaver and the lock screen background

2011-02-16 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:48:29 -0800, tony mollica wrote: > I did find a few bits of information that weren't pertinent, much less > solve the > problem, but here it is: > > How is the locked screen background manipulated for color or background > image? This is the screen where you come out of sc

Re: Moderation robot problem - can't post from Thunderbird

2011-02-16 Thread Russell Gadd
On 16/02/11 17:10, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Qua, 16 Fev 2011, Russell Gadd wrote: Thanks for the response. I didn't know I was using a gateway. All I know is that I signed up to Usenet-News.net to be able to access newsgroups and I can download these without problem in Icedove. I signed up

Re: Squeeze: how to change login manager

2011-02-16 Thread Hoang Le
Thank you, Matt, it works perfectly > Try typing in: > > su > (followed by your root password) > then type in: > dpkg-reconfigure gdm3 > > It should give you an option to select GDM as the login manager. >

Re: xterm question

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:33:13AM EST, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > He probably wants: > > $ xrdb -load ~/.Xresources That should have been.. $ xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources %-) cj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Trying to Switch from Ubuntu to Debian

2011-02-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 16 February 2011 11:18:47 Sam Leon wrote: > I honestly don't know how in the world my sound even works. I don't have > pulseaudio or jack or any other daemons installed: ALSA is sufficient in many desktop situations. PulsaAudio has some nice stuff for sound over a network. Jack is

Squeeze: how to change login manager

2011-02-16 Thread Hoang Le
I'm using default Squeeze with Gnome. I've tried SLIM login manager and want to go back to gdm3 but don't know how to switch back. Now my debian doesn't start any login manager, so I must start gdm3 manually from console screen. I noticed that after installing SLIM, a window was open to select log

Re: Trying to Switch from Ubuntu to Debian

2011-02-16 Thread Sam Leon
On 02/16/2011 01:58 AM, Noah Duffy wrote: > On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 23:55 -0600, Sam Leon wrote: >> >> I think it just depends on what you are wanting to accomplish. I left MS >> because their OS just tries too hard to do everything for me (and tries >> too hard to take my money). I left ubuntu be

Re: Moderation robot problem - can't post from Thunderbird

2011-02-16 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 16 Fev 2011, Russell Gadd wrote: Thanks for the response. I didn't know I was using a gateway. All I know is that I signed up to Usenet-News.net to be able to access newsgroups and I can download these without problem in Icedove. I signed up via my gmail email service. If I post by s

Re: Moderation robot problem - can't post from Thunderbird

2011-02-16 Thread Russell Gadd
On 15/02/11 17:00, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Ter, 15 Fev 2011, Russell Gadd wrote: I'm having a problem with the moderation robot. I am a member of this list - joined via googlemail. However I use Thunderbird to view the newsgroup but when I try to use it to reply to a post the robot throw

MySQL Cluster package in squeeze

2011-02-16 Thread Steven Ayre
Hi, Does anyone know the current status of packaging mysql cluster for squeeze, since the feature is forked out in 5.1? There's an old bug (560244) about this, where Toni Mueller was working on packaging it but there's been no activity on it since August and there are no packages currently availa

Re: CPU Fan turning on (laptop)

2011-02-16 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:30:58 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> What is the output of "acpi -V" and "lsmod | grep acpi"? >> >> > Here is what I have: > > $ acpi -V > Battery 0: Unknown, 99% > Battery 0: design capacity 4500 mAh, last full capaci

Re: How to report bug in installation of squeeze

2011-02-16 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:32:56 +0100, Per Edlund wrote: > I need help on how to report a bug in the installer. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Bugs http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting.en.html > I've tried to install Debian Squeeze (6.0) on a Dell PowerEdge 1750 for > a day and it failes wi

Re: upgrade using aptitude

2011-02-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Qi Qi: On 16 February 2011 20:06, Jochen Schulz wrote: Qi Qi: > > I have been using debian unstable. After debian 6.0 released, aptitude > upgrading asks me to remove gnome, gnome-core, and > gnome-desktop-enviroment,etc. I doubt that you are using (safe-)upgrade. You are probably having

Re: CPU Fan turning on (laptop)

2011-02-16 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:44:54 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > >> This is what I get when installing the package: >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=613667 >> >> Looks like my laptop does not use APM anymore. >> >> However it d

Re: CPU Fan turning on (laptop)

2011-02-16 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:44:54 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > This is what I get when installing the package: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=613667 > > Looks like my laptop does not use APM anymore. > > However it does not look like ACPI is supported: > > $ find /proc/a

Re: Debian Squeeze 64-bit, dlopen() missing?

2011-02-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 03:51:10PM +0100, Johan Karlsson wrote: [Please don't top post, it really makes it hard to read.] > First it checks for dlopen (indirectly), but check later down in my > config.log paste: > > configure:2855: checking for dlopen in -ldl > configure:2874: gcc -o conftest -

RE: Debian Squeeze 64-bit, dlopen() missing?

2011-02-16 Thread Johan Karlsson
Hi! First it checks for dlopen (indirectly), but check later down in my config.log paste: configure:2855: checking for dlopen in -ldl configure:2874: gcc -o conftest -O2 -Wl,--export-dynamic conftest.c -ldl -L/usr/local/lib -lpcap -lpfring -L/usr/lib -lmysqlclient 1>&5 So the configure scr

Re: upgrade using aptitude

2011-02-16 Thread Qi Qi
What I did was "sudo aptitude --no-gui", and type u, then U and g, and choose among proposed conflict resolutions. I didn't know actually this is called safe-upgrade. I will try directly run "sudo aptitude full-upgrade" in terminal. I admitted that I wasn't really sure about the appropriate proc

Re: CPU Fan turning on (laptop)

2011-02-16 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
This is what I get when installing the package: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=613667 Looks like my laptop does not use APM anymore. However it does not look like ACPI is supported: $ find /proc/acpi/thermal_zone /proc/acpi/thermal_zone The directory is empty ! On Wed, Feb 1

Re: CPU Fan turning on (laptop)

2011-02-16 Thread Felipe Ignacio Valverde Campos
I forgot to mention in /proc/acpi you can see a lot information, particulary thermal_zone Regards! El mié, 16-02-2011 a las 11:34 -0300, Felipe Ignacio Valverde Campos escribió: > Hi Mathieu, > I installed toshutils for manipulated the fan. > > Regards! > El mié, 16-02-2011 a las 11:46 +0100, Ma

Re: CPU Fan turning on (laptop)

2011-02-16 Thread Felipe Ignacio Valverde Campos
Hi Mathieu, I installed toshutils for manipulated the fan. Regards! El mié, 16-02-2011 a las 11:46 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre escribió: > Dear all, > > I recently bought a new laptop (Toshiba L670). When using it for a > little while the CPU Fan is turning ON for no reason (IMHO). How do I > disp

Re: Hibernate works, but resume reboots midway

2011-02-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Rakhesh Sasidharan schreef: Hi, I am using Squeeze (Linux) on a netbook (an Ideapad S10). Pretty standard install from the first CD, using GNOME, custom partitions - with /boot an a primary partition and the rest of the space an encrypted partition which has LVM on it. I... I can confirm that

Hibernate works, but resume reboots midway

2011-02-16 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Hi, I am using Squeeze (Linux) on a netbook (an Ideapad S10). Pretty standard install from the first CD, using GNOME, custom partitions - with /boot an a primary partition and the rest of the space an encrypted partition which has LVM on it. I installed 'pm-utils' and I can get the laptop to hibe

Re: Debian Squeeze 64-bit, dlopen() missing?

2011-02-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:43:19PM +0100, Johan Karlsson wrote: > Hi! > > The --enable-64bit flag is just to enable 64bit counters in pmacct, and I get > the same error without it. > > I've also tried using LDFLAGS to point out every single lib-directory on the > server when running configure ;

Re: Unable to print from Windows Vista Laptop via Samba

2011-02-16 Thread Pablo Sánchez
James, do you see through smb (\\server-computer) the "printers" share ? If you do, can you see the printer listed ? (Camaleón somehow asked you the same question)  . Try running # smbclient -L server-computer to see all shares listed by the server . C

AW: PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library

2011-02-16 Thread Boblitz John
Well doh me! apt-get remove libexpect-php5 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package libexpect-php5 is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. apt-get install libexpect-php5 Reading package

Re: fresh squeeze install fails to partition

2011-02-16 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:14 PM, wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:46:55 -0800 > David Christensen wrote: > >> On 02/15/2011 04:43 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: >> > My goal was to install the debian GNU/bsd system, but things seemed >> > to be messed up. I've tried the mini.iso and full net-iso for both

Re: OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?

2011-02-16 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:02:58 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:30:47 + (UTC) Camaleón dijo: > >>Back on topic, Wikipedia holds up-to-date info about OpenOffice forks >>and its derivatives: >> >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org#Derivative_software > > Thanks.

Re: OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?

2011-02-16 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:54:15PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm using Sid. After OpenOffice broke during an upgrade I purged it and > reinstalled, after which it returned to life as LibreOffice. There define "broke", please. Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Li

Re: New policies?

2011-02-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 04:48:44PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > For the irksome case where a proprietary protocol is changed out from under > Free Software in a stable release, Debian has already had a mechanism for > fixing this, for a while. > > First, the change required to support

RE: Debian Squeeze 64-bit, dlopen() missing?

2011-02-16 Thread Johan Karlsson
Hi! The --enable-64bit flag is just to enable 64bit counters in pmacct, and I get the same error without it. I've also tried using LDFLAGS to point out every single lib-directory on the server when running configure ;) Here's the the info from config.log when things start to go bad (the undefi

Re: Unable to mount [device] Not Authorized

2011-02-16 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 02/16/2011 12:05 PM, Michael Tsang wrote: On Wednesday 16 February 2011 16:37:09 Chris wrote: Hi everyone, Since I do a normal update, I can't mount my flash drive from nautilus. It works before. The error message is: Unable to mount [device] Not Authorized Is it something related to Polic

Re: upgrade using aptitude

2011-02-16 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 16 February 2011 20:06, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Qi Qi: > > > > I have been using debian unstable. After debian 6.0 released, aptitude > > upgrading asks me to remove gnome, gnome-core, and > > gnome-desktop-enviroment,etc. > > I doubt that you are using (safe-)upgrade. You are probably having >

Re: Debian Squeeze 64-bit, dlopen() missing?

2011-02-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:23:51AM +0100, Johan Karlsson wrote: > I'm trying to compile pmacct from source under Debian Squeeze 64-bit, but it > can't seem to find dlopen(). The very same thing works without problems on > Debian Squeeze 32-bit. > /usr/local/src/pmacct-0.12.5# ./configure --enable

CPU Fan turning on (laptop)

2011-02-16 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Dear all, I recently bought a new laptop (Toshiba L670). When using it for a little while the CPU Fan is turning ON for no reason (IMHO). How do I display temperature information on a latop ? I tried sensors-detect but it simply returned: "No sensors found!" Thanks -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSC

RE: Debian Squeeze 64-bit, dlopen() missing?

2011-02-16 Thread Johan Karlsson
C'mon, anyone? :) Maybe this is the wrong list for these kinds of problems? Regards, Johan -Original Message- From: Johan Karlsson [mailto:johan.karls...@deltamanagement.se] Sent: den 10 februari 2011 17:20 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Debian Squeeze 64-bit, dlopen() missi

Re: two surprises from testing install

2011-02-16 Thread Michael Tsang
On Wednesday 16 February 2011 06:13:15 Steve Kleene wrote: > I just succeeded in installing today's version of testing and found two > surprises. Maybe these should be separate posts. Anyway, here they are: > > 1. /etc/apt/sources.list, which is: > > -- > # > > # de

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