Re: How to disable USB automounts (still failing...)

2011-09-10 Thread yuanwei xu
2011/9/11 Itay : > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Itay wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:16:58 +0300 (IDT) >> From: Itay >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: How to disable USB automounts (still failing...) >> Resent-Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:28:32 + (UTC) >> Resent-From: debian-user@

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-10 Thread consul tores
2011/9/10 yudi v : > d-i uses parted (partman). >> >> I know the first release of Squeeze failed to properly align 4K sectors >> with partitions - but using the udeb from Wheezy fixed that for me - it >> could be fixed in a previous point release, and, it could be just a DOS >> partition table issu

Re: keyboard question..

2011-09-10 Thread lina
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:33:49 +0800, lina wrote: > > > On Sep 10, 2011, at 23:40, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > >> Google (and also our priceless Debian Reference Guide¹) says it has to > > > > How did you input the little 1 in plain email text?

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-10 Thread yudi v
d-i uses parted (partman). > I know the first release of Squeeze failed to properly align 4K sectors > with partitions - but using the udeb from Wheezy fixed that for me - it > could be fixed in a previous point release, and, it could be just a DOS > partition table issue (what I used in that inst

Trouble playing DVDs burnt with FFmpeg and dvdauthor on physical DVD players

2011-09-10 Thread Greg Farough
Hey, all. I've lately been trying to make backups of files in various media formats to DVD, using FFmpeg and dvdauthor. The resulting DVD plays excellently on my laptop DVD player with MPlayer and VLC, but suffers from incessant skips on the two commercial DVD players (i.e. hooked to a televisio

Re: keyboard question..

2011-09-10 Thread I Rattan
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 10 September 2011 07:41:15 Thierry Chatelet wrote: around squeeze time! I'm still on Lenny. But you are right - during the install I think that it checked keyboard with me. I just have en-GB across the board! lisi@Tux:~$ locale LANG=en_GB.UTF

What's happening with the scrotwm package.

2011-09-10 Thread Jeremy Allard
Hello there, i'm currently using scrotwm and the current version in Sid is 1 year old. I was wondering what was keeping the maintainer to update it. So, I emailed to ask him. If It's because the maintainer is not active anymore, I could update the package myself, but it's just that i can't upload i

Re: kernel oops with Google Chrome after recent security update (2.6.32-35squeeze1)

2011-09-10 Thread Andrew Reid
> On 2011-09-10, Stephen Allen wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 09:19:52AM +, Curt wrote: > >> After installing a kernel security update yesterday, I'm getting random > >> kernel oops when using Google Chrome. Anybody else seeing this > >> phenomenon? > > > > ---end quoted text--- > > > >

Re: udev warning

2011-09-10 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:17:51PM +0300, it...@nospammail.net wrote: Hi, > udevd[451]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev version, \ > please use ATTR{}= to match the event device, or ATTRS{}= to \ > match a parent device, in \ > /etc/udev/rules.d/z60_xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules:59 >

Re: which gnome version in sid?

2011-09-10 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 10 September 2011 11:13:12 am Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 15:05 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Which gnome version is now in cid? If the version is 3.0 or later I need > > to do some customization like removing gnome-shell since that and orca > > don't get alo

Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-10 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Itay writes: > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > jacques writes: > Le 10/09/2011 14:25, Mark Neidorff a écrit : 2. mount /usr as read only >>> What about updating software >> # mount -o remount,rw /usr >> # … upgrade… >> … >> # mount -o remount,ro /usr

Re: keyboard question..

2011-09-10 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 10 September 2011 07:41:15 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > around squeeze time! I'm still on Lenny. But you are right - during the install I think that it checked keyboard with me. I just have en-GB across the board! lisi@Tux:~$ locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC=

udev warning

2011-09-10 Thread itayf
Hi, I noticed during boot a series of warnings coming from udevd. The following is an example warnings. The difference between the warnings is the mentioned file, and the number after the colon (line numbers?). The '\' is a line-continuation which I added. udevd[451]: SYSFS{}= will be remo

Re: How to disable USB automounts (still failing...)

2011-09-10 Thread Itay
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Itay wrote: Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:16:58 +0300 (IDT) From: Itay To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How to disable USB automounts (still failing...) Resent-Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:28:32 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Mon, 5 Sep 201

Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-10 Thread Itay
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Ivan Shmakov wrote: jacques writes: Le 10/09/2011 14:25, Mark Neidorff a écrit : >> 2. mount /usr as read only > What about updating software # mount -o remount,rw /usr # … upgrade… … # mount -o remount,ro /usr # Any special care in case that /usr/local is an indep

Re: Install Debian 6 with only cell phone mobile modem Huawei E1752

2011-09-10 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 10/09/2011 10:27, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: Johan Scheepers, 7.09.2011: On 07/09/2011 21:32, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Op 07-09-11 21:11, Johan Scheepers schreef: Good day, Due to telephone cable theft I am without landline and my dsl internet connection. When repairs will done unknown. So I

Re: which gnome version in sid?

2011-09-10 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 15:05 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Which gnome version is now in cid? If the version is 3.0 or later I need > to do some customization like removing gnome-shell since that and orca > don't get along. > http://packages.debian.org/sid/gnome/gnome > > > Jude "I love t

Re: GNOME monitor layout preferences

2011-09-10 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 11:43 +, Camaleón wrote: > Hum... it seems to be a feature that's still on the xrandr "todo" > list: > > http://live.gnome.org/RandR#Keying_monitor_configurations Thanks for the heads up! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

which gnome version in sid?

2011-09-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
Which gnome version is now in cid? If the version is 3.0 or later I need to do some customization like removing gnome-shell since that and orca don't get along. Jude "I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action f

Re: kernel oops with Google Chrome after recent security update (2.6.32-35squeeze1)

2011-09-10 Thread Andrew Reid
> On 2011-09-10, Camaleón wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:19:52 +, Curt wrote: > >> After installing a kernel security update yesterday, I'm getting random > >> kernel oops when using Google Chrome. Anybody else seeing this > >> phenomenon? > > > > Yes, a couple of users in the Spanish mail

Re: keyboard question..

2011-09-10 Thread lina
On Sep 11, 2011, at 1:45, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:33:49 +0800, lina wrote: > >> On Sep 10, 2011, at 23:40, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >>> Google (and also our priceless Debian Reference Guide¹) says it has to >> >> How did you input the little 1 in plain email text? > > (

Re: keyboard question..

2011-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:33:49 +0800, lina wrote: > On Sep 10, 2011, at 23:40, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Google (and also our priceless Debian Reference Guide¹) says it has to > > How did you input the little 1 in plain email text? (...) In GNOME you get it by pressing "shift" then "caret" then

Re: tvtime and fglrx drivers in squeeze

2011-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:30:30 +0800, lina wrote: > On Sep 11, 2011, at 1:20, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> When it comes to the closed source driver I like nvidia cards more than >> ATI but that's just a personal POV > > What does the POV mean? It's a jargon acronym for "Point Of View". Greet.. ee

Re: keyboard question..

2011-09-10 Thread lina
On Sep 10, 2011, at 23:40, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:57:11 -0400, I Rattan wrote: > >> I am trying to use debian-sparc-small.qcow2 for >> people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/sparc directory with qemu-0.14.1 >> >> The system boots ok but the keyboard kepmap is messed up. Env command >

Re: tvtime and fglrx drivers in squeeze

2011-09-10 Thread lina
On Sep 11, 2011, at 1:20, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:28:45 +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > >> Does tvtime work with fglrx drivers on Debian Squeeze ? > > I don't see why not :-? > > That is, it can have problems but no more than other proprietary drivers, > like nvidia. > >>

Re: tvtime and fglrx drivers in squeeze

2011-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:28:45 +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > Does tvtime work with fglrx drivers on Debian Squeeze ? I don't see why not :-? That is, it can have problems but no more than other proprietary drivers, like nvidia. > I have to replace the old nvidia graphics card and just wonder

Re: kernel oops with Google Chrome after recent security update (2.6.32-35squeeze1)

2011-09-10 Thread Curt
On 2011-09-10, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 09:19:52AM +, Curt wrote: >> After installing a kernel security update yesterday, I'm getting random >> kernel oops when using Google Chrome. Anybody else seeing this >> phenomenon? >> > ---end quoted text--- > > No all is fine her

Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-10 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> jacques writes: > Le 10/09/2011 14:25, Mark Neidorff a écrit : […] >> 2. mount /usr as read only > What about updating software # mount -o remount,rw /usr # … upgrade… … # mount -o remount,ro /usr # […] -- FSF associate member #7257 Coming soon: Software Freedom Day ht

Re: kernel oops with Google Chrome after recent security update (2.6.32-35squeeze1)

2011-09-10 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 09:19:52AM +, Curt wrote: > After installing a kernel security update yesterday, I'm getting random > kernel oops when using Google Chrome. Anybody else seeing this > phenomenon? > ---end quoted text--- No all is fine here on Wheezy 3.0.01 kernel latest Chrome Develope

Re: keyboard question..

2011-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:57:11 -0400, I Rattan wrote: > I am trying to use debian-sparc-small.qcow2 for > people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/sparc directory with qemu-0.14.1 > > The system boots ok but the keyboard kepmap is messed up. Env command > shows the it is en_GB.UTF-8. The keys Shift 2|3|'|\

usb failure

2011-09-10 Thread Gareth de Vaux
Hi guys, I've been having usb issues on and off for about 2 years with my SUN W1100z workstation. The keyboard, mouse, flash stick etc. are all currently unresponsive. (The machine only has usb ports, all of which I've tried). I'm guessing the current state is due to the latest upgrade which inclu

Re: How to disable USB automounts (still failing...)

2011-09-10 Thread Itay
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, Brian wrote: On Mon 05 Sep 2011 at 09:17:22 +0300, Itay wrote: When I stick a USB device into the socket it is automounted; KDE pops up device notification widget, file manager window, etc. [...] In fact, I would like to disable automounts for all users. [...] 2) T

Re: a quick Q: how to back to the head in terminal

2011-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:06:16 +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:10:12AM +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Bash manual provides "home/end" replacements but I also looked for >> "page up/page down" key combos because my netbook lacks for them. While >> searching for a good way to mimic

Re: keyboard question..

2011-09-10 Thread I Rattan
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 10 September 2011 01:57:11 I Rattan wrote: I am trying to use debian-sparc-small.qcow2 for people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/sparc directory with qemu-0.14.1 The system boots ok but the keyboard kepmap is messed up. Env command shows the it is en_GB

Re: a quick Q: how to back to the head in terminal

2011-09-10 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:10:12AM +, Camaleón wrote: > Bash manual provides "home/end" replacements but I also looked for "page > up/page down" key combos because my netbook lacks for them. While > searching for a good way to mimic the keys, I also found -by pure chance- > these combos: >

Re: Debian Squeeze problem with firewire_core (DV camera over FireWire)

2011-09-10 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-09-10 a las 15:43 +0200, matpro_fhkoeln escribió: (resending to the list) > Am 10.09.2011 14:01, schrieb Camaleón: > > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 03:29:10 +0200, matpro_fhkoeln wrote: > > > >> I try to connect the Panasonic NV-GS500 over Firewire on Debian Squeeze, > >> but it seems that Debian

Re: keyboard question..

2011-09-10 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:12:21 +0100 Tom Furie wrote: Hello Tom, > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 09:56:10AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > I wonder though, just out of curiosity, why you have your environment > > set up as en_GB, if you're left-pondian. > Heh, like it. Never heard that one before. I c

Re: Moving EMail to another Evolution installation

2011-09-10 Thread John Salmon
How stoopid of me! Actually, my 75 year old eyes didn't notice the grayed out connection icon in the lower left of the screen. Wenn I moved the data from the hard connected system to the wireless system. there was no wireless data to transfer. I was also fooled by the fact that the wireless system

Re: keyboard question..

2011-09-10 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 09:56:10AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > I wonder though, just out of curiosity, why you have your environment > set up as en_GB, if you're left-pondian. Heh, like it. Never heard that one before. Cheers, Tom -- Debian Hint #43: Want to temporarily disable your iptables f

Re: Certificate failures on apt servers

2011-09-10 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 10 September 2011 22:36, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 10/09/11 21:33, Heddle Weaver wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Am receiving certificate failure readouts off the server. >> I'll approach them directly, but I thought I'd let the list know as well. >> I've recently changed to using https off the serve

Re: kernel oops with Google Chrome after recent security update (2.6.32-35squeeze1)

2011-09-10 Thread Curt
On 2011-09-10, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:19:52 +, Curt wrote: > >> After installing a kernel security update yesterday, I'm getting random >> kernel oops when using Google Chrome. Anybody else seeing this >> phenomenon? > > Yes, a couple of users in the Spanish mailing list are

Re: a quick Q: how to replace the value quickly

2011-09-10 Thread François TOURDE
Le 15226ième jour après Epoch, Ivan Shmakov écrivait: > $ (i=world ; printf 'Hello, %s!\n' "$i") > Hello, world! > $ > > (The parentheses there ensure that the variable will be used for > this command line only and will not linger.) Or, if it's only for one command, you can do: i="

Re: Certificate failures on apt servers

2011-09-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/09/11 21:33, Heddle Weaver wrote: Hello, Am receiving certificate failure readouts off the server. I'll approach them directly, but I thought I'd let the list know as well. I've recently changed to using https off the server, but I've already had several downloads without this reaction. r

Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-10 Thread jacques
Le 10/09/2011 14:25, Mark Neidorff a écrit : On Wednesday 07 September 2011 3:33:10 pm jacques wrote: Hi, Hi Mark, 1. alias "rm" to "rm -i" to add a rm: remove regular file `filename' ? to give the user a moment to think for each file. Done :) (1) 2. mount /usr as read only What abou

Re: Kernel error messages

2011-09-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/09/11 20:36, Mark Panen wrote: Hi, I am getting these kernel error messages in my terminal as well as the pop up window using Squeeze with KDE. Message from syslogd@mark3 at Sep 9 18:58:46 ... kernel:[68340.726914] Oops: [#1] SMP Message from syslogd@mark3 at Sep 9 18:58:46 ...

Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-10 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Wednesday 07 September 2011 3:33:10 pm jacques wrote: > Hi, > > by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-( > > The server is still up. > Most of the services are restarted either by copying (rsync) > the binaries from another squeeze server (both are running Squeeze) > or

Re: Kernel error messages

2011-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:36:56 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > I am getting these kernel error messages in my terminal as well as the > pop up window using Squeeze with KDE. (...) > Message from syslogd@mark3 at Sep 9 18:58:46 ... > kernel:[68340.727092] CR2: fff3 Hum... are you using Ch

Re: Debian Squeeze problem with firewire_core (DV camera over FireWire)

2011-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 03:29:10 +0200, matpro_fhkoeln wrote: > I try to connect the Panasonic NV-GS500 over Firewire on Debian Squeeze, > but it seems that Debian doesn't identify the camera correctly. (...) Are you sure the camera allows to be put in DV mode (live video recording) and dumping the

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/09/11 18:22, yudi v wrote: Use GPD instead of DOS partition types, *and* use parted instead of fdisk. I used fdisk to partition the disk before installing the OS. d-i uses parted (partman). I know the first release of Squeeze failed to properly align 4K sectors with partitions

Re: GNOME monitor layout preferences

2011-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:56:47 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Is there a way to make monitor layout preferences "sticky" in the GNOME > settings? I have my desk physically laid out with a laptop on the right > and a desktop panel on the left, however, when I disable the desktop > panel to go put my l

Certificate failures on apt servers

2011-09-10 Thread Heddle Weaver
Hello, Am receiving certificate failure readouts off the server. I'll approach them directly, but I thought I'd let the list know as well. I've recently changed to using https off the server, but I've already had several downloads without this reaction. root@192-168-1-1:/home/nomad# aptitude upda

Re: kernel oops with Google Chrome after recent security update (2.6.32-35squeeze1)

2011-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:19:52 +, Curt wrote: > After installing a kernel security update yesterday, I'm getting random > kernel oops when using Google Chrome. Anybody else seeing this > phenomenon? Yes, a couple of users in the Spanish mailing list are also reporting this. Can you explain wh

Re: a quick Q: how to back to the head in terminal

2011-09-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:10:21 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> lina wrote: >> > ctrl-a does the trick. >> >> I was looking for such option (a "home/end" keyword replacement) as my >> netbook also lacks of it but still not found it... until your post :-D >> >> "crtl-e" seems to jump th

Kernel error messages

2011-09-10 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, I am getting these kernel error messages in my terminal as well as the pop up window using Squeeze with KDE. Message from syslogd@mark3 at Sep 9 18:58:46 ... kernel:[68340.726914] Oops: [#1] SMP Message from syslogd@mark3 at Sep 9 18:58:46 ... kernel:[68340.726917] last sysfs file:

kernel oops with Google Chrome after recent security update (2.6.32-35squeeze1)

2011-09-10 Thread Curt
After installing a kernel security update yesterday, I'm getting random kernel oops when using Google Chrome. Anybody else seeing this phenomenon? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: how to modify the md.log

2011-09-10 Thread lina
Sorry, big mistakes, send to the wrong list. Please ignore. On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 5:02 PM, lina wrote: > Hi, > > My job terminated due to the storage out of the quote given by > administrator, > > here the md.log is unusual, so when I resume the job, the results won't > append on it. but sti

how to modify the md.log

2011-09-10 Thread lina
Hi, My job terminated due to the storage out of the quote given by administrator, here the md.log is unusual, so when I resume the job, the results won't append on it. but still running... Here is the tail of md.log, DD step 31424999 load imb.: force 20.8% pme mesh/force 1.936

Re: keyboard question..

2011-09-10 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 20:57:11 -0400 (EDT) I Rattan wrote: Hello I, > wrong keys. I want them mapped correctly to American keyboard, any > pointers will be appreciated. System Settings -> Input Devices, and look for keyboard. I wonder though, just out of curiosity, why you have your environment s

Re: Install Debian 6 with only cell phone mobile modem Huawei E1752

2011-09-10 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Johan Scheepers, 7.09.2011: > On 07/09/2011 21:32, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > >Op 07-09-11 21:11, Johan Scheepers schreef: > >>Good day, > >> > >>Due to telephone cable theft I am without landline and my dsl internet > >>connection. > >>When repairs will done unknown. > >>So I have got a Huawei E1

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-10 Thread yudi v
> Use GPD instead of DOS partition types, *and* use parted instead of fdisk. > I used fdisk to partition the disk before installing the OS. Just to make sure all the partitions started on the physical sector boundaries. The fdisk output posted above looks fine, doesn't it? I followed this article

Re: Convert MaxMind binary .dat to CSV

2011-09-10 Thread Gary Golden
On 09/10/2011 12:06 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Maybe I'm just cynical - but when I've been asked the same question the > client didn't have a license. > *If* your client has a valid license number just download the .csv files > (choose from Oracle or MySQL format). His license has been expired in

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/09/11 16:39, yudi v wrote: Have you tried # parted -l, fdisk works with cylinders. here's the parted output: Model: ATA WDC WD7500BPKT-6 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 750GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: msdos Sorry:- fdisk can't deal with *non-*4096B sectors.

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/09/11 16:39, yudi v wrote: Have you tried # parted -l, fdisk works with cylinders. here's the parted output: Model: ATA WDC WD7500BPKT-6 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 750GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B -- Kind regards, Yudi fdisk can't deal with non-4096B sectors. It