netfilter outbound nat log

2011-12-05 Thread Stephane Durieux
Hello, I am using netfilter as firewall and nat. But I'd like to log outbound connexions with their nated public addresses and original private addresses. The only way I have found to get public addresses is to log mangle table when packets go back. (prerouting of mangle table) In fact, I d

Re: Squeeze on Acer Aspire 5250, won't transfer files

2011-12-05 Thread Jeff Gordon
Hi, Henson -- Thanks. :-) I'm using a wired connection to a DSL router. I have read a few folks' saying the WiFi in this laptop is generally unsatisfactory (weak signal, apparently) but it wouldn't be involved in a wired connection, would it...? -- Jeff -- On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 02:44:29AM -

Re: Squeeze on Acer Aspire 5250, won't transfer files

2011-12-05 Thread Henson Sturgill
I can't explain the net-install working, but I have run into similar problems with a Realtek wireless card. Try running this comand as root, shortly after your notebook connects: iwconfig wlan0 rate 5.5M This will only fix the issue if the card's sending out _too much_ data. - hengnu On Tue, De

Squeeze on Acer Aspire 5250, won't transfer files

2011-12-05 Thread Jeff Gordon
Hi, Folks -- I'd been asked to attach Xorg.0.log for another problem and ran into this one. This Acer Aspire 5250 with Squeeze AMD64 sends only a small portion of a file, and then the connection locks up, goes dormant. This happened multiple times as I tried to send the log file as an attachment

Re: where to get patched older kernel for example 2.6.39

2011-12-05 Thread Jim Green
On 6 December 2011 05:07, Bob Proulx wrote: > Do you have any examples of something in the Linux 3.x kernel that > isn't in the 2.6.38 kernel that is likely to cause trouble? Actually I don't :) I haven't got the chance to look through the long changelogs.. my other concern using the 3.** kernel

Re: where to get patched older kernel for example 2.6.39

2011-12-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Jim Green wrote: > squeeze stock kernel is a little bit too old for me because I run > some pretty new hardware like i7-2600k, etc. but using something > like 3.** which introduces features I don't need sounds like not a > good idea for my setup. Do you have any examples of something in the Linux

Re: where to get patched older kernel for example 2.6.39

2011-12-05 Thread Jim Green
On 5 December 2011 23:43, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: >> If you want to run the older series of kernel but with security >> patches applied then perhaps the best source would be a distro kernel >> such as the Debian Squeeze Linux kernel 2.6.39.  It contains all of > > Oops, 2.6.39 isn't

Re: where to get patched older kernel for example 2.6.39

2011-12-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > If you want to run the older series of kernel but with security > patches applied then perhaps the best source would be a distro kernel > such as the Debian Squeeze Linux kernel 2.6.39. It contains all of Oops, 2.6.39 isn't the squeeze kernel. That is from backports. The squ

Re: where to get patched older kernel for example 2.6.39

2011-12-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Jim Green wrote: > I use debian squeeze running 2.6.38.8-4. usually I download kernel > source tree from kernel.org and strip stuff I don't need and compile > my own kernel. but there is a problem, I think the older kernel such > as 2.6.38 are not being patched on kernel.org. lets say there was a

where to get patched older kernel for example 2.6.39

2011-12-05 Thread Jim Green
Hello community: I use debian squeeze running 2.6.38.8-4. usually I download kernel source tree from kernel.org and strip stuff I don't need and compile my own kernel. but there is a problem, I think the older kernel such as 2.6.38 are not being patched on kernel.org. lets say there was a bug fix

Package Cache

2011-12-05 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, Is it possible to have aptitude cache, say, the last N versions of a package? Every now and then I install a package of a nightly build from someone's personal repository that turns out to be broken. I can't revert back a version if that package isn't in the repository as well. I tried

Re: cron.daily error for apt

2011-12-05 Thread John Hasler
>From debian-policy: E.1 Automatic handling of configuration files by dpkg A package may contain a control information file called conffiles. This file should be a list of filenames of c

Re: GRUB2 themes

2011-12-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:16:12 +, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 03 December 2011 22:19:54 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> IMO it is too bad that Debian does not put a nice theme together, it >> would look so much better at a first install. > > I do dislike "nice" themes. Surely there is Ubuntu for those

Re: GRUB2 themes

2011-12-05 Thread Dennis Wicks
Lisi wrote the following on 12/05/2011 04:16 PM: On Saturday 03 December 2011 22:19:54 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: IMO it is too bad that Debian does not put a nice theme together, it would look so much better at a first install. I do dislike "nice" themes. Surely there is Ubuntu for those that li

Re: Wheezy X broken ?

2011-12-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-12-05 22:31 +0100, rudu wrote: > Le 05/12/2011 20:25, Andrei Popescu a écrit : >> On Lu, 05 dec 11, 19:31:47, rudu wrote: >>> Hello, >>> After my last upgrade& reboot, my wheezy refused to fire up gdm3/kdm. >>> All I have is a black console offering a login. >>> I saw that nvidia was upgr

Re: Are Web-API packages need to be in the 'main' repo ?

2011-12-05 Thread Clark C. Evans
On Monday, December 05, 2011 10:51 PM, "Andrei Popescu" wrote: > On Lu, 05 dec 11, 21:55:28, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > > "The contrib archive area contains supplemental packages intended to > > work with the Debian distribution, but which require software > > outside of the distribution to either b

Re: GRUB2 themes

2011-12-05 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 03 December 2011 22:19:54 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > IMO it is too bad that Debian does not put a nice theme together, it > would look so much better at a first install. I do dislike "nice" themes. Surely there is Ubuntu for those that like such things. Debian is the refuge for those

Re: GRUB2 themes

2011-12-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 05 dec 11, 15:05:57, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Those are backgrounds. A theme is a script as described in the > reference by Towheed Mohammed. To do what? (rhetorical, I really don't care). If the resources spent in hiding/beautifying/etc the boot process could be invested in improving

Re: cron.daily error for apt

2011-12-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 05 dec 11, 21:59:50, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > >You must be confusing this with the regular behavior. > >I can't confuse, as I am unable to guess, from the man, what is >the "regular behaviour", i.e. the default one. >Details are giv

Re: Wheezy X broken ?

2011-12-05 Thread rudu
Le 05/12/2011 20:25, Andrei Popescu a écrit : On Lu, 05 dec 11, 19:31:47, rudu wrote: Hello, After my last upgrade& reboot, my wheezy refused to fire up gdm3/kdm. All I have is a black console offering a login. I saw that nvidia was upgraded to a 290 something version so I removed all the nvidi

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-05 Thread Dennis Wicks
Andrei Popescu wrote the following on 12/05/2011 01:14 PM: On Du, 04 dec 11, 21:24:56, Dennis Wicks wrote: Both machines are nearly identical so that is not a problem. I have already gathered a lot of pieces of the solution and I hope that this is the final part of the solution! Because you in

Re: Trying to use Wireshark on Lenny

2011-12-05 Thread Lisi
On Monday 05 December 2011 13:06:32 Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: > If you already know which your system is, there should be a way to tell > that to configure (for example, . configure --operational-system > GNU\/Linux). > > Because what this config-guess is trying to do looks like the

Re: GRUB2 themes

2011-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 03 dec 11, 16:19:54, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: IMO it is too bad that Debian does not put a nice theme together, it would look so much better at a first install. Maybe you are missing something? This is on a pretty standard LXDE squeeze install: $ grep image /boot/

Re: cron.daily error for apt

2011-12-05 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: You must be confusing this with the regular behavior. I can't confuse, as I am unable to guess, from the man, what is the "regular behaviour", i.e. the default one. Details are given for all --force-things, but I found nothing on what happe

Re: Are Web-API packages need to be in the 'main' repo ?

2011-12-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 05 dec 11, 21:55:28, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > > contrib area: > "The contrib archive area contains supplemental packages intended to > work with the Debian distribution, but which require software outside > of the distribution to either build or function." > > This definition does not say

Re: Reboot and all I get is a grub prompt.

2011-12-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Brian wrote: > On Mon 05 Dec 2011 at 08:44:51 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> When I run update-grub, it appears to be working but ends with >> something akin to an error: >> >>   root # update-grub >>   Generating grub.cfg ... >>   Found background image: >>   /u

Re: cron.daily error for apt

2011-12-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 05 dec 11, 12:14:06, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > To replace also the modified files, I added in apt.conf > "--force-confask"; > I think there was a time where this was the default with apt-get You must be confusing this with the regular behavior. From 'man dpkg' (emphasis

Re: Are Web-API packages need to be in the 'main' repo ?

2011-12-05 Thread Alexey Eromenko
Forwarded one relevant reply from debian-users to debian-legal. By Andrei : == > What's your opinion ? A somewhat similar case: instant messenger clients. Not long ago some of the free (as in beer) instant messaging providers made incompatible changes t

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 28 nov 11, 13:47:59, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. > > Once mount error occurs while OS booting, I get root shell - w/o even > asking for password... How I can change the behavior (to ask for > password before granting root shell)? Hi Sthu, From reading the thread I understand

Re: Reboot and all I get is a grub prompt [SOLVED]

2011-12-05 Thread Brian
On Mon 05 Dec 2011 at 12:30:17 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > If you are asking which one here... its kde. I was thinking in terms of the Big Three(TM) having some sort of power control application, so hibernation could be turned off or access to it controlled. Not using KDE I'm unfamiliar with wh

Re: [OT] where should I look for google sync information ?

2011-12-05 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 08:49:30PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > Dear list, > > I have activated google sync operation in my android phone to sync contact. > How can I verify/see those info at my google account ? > ---end quoted text--- Maybe it's visible on your Google profile. AFAIK it can be mana

Re: Icons for LibreOffice

2011-12-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 05 dec 11, 14:12:34, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > Dear List - > > Where can I download the icons for LibreOffice? Could you please rephrase that, because I don't understand what you mean. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.o

Re: Wheezy X broken ?

2011-12-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 05 dec 11, 19:31:47, rudu wrote: > Hello, > After my last upgrade & reboot, my wheezy refused to fire up gdm3/kdm. > All I have is a black console offering a login. > I saw that nvidia was upgraded to a 290 something version so I > removed all the nvidia* packages to let nouveau take its pla

Re: cron.daily error for apt

2011-12-05 Thread John Hasler
Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > I understand this behaviour for a removed conffile. but not for a > modified one: I imagine that aptitude doesn't know whether this > conffile comes from a previous version or not. The package management system knows what version was installed previously and the checksums

Re: Squeeze on 15" laptop, change aspect ratio?

2011-12-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 05 dec 11, 04:04:20, Jeff Gordon wrote: > Hi, Folks -- > > I'm setting up a laptop as a Christmas gift for my sister; it's an Acer > Aspire 5250 with Radeon HD 6310. Netinstall of Squeeze went smoothly enough, > but the aspect ratio seems wrong (too wide; kinda squashed). Gnome and Xorg

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 04 dec 11, 21:24:56, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > Both machines are nearly identical so that is not a problem. I have > already gathered a lot of pieces of the solution and I hope that > this is the final part of the solution! Because you intend yo use the network from withing the chroot (apt):

Icons for LibreOffice

2011-12-05 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
Dear List - Where can I download the icons for LibreOffice? Thanks. Ethan Rosenberg Debian 6.0.1a squeeze(sid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#650699: Fwd: fglrx-driver

2011-12-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
[dropping CC to the bug, at least for now] On Du, 04 dec 11, 23:24:48, lina wrote: > Sincerely looking for advice about following error: Hi Lina, We are glad to help, but it is not easy to do so via e-mail. It is very important that: - you are patient :) - you describe your problem as accuratel

Wheezy X broken ?

2011-12-05 Thread rudu
Hello, After my last upgrade & reboot, my wheezy refused to fire up gdm3/kdm. All I have is a black console offering a login. I saw that nvidia was upgraded to a 290 something version so I removed all the nvidia* packages to let nouveau take its place. That changed nothing. Here is some info abo

Re: Reboot and all I get is a grub prompt.

2011-12-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian writes: > On Mon 05 Dec 2011 at 08:44:51 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> When I run update-grub, it appears to be working but ends with >> something akin to an error: >> >> root # update-grub >> Generating grub.cfg ... >> Found background image: >> /usr/share/images/desktop-base/de

Re: Reboot and all I get is a grub prompt [SOLVED]

2011-12-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian writes: > On Mon 05 Dec 2011 at 09:13:39 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> For future reference... how does one bring a hybernated computer out of >> hybernation gracefully. And more important how does one disable >> hybernation entirely. > > GMOME? KDE? XFCE4? None of these? If you are ask

Re: Viewing contents of AR archive in KDE

2011-12-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 04 dec 11, 12:36:31, bd satish wrote: > > I know that I can view/extract the archive using CLI ("ar t" and "ar > x") but would like to do it in GUI mode, with Ark. Note that, I'm not > interested in modifying the archive, just "view" it and "extract" it > to a temporary folder. It was worki

Re: cron.daily error for apt

2011-12-05 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Bob Proulx wrote: You said you removed the file. You didn't say you modified it. Sorry, I forgot to say it. I did both tests. Actually, I removed the file after seeing that it was not replaced. Of course asking is still the default for apt-get! But you said you we

Re: Are Web-API packages need to be in the 'main' repo ?

2011-12-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 04 dec 11, 11:36:57, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > Hello Debian People ! Are you aware we are just users? [snip] > What's your opinion ? A somewhat similar case: instant messenger clients. Not long ago some of the free (as in beer) instant messaging providers made incompatible changes to

Re: Passwordless root shell is offered when boot problem occurs.

2011-12-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Arno: > a) locking the root account (passwd -l root), which will give you > "sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell" That's the point - sudo is used on the system and the root account is blocked. So, what's the strategy to protect systems in such

Re: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#650699: Fwd: fglrx-driver

2011-12-05 Thread Curt
On 2011-12-04, lina wrote: > Sincerely looking for advice about following error: > > more Xorg.0.log | grep WW > UUOM ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debi

Re: cron.daily error for apt

2011-12-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: >Actually, the increase is impressive >I changed to one of the listed mirrors. Oh good. > >Right. You removed it. It is a conffile. Therefore the system > >respects your changes to that file. Including removing it. The > >system views removi

Re: [OT] where should I look for google sync information ?

2011-12-05 Thread Curt
On 2011-12-05, J. Bakshi wrote: > Dear list, > > I have activated google sync operation in my android phone to sync contact. > How can I verify/see those info at my google account ? > > Thnaks > Your gmail contacts should be updated with the information from your phone, and vice-versa; that's the

Re: GRUB2 themes

2011-12-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 03 dec 11, 16:19:54, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > IMO it is too bad that Debian does not put a nice theme together, it > would look so much better at a first install. Maybe you are missing something? This is on a pretty standard LXDE squeeze install: $ grep image /boot/grub/grub.cfg if bac

Re: munin showing stange info

2011-12-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Darac Marjal > >The ip_ plugin suggests ip addresses based on rules in your iptables. > >You can run: > > > >$ sudo munin-run --servicedir=/usr/share/munin/plugins ip_ suggest > > > >to see what IPs it's suggesting. If they look odd, perhaps check your > >firewall. > > Ok, i

Re: what does the s stand for

2011-12-05 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 08:48:00PM -0500, doug wrote: > On 12/02/2011 07:11 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > >You can get the online upstream GNU copy from here: > > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/index.html > > > > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node

Re: Reboot and all I get is a grub prompt [SOLVED]

2011-12-05 Thread Brian
On Mon 05 Dec 2011 at 09:13:39 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > For future reference... how does one bring a hybernated computer out of > hybernation gracefully. And more important how does one disable > hybernation entirely. GMOME? KDE? XFCE4? None of these? > Does it have to be taken out at kerne

Re: can't apt-get update: Could not create a socket for 2001:8d8:580:400:6564:a62:0:2

2011-12-05 Thread Registros Web
Thanks Brian, This has actually nothing to do with ipv6, but with iptables blocking apt outgoing access. I didnt notice this at first because I hadnt set this machine up in the first place and i was able to ping internet addresses as well as the debian mirrors. Thanks for helping out. Cheers! Fr

Re: Launch default application from file in command line.

2011-12-05 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 05/12/2011 15:55, Andreas Rönnquist a écrit : For a non-gnome-specific alternative, take a look at xdg-open. Better yet, thanks. Le 05/12/2011 16:17, Raf Czlonka a écrit : [0] http://www.zsh.org/ Being a Linux newbie, I'll stick to the default shell for the moment, although I'll probabl

Re: Reboot and all I get is a grub prompt.

2011-12-05 Thread Brian
On Mon 05 Dec 2011 at 08:44:51 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > When I run update-grub, it appears to be working but ends with > something akin to an error: > > root # update-grub > Generating grub.cfg ... > Found background image: > /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png > Found l

[OT] where should I look for google sync information ?

2011-12-05 Thread J. Bakshi
Dear list, I have activated google sync operation in my android phone to sync contact. How can I verify/see those info at my google account ? Thnaks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org A

Re: Launch default application from file in command line.

2011-12-05 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 02:55:03PM GMT, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > For a non-gnome-specific alternative, take a look at xdg-open. Or if you're using a shell which sucks less ;^) - ZSH[0]. You can simply use: % alias -s pdf=mupdf,zathura,etc. and then: % file.pdf [0] http://www.zsh.org/ Regard

Re: Reboot and all I get is a grub prompt [SOLVED]

2011-12-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > Arnt Karlsen writes: > >>> set root (hd0,1) (in grub1 that would be hd0,0) >>> linux /vm >> >> .._here_ is where you wanna tell grub about your initrd, >> it (/boot/initrd?) should match your /vm . >> >>> boot > > gackk .. I've spent too many yrs booting gentoo with

Re: Launch default application from file in command line.

2011-12-05 Thread afuentes
$ gnome-open file.pdf it the same that double clicking on file.pdf from gnome I have an alias like thsi alias go='gnome-open' so i just have to type $ go file.pdf greets! aL On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 15:47 +0100, Paul Isambert wrote: > Hello there, > > Is it possible to launch a default applicat

Re: Reboot and all I get is a grub prompt.

2011-12-05 Thread Michael Tsang
On Monday 05 December 2011 22:44:51 Harry Putnam wrote: > Johann Spies writes: > > On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 03:38:22PM +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I'm bunrning a systemRescue cd now... but any suggestions will be most > >> welcome. > > > > Booting with a live CD (like systemRescue) or the stan

Re: Launch default application from file in command line.

2011-12-05 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On 05/12/11 15:52, Paul Isambert wrote: > Le 05/12/2011 15:51, afuentes a écrit : >> $ gnome-open file.pdf >> it the same that double clicking on file.pdf from gnome >> >> I have an alias like thsi >> alias go='gnome-open' >> >> so i just have to type >> $ go file.pdf > > Wonderful, thank you! Fo

Re: Launch default application from file in command line.

2011-12-05 Thread Paul Isambert
Le 05/12/2011 15:51, afuentes a écrit : $ gnome-open file.pdf it the same that double clicking on file.pdf from gnome I have an alias like thsi alias go='gnome-open' so i just have to type $ go file.pdf Wonderful, thank you! Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-05 Thread afuentes
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 15:21 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > Not sure if this helps, but simply muting the "Beep" entry with > aslamixer solved all beeping annoyances on my laptop. > > Lorenzo. Thank you for your response. I dont seem to have such option in alsamixer, nor in gnome3 sound settin

Re: Reboot and all I get is a grub prompt.

2011-12-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Johann Spies writes: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 03:38:22PM +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I'm bunrning a systemRescue cd now... but any suggestions will be most >> welcome. > > Booting with a live CD (like systemRescue) or the standard Debian > Install CD will help. > > 'chroot' to the system and

Launch default application from file in command line.

2011-12-05 Thread Paul Isambert
Hello there, Is it possible to launch a default application with a file from the command line, e.g. something like: ./myfile.pdf which would retrieve the default PDF viewer and launch it on "myfile"? For the moment, I have a bash script called with "launch ", which analyzes the extension of

Re: Reboot and all I get is a grub prompt.

2011-12-05 Thread HP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05.12.2011 14:38, Harry Putnam wrote: > I haven't rebooted wheezy for a while... and there have been many > updates .. I'm not sure which ones have caused this problem but > when bootup starts I get to grub and immediately a prompt rather > than a

Re: Reboot and all I get is a grub prompt.

2011-12-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Arnt Karlsen writes: >> set root (hd0,1) (in grub1 that would be hd0,0) >> linux /vm > > .._here_ is where you wanna tell grub about your initrd, > it (/boot/initrd?) should match your /vm . > >> boot gackk .. I've spent too many yrs booting gentoo with no initrd... I just skipped right o

Re: Reboot and all I get is a grub prompt.

2011-12-05 Thread Brian
On Mon 05 Dec 2011 at 07:38:22 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > For example, I can type `help' and a massive flood of commands flash > past leaving only the last screenful visible... there seems no way to > page this mess, so it is mostly useless. set pager=1 > Pressing shows a gout of other comman

Re: Reboot and all I get is a grub prompt.

2011-12-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:38:22 -0600, Harry wrote in message <8762hvw33l@newsguy.com>: > I haven't rebooted wheezy for a while... and there have been many > updates .. I'm not sure which ones have caused this problem but when > bootup starts I get to grub and immediately a prompt rather than a

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-05 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi, On 05/12/2011 13:15, afuentes wrote: when i manually use the wall command (or when i shutdown or halt command) i hear a annoying very loud beep. Is there a way to shut it up? the pcspkr mop is not loaded. the gnome consoles opened have the beeping disabled as well in preferences... Does an

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-05 Thread afuentes
Im still not very good at reading straces, but this is the output of the command that triggers the beep in case it can helps to locate what it is :) greets! aL $ echo hola|sudo strace -f wall [sudo] password for afuentes: execve("/usr/bin/wall", ["wall"], [/* 17 vars */]) = 0 brk(0)

Re: Reboot and all I get is a grub prompt.

2011-12-05 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 03:38:22PM +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm bunrning a systemRescue cd now... but any suggestions will be most > welcome. Booting with a live CD (like systemRescue) or the standard Debian Install CD will help. 'chroot' to the system and do an 'update-grub'. Regards Johan

Re: Squeeze on 15" laptop, change aspect ratio?

2011-12-05 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
> Hi, Folks -- > > I'm setting up a laptop as a Christmas gift for my sister; it's an Acer > Aspire 5250 with Radeon HD 6310.  Netinstall of Squeeze went smoothly enough, > but the aspect ratio seems wrong (too wide; kinda squashed).  Gnome and Xorg > are offering only resolutions of 1024x768 and 8

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-05 Thread afuentes
Thanks for your response! my response inline: On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 10:03 -0300, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: > http://www.smartpixie.com/wiki/Tech/DebianTips.twiki.html this suggest me to blacklist pcspkr. As i said, i already tried this > http://www.debian-administration.org/articl

Reboot and all I get is a grub prompt.

2011-12-05 Thread Harry Putnam
I haven't rebooted wheezy for a while... and there have been many updates .. I'm not sure which ones have caused this problem but when bootup starts I get to grub and immediately a prompt rather than a selection screen. It shows grub version 1.99 ?? something.. so is that grub2... It must be since

ddclient not working

2011-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I use ddclient to update the IP of my server in dyndns, but it doesn't work: the IP does not get set. It has been working for years. I have to go manually into dyndns and set the IP and the one that it has is stale. All I see is: hugo@HDBB:~$ ps ax | grep -i ddclient 1792 ?S

Apparently resolved - was Re: Debian 5 update system broken

2011-12-05 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Bret Busby wrote: which I think is the same error message. It now seems to be fixed. I have apparently now managed to perform an update, in which Evince was apparently updated. Thank you to the people responsible for getting it fixed. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Aust

Re: Trying to use Wireshark on Lenny

2011-12-05 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
If you already know which your system is, there should be a way to tell that to configure (for example, . configure --operational-system GNU\/Linux). Because what this config-guess is trying to do looks like the same thing. If it is not working, I would find it easier to pass the arguments ma

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-05 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
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Re: [SOLVED] Pidgin and Skype not working on Squeeze

2011-12-05 Thread Julien Claassen
Hello again! OK, the connection works fine now. I heard, that it was at time a little unstable and it could be better to start skype first by hand. Now I must figure out how to make calls, instead of texting. :-) Warm regards Julien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Such Is Life: Very In

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-12-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: >On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:46:36 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > >> Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: >> >>>So why don't you just run... >>> >>>gksu -d chromium >>>gksu -d qbittorrent >>> >>>And tell us what happens? :-) >> >> $ /usr/bin/gksu -d -

Re: cron.daily error for apt

2011-12-05 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Bob Proulx wrote: Better to use a mirror. Take a look at the amount of bandwidth used by the main site. Wow! http://www.debian-multimedia.org/statistics.php hi Bob, Actually, the increase is impressive I changed to one of the listed mirrors. Right. You remov

Re: munin showing stange info

2011-12-05 Thread Bonno Bloksma
From: "Darac Marjal" Hello Darac, [] The ip_ plugin suggests ip addresses based on rules in your iptables. You can run: $ sudo munin-run --servicedir=/usr/share/munin/plugins ip_ suggest to see what IPs it's suggesting. If they look odd, perhaps check your firewall. Ok, it is indeed su

Re: How to access bluetooth phone?

2011-12-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Can you make the computer visible to the phone then take over the computer with the phone?On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 12/04/11 15:21, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Good so far, now make your cell phone discoverable. That's in bluetooth > > settings somewhere then try that again. If

Re: Squeeze, Radeon HD 6310, black screen on Resume

2011-12-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 04:15:30 -0500, Jeff wrote in message <20111205091530.gk2...@saphira.wellnow.com>: > Hi, Folks -- > > I'm installing Squeeze on an Acer Aspire 5250 with Radeon HD 6310 as a > Christmas gift for my sister. All went well during install but I get > nothing but a black screen on

Re: How to access bluetooth phone?

2011-12-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:57:10 -0800, Marc wrote in message <4edc3306.9000...@gmail.com>: > On 12/04/11 16:00, Mark Panen wrote: > > On 05/12/2011 01:01, Marc Shapiro wrote: > >> I have never used bluetooth before and never had a bluetooth > >> enabled phone, so please bear with me. > >> > >> I hav

Squeeze on 15" laptop, change aspect ratio?

2011-12-05 Thread Jeff Gordon
Hi, Folks -- I'm setting up a laptop as a Christmas gift for my sister; it's an Acer Aspire 5250 with Radeon HD 6310. Netinstall of Squeeze went smoothly enough, but the aspect ratio seems wrong (too wide; kinda squashed). Gnome and Xorg are offering only resolutions of 1024x768 and 800x600. B

Squeeze, Radeon HD 6310, black screen on Resume

2011-12-05 Thread Jeff Gordon
Hi, Folks -- I'm installing Squeeze on an Acer Aspire 5250 with Radeon HD 6310 as a Christmas gift for my sister. All went well during install but I get nothing but a black screen on Resume from Suspend. Even Power Off and Power On again doesn't clear it -- I've had to remove the battery each ti

Pidgin and Skype not working on Squeeze

2011-12-05 Thread Julien Claassen
Hello everyone! This is perhaps not completely Debian, but I still need help on this. I installed Pidgin-skype and even mannaged to setup the account with some help. I can't use original Skype, since I'mblind and need Orca. I already needed some help for the one QT-dialog, that popped up, whi