Re: how to change bubble size ?

2012-04-20 Thread J. Bakshi
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 01:45:50 -0300 Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: > > >> exactly... it is notification-daemon available in debian But the > >> bubble is too big and I want to minimize its size as well as it's font > >> size. > >> > > > To me it looks like notification-dae

Re: how to change bubble size ?

2012-04-20 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
exactly... it is notification-daemon available in debian But the bubble is too big and I want to minimize its size as well as it's font size. To me it looks like notification-daemon is not a good thing if you want to edit it. Also googling I found people talking about alternativ

Re: Wheezy: dragon player not working with phonon-backend-gstreamer?

2012-04-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 07:17:22PM -0700, T Elcor wrote: > --- On Mon, 4/16/12, Christopher Judd wrote: > > > > > > > aptitude show dragonplayer > >   > > It > > works fine here (wheezy, amd64) with the same version of > > dragonplayer, using phonon-backend-vlc. > > Weird, I can't get it to work

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

2012-04-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 04:28:28PM +, Camaleón wrote: > (Disclaimer: newbies and soft-minded readers, please, stop reading here. > The following content can damage your mind. You've been advised) Ha! I believe that is a "dig" at some constructive criticism. Ummm, let's see, No FUD in th

Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-20 Thread Potato Jim
Thank you Camaleón, The suggestions on that page about blacklisting nouveau to disable KMS did not work. However, I noticed that if I comment out the "blacklist nvidiafb" line from /etc/modeprobe.d/fbdev-blacklist.conf,  X/Gnome does sort of work again.  I can see the contents of windows, but

Re: Bacula scripts are missing [resolved]

2012-04-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/04/12 01:49 PM, Gary Dale wrote: Somehow I've got my Bacula server setup with an empty /etc/bacula/scripts directory. I'm running Debian/Squeeze AMD64 and am using the sqlite3 database for the bacula catalog. My backups are running OK (backing up the server and one other machine) but th

Re: finding previous package version

2012-04-20 Thread David Zelinsky
I wrote: > I recently did a large upgrade in wheezy, and now I want to downgrade a > certain package to the previous version. Is there some way to get my > hands on that previous version? Aves writes: > I think you can do it by editing your preferences (man apt_preferences) > You'll basically

Apache2 and Debian

2012-04-20 Thread charles chambers
I'm trying to set up a web server under Debian, with Apache2, and i don't understand the configuration. IThe original setup for Debian and Apache2 has /var/www as the root of the web server. I've created a number of folders below it for individual packages, such as: /var/www/phpmyadmin /var/www/ph

Re: siduction distribution - KDE4 desktop - Default browser problem - SOLVED

2012-04-20 Thread Sian Mountbatten
On 20/04/12 22:00, Gary Dale wrote: Within KDE, you can go into System Settings | File Associations | Text to change the default application for html files. On my system, it was set to Konqueror, so I changed it to Iceweasel. System Settings | Default Applications also lets you change the defaul

Re: finding previous package version

2012-04-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Apr 2012 at 18:52:26 -0400, David Zelinsky wrote: > I recently did a large upgrade in wheezy, and now I want to downgrade a > certain package to the previous version. Is there some way to get my > hands on that previous version? http://snapshot.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: finding previous package version

2012-04-20 Thread Aves
I think you can do it by editing your preferences (man apt_preferences) You'll basically have to inform the package name, the version you wish to get back and the most delicate to set : the priority. On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 18:52 -0400, David Zelinsky wrote: > I recently did a large upgrade in whe

finding previous package version

2012-04-20 Thread David Zelinsky
I recently did a large upgrade in wheezy, and now I want to downgrade a certain package to the previous version. Is there some way to get my hands on that previous version? Specifically, the upgrade brought up debian bug #665004, which made my touchpad scrolling stop working right. The bug repor

Installing python-django 1.4 on squeeze

2012-04-20 Thread Aves
Hi, I'd like to install django 1.4 on squeeze. I read man apt_preferences to get information about pinning and here is what wrote on my preferences file : ### Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 500 Package: * Pin: r

Re: siduction distribution - KDE4 desktop - Default browser problem - SOLVED

2012-04-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/04/12 03:20 PM, Sian Mountbatten wrote: On 20/04/12 17:50, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:05:43 +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote: On 20/04/12 16:50, Camaleón wrote: Try with "update-alternatives" but remember the leading "x". I found that I could tell icedove to Use firefox for h

Yan: debian-user-digest Digest V2012 #620

2012-04-20 Thread Serkan YANARATES
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Re: siduction distribution - KDE4 desktop - Default browser problem - SOLVED

2012-04-20 Thread Sian Mountbatten
On 20/04/12 17:50, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:05:43 +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote: On 20/04/12 16:50, Camaleón wrote: Try with "update-alternatives" but remember the leading "x". I found that I could tell icedove to Use firefox for http and https links and that solved the problem

Debian Squeeze system crashing

2012-04-20 Thread John Kelley
I have a system going into reboot periodically, I installed kerneloops and got the output below, any idea what the problem might be or what package I need to report it for: Message from syslogd@Debiansqueeze at Apr 20 10:04:17 ...  kernel:[ 9489.105242] [ cut here ] Messag

Bacula scripts are missing

2012-04-20 Thread Gary Dale
Somehow I've got my Bacula server setup with an empty /etc/bacula/scripts directory. I'm running Debian/Squeeze AMD64 and am using the sqlite3 database for the bacula catalog. My backups are running OK (backing up the server and one other machine) but the catalog backup fails because the make_

Re: dpkg fails to install 32-bit adobe acrobat reader on 64-bit wheezy system: depends issue

2012-04-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:27:44 -0700, Chris Hiestand wrote: > On Apr 20, 2012, at 9:33 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> Do you have the 32-bits compat libraries installed ("ia32-libs", >> "ia32-libs- gtk")? > > Absolutely. > > chiestand@wheezy:~$ dpkg -l ia32\* |grep -E '^ii' > ii ia32-libs

Re: dpkg fails to install 32-bit adobe acrobat reader on 64-bit wheezy system: depends issue

2012-04-20 Thread Chris Hiestand
On Apr 20, 2012, at 9:33 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Do you have the 32-bits compat libraries installed ("ia32-libs", "ia32-libs- > gtk")? Absolutely. > chiestand@wheezy:~$ dpkg -l ia32\* |grep -E '^ii' > ii ia32-libs20120102 > ia32 shared libra

Re: X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:43:03 -0700, Potato Jim wrote: > Hi Everyone, Hi, please, turn off html when posting to the mailing list. Thanks :-) > I installed Deb 6.0.4 on an old Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop and everything > seemed to go well, except...  I'll try to describe a problem I'm > experiencing

Re: siduction distribution - KDE4 desktop - Default browser problem - SOLVED

2012-04-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:05:43 +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > On 20/04/12 16:50, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:43:30 +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote: >> >>> When I clicked on an http link in an email message in icedove, firefox >>> was started and the link appeared on a tab. >> >> Fine.

X problem (?) after fresh install on old laptop

2012-04-20 Thread Potato Jim
Hi Everyone, I installed Deb 6.0.4 on an old Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop and everything seemed to go well, except...  I'll try to describe a problem I'm experiencing, evidently with X:  The windows are all blank.  Even at the login screen, I can't see the "username,other" selection list -- just a

Re: dpkg fails to install 32-bit adobe acrobat reader on 64-bit wheezy system: depends issue

2012-04-20 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:49:20 -0700, Chris Hiestand wrote: > So this works fine on 64-bit squeeze: > chiestand@squeeze:/tmp$ sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture > adobereader-enu_9.5.1_i386.deb > > But not on 64-bit wheezy: > chiestand@wheezy:/tmp$ sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture > adobereader-e

Re: siduction distribution - KDE4 desktop - Default browser problem - SOLVED

2012-04-20 Thread Sian Mountbatten
On 20/04/12 16:50, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:43:30 +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote: When I clicked on an http link in an email message in icedove, firefox was started and the link appeared on a tab. Fine. Then I discovered that my firefox stopped working. Click on firefox: no act

Re: Squid as default gateway in proxy mode.

2012-04-20 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE ok worked after one restart i dont know what was the problem but worked, but still didnt drop the connection by this command. i can stil ssh and even send receive email iptables -t filter -P FORWARD DROP as shared, so i can open all the ports

Re: Seeking aptitude flag to 'do not over write configuration file'

2012-04-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:11:04 +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > I would like to know, when you do an 'aptitide safe-upgrade' > > And then you get the following example > > Configuration file `/etc/apache2/sites-available/default' (...) > N or O : keep your currently-installed version (...) >

Re: siduction distribution - KDE4 desktop - Default browser problem

2012-04-20 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:43:30 +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > When I clicked on an http link in an email message in icedove, firefox > was started and the link appeared on a tab. Fine. > Then I discovered that my firefox stopped working. Click on firefox: no > action. So I deleted firefox from

Re: how to change bubble size ?

2012-04-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:08:57 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:03:54 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: > >> On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:59:34 -0300, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins >> wrote: (...) >> >> Sorry then, I don't know how "lxappearence" manages this. >> >> >> >> >> > lxappear

Re: fsck forced when using /sbin/shutdown

2012-04-20 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:54:46 +0200, Steven Post wrote: > On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 17:31 +, Camaleón wrote: >> And is it true that there were errors? What does the "fsck" log say? > > I found no further clue in /var/log/fsck/checkfs, here is the complete > output: (...) > /dev/sdc1 contains a fi

Re: gnome panel fonts on startup

2012-04-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:31:14 -0400, songbird wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >>> the xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.18.0-2 trying to switch >>> to intel site downloaded version. too old... skip for now. >> >> The package seems up-to-date. > > *nods* > > today there are changes in the sid/testi

Re: Seeking aptitude flag to 'do not over write configuration file'

2012-04-20 Thread Bjørn Michelsen
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 04:38:50PM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > On 20/04/2012 14:09, Bjørn Michelsen wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:11:04AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: Hey there, (...) > >>Configuration file `/etc/apache2/sites-available/default' > >> ==> Modified (by you or by a script) si

Re: Seeking aptitude flag to 'do not over write configuration file'

2012-04-20 Thread Brent Clark
Sir Thank you so much Kind Regards Brent Clark On 20/04/2012 14:09, Bjørn Michelsen wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:11:04AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: Hey there, I would like to know, when you do an 'aptitide safe-upgrade' And then you get the following example Configuration file `/etc/a

Re: about DSA-2452-1 apache2 -- insecure default configuration

2012-04-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 01:50:29 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-04-19 15:08:55 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> I can be wrong but the bug seems aimed to correct the package which >> >> contains the file that enables the alias by default, hence the >> >> apache2 package. >> > >> > But the user

[OT] Re: which is the best webserver

2012-04-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:14:07 +0530, Joby Mathew wrote: No html, please, thanks. > Apache or Nginx There's no "better or worse" (those are empty words that rest at the marketing departments) but different implementations to do one thing for different usages/scenarios, meaning "best" is whicheve

Re: what happened to debian-multimedia.org?

2012-04-20 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:36:08 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > It seems to have been down for a while. Let's check it: sm01@stt008:~$ LANG=C wget debian-multimedia.org --2012-04-20 16:09:57-- http://debian-multimedia.org/ Resolving debian-multimedia.org... 91.121.10.104 Connecting to debian-multim

Re: which is the best webserver

2012-04-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
Celejar wrote: Please do not use HTML. It depends on user. I have always used Apache, but some people say that Nginx is better. I don't have any usage experience with it. I also know one person who says that he is using combination of them both, but I am not sure how it happens. And check out l

Re: Seeking aptitude flag to 'do not over write configuration file'

2012-04-20 Thread Bjørn Michelsen
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:11:04AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: Hey there, > I would like to know, when you do an 'aptitide safe-upgrade' > > And then you get the following example > > Configuration file `/etc/apache2/sites-available/default' > ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installat

Re: which is the best webserver

2012-04-20 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:01:05 +0300 Mika Suomalainen wrote: > 20.04.2012 07:44, Joby Mathew kirjoitti: > > > > Apache or Nginx > > > > Please do not use HTML. > > It depends on user. I have always used Apache, but some people say that > Nginx is better. I don't have any usage experience wi

Re: Working with ssh's escape character

2012-04-20 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 20/04/12 12:17, Alberto Fuentes wrote: I change often keyboard layouts between en and es... the original keyboard layout of this machine is ES. If i try to press the escape character while in EN, no matter if i press the original ES positions or the new positions of ~ in EN, it does not work.

Re: Working with ssh's escape character

2012-04-20 Thread Alberto Fuentes
I change often keyboard layouts between en and es... the original keyboard layout of this machine is ES. If i try to press the escape character while in EN, no matter if i press the original ES positions or the new positions of ~ in EN, it does not work... If I change to layout to the origina

Re: Working with ssh's escape character

2012-04-20 Thread Lisi
On Friday 20 April 2012 00:22:17 Jude DaShiell wrote: > Try hitting tilde followed by period and see what happens within an ssh > login shell.  The tilde is the key to the left of the 1 key just > shifted. Not on my keyboard. To say where something is on a keyboard you need to specify the keyboa

Re: Can't upgrade anyting in Sid

2012-04-20 Thread Mika Suomalainen
18.04.2012 12:10, Florian Kulzer kirjoitti: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:50:26 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: >> For the last few days apt-get upgrades in Sid always fail with this >> message: >> >> E: Internal error: APT::pkgPackageManager::MaxLoopCount reached in >> SmartConfigure for libc-bin:i3

Re: gnome panel fonts on startup

2012-04-20 Thread songbird
Camaleón wrote: >songbird wrote: >> Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >>> What VGA driver are you using? Although you firstly thought there is no >>> relation between this and your UI problems, true is that there can be >>> :-) (intel cards use to work smoothly with gnome-shell while ati/nvidia >>> and t

Re: Working with ssh's escape character

2012-04-20 Thread Chris Davies
Jude DaShiell wrote: > The tilde is the key to the left of the 1 key just shifted. Not here, it isn't. It depends entirely on your keyboard and keyboard map. Tilde is ~ and it has to be up to the OP to find where that is placed (if at all). Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: Is there a system sync tool?

2012-04-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:54:27PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > The correct way would be to use a config management system, like > cfengine, chef, puppet, etc. But learning, setting up and running > those is a lot of work for just two machines. I'd second that. I use puppet to capture what I con

Re: which is the best webserver

2012-04-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:14:07AM +0530, Joby Mathew wrote: > Apache or Nginx You need to define your evaluation criteria. Personally I use lighttpd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Upgrading to an SSD

2012-04-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:07:46AM +0100, Paul Lewis wrote: > On 20/04/12 09:43:50, Darac Marjal wrote: > > If not, you might want to consider making a new LV (perhaps > > shrinking one of your other partitions and reclaiming some of that > > 200GB free space) for root. > > To address my immedia

Re: Upgrading to an SSD

2012-04-20 Thread Paul Lewis
On 20/04/12 09:43:50, Darac Marjal wrote: > > Here is my concern. When I installed this system I elected to > > encrypt the drive and use lvm. > > > > 1. I'd like to avoid 'root' full errors in future. > > Is your root partition on the LVM? I think it is, running LVM and selecting logical view

Re: Upgrading to an SSD

2012-04-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 09:22:23AM +0100, Paul Lewis wrote: > I like to try out one of the newish Solid State drives. What has > prompted this is that my machine has started to complain about low disk > space on /root. > > Using disk analyser I can see there is loads of free disk space. > > Thi

Seeking aptitude flag to 'do not over write configuration file'

2012-04-20 Thread Brent Clark
Hiya I would like to know, when you do an 'aptitide safe-upgrade' And then you get the following example Configuration file `/etc/apache2/sites-available/default' ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version. What would you

[OT] Re: which is the best webserver

2012-04-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:14:07AM +0530, Joby Mathew wrote: > Apache or Nginx There's only one way to find out. FIGHT!!![1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np6gyUb0E7o signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Working with ssh's escape character

2012-04-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 07:22:17PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Try hitting tilde followed by period and see what happens within an ssh > login shell. The tilde is the key to the left of the 1 key just > shifted. Maybe on YOUR keyboard it is. On mine, it's between the apostrophe key (shift+' -

Upgrading to an SSD

2012-04-20 Thread Paul Lewis
I like to try out one of the newish Solid State drives. What has prompted this is that my machine has started to complain about low disk space on /root. Using disk analyser I can see there is loads of free disk space. This is a 250GB drive but only 22GB is actually being used. Suggesting to me

Re: which is the best webserver

2012-04-20 Thread Mika Suomalainen
20.04.2012 07:44, Joby Mathew kirjoitti: > > Apache or Nginx > Please do not use HTML. It depends on user. I have always used Apache, but some people say that Nginx is better. I don't have any usage experience with it. I also know one person who says that he is using combination of them bot