Tip #42 dpkg-reconfigure (was ...Re: Adobe Flash in Chromium out of date: stable debian)

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 03:45:14PM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 14:46 -0400, John L. Cunningham wrote: > > dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-nonfree > > And once again this marvelous list has come thru for me. > Thanks John!! > That did the trick. I'm surprised I have not heard

Re: ..selling a surplus wintendo sticker, was: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 01:36:35AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 00:34 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:57:13 +0100, keith wrote in message > > <1339750633.2316.9.camel@hp-g62>: > > > > > However, there is a code sticker on the bottom of a laptop, that ma

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-15 Thread lina
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Curt wrote: > On 2012-06-15, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > >>> >> It's for linux clusters, so I would say unless you're running or are >                                               >>> >> part of a linux cluster, which doesn't seem to

Re: Syslogd message...............

2012-06-15 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Charlie. You worte: > Tried different cabling: > > blkid says, > > /dev/sdb1: UUID="4bb48afe-02d7-487f-a51f-ff378edbc98d" TYPE="ext3" > > Then in a terminal: > > mount /mnt/lpics > mount: special device /dev/sdd1 does not exist Why don't You mount /dev/sdb1 but /dev/s

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/15/2012 7:01 PM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Mark Allums wrote: Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop? I want only users with root p

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/15/2012 7:18 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On 16/06/12 10:08, Mark Allums wrote: Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop? I want only users with root privileges to use apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I w

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-15 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:40:56 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/15/2012 8:36 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > > First of all I tried to set the raid5 with the WD 20EARS and didn't > > have much luck. They led to fail events when mdadm builds the array. > > They "worked" in my Netgear NV+ with very low

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 17:08 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: >> >> I want only users with root privileges to use >> apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I want the original behavior >> restored. > > Then I don't understand "users". Only root has got

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 17:08 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > I want only users with root privileges to use > apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I want the original behavior > restored. Then I don't understand "users". Only root has got root privileges. If other users should have the same permissions,

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Richard Hector
On 16/06/12 10:08, Mark Allums wrote: Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop? I want only users with root privileges to use apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I want the original behavior restored. I think

Re: ..selling a surplus wintendo sticker, was: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
People should ask for one of this free as in free beer Windows medias from their local Microsoft licensed hacker. Now I vague remember that beside hacked versions, there are licensed versions illegal go the circuit. A real human being contract with the devil and indeed, typing some numbers, it can

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Mark Allums wrote: >> >> Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root >> password.  Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop?  I want only >> users with root privileges to use apt/aptit

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-15 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/15/2012 12:58 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:18:03 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > >> On 06/15/2012 10:35 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >>> Anyway, I'd also run the following tests: >>> >>> 1/ Just for testing purposes, you can momentary disable wicd and test >>> with a static IP con

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > > Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root > password.  Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop?  I want only > users with root privileges to use apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I > want the original beh

Re: ..selling a surplus wintendo sticker, was: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 00:34 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:57:13 +0100, keith wrote in message > <1339750633.2316.9.camel@hp-g62>: > > > However, there is a code sticker on the bottom of a laptop, that may > > let you get a copy from the manufacturer. > > ..I bought a laptop

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-06-15 18:38 +0200, Tom H wrote: > >> Run "aptitude search '?reverse-depends(texlive-fonts-extra)'" and >> you'll see that it's dpkg that's pulling it in. > > Sorry, you seem to be mistaken: texlive-fonts-extra depends on dpkg, not > th

Re: Syslogd message...............

2012-06-15 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 23:48:12 +0700 "Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com" suggested this: >Good time of the day, Charlie. > > >You worte: > >> This happens with both powered and powered only through a >> USB connection, external hard drives. Both with ext3 file systems: >> >> Message from syslogd@noma

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/15/2012 5:38 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 17:08 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop? I want only users with root privileges to use apt/aptitude/synaptic/gd

Re: Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 17:08 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root > password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop? I want > only users with root privileges to use apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. > and I want the original b

..selling a surplus wintendo sticker, was: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:57:13 +0100, keith wrote in message <1339750633.2316.9.camel@hp-g62>: > However, there is a code sticker on the bottom of a laptop, that may > let you get a copy from the manufacturer. ..I bought a laptop with a wintendo install that I used to pick up the http://goodbye-m

Sid Synaptic authenticates with sudo

2012-06-15 Thread Mark Allums
Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop? I want only users with root privileges to use apt/aptitude/synaptic/gdebi/etc. and I want the original behavior restored. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: Adobe Flash in Chromium out of date: stable debian

2012-06-15 Thread John W. Foster
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 14:46 -0400, John L. Cunningham wrote: > dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-nonfree And once again this marvelous list has come thru for me. Thanks John!! That did the trick. I'm surprised I have not heard of this b/4 but will file it away in my tips/tricks area. frosty -- To UN

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 19:32 +0100, keith wrote: > On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 19:55 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 17:55 +0100, keith wrote: > > > On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 03:55 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > Mmmm, surely it is faster to read something than to listen to someone

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-15, Chris Bannister wrote: >> >> It's for linux clusters, so I would say unless you're running or are >> >> part of a linux cluster, which doesn't seem to be the case, you >> > *** >> > Ac

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-06-15 21:58 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> On 2012-06-15 16:24 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: >> >>> Please consider the output of "aptitude -D full-upgrade" below. I do >>> not see any reason to install texlive-fonts-extra, and aptitude also >>> does not seem t

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Christoph Groth
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2012-06-15 16:24 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > >> Please consider the output of "aptitude -D full-upgrade" below. I do >> not see any reason to install texlive-fonts-extra, and aptitude also >> does not seem to see one. But it still wants to install the package. >> W

Re: Problem with Dovecot

2012-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-15, Camaleón wrote: > > Mmm... default Exim4 configuration should not require for you tweak > nothing in order to send local messages so I would start from here and > once this works as expected you can start the next step but if local > mails do not work the rest will fail. I'm run

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 04:54:17PM +, Curt wrote: > On 2012-06-15, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> > >> It's for linux clusters, so I would say unless you're running or are > >> part of a linux cluster, which doesn't seem to be the case, you > >> shouldn't be running it. I wonder why it's instal

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-06-15 16:24 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > Please consider the output of "aptitude -D full-upgrade" below. I do > not see any reason to install texlive-fonts-extra, and aptitude also > does not seem to see one. But it still wants to install the package. > Why? Probably because texpower

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-15 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:38:27 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/14/2012 4:51 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > > >> These commands don't match the pastebin. The pastebin shows you > >> creating a 4 disk RAID5 as /dev/md0. > > > > Really :-? > > That kind of (wrong) analysis is one of the many outcomes

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Christoph Groth
Dom writes: > What does > > aptitude why texlive-fonts-extra > > say? See original posting. -- 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/878vfo2xfg@falma.de

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 05:55:07PM +0100, keith wrote: > On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 03:55 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Mmmm, surely it is faster to read something than to listen to someone > > reading it aloud? > > Perhaps not if you're blind I doubt a blind person would be asking for printe

Clobbered digest volumes (more info)

2012-06-15 Thread Gary Roach
Looking closer at the problem, (see "Clobbered digest volumes" in Volume 2012 #1342) I find that I occasionally receive a correct message. The returns of my own are correct and some others. The bad messages all have the header information after the text and trigger the error message: Error:

Re: Adobe Flash in Chromium out of date: stable debian

2012-06-15 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:05:16AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > Far a while now the adobe flash player/plugin in Debian's Chromium > browser has been 'out of date' with the approriate warnings popping up , > asking to update the flashplayer. I thought the flashplayer was 'built > in' in Chromium

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-15 Thread keith
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 19:55 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 17:55 +0100, keith wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 03:55 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > Mmmm, surely it is faster to read something than to listen to someone > > > reading it aloud? > > > > Perhaps not if you're

Re: Adobe Flash in Chromium out of date: stable debian

2012-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-15, John W. Foster wrote: > Far a while now the adobe flash player/plugin in Debian's Chromium > browser has been 'out of date' with the approriate warnings popping up , > asking to update the flashplayer. I thought the flashplayer was 'built > in' in Chromium as it is in Google Chrome.

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 17:55 +0100, keith wrote: > On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 03:55 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Mmmm, surely it is faster to read something than to listen to someone > > reading it aloud? > > Perhaps not if you're blind Braille reading? Blind people have issues to type and to

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-06-15 18:38 +0200, Tom H wrote: > Run "aptitude search '?reverse-depends(texlive-fonts-extra)'" and > you'll see that it's dpkg that's pulling it in. Sorry, you seem to be mistaken: texlive-fonts-extra depends on dpkg, not the other way around. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/14/2012 8:02 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > AF drives are Advanced Format drives with more than 512 bytes per > sector right? Correct. Advanced Format is the industry wide name chosen for drives that have 4096B physical sectors, but present 512B sectors at the interface level, doing translation i

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-15 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 04:34 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:37:18 -0500, Christofer wrote in message > : > > > > It's much simpler to do: > > > > > > mogrify -resize '800x600<' testimage.jpg > > > > > > or to limit it to 800 in any dimension > > > > > > mogrify -resize '800x

Re: Fwd: Re: LXDE background shows my entire /home/USER as icons.

2012-06-15 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 13.06.2012 19:47, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Could you force unsubscribe and ban joe1assis...@gmail.com from > >> Debian-user. > >> > >> That address is sending random email like t

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Dom
On 15/06/12 17:15, Christoph Groth wrote: Wayne Topa writes: On 06/15/2012 10:24 AM, Christoph Groth wrote: For a reason that I do not understand, currently full-upgrade wants to install some rather huge packages. "aptitude -D" is supposed to show for each package to be newly installed th

Adobe Flash in Chromium out of date: stable debian

2012-06-15 Thread John W. Foster
Far a while now the adobe flash player/plugin in Debian's Chromium browser has been 'out of date' with the approriate warnings popping up , asking to update the flashplayer. I thought the flashplayer was 'built in' in Chromium as it is in Google Chrome. I have both installed and that appears to be

Re: Fwd: Re: LXDE background shows my entire /home/USER as icons.

2012-06-15 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 13.06.2012 19:47, Alexander Wirt wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Could you force unsubscribe and ban joe1assis...@gmail.com from >> Debian-user. >> >> That address is sending random email like this to random people on >> Debian-user when they send something.

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-15 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:18:03 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 06/15/2012 10:35 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> Anyway, I'd also run the following tests: >> >> 1/ Just for testing purposes, you can momentary disable wicd and test >> with a static IP configuration defined at "/etc/network/interfaces". I

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Wayne Topa
On 06/15/2012 12:15 PM, Christoph Groth wrote: Wayne Topa writes: On 06/15/2012 10:24 AM, Christoph Groth wrote: For a reason that I do not understand, currently full-upgrade wants to install some rather huge packages. Install the debian-reference package and read section 2.3.5. System w

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-15 Thread keith
On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 03:55 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Mmmm, surely it is faster to read something than to listen to someone > reading it aloud? Perhaps not if you're blind -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-15, Chris Bannister wrote: >> >> It's for linux clusters, so I would say unless you're running or are >> part of a linux cluster, which doesn't seem to be the case, you >> shouldn't be running it. I wonder why it's installed on your machine >> in the first place. > > According to prev

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Christoph Groth
Javier Vasquez writes: > Some time back the policy changed to install by default the > "recommended" ones. So I had to include in my setting: > > APT::Install-Recommends "false"; > > I'm not sure if that would help you. Also I would turn off > "suggested" packages if you have them turned on (th

Re: Syslogd message...............

2012-06-15 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Charlie. You worte: > This happens with both powered and powered only through a > USB connection, external hard drives. Both with ext3 file systems: > > Message from syslogd@nomad at Jun 16 08:04:30 ... > kernel:[ 3187.986721] journal commit I/O error > > Seems to be more

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-15 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
Hi, Camaleón. FYI I filed a bug against netscript package -- 677...@bugs.debian.org Best, Gilbert -- 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/4fdb6728.1030...@co

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Christoph Groth
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2012-06-15 18:15 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > >> "aptitude -D" is supposed to show for each package to be newly installed >> the reason why it is needed. In my case, aptitude wants to install >> texlive-fonts-extra though this package is currently not installed and >

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 04:36 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:51:03PM -0400, KS wrote: > > I might actually end up giving the machine to the owner with Linux > > slapped on it :p > > > > . searching for options now. > > Just say its the new Windows 8, :) :D Windows

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 04:28:09PM +, Curt wrote: > On 2012-06-11, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am a bit confused. Today during upgrade, > > > > it showed me > > > > Not starting slurm-llnl > > slurm.conf was not found in /etc/slurm-llnl > > Please follow the instructions in /usr/share/doc/sl

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:51:03PM -0400, KS wrote: > I might actually end up giving the machine to the owner with Linux > slapped on it :p > > . searching for options now. Just say its the new Windows 8, :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are b

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Christoph Groth wrote: > Wayne Topa writes: >> On 06/15/2012 10:24 AM, Christoph Groth wrote: > >>> For a reason that I do not understand, currently full-upgrade wants to >>> install some rather huge packages. > >> Install the debian-reference package and read se

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-06-15 18:15 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > >> "aptitude -D" is supposed to show for each package to be newly installed >> the reason why it is needed.  In my case, aptitude wants to install >> texlive-fonts-extra though this package

101% OT: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 03:55 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Mmmm, surely it is faster to read something than to listen to someone > reading it aloud? Humans aren't equal. Even healthy ears differ a little bit. My better ear is the left ear, but to understand the contend of a spoken text, e.g. at

Re: Problem with Dovecot

2012-06-15 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:12:39 +0100, Keir Snow wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> How are you reading your e-mails? Where are the files stored? How is >> Dovecot configured? Is it pointing to the right path from where to read >> the user mailbox? > > Hmmm, in a bid to i

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-06-15 18:15 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > "aptitude -D" is supposed to show for each package to be newly installed > the reason why it is needed. In my case, aptitude wants to install > texlive-fonts-extra though this package is currently not installed and > also (to my knowledge) not r

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-15 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 06/15/2012 10:35 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:44:57 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > >> On 06/14/2012 01:34 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >>> To be sincere, I don't know what's originating the problem. If you say >>> the network settings are properly configured, why Exim4 is that lazy?

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-15, rjc wrote: > No worries. > > As suspected - coockies or config is at fault :^) I asked if she had cookies enabled but I neglected to ask whether she had tried getting rid of them (in the privacy settings) and starting with a clean slate cookie-wise, but I guess we'll never know now

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Christoph Groth
Wayne Topa writes: > On 06/15/2012 10:24 AM, Christoph Groth wrote: >> For a reason that I do not understand, currently full-upgrade wants to >> install some rather huge packages. > Install the debian-reference package and read section 2.3.5. System wide > upgrade Thanks. I read section 2.3.5

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread rjc
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 01:27:10PM BST, lina wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:59 PM, rjc wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:47:36AM BST, lina wrote: > >> It's iceweasle related, other browser no problem. > > > > In that case quit Iceweasel and: > > > > % mv $HOME/.mozilla/firefox $HOME/.mozil

Re: mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

2012-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Steve Dowe wrote: > On 13/06/12 23:15, Tom H wrote: >> >> Since metadata 1.1 or 1.2 stores the metadata at the beginning rather >> than at the end, perhaps using a partitioned mdraid device with that >> metada works with squeeze. > > Good idea.  I'll boot it up wit

Re: Problem with Iceweasel and low-quality fonts

2012-06-15 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:29:01 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-05-28 14:17:08 +, Camaleón wrote: >> I wonder why is that this is still needed because Firefox should >> respect the system font settings. > > It seems that Firefox and fontconfig have different ways of dealing with > missin

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 06:43:28PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Agreed there are many reasons for speech computing, as unique and > individual as those who so choose...I imagine even a few who just > want to work faster, since the human brain can process verbally with > greater speed than visual

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Wayne Topa
On 06/15/2012 10:24 AM, Christoph Groth wrote: Hello, I'm using "aptitude full-upgrade" to keep my debian testing installations up-to-date. For a reason that I do not understand, currently full-upgrade wants to install some rather huge packages. Please consider the output of "aptitude -D full-

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 14:43 +, Camaleón wrote: > No add-on will be present in my Firefox if I can avoid it, they are > forbidden :-) :) I limit the number off add-ons and sometimes I'm using different profiles. Current Ubuntu has two defaults that can't be removed by Firefox. Global Menu Bar

Re: Intermittent installation related problems

2012-06-15 Thread Brian
On Fri 15 Jun 2012 at 09:41:09 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [Snip] > My routine is to use gparted to delete whatever partition the previous > Debian install was on and let subsequent install "use all free space". As > I only have dialup at home all installs requiring internet access are > done

Re: Problem with Dovecot

2012-06-15 Thread Keir Snow
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Camaleón wrote: > I would try to disable ipv6 in Exim4 unless you can properly handle the new > protocol, of course. I don't know Exim4 but Google suggests it can be done by > setting "disable_ipv6 = true" at the config file. But this is Debian and > Debian has its

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 09:06 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: > Although I am a heavy Google user (except Google+), there is > disappointment: although I live in Mexico and speak Spanish at home, I > only Google search through that bookmark... and Google never catches on! > How hard must it be to note "thi

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:02:13 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 16:15 +, Camaleón wrote: >> If Google says you are in Malaysia is that _you are_ there. > > http://www.affiliateprograms.com/blog/what-to-know-about-duckduckgo/ > (Didn't read the duckduckgo article completely mys

Intermittent installation related problems

2012-06-15 Thread Richard Owlett
I have a used Lenovo R61 ThinkPad whose sole reason for existing is to host multiple repeated experimental installs of *nix. Debian is my current target. It has a Windows Vista install which I'm leaving untouched (used gparted iso to shrink its partition to half of hard disk). My routine is t

Re: Fire and Thunder

2012-06-15 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 12.06.2012 12:54, 张启德(Zhang Qide) wrote: > 2012/6/12 Steve Dowe : >> Hi, >> >> I know that Debian distributes its own variants, but could someone say what >> their experience of installing the latest Firefox and/or Thunderbird has >> been like in Squeeze? > > See http://mozilla.debian.net/ > >

Re: configuring interface & configuring MTA time out

2012-06-15 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:44:57 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 06/14/2012 01:34 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> To be sincere, I don't know what's originating the problem. If you say >> the network settings are properly configured, why Exim4 is that lazy? >> :-? >> >> Searching for "exim boot speed up"

aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Christoph Groth
Hello, I'm using "aptitude full-upgrade" to keep my debian testing installations up-to-date. For a reason that I do not understand, currently full-upgrade wants to install some rather huge packages. Please consider the output of "aptitude -D full-upgrade" below. I do not see any reason to insta

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread hvw59601
Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:30:52 +0800, lina wrote: I feel something weird, since yesterday when I opened www.google.com it showed me "Bahasa Malaysia", but I have never used the www.google.com.my. (...) If Google says you are in Malaysia is that _you are_ there. Period. Or you

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread lina
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:59 PM, rjc wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:47:36AM BST, lina wrote: >> It's iceweasle related, other browser no problem. > > In that case quit Iceweasel and: > > % mv $HOME/.mozilla/firefox $HOME/.mozilla/firefox.old Thanks. It works. Best regards, > > If it start

Re: Syslogd message...............

2012-06-15 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:21:00 +0200 "Alberto Fuentes alberto.fuen...@qindel.com" suggested this: >On 06/16/2012 12:14 AM, Charlie wrote: >> >> This happens with both powered and powered only through a >> USB connection, external hard drives. Both with ext3 file systems: >> >> Message from syslogd

Re: Syslogd message...............

2012-06-15 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 06/16/2012 12:14 AM, Charlie wrote: This happens with both powered and powered only through a USB connection, external hard drives. Both with ext3 file systems: Message from syslogd@nomad at Jun 16 08:04:30 ... kernel:[ 3187.986721] journal commit I/O error This seems regular error in disk

Syslogd message...............

2012-06-15 Thread Charlie
This happens with both powered and powered only through a USB connection, external hard drives. Both with ext3 file systems: Message from syslogd@nomad at Jun 16 08:04:30 ... kernel:[ 3187.986721] journal commit I/O error Seems to be more funny things happening with this testing system than anyt

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread rjc
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:47:36AM BST, lina wrote: > It's iceweasle related, other browser no problem. In that case quit Iceweasel and: % mv $HOME/.mozilla/firefox $HOME/.mozilla/firefox.old If it starts working again remove the new firefox directory, copy the old one to the original name (keep

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
IMO GOOGLE is borked. For Firefox Ubuntu, the German Google shows English buttons and links (selected languages are on top en - us, followed by en and on bottom de, might cause the button and link language), the Link to google.com links to google.de. I didn't reboot to another Linux, e.g. Debian

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Try upgrading to 13 by stable backports. Perhaps this is useful: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/06/msg00892.html -- 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.

re:16" LED and 15.6" LED from Aimee-ShengRuihk

2012-06-15 Thread Aimee Luo
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Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread lina
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 3:12 PM, rjc wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 06:44:11AM BST, lina wrote: >> Even the first link given by Curt, not work. the www.google.com/ncr >> opened still the Malaysia language. > > What web browser are you using and do you have cookies enabled? > > Does this happen i

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread lina
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >From the German Google it usually is possible to switch to google.com by > the link at the right bottom corner, at the moment it stays at google.de > here. > > When I'm using the link from http://www.google.com.my/ I also get the > German Goo

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread lina
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > What IP does a webpage see if you visit it? To ensure what they really > see go to > > http://www.heise.de/netze/tools/meine-ip-adresse/ > > The German words [1] in English: "Your request is from the IP address:" > > Then check the IP at > > h

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread lina
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Curt wrote: > On 2012-06-15, lina wrote: >> >> Even the first link given by Curt, not work. the www.google.com/ncr >> opened still the Malaysia language. > > Did you say what browser you're using?  Do you have the same problem > with all browsers? The problem onl

Re: Problem with Iceweasel and low-quality fonts

2012-06-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-05-28 14:17:08 +, Camaleón wrote: > I wonder why is that this is still needed because Firefox should > respect the system font settings. It seems that Firefox and fontconfig have different ways of dealing with missing fonts, and fontconfig works better. The bug I reported with some rec

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-15 Thread keith
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 08:24 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > If you're using a licensed version of Win7, why don't you have the > install medias? Because it is a factory install that reinstalls from a partition on disk, most likely. However, there is a code sticker on the bottom of a laptop, that

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread rjc
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 06:44:11AM BST, lina wrote: > Even the first link given by Curt, not work. the www.google.com/ncr > opened still the Malaysia language. What web browser are you using and do you have cookies enabled? Does this happen in any other browser? Which country do you reside in?

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot

2012-06-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/14/2012 9:45 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:38:27 -0500 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Couldn't hurt. And while you're at it, mount with "inode64" in your >> fstab immediately after you create the XFS. You were running with >> inode32, which sticks all the inodes at the front

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
>From the German Google it usually is possible to switch to google.com by the link at the right bottom corner, at the moment it stays at google.de here. When I'm using the link from http://www.google.com.my/ I also get the German Google. http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en is ok here and

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-15, Curt wrote: > On 2012-06-15, lina wrote: >> >> Even the first link given by Curt, not work. the www.google.com/ncr >> opened still the Malaysia language. > > Did you say what browser you're using? Do you have the same problem > with all browsers? > By the way, a technical evidenc

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
What IP does a webpage see if you visit it? To ensure what they really see go to http://www.heise.de/netze/tools/meine-ip-adresse/ The German words [1] in English: "Your request is from the IP address:" Then check the IP at https://apps.db.ripe.net/search/query.html?form_type=simple&full_query_

Re: Face in Icedove

2012-06-15 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:46:15 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > Sure, http://picpaste.com/Selection_022-Pub3H0Bm.jpeg > Open Config Editor from Advanced Preferences and check mailnews.customHeaders and mailnews.headers.extraExpandedHeaders values. If they contain face or face: then remov

Re: [OT] google.com

2012-06-15 Thread Curt
On 2012-06-15, lina wrote: > > Even the first link given by Curt, not work. the www.google.com/ncr > opened still the Malaysia language. Did you say what browser you're using? Do you have the same problem with all browsers? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: books on debian of a beginner nature?

2012-06-15 Thread Veljko
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 08:49:15AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 18:55 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is quite thorough: > > http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ > > There also is a beginners guide. > > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 19:29 +0200, Ralf Mardor

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