Debian 7

2013-06-07 Thread Andrei Hristow
Actually, I found something strange intrusion0: ALARM this shows sensors

Debian Wheezy & SSD+HDD configuration

2013-06-07 Thread Fran
Hello list, I just installed Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" on what I call my new workstation. It's a pretty standard setup: right now I installed Debian on the first SATA drive (a 120Gb SSD drive) and mounted my 1Tb HDD as my home partition with no problems at all. I've been reading here and there though,

Re: Upgrading from squeeze to wheezy fails with error

2013-06-07 Thread fireball
Your "real thing" suggestion is the best one so far! Somehow, in my haste, I confused someone's ad-hoc howto for the real release notes. I ended up hiring a consultant for a couple of hours to bail me out. My system is now upgraded. The only task I have left is to get gdm working properly with my

Re: corrupt/lost dpkg files, dpkg broken, aptitude broken, help :(

2013-06-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/7/2013 5:26 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 07 Jun 2013 at 16:30:34 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > [Snip] > >> What's the best method for fixing this, getting dpkg running again, and >> removing lshw, given some of its file have been corrupted/lost? There >> wouldn't happen to be a single comma

makehuman

2013-06-07 Thread j...@wexfordpress.com
Anyone have success with this program? What version did you use? John Culleton -- 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/792248a5-dc53-406d-af34-2af891e06...@w

Re: Cut an paste from icedove email messages

2013-06-07 Thread Gary Roach
My error. I meant icedove not iceweasel and I am using Wheezy. The center wheel nor the shift+insert work for icedove. (See subject change) Sorry Gary R (the dyslexic typist) On 06/07/2013 02:42 PM, George Standish wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 02:17:23PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I keep h

Re: corrupt/lost dpkg files, dpkg broken, aptitude broken, help :(

2013-06-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 07 iun 13, 16:30:34, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Contents of one file looks probable for available. The 'available' file seems to be the same as the Packages file, deb822 format describing packages: Package: foo Priority: optional Section: ... (you get the point) Kind regards, Andre

Re: corrupt/lost dpkg files, dpkg broken, aptitude broken, help :(

2013-06-07 Thread Brian
On Fri 07 Jun 2013 at 16:30:34 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: [Snip] > What's the best method for fixing this, getting dpkg running again, and > removing lshw, given some of its file have been corrupted/lost? There > wouldn't happen to be a single command to rebuild the dpkg subsystem > would ther

Re: Cut an paste from iceweasel email messages

2013-06-07 Thread George Standish
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 02:17:23PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > I keep having the situation where I want to cut and paste a section > from an email to another document. Is there any way to cut and paste > from iceweasel to the clipboard to a text document? I've personally butted heads against this

Cut an paste from iceweasel email messages

2013-06-07 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, I keep having the situation where I want to cut and paste a section from an email to another document. Is there any way to cut and paste from iceweasel to the clipboard to a text document? All help will be sincerely appreciated Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

corrupt/lost dpkg files, dpkg broken, aptitude broken, help :(

2013-06-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
I had some filesystem corruption. The last thing I did before the machine hard locked was to install lshw. lshw is what hard locked the system. Let's save the filesystem journaling discussion for another day and focus on the matter at hand. Anyway, at least one dpkg file entry was damaged and t

Re: Upgrade from 6.0.7 to 7.0 issues

2013-06-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Kailash wrote: > Miroslav Skoric wrote: > > I upgraded the other day, and noticed some differences between my > > desktop appearance (Gnome) and what is described in the Help. According > > to Help, there should be some Activities menu or something like that in > > the upper left corner, but only I

Re: Debian/Linux tutorials.

2013-06-07 Thread André Nunes Batista
BTW, sorry for double mailing but I also think it's worth mentioning that nowadays its just Debian. It has other kernels available, such as hurd and kfreebsd. One thing is debian e a total different thing is Linux. -- I challenge you to play the game in which there is no loser but everything is f

Re: Debian/Linux tutorials.

2013-06-07 Thread André Nunes Batista
Machtelt Garrels wrote a terrific introductory guide in its simplicity. http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/intro-linux.html IMHO, it's impossible to have a "perfect guide" or best in some universal sense. Similar to what happens with software, our knowledge grows with gaps and it's up to us wh

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - Pulseaudio Problem?

2013-06-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:28:32 -0400 "Thomas H. George" wrote: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 01:55:59PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 16:14:00 -0400 > > "Thomas H. George" wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 09:15:35AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > My system is Wheezy.

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - Pulseaudio Problem?

2013-06-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 07 iun 13, 14:28:32, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I don't understand why there is no cd source volume sider in alsamixer. > There used to be one. Still that is probably irrelevant as there is > sound output from the cd as proved by ripit which writes an ogg file > that ogg123 can play with

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - Pulseaudio Problem?

2013-06-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:28:32 -0400 "Thomas H. George" wrote: Hello Thomas, >I don't understand why there is no cd source volume sider in alsamixer. Third time lucky; I fired up alsamixer (I don't usually use it) and found that I had to increase the width of the console window to view all the mi

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - Pulseaudio Problem?

2013-06-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:28:32 -0400 "Thomas H. George" wrote: Hello Thomas, >I don't understand why there is no cd source volume sider in alsamixer. >There used to be one. Ignore me; I misread your post. I'm talking about KMix, not alsamixer. Sorry for the noise. -- Regards _ / )

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - Pulseaudio Problem?

2013-06-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:28:32 -0400 "Thomas H. George" wrote: Hello Thomas, >I don't understand why there is no cd source volume sider in alsamixer. >There used to be one. Still that is probably irrelevant as there is As I said before, you have to add it from the prefs; Settings menu -> Configu

Re: Sound But No CD Sound - Pulseaudio Problem?

2013-06-07 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 01:55:59PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 16:14:00 -0400 > "Thomas H. George" wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 09:15:35AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > My system is Wheezy. > > > ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > > > workbone plays t

Re: Debian 7 USB Drive Won't Work

2013-06-07 Thread André Nunes Batista
Though it may appear as if I was being ironic in my last comment, I don't think you've exceeded in your harshness. I'm not offended and it did indeed help me to question my reliance on this software. So my "thank you" was sincere, though it kind of felt like a bitchslap.. :) --- Begin Message ---

Re: Upgrading from squeeze to wheezy fails with error

2013-06-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 06 iun 13, 21:39:58, fireball wrote: > Today I tried upgrading from squeeze to wheezy. I followed the instructions > here: > http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-upgrade-debian-squeeze-to-wheezy You could try the real thing instead http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/releasenotes > When I d

Re: Activities? Dash? Hot-corner?

2013-06-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 06 iun 13, 16:21:59, Eric d'Halibut wrote: > > # apt-get install icewm LXDE is also nice. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signa

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

2013-06-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 07 iun 13, 11:15:42, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > aptitude sometimes proposes removals of many packages even when this > is not the case. A few days ago, due to the hplip upgrade IIRC, > aptitude proposed to remove hundreds of packages, while apt-get just > proposed to remove libsnmp15 (and i

Re: Email suggestions

2013-06-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 06 iun 13, 23:22:25, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > Believe it or not, there are actually companies who don't want their > people to even think about work while on vacation. And there are > people who follow that advice. I wouldn't call anything else a vacation. Unfortunately place without mob

Re: Re (2): Scanning in Wheezy.

2013-06-07 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:14:16AM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > From: "John L. Cunningham" > > > ... then reconnect the scanner to see if it is recognized. > > I'm reluctant to "hotplug" the SCSI cable but > gimp > File > Create > QuiteInsane > Select Device > still gives "No local devic

Re: Upgrading from squeeze to wheezy fails with error

2013-06-07 Thread John Hasler
fireball writes: > apt-get install gnome What's that in aid of? Just do: aptitude update aptitude safe-upgrade aptitude full-upgrade "Safe-upgrade" will upgrade everything it can without removing anything. "Full upgrade" will upgrade everything even if some removals are necessary. -- John Hasl

Re (2): Scanning in Wheezy.

2013-06-07 Thread peasthope
From: "John L. Cunningham" Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 23:16:47 -0400 > Try "sudo modprobe sg" ... ... root@dalton:~# lsmod | grep sg sg 21476 0 scsi_mod 135037 8 scsi_transport_spi,aic7xxx,libata,usb_storage,sd _mod,sg,sr_mod,firewire_sbp2 > ... then reconnect t

Re: Upgrading from squeeze to wheezy fails with error

2013-06-07 Thread fireball
For example, I tried this link http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/12/msg00561.html which suggests trying the following steps: apt-get update apt-get install gnome apt-get -f install (had to do that about three times before full success) apt-get -f dist-upgrade However, the above solutio

Re: Dovecot IMAP

2013-06-07 Thread M.Atıf CEYLAN
On 06/07/2013 03:06 PM, Alex Dubinin wrote: 07.06.2013 12:47, "M.Atıf CEYLAN" пишет: On 06/06/2013 11:59 PM, Alex Dubinin wrote: 04.06.2013 18:15, Alex Dubinin пишет: So work all mail clients that I tried! With other servers work fine. I checked a few other servers. I think, this problem in na

Re: Dovecot IMAP

2013-06-07 Thread Alex Dubinin
07.06.2013 12:47, "M.Atıf CEYLAN" пишет: > On 06/06/2013 11:59 PM, Alex Dubinin wrote: >> 04.06.2013 18:15, Alex Dubinin пишет: >>> So work all mail clients that I tried! With other servers work fine. I >>> checked a few other servers. I think, this problem in namespaces. You >>> can try without th

Re: Debian/Linux tutorials.

2013-06-07 Thread Brad Alexander
If you are looking for some more targeted but generic tutorials: The Geek Stuff: http://www.thegeekstuff.com nixcraft: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ HowtoGeek: http://www.howtogeek.com Howto Forge: http://www.howtoforge.com There is a wealth of information on those sites about Linux, other *nixes

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

2013-06-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-06-05 07:46:54 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Andrei writes: > > Not necessarily. The package being installed might conflict with them > > (for good reasons) and aptitude doesn't always suggest the option with > > fewer removals. > > In that case Aptitude would be stating that it proposed to

Re: Dovecot IMAP

2013-06-07 Thread M.Atıf CEYLAN
On 06/06/2013 11:59 PM, Alex Dubinin wrote: 04.06.2013 18:15, Alex Dubinin пишет: So work all mail clients that I tried! With other servers work fine. I checked a few other servers. I think, this problem in namespaces. You can try without thunderbird using telnet or openssl. My result: 04 LIST "

Re: Email suggestions

2013-06-07 Thread Klaus
On 07/06/13 04:22, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 6/6/2013 8:43 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From:Jerry Stuckle Date:Thu, 06 Jun 2013 19:15:38 -0400 ... if they go on two weeks vacation and easily have their mailbox fill up. Then email would be lost. I'd take the flash card and a laptop.

Re: Dovecot IMAP

2013-06-07 Thread Alex Dubinin
07.06.2013 10:53, Stan Hoeppner пишет: > On 6/6/2013 3:59 PM, Alex Dubinin wrote: >> 04.06.2013 18:15, Alex Dubinin пишет: >>> So work all mail clients that I tried! With other servers work fine. I >>> checked a few other servers. I think, this problem in namespaces. You >>> can try without thunder