Gnome Shell takes about a minute to respond to logout or power off

2013-06-12 Thread Alan Chandler
I have a fairly standard Debian Sid system with Gnome3 with the shell extensions installed. If I log off (from the menu below my name on the top right) the system immediately puts up the dialog box saying it will log off in 60 seconds but inviting me to either cancel or log out immediately. If

Re: No.cursor on the Gnome Terminal. in Wheezy

2013-06-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > But now I find that the gnome terminal does not function: the > background is dark and perhaps the cursor is also dark, but I don't > know as yet how to change the colors The x-terminal is functioning > OK and everything else is OK.Has anyone come across this behaviou

No.cursor on the Gnome Terminal. in Wheezy

2013-06-12 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Just two days ago (10th June 2013)I changed from the amd64 version to the 486 version mainly because the acrobat reader is not functional in the 64 but version. But now I find that the gnome terminal does not function: the background is dark and perhaps the cursor is also dark, but I don't know as

Re: Need help undeleting a Big gz compressed tar ball

2013-06-12 Thread Bob Proulx
To Ro wrote: > After a few hours, my Big.tar.gz was gone. I tried testdisk, but has not > been very succesful. I was able to see and copy to another disk about 18 > files of different sizes, from 6 gb to 70 gb, with names such as inode_x > Running the command "file inode_x" yields not much,

Re: wifi disappeared completely last night on a Debina Jessie laptop.

2013-06-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 iun 13, 01:11:38, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Well, I've got it using wifi again yesterday, but now I need to know what > the right way to get it to rescan for access points. ... > I'm understandably leery of disabling wifi and renabling it, given the > disappearance of the menu item. I

Re: Gnome shell won't open.

2013-06-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 iun 13, 01:34:50, John Tate wrote: > Are they the latest? I am considering trying them. I will have to make the > time. Why does it matter? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.deb

Need help undeleting a Big gz compressed tar ball

2013-06-12 Thread To Ro
Where: External SeaGate Drive of 1 TB I had a Big.tar.gz file (about 400gb) with all the contents of my home directory, in a maze of directories and subdirectories. After extracting a directory with all its contents from Big.tar.gz to my hard drive, I decided to delete that particular directory. My

Re: Bug report help: debian testing lvm boot

2013-06-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: > Michael Anckaeart wrote: > > I was going to provide all necessary info in the bug report, but here > > goes: It is quite reasonable to make descriptions here and then repeat all of the refined information again when making the bug report. > > I downloaded the latest Debian testing

Re: LPR job via cups-lpd + CUPS + cups-pdf

2013-06-12 Thread Patrick Zaloum
It turns out these are HP PCL control codes (Thanks Mark N) I resolved my problem by first filtering the input through ghost-pcl to convert it to a CUPS input friendly format and then was able to generate my PDF file output. On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 11 Jun 2013 at

building vloopback

2013-06-12 Thread peasthope
Kernel header package is installed. root@dalton:/usr/src# ls linux-headers-3.2.0-4-686-pae linux-kbuild-3.2 vloopback.tar linux-headers-3.2.0-4-common modules vloopback-source is installed. root@dalton:/usr/src# cd modules/vloopback root@dalton:/usr/src/modules/vloopback# ls debian Makefile

Re: Root can startx, main user can't - new Wheezy install

2013-06-12 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Thanks for your thoughts, > > Nick Hi Nick! You might want to check the settings of .Xauthority in users ~/home. I had the issue, that its rights were changed from user:user to root:root after I started LXDE. When changed back to KDE, it won't start again. I manually deleted the file and l

Re: Root can startx, main user can't - new Wheezy install

2013-06-12 Thread Brian
On Wed 12 Jun 2013 at 09:18:28 +1000, Nick Croft wrote: > I installed Wheezy a couple of days ago. Everything went fine. No glitches. > Sound, wifi, mail, ssh, X -- all good. > > i kept the machine running for continuously while getting everything in place. > > On the first reboot, my main user

Re: LPR job via cups-lpd + CUPS + cups-pdf

2013-06-12 Thread Brian
On Tue 11 Jun 2013 at 12:01:19 -0400, Patrick Zaloum wrote: > If I remove the control characters from my local copy of the print job and > resubmit it, the PDF gets produced. Otherwise the process ends with an > unrecoverable ghostscript error -1 and a blank PDF. Using a basic text-only > printer

Re: Bug report help: debian testing lvm boot

2013-06-12 Thread Brian
On Wed 12 Jun 2013 at 15:41:12 +0200, Michael Anckaeart wrote: > I was going to provide all necessary info in the bug report, but here > goes: > > I downloaded the latest Debian testing image > (debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso), installed in a new VirtualBox VM: > all options default except LVM

Re: Bug report help: debian testing lvm boot

2013-06-12 Thread Michael Anckaeart
On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 01:35:32 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 02:28:08PM +0200, Michael Anckaeart wrote: > > Hello everyone > > > > I got redirected to the Debian users list from the Bug reporting > > page. I wanted to file a bug report but can't seem to find what > > packa

Re: Bug report help: debian testing lvm boot

2013-06-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 02:28:08PM +0200, Michael Anckaeart wrote: > Hello everyone > > I got redirected to the Debian users list from the Bug reporting page. > I wanted to file a bug report but can't seem to find what package it > belongs to and thus can't find for an existing bug or create a new

Bug report help: debian testing lvm boot

2013-06-12 Thread Michael Anckaeart
Hello everyone I got redirected to the Debian users list from the Bug reporting page. I wanted to file a bug report but can't seem to find what package it belongs to and thus can't find for an existing bug or create a new report. When installing Debian Testing (in a vm) using an LVM setup the lv

Re: Wheezy Alongside Windows7

2013-06-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 08:46:56AM +, Andy Hawkins wrote: > Hi, > In article <20130612032340.GB15667@tal>, >Chris Bannister wrote: > > "There is no try, you either do or you don't." - Yoda > > If you're going to quote Yoda, at least get it right :) > > "Try not. Do, or do not. The

Re: Wheezy Alongside Windows7

2013-06-12 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article <20130612032340.GB15667@tal>, Chris Bannister wrote: > "There is no try, you either do or you don't." - Yoda If you're going to quote Yoda, at least get it right :) "Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try." - Yoda Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-12 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Brian, You are absolutely right! Having asked the question, I owe the group answers. Unfortunately real life intruded its ugly head last week. I do plan to do the tests and report back as soon as I can. Rick On Jun 11, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Brian wrote: He could consider providing

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-12 Thread Bert Riding
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:30:02 +0200, Rick Thomas wrote: I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. I'd like to have -- restart the window manager. I've configured it to do so with "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard- configuration", but (even after a r