Re: kmail under wheezy

2013-06-18 Thread Dick Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/06/13 02:06, Mike McGinn wrote: > Hi All, > Is anyone using KDE and Kmail under Wheezy? How does it work? Is it stable > enough to use or should I wait to update from Squeeze? > > Thanks, > Mike > this is why I shouldn't type half asleep, :o)

Re: kmail under wheezy

2013-06-18 Thread Dick Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/06/13 02:06, Mike McGinn wrote: > Hi All, Is anyone using KDE and Kmail under Wheezy? How does it > work? Is it stable enough to use or should I wait to update from > Squeeze? > > Thanks, Mike > Hi-ya, Mike I tried KDE on Wheezy and other tha

kmail under wheezy

2013-06-18 Thread Mike McGinn
Hi All, Is anyone using KDE and Kmail under Wheezy? How does it work? Is it stable enough to use or should I wait to update from Squeeze? Thanks, Mike -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Ex Uno Plurima No electrons were harmed in sending this message, some were inconvenienced. ** Registered Linux

Re: Posts not making it to debian-user?

2013-06-18 Thread Harry Prevor
On 6/18/13, amber gilchrist wrote: > Thanks, Alan. I made four posts yesterday, and two more this morning that > did not make it through. > The part I don't like is that a few of the posts had solutions in them! > If I wanted to be paranoid I would say that Microsoft Outlook is filtering > my debi

Re: Debian machine not booting

2013-06-18 Thread Bob Proulx
James Allsopp wrote: > I have a debian machine which was on for a long time (~months). Just moved > house and rebooted and now it doesn't boot. Bummer. > My 4 harddrives are organised in pairs of RAID 1 (Mirrored) with LVM > spanning them. Originally there was just one pair, but then I got two ne

Re: What are ddebs, mentioned in less changelog.Debian?

2013-06-18 Thread staticsafe
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 09:47:19PM +0300, Regid Ichira wrote: > $ zgrep -A5 458-2 /usr/share/doc/less/changelog.Debian.gz > less (458-2) unstable; urgency=low > > * Merge 458-1ubuntu1 > - debian/lesspipe{.1}: Make lesspipe treat ddebs the same as it does > debs >

Re: is there a debian utility for this?

2013-06-18 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Michael Anckaert wrote: > On 18/06/13 05:42, Karen Lewellen wrote: >> Hi folks, >> it may be a part of laytext, but we do not have that here on shellworld. >> Still I am wondering if there is a utility in debian that will convert >> the ms word .docx file format i

What are ddebs, mentioned in less changelog.Debian?

2013-06-18 Thread Regid Ichira
$ zgrep -A5 458-2 /usr/share/doc/less/changelog.Debian.gz less (458-2) unstable; urgency=low * Merge 458-1ubuntu1 - debian/lesspipe{.1}: Make lesspipe treat ddebs the same as it does debs and udebs (LP: #1180013). What are ddebs? I think it is not a typo

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Klaus
On 18/06/13 13:59, Chris Purves wrote: I'm not running X. Do you have (a) a serial or (b) a graphical console attached to the mo-bo, or (c) do you access the unit remotely via telnet / ssh? If b or c, could you try to hook up a serial console while the system hangs and check whether you re-ga

Re: /dev/dsp missing in Wheezy

2013-06-18 Thread Kailash
On Tuesday 18 June 2013 11:19 PM, Alan Ianson wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:16:15 -0400 amber gilchrist wrote: I want to throw out another problem I am having in this Wheezy upgrade: sound! I used to use ALSA with Squeeze, no problems. After the upgrade, I am able to get sound in my browser, I

RE: Posts not making it to debian-user?

2013-06-18 Thread amber gilchrist
agian...@gmail.com wrote: > Also, I see two posts from you on the list, from yesterday. Thanks, Alan. I made four posts yesterday, and two more this morning that did not make it through. The part I don't like is that a few of the posts had solutions in them! If I wanted to be paranoid I would sa

Re: /dev/dsp missing in Wheezy

2013-06-18 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:16:15 -0400 amber gilchrist wrote: > I want to throw out another problem I am having in this Wheezy > upgrade: sound! I used to use ALSA with Squeeze, no problems. > After the upgrade, I am able to get sound in my browser, I can play > MP3 files, but I can't record and can't

Re: Posts not making it to debian-user?

2013-06-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:22:51 -0400 amber gilchrist wrote: Hello amber, >If you can see this post on debian-user, can you reply to it and cc my >email directly? I suppose only one person needs to do this... I have >been looking at the debian-user archives and none of the posts I've >made last nig

Posts not making it to debian-user?

2013-06-18 Thread amber gilchrist
If you can see this post on debian-user, can you reply to it and cc my email directly? I suppose only one person needs to do this... I have been looking at the debian-user archives and none of the posts I've made last night or today have been showing up... Thanks! amber

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 05:18:25PM +0100, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 6/18/2013 10:38 AM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > But... Since there are no clear suspects, paranoia dictates a run of > > fsck on the affected file systems. Just in case. At least it is a > > harmless check if you can afford the

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Jape Person
On 06/18/2013 10:31 AM, Chris Purves wrote: > On 2013-06-18 10:20, Rob Owens wrote: >> - Original Message - >>> From: "Chris Purves" >>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >>> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:59:07 AM >>> Subject: systems hangs every few days >>> >>> After upgrading to wheezy,

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/06/13 10:35 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 06/18/2013 05:03 PM, Dirk wrote: you are clearly talking out of your ass... a boot loader doesn't need features other than loading the kernel... what crucial work do you do with the features of grub? spreadsheets? presentations? project managing? or d

apt pinning for deb-multimedia does not work

2013-06-18 Thread Roland Hieber
Hi, I want to pin the libav* packages from deb-multimedia so they get a lower priority than the libav packages in the default Debian repos. My sources.list looks like this: $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*list # deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://debian.tu-bs.de/debian/ wheezy mai

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/18/2013 10:38 AM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > But... Since there are no clear suspects, paranoia dictates a run of > fsck on the affected file systems. Just in case. At least it is a > harmless check if you can afford the downtime while the file systems > are unmounted. If the PSU is headed S

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2013-06-18 Thread M&M PROPIEDADES

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/18/2013 7:59 AM, Chris Purves wrote: > After upgrading to wheezy, I get a system hang every one or two days where > the system becomes completely unresponsive and I need do a cold boot. > > This is an older machine with an Athlon processor. I'm not running X. I > don't see anything unus

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 01:59:07PM +0100, Chris Purves wrote: > After upgrading to wheezy, I get a system hang every one or two days > where the system becomes completely unresponsive and I need do a > cold boot. > This is an older machine with an Athlon processor. I'm not running > X. I don't

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-18 Thread Lars Noodén
On 06/18/2013 05:03 PM, Dirk wrote: > you are clearly talking out of your ass... a boot loader doesn't need > features other than loading the kernel... > > what crucial work do you do with the features of grub? spreadsheets? > presentations? project managing? or do you play it like a text adventur

Re: is there a debian utility for this?

2013-06-18 Thread Greg
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 14:25 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Otherwise libreoffice from the command line. GIYF (google is your friend). > > No multi-billion dollar corporation is your friend. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Chris Purves
On 2013-06-18 10:20, Rob Owens wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Chris Purves" >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:59:07 AM >> Subject: systems hangs every few days >> >> After upgrading to wheezy, I get a system hang every one or two days >> where t

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-18 Thread Dirk
On Tuesday 18 June 2013 00:01:49 Dirk wrote: >> Grub 2.00 (unstable) failed me the 2nd time now and resulted in a >> unuseable system showing only the grub rescue console that does >> *nothing* >> >> Grub 2.00 does everything now and nothing right... not even load a >> kernel.. >> >> That is shit

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-18 Thread Dirk
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:01:49 +0200 Dirk wrote: i updated from the old unstable to the new unstable during the last stable release... everything went smooth except the grub 2.00 update... after reboot it ended up showing the worthless grub rescue console... Here's your first problem: there i

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
First, I was wrong about it's not mounting the data CD. I was looking in the wrong place. So it is only about audio CDs. When one is inserted: $ sudo udisks --monitor-detail Monitoring activity from the disks daemon. Press Ctrl+C to cancel. changed: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sr0 Showi

Re: systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Chris Purves" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 8:59:07 AM > Subject: systems hangs every few days > > After upgrading to wheezy, I get a system hang every one or two days > where the system becomes completely unresponsive and

systems hangs every few days

2013-06-18 Thread Chris Purves
After upgrading to wheezy, I get a system hang every one or two days where the system becomes completely unresponsive and I need do a cold boot. This is an older machine with an Athlon processor. I'm not running X. I don't see anything unusual in the logs. The last entry in syslog is typica

Debian machine not booting

2013-06-18 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, I have a debian machine which was on for a long time (~months). Just moved house and rebooted and now it doesn't boot. My 4 harddrives are organised in pairs of RAID 1 (Mirrored) with LVM spanning them. Originally there was just one pair, but then I got two new hard drives and added them. I th

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-18 Thread Michael Tsang
On Tuesday 18 June 2013 00:01:49 Dirk wrote: > >> Grub 2.00 (unstable) failed me the 2nd time now and resulted in a > >> unuseable system showing only the grub rescue console that does > >> *nothing* > >> > >> Grub 2.00 does everything now and nothing right... not even load a > >> kernel.. > >> >

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 20:31 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > For a start: > > Does "eject -T" open/close the drive? 'eject /dev/sr0' opens it (once unmounted), and -t closes it. -T gives an I/O error > Any error messages in /var/log/syslog? No > Does "udevadm trigger" help? --verbose gives a

Re: is there a debian utility for this?

2013-06-18 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 18 Jun 2013, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi folks, > it may be a part of laytext, but we do not have that here on shellworld. > Still I am wondering if there is a utility in debian that will convert the > ms word .docx file format into anything else? antiword will not do this > because tech

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 07:55:51AM +0200, Oliver Elphick wrote: > When a CD is inserted, it does not get mounted (data CD) or properly > notified (audio CD). > > I found that rhythmbox never showed an audio CD as available to play - > it should come up under devices on the left-hand sidebar. > >

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 10:32 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 18 iun 13, 07:55:51, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > When a CD is inserted, it does not get mounted (data CD) or properly > > notified (audio CD). > ... > > I don't know where the problem resides. Which package should I be > > looking at?

Re: Questions about installation

2013-06-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 01:08:12AM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: > the update and that''s with often more than one restart. The same > or more file size updates/upgrades in debian will take maybe 5 to 7 > minutes w. no restarts at all. And updates/upgrades usually need not > be done more than once a

Re: is there a debian utility for this?

2013-06-18 Thread Joe
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:27:07 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 18 June 2013 05:25:46 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > On 6/18/13, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > it may be a part of laytext, but we do not have that here on > > > shellworld. Still I am wondering if there is a utility in

Re: debian or multi-os virtualized

2013-06-18 Thread Benedict Verheyen
On 18/06/2013 0:36, Pol Hallen wrote:> Hi all! > > I think about change my single debian os to several debian virtualized, ie: > > main debian on server with iptables and dhcp > > virtual machine1: apache > virtual machine2: mysql > virtual machine3: squid > virtual machine4: samba > [...] > > I ca

Re: is there a debian utility for this?

2013-06-18 Thread Michael Anckaert
On 18/06/13 05:42, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi folks, > it may be a part of laytext, but we do not have that here on shellworld. > Still I am wondering if there is a utility in debian that will convert > the ms word .docx file format into anything else? antiword will not > do this because technical

Re: Problems with CD insertion - sid

2013-06-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 18 iun 13, 07:55:51, Oliver Elphick wrote: > When a CD is inserted, it does not get mounted (data CD) or properly > notified (audio CD). ... > I don't know where the problem resides. Which package should I be > looking at? You should start by telling us what Desktop Environment you are usi

Re: debian or multi-os virtualized

2013-06-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 17 iun 13, 23:07:46, Andy Hawkins wrote: > Hi, > > In article <51bf8f69.5060...@fuckaround.org>, >Pol Hallen wrote: > > I think about change my single debian os to several debian virtualized, ie: > > > > main debian on server with iptables and dhcp > > > > virtual machine1: apac

Re: is there a debian utility for this?

2013-06-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 18 June 2013 05:25:46 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 6/18/13, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > Hi folks, > > it may be a part of laytext, but we do not have that here on shellworld. > > Still I am wondering if there is a utility in debian that will convert > > the ms word .docx file format into a