Process kill on logout

2017-06-25 Thread Alan Chandler
ell me what to do to allow screen sessions to survive logout. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

How do I change applications which startup when cd inserted

2016-08-19 Thread Alan Chandler
(there is also a settings looking button on the top right menu (where I normally log out) - but clicking on it does nothing. I am assuming this is part of the same problem). -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: Mythtv has lost all its on screen text

2016-08-05 Thread Alan Chandler
On 05/08/16 15:14, Ric Moore wrote: On 08/04/2016 07:12 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: I have mythtv installed from debian multimedia. I am running testing Once you introduce Debian Multimedia to your mix, you get to keep all the broken pieces. "These packages are known to not integrate well

Mythtv has lost all its on screen text

2016-08-04 Thread Alan Chandler
as you return to the normal mythv menu system the text comes back. Anyone else experiencing this. Any solution? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: updating ifupdown conflicts with systemd

2016-01-15 Thread Alan Chandler
don't shutdown directly but log out. I have mythtv backend also running on this machine, and I have to let it shutdown automatically when it knows there is no one logged in and it hasn't anything to record for a while as it is able to set a wakeup time. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: Slow Display of Graphics in Chrome

2015-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On 27/11/15 23:52, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Fri, 27 Nov 2015, Alan Chandler wrote: Just recently, I notice a sudden slowing down of the display of areas of the screen in Chrome when it fully maximised ( but still with toolbar etc on display) I am running a dual monitor gnome 3 setup with

Slow Display of Graphics in Chrome

2015-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
don't think I have seen it when not fully maximized. Anyone else experiencing the same? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: Changing Monitor that gdm uses

2015-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On 27/11/15 10:46, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 11/25/15, Alan Chandler wrote: My desktop Debian Jessie PC just got a new monitor to replace an old one that failed. Because the new one is bigger than my previous main monitor, I have swapped them round so that my bigger 27inch monitor is the

Re: Changing Monitor that gdm uses

2015-11-26 Thread Alan Chandler
On 25/11/15 22:31, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 06:54 +, Alan Chandler wrote: My desktop Debian Jessie PC just got a new monitor to replace an old one that failed. Because the new one is bigger than my previous main monitor, I have swapped them round so that my bigger 27inch

Re: Changing Monitor that gdm uses

2015-11-24 Thread Alan Chandler
On 25/11/15 06:54, Alan Chandler wrote: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Iiyama 27in" Option "DPMS" Option "Primary" Option "Position" "0 0" Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080" Option "Pos

Changing Monitor that gdm uses

2015-11-24 Thread Alan Chandler
p on the secondary monitor. Once the desktop starts the order of the displays is probably* also wrong, but of course can be fixed in the display settings * I say that because the main monitor is numbered 2 and the old monitor is numbered 1. Where is the detection of which monitor is which take place, and how do I tell it to change the order? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: Freemind stopped working

2015-11-23 Thread Alan Chandler
On 23/11/15 20:54, Alan Chandler wrote: Freemind seems to have stopped working, hanging up in the splash screen. I found something on debian bug lists that said I should comment out the line in /etc/java-7-opensdk/accessibility.properties, but when I tried that all that happened is it got

Freemind stopped working

2015-11-23 Thread Alan Chandler
blems with Freemind and secondly anyone know how to fix the missing class problem? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8

2015-11-09 Thread Alan Chandler
On 10/11/15 01:47, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Mon, 09 Nov 2015, Alan Chandler wrote: On 09/11/15 18:58, D&P Dimov wrote: I need to install MS Windows 7 as a Virtual Machine on a computer that is running Debian 8. To do that, I'd like to use software that is not proprietory (I kno

Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8

2015-11-09 Thread Alan Chandler
come was using virtual box, and I spent some time trying to get KVM working. But I never found a way - struggling with documentation at every step. VirtualBox on the other hand (apart from the occassional problem with ensuring the driver modules get rebuilt) was easy to set up, modify and us

Re: dspam silently (perhaps) crashing

2015-11-08 Thread Alan Chandler
On 08/11/15 11:20, Alan Chandler wrote: On 08/11/15 08:00, Erwan David wrote: I had a look at rspam and did not use it : i find it far too much invasive, it practically impose tons of tests that I do not want to be done because of false positives. (and worse when a new version comes with new

Re: dspam silently (perhaps) crashing

2015-11-08 Thread Alan Chandler
corrupt then it would cause dspam to crash. I am wondering if I can find that file and remove it. Just don't know where to look -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

dspam silently (perhaps) crashing

2015-11-07 Thread Alan Chandler
YSTEM_UNIT=dspam.service but there didn't appear to be any entries in there. How can I find out why dpam is falling over -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

Jessie upgrade now means samba is no longer working

2015-05-14 Thread Alan Chandler
no public = yes guest ok = yes writable = no printable = yes [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /etc/samba/drivers browseable = yes guest ok = no read only = yes write list = root -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: Mysql Access Problems after Jessie Upgrade

2015-05-10 Thread Alan Chandler
On 10/05/15 18:58, Alan Chandler wrote: I don't think this is a mythtv problem. All other aspects of it appear to be working with its local database connection. The fact that mysql --host=owl.home --user=mythtv --password=xx mythconverg is the problem means its the database conne

Re: Mysql Access Problems after Jessie Upgrade

2015-05-10 Thread Alan Chandler
On 10/05/15 18:29, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2015 18:17:27 +0100 Alan Chandler wrote: Hello Alan, The plot thickens - After working during the week, I came to view Mythtv again today and it is refusing connection to the database again. The following may, or may not, be of use to you

Re: Mysql Access Problems after Jessie Upgrade

2015-05-10 Thread Alan Chandler
On 04/05/15 11:51, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: Alan Chandler wrote: Hi, Do you have /etc/hosts.allow / hosts.deny non-standard? Both appear empty (other than comments) So I added a line ALL: 127.0.0. 192.168.0. to /etc/hosts.allow and everything started working again Not sure if I need to

Re: Mysql Access Problems after Jessie Upgrade

2015-05-04 Thread Alan Chandler
On 03/05/15 23:00, Alan Chandler wrote: On 03/05/15 19:59, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: Do you have /etc/hosts.allow / hosts.deny non-standard? Both appear empty (other than comments) So I added a line ALL: 127.0.0. 192.168.0. to /etc/hosts.allow and everything started working again Not

Re: Mysql Access Problems after Jessie Upgrade

2015-05-03 Thread Alan Chandler
On 03/05/15 19:59, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: Alan Chandler wrote: Hi Alan, Today I am having database connection problems. Using mysql client to connect to my server "owl.home" mysql --host=owl.home --user=mythtv --password=XX mythconverg ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connectio

Mysql Access Problems after Jessie Upgrade

2015-05-03 Thread Alan Chandler
I feel the failing mysql command is the key indicator of whats wrong, but with nothing I can find in any logs, I don't know how to proceed further. Any ideas anyone -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Error with Latest Google Chrome Stable

2014-09-17 Thread Alan Chandler
/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so in it and put that into the actual /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash directory. I seem to be OK at the moment. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

Evolution Calendar Notifications - switch off

2014-09-08 Thread Alan Chandler
27;t need it to. So how can I switch off these prompts on start -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://

Re: name resolution

2014-05-01 Thread Alan Chandler
m that site? -- L V Gandhi on your virtual machine what does /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf say IN particular, which nameservers does /etc/resolv.conf say as opposed to your host -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: problems with php5-fpm

2014-05-01 Thread Alan Chandler
On 01/05/14 06:35, Alan Chandler wrote: On 01/05/14 03:51, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 4/30/2014 6:25 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: Hi I am experimenting with nginx and php5-fpm to replace an apache2/libapache2-mod-php configuration. And I am getting something strange happening. I have both a simple

Re: problems with php5-fpm

2014-04-30 Thread Alan Chandler
On 01/05/14 03:51, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 4/30/2014 6:25 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: Hi I am experimenting with nginx and php5-fpm to replace an apache2/libapache2-mod-php configuration. And I am getting something strange happening. I have both a simple php web site that just consists of php

problems with php5-fpm

2014-04-30 Thread Alan Chandler
lures after an idle period. Anyone any other ideas? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.

Re: running a website the Debian way

2014-03-13 Thread Alan Chandler
ned one rather complicated smf forum (its the base forum software, with lots and lots of personal local modifications) up to date with the latest smf distribution since 2007 this way. If you want any details of how I do this exactly, just ask. Also see http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/2011/

Re: feature request for this mailing list

2014-03-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On 06/03/14 10:01, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Hello. > > As I am starting to subscribe to various mailing lists, I have noticed that some uses a kind of tag in subjects. Obviously, it is added by the ml-engine, not by users. > I am also receiving more and more spam since 2 months. I

Re: resolv.conf misbehaving

2014-02-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On 20/02/14 15:17, Danny wrote: Hi guys, The past weekend I upgraded from Debian v3.0 to the latest Debian stable (7.0 or something) ... (wish I never did) ... However, I have noticed that my resolv.conf gets overwritten by something after every reboot. The Debian server resolves all local (int

Re: dovecot-imapd and imaps protocol

2014-02-13 Thread Alan Chandler
On 13/02/14 22:41, Alan Chandler wrote: If you have any ideas on how I can produce a separate query to validate the user the master is pretending to be so that it bypasses the deny stage I would be interested to hear it. Alan Chandler To answer my own question, I found the variable

Re: dovecot-imapd and imaps protocol

2014-02-13 Thread Alan Chandler
lidate the user the master is pretending to be so that it bypasses the deny stage I would be interested to hear it. Alan Chandler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archiv

dovecot-imapd and imaps protocol

2014-02-13 Thread Alan Chandler
ckage which does that? Alan Chandler -- 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/52fd2bed.8030...@chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: images that play nicely with revision control?

2014-02-11 Thread Alan Chandler
just to give a flavour of the picture drawing capability (unusable unless you include "\usetikzlibrary{fit,positioning,decorations.pathmorphing}" at the top of the whole document) - here is I forgot - my hartley.cls file also uses tikz picture (I draw some coloured lines (actually rectangl

Re: images that play nicely with revision control?

2014-02-11 Thread Alan Chandler
On 11/02/14 01:04, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 10:47:11 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Hendrik Boom wrote: I'm looking for a file format for images that plays nicely with revision control. Ideally I'd like to edit them while seeing what I'm editing, whether it's a line drawing (like

Re: Configuring OpenLDAP to support dynamic list overlay in Wheezy

2014-02-07 Thread Alan Chandler
On 06/02/14 21:06, Alan Chandler wrote: I am stuggling to understand how to get the dynamic list overlay working using OpenLdap I think I found a good solution to this problem here http://koivunej.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/learning-openldap-2-4-cnconfig-usage/ I have a least got the

Configuring OpenLDAP to support dynamic list overlay in Wheezy

2014-02-06 Thread Alan Chandler
I am stuggling to understand how to get the dynamic list overlay working using OpenLdap It uses the online version of configuring slapd, and all the instructions on the internet seems to assume an older version with slapd.conf file. I have manage to configure the module part to include dynli

Re: Debian Wheezy & SSD+HDD configuration

2013-06-21 Thread Alan Chandler
On 08/06/13 02:27, Fran wrote: 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 have

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

Apparent Changes to Apache

2013-06-02 Thread Alan Chandler
I have had to re-install my system after some problems wiped out the boot sector. I decided to move from stable to unstable in the process (for me stable wasn't very = I was getting regular problems with the screen locking up (could have been X, or gnome3 not sure which). Trying to get all my

Re: lightweight dns server

2013-02-27 Thread Alan Chandler
server if you need that too. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- 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/512e29f7.9070...@chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: node.js npm and buster

2012-12-12 Thread Alan Chandler
On 13/12/12 02:34, Bob Proulx wrote: Alan Chandler wrote: I am trying to setup buster.js to run under node.js in Debian Sid. The name conflict of the much too generic "node" became one of those irreconcilable differences. After a very long discussion it was referred to the technical

node.js npm and buster

2012-12-12 Thread Alan Chandler
/local/lib/node_modules Can someone give me some definitive instructions of getting buster.js to run in Debian -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Connecting to MS Sql Server from php/apache

2012-12-02 Thread Alan Chandler
On 02/12/12 08:06, Alan Chandler wrote: Failed with message: SQLSTATE[HY000] Unable to connect: Adaptive Server is unavailable or does not exist (severity 9) I managed to fix this myself. There were two problems 1) Password was one character wrong. 2) The connection string should be

Connecting to MS Sql Server from php/apache

2012-12-02 Thread Alan Chandler
hats wrong, and I find it quite difficult to find some decent instructions of how to set up a dblib connection. Can anyone help me investigate and solve this problem -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Failing to install virt-manager on Sid

2012-11-30 Thread Alan Chandler
On 30/11/12 23:37, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 30.11.2012 18:43, Alan Chandler a écrit : I am trying to install virt-manager on sid, but I am getting a dependancy blockage which I don't understand virt-manager ultimately depends on libvirt0 - which seems to have version (0.9

Failing to install virt-manager on Sid

2012-11-30 Thread Alan Chandler
least 0.10.1-2 I can see that experimental has that version, but its does not seem to be able to get into sid. I am not sure why Is there a freeze or something on. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-12 Thread Alan Chandler
On 10/10/12 17:00, Alan Chandler wrote: On 10/10/12 09:49, Chris Davies wrote: 4. Failure (bounce) message to root@avalon is being lost - and this is the issue at stake Absolutely correct. I think I have discovered - at least part of the problem - maybe the whole thing. The inaddr.arpa

Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-10 Thread Alan Chandler
rtual server normally - I normally use my ISPs normal mail server. This was just so it was already pre-configured IF I SHOULD NEED IT. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-09 Thread Alan Chandler
On 07/10/12 22:31, Chris Davies wrote: Alan Chandler wrote: I am using Debian Squeeze on a virtual machine that I lease. It has exim4 (light) version as its mail server. - its name is avalon.hartley-consultants.com However, it looks to me like its trying to send a failure e-mail to me

Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-05 Thread Alan Chandler
t connection, relaying only 127.0.0.1 and my home ip addresses, Anyone any idea what is happening - and how I can change the configuration of exim to tell me when mail, like the above, is being refused. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: CD image doesn't exist for download?

2012-07-12 Thread Alan Chandler
end the CD1.iso. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- 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/4ffea8fc.9040...@chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: getting gnome 3

2012-07-07 Thread Alan Chandler
I don't like it" but not much of "this is why I don't like it" (other than the argument that its just different). -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: getting gnome 3

2012-07-07 Thread Alan Chandler
my work shifts focus for a few weeks its pretty easy to switch which programs are . I must admit, I used to be really frustrated with the fact that there was only a suspend and not a power off - but now the shell extensions are available to add that facility back I don't have any issues at

Re: how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

2012-07-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On 06/07/12 18:56, Gary Dale wrote: On 06/07/12 01:43 PM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Alan Chandler wrote: On 05/07/12 23:10, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its just a

Re: how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

2012-07-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On 06/07/12 08:15, Alan Chandler wrote: On 06/07/12 07:24, Alan Chandler wrote: On 05/07/12 23:10, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its just a partition at the moment). The plan is to make a

Re: how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

2012-07-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On 06/07/12 07:24, Alan Chandler wrote: On 05/07/12 23:10, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its just a partition at the moment). The plan is to make a a raid device, copy the current root fs

Re: how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

2012-07-05 Thread Alan Chandler
On 05/07/12 23:10, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its just a partition at the moment). The plan is to make a a raid device, copy the current root fs in to it - but I then need to tell grub to

how does update-grub choose the root filesystem

2012-07-04 Thread Alan Chandler
I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its just a partition at the moment). The plan is to make a a raid device, copy the current root fs in to it - but I then need to tell grub to set up this up as the root for the boot. How do I do this? -- Alan Chandler http

Kdevelop-php and debugging

2012-06-23 Thread Alan Chandler
kdevelop-xdebug-php-debugger.html Lots of other posts refer to this. But for a starters - its suggesting I need various kdevelop plugings, but the links he gives don't work, and if you try and look in the same place for later releases of kdevelop, the specific plugins are not there. -

Re: Using the find command

2012-06-19 Thread Alan Chandler
o the directory remains, but the files in it do not. The quotes were a red herring - its needed to make all options pass as a single parameter to the routine clean, I am just experimenting with that now. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Using the find command

2012-06-19 Thread Alan Chandler
or directory I guess this is what is ultimately wrong - since it deletes the /run/udev directory which udev is using. However I can't find any real documentation on find which explains why it outputs that error message. Can any gurus out there explain -- Alan Chandler

Re: Rotation of Xorg log files

2012-06-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On 17/06/12 12:53, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:23:44 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: Can anyone tell me what is supposed to be rotating (and cleaning Xorg log files). I've just noticed /var/log contains about 540 versions of the log I experienced something similar in my Wheezy s

Re: Rotation of Xorg log files

2012-06-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On 17/06/12 06:36, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 06:23 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: Can anyone tell me what is supposed to be rotating (and cleaning Xorg log files). I've just noticed /var/log contains about 540 versions of the log Wow, fortunately my X logs for Debian are li

Rotation of Xorg log files

2012-06-16 Thread Alan Chandler
Can anyone tell me what is supposed to be rotating (and cleaning Xorg log files). I've just noticed /var/log contains about 540 versions of the log -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-16 Thread Alan Chandler
On 15/06/12 07:28, Alan Chandler wrote: On 14/06/12 22:27, Alan Chandler wrote: I upgraded my sid system with the latest set of packages. I have now lost by sound, but I am not sure why. When I run alsamixer as root I see a device that appears to be the sound chip on my motherboard, and

Re: Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-14 Thread Alan Chandler
On 14/06/12 22:27, Alan Chandler wrote: I upgraded my sid system with the latest set of packages. I have now lost by sound, but I am not sure why. When I run alsamixer as root I see a device that appears to be the sound chip on my motherboard, and using aplay to send a .wav file works. If

Sound disappeared after unstable upgrade

2012-06-14 Thread Alan Chandler
know whether that just implies its going via pulse-audio, or that pulse audio has not found a real device and is using a dummy one. NOTE: the same upgrade seemed to screw up udevd - I get an error message about failing to queue file, and I have to unplug and replug my usb mouse and keyboard

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-13 Thread Alan Chandler
On 13/06/12 21:19, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: ... One problem, which I haven't satisfactorily solved so far, is backing up the files on the disk in that virtual machine. The best I can do is back up the entire file that represent

KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-13 Thread Alan Chandler
that is created by Virtual Box. If I move to KVM I presume that some of the devices will not be the same. Does Windows manage with these changes, or would I be better creating an environment from scratch (including re-installing all my key applications) -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandl

Re: Problem setting up a subdomain

2012-06-09 Thread Alan Chandler
e main web site, because it acts as a catchall for any other domains that happen to be pointed at the same IP address. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Sound in my headphones - clicking of keys on keyboard....

2012-04-25 Thread Alan Chandler
e you succeeded. It reading the microphone and putting it out through your headphones. Sorry can't help you turn it off - but presumably doing something your were doing to turn it on. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: Mythtv problem with versions

2012-04-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On 17/04/12 19:24, Alan Chandler wrote: I have a server running Squeeze. It has mythtv-backend to record all my TV programs. On my desktop I run Sid. After an update over the weekend, my Mythtv Frontend will no longer connect to my backend, complaining that "This version of M

Mythtv problem with versions

2012-04-17 Thread Alan Chandler
hat almost works, but I do tend to want to save programs mid way through or want to rapidly skip forward and backward. The media play that is launched by the browser doesn't seem to all any of this.] -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: How do you debug with php

2012-04-16 Thread Alan Chandler
On 17/04/12 07:01, Alan Chandler wrote: On 17/04/12 01:16, Chris Hiestand wrote: I have never used a debugger for PHP; I think your struggles are part of the reason why. Neither have I until now. But I don't understand why this isn't a typical many eyes make the problems trivial

Re: How do you debug with php

2012-04-16 Thread Alan Chandler
bugging, yet it still doesn't seem to work. This leaves me to believe that I am doing something wrong, but I just don't know what. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

How do you debug with php

2012-04-16 Thread Alan Chandler
phpstorm, but it seems to need the entire php code within the web space, and doesn't allow for document root somewhere inside the directory hierarchy (at least i can't find a way to set it up). debian doesn't seem to support the potential addings to vim and emacs. What do others

Re: Happauge Nove-T 500 no channel data

2012-04-12 Thread Alan Chandler
mplete scan without using those preconfigured channels. On 4th April I lost BBC channels, but on a rescan I got them back. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: TV with Linux

2012-04-10 Thread Alan Chandler
a that I wasn't able to get a clear answer on when I asked - the incoming digital signal is in MPEG2 format and MythTV stores the stream as mpeg2. The PI only has a (firmware) codec for Mpeg4, so not sure if transcoding between mpeg2 and mpeg4 is going to be necessary

Re: Linux TV tuner

2012-04-10 Thread Alan Chandler
etc. over the internet. IANL of course! Unfortunately you can't. You still need a TV licence to watch via iPlayer. It says so on the BBC web site. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: skype?

2012-04-10 Thread Alan Chandler
e behind a NAT box). Unfortunately the convenience of the mobile phone meant they never really used it] -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: How to create empty git with master / development branch ?

2012-04-03 Thread Alan Chandler
mydocs/PCinfo/keys/github/github_ssh_access -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- 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/4f7ac017.50...@chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

2012-03-30 Thread Alan Chandler
repositor) that I generally install on the servers are web packages like (for instance) drupal or wordpress. But they just use the underlying LAMP stack. If these extra packages don't work with Squeeze, I just regard that as one more criteria with which to judge them as unsuitable. --

Re: Problematic upgrade

2012-03-22 Thread Alan Chandler
version. I was then able to get aptitude to properly re-install desktop-utils (which meant for instance that until that point I was unable to run nautilus). -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

latest chrome won't play videos full screen

2012-03-11 Thread Alan Chandler
Anyone experiencing an issue I have discovered after a chrome update yesterday. Videos will no longer play full screen. Firefox(Iceweasel) display just fine. Is there any known way around the limitation -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: Aptitude failing on squeeze with package file problems

2012-02-28 Thread Alan Chandler
On 28/02/12 14:40, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:59:49 +, Alan Chandler wrote: I just tried to do an aptitude update on my Debian squeeze server. I get error message like ... E: Encounted a section with no Package: header E: The problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists

Aptitude failing on squeeze with package file problems

2012-02-27 Thread Alan Chandler
, you can't do anything other than close aptitude. I tried Cancel Pending Actions (from the Actions menu) and got a segfault in aptitude. Anyone else seeing anything like this? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Converting to btrfs

2012-01-31 Thread Alan Chandler
On 30/01/12 13:02, Christian Dysthe wrote: On 01/30/12 at 06:52am, Alan Chandler wrote: On 29/01/12 18:21, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I have an older laptop running Sid I like to play around with. I would like to check out the new btrfs file system and know you can easily convert >f

Re: Converting to btrfs

2012-01-29 Thread Alan Chandler
that initramfs has the bttrfs driver in it. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- 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/4f2

Re: Gnome3 login failure

2012-01-29 Thread Alan Chandler
running I was working again. This morning it happened just after login - but again I just logged in again and it worked. Running Debian SID -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Iceweasel really slow

2011-12-29 Thread Alan Chandler
On 28/12/11 10:36, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 28/12/11 19:48, Alan Chandler wrote: I am finding that Iceweasel seems to be really slow at times loading a web site. Whilst it is being slow the user interface is locked solid. I am not talking the odd second - delays of 20/30 seconds are occuring

Iceweasel really slow

2011-12-28 Thread Alan Chandler
related to the ad system. I thought it might be my add ons - although they are the standard ones - but I disabled all of them and still its occuring. Anyone else seeing this issue -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Gnome 3 update makes PDFs open in inkscape

2011-12-26 Thread Alan Chandler
e from there. If its not in the "Show Other Applications" it a bit harder because I think you have to set up a "desktop" file with the right info in. (Take a look at the files in /usr/share/applications - which has the ones which should be installed on your system) -- Alan Chandl

Re: web server migration

2011-12-10 Thread Alan Chandler
/dev/null)&&echo "[$(basename $PS_GIT)]"&&exit # else output nothing -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- 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/4ee4628b.5040...@chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: X being shutdown without warning

2011-12-09 Thread Alan Chandler
On 09/12/11 17:07, Alan Chandler wrote: Anyone any ideas what could have happened here. just seen a message on debian-kde that implies it could have been libdrm-intel1 -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

X being shutdown without warning

2011-12-09 Thread Alan Chandler
PowerButton has been pressed - but that didn't happen. I would like to report a bug, but I am not sure where to go from here to find what actually caused it. I don't think MythTV updated yesterday, so I assume it wasn't that Anyone any ideas what could have happened here. -- A

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