Re: man in the middle attack ?

On 21 August 2012 07:54, Lisi wrote: [...] > > Self-agrandisement is almost a duty in some cultures. In others it is very > much frowned on. > [...] > Lisi > Wow! - I wonder how many (international) people are going to understand that. :-) -- Sent from FOSS (Free Open Source Software) Debian

Re: System crash, or lockup

On 20 August 2012 15:39, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I have posted about this before, and one suggestion was that I have a > power > supply problem. This seems possible, even probably, for some of my > problems, but not, I think, for all of them. Also, I have noticed > additional types of problems sin

Re: having a problem removing a package

On 19 August 2012 12:16, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:10:46PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Du, 19 aug 12, 13:28:38, Chris Bannister wrote: >> > >> > Ok, first I'd do an "apt-get clean" >> >> Why would you delete the downloaded packages cache because a package >> fails

Re: strange behavior after reboot, iceweasel locking everything up

On 12 August 2012 17:45, Tony Baldwin wrote: > Yesterday I had to reboot my machine. > Cleaning house, I had dislodged the plug for a power strip that powered > the computer, monitor, and printer. > > Now, I am seeing very odd behavior. > Iceweasel hangs forever on some of the simplest tasks, such

Re: BD-RE mount problem

On 9 August 2012 18:28, Gary Dale wrote: > On 09/08/12 01:19 PM, Keith McKenzie wrote: >> >> On 9 August 2012 17:43, Gary Dale wrote: >>> >>> >>> Already tried that. dd complains: >>>dd: opening `/dev/sr0': Read-only file system >&g

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

On 9 August 2012 > > All popcon numbers are much more than a little suspect. > I quite agree, I was just trying to suggest that the decision, most likely, was not made by one person, even though there may not have been open discussion about it. There has been a CD version which has XFCE+LXDE for

Re: BD-RE mount problem

On 9 August 2012 17:43, Gary Dale wrote: > > > Already tried that. dd complains: > dd: opening `/dev/sr0': Read-only file system > It sounds like it is mounted; try unmounting it, & then try dd again. -- Sent from FOSS (Free Open Source Software) Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

On 9 August 2012 15:24, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:31:05 +0100, Keith McKenzie wrote: > >> On 8 August 2012 17:23, Camaleón wrote: > >>> I ask because I've read this from two different sources¹ now (the other >>> magazine is written in Spanish

Re: replacing GDM with a script

On 8 August 2012 23:05, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 08/08/12 05:17 PM, Keith McKenzie wrote: >> >> I just came across my old script for starting different WMs from the C/L. > >Aah..I remember that know...ran Slack years ago. > >Good, thanks for digging that u

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

On 8 August 2012 17:23, Camaleón wrote: > Hello, > > Subject says it all. > > I ask because I've read this from two different sources¹ now (the other > magazine is written in Spanish), so is this true? > > I could only find this mailing list thread² as the official reference but > from the comment

Re: Setting up to do repetitive installs on ONE machine (cf BabelBox)

On 6 August 2012 14:46, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have two objectives: >1. Define, by experimentation, optimal installation parameters to meet my > idiosyncratic concept of a "minimal install". >2. Determine if there are bugs in Debian Installer, the instructions for > the inst

Re: compile gctwiwax on squeeze

On 4 August 2012 17:03, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 03:27:40PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> As per the INSTALL file, have you built "libeap.so" as instructed? >> >> > Why is this a Debian problem? >> >> Nobody has said so. He is asking for support when compiling a program ;-) > >

Re: Screen locking in squeeze.

On 3 August 2012 05:05, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On 2 August 2012 19:12, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> I seem to have lost the ability to lock my screen. I cant do it from >> the keyboard with CTRL+ALT+l [lower case L] and neither from the >> system menu. >> >> Can anyone suggest how I can get it back pl

Re: replacing GDM with a script

On 2 August 2012 17:22, Frank McCormick wrote: > > I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious to know > if it's possible to replace GDM with a BASH script. The issue is complicated > because I run 3 window managers with Sid and a similar situation with the > other 2 distr

Re: Power Management not functioning

On 2 August 2012 23:57, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Squeeze amd 6.05 and yesterday after a reboot my Mecer 32" > 1360x768 Monitor/TV no longer goes to sleep after 10 minutes, being working > fine for months. Only the screen saver works now. > > I am using Gnome. > > The only thing I mi

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

>> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> From research that I had previously done, the simplest option (for me, >> being a fairly simple kind of person) appeared to be PC-BSD >> (http://www.pcbsd.org/). PC-BSD 8.x had only a KDE GUI (from memory), >> and I am, a GNOME GUI user (from memory,

Re: Installing 3.2 kernel

On 30 July 2012 19:43, Gary wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2012-07-30 18:27 +0200, Gary wrote: [...] > > That didn't go well :( > > I installed the packages, and then the one that that process complained was > missing/out of date (our old friend the realtek package). Restarted. After > selec

Re: Instability in Wheezy system

On 27 July 2012 14:35, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:22:23PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: >> I can say that Chrome and Chromium themselves very unstable on all >> my systems. > > Not true on any of my boxen. Running Chromium from Debian SID. > Nor here with Chrome, last three wee

Re: SD slot read card failed.

@ lina > I just don't want to waste the slot, if it can be used. I'm thinking your slot only supports SD & not SDHC cards. I have an early netbook that will only read 1gb or 2gb SD cards, & a more recent netbook that reads SDHC 8gb cards perfectly. However, if I use a converter, I can read & wri

Re: Mount iPod Touch

On 23 July 2012 23:51, ricccardo wrote: > Hi, > I'm still working to mount the iPod Touch. I read the backporting > libimobiledevice 1.1.1 to Squeeze, in the debian Wiki page but when i > try to build libgpod the terminal says: > > ric@ricmbp:~/Desktop/ComplilaLib/libgpod-0.7.93$ dpkg-buildpackage

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

. > > > Maybe this is what you want (?) > > http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-5.0/main/installer-i386/20090123lenny10/images/cdrom/ > > HTH > -- That is, I think, one of the places that I looked. But, with what is there, being " Index of /debian/dists/Debian-5.0/main/installer-i386

Re: wifi vanished today

On 23 July 2012 08:23, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 23/07/12 00:20, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> It was working this morning. I have an ASUS HE1000 EEE netbook. It runs >> testing. Early this morning at home the wifi worked fine. > > [...] > >> I right-clicked on the icon with two terminals and a re

Re: What does this mean?

-- Forwarded message -- From: Paul E Condon Date: 23 July 2012 05:21 Subject: Re: What does this mean? Using the disk I downloaded yesterday and got burnt today, there is a fancy KDE gui, but no help screens about such trivia as getting it working on possibly defective, broken, ha

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

Bret Busby wrote: > > I have a Samsung MFP printer thing; a CLX-3185FW, and I had been > able to use it with a Debian 5 system that I had been using. Then, > the Debian 5 system went awry (a separate system from the firewall > system), and became apparently unusable. > > So, I installed Debian 6

Re: is there a problem with flashplugin-nonfree on squeeze amd64?

On 21 July 2012 13:03, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > NOTICE! I am on mobile broadband with very limited time, so I cannot > read emails very much. > The best time to contact me is probably weekends when I have better > connectivity with good luck.

Re: "drive already mounted or busy" ... dmsetup routine

On 17 July 2012 21:30, John Magolske wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > * Camaleón [120711 16:09]: >> On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:09:59 -0700, John Magolske wrote: >> >> > I've been having issues with a particular hard drive, where after a >> > suspend-resume cycle with s2ram, it won't mount: >> > >>

Re: Re(2): Backup system for use when Debian fails.

Not quite OT :- For a Debian Live recovery (or install) distro try SalineOS (XFCE desktop) http://www.salineos.com/ -- Sent from FOSS (Free Open Source Software) Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Debian on a 32G USB flashdrive

On 16 July 2012 11:56, Brian wrote: > On Mon 16 Jul 2012 at 09:35:20 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > [...] > As for the slight slowdown with a lot of read/writes, this might simply > be the nature of the medium compared with a hard disk. > > It certainly is; I tried running from a pendrive formatt

Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses

On 12 July 2012 18:29, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Does anyone use sc, the text based spreadsheet program? > > Over the years I've become more fond of the console and > ncurses applications. I've recently found myself using sc > as my first spreadsheet application for our new small > business. Doing in

Re: Netbook acer ao-722 bz-893

On 11 July 2012 21:13, Dr Beco wrote: > Dear Linuxers, > > (about debian on Netbook Acer AO-722, BZ-893) > > Some days ago I've got an Asus Eee-PC 1215B and I had a lot of trouble > to make wireless and cable to work. To the point I got near a deadline > of 7 days before returning it to the store

Re: How to install Debian and what media to use - Was: Re: CD image doesn't exist for download?

On 11 July 2012 20:12, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > OP of the original thread, please ignore this thread, I suspect the > mailing list needs to discuss what really is the easiest way for people > without knowhow, to install a Linux. > > Why do you all recommend those complicated ways? > >

Re: CD image doesn't exist for download?

On 11 July 2012 19:56, Gary Dale wrote: > Stop making it complicated. She just needs to download the netinst cd then > burn the .iso image. There is no need to get a full image file, whether CD > or DVD, to install Linux. > With no knowledge of Linux, using a net install CD _is_ more complicated

Re: CD image doesn't exist for download?

On 11 July 2012 16:36, Kirsten Milligan wrote: > After several attempts over several years, I haven't yet had complete > success installing Linux. I'm hungry to learn, but am very poor at > computerspeak, so please be gentle. > > I'm trying again. I know, some steps would be removed from the pr

Re: help with xserver-xorg-video-ast

On 10 July 2012 19:45, Shane Johnson wrote: > Keith, > That was my plan but I can't find where the autoconf file is trying to > locate the macros at? I located /usr/share/aclocal/xorg-macros.m4 but I > can't find where the link is supposed to be. Any ideas? > > Re :and now when I try to re-ins

Re: help with xserver-xorg-video-ast

On 9 July 2012 23:24, Shane Johnson wrote: > hello everyone, > I am hoping someone can help me. I am running Wheezy and got a driver > from Aspeed for their on-board video driver. Loaded it and it worked until > I installed xen-qemu-dm-4.0 and now when I try to re-install is says > glibc-2.13 i

Re: Google Chrome is installed but won't run

On 7 July 2012 07:21, Lisi wrote: > I have just installed Google Chrome on a vanilla almost default > Squeeze/LXDE > installation. It is there, but won't run. I have tried: > > click on icon in menu - nothing happens > > launch from launcher - command is accepted, but launcher then hangs > > ru

Re: Random lockups

On 3 July 2012 18:10, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > My desktop running Debian Sid just locked up for the 4th or 5th time > recently. > >There is nothing is the syslog...nothing in the xorg log. The system > just locks changing what's on the screen to yellow tinged text. > It locks so tight t

Re: CD/DVD diagnostic tools needed

On 1 July 2012 15:30, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm having various random problems installing from Live CD's. > The problems are weird, inconsistent, and intermittent. > The first thing is to determine whether or not I have faulty hardware, be > it the target box or the box that burns the CD. > > I

Re: Re (3): Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

On 29 June 2012 23:41, Doug wrote: > On 06/29/2012 05:29 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > >> From: Dom >> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:02:45 +0100 >> >>> Ok, I've just tested this. It is a FAT filesystem limitation. >>> >> /snip/ > > I've looked at this thread a number of times, but I was then and

Re: Where does Debian define/specify "standard bundles"?

On 28/06/2012, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 04:42:44PM +0100, Keith McKenzie wrote: >> If you want tasksel, it is part of the Debian install process. the >> regular (Debian suggested) desktop environment is Gnome, but you can >> choose between Gnome,

Re: Where does Debian define/specify "standard bundles"?

You appear to be wanting to know the dependancies for packages, whereas, installinux appears to run a distros installer. If you want tasksel, it is part of the Debian install process. the regular (Debian suggested) desktop environment is Gnome, but you can choose between Gnome, KDE, XFCE, or LXDE

Re: / almost full

etc. The main reason for having separate / & /home is that I can re install the system if necessary, without having to re install all my personal files. (Of course, I still have backups.) :-) On 28/06/2012, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 09:57:13AM +0100, Keit

Re: / almost full

Mark Panen: > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdc1 323M 304M 2.6M 100% / > tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /lib/init/rw > udev 3.9G 212K 3.9G 1% /dev > tmpfs 3.9G 2.6M 3.9G 1% /dev/shm > /dev/sdc9

Re: Debian's grub doesn't detect Ubuntu

You could, most likely, enter it by hand into the grub configuration; & it should then be available on your next reboot. In /boot/grub/grub.cfg; ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the # menu entries you want to add after t

Re: backuppc failed full backup of itself

The system isn't backed up normally, as you would have installation media to restore it; you would just backup configuration. Having said that, if you do want to back it up, use a live media, not the running system. (Usually it is only your data that is irreplaceable.) HTH -- Sent from FOSS (F

Re: bash related question, adding variable into path

I think maybe put ; after the first command before issuing the second command mkdir id=`/opt/zimbra/bin/mysql -e 'use zimbra;select id,comment from mailbox;' | grep $username | cut -f 1` ; mkdir /tmp/$username 2>/dev/null &/or, possibly you need to escape your statement id=`/opt/zimbra/bin/mysql

Re: musicplayer A-B repeat

Rhythmbox -- Sent from FOSS (Free Open Source Software) Debian GNU/Linux -- 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/CAL36VGkhhcBNV+_kNY_Uamz7Vi+=rGDLzbfi=spv3t

Re: dependency tree on installed packages

apt-cache dump | grep Package: apt-cache dump | grep Version: Those will get 2 separate lists of installed software names & versions. Maybe that will get what you want in a roundabout way. :-) -- Sent from FOSS (Free Open Source Software) Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Turn Off Screen Saver

System -> Preferences -> Power Management -- Sent from FOSS (Free Open Source Software) Debian GNU/Linux -- 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/CAL36VG=vr4

Re: wpa_supplicant.wlan1.pid

[QUOTE]I have installed all the firmware and other packages that might work I think. If you have an idea about what I might have left out please don't hesitate to say. Thank you, Charlie --[/QUOTE] If you haven't tried 'firmware-non-free', it may be in there, mine was. -- Sent from FOSS (Free O

Re: System crashes for no apparent reason

I would open the box & ensure all connections are secure, re seat the ram, close the box, check the ram; then look elsewhere. On 06/06/2012, ACro wrote: > Hello Marc, > > maybe this is a hardware problem? I'm not a hardware guru, but in the > past I've had problems with power supply units gettin

Re: wpa_supplicant.wlan1.pid

[QUOTE]Toshiba laptop with an Intel wireless adapter that I'm unable to get to work[/QUOTE] Is it dead or, maybe, it just needs some firmware to be installed. On 05/06/2012, Charlie wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 15:41:57 + (UTC) "Camaleón noela...@gmail.com" > suggested this: > >>Okay, let'

Re: [OT] Posting styles

Decided the easiest way to stop the annoyance of 'Mika Suomalainen', is to send his messages straight to 'trash'. No more half page fulls of meaningless numbers/letters,& no more requests for confirmation; life has returned to normal. :) -- Sent from Free Open Source Software Debian GNU/Li

Re: No sound with new install

On 02/04/12 15:44, Nick White wrote: Anybody have any other suggestions? When I installed Squeeze 6.0.3/4 onto my newish HP G62 laptop, I had no sound. I was given this advice by someone, (I'm afraid I can't remember who), from Linuxquestions - Debian forum:- Download the latest alsa-driver

Re: OT: change of mail provider

On 01/04/12 14:20, Camaleón wrote: May I ask about the reasons for ditching Gmail from your life? I'm more than tempted to do it so but I have still not found a good replacement for my Gmail e-mail address. I use Hotmail (for receiving junk), Yahoo, & Gmail. I have Icedove fetch my mail, & repl

Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE

On 01/04/12 14:15, ntrfug wrote: Apr 1 07:48:33 mysystem kernel: [281275.882442] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk It's there. So if you use a root terminal, you should be able to mount it. After that, you will need to find out why it isn't being auto mounted, as that seems to be

Re: Installing genesys on Debian - lateral thinking time?

On 31/03/12 23:19, Lisi wrote: The really sad thing about all this is that it works in Ubuntu 11.10 Unity on a live CD. The CD was sloow, but once it had loaded, I could scan with my LiDE 110. I think I would check out exactly what Ubuntu is using; after all it is based on Debian.

Re: Installing genesys on Debian

On 31/03/12 14:41, Lisi wrote: I then ran #./configure #make #make install. 'make install' will put the files wherever they should be, that's part of the makefile. Junior:/home/lisi/Scanner/Canon_LiDE-110/sane-backends-1.0.22# sh ./install-sh sane-backends.lsm /etc/sane.d (/etc/sane.d would

Re: Installing genesys on Debian

On 31/03/12 11:29, Lisi wrote: Junior:/home/lisi/Scanner/Canon_LiDE-110/sane-backends-1.0.22# sh ./install-sh install:no input file specified Junior:/home/lisi/Scanner/Canon_LiDE-110/sane-backends-1.0.22# sh ./install-sh sane-backends.lsm install:no destination specified Junior:/h

Re: chroot ssh and ftp

On 30/03/12 19:39, Dr Beco wrote: Hi there debian users, I've being searching a "how-to" to work this out, but all I got was old blogs with very strange and different suggestions. I need to configure a system with 3 groups of people: admins, professors and students. MAYBE THE FOLLOWING WILL

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

On 30/03/12 10:15, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: On 29/03/2012 05:03, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 27 March 2012 19:00:18 Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: I want it fast! Then use Ubuntu. Lisi I am already using Ubuntu 11.10. Why not 12.04. I thought you liked cutting edge -- To UN

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

On 29/03/12 18:26, Dom wrote: Disclaimer: I've never used Midnight Commander Give it a go, you may fall in love with it, like many have. :) Keith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org A

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

On 28/03/12 10:10, Bret Busby wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote: I can, more or less, use Debian (I am still learning it, after however many years), and PC-BSD would be a learning experience, and probably, a fair bit of hard work (I haven't used BSD, since before GUI's), so it appear

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

On 28/03/12 01:37, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: I prize bleeding edge technology above stability and reliability. But of course I still want stability and reliability. The two are incompatible! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: /tmp full, tmpfs, Debian testing

On 28/03/12 00:25, wlan wrote: Oh, if I close window with movie and start it again all works. root@serenity:/home/wlan# df -h /tmp Файловая система Размер Использовано Дост Использовано% Cмонтировано в tmpfs 605M 12M 594M2% /tmp After restart movie into brows

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

On 28/03/12 04:01, Charles Kroeger wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:40:02 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 21 mar 12, 14:26:22, Charles Kroeger wrote: Thanks for the suggestion..however if the SD card happens to be in the camera and not in the card reader during the boot fstab can't find 'sde

Re: aptitude failure to fetch

On 27/03/12 07:50, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Suits in Debian are oldstable, stable, testing, unstable, experimental and components/areas are main, contrib, non-free, but derivatives may have others. Very simply put, suits are about versions, components about types of software. Releases also have code

Re: can't get sound to work with webcam Logitech C910

I have tried to see with alsamixer if something looked weird: recording levels as well as play levels on both cards seem OK (Green + while in the columns, just before the red zones). Not sure if you've tried these:- Alsamixer has 'mic-boost', 'capture', 'capture1', & 'internal mic boost'.

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

On 21/03/12 14:47, Bret Busby wrote: In my primary partition, I have three partitions. I have a hardware manufacturer's partition, a recovery partition, and, as the computer came with MS Windows, a Windows partition, which is 84GB. Having inmstalled Ubuntu and Debian 6, I want to experiment with

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

On 21/03/12 03:34, Ken Heard wrote: Mar 20 18:22:03 R61 kernel: [4.632233] mmcblk0:<3>mmc0: Card removed during transfer! You might want to check if the sd card is still readable; if it isn't, it was corrupted by being removed whilst the system was still writing data to it; will need to be

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

On 21/03/12 03:48, John Jason Jordan wrote: Let me know what kind of "n"-in-one card reader you find. I could use one as well. I have a (www.)Novatech(.co.uk) reader that is 'cheap' & works OK, but is slow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

On 21/03/12 03:34, Ken Heard wrote: Mar 20 17:39:11 R61 kernel: [4.756112] mmcblk0:<3>mmc0: Card removed during transfer! That looks bad... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

On 20/03/12 23:23, Charles Kroeger wrote: Before you suggest, I didn't put the mount -t vfat etc command in fstab because I don't want to see a message every time I boot the computer without the SD card in the reader saying sde1 can't be found and doesn't exist. I've got a feeling if you put 'us

Re: Problem with Update repository

Why I made my suggestion. :) In the past, have installed from live media & not been able to access external repositories because of the cdrom line in sources.list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: Problem with Update repository

On 17/03/12 08:21, Lisi wrote: The sources.list used by Bret has one of the CD entries not commented out. This you have not included in the sources.list as used by you. Might this have caused a problem? I confess to not seeing how, but it is an anomaly in the sources.list. Lisi I see where y

Re: X-server problem

On 15/03/12 16:03, Andriy Samsonyuk wrote: after user login -> "X: user not authorized to run the X server" no ~/.xsession-errors no /var/log/Xorg.0.log root# xinit -> everything works fine what am i missing? I usually run startx as a user to get it up & running; I'm puzzled by your insi

Re: Debian in a VMware VM and LVM

On 13/03/12 14:52, Bonno Bloksma wrote: 4) Why is /dev/sda6 not there yet? What step am I missing? Ok, after a reboot (it is not a production server yet) the /dev/sda6 is there. Form here on it was (almost) straight sailing.;-) I would imagine that is because your kernel is/was still using

Re: the missing firmware files are: bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw

On 09/03/12 14:28, Joey L wrote: I am using an IBM x3650 7979 that i believe has a netextreme network card. On install of Debian Squeeze - I get the following messege: the missing firmware files are: bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw does anyone know how i can get around this ? Make the network car

Re: How to report a bug related to multiple packages (insserv, autofs, backuppc)

On 06/03/12 11:35, Sylvain wrote: Hey there, I installed backuppc the other day, configured it and it works fine except for one thing: it doesn't start at boot. I looked in the backuppc logs and in the syslog and saw nothing suspicious. If I start it manually with /etc/init.d/backuppc start, it

Re: Problem with resolution 1366x768.

On 05/03/12 16:55, Felipe Rozélio wrote: Good morning, well I used the amd64 debian squeeze in a philips monitor had a resolution of 1024x768 and had no problem. I bought a monitor from AOC e943Fwsk 18.5 'and then the problems started, first noticed on the right side there was a thin black belt

Re: Install Abort

On 05/03/12 10:42, FNU LNU wrote: i was about to instal debian into one of my laptops and then chose a different laptop at the last second...i had already installed my debian cd when i realized i was on the wrong laptop...now everytime i turn on my computer the first screen that pops up prompts

Re: bash-completion problem

On 04/03/12 16:20, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi list, does anyone know, how to check or reinitialise bash-completition? The problem: mkisofs is a link to genisoimage, but the command mkisofs is not known. I checked ullhan63@protheus2: ls -la /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ | grep iso -r

Re: rsync

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 06:33, lina wrote: [2] When I ssh to a server, can I set up the terminal the same as when we open a tab in termial, it will be in that directory of the present tab's directory, can I open a tab in termial, with ssh connected, can it also in that server's directory, not h

Re: after updating, close the lid won't sleep

On 02/03/12 13:29, lina wrote: Hi, How to examine close the lid settings, Long time ago I followed a suggestion (forget exactly how), it worked well, once close the lid, it got sleep today update something like desktop-file-utils0.18-1 gnome-menus3.2.0.1-2 man-db2.6.1-1 hicolor-icon-theme0.12

Re: "octave" linked to "octave-3.6.1" but only "octave-3.6.1" will start octave

On 01/03/12 15:24, Edward C. Jones wrote: 262067 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 21 2011 python -> python2.6 262052 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2288272 Dec 26 2010 python2.6 1584647 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 12 Feb 29 22:14 octave -> octave-3.6.1 1584644 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 7346 Feb 29 22:

Re: Postgresql-8.1 Removal Problems

On 29/02/12 08:16, David Baron wrote: It is still there. Manually stopping the daemon does not produce any error or output and the removal error remains. Maybe 'deborphan' could help; no harm in trying. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Postgresql-8.1 Removal Problems

On 28/02/12 18:28, Camaleón wrote: Get error: update-rc.d: warning: postgresql-8.1 stop runlevel arguments (0 1 6) do not match LSB Default-Stop values (S 0 1 6) How do I get rid of it. (...) Despite the above error which I've also seen when you stop/restart/remove may of the init scrip

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

On 28/02/12 16:31, Bernard wrote: What did I do since my last post ? As Richard suggested, I opened up the box and checked cables around the cdrom hardware. I noticed something that I thought weird at first: the CDROM blocks were connected to a cable where one could read: "HD cable", while

Re: Networking problem on Shuttle XS35GTV2

On 28/02/12 16:03, Ramon Hofer wrote: I was looking for the initrd.gz in the installation medium. I found two: /install.386/gtk/initrd.gz and /install.386/initrd.gz They aren't the same. Why are there two versions of them? Is it ok to take this one: /install.386/initrd.gz? /install.386/g

Re: Networking problem on Shuttle XS35GTV2

On 28/02/12 15:34, Ramon Hofer wrote: So I tried to do the way post 6 describes. I have installed debian-6.0.4- i386-CD-1.iso after putting it on a usb stick with unetbootin. Then I tried to install gcc but it can't find the installation medium anymore. So I mounted the created usb stick to /medi

Re: Networking problem on Shuttle XS35GTV2

On 28/02/12 15:34, Ramon Hofer wrote: Hi all I have described my problem a while ago and now I got a solution to my Ubuntu bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/880316 See posts 5 and 6 Post 5 sounds great but I can't find how to unpack the initrd.gz. Can you help me

Re: [OT]: Re: How to direct output into the LibreOffice Calc

On 28/02/12 15:06, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 28/02/12 15:16, lina wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 28/02/12 15:06, lina wrote: Hi, I wonder: 1] can the output like: 5 3 1 5 3 direct it into the LibreOffice directly. without copy and paste. 2] Is it pos

Re: Setting /tmp size.

On 28/02/12 09:36, Jon Dowland wrote: On 28/02/12 08:43, C.T.F. Jansen wrote: Greetings, The 100 Mb recommended size for /tmp is far too small and out of date. Some of the others including / are also too small. Where is this recommendation? I ran out of space for krita, had a look, and deci

Re: when an xterm starts, it always starts in ~/Documents

On 27/02/12 16:15, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:46:38 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:37:46 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Camaleón wrote: Have you tried with falling in

Re: ext browsers

On 27/02/12 12:58, Johann Spies wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:32:29PM +0200, Keith McKenzie wrote: I don't 'recommend', but I have tried 'lynx', 'links',& 'elinks'; I didn't get on with any of them. The problem is mainly that so

Re: text browsers

On 27/02/12 10:11, Weaver wrote: Hello one and all. I'm seting up a gui-less system and was wondering about text browsers - what's good? Anything to avoid, that is behind in development, not being maintained or is obviously behind the others in some respect or other. I don't want to start a fla

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

On 24/02/12 17:35, Bernard wrote: It is a 3-4 yrs old machine that belongs to my Genealogical Association. (Intel Pentium 4 - 3.2 GHz - RAM 2048 MB). At the time of purchase, it was fitted with MSWIN XP ; I repartitioned the HD to have a dual boot (GRUB) with Debian Lenny and the original OS ; it

Re: a quick Q: what is the .alias for

On 24/02/12 16:44, Lisi wrote: On Friday 24 February 2012 16:16:47 Keith McKenzie wrote: I shall see if I can get Gmail via Icedove. You can - it is what I do normally for both myself (KMail) and Peter (Icedove). As I said, when I had to use Gmail as my email client for several

Re: a quick Q: what is the .alias for

I stand corrected. This is Gmail & it is including the message with the reply! (It also must top post when it adds it, another problem) Sorry about that, I shall see if I can get Gmail via Icedove. It is also sending to the private address; my apologies. Damn these top posting web maillers! --

Re: a quick Q: what is the .alias for

I stand corrected. This is Gmail & it is including the message with the reply! (It also must top post when it adds it, another problem) Sorry about that, I shall see if I can get Gmail via Icedove. -- Sent from FOSS (Free Open Source Software) Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

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