Thanks once more for the support! The problem is now solved.
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 10:20 AM David Wright
wrote:
> On Tue 28 Aug 2018 at 09:48:06 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote:
>
> > # dpkg -P sendmail-base
> > (Reading database ... 1562548 files and directories c
Thanks for the reply again.
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 9:41 AM David Wright
wrote:
> On Tue 28 Aug 2018 at 09:14:36 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote:
>
> > # apt remove sendemail
>
> Oops.
>
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Readin
Firstly, thanks for the reply!
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 9:04 AM David Wright
wrote:
> On Mon 27 Aug 2018 at 12:38:42 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm having trouble installing/removing sendmail in Debian Sid (well,
> > aptosid -- ht
Hi everyone,
I'm having trouble installing/removing sendmail in Debian Sid (well,
aptosid -- http://www.aptosid.com -- actually).
I tried to install and it failed: https://pastebin.com/Qu2jRqsn
'apt -f install' did not fix it, nor did 'dpkg --configure -a'.
Since it was not essential (and did n
On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Luis Finotti
wrote:
[snip]
> Any suggestions would be appreciated...
>
>
>
Never mind. The screen just went red and opening up to check the video
cable I just broke the trackpad (which was secured only by tape). (And it
did not fix the screen.)
Thanks for your continued help!
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 6:46 AM, Brian wrote:
>
> GRUB does its job but it appears the problem occurs when control is
> handed over to the init system.
>
> At the GRUB menu edit the linux line to add systemd.unit=rescue.target
> or systemd.unit=emergency.target.
>
> No. I get stuck again.
>
> You were able to type these commands? What do you mean by "stuck"? After
> pressing ENTER do you get anything on the screen? What do you see?
Yes, I am able to type those and boot starts, but gets stuck in the
middle. No HD activity and Ctrl+Alt+Del (or any other c
> Let me know if I can provide anymore info or if this gives you any idea of
> > what is wrong...
>
> At the GRUB menu hit "c" and type
>
> set root=(hd0,msdos1)
> linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1
> initrd /initrd.img
> boot
>
> and hit the ENTER key.
>
> Do you boot into the OS?
No. I get stu
Thanks for the reply!
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 17 May 2017 at 13:41:03 -0400, Luis Finotti wrote:
>
> > I've installed stretch from a DI RC3 image (from here:
> > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/
> cd-including-
Dear all,
I've installed stretch from a DI RC3 image (from here:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/)
a couple of weeks back on an old Dell Inspiron Mini 1018.
The install went without a problem and I could reboot just fine. I then
updated it, installed
OK, I think I've figured it out. It seems that Firefox (and other GTK
programs, like Chromium) are still reading .gtkrc-2.0. Adding the key
theme line to it fixed my problem.
Running Sid (and KDE), it seems that I cannot get GTK key theme "Emacs" to
work.
I used to have a file .gtkrc-3.0 with the line:
gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"
which gave me Emacs style key bindings on applications like Firefox. It
stopped working recently, as apparently a new version of GTK came
Yes, without success, but thanks for the suggestion!
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Dear all,
I've been trying to fix this problem, but have not found a solution
yet. (I've also asked at the aptosid list without success.)
Before I resigned myself to a reinstall, I thought I'd post the output of
strace apt-get dist-upgrade
(I killed the process a few seconds after it got st
Dear all,
I had a power failure while I was away and when I came back the boot
failed, asking to run fsck manually, which I did.
*Many* errors where fixed and I could reboot to what it seems to be a
normal session, except I cannot "dist-upgrade" or "upgrade" (I'm on
sid, BTW):
> On 13/11/14 11:10, Luis Finotti wrote:
> > Ah, that worked! Could you explain the "192.168.29.0/24" syntax
> > though? I'm having a hard time finding what it means. (Is it a range
> > 0 to 24?)
>
> The "/24" means that only the first 2
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Luis Finotti a écrit :
>>
>> When I first started using the VPN service, I could not SSH to my
>> desktop from outside the network anymore. After a lot of googling, I
>> found out a solution (https://forums.o
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Igor Cicimov wrote:
>
> On 13/11/2014 6:17 AM, "Luis Finotti" wrote:
>>
>> I'm having problems connecting to my desktop (running actually
>> aptosid, which is virtually simply Debian Sid with a different kernel
>
I'm having problems connecting to my desktop (running actually
aptosid, which is virtually simply Debian Sid with a different kernel
and a few extra tools and customizations).
Here is the situation: my desktop is connected to a VPN service. (The
router to which the desktop is connected is not, on
Hi,
I am trying to install KDE 4.2 on lenny. (I made backups and am aware
that things might go bad. I wanted to try it anyway.) So, I followed
theshttp://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html#contente
instructions:
http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html#content
Here are the
Hey Mumia, Davide, and all,
On 7/31/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 07/31/2007 04:18 PM, Luis Finotti wrote:
> > [...]
> > On the other hand, I still don't see why the key wasn't disabled
> > by the "xmodmap -e" command... Is tha
Dear Davide (and all),
Thanks for the reply!
On 7/31/07, Davide Mancusi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Found it. It is in (err... sorry, non-English KDE) Regional &
> Accessibility -> Input Actions (?) -> Preset Actions -> PrintScreen. If
> you look for "gestures" in Control Center, it will pop up
Hi,
First, thanks for the reply!
> My system (Debian 3.1, KDE 3.3.2) does not exhibit this behavior by
> default. I can enable (and disable) it by going into the KDE Control
> Center: K-> Control Center-> Regional & Accessibility-> Keyboard
> Shortcuts-> Command Shortcuts-> Graphics-> More Applic
Hi,
My Print Screen key is too close to BackSpace, so I keep pressing it
by accident. I use KDE, and this makes "KSnapshoyt" pop up. (In
fluxbox, it sends the content of the terminal to the printer.)
I checked the key assignments of KDE, and I found no shortcut for the
PrtSc key, and even defin
Hi,
On 1/22/07, Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jan 22, 2007, at 5:05 PM, Luis Finotti wrote:
> I don't
> quite understand the "dpi" option there... What does it refer to?
> (dpi="dots per inch", right?
dpi = dots per inch. Think of it a
Dear all,
Check the [X-:*-Core] section of /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc...
I noticed the same effect myself and make sure the line now reads:
ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp -dpi 100
which cleans things up nicely in my case.
This indeed fixed it. Thanks Rob!
Luis
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Dear Andrei.
On 1/22/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:07:44 -0500
"Luis Finotti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> GDM also makes the fonts larger, but XDM works... Does any one know
> what is going wrong? Is that a bug? I'd
Dear all,
On 1/22/07, Rob Bochan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 22 January 2007 15:07, Luis Finotti wrote:
> ...
> GDM also makes the fonts larger, but XDM works... Does any one know what is
> going wrong? Is that a bug? I'd like to be able to turn off the comput
Hi,
I recently installed Etch in a Lenovo T60. Since I had to get the ATI
drivers to work, I did a minimal install before adding a display manager
(kdm). After I had X up and running with the proper driver, and properly
configured (with KDE), I installed KDM. Now, if I login via KDM, the fonts
Hi,
KDE does have some strange issues at the moment. An example is that on one
of
my laptops, kcontrol is empty but Lost and Found contains all the links
for
kcontrol. So maybe there is more to this than just that? Or maybe your
problem is tied to this? But it's just a guess.
I am not sure
Hi,
On 11/26/06, M-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I hate to ask this, but did you reboot the computer after you did all
these
things. I know that sounds very other O/Sish, but it will restart certain
processes that might then pick up on the changes you've made.
Charlie
OK, I tried it now, b
Dear Igor,
On 11/26/06, Igor Guerrero Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Try this: sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-sound-base
:::Saludos:::
Thanks for the suggestion... It didn't work though.
Thanks,
Luis
Hi,
I've recently upgraded from Sarge to Etch. Most things went smoothly...
But, I just realized I have no sound anymore.
I noticed that alsa was not installed anymore (I'm pretty sure it was
installed with Sarge), so I installed alsa, alsa-utils, alsa-tools,
alsa-oss. Ran alsaconf, alsamixer,
Hi,
Greg Norris wrote:
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:43:47AM -0400, Antonio Paiva wrote:
Ryan,
You probably need to run
xhost
on the client machine.
Someone suggest this virtually every time the topic comes up. It's
exceptionally bad advice... DON'T DO IT!!!
Just out of curiosit
Zen Garden wrote:
> I used to have te same problem. It is because root cannot access to the
> X server.
> Here the sollution:
>
> user$ xhost + (press enter)
[snip]
This seems to be a security risk... "sux" seems to be a better
idea... (Or so I heard.) :-)
HTH,
Luis
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Gregory Seidman wrote:
> } 1) Reply to list support
> }In thunderbird, It is either Reply or Reply to All. Does kmail do a
> } better job in this regard or is it as lame as thunderbird?
>
> There is a ticket in bugzilla against Thunderbird for exactly this,
and it
> has recently been fixed
Hi,
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
I just discovered this great little program called kompose which is a
task manager for KDE. It just made my day! If you are a KDE user and
usually open a lot of windows while working, kompose is just for you.
Good bye Alt+Tab, Welcome Win+Tab :-)
hth
raju
Th
Hi,
Piyush Garyali wrote:
How in the world do I get colors to display in xterm? when I do
"ls --color" all I get is mono with bold.
Long shot, but to what is TERM set? I could not get colors in emacs (in
a terminal) with TERM=vt100, but I can with TERM=linux and others. You
can also try T
Steve Lamb wrote:
Matt England wrote:
Does any such thing exist?
I do not believe so. People will tell you that you need something heavy
to do something that is so relatively simple. Nevermind the gui clients
have been doing it for years.
Do I effectively need to write some PHP, Py
Dear Matt,
First, sorry I sent the message to your address instead of the list...
Yet again, my fingers were faster than my brain. We should keep this in
the list though. I'm sending to your address again, since you replied
directly to me, but let me know (privately) if you rather I wouldn't
Hi,
Matt Townsend wrote:
Hi. Brand new debian installation.
Sarge (stable)? What kernel?
I'm a little puzzled that I can't
seem to burn a CD. On boot the /var/log/messages confirms that there's a
DVDRW on hdc and a CDRW on hdd. Yet when I go to the File Manager-Go-CD
Creator, drop a file
Dear Dave and all,
Dave Ewart wrote:
On Wednesday, 22.03.2006 at 11:54 -0500, Luis Finotti wrote:
I recently tried to install the linux image 2.6.15 from backports.org.
I noticed that it would bring other files with it and remove some. My
question is: will this make the stock 2.6.8 kernel
Hi,
I recently tried to install the linux image 2.6.15 from backports.org.
I noticed that it would bring other files with it and remove some. My
question is: will this make the stock 2.6.8 kernel not work? Since it
actually removes stuff, I was worried that I could not keep 2.6.8 as my
"saf
Hi,
Nic wrote:
Here's the instructions again to provide some context:
following in nsFilePicker.js which is located in the app's components
directory. After making the change you have to re-register the
components which is easily accomplished by disabling then re-enabling
an extension and t
Hi,
Lars Staun Knudsen wrote:
> Luis Finotti wrote:
>
>> I am not at my Debian machine, so I can't double check, but I think you
>> need "dpkg --force-purge". (Careful with that! Check the man page.
>> Search "force-thing".)
>
>
> # d
Hi,
Lars Staun Knudsen wrote:
Hi
I cleaned out my system with debfoster, but unfortunately the
package "menu" is stuck. I earlier remembered a way to force at
package out with dpkg. But man or google can't make me remember..
# aptitude purge menu
Reading Package Lists... Done
Hi,
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
Hello!
This problem had appeared many times in the past, as I can see brownsing
the archives (user and user-portuguese), but no one of these solutions
works in my case. This is my problem: I am running sarge + gnome 2.8. I
have a qwerty keyboard and in Desktop Pre
Hi,
ochnap2 wrote:
I think you have to add your user to the "camera" group.
I added my user to the camera group, but I'm still unable to access de
camera... :(
Did you logout and login again? I think you have to for the change to
take effect...
HTH,
Luis
P.S.: I'm sorry for sending m
Hi,
roberto wrote:
On 2/15/06, Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i cheked the BIOS setup: the video shared memory is not set; hence the
problem is only about this module 'highmem' in the kernel;
hence i realized the only one solution is to recompile...
if any other way,
pl
Dear all,
Roland wrote:
/bin/sh exists for compatability with the legacy Bourne shell and does
not provide bash-specific features. In APP 1 I had a ~bash_cmd_rc file
with some output in the BASH_ENV, and it is ignored by /bin/sh, even
if /bin/sh is a softlink to /bin/bash on my machine.
(..
Dear Wesley,
On 1/5/06, Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 05 January 2006 13:16, Luis Finotti wrote:
> > I have
> >
> > ---
> > AUTOHOME=$PWD
> >
> > # Clean up stupid automounter directory
Dear Michael,
> You could change
>
> #! /bin/bash
>
> to
>
> #! /bin/bash --norc
That does answer my question, but it did not work, likely because I
have $BASH_ENV set to my .bashrc..
Thanks!
Luis
Hi Jan,
Thanks for the reply again!
> > open("/home/finotti/.bashrc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
>
> There it is. From the bash manpage I gather that a non-interactive
> bash doesn't read _any_ startup files, except for any file that
> is mentioned in the environment variable $BASH_ENV. Does this
Dear Jan,
> Hm, this is a bit redundant - it's not necessary to wrap pwd into
> process substitution and echo the results... (...)
Thanks for the comment! It was just something to show the change...
> Besides, the snippet is procuding the desired result here ($pwd, not
> $HOME). AFAICT, bash d
Dear Wesley,
> The script you've shown works fine, just the way you want. Nothing in there
> is going to change the working directory.
>
> For example:
>
> $ pwd
> /home/wjl/tmp
> $ cat #!/bin/bash
> echo $(pwd)
> EOF
> $ chmod a+x test.sh
> $ ./test.sh
> /home/wjl/tmp
>
> If you think
Dear David,
> Do you have some sort of "cd $HOME" type statement in your .bashrc or
> .bash_profile or .profile file (or similar)?
I have
---
AUTOHOME=$PWD
# Clean up stupid automounter directory
case $PWD in
$AUTOHOME*) cd $HOME${PWD#$AUTOHOME} ;;
e
Dear all,
I realize that this should be "way off topic", so sorry about that...
I've been working on a bash script, but when I run something like:
---
#!/bin/bash
echo $(pwd)
I always get $HOME, not the current working directory. I'd need to
continue in the working
Hi,
roberto wrote:
Hi, using acrobat reader i encounter the following problem:
~:$ acroread
Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
then acrobat reader starts correctly but i can not use any of the shortcuts
like Ctrl+O, Ctrl+W
and so on, so useful on a laptop, not to use
Dear Basajaun and all,
Basajaun wrote:
[snip]
Well, you could try the old link trick. First of all locate the biggest
directory(ies) residing in /, e.g.
du -sh /*
then, move that directory and all of its contents to a bigger
partition, where space is not a problem, e.g.
cp -R /big_dir /scrat
Adam Mercer wrote:
On 01/06/05, Romulo Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm trying to mount my Sony DSC-P93 in order to trasfer my pics to my
box. (...
I remember I could mount it in another box running Debian.
Could please somebody help me to fix it?
Is the usb-storage module loa
Dear all,
Rogério Brito wrote:
On May 08 2005, Luis R Finotti wrote:
Sorry for not mentioning it. It was under X... I guess in that case I
don't have a "login shell". So what would be the proper place to set
variables for terminals running in X?
I think that the best option would be to give
Dear all,
Just my experience:
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Jules Dubois wrote:
> On Saturday 30 April 2005 07:19, Lee Braiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> (...)
> If one uses aptitude from the start, it is a drop-in replacement. If one
> doesn't, some real work is required, and then it's again a drop-in
> rep
Dear Ming and all,
Thanks for the reply, Ming. I really appreciate your help.
I put "video=sisfb:mode:none" in the append part of lilo.conf and it did work
(back to text mode), but now the computer try to fit more lines than it fits
in the screen, in the sense that there are lines below what t
Hi,
I am running Debian on my laptop and after an upgrade, it tries to enter
in "graphical console mode".
On boot I get:
sisfb: Using MMIO qeue mode
the screen goes blank and it enters in graphic mode (with the penguin on
the screen), but it's all fuzzy. I can't use the text consoles
(Ctrl+Alt
--- Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You must also, in addition to modifying the kernel
> command line, insert the apm module.
>
> # echo "apm" >>/etc/modules
>
> -Roberto
Great, Roberto! That just did the trick! Thanks.
Also, thanks to Keeling and Greg.
Keeling:
I did not
Dear all,
I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.4.3 to 2.4.18-k7
(I'm running a 1.2GHz Athlon) and now my computer
won't turn off the power with "shutdown -h". (I did
the "apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-k7" way.)
The old kernel did turn off the power.
After I little research, it seems that
Thanks Magnus and Juan (again -- I owe you two!).
I greatly appreciate your help.
My best,
Luis
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> the remote SMTP server rejects you connection,
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Thanks Juan, Clive and Alistair!
I successfully updated my kernel. I took the most
immediate way (with just apt-get and updating
lilo: "apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-386") and
everything seems to working.
(Now the Alsa drivers are another story...) :-)
I noticed that I do not have a sourc
Dear all,
It seems that my kernel is a rather old version:
-
% uname -a
Linux debian 2.4.3 #2 Sat Mar 31 11:29:19 CST 2001
i686 unknown
-
It seems that the newer versions are 2.4.16 or later.
I thought "apt-get update/upgrade" would upgrade the
kernel, but
Sorry about the last message sent incorrectly...
As I was saying, I still have some problems. X
(running gnome) froze. For a while the virtual
consoles were working, but then I started getting
error messages and they froze too. I posted the error
messages (from var/log/) at
http://www.math.ucs
ork, if lilo.conf on your debian
> partition have ALL WORKING
> INGREDIENTS:
> 1. correct path to kernel
> 2. correct path to initrd (if needed)
> 3. correct path to your XP (if you want boot XP too)
>
> GoodLuck.
>
>
>
> Luis Finotti wrote:
>
> >Hi,
&
Hi,
I recently had some problems with my computer and had
to reinstall Windows XP. After I done that, I don't
get the LILO screen with boot options anymore. It
starts XP automatically. I checked and the Windows XP
C: drive is the size of the original partition, so I
think my Linux partition is
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