Yes, it is quite possible, use the same format and replace the desired key. for
instance, i had a machine that rebooted on ctrl+alt+del (shutdown -r now) and
shutdown on ctrl+alt+h (shutdown -h now) iirc, on that machine i had to switch
to a tty first but might be a setting error on my part
---
Computer suddenly dropped into initramfm after power loss, help getting back
into file system would be helpful, and appreciated, stuck doing email from my
phone
thanks in advance, hopefully the basic steps will b all i need
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Hello, been a while since I posted, working on setting up a partition which
will run mainly console programs, however, I was interested in setting up X to
run a few programs (or maybe the framebuffer) a quick search of the web yielded
no help. Any suggestions on where to look.
Running lenny fr
--- On Thu, 8/14/08, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Because of this lack of success, I am unable to upgrade or
> install any
> packages in this laptop. Is there a way to get out of this
> catch-22
> situation, and consequently upgrade tzdata successfully,
> and upgrade and
> install
also thought check out
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=105871
seems to be in the sync flag on the new kernels (if i am reading it correctly)
and also suggests fixes, it may help
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--- On Fri, 8/1/08, myblog1980 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm an Ubuntu user who is having an ongoing problem
> with USB file
> transfers. This issue also seems to be affecting a
> significant number
> of other Ubuntu users, and I have also been reading reports
> of it
> appearing in other
just wondering which P2P clients are best, seems to be slim pickings in the
base debian repository so I figure that I am missing a repository or will have
to go the long way to find a good client (however, I do not want to have to
find and install a lot of dependencies that are also not in the r
>From: Gordon Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: need install 'how to' help
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Sunday, June 8, 2008, 11:40 AM
>
>>need 'howto' help, newbie to linux, want to install debian to hd on
>>laptop, specs follow
>
>You need a local user group. Google for "
"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 05/14/2008 08:57 AM, Javier Barroso
wrote:
> Hi list,
>
Hi Javier.
> Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes [unresponsive] during
> three or four seconds.
>
> First I experiment it with swiftfox, then I used Firefox (iceweasel) 2 and
well i have been working on getting an old compaq
armada 7770dmt up and running with debian etch 4.0r2.
everything works good, only i cannot get alsa to find
the sound card at boot, sound card is a ess-1878.
added the sound module to /boot/modules but that
didn't seem to help, checked alsa manpage
my mistake forwarding to list
--- joseph lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 01:39:40PM +, Steve
> > McIntyre wrote:
> > > [ /me sets the Reply-To: to debian-cd ag
take it as you will, but I think that it would be
useful to group the terminal and lightweight apps
together, just seems a waste to download (25 for etch)
disks to install onto a low powered computer, when
everything together would all fit on one disk (that is
base system and all terminal apps that
Luis Maceira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can I see all the messages
generated by
a bash command (configure make make install,
for example) to standard output(computer screen),
and at the same time make sure that all is
written to a text file for later analysis.
It is a redirection but I don´t
> Well, the BIOS recognises the drive, udev isn't
> giving you nodes. Is
> the kernel seeing it? Check dmesg.
>
no mention of the drive in dmesg
> What do you have under /dev? When you say the
> device node, do you mean
> /dev/sd? or do you mean /dev/dvd or /dev/cdrom?
> What about
> /dev/d
> > that knocked out our power and after recovering
> from
>
> UPS is your friend...
>
UPS? - big brown trucks?
> > that my DVD burner seemed to go AWOL (that is the
> > device nodes just vanished)
> >
> > checked syslog and no errors there, nothing on
> udev
> > documentation seemed to help,
well, about a week ago we had a lovely thunderstorm
that knocked out our power and after recovering from
that my DVD burner seemed to go AWOL (that is the
device nodes just vanished)
checked syslog and no errors there, nothing on udev
documentation seemed to help, and STFW didn't help
either. i'd
> > I am trying to burn a Data DVD+R
>
> > When I hit the burn button, the dialog box that
> pops up normally has a
> > drop down box which says the type of media
> detected. This remains
> > steadfastly saying no media loaded regardless of
> whether I have or
> > not - meaning I cannot start
> is there a way to have gimp or whatever print a
> sample of each
> font on the system without manually writing them all
> out? tia.
>
try gucharmap
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only thing that i have ever had in /var/archives are
the md5sum's and tarballs for backups created by
backup manager (needless to say i have since sent
backup manager to /dev/null)
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> I thought that at one point (in the past, when I was
> paying a little more attention) that a certain
> ubuntu release might be better
> installed as a clean reinstall (rather than trying
> to upgrade from a previous release). Hearing that
> (or thinking I heard that),
> I simply extrapolated
--- Joe Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a very basic Debian question. I downloaded
> all of the 25 Debian .iso files and want to
> convert/write them to CDs. I am trying to use the
> "InfraRecorder" program that I downloaded from the
> Ubuntu web site. (I also plan to install Ubunt
did you check to make sure that the appropriate users
are added to "wheel" group?
gpasswd -a wheel
or
usermod -G wheel
also check /etc/pam.d/su if PAM is installed
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> >> I can log in as root (shown above) both on tty1
> and in the GUI (gdm).
> >> Running Sid, up to date
> >> This is not a show stopper, but it makes me go,
> "hm". Any ideas?
> >>
> >> and I can do sudo su.
> >>
> >
> > When you are using su, are you using your password
> or root's pa
> Interesting stuff all this!
>
> Joseph: your metapackage is a great starting point.
> I'll see if I understand it enough to hack it up for
> needs.
>
> Thanks to all.
>
no problem, i made it for a personal need, then put it
on cli-apps so that it would not just get lost
jwlockhart
Register
> > i'm also open to suggestions
>
> Hmmm, I'll readup on metapackages.
> Never maintained anything, but how hard would it be
> to prepare
> ONE dummy .deb that pulls all the CLI admin/rescue
> tools I want?.
> After a standard net-install one would just do a
> wget and a dpkg.
>
> As an alterna
> I'll be trying to pitch Debian as the OS for a
> project to my employer.
> One of the arguments will be to mention a few really
> big and important
> Debian implementations. I tried to see if there was
> such a list on the
> Wikipedia Debian article but found none. I couldn't
> find info about i
i am wondering if anyone has experience with the
c3270, x3270, s3270 packages? the help and
documentation for these seems more sketchy than most.
The computers i use for work run attachmate's extra!
which is a tn3270 emulator. the computers that they
connect to are ibm 3270's (as far as i can tell
appolgies, forwarding to the lists
Note: forwarded message attached.
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--- abdelkader belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to know the name of my network card, it is
> detected by the
> system, I just want name of the driver used and
> other info?
>
> Is there a program which gives the info of hardware?
> ( included network card)
> thanks bela
>
har
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Folk,
>
> timidity is installed. Yet when iceweasel opens
> http://www.contemplator.com/ and when VLC opens
> a local midi file, there is silence.
>
> Is there a way for VLC to recognize and play a
> midi?
>
> How should iceweasel play a midi? iceweasel>
> Ed
> Maybe you could use bittorrent?
>
that would be possible, but many isp now make it hard
to download large torrent files (in a supposed attempt
to stop movie piracy) so torrent is out, and i admit i
did not check all the mirrors, though stopping at the
same spot is certianly odd
jwlockhart
Re
i've been trying to download the DVD images from
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r2/i386/iso-dvd/
every attempt had the images giving me an error on the
download after aproximately 24% completion (DVD 1
errors at 24% every time, other images are within a
percentage or two), resuming the d
--- Scott Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> joseph lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes:
>
> > ok, checked my computer today and found strange
> output
> > on ttys1 which i only use for boot messages,
> >
> > [A[Dj[2~[G[Cp;vy[Co[D+ut [Dc +[C
> Don't blame DEBIAN.
> I'm getting hit hard from everywhere!!!
>
> phishing and Nigerian is up significantly.
> A huge increase from previous months.
>
> On 1/7/08, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> > > I see we have been hit by another flood of spam.
>
--- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:16:49PM -0500, Rick
> Thomas wrote:
> > The big deal is that the 3.1r6a iso's are broken.
> They don't offer
> > "oldstable" as an option for the distribution to
> install. So you
> > have to choose "stable" (or
ok, checked my computer today and found strange output
on ttys1 which i only use for boot messages,
[A[Dj[2~[G[Cp;vy[Co[D+ut [Dc +[Ci[Dx+ryi[D+
ri[D+ri[D+rc[C6[D[1~i+ 6[D[1~9[2+i 6[1~[yejsw
[password:
no results on google, altavista, or any other search
engine that i could think of
[EMAIL PRO
--- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:07:40PM -0800, wathavy
> wathavy wrote:
>
> [snip problems burning DVD image to DVD]
>
> > Do you have any suggestion on obtaining 4.0r2
> DVD-1 iso image file?
> > Especially for free ISO image extractor, other
> th
apologies, forwarding to list
Note: forwarded message attached.
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--- Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Andrew Sackville-West
> wrote:
> ...
> > > I can control my system, I can't control my
> clients' computers, so
> > > I want a minimum of possible errors on their
> computers.
> > >
> > > I would not want to make it easy f
i was browsing around and ran into the following
http://www.mslinux.org/
kind of disturbing, microsoft doing linux
here is a quote
"How do I get MS Linux?
We are now offering the MS Linux Introductory CD at a
special introductory price of only $249.99 (plus
shipping and handling), if you order
>> just wondering if anyone else has trouble using
>wine?
>
>Not most of the time, and the rest of the time, not
>if I read and
>follow the instructions.
>
>> everytime that i install it, i cannot get the
>program
>> that i would like to use with it to work (so far
>> windows media player 9, realpl
ok, here is my system info, basically the hardinfo
report generated by Hardinfo for my primary partition,
if i switch over to my etch install i will post the
same for it if necessary
Computer
Summary
---
-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.60GHz
Memory
--- Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 29, 2007 9:31 PM, joseph lockhart
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > just wondering if anyone else has trouble using
> wine?
> > everytime that i install it, i cannot get the
> program
> > that i
--- David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> joseph lockhart wrote:
> > just wondering if anyone else has trouble using
> wine?
> > everytime that i install it, i cannot get the
> program
> > that i would like to use with it to work (so far
> > windows media pla
just wondering if anyone else has trouble using wine?
everytime that i install it, i cannot get the program
that i would like to use with it to work (so far
windows media player 9, realplayer 10, and a few other
programs that my wife wanted me to try and install for
her). infact all that i have bee
ok, looking for a way to set the TTYS colors so that
the stay that way (not reset by ls or other things
like rebooting, basicly need the location of the
config file)
echo -e "\033[31m"
and
echo "^[[1;31;40m"
both work but do not persist after ls and other such
anyway anyone got an idea (i am
--- michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Whilst, it's a Fedora distro I've on the machine in
> question, I think
> the same problem manifests itself with Debian, LVM
> and WinXP so hoping
> somebody can help!
>
> I'm looking for a solution for (re-)installing WinXP
> on my slave disk
> when I ha
> Does this happen every time you run an upgrade?
> Does "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" do
>the same thing?
can't answer this one, i only use apt-get source
--download-only and that only rarely
> Does it get through the whole upgrade process and
>then reboot, or is
>it rebooting while
>Which packages are to be upgraded? What is the
>output of
>
> aptitude -F "%p %30v %30V" search ~U
this was today's package list
The following packages have been kept back:
k3b
The following packages will be upgraded:
libkpathsea4 texlive-base-bin
2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 t
>I've never heard of the full-upgrade option; what
>does it do?
>
>(other than cause your computer to reboot?) :)
following is from the man page for aptitude...
full-upgrade
Upgrades installed packages to their most
recent version, removing or installing packages as
necessary. This com
>From what I remember you're generally not supposed
>to run any sort of
>updates while in an X environment; If I were you I'd
>quit X and change
>to TTY1 before administering any changes (Especially
>if the changes are
>X.org or libX related)
>
fair enough, though this was just an update to TeX
(w
>Further to the attached post, I now discover that I
>can no longer open
>in Konqueror any html files. What I get instead of
>a document in html,
>
>format I get a plain text document including all the
>html codes.
>
>I discovered that this fault and the inability to
>open tabs with ctrl-t
>
>o
strange, every morning i run two aptitude commands
from the command line
aptitude update and aptitude full-upgrade
lately on running the full upgrade x crashes, well i
shouldn't say crashes, the system goes through its
normal reboot (first time it left me going huh), no
error message in system lo
The new seagate usb hard drives spin down after aprox
3 min, this then causes the computer to get a
"waiting" response that it interperates as a bad
device while the device spins back up, but being
logged as a bad device it will not let you access the
drive. basically you need to clear the log so t
ran aptitude update again and the key seems to be
back, it was kind of strange though
thanks anyways
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okay here is the first built of my terminal
metapackage terminalphile, hosted at
http://www.cli-apps.org/content/show.php/terminalphile?content=70610&PHPSESSID=26584a2ddcfc64625645d1153b141684
feedback would be great
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ok, thanks, i will look at screen closer
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okay, i don't know how i did it but i lost my apt key
for
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main
or at least my box thinks it did, anyway to get it
back?
sorry if it sounds like a noob question, just haven't
run into it before
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okay, i got the deb to make, but i am still unable to
use it to install the dependant/suggested programs,
probably my fault, missed something in setting it up, suggestions?
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trying to make a dummy package in equivs, followed all
instructions and edited the resulting control file as
root. on the equivs-build step get the following
output
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/terminalphile-0.1$ sudo
equivs-build terminalphile
822-date: warning: This program is deprecated. Please
use 'dat
>> footprint of around 9GB (though several of these
>are
>> not essential and some are repetative like firefox
>in
>
>Hmm. That sounds like a lot of stuff. I have quite a
>bit installed as
>well, a full KDE gui environment, firefox/iceweasel
>plus other stuff,
>yet my install footprint only reaches
>> well to an extent this is an extension of my last
>> thread. does anyone know of any metapackages that
>> contain all the cli tools in one place, if not
>then i
>> am off to RTM at http://people.debian.org/ on
>creating
>> metapackages and try to work something out, though
>it
>> is not somethin
>> my other intrest would be to create a ncurses
>based
>> overlay for terminal that would allow multiple
>screens
>> without logging into more than one tty, though i
>am
>> not sure if one exists or not (i am also going to
>look
>> at twin)
>
>That sounds like a description of screen...
yes, i ca
well to an extent this is an extension of my last
thread. does anyone know of any metapackages that
contain all the cli tools in one place, if not then i
am off to RTM at http://people.debian.org/ on creating
metapackages and try to work something out, though it
is not something that i am strong at
thanks to everyone who has commented on this,
especially to Doug for his useful and timely advise.
as far as i am concerned i consider the topic closed
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>On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 06:24:55PM -0800, joseph
>lockhart wrote:
>> >On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:47:52PM -0500, Douglas
>A. Tutty wrote:
>
>> thank you doug, appreciate the responce, yes i
>want it with
> absolutely
>> no x, the plan is to put it
apologies for sending this twice, left the subject off
the previous one and wished to maintain the continuity
of the thread
>On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:47:52PM -0500, Douglas A.
>Tutty wrote:
>
>> After you reboot and get a prompt, use aptitude
>and install what you
>> want: exim4 and mutt for m
>On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:47:52PM -0500, Douglas A.
>Tutty wrote:
>
>> After you reboot and get a prompt, use aptitude
>and install what you
>> want: exim4 and mutt for mail, lynx and perhaps
>links2 (does
>> javascript), and of course mc (midnight
>commander). Finish off with
>> your editor-o
>On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 08:40:12PM -0800, joseph
>lockhart wrote:
>> i am wondering if anyone has found or created a
>> terminal only version of debian (similar to the
>slax
>> frodo) or if such a thing could be installed from
>the
>> net install. let's ju
i am wondering if anyone has found or created a
terminal only version of debian (similar to the slax
frodo) or if such a thing could be installed from the
net install. let's just say that it is for special
purposes though i would like to have things like lynx,
finch, ircii, mpc, and so forth
jwloc
> My previous post had a link to where I have Cleanapt
> available on the
> web, but I will repost it here to make sure that
> people get it. It is
> not packaged as a .deb file.
>
>http://mysite.verizon.net/~mshapiro_42/index.html
>
> From the main page, take the 'Misc' link, scroll to
--- Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew Reid wrote:
> > On Friday 16 November 2007 22:02, David Fox wrote:
> >
> >> On 11/16/07, Andrew Sackville-West
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I think OP is looking for aptitude clean or
> auto-clean. Check the man
> >>> page. I
--- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:50:44AM -0500, Tom Ashley
> wrote:
> > I'm stumped and need help with configuring my
> computer for sound with
> > video. I can play CD's and listen to audio
> streams but get no sound
> > with video feeds (CNN, MSNBC, Yo
--- Sarunas Burdulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Robert Jerrard wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-09-11 at 19:02 +0100, Florian Kulzer
> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 07:19:14 -0700, Robert
> Jerrard wrote:
> >>> I understand that fdf files are dy
> > Here's a template where you can fill in your
> favourites; feel free to
> > add missing categories:
> >
> > audio player:
> > *
> vlc
>
> > cd-ripper:
> > *
> (don't use much)
>
> > desktop OR window manager:
> > *
> KDE & fluxbox
>
> > development:
> > *
> bash
>
> >
> > disc burner:
> >
--- Steve Kleene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My Etch machine at home is connected to a DSL
> service via a Netgear hub
> (router) at home. Sometime in the last two days,
> the machine lost its
> network connection to the outside world. It seems
> to be a software problem.
> It had been fine si
--- "Michael M. Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 10:59 +1100, hce wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is the firefox the best browser?
>
>
> I can say definitively that Dillo is the best
> browser.
>
> There, that's settled.
>
is it, Dillo is good, but i think Lynx is faster (
--- jekillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello:
> I am trying to set up a Minolta Magicolor QMS
> printer.
> The printer is a postscript laser printer.
> (The actual model number is QMS 6110 and it is dis-
> continued). The printer is set up to connect via
> ether-
> net.
> I obtained the softwa
i'll through in my 2cts worth on this. i personally
find that aptitude is a stronger program, especially
for newer users, after using both, aptitude seems to
keep the system cleaner with less loose ends and is
less likely to break dependencies. at least that is my
experience
jwlockhart
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