Re: pulseaudio blaming alsa driver [was: Re: youtube videos choppy in Testing and Iceape]

2009-04-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,04.Apr.09, 23:21:27, H.S. wrote: > Apr 4 23:16:48 red pulseaudio[6096]: module-alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us > up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to > write! Most likely this is an ALSA driver bug. Please report this issue > to the PulseAudio developers. ... > A

Re: Flash Player Pkg?

2009-04-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,04.Apr.09, 17:19:32, Paul E Condon wrote: > What is the package to install to get adobe flash player in Lenny? I > think I read that its name is 'flashplayer-nonfree', but I find > only flashplayer-nonfree-extrasound, which doesn't strike me as what > I want (wrong name, etc.) You already

Re: Drives can't be mounted as a normal user

2009-04-05 Thread Ishwor
Hello Bibek ju, Bibek Paudel wrote: > Hi all, > I use Debian Lenny (GNOME) on my i386 machine. > While logging in as root, the other disk partitions are shown in the > desktop as well as "Places" menu. They can then be browsed without > problem. > However, when I login as a normal user, they aren'

Re: rebuilding raided root partition

2009-04-05 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Miles Fidelman wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I've been busily recovering from a bad crash (strangely enough, a single > disk drive failure that brought down an entire raided environment, with > spares). > > I've pretty much recovered and rebuilt everything, EXCEPT > > my root partition is raided,

Re: Flash Player Pkg?

2009-04-05 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,04.Apr.09, 17:19:32, Paul E Condon wrote: >> What is the package to install to get adobe flash player in Lenny? I >> think I read that its name is 'flashplayer-nonfree', but I find >> only flashplayer-nonfree-extrasound, which does

need info on mobile phone support

2009-04-05 Thread Long Wind
I just bought a Nokia 3110c: http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-3110-classic/technical-specifications Nokia's PC Suite support only XP/Vista, not Win2k I use. Is it possible that I save the pictures I capture to a micro SD card? Then I use etch thru a USB cable to get the pictur

Re: getmail vs fetchmail, WAS: Re: fetchmail and DNS resolution

2009-04-05 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 16:54 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,03.Apr.09, 04:22:11, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-04-03 02:06, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > [snip] > >> > >> AFAIK fetchmail defaults to delivering your mail by using a local SMTP. > >> This is a Bad Thing (tm), because it can creat

Re: need info on mobile phone support

2009-04-05 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/4/5 Long Wind > I just bought a Nokia 3110c: > > > http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-3110-classic/technical-specifications > > Nokia's PC Suite support only XP/Vista, not Win2k I use. > > Is it possible that I save the pictures I capture to a micro SD card? > Then I use etc

Re: Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-05 Thread kj
Ron Johnson wrote: Proper system design obviates the need for the complexity of a distributed system. In an era of Quad Xeons and 32GB RAM. replication should only be needed for HA. True, but for systems like the OP mentioned (google, wikipedia, etc), which use the database more for storage th

xinerama bug with latest kwin 3.5.10-1/3.5.10.dfsg.1-2

2009-04-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
Package: kwin Version: 3.5.10-1 Just to confirm, I have the same bug after running apt-get dist-upgrade today, windows maximize incorrectly, xterms go to the wrong monitors, etc. http://lists.debian.org/debian-qt-kde/2009/03/msg00139.html http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-d...@lists.debi

OT - Video card opinions

2009-04-05 Thread M. Lewis
I've been a long time user of Nvidia for my video cards. I'm doing some upgrades to my machine and am considering a pair of Radeon HD 4830s in crossfire mode. I'm stuck between that or sticking with Nvidia and going for a GeForce 9800GT. My understanding is the combination of the two Radeon's

Re: OT - Video card opinions

2009-04-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I've been a long time user of Nvidia for my video cards. I'm doing some > upgrades to my machine and am considering a pair of Radeon HD 4830s in > crossfire mode. I'm stuck between that or sticking with Nvidia and going for > a GeForce 9800GT. My understanding is the combination of the two Radeo

Re: OT - Video card opinions

2009-04-05 Thread M. Lewis
Dotan Cohen wrote: I've been a long time user of Nvidia for my video cards. I'm doing some upgrades to my machine and am considering a pair of Radeon HD 4830s in crossfire mode. I'm stuck between that or sticking with Nvidia and going for a GeForce 9800GT. My understanding is the combination of

Re: need info on mobile phone support

2009-04-05 Thread Long Wind
I have Win2k and etch I hope I can get etch to work with help from the list. After installing microSD card, is my phone a USB storage device? Can etch access the card? On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > > 2009/4/5 Long Wind >> >> I just bought a Nokia 3110c: >> >> >> htt

ImageMagick / Imagick / ImageWand

2009-04-05 Thread Ben
Hi, where is the binary called "MagickWand-config"? Can't find it in any package or source belonging to this. Thanks Regards, Ben

Re: ImageMagick / Imagick / ImageWand

2009-04-05 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Ben writes: > where is the binary called "MagickWand-config"? Can't find it in any > package or source belonging to this. apt-file can search for files in packages that are not installed on the local machine: % apt-file search /usr/bin/MagickWand-config libmagickwand-dev: /usr/bin/Magi

Re: ImageMagick / Imagick / ImageWand

2009-04-05 Thread Ben
2009/4/5 Ansgar Burchardt > apt-file can search for files in packages that are not installed on the > local machine: > > % apt-file search /usr/bin/MagickWand-config > libmagickwand-dev: /usr/bin/MagickWand-config Thanks for the fast reply but this isn't working for me. relay:/usr/bin# apt-fi

Re: upgrading the kernel in debian etch from 2.6.18 to 2.6.29

2009-04-05 Thread Joey L
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:27 PM, thveillon.debian < thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Joey L wrote : > > I think i did everything and this is a standard configuration - I did > > not do anything too crazy ! > > Again - all this is software raid --- the /boot is raid1 and the other > > volum

Re: Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-04-05 06:12, kj wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Proper system design obviates the need for the complexity of a distributed system. In an era of Quad Xeons and 32GB RAM. replication should only be needed for HA. True, but for systems like the OP mentioned (google, wikipedia, etc), which use

xsession customization

2009-04-05 Thread Khosrow Hassani
Hi, just got annoyed and decided to issue this warning about the X server structure and documentation getting more and more messy and mysterious. there are tons of man pages about the labyrinthic way various X configuration files in /etc/X11 work and communicate with each other. however, they don't

Re: rebuilding raided root partition

2009-04-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: my root partition is raided, and is now running only on its single spare drive: - server1:~# more /proc/mdstat md2 : inactive sdd3[0] sdb3[2] 195318016 blocks You may try using the --run option. I do following 1) start the array with t

Re: need info on mobile phone support

2009-04-05 Thread Peter van der Wal
Op zondag 05-04-2009 om 20:43 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef Long Wind: > I have Win2k and etch > I hope I can get etch to work with help from the list. > After installing microSD card, is my phone a USB storage device? > Can etch access the card? > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Umarzuki Mochli

Re: need info on mobile phone support

2009-04-05 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/4/5 Long Wind > I have Win2k and etch > I hope I can get etch to work with help from the list. > After installing microSD card, is my phone a USB storage device? I suppose it is > > Can etch access the card? If it is detected as a storage device, then you can. > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009

Re: ImageMagick / Imagick / ImageWand

2009-04-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 15:04:28 +0200, Ben wrote: > 2009/4/5 Ansgar Burchardt: > > > apt-file can search for files in packages that are not installed on the > > local machine: > > > > % apt-file search /usr/bin/MagickWand-config > > libmagickwand-dev: /usr/bin/MagickWand-config > > Thanks for

Re: OT - Video card opinions

2009-04-05 Thread Jeff Soules
>>> upgrades to my machine and am considering a pair of Radeon HD 4830s in >>> crossfire mode. I'm stuck between that or sticking with Nvidia and going >>> for >>> a GeForce 9800GT. My understanding is the combination of the two Radeon's >>> in >>> crossfire will blow away the Nvidia performance wi

Re: Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-05 Thread kj
Ron Johnson wrote: Absolutely. Sadly, I spend a great deal of my time trying to work miracles with the db to compensate for developers who don't know what they're doing and doesn't want to learn. Argh. Don't *even* get me started on that topic!!! On the other hand, if it wasn't for cluele

Reg. Grub password & Change of Permissions for /home folder.

2009-04-05 Thread Gmail POP3 Access
I am using Lenny. I have created partitions using "Guided partition" and I choose the option for "seperate folders for everything". [1] Today I was going through "HowTo : Securing Debian" and came across the suggestion of "Pawword for Grub". But when I did open the /boot/grub/menu.lst there ar

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-04-05 Thread Johan Kullstam
Chris Jones writes: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 01:09:10PM EDT, Paul E Condon wrote: > >> But "exact spot"? That would imply different clock settings in >> different rooms of one's home. Not for me. > > Fancy that.. under our latitudes, when your house is a few hundred yards > wide.. never mind.. I

Re: xsession customization

2009-04-05 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 06:34, Khosrow Hassani wrote: > Hi, > just got annoyed and decided to issue this warning about the X server > structure and documentation getting more and more messy and > mysterious. there are tons of man pages about the labyrinthic way > various X configuration files in /e

Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-05 Thread Samuel Bächler
Dear Everyone I store logins and passwords of some dozen of Web-Services in an encrypted file. I used to use kgpg to read and update this file. Some weeks ago I found on debian-security [1] the following script: #!/bin/sh gpg keys.gpg > /dev/null emacs keys rm keys.gpg gpg -r "user-ID" -e keys

Re: new problem - networking is strange

2009-04-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
Steven Demetrius wrote: UDEV is behaving correctly. Each NIC is unique and UDEV assigns a unique name to each one. Since UDEV has already assigned the name eth0 to the original NIC it will not assign it to another NIC even if the original NIC has been removed. This way UDEV will never assign

Re: new problem - networking is strange

2009-04-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
Raquel wrote: H.S. wrote: Check the file: /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules You may need to remove some lines from there or change the interface names to the ones you want. Delete the entire file. It will be recreated, correctly, when you start up again. Thanks to bo

Re: OT - Video card opinions

2009-04-05 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 05:11, M. Lewis wrote: > > I've been a long time user of Nvidia for my video cards. I'm doing some > upgrades to my machine and am considering a pair of Radeon HD 4830s in > crossfire mode. I'm stuck between that or sticking with Nvidia and going for > a GeForce 9800GT. My u

Re: Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-05 Thread Glyn Astill
--- On Sun, 5/4/09, kj wrote: > > Of course, this requires competent designers > Absolutely. Sadly, I spend a great deal of my time trying > to work miracles with the db to compensate for developers > who don't know what they're doing and doesn't > want to learn. I feel ya there. Same here

Re: Reg. Grub password & Change of Permissions for /home folder.

2009-04-05 Thread Harry Rickards
Quoting Gmail POP3 Access : On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 14:38 +, Harry Rickards wrote: Quoting Gmail POP3 Access : ... I have edited the file with the follwoing entries : timeout 3 password --md5 encryptedpassword data. Should I delete the below lines of the file [ menu.lst ]. What lines

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-05 Thread Axel Freyn
Hi Sämi, > Some weeks ago I found on debian-security [1] the following script: > > #!/bin/sh > gpg keys.gpg > /dev/null > emacs keys > rm keys.gpg > gpg -r "user-ID" -e keys > rm keys > > What do you guys think is this approach reasonably secure? I like > the script above because it is rather sim

Re: Big Database Server General Question

2009-04-05 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: glynast...@yahoo.co.uk >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, >koffiejunkielistlur...@koffiejunkie.za.net >Subject: Re: Big Database Server General Question >Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 16:13:19 + (GMT) > >> >>--- On Sun, 5/4/09, kj >wrote: >> >>> > Of course, th

ssh-agent: multikey

2009-04-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, curenlty, during Gomme sessions on my Lenny box, the ssh-agent stores by default only the two default keys: is there a (Debian) way to get the ssh-agent to store a larger number of keys by default ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net -- To UNS

Re: need info on mobile phone support

2009-04-05 Thread Ivan T. Ivanov
Hi, On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 18:57 +0800, Long Wind wrote: > I just bought a Nokia 3110c: > > http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-3110-classic/technical-specifications > > Nokia's PC Suite support only XP/Vista, not Win2k I use. > > Is it possible that I save the pictures I captur

progress, but... - re. fixing LVM/md snafu

2009-04-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hello again Folks, So.. I'm getting closer to fixing this messed up machine. Where things stand: I have root defined as an LVM2 LV, that should use /dev/md2 as it's PV. /dev/md2 in turn is a RAID1 array built from /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 and /dev/sdc3 Instead, LVM is reporting: "Found duplicate

Specific question about debbugs

2009-04-05 Thread Memnon Anon
Hi! I have trouble using xkbset to get "sticky" behaviour, so I had a look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=xkbset. Mhh, no bug that seems to resemble my problem. Thus I asked google, which gave me this bugreport in Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+bug/215496

Re: Reg. Grub password & Change of Permissions for /home folder.

2009-04-05 Thread Harry Rickards
Quoting Gmail POP3 Access : ... # menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8) #grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8), #grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub #and /usr/share/doc/grub-legacy-doc/. ## default num # Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. N

Re: Reg. Grub password & Change of Permissions for /home folder.

2009-04-05 Thread Gmail POP3 Access
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 21:28 +0530, Gmail POP3 Access wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 14:38 +, Harry Rickards wrote: > > Quoting Gmail POP3 Access : > > > > > But when I did open the /boot/grub/menu.lst there are a lot of entries > > > starting with # symbol. > > > > The hash means that the lin

Re: Reg. Grub password & Change of Permissions for /home folder.

2009-04-05 Thread Gmail POP3 Access
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 16:18 +, Harry Rickards wrote: > Quoting Gmail POP3 Access : > > > On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 14:38 +, Harry Rickards wrote: > >> Quoting Gmail POP3 Access : > >> > ... > >> > I have edited the file with the follwoing entries : > >> > > >> > timeout 3 > >> > password --md

"X includes" missing

2009-04-05 Thread Itay
I am trying to install the latest stable digikam (0.9.5) from source. (Because stock digikam on lenny, 0.9.4, has some issues in handling tiffs.) ./configure bailed with: checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. \ Please check your installation and add the c

Re: Re: Problems bridging wpa-supplicant

2009-04-05 Thread Bob van der Moezel
Works like a charm: > auto br0 > iface br0 inet static >address 192.168.0.113 >network 192.168.0.0 >netmask 255.255.255.0 >broadcast 192.168.0.255 >bridge_ports eth0 > auto wlan0 > iface wlan0 inet dhcp >wpa-ssid MySSID >wpa-pskMyPlaintextPassword >pos

Re: "X includes" missing

2009-04-05 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 21:09:50 +0300, Itay (deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm) wrote: > I am trying to install the latest stable digikam (0.9.5) from source. > (Because stock digikam on lenny, 0.9.4, has some issues in handling > tiffs.) > > ./configure bailed with: > > checking for X... config

Problem configuring sound card with alsa on debian

2009-04-05 Thread Divick Kishore
Hi, I am trying to unable to configure my sound card on debian. The sound system that I have is Terratec SiXPack 5.1+. There is no sound on my system and on running alsamixer I see the following ouput: alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device Doing lspci | grep audi

synchronizing bookmarks

2009-04-05 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello! I have lenny installed in three machines, two at home, one at work. How can I synchronize the bookmarks in firefox between systems? In etch I used to simply copy the bookmark file in ~/.mozilla/firefox/xx.default/, but in lenny it doesn't work anymore... Thanks in advance! Marcelo -

Re: synchronizing bookmarks

2009-04-05 Thread Francisco Antônio da Silva Souza
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Marcelo Chiapparini < marcelo.chia...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > > I have lenny installed in three machines, two at home, one at work. > How can I synchronize the bookmarks in firefox between systems? In > etch I used to simply copy the bookmark file in > ~/.mozil

Re: rebuilding raided root partition

2009-04-05 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Miles Fidelman wrote: > Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> Miles Fidelman wrote: >> >> my root partition is raided, and is now running only on its single spare >> drive: >> >> - >> server1:~# more /proc/mdstat >> md2 : inactive sdd3[0] sdb3[2] >> 195318016 blocks >> >> You may try using the --r

Re: pulseaudio blaming alsa driver [was: Re: youtube videos choppy in Testing and Iceape]

2009-04-05 Thread H.S.
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,04.Apr.09, 23:21:27, H.S. wrote: > >> Apr 4 23:16:48 red pulseaudio[6096]: module-alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us >> up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to >> write! Most likely this is an ALSA driver bug. Please report this issue >> to the

Re: synchronizing bookmarks

2009-04-05 Thread Bryce
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello! > > I have lenny installed in three machines, two at home, one at work. > How can I synchronize the bookmarks in firefox between systems? In > etch I used to simply copy the bookmark file in > ~/.mozilla/firefox/xx.default/, but in lenny it doesn't work > a

Re: need info on mobile phone support

2009-04-05 Thread Long Wind
Thanks to all! I will buy a USB cable and install Wammu and kmobiletools on etch to see if it works. Then I will buy a microSD card. It's too bad that nokia, the biggest mobile phone maker, does not support Linux. On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Peter van der Wal wrote: > Op zondag 05-04-2009 o

Re: "X includes" missing

2009-04-05 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 05 April 2009 14:09:50 Itay wrote: > I am trying to install the latest stable digikam (0.9.5) from source. > (Because stock digikam on lenny, 0.9.4, has some issues in handling > tiffs.) > > ./configure bailed with: > > checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. \ >

Kernel Build Problem: dpkg-gencontrol

2009-04-05 Thread David Baron
Building rt patched kernel using: make-kpkg --append-to-version -davidb-rt kernel_image dpkg-gencontrol -DArchitecture=i386 -isp \ -plinux-image-2.6.29-davidb-rt - P/usr/src/linux/debian/linux-image-2.6.29-davidb-rt/ dpkg-gencontrol: error: package linux-image-2

Re: getmail vs fetchmail, WAS: Re: fetchmail and DNS resolution

2009-04-05 Thread JoeHill
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-04-03 08:54, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Fri,03.Apr.09, 04:22:11, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 2009-04-03 02:06, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> [snip] > >>> AFAIK fetchmail defaults to delivering your mail by using a local SMTP. > >>> This is a Bad Thing (tm), becaus

Re: progress, but... - re. fixing LVM/md snafu

2009-04-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Miles Fidelman writes: > Hello again Folks, > > So.. I'm getting closer to fixing this messed up machine. > > Where things stand: > > I have root defined as an LVM2 LV, that should use /dev/md2 as it's PV. > /dev/md2 in turn is a RAID1 array built from /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 and > /dev/sdc3 > > Inst

Upgrade to Sid from Squeeze not happy...

2009-04-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi! I'm trying to take one of my G4 Macs from Squeeze to Sid, so I can investigate the reported problems with the 2.6.29 kernel in Sid on PowerPC. I get the following diagnostic from "aptitude update; aptitude safe- upgrade": The following packages have been kept back: gnumeric-common

Re: OT - Video card opinions

2009-04-05 Thread M. Lewis
Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 05:11, M. Lewis wrote: I've been a long time user of Nvidia for my video cards. I'm doing some upgrades to my machine and am considering a pair of Radeon HD 4830s in crossfire mode. I'm stuck between that or sticking with Nvidia and going for a GeFor

Re: Reg. Grub password & Change of Permissions for /home folder.

2009-04-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1238940839.4114.1.ca...@vishnuvardhan>, Gmail POP3 Access wrote: >[W]hen I did open the /boot/grub/menu.lst there are a lot of entries >starting with # symbol. Yeah, there's also documentation for them and an explanation of why they start with '#' in that file. If you'd read the documentati

Re: new problem - networking is strange

2009-04-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <200904042356.01172.rei...@bellatlantic.net>, Andrew Reid wrote: > Not only did I get confused and send a redundant message, I can >now confirm that it's not fixed in lenny. That because it is not a bug, it is a feature and it is working as designed. It is/was broken on my system since both o

Re: OT - Video card opinions

2009-04-05 Thread Mark Allums
M. Lewis wrote: Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 05:11, M. Lewis wrote: I've been a long time user of Nvidia for my video cards. I'm doing some upgrades to my machine and am considering a pair of Radeon HD 4830s in crossfire mode. I'm stuck between that or sticking with Nvidia and

Pulseaudio problems--certain parts not playing

2009-04-05 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi, I have Pulseaudio set up on my sid machine, and after following the configuratoin examples, things have been working fine. But recently some parts (i dont know the right word--channel, track, source?) stop working and i cant tell why. When I first boot the machine everything works. But rig

Re: Pulseaudio problems--certain parts not playing

2009-04-05 Thread Daryl Styrk
Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi, I have Pulseaudio set up on my sid machine, and after following the configuratoin examples, things have been working fine. But recently some parts (i dont know the right word--channel, track, source?) stop working and i cant tell why. When I first boot the mac

unable to boot, how to install the package that cause problem?

2009-04-05 Thread zhang zhengquan
Dear debian users, I have installed some boot splash related packages on my girlfriends laptop running sid, and it turned out that it is unable to boot after that, I have a system rescue cd that boots well in to another linux on the cdrom. I wonder if it is possible to uninstall the package instal

Re: Pulseaudio problems--certain parts not playing

2009-04-05 Thread Mark McCorkell
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 18:10 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, I have Pulseaudio set up on my sid machine, and after following the > configuratoin examples, things have been working fine. > > But recently some parts (i dont know the right word--channel, track, source?) > stop working and

Re: install daemon without starting it

2009-04-05 Thread Laurent Guignard
On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:23:09 +0200, Jukka Salmi wrote: > Hello, > > is it possible to install a daemon from a Debian package without having > it automatically started afterwards? > > What I want to do is to install samba, but neither smbd nor nbmd > should be started until I had a chance to edit

Re: unable to boot, how to install the package that cause problem?

2009-04-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 09:53:36PM -0500, zhang zhengquan wrote: > Dear debian users, Good afternoon > I have installed some boot splash related packages on my girlfriends > laptop running sid, > and it turned out that it is unable to boot after that, Ah damn! :) > I have a system rescue cd tha

mutt mailing list

2009-04-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
Has anyone had any luck subscribing to mutt-users? I can't seem to subscribe, I get my email returned with an error about Mailing to remote domains not supported. Tried with my iinet.net.au address, and gmail as well as hotmail. Anyone know how I can join this group? Thx Daniel. signature.as

Re: mutt mailing list

2009-04-05 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Daniel, Am 2009-04-06 15:03:44, schrieb Daniel Dalton: > Has anyone had any luck subscribing to mutt-users? I can't seem to > subscribe, I get my email returned with an error about > Mailing to remote domains not supported. > > Tried with my iinet.net.au address, and gmail as well as hotmail.

Reg. PAM

2009-04-05 Thread @ Bhagya
Hi everybody, Good Morning. I am using Lenny. I have installed libpam-cracklib. I was going through "Securing Debian" and tryig to understand more about PAM. I have a couple of issues. I have installed OpenOffice.org 3 from backport.org. Does our new versions support PAM for packages. How can I

Re: unable to boot, how to install the package that cause problem?

2009-04-05 Thread zhang zhengquan
2009/4/5 Daniel Dalton : > On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 09:53:36PM -0500, zhang zhengquan wrote: >> Dear debian users, > > Good afternoon > >> I have installed some boot splash related packages on my girlfriends >> laptop running sid, >> and it turned out that it is unable to boot after that, > > Ah dam

Re: Upgrade to Sid from Squeeze not happy...

2009-04-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 17:48 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > The following packages are BROKEN: > > xfce4 xfwm4-themes > > ... ... ... > > 246 packages upgraded, 75 newly installed, 51 to remove and 3 not > > upgraded. > > Need to get 374MB of archives. After unpacking 36.4MB will be freed. > >

Re: mutt mailing list

2009-04-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 07:16:20AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hi Daniel, Hi Michelle, > To: majord...@mutt.org > Body: subscribe mutt-users Ah yes! Thanks very much that worked! Cheers, Daniel. signature.asc Description: Digital signature