Why do I get "Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker"?

2011-03-20 Thread Rick Thomas
I went to cdimage.debian.org and downloaded http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/6.0.1/i386/bt-dvd/debian-6.0.1-i386-DVD-1.iso.torrent Then tried to use it to download using Transmission (though I've tried other BT clients and had the same result). I got the error message "Requested dow

Re: raid10 and lvm problem on new lenny install

2011-03-20 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On 20 March 2011 02:24, Jim Green wrote: > http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/raid-lvm.php That looks like an LVM1 article. Here's a readable one about LVM2: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-lvm2/ "With LVM2, there's no limit on the maximum numbers of extents per PV/LV." Jonathan -- J

Re: Debian mini CDs

2011-03-20 Thread Gabor Kum
2011. március 20. 03:05:10 dátummal Andrew McGlashan az alábbiakat írta: > Hi, > > Gabor Kum wrote: > > As a member of the Debian CD project (www.debiancd.org) I would like to > > let you know that we are now shipping Squeeze netinst mini CDs for the > > i386 and for the amd64 architectures. > >

Re: Debian mini CDs

2011-03-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 20 mar 11, 09:32:04, Gabor Kum wrote: > > For multi-arch you need bigger size of CD, I think. There are multi-arch netinstall CDs (i386 + amd64) http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.1/multi-arch/iso-cd/debian-6.0.1-amd64-i386-netinst.iso and multi-arch DVDs (i386 + amd64 + source) http

Re: Debian mini CDs

2011-03-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Gabor Kum wrote: For multi-arch you need bigger size of CD, I think. Okay, perhaps mini DVDs then? How much data fits on your mini CDs ? -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

strange problem logging in via gdm3

2011-03-20 Thread Alan Chandler
I have just rebuilt my system from scratch using the squeeze net-installer, but then upgrading to unstable during the installation of most of the packages. I retained the contents of my home directory, including .bashrc When I come to log in via gdm, it starts to do so and then immediately fa

Re: Best network filesystem for a bleeding edge, pure linux environment?

2011-03-20 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 20. 03. 2011 05:23:34 je Celejar napisal(a): On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:01:27 -0400 Chris Brennan wrote: > Sshfs requires fusefs to function, syntax is the same as SSH/sftp/scp. IIUC, sshfs+fusefs must be on the system from which I'm running the sshfs command, but is not necessary on the o

Re: Why do I get "Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker"?

2011-03-20 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 20. 03. 2011 08:21:40 je Rick Thomas napisal(a): Has *anybody*, *ever*, succeeded in downloading a Debian DVD via bittorrent? Thanks! Rick I *never* download Debian DVD's via anything *but* torrents. Never had any problems (knock on wood). This is what I'm currently seeding: debi

Re: [help-a-newb] adduser okay? (problem with authenticating with gui users-groups manager)

2011-03-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:19:45PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > > Nuts. I keep forgetting the list when using google's webmail. > > > > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Lisi wrote: > >> On Saturday 19 March 2011 05:50:19 Joel Rees wrote: > >>>  Af

Re: custom init script

2011-03-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:39:27PM +0100, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > On 03/18/2011 01:35 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > >If I create a custom init script (it's for a second instance of ssh), > >do I still use the update-rc.d command to set that script to start in > >the various runlevels? Or is there some

Re: [help-a-newb] adduser okay? (problem with authenticating with gui users-groups manager)

2011-03-20 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 20. 03. 2011 13:28:28 je Rob Owens napisal(a): Last time I used it, adduser did not add a user to all the default groups that the GUI does. You'll need to do that manually. -Rob +1 I've noticed that too. -- Cheerio, Klistvud http://bufferoverflow.tiddlys

Re: I should not be trying to use tor, but...

2011-03-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 05:50:10AM +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: > >I am trying to install tor without knowing what > I'm doing. I typed apt-get install tor, and that > seemed to work. Then I downloaded torbutton from > the tor website, and it seemed to install. [was > that a mistake?] > A wh

Install Mono 32bit in amd64 environment

2011-03-20 Thread Raven
Hi all. I am looking for a way to install the 32-bit version of Mono and various related packages on my system - currently running sid x86_64. APT doesn't seem to provide those 32-bit packages. Any idea how I can proceed? Thanks -RV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: [help-a-newb] adduser okay? (problem with authenticating with gui users-groups manager)

2011-03-20 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:19:45PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> Speaking of which, are the command line user/group management tools >> (adduser, etc.) going to leave something undone if I use them instead? >> Or, if I use vipw and hand-copy the

ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-03-20 Thread Andrew Wood
Why does Debian (Squeeze) not work well with ATI /AMD Radeon HD cards? I had to edit the /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf in order to prevent the fideo output being turned off during bootup but even then the graphics performance is unusable. Im not sure what driver is being used as I dont know h

Re: I should not be trying to use tor, but...

2011-03-20 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi AG, Can you define what you mean by "not playing nicely together"? I am running privoxy and tor on an up-to-date sid machine, and do not see problems with it. I rebuilt this machine back in 2007-ish, and have used the same config since. Can you elaborate on the problems? --b On Sat, Mar 19, 2

Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-03-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-03-20, Andrew Wood wrote: > Why does Debian (Squeeze) not work well with ATI /AMD Radeon HD cards? > > I had to edit the /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf in order to prevent the > fideo output being turned off during bootup but even then the graphics > performance is unusable. > > Im not

Re: how to send DEL to virtualbox client

2011-03-20 Thread Steve Kleene
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:30:41 + (UTC), I wrote: > I'm running my first virtualbox client (Windows XP) on a host that has Linux > testing (Wheezy). ... Can someone tell me how to send DEL from the keyboard > to an XP program on the client? I have solved this problem but am still confused. Wh

confused about keymapping and erase (was: how to send DEL to virtualbox client)

2011-03-20 Thread Steve Kleene
I am running testing (Wheezy) with X windows and fvwm window manager. My questions concern the mapping of two physical keyboard keys: keycode 22, labeled Backspace, at the right of the row with [0-9] keycode 107, labeled Delete, on a small 3x2 keypad just to the right of the Backspace key

Re: External hard drive with mounting problems

2011-03-20 Thread darkestkhan
2011/3/19 Jason Hsu : > I have a 250 GB Seagate Expansion Portable Hard Drive that sometimes won't > mount.  I end up having to use TestDisk to recover my files from it, and then > I have to reformat the drive.  The drive works for a while, and then it > becomes unmountable sometime later.  I've

utilizing the Scroll key

2011-03-20 Thread lee
Hi, I would like to use the scroll key to switch the function of the Del key on the numpad so that pressing the Del key on the numpad either produces a comma (",") or a colon ("."), depending on the state of the Scroll key. There´s even a LED on the keyboard to display the state of the Scroll key,

Re: Install Mono 32bit in amd64 environment

2011-03-20 Thread Aéris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 20/03/2011 13:50, Raven a écrit : > Hi all. > I am looking for a way to install the 32-bit version of Mono and various > related packages on my system - currently running sid x86_64. > > APT doesn't seem to provide those 32-bit packages. > Any idea

Re: utilizing the Scroll key

2011-03-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:58:33 +0100, lee wrote: > I would like to use the scroll key to switch the function of the Del key > on the numpad so that pressing the Del key on the numpad either produces > a comma (",") or a colon ("."), depending on the state of the Scroll > key. There´s even a LED on t

Re: strange problem logging in via gdm3

2011-03-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:19:13 +, Alan Chandler wrote: (...) > The first thing that seems strange is the failure of .bashrc. shopt > should be a built in command in bash. The other thing is I can't find > and [[ lines in /etc/bash_completion at the lines mentioned. > > HOWEVER - if I move .

Re: Why do I get "Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker"?

2011-03-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:21:40 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > I went to cdimage.debian.org and downloaded > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/6.0.1/i386/bt-dvd/ debian-6.0.1-i386-DVD-1.iso.torrent > > Then tried to use it to download using Transmission (though I've tried > other BT clients and

Re: tomboy, and mono dependencies in gnome?

2011-03-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:35:15 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > Why is tomboy in the default basic desktop when installed from the > netinstall CD? Dunno, but if you want to get a more polished and customized gnome desktop, you can avoid installing the "desktop" pattern from the installer (which does no

Re: sum two disks using RAID or LVM?

2011-03-20 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:15:37 +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as > one. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard > to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two > approaches better? As s

Re: unmount on shutdown

2011-03-20 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:01:16 -0700, Geoffrey Smith wrote: > Hello, I am using Debian 6.0 Squeeze and the Gnome desktop on a typical > desktop computer. Suppose I have a USB drive mounted on /media/ and I > do a normal shutdown via Gnome. Is the USB drive automatically > unmounted as part of the

Re: German umlauts, never ending story

2011-03-20 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:01:12 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: >> Run "mount" without parameters to see what are the options applied to >> these file systems. >> > > Oh no, it is not from an external drive (like usb-drive), those files > are in my ~/home, but were copied from an external drive some

mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-20 Thread Steven Sciame
Hello,    I hope this is the correct place to continue my search for how to turn the mouse pointer back on after upgrading to 6.0.1    It was working perfectly then I rebooted after the upgrade. Ever since then I have had no mouse pointer.  Changing the themes has no effect.  I am using GNOME.

Re: utilizing the Scroll key

2011-03-20 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 02:58:33PM +0100, lee wrote: > I would like to use the scroll key to switch the function of the Del > key on the numpad so that pressing the Del key on the numpad either > produces a comma (",") or a colon ("."), depending on the state of the > Scroll key. There?s even a LED

Re: strange problem logging in via gdm3

2011-03-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On 20/03/11 15:50, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:19:13 +, Alan Chandler wrote: (...) The first thing that seems strange is the failure of .bashrc. shopt should be a built in command in bash. The other thing is I can't find and [[ lines in /etc/bash_completion at the lines menti

IRQ 19 Problem in Squeeze & Wheezy but Sid OK

2011-03-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Linux Version 2.6.32-5-amd64 Compiled #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 03:40:32 UTC 2011 Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processors, 4GB RAM 3999.52 Bogomips Total I installed, back in February, Squeeze on 3 partitions. For 2 days Squeeze worked fine with wicd but then quit with this error: eb 22 12:1

Re: raid10 and lvm problem on new lenny install

2011-03-20 Thread Jim Green
On 20 March 2011 04:09, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On 20 March 2011 02:24, Jim Green wrote: >> http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/raid-lvm.php > > That looks like an LVM1 article. > > Here's a readable one about LVM2: > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-lvm2/ > > "With LVM2, there's no lim

Sound funnies

2011-03-20 Thread Alan Chandler
I am desperately trying to understand how to properly set up sound so I can make a recording from a microphone. I seem to have got there but in the process I have noticed lots of strangeness. Can anyone explain what is what 1) There is an application called GNOME ALSA MIXER, which replicates

Re: Why do I get "Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker"?

2011-03-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 20, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Camaleón wrote: Yep, I remember a reply from myself to someone who was experiencing the same error months ago: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/12/msg01032.html Yep. I remember seeing that reply in my googling. There was no indication plus or minus

Re: Why do I get "Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker"?

2011-03-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Rick Thomas, Am 2011-03-20 13:49:34, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > So I tried a public torrent from another distro. That worked. > So I believe the problem is on the Debian end. I've CC-ed debian-cd. There are some Countries/ISP blockig torrent trackers, so it maybe that your ISP is

Re: Upgrade to Squeeze and KDE

2011-03-20 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Doug wrote: KDE 4.6.1 is out. It's used in the latest upgrade of PCLINUXOS. PCLOS does not use all the bells and whistles of KDE, but what it does use, works fine. I must admit that they used to use 4.4.5 and it also worked fine. The trick is to keep it civilized, not to try and squeeze the

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-20 Thread Steven Sciame
If I Suspend the laptop and then wake it back up, then the invisible mouse pointer appears.  Does this help diagnose the problem? I got the idea from this:  http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=61447 --- On Sun, 3/20/11, Steven Sciame wrote: From: Steven Sciame Subject: mouse poin

Re: I should not be trying to use tor, but...

2011-03-20 Thread AG
On 20/03/11 13:55, Brad Alexander wrote: Hi AG, Can you define what you mean by "not playing nicely together"? I am running privoxy and tor on an up-to-date sid machine, and do not see problems with it. I rebuilt this machine back in 2007-ish, and have used the same config since. Can you el

debian 6 - latest release - internet connection

2011-03-20 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, After installing debian 6 it was found that it prefers built in wireless connection on my dsl. The wire connection was inserted and available. The wireless connection works ok at 55% but I would prefer wired connection. Fedora, centos, mandriva prefers wired connection on installat

Re: Why do I get "Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker"?

2011-03-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 20, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Rick Thomas, Am 2011-03-20 13:49:34, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: So I tried a public torrent from another distro. That worked. So I believe the problem is on the Debian end. I've CC-ed debian-cd. There are some Countries/ISP b

Re: Why do I get "Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker"?

2011-03-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 20, 2011, at 5:07 AM, Rares Aioanei wrote: On 03/20/2011 09:21 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: I went to cdimage.debian.org and downloaded http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/6.0.1/i386/bt-dvd/debian-6.0.1-i386-DVD-1.iso.torrent If that helps, it works here and it worked before. Wha

Squeeze. Broken native laptop screen res 1366x768@NVIDIA after last update

2011-03-20 Thread Mark Goldshtein
Hello, list! After last update the native laptop screen res 1366x768 is gone. 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 240M] (rev a2) # xdpyinfo ... screen #0:  dimensions:    1280x720 pixels (339x191 millimeters)  resolution:    96x96 dots per inch  depths (7):  

Re: Squeeze. Broken native laptop screen res 1366x768@NVIDIA after last update

2011-03-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 20 mar 11, 23:05:13, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > Hello, list! > > After last update the native laptop screen res 1366x768 is gone. > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce > GT 240M] (rev a2) > > # xdpyinfo > ... > screen #0: >  dimensions:    1280x720 pixels

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-20 Thread Steven Sciame
Hello This happens whenever I restart grep gpm revealed nothing, but I think you meant gdm3 debtop:/home/steven# grep gdm3 /var/log/syslog Mar 20 10:28:54 debtop gdm3[1059]: DEBUG(+): Debugging enabled Mar 20 10:28:54 debtop gdm3[1059]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Done handling signals Mar 20

Re: Why do I get "Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker"?

2011-03-20 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011, Rick Thomas wrote: On Mar 20, 2011, at 5:07 AM, Rares Aioanei wrote: On 03/20/2011 09:21 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: I went to cdimage.debian.org and downloaded http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/6.0.1/i386/bt-dvd/debian-6.0.1-i386-DVD-1.iso.torrent If that helps,

Re: Squeeze. Broken native laptop screen res 1366x768@NVIDIA after last update

2011-03-20 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 20 mar 11, 23:05:13, Mark Goldshtein wrote: >> Hello, list! >> >> After last update the native laptop screen res 1366x768 is gone. >> >> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce >> GT 240M] (rev a2) >> >>

[SOLVED] Re: Why do I get "Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker"?

2011-03-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 20, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: For a while last night the torrent was freshly generated and not yet authorized on the tracker. Maybe this would be the cause of the original problem? /Mattias Wadenstein - cdimage.d.o guy Bingo! Mattias gets the rubber ducky for ha

Re: tightvncserver: Could not start screen

2011-03-20 Thread Susam Pal
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 9:28 PM, wrote: > On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:17:31 +0530 > Susam Pal wrote: > >> susam@nifty:~$ >> >> Could you please help me n troubleshooting this? > > aaah, here it is: > > #!/bin/sh > > exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp "$@" > xserverrc (END) > > btw, I'm guessing here, I ha

Re: Squeeze. Broken native laptop screen res 1366x768@NVIDIA after last update

2011-03-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/20/2011 04:11 PM, Mark Goldshtein wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 20 mar 11, 23:05:13, Mark Goldshtein wrote: Hello, list! After last update the native laptop screen res 1366x768 is gone. 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216

Re: tightvncserver: Could not start screen

2011-03-20 Thread briand
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:11:47 +0530 Susam Pal wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 9:28 PM, wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:17:31 +0530 > > Susam Pal wrote: > > > >> susam@nifty:~$ > >> > >> Could you please help me n troubleshooting this? > > > > aaah, here it is: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > > exec

Re: Squeeze. Broken native laptop screen res 1366x768@NVIDIA after last update

2011-03-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 20 mar 11, 23:05:13, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > > Here is XF86Config for previous successful video sessions: ... > I had re-generate XF86Config by # nvidia-xconfig in this one: Missed the XF86Config the first time. X is now Xorg, not XFree86 and the configuration file is /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-20 Thread Steven Sciame
teven@debtop:~$ aptitude show gpm Package: gpm State: not installed Version: 1.20.4-3.3 Priority: optional Section: misc Maintainer: Debian GPM Team Uncompressed Size: 557 k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libgpm2 (>= 1.20.4), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, dpkg (>=

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-20 Thread Wayne Topa
On 03/20/2011 06:46 PM, Steven Sciame wrote: teven@debtop:~$ aptitude show gpm Package: gpm State: not installed Version: 1.20.4-3.3 Priority: optional Section: misc Maintainer: Debian GPM Team Uncompressed Size: 557 k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libgpm2 (>= 1.20.4), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0,

Re: unmount on shutdown

2011-03-20 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Geoffrey Smith wrote: > Hello, I am using Debian 6.0 Squeeze and the Gnome desktop on a typical > desktop computer.  Suppose I have a USB drive mounted on /media/ and I do a > normal shutdown via Gnome.  Is the USB drive automatically unmounted as part > of the no

Fwd: [help-a-newb] Why nano (or was it pico) instead of vi for visudo? (was question about adduser)

2011-03-20 Thread Joel Rees
(Still forgetting and hitting the reply button instead of reply-all followed by manually clearing the to: field. Sorry, Rob.) -- Forwarded message -- From: Joel Rees Date: Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [help-a-newb] adduser okay? (problem with authenticating with gui

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:28:11 -0400 (EDT), Wayne Topa wrote: > > That seems to be your problem, gpm is not installed. > > As I do not use gnome this may not be required but the only way I can > get a mouse to work is by installing the gpm package and configuring it. It would seem that some of th

Re: External hard drive with mounting problems

2011-03-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Jason Hsu wrote: I have a 250 GB Seagate Expansion Portable Hard Drive that sometimes won't mount. I end up having to use TestDisk to recover my files from it, and then I have to reformat the drive. The drive works for a while, and then it becomes unmountable sometime later. I've had this h

Re: ata2: STST failed (error -5)

2011-03-20 Thread dave boland
Oops! The error should be "ata2: SRST failed (error -5) and (error -16) On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:19 -0400, "dave boland" wrote: > Debian User, > > I have been trying out the new Debian live cd (as well as Mepis 11, > Ubuntu 10, and Mint 10 -- all Debian derivatives) and all are now giving > me th

ata2: STST failed (error -5)

2011-03-20 Thread dave boland
Debian User, I have been trying out the new Debian live cd (as well as Mepis 11, Ubuntu 10, and Mint 10 -- all Debian derivatives) and all are now giving me this error. The computer does not have a second hard drive, and when it boots the BIOS looks for a slave, finds none, and moves on. This err

Re: Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-20 Thread Chen Wei
I have the same problem after upgrade to Debian 6.0.1 yesterday. Try suspend and wake up then the mouse point become visible. My video card is intel 855GME. The package been upgrade as follow: base-files_6.0squeeze1_i386.deb console-setup_1.68+squeeze2_all.deb desktop-base_6.0.5squeeze1_all.deb ge

Re: [help-a-newb] Why nano (or was it pico) instead of vi for visudo? (was question about adduser)

2011-03-20 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Joel Rees wrote: It's nano and the reason that nano's called by visudo (paradoxically) is that visudo calls "/usr/bin/editor" and the alternatives system maps it to "/usr/bin/nano". You can run visudo with "EDITOR=vi visudo" if you just want vi in this instance.

Re: Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-20 Thread Steven Sciame
Yes Chen, that is correct.  Either Suspending or Hibernating followed by the wake-up results in the mouse pointer reappearing.  I found that to be the case here too. --- On Sun, 3/20/11, Chen Wei wrote: From: Chen Wei Subject: Re: Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GN

Re: Squeeze. Broken native laptop screen res 1366x768@NVIDIA after last update

2011-03-20 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/20/2011 04:11 PM, Mark Goldshtein wrote: >> >> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Andrei Popescu >>  wrote: >>> >>> On Du, 20 mar 11, 23:05:13, Mark Goldshtein wrote: Hello, list! After last update the native laptop s

Re: Squeeze. Broken native laptop screen res 1366x768@NVIDIA after last update

2011-03-20 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 20 mar 11, 23:05:13, Mark Goldshtein wrote: >> >> Here is XF86Config for previous successful video sessions: > ... >> I had re-generate XF86Config by # nvidia-xconfig in this one: > > Missed the XF86Config the first time. X is now Xor

Re: [help-a-newb] Why nano (or was it pico) instead of vi for visudo? (was question about adduser)

2011-03-20 Thread Doug
On 03/20/2011 10:15 PM, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Joel Rees wrote: It's nano and the reason that nano's called by visudo (paradoxically) is that visudo calls "/usr/bin/editor" and the alternatives system maps it to "/usr/bin/nano". You can run visudo with "EDITOR=vi visudo"

libxaw7-dev busted, not sure why

2011-03-20 Thread briand
Howdy, I'm running stable, libaxaw7 is fine but trying to install libxaw7-dev gives me: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been m

Re: [help-a-newb] Why nano (or was it pico) instead of vi for visudo? (was question about adduser)

2011-03-20 Thread Joel Rees
erk. Sorry, Doug. On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > Thanks for responding to the subject instead of the content, Tom. > > I swear, I must be getting too old for this. Or maybe I just have too > many questions to remember which one I'm asking. Oh. Either way, I'll > be lazy and b

starting deferred execution scheduler: atd failed

2011-03-20 Thread waterloo
when I boot , I find a error line : starting deferred execution scheduler: atd failed . How to do with it ? I use Debian 6 amd64 . Thanks

Re: mouse pointer disappeared after upgrading to 6.0.1 in GNOME

2011-03-20 Thread Chen Wei
On 03/21/2011 10:44 AM, Steven Sciame wrote: I also tried custom build kernel 2.6.34.7, although the mouse pointer is visible, the system frozen on the gdm login screen. > > > Yes Chen, that is correct. Either Suspending or Hibernating followed by > the wake-up results in the mouse pointer rea