Re: [OT] Imperial measures

2011-10-07 Thread Terence
On 7 October 2011 00:59, Weaver wrote: >> but I'll bet not one in a thousand has ever heard of a gill. >> (BTW, Wiki says to say "jill.")  4 oz. is 1/4 of a US pint. >> >> The Artha thesaurus-cum-dictionary has this to say: >> * >> gill ~ noun    uncommon >>   1. a British imperia

Re: libusb

2011-10-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/10/11 15:23, Weaver wrote: > On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:49:24 + (UTC) > Camale�n wrote: > > > libusb++-dev > > O.K., I've installed libusb-dev, but also libcupsimage2-dev which is > > Further, when I attempt, as root, to call up hp-setup to configure it > that way, I get: > ~

Re: DVD tray will not eject

2011-10-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/10/11 16:10, Mark Panen wrote: > On 07/10/2011 06:43, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> dmesg | tail -n 25 >> > > [19010.688403] btusb_intr_complete: hci0 urb 8800401f7740 failed to > resubmit (19) > [19010.688497] btusb_bulk_complete: hci0 urb 8800401f78c0 failed to > resubmit (19) > [19

Re: Totem & tty's

2011-10-07 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 06:56:19PM BST, Mark Panen wrote: > On 05/10/2011 14:30, Raf Czlonka wrote: > >Please, be polite when you're asking for help. > > Please Dear Sir, i now have totem recognised by reportbug all of a > sudden, but : There's no need to be sarcastic either. > Your version (2.3

Re: libusb

2011-10-07 Thread Weaver
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:53:08 +1100 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 07/10/11 16:32, Weaver wrote: > > On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:39:21 +1100 > > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > >> On 07/10/11 15:23, Weaver wrote: > >>> On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:49:24 + (UTC) > >>> Camale�n wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>

Re: libusb

2011-10-07 Thread Weaver
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:05:41 +1100 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 07/10/11 15:23, Weaver wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:49:24 + (UTC) > > Camale�n wrote: > > > > > > > libusb++-dev > > > > O.K., I've installed libusb-dev, but also libcupsimage2-dev which is > > > > > > > Further,

Re: [OT] Imperial measures

2011-10-07 Thread Weaver
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 08:03:13 +0100 Terence wrote: > On 7 October 2011 00:59, Weaver wrote: > > >> but I'll bet not one in a thousand has ever heard of a gill. > >> (BTW, Wiki says to say "jill.")  4 oz. is 1/4 of a US pint. > >> > >> The Artha thesaurus-cum-dictionary has this to say: > >> *

Re: [OT] Imperial measures

2011-10-07 Thread Terence
On 7 October 2011 08:36, Weaver wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 08:03:13 +0100 > Terence wrote: > >> On 7 October 2011 00:59, Weaver wrote: >> >> >> but I'll bet not one in a thousand has ever heard of a gill. >> >> (BTW, Wiki says to say "jill.")  4 oz. is 1/4 of a US pint. >> >> >> >> The Artha th

Re: DVD tray will not eject

2011-10-07 Thread Mark Panen
On 07/10/2011 09:09, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 07/10/11 16:10, Mark Panen wrote: On 07/10/2011 06:43, Scott Ferguson wrote: dmesg | tail -n 25 [19010.688403] btusb_intr_complete: hci0 urb 8800401f7740 failed to resubmit (19) [19010.688497] btusb_bulk_complete: hci0 urb ff

Desktop icons

2011-10-07 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, What is the procedure of placing my files and folders of my ~/Desktop directory or individual files onto my desktop? -- Cheers Mark Debian Squeeze 6.0.2 amd64, KDE 4.4.5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: IP address depending on the MAC

2011-10-07 Thread Chris Davies
Ireneusz Szcześniak wrote: > Thank you, Chris, for the idea. The IP addresses would be randomly > distributed, while I would like to keep them in a contiguous range. That's fine; I suspect the earlier suggestion would suit you better. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: Desktop icons

2011-10-07 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 07 October 2011 10:16:07 Mark Panen wrote: > Hi, > > What is the procedure of placing my files and folders of my ~/Desktop > directory or individual files onto my desktop? Guess from your previous question: you are running KDE. So open dolphin, drag the destop folder unto your desktop,

Re: DVD tray will not eject

2011-10-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/10/11 19:11, Mark Panen wrote: > On 07/10/2011 09:09, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 07/10/11 16:10, Mark Panen wrote: >> >>> On 07/10/2011 06:43, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> dmesg | tail -n 25 >>> [19010.688403] btusb_intr_complete: hci0 urb 8800401f7740 failed

Re: Desktop icons

2011-10-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/10/11 19:16, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi, > > What is the procedure of placing my files and folders of my ~/Desktop > directory or individual files onto my desktop? > Without disabling plasma? Method 1. Gives plasma widget access to Desktop folder. Right-click on the peanut => unlock widgets =

pointer stuck at upper left corner

2011-10-07 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
After a power failure, I have a seriuous problem with my mouse: It stays at the upper left corner of the screen, and when I move the mouse, the pointer just moves a few mm, and returns to the corner. This happens only in graphic mode, even at the login screen. In all the consoles, the mouse works

Re: pointer stuck at upper left corner

2011-10-07 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 07 October 2011 11:05:01 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > After a power failure, I have a seriuous problem with my mouse: > It stays at the upper left corner of the screen, and when I move the mouse, > the pointer just moves a few mm, and returns to the corner. > This happens only in graphic mode

Re: pointer stuck at upper left corner

2011-10-07 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Can you try to create a new user and see if the mouse is working? The problem is not related with any user's config, as it occurs, as I said, at the login screen. I also tried to start X without any Session manager, by just running startx fr

Re: pointer stuck at upper left corner

2011-10-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/10/11 20:37, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > >> Can you try to create a new user and see if the mouse is working? > > The problem is not related with any user's config, as it occurs, > as I said, at the login screen. > I also tried to start X wit

Re: pointer stuck at upper left corner

2011-10-07 Thread Brian
On Fri 07 Oct 2011 at 11:37:36 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > >> Can you try to create a new user and see if the mouse is working? > > The problem is not related with any user's config, as it occurs, > as I said, at the login screen. > I also tr

Unix Time Zone Format

2011-10-07 Thread Weaver
This Intellectual property rubbish is beginning to make me angry. What now? Are we expected, each and everyone of us, supposed to pay a stipend to some johnny-come-lately opportunist? http://blog.joda.org/2011/10/today-time-zone-database-was-closed.html Regards, Weaver. -- "In a world without

Re: Desktop icons

2011-10-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:16:07 +0200 Mark Panen wrote: Hello Mark, > What is the procedure of placing my files and folders of my ~/Desktop > directory or individual files onto my desktop? In KDE, make sure the desktop is in folder view mode; Right click on desktop, select " settings" and p

Re: DVD tray will not eject

2011-10-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:11:52 +0200 Mark Panen wrote: Hello Mark, > Unfortunately i cannot give all 25 lines as this shows my mac address, > WAN IP and LAN IP, eject works just fine, i used to run a script on my Shouldn't be too difficult to obfuscate such info, TBH. > desktop to quickly ejec

Re: pointer stuck at upper left corner

2011-10-07 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Scott Ferguson wrote: Sounds like gpm is using your mouse - which would stop it working in x (be stuck up top-left). It was a possible explanation, but alas it is not: the problem remains after stopping gpm. I must add that the mouse buttons are working: when I pre

Re: Unix Time Zone Format

2011-10-07 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 08:16:32PM +1000, Weaver wrote: > This Intellectual property rubbish is beginning to make me angry. > What now? > Are we expected, each and everyone of us, supposed to pay a stipend to > some johnny-come-lately opportunist? Not necessarily. That is why we have courts to dec

Re: pointer stuck at upper left corner

2011-10-07 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Brian wrote: sed in X. What the status of dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg is these days I do not know but I thought it either wasn't needed or didn't do anything useful. If you have /etc/X11/xorg.conf, move it out of the way and restart X or reboot. nowadays, dpkg-

Re: Unix Time Zone Format

2011-10-07 Thread Weaver
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 11:39:26 +0100 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 08:16:32PM +1000, Weaver wrote: > > This Intellectual property rubbish is beginning to make me angry. > > What now? > > Are we expected, each and everyone of us, supposed to pay a stipend > > to some johnny-come-latel

Re: [OT] Imperial measures

2011-10-07 Thread Joe
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 17:36:27 +1000 Weaver wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 08:03:13 +0100 > Terence wrote: > > > On 7 October 2011 00:59, Weaver wrote: > > > > >> but I'll bet not one in a thousand has ever heard of a gill. > > >> (BTW, Wiki says to say "jill.")  4 oz. is 1/4 of a US pint. > > >> >

Re: [slightly OT] anybody know the status of wiki.kernel.org?

2011-10-07 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:22:02 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > I realize this list is for Debian, but I expect there are some kernel > hackers here as well. > > What with the security breach of kernel.org, a month or so back, access > to info about things like btrfs and xen in the kernal is hard to

Re: pointer stuck at upper left corner

2011-10-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/10/11 21:41, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Brian wrote: > >> sed in X. What the status of dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg is >> these days I do not know but I thought it either wasn't needed or didn't >> do anything useful. >> >> If you have /etc/X11/xorg.conf, move it o

Hp-setup fails to add printer (was: libusb)

2011-10-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:23:07 +1000, Weaver wrote: (changing the subject line to reflect the new direction of the thread) > On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:49:24 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: > > > >> >> libusb++-dev > > O.K., I've installed libusb-dev, but also libcupsimage2-dev which is > also requir

Re: want to try KDE 4.6 from sid on squeeze

2011-10-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:37:51 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I'd like to try to co-install KDE 4.6 from sid to my standard GNOME > squeeze install. Mmm... what grade of stability do you expect for your system afterwards and how brave enough do you feel? :-) > Hence 2 questions: > > 1. Is it s

Re: Console font too wide in Wheezy

2011-10-07 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:46:30 +0200, Peter Brüel wrote: > I have a box that dual boots Debian Squeeze and Wheezy. In Wheezy I have > found that the console font in X (I use Xfce as DE) is about 17% wider > compared to Squeeze. (The height is the same.) > > I have made a screenshot in both Squeeze

Re: DVD tray will not eject

2011-10-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:41:44 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > I have had this problem with some other oses in the past but now the > first time on Debian. > > I burn a DVD and when it is finished burning a window pops up on the > desktop say DVD something or other and the DVD tray never ejects on > com

Re: pointer stuck at upper left corner

2011-10-07 Thread Brian
On Fri 07 Oct 2011 at 12:41:02 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > I tried to play with an old xorg.conf file, but anything I do, including > removing the file, doesn't solve the problem. Desktop? Laptop? USB. PS/2 etc mouse? Do you have a another mouse to test? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: Console font too wide in Wheezy

2011-10-07 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 07:46:30PM BST, Peter Brüel wrote: > Hi list > > I have a box that dual boots Debian Squeeze and Wheezy. In Wheezy I have > found that the console font in X (I use Xfce as DE) is about 17% wider > compared to Squeeze. (The height is the same.) > > I have made a screenshot

Re: Unix Time Zone Format

2011-10-07 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Weaver] > This Intellectual property rubbish is beginning to make me angry. > What now? > Are we expected, each and everyone of us, supposed to pay a stipend to > some johnny-come-lately opportunist? > > http://blog.joda.org/2011/10/today-time-zone-database-was-closed.html This is truly horrible

Re: Unable to mount UDF Volume

2011-10-07 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 09:12:28PM BST, Steven Sciame wrote: > I tried to manually mount the volume and got the same error > > debtop:/# mount -r /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0, >    missing codepage or helper program, or other error >

OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:57 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Without disabling plasma? I switched from KDE3 to KDE4 and then, since I'm unable to stand KDE4 to GNOME2. GNOME2 is dying :(, I'll need to watch out for a new DE. Konqueror was the best file browser I know and then they introduced Dolphi

Re: Desktop icons [Solved]

2011-10-07 Thread Mark Panen
On 07/10/2011 10:57, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 07/10/11 19:16, Mark Panen wrote: Hi, What is the procedure of placing my files and folders of my ~/Desktop directory or individual files onto my desktop? Without disabling plasma? Method 1. Gives plasma widget access to Desktop folder.

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 14:34 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:57 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Without disabling plasma? > > I switched from KDE3 to KDE4 and then, since I'm unable to stand KDE4 to > GNOME2. GNOME2 is dying :(, I'll need to watch out for a new DE.

Squeeze: cannot connect to Netgear 150N DGN1000B

2011-10-07 Thread Laurentiu Pancescu
Hi there, my DSL modem died today after 10 years of service, so I bought a Netgear 150N DGN1000B. I cannot connect to it via wireless from my netbook running Squeeze (Linksys WRT45GL works, but it doesn't have a DSL modem). I think the router is working, since I can connect to it very quickl

PPS: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
KDE did use "aRts" and replaced it by "Polypaudio" sorry I've forgotten it's current name ;), it might be PulseAudio ;), a PITA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:45:47 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hello Ralf, > > KDE4 to GNOME2. GNOME2 is dying :(, I'll need to watch out for a new >^ broken > English, the Germans are able to understand this, it should be > "searching", "looki

Re: Permission Problem with xsane - more

2011-10-07 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2011-10-06, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Alan's post has broken the thread - but in a previous post I mentioned > that "The problem seems to be that *both* epson and epson2 backends are > being called" > > >>> $ grep epson /etc/sane.d/dll.conf >> epson >> epson2 > > This is where epson *and* epson

Re: Squeeze: cannot connect to Netgear 150N DGN1000B

2011-10-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:59:15 +0200, Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: > my DSL modem died today after 10 years of service, so I bought a Netgear > 150N DGN1000B. I cannot connect to it via wireless from my netbook > running Squeeze (Linksys WRT45GL works, but it doesn't have a DSL > modem). > > I think

Re: Squeeze: cannot connect to Netgear 150N DGN1000B

2011-10-07 Thread Laurentiu Pancescu
Sorry for replying to myself. I just installed the latest kernel from squeeze-backports (2.6.39) and wireless works fine now. Probably a bug in 2.6.32 from stable - kernel oopses shouldn't appear in any case. On 10/7/11 14:59 , Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: Hi there, my DSL modem died today af

audio modules blacklisted after loading kernel3.0.3

2011-10-07 Thread Richard
Hi, I've given K3 a try to see if the same problems are present as with k3.0.1 in fedFC15. I found in the files in /ect/modprobe.d that most including my cards were blacklisted. Also the samplerates on my sound card are incorrect Name= M Audio Delta 66: ICE1712 multi (hw

Re: Squeeze: cannot connect to Netgear 150N DGN1000B

2011-10-07 Thread Brian
On Fri 07 Oct 2011 at 14:59:15 +0200, Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: > my DSL modem died today after 10 years of service, so I bought a Netgear > 150N DGN1000B. I cannot connect to it via wireless from my netbook > running Squeeze (Linksys WRT45GL works, but it doesn't have a DSL modem). The Link

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 07/10/11 02:44, Harry Putnam wrote: [NOTE: This post or very similar was also posted to gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.] It's considered bad manners to cross post - why waste more peoples time? Only a waste of time *if* you read both lists... Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Permission Problem with xsane - more

2011-10-07 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 10:37:04AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 06/10/11 01:38, Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 08:57:59AM -0400, Alan Greenberger wrote: > >> On 2011-10-03, Thomas H. George wrote: > >> (...) > >> Tell us your scanner model? :-) > >> > > Epson

Re: permissions on /dev/nvidia*

2011-10-07 Thread Christian Jaeger
(Your mail was in my gmail spam folder -- which is why I noticed it :) > to solve the problem i tried to edit the init.d/nvidia-kernel script and > replaced the line >        mknod -m 0660 dev/nvidiactl c 195 255 > with >        mknod -m 0666 dev/nvidiactl c 195 256 Wondering why you changed the

Re: pointer stuck at upper left corner (half-solved)

2011-10-07 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Scott Ferguson wrote: Lack of an /etc/X11/xorg.conf shouldn't cause a problem... but udev might not be picking one up (though I don't understand how a power failure would kill that, but allow gpm to function). One may think that the real cause was not the power failure it

Re: Please kill the noise

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 6. Oktober 2011 schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > All of the off topic crap the last couple of days is making it more > > difficult to assist those who actually need help with Debian. > > > > Debian is an OS for _mature_ Linux users. Please act like one and > > st

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:57 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Without disabling plasma? > > I switched from KDE3 to KDE4 and then, since I'm unable to stand KDE4 > to GNOME2. GNOME2 is dying :(, I'll need to watch out for a new DE. > > Konqueror

[OT] Re: Unix Time Zone Format

2011-10-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:39:26 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 08:16:32PM +1000, Weaver wrote: >> This Intellectual property rubbish is beginning to make me angry. What >> now? >> Are we expected, each and everyone of us, supposed to pay a stipend to >> some johnny-come-lately o

Re: Please kill the noise

2011-10-07 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 10/07/2011 05:44 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: I do not like filtering out off topic mails, since as you wrote, some off topic threads can contain interesting stuff. The ubuntu-users list is suffering the same... Some people wanted Linux (via the distros) to be popular, now we suffer the dr

Re: PPS: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > KDE did use "aRts" and replaced it by "Polypaudio" sorry I've forgotten > it's current name ;), it might be PulseAudio ;), a PITA. Is there anything aside from venting personal frustration with an open source software in your comment? I have no

Re: Please kill the noise

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby: > On 10/07/2011 05:44 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I do not like filtering out off topic mails, since as you wrote, some > > off topic threads can contain interesting stuff. > > The ubuntu-users list is suffering the same... > Some

Re: Please kill the noise

2011-10-07 Thread Christopher Judd
On Friday 07 October 2011 10:44:29 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > I think its a question of off topic versus on topic ratio. Due to > threading feature in KMail its easy for me to ignore off topic stuff, but > when it exceeds a certain amount I tend to get annoyed with it, cause then > its more diff

Re: pointer stuck at upper left corner

2011-10-07 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Brian wrote: Desktop? Laptop? USB. PS/2 etc mouse? Do you have a another mouse to test? Desktop/usb. But as it worked with gpm, and with a live cd, I didn't think useful to try with an other mouse. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: Unable to mount UDF Volume

2011-10-07 Thread Steven Sciame
> >From: Raf Czlonka >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 7:49 AM >Subject: Re: Unable to mount UDF Volume > >On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 09:12:28PM BST, Steven Sciame wrote: >> I tried to manually mount the volume and got the same error >>

Debian 6 Squeeze bug report: application or kernel bug?

2011-10-07 Thread Ad L.
I am not sure where to file this bug report, because it's a kerneloops caused by a bug. This is what happened: 1. USB2 hard disk disconnected and immediately reconnected, which could be caused by a known bug in certain EHCI controller chips 2. An X process probably got terminated and restarted 3.

Re: [OT] Re: Please kill the noise

2011-10-07 Thread Joey Hess
Weaver wrote: > The point has often been made that this list is for Debian 'Users' and > not therefore strictly Debian subject matter. I think a bit of social > interaction does have the tendency to create 'community' which is > Debian's strength, so it could be viewed as productive. While this is

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 16:46:00 +0200 Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hello Martin, > Aside from that Konqueror should still work as a file browser as well Whilst that is true, in KDE3 Konqueror had better functionality than it does in KDE4. Specifically, the ability to have different viewing profiles a

Re: Debian 6 Squeeze bug report: application or kernel bug?

2011-10-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:46:22 +0100, Ad L. wrote: (please, no html) > I am not sure where to file this bug report, because it's a kerneloops > caused by a bug. > > This is what happened: (...) > kernel: [ 1412.339510] sd 6:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI disk kernel: [ > 1412.873626] EXT4-fs error (

Re: Debian 6 Squeeze bug report: application or kernel bug?

2011-10-07 Thread Ad L.
Thanks, I wasn't completely sure. And my apologies for taking the non-existant "non-html"-character of gmail for granted. Should be solved now. That's one point where I absolutely love Debian+Xfce: serious functionality without resources being clogged up with beautiful but hungry gadgets. Must be

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Ferguson writes: [...] >>> It's considered bad manners to cross post - why waste more peoples >>> time? >> >> Why is that wasting anyones time. Some people read it here some >> there, if they don't like the subject or content they move on. > Nice attitude. I'm not really sure why that

Re: Unable to mount UDF Volume

2011-10-07 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 04:58:54PM BST, Steven Sciame wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 09:12:28PM BST, Steven Sciame wrote: > >> I tried to manually mount the volume and got the same error > >> > >> debtop:/# mount -r /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom > >> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on

Re: Debian 6 Squeeze bug report: application or kernel bug?

2011-10-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:44:38 +0100, Ad L. wrote: (re-arranging the message) > 2011/10/7 Camaleón (...) >> > Should I report this as a kernel bug, or as a bug in the mount >> > package? (considering "Pid: 3218, comm: umount ...") I am not sure >> > where to file this bug report, because it's a

Re: webdruid and cron.daily error: Permission denied

2011-10-07 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 03:30:33PM BST, Csanyi Pal wrote: > ${WEBDRUID_BIN} -Q -n "${HOSTNAME}" -o "${REPORT_ROOT}${NAME}" > "${LOG_DIR}/${NAME}/access.log.1" Initially I thought that your mailer broke the line but after installing webdruid I noticed that you simply copied it from an examp

php

2011-10-07 Thread Glenn English
One of my users wants to put up a blog using WordPress. I notice there's a package for WordPress in aptitude, but it's in php. I don't do php on my web server because I was told of huge security problems in it -- and until I turned off the php interpreter in Apache, I got many break in attempt

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 16:46 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:57 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > Without disabling plasma? > > > > I switched from KDE3 to KDE4 and then, since I'm unable to stand KDE4 > > to GNOME2.

Re: PPS: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 16:48 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > > KDE did use "aRts" and replaced it by "Polypaudio" sorry I've forgotten > > it's current name ;), it might be PulseAudio ;), a PITA. > > Is there anything aside from venting persona

Re: php

2011-10-07 Thread rfsf...@gmail.com
One of my users wants to put up a blog using WordPress. I notice there's a package for WordPress in aptitude, but it's in php. I don't do php on my web server because I was told of huge security problems in it -- and until I turned off the php interpreter in Apache, I got many break in attem

Re: Unable to mount UDF Volume

2011-10-07 Thread Steven Sciame
      > Assuming that /dev/sr0 is the correct device, /media/cdrom exists > and you have the right permissions, what happens if you try: > > % mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom steven@debtop:~$ su Password: debtop:/home/steven#

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 16:30 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 16:46:00 +0200 > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Hello Martin, > > > Aside from that Konqueror should still work as a file browser as well > > Whilst that is true, in KDE3 Konqueror had better functionality than it > does

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 11:56 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Do you have any recommendation? On gentoo I was using the `nv' driver > that I do not see available for debian. I'm using testing, there's no nv driver for testing, but I'm using X from stable. On my testing it's xserver-xorg-video-nv 1:2

emacs mystery

2011-10-07 Thread Marc Auslander
After upgrade to squeeze, I have the following emacs curiosity. I bind C-xC-c to: (defun ctrlxctrlc () "Careful exit from emacs" (interactive) (if (y-or-n-p "Do you really want to exit emacs? ") (save-buffers-kill-emacs) (message "") )) to avoid accidentally closing emacs. Un

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:39:36 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hello Ralf, > I want my KDE3 back, since I now need to watch GNOME2 dying :(. For me Have you tried the Trinity fork of KDE3? -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately appare

debian-user archive

2011-10-07 Thread Richard
Hi, How long does it take for posted messages to be archived ? I'm not seeing what I've posted, either on list or archive, or is my posting being held for moderation ?. Or have I got a problem again with Virginmedia, ISP. -- Best wishes / 73 e-mail: rich...@g8jvm.com Richard Bown nil carborundu

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 16:46 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > > > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:57 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > > Without disabling plasma? > > > > > > I switched from K

squeeze upgrade fumbles

2011-10-07 Thread Marc Auslander
I just upgraded from lenny. Not that I wanted to - but you have to keep up. So it's the worst of all projects - hope when you're done that nothing has changed. Problems: 1. Several times, the curses configuration window got stuck in the sense that is ignored some or all input. No way out but

Re: Unable to mount UDF Volume

2011-10-07 Thread Raf Czlonka
I'd check more dmesg messages, not just the last 10 lines. I'd also have a look in syslog as suggested when mount fails. Apart from the obvious - a possible hardware fault - I'd check if this bug report[0] applies to you. [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583949 Regards, -- Ra

Re: emacs mystery

2011-10-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-07 04:50 +0200, Marc Auslander wrote: > After upgrade to squeeze, I have the following emacs curiosity. > > I bind C-xC-c to: > > (defun ctrlxctrlc () "Careful exit from emacs" > (interactive) > (if (y-or-n-p "Do you really want to exit emacs? ") >(save-buffers-kill-emacs) >

Re: squeeze upgrade fumbles

2011-10-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:56:17 -0400, Marc Auslander wrote: > I just upgraded from lenny. Not that I wanted to - but you have to keep > up. So it's the worst of all projects - hope when you're done that > nothing has changed. > > Problems: > 4. A complete mystery - .forward in my home directo

Re: Console font too wide in Wheezy

2011-10-07 Thread Peter Brüel
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 13:39 +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 07:46:30PM BST, Peter Brüel wrote: > > Hi list > > > > I have a box that dual boots Debian Squeeze and Wheezy. In Wheezy I have > > found that the console font in X (I use Xfce as DE) is about 17% wider > > compared to

Re: debian-user archive

2011-10-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 19:34:12 +0100 Richard wrote: Hello Richard, > How long does it take for posted messages to be archived ? Should happen, more or less, as soon as the message hits the servers, assuming it's not held for moderation. > Or have I got a problem again with Virginmedia, ISP. The

Re: debian-user archive

2011-10-07 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:34:12 +0100, Richard wrote: > How long does it take for posted messages to be archived ? Archive web page will say (at the bottom): sm01@stt008:~$ LANG=C; date Fri Oct 7 20:52:59 CEST 2011 *** http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/10/thrd2.html The last update was o

Re: Console font too wide in Wheezy

2011-10-07 Thread Peter Brüel
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 11:54 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:46:30 +0200, Peter Brüel wrote: > > > I have a box that dual boots Debian Squeeze and Wheezy. In Wheezy I have > > found that the console font in X (I use Xfce as DE) is about 17% wider > > compared to Squeeze. (The height

[Fwd: Icecast2 darkice radio and not hear]

2011-10-07 Thread cosme
Hi I installed and configured so far and Icecast2 darkice with ALSA The two say they are running well but when I try in my PC or another simply says you are playing but no sound What can happen?? Use squeeze Debian My configuration files and s as follows: darkice.cfg --- [general]

Re: Debian 6 Squeeze bug report: application or kernel bug?

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 17:21 +, Camaleón wrote: > :-) > > I have put Xfce in my "radar" as a possible candidate to replace the > upcoming GNOME3 :) One of two candidates for me to, the other one is LXDE (not fluxbox). A snapshot from my terminal emulation: spinymouse@debian:~$ I have tende

Re: Desktop icons

2011-10-07 Thread Doug
On 10/07/2011 04:40 AM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Friday 07 October 2011 10:16:07 Mark Panen wrote: Hi, What is the procedure of placing my files and folders of my ~/Desktop directory or individual files onto my desktop? Guess from your previous question: you are running KDE. So open dolphin,

Re: Debian 6 Squeeze bug report: application or kernel bug?

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 21:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 17:21 +, Camaleón wrote: > > :-) > > > > I have put Xfce in my "radar" as a possible candidate to replace the > > upcoming GNOME3 > > :) > > One of two candidates for me to, the other one is LXDE (not fluxbox). >

Re: Debian 6 Squeeze bug report: application or kernel bug?

2011-10-07 Thread mforestier
Hi! My other 2 cents is to use LXDE *with* RatPoison! ;-) It's what I'm doing! ;-) On the Lemote Yeeloong it's perfect! On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:10:48 +0200 Ralf Mardorf > [...] > One of two candidates for me to, the other one is LXDE (not fluxbox). > > A snapshot from my terminal emulation: spinym

Is there any issue with reportbug in unstabl or bugs.debian.org?

2011-10-07 Thread Frank Lanitz
Hi folks, Is there any issue known with reportbug in unstable/bugs.debian.org? Somehow I don't receive an response with a bug number when submitting a bugreport Cheers, Frank -- http://frank.uvena.de/en/ pgpXhHPgXEGnc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian 6 Squeeze bug report: application or kernel bug?

2011-10-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 21:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 21:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 17:21 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > :-) > > > > > > I have put Xfce in my "radar" as a possible candidate to replace the > > > upcoming GNOME3 > > > > :) > >

Re: MySQL High Availability on Debian - using Iomega StorCenter ix-2 nas device.

2011-10-07 Thread Joey L
with replication - in case of a failure - I have to manually cut it over to the replicated files ??? is there any hot-standby feature ??? thanks mjh On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:25 PM, rfsf...@gmail.com wrote: > You may want to setup replication or cluster. Replication is a standard > feature of mysq

vgchange hack needs correction

2011-10-07 Thread John
On a new laptop (TP T520) running sid, the external hard drive I use for backup is not found at startup. vgscan finds it, vgchange -a y makes it active, and mount -a mounts the various partitions. But all that needs to be repeated at the next boot, even though /etc/init.d/lvm2 exists and the link

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Ralf Mardorf writes: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 11:56 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Do you have any recommendation? On gentoo I was using the `nv' driver >> that I do not see available for debian. > > I'm using testing, there's no nv driver for testing, but I'm using X > from stable. > > On my te

Re: `Xorg -configure' failure

2011-10-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-07 19:53 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 11:56 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Do you have any recommendation? On gentoo I was using the `nv' driver >> that I do not see available for debian. > > I'm using testing, there's no nv driver for testing, but I'm using X >

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