Re: Yikes, 140 held packages

2011-11-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 10 nov 11, 04:56:08, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > > What are you using for updates, just the Update Manager or > > apt-get/aptitude? > > I've actually used both on occasion. Are you suggesting I should run > something in particular with an specific apt-get/aptitude command. > > Is there any

Re: Debian install , need to add wireless firmware

2011-11-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 10 nov 11, 11:34:59, Brian wrote: > > Downloading a DVD/CD as a way of getting a bunch of .debs on to the > machine is certainly an alternative, but your concern about not being > able to access an NTFS partition is unjustified. An expert install is > capable of dealing with that when the i

Re: /etc/default/keyboard XKBOPTIONS not read by X

2011-11-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 11 nov 11, 17:23:16, Dan B. wrote: > > Something _really_ screwy seems to be going on here. I think Gnome is overriding the keyboard settings. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 10 nov 11, 20:54:39, Rob Owens wrote: > > I can get gnome-ppp to recognize both modems. But when I attempt to > dial, I don't hear a dialtone or any dialing. Almost immediately the > application says something like "sending password", and it hangs there. > Of course it's going to hang --

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 10 nov 11, 08:56:46, Walter Hurry wrote: > >> > >> > Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by > >> > default? > >> > >> Interesting question. Which distributions do that? > > > > Debian of course :) > > It didn't for me when I installed Squeeze. Maybe I did it diffe

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 10 nov 11, 11:29:08, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Really this more than anything illustrates that nonfree programs and > protocols are bad for us. It is important to prevent nonfree software > from being required. This is what makes the need for HTML5 to be > completely free so important. We ca

Re: Is GNOME 2 panel still in unstable?

2011-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:15:42 +, Cam Hutchison wrote: > I'd like to keep using the panel from GNOME 2. I like its world clock, > the menu and a couple of applets. > > Is this still in unstable at all? The replacement seems to be less > functional (at the moment). Yes, you can still launch the

Re: Dead keys in Gnome3/Shell?

2011-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:31:34 +0100, Olav Lavell wrote: > On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:20:46 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: > > >> - For the non-visible indicator problem: >> >> Run this from a terminal (don't worry, it is harmless, you are only >> requesting for a variable value): >> >> gsettings get or

Re: Into: Coming over to Debian from Ubuntu

2011-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:47:33 -0500, Douglas Saylor wrote: (...) > *Meanwhile* iOS is *so* polished, so easy, so intuitive & yes*very* > pretty. Apple products are so closed, so limited and so restricted that renders you hardware into a beatiful brick. > *If* Unity ever makes it to phones/tabl

Re: GNOME 3 - Help needed - Testing upgraded from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3

2011-11-12 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Ralf Mardorf, 11.11.2011: > > GNOME 3 what an odd DE. > > Is there a way to get back a panel that enables to switch between workspaces > and to switch between apps? > > Is there a way to get back classic menus to launch apps? Even Ctrl+F2 lost > comfort. Try using gnome-session-fallback. It's

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On 12 November 2011 09:56, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 10 nov 11, 08:56:46, Walter Hurry wrote: >> >> >> >> > Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by >> >> > default? >> >> >> >> Interesting question. Which distributions do that? >> > >> > Debian of course :) >> >> It did

AW: GNOME 3 - Help needed - Testing upgraded from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3

2011-11-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Richard [mailto:richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk] Gesendet: Sa 11/12/2011 01:33 An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: GNOME 3 - Help needed - Testing upgraded from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3 On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:51:16 +0100 "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > Hahaha

AW: Is GNOME 2 panel still in unstable?

2011-11-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Cam Hutchison [mailto:c...@xdna.net] Gesendet: Sa 11/12/2011 06:15 An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Is GNOME 2 panel still in unstable? I'd like to keep using the panel from GNOME 2. I like its world clock, the menu and a couple of applets. Is this

Re: Yikes, 140 held packages

2011-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Andrei POPESCU writes: > I would suggest you run 'aptitude safe-upgrade' first and then try > 'aptitude full-upgrade'. Don't worry, aptitude will present all changes > to you before applying. If you don't like or understand what you see > just copy-paste it here and we'll have a look. It happ

Cannot log into GNOME after upgrading to GNOME3 in testing

2011-11-12 Thread H Xu
Hello everyone, After I have upgraded to GNOME3 in wheezy, I'm unable to login to GNOME. When login, the following message is displayed on my screen: """ Oh, no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again. """ If I choose the f

Re: AW: Is GNOME 2 panel still in unstable?

2011-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:59:38 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: (...) > OT: Are there any users who like GNOME 3 or Unity? I already don't like > KDE 4. I was a KDE 3 user, resp. since years i'm a GNOME 2 user, anyway, > "until now" KDE 4 might be not that worth as GNOME 3 already is. > Hopefully XFCE, L

Re: nfs howto - are debian docs dated?

2011-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Ferguson writes: >> Exchange of files between debian desktop and solaris zfs servers. > Nested? > ACLs? > I'm not sure what you're asking there... Don't know what Nested means in this context... but as for ACLs, well no... there is no need for that in my setup... its a single user sort of

Re: Cannot log into GNOME after upgrading to GNOME3 in testing

2011-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:35:09 +0800, H Xu wrote: > After I have upgraded to GNOME3 in wheezy, I'm unable to login to GNOME. > When login, the following message is displayed on my screen: > > """ > Oh, no! Something has gone wrong. > > A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please lo

Re: Is GNOME 2 panel still in unstable?

2011-11-12 Thread Richard
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:59:38 +0100 "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Cam Hutchison [mailto:c...@xdna.net] > Gesendet: Sa 11/12/2011 06:15 > An: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Is GNOME 2 panel still in unstable? > > I'd like to keep using the panel from GN

Re: Cannot log into GNOME after upgrading to GNOME3 in testing

2011-11-12 Thread H Xu
On 11/12/2011 07:58 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:35:09 +0800, H Xu wrote: After I have upgraded to GNOME3 in wheezy, I'm unable to login to GNOME. When login, the following message is displayed on my screen: """ Oh, no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the sy

Re: Cannot log into GNOME after upgrading to GNOME3 in testing

2011-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:19:46 +0800, H Xu wrote: > On 11/12/2011 07:58 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> Does reloading the panels make any effect? >> >> (Alt+F2 → gnome-terminal → killall gnome-panels) >> >> > The following message is printed: > > gnome-panels: no process found Oops, I added an additional

Re: Is GNOME 2 panel still in unstable?

2011-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:59:47 +, Richard wrote: > If gnome3 was more user configurable it would be OK, I'm still using it > on my laptop with FC15. My problems are: > no automatic login~ yes I've set the user options and they get ignored This already has to be working. It does for me. Look at

Re: Cannot log into GNOME after upgrading to GNOME3 in testing

2011-11-12 Thread H Xu
On 11/12/2011 08:30 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:19:46 +0800, H Xu wrote: On 11/12/2011 07:58 PM, Camaleón wrote: Does reloading the panels make any effect? (Alt+F2 → gnome-terminal → killall gnome-panels) The following message is printed: gnome-panels: no process found

AW: AW: Is GNOME 2 panel still in unstable?

2011-11-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Camaleón [mailto:noela...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Sa 11/12/2011 12:51 An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: AW: Is GNOME 2 panel still in unstable? On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:59:38 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: (...) > OT: Are there any users who like GNO

Re: Cannot log into GNOME after upgrading to GNOME3 in testing

2011-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:42:41 +0800, H Xu wrote: > On 11/12/2011 08:30 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:19:46 +0800, H Xu wrote: >> >>> On 11/12/2011 07:58 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> Does reloading the panels make any effect? (Alt+F2 → gnome-terminal → killall gnome-panels)

Re: Cannot log into GNOME after upgrading to GNOME3 in testing

2011-11-12 Thread Marlon Nunes
aptitude update && aptitude install gnome Em 12-11-2011 09:54, Camaleón escreveu: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:42:41 +0800, H Xu wrote: On 11/12/2011 08:30 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:19:46 +0800, H Xu wrote: On 11/12/2011 07:58 PM, Camaleón wrote: Does reloading the panels make

Re: Cannot log into GNOME after upgrading to GNOME3 in testing

2011-11-12 Thread H Xu
On 11/12/2011 08:54 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:42:41 +0800, H Xu wrote: On 11/12/2011 08:30 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:19:46 +0800, H Xu wrote: On 11/12/2011 07:58 PM, Camaleón wrote: Does reloading the panels make any effect? (Alt+F2 → gnome-terminal → ki

Re: AW: AW: Is GNOME 2 panel still in unstable?

2011-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:26:31 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi Camaleón, hi everybody else :) > > at the moment the fallback mode looks promising. Don't put your expectations on it :-) > This weekend might become a weekend of snapshot-backups and restores. I > still haven't installed gnome-core

Re: Is GNOME 2 panel still in unstable?

2011-11-12 Thread Richard
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:41:32 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:59:47 +, Richard wrote: > > > If gnome3 was more user configurable it would be OK, I'm still using it > > on my laptop with FC15. My problems are: > > no automatic login~ yes I've set the user options and they

Re: KVM networking.

2011-11-12 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-11-11 23:41 +0700): > > I have included more options to network script: > > /usr/bin/kvm -localtime -m 256 -no-reboot -boot c -hda da > -net nic -net tap,ifname=$(sudo /usr/sbin/tunctl -b -u $(whoami); > sudo /sbin/ifconfig tap0 192.168.1.1 up; sudo /sbin/ro

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:51:06AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On 12 November 2011 09:56, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Jo, 10 nov 11, 08:56:46, Walter Hurry wrote: > >> >> > >> >> > Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by > >> >> > default? > >> >> > >> >> Interesting questio

Re: Into: Coming over to Debian from Ubuntu

2011-11-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 02:47:33PM -0500, Douglas Saylor wrote: > I used Debian once before, years ago & at the time Debian seemed difficult > to configure & software was way behind the times. I don't know if I'm just > getting older & more cranky, but I *think* I'd rather have older but stable > &

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On 12 November 2011 14:04, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:51:06AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> On 12 November 2011 09:56, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> > On Jo, 10 nov 11, 08:56:46, Walter Hurry wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> > Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by >>

Re: KVM networking.

2011-11-12 Thread Arno Schuring
Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-11-11 23:23 +0700): > >Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-11-08 14:44 +0700): > >> 1. The bridges take the Internet connections for itself - thus > >> leaving the host app.s w/o Internet access, probably routing needed > >> here - but they do not make any

Re: problems

2011-11-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:47:07PM +, HEDDY, WILLIAM wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > I downloaded and installed Debian on my computer last night and I rebooted > the computer and now all that comes up is a white cursor on a black screen. > Did I just completely kill my Windows 7 operat

Re: virtualbox just became slow (SOLVED)

2011-11-12 Thread Steve Kleene
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 12:54:11 + (UTC), I wrote > I've been happily running a virtualbox Windows XP machine (VM) on a Wheezy > host for eight months. However, the VM just became pathologically slow. > For example, if I boot the VM, call Photoshop 6, and open a small JPG, it > all works but takes

[OT] mantis not sending e-mail

2011-11-12 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello all, I'm trying to get mantis to send e-mails but I can't get it right. I posted on the mantis list but I got no replies. So I wonder if anyone on Debian list is using mantis. I've tried many scenarios but I still can't get mantis to send e-mails. The logs generated are not clear enough.

Networking starts disabled (using Ethernet card)

2011-11-12 Thread John Hudson
I'm more or less a beginner with Linux but have installed Debian Squeeze on another PC successfully; on this one, networking shows "Disconnected" after every boot (logging on as a standard user, not 'root') and I can only get the built-in Ethernet card to connect by disabling wired networking an

Re: Yikes, 140 held packages

2011-11-12 Thread Arno Schuring
Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com on 2011-11-12 05:31 -0600): > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > > I would suggest you run 'aptitude safe-upgrade' first and then try > > 'aptitude full-upgrade'. Don't worry, aptitude will present all > > changes to you before applying. If you don't like or understand >

Re: Networking starts disabled (using Ethernet card)

2011-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:44:58 +, John Hudson wrote: > I'm more or less a beginner with Linux but have installed Debian Squeeze > on another PC successfully; on this one, networking shows "Disconnected" > after every boot (logging on as a standard user, not 'root') and I can > only get the built

Re: Debian is asking for DVD...

2011-11-12 Thread Douglas Saylor
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Victor Nitu wrote: > > Please paste the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list here, as I > suspect a setup removable media still hanging around in the settings. > > I hope you have network access on the troubling machine... > > # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.3 _

Re: Is GNOME 2 panel still in unstable?

2011-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:14:23 +, Richard wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:41:32 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: >> Look at your "/etc/gdm3/daemon.conf" and check if these values are set: >> >> [daemon] >> AutomaticLoginEnable = true >> AutomaticLogin = your_username > > It looks like the user

Re: virtualbox just became slow (SOLVED)

2011-11-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:34:28 + (UTC) Steve Kleene wrote: Hello Steve, > Anytime I boot or there's a power outage, I have to go through this if > our home router (Netgear Wireless-N 150 router WNR1000 v2) hands over > a new IP. I have a different model of router (still a Netgear, though) whi

Re: Removing evolution but leave gnome intact?

2011-11-12 Thread Arno Schuring
kei...@strucktower.com (kei...@strucktower.com on 2011-11-10 19:24 -0800): > I realize it is not necessary, but if possible I'd like to remove > evolution. > > This is what I have tried so far: > > # aptitude unmarkauto gnome-control-center evolution-data-server > # aptitude unmarkauto libedatase

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:04:30 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:51:06AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> On 12 November 2011 09:56, Andrei POPESCU >> wrote: >> > On Jo, 10 nov 11, 08:56:46, Walter Hurry wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> > Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install

Re: /etc/default/keyboard XKBOPTIONS not read by X

2011-11-12 Thread Dan B.
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 11 nov 11, 17:23:16, Dan B. wrote: Something _really_ screwy seems to be going on here. I think Gnome is overriding the keyboard settings. Did you read the part about its setting the keyboard settings in its X server differently depending on whether an unrelated

Re: Is GNOME 2 panel still in unstable?

2011-11-12 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:17:01 +, Camaleón wrote: > I think Fedora 15 shipped gnome-shell 3.0, the same we have right now in > Debian. But again, this 3.0 release provides little to nothing > customization options unless you manually go and edit the required > files. Upcoming versions of the she

Re: Debian is asking for DVD...

2011-11-12 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:14:46 -0500, Douglas Saylor wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Victor Nitu > wrote: > > >> Please paste the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list here, as I suspect a >> setup removable media still hanging around in the settings. >> >> I hope you have network access on

GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4

2011-11-12 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi, all: What an appalling piece of crap is GNOME3! (IMNSHO anyway.) So I installed xfce4 (the metapackage which installs all the basics and some extras). Xfce session then shows up as an option on the login screen. When I logged in, the new Xfce panel asked me if I wanted to migrate from an o

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4

2011-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hi, all: What an appalling piece of crap is GNOME3! (IMNSHO anyway.) So I installed xfce4 (the metapackage which installs all the basics and some extras). Xfce session then shows up as an option on the login screen. When I logged in, the new Xfce panel asked me if I wa

update-flashplugin-nonfree issue

2011-11-12 Thread J. Bakshi
Dear list, I have run "update-flashplugin-nonfree --install" and it downloads the latest plugin at /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz after uncompromising it I get 1. libflashplayer.so 2. usr folder I have copied libflashplayer.so at /usr/lib/flashplugi

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4

2011-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:41:46 -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: (...) > Perhaps others who dislike GNOME3 (does anyone not??) Hum... it's not GNOME3 but gnome-shell what you don't like. And nope, as soon as I can customize some of the basics of the shell I'm fine. At the end of the day what I hav

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4

2011-11-12 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
see inline below. On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:08, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:41:46 -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > (...) > >> Perhaps others who dislike GNOME3 (does anyone not??) > > Hum... it's not GNOME3 but gnome-shell what you don't like. > > And nope, as soon as I can customi

Re: update-flashplugin-nonfree issue

2011-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:34:30 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > I have run "update-flashplugin-nonfree --install" and it downloads the > latest plugin at > /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/ > install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz > > after uncompromising it I get > > 1. libflashplayer.so > 2. usr fol

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4

2011-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:14:37 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > see inline below. > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:08, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:41:46 -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>> Perhaps others who dislike GNOME3 (does anyone not??) >> >> Hum... it's n

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4

2011-11-12 Thread Erwan David
On 12/11/11 18:22, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:14:37 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: > >> see inline below. >> >> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:08, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:41:46 -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>> >>> (...) >>> Perhaps others who dislike

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4

2011-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:25:21 +0100, Erwan David wrote: > On 12/11/11 18:22, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:14:37 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: (...) >>> And more general, how can I customize gnome 3. I found one "advances >>> tweak" application, but what one can do is ver

Re: Cannot log into GNOME after upgrading to GNOME3 in testing

2011-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:07:03 +0800, H Xu wrote: > On 11/12/2011 08:54 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>> gnome-panel: no process found >>> >>> I also used "ps aux | grep gnome-panel" to check this process, but >>> unluckily there is no such process. >> >> It is not running. >> >> Okay, so try to launch it m

Re: KVM networking.

2011-11-12 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Arno: >> /usr/bin/kvm -localtime -m 256 -no-reboot -boot c -hda da >> -net nic -net tap,ifname=$(sudo /usr/sbin/tunctl -b -u $(whoami); >> sudo /sbin/ifconfig tap0 192.168.1.1 up; sudo /sbin/route add -host >> 192.168.1.1 dev tap0),script=no,downscript=no > >You

Re: KVM networking.

2011-11-12 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Arno: >You're adding a host route, whereas you need a network route. Try: >$ sudo ip route add 192.168.1.0/24 via 192.168.1.1 Ah I have found my mistake - wrong broadcast was set in the guest. Now tap interface and under user - works! Thank You, again. -- To

Problem in bind9 9.8.1 package on SID

2011-11-12 Thread Jorge Bastos - Decimal
Howdy people, After updating to the last SID package of bind9, I have: --- Setting up bind9 (1:9.8.1.dfsg-1) ... NOT updating named.conf.options to include DNSSEC enablement Starting domain name service...: bind9 failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript bind9, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4

2011-11-12 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 12. November 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > > FRom what I read, just consider gnome 3.0 as a pre-alpha... > > Although probably GNOME developers don't like that term, I'd say "sort > of", yes. How do I remember quite some of this and other points from this thread from the introduction of

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4

2011-11-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:29:58 +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Samstag, 12. November 2011 schrieb Camaleón: >> > FRom what I read, just consider gnome 3.0 as a pre-alpha... >> >> Although probably GNOME developers don't like that term, I'd say "sort >> of", yes. > > How do I remember quite s

Re: update-flashplugin-nonfree issue

2011-11-12 Thread J. Bakshi
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:15:48 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:34:30 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > > > I have run "update-flashplugin-nonfree --install" and it downloads the > > latest plugin at > > /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/ > > install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz >

Re: update-flashplugin-nonfree issue

2011-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
J. Bakshi wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:15:48 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:34:30 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: I have run "update-flashplugin-nonfree --install" and it downloads the latest plugin at /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/ install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz

Help the big project

2011-11-12 Thread Ivano Arrighetta
Hello everyone. Please excuse me if I didn't register, this is not spam anyway. I'd just like to invite whom of you is interested to help my open source project. It just requires some command line software knowledge as all I need is just to be pointed to some console applications doing the job, but

Re: Yikes, 140 held packages

2011-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Arno Schuring writes: > What does the following show: > $ aptitude search ~ahold > > This should probably give you the list of 135 packages. You can release > the held packages by using the same syntax: > # aptitude unhold ~ahold Yes it does... thanks for the unhold stuff with aptitude [...] Sn

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4

2011-11-12 Thread Joe
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:08:44 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:41:46 -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > (...) > > > Perhaps others who dislike GNOME3 (does anyone not??) > > Hum... it's not GNOME3 but gnome-shell what you don't like. > I wouldn't know, my two-year-old Gig

Meaning of letters in aptitude output not found with ? inside aptitude

2011-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Some of the letters that appear in aptitude output are not explained inside the aptitude interface with the ? key. Uppercase A comes to mind, as in aptitude search ~ahold [...] ihA apache2.2-bin - Apache HTTP Server common binary files [...] Is it auto install or is that lowerc

Re: problems

2011-11-12 Thread Doug
On 11/12/2011 09:18 AM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:47:07PM +, HEDDY, WILLIAM wrote: To whom it may concern, I downloaded and installed Debian on my computer last night and I rebooted the computer and now all that comes up is a white cursor on a black screen. Did I just c

Re: Meaning of letters in aptitude output not found with ? inside aptitude

2011-11-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 12 nov 11, 13:45:06, Harry Putnam wrote: > Some of the letters that appear in aptitude output are not explained > inside the aptitude interface with the ? key. > > Uppercase A comes to mind, as in > > aptitude search ~ahold > [...] > ihA apache2.2-bin - Apache HTTP Server com

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4

2011-11-12 Thread Doug
On 11/12/2011 12:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:25:21 +0100, Erwan David wrote: On 12/11/11 18:22, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:14:37 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: (...) And more general, how can I customize gnome 3. I found one "advances tweak" appli

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4

2011-11-12 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:13:49 -0500, Doug wrote: > I seem to recall that this Gnome3 and Unity first came from Ubuntu. Unity did. GNOME3 has no origin in Ubuntu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: update-flashplugin-nonfree issue

2011-11-12 Thread Bob Proulx
J. Bakshi wrote: > I have run "update-flashplugin-nonfree --install" and it downloads the latest > plugin > at /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz > > after uncompromising it I get > > 1. libflashplayer.so > 2. usr folder > > I have copied libflashplayer.s

Re: Problem in bind9 9.8.1 package on SID

2011-11-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Jorge Bastos - Decimal wrote: > After updating to the last SID package of bind9, I have: > Setting up bind9 (1:9.8.1.dfsg-1) ... > NOT updating named.conf.options to include DNSSEC enablement > Starting domain name service...: bind9 failed! > invoke-rc.d: initscript bind9, action "start" failed. >

Re: HTTP proxy over ssh recommendation?

2011-11-12 Thread Jari Fredriksson
11.11.2011 0:15, Bob Proulx kirjoitti: > I often have a situation that I would like to improve. I need to > access web servers that exist on a private subnet. I can log in using > ssh. sshuttle is all you need. It is not a proxy per se, but it allows a "poor man's VPN" over plain ssh. https://

Chomium "The sync server is busy..."

2011-11-12 Thread Douglas Saylor
I've been getting this message for 2-days now. Anyone know if this is a Google or Debian problem?

Re: virtualbox just became slow (SOLVED)

2011-11-12 Thread Steve Kleene
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:34:28 + (UTC), I wrote: >> Anytime I boot or there's a power outage, I have to go through this if >> our home router (Netgear Wireless-N 150 router WNR1000 v2) hands over >> a new IP. On Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:20:33 +, Brad Rogers replied: > I have a different m

Re: Chomium "The sync server is busy..."

2011-11-12 Thread Frank McCormick
On 11-11-12 04:32 PM, Douglas Saylor wrote: I've been getting this message for 2-days now. Anyone know if this is a Google or Debian problem? It's happened beforea Google problem usually. It was happening to me for 2 or 3 weeks about a month ago. -- Cheers Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: GNOME 3 - Help needed - Testing upgraded from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3

2011-11-12 Thread Arno Schuring
Allow me to join the choir :) I actually had high hopes for some of the stuff. Integrating IM account control in the top right menu is a great idea, and I like the way notifications are presented. But empathy is possibly even worse than Evolution, it won't connect to half of my accounts and "invis

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! What specifically didn't work.

2011-11-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:41:46 -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hi, all: > > What an appalling piece of crap is GNOME3! I just did an innocent routine upgrade, and an eminently usable gnome 2 turned into a mess. Instead of writing my novel, I spent the rest of the evening trying to figure out

Whats missing from Gnome3

2011-11-12 Thread Richard
Hi, With the mess that dropping the gnome3 desktop in to Wheezy It really is imperative the gnome3 extensions are released in to sid and wheezy. These are the extensions to put the minimize , maximize and kill button in the top RH corner of opened apps, And to put shutdown as well as suspend, hol

Re: Whats missing from Gnome3

2011-11-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/11 10:31, Richard wrote: > > Now when I was using rpm based distros, there was an app called alien which > allowed .deb files to be > loaded in an rpm system. > Is there by chance an app to allow rpms to be loaded, it can't make a worse > mess than there is already > without the exte

Re: Is GNOME 2 panel still in unstable?

2011-11-12 Thread Cam Hutchison
Camaleón writes: >On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:15:42 +, Cam Hutchison wrote: >> I'd like to keep using the panel from GNOME 2. I like its world clock, >> the menu and a couple of applets. >> >> Is this still in unstable at all? The replacement seems to be less >> functional (at the moment). >Yes

Can we stop whining about GNOME3 please?

2011-11-12 Thread Walter Hurry
It seems fashionable to complain about GNOME3. If you don't like it (and personally I detest it), then you have three choices: a) Wait until it improves (3,2, 3.3, 3.4)? b) Put up with it as it as it is. c) Switch to another desktop environment. There are several to choose from. GNOME2 is not c

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! What specifically didn't work.

2011-11-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
I right-clicked on the app title bar and selected minimize from there. To get the app back I used Alt-Tab. IceWM is a nice bit of software. I used it for a long time. I think that if you want something similar to your GNOME 2 panel experience that XFCE will probably be a reasonable choice. I ha

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4

2011-11-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
I updated my Wheezy box this morning and it updated to GNOME Shell. After using it for an hour or so, it isn't so bad as to be unusable. Despite my comments about it a week or so ago, I think I'll give it a go for a while and see how it improves when 3.2.x finally migrates in. I did like that it p

Re: Can we stop whining about GNOME3 please?

2011-11-12 Thread John Hasler
Walter Hurry writes: > you have three choices: You have four choices: a) Wait until it improves (3,2, 3.3, 3.4)? b) Put up with it as it as it is. c) Switch to another desktop environment. There are several to choose from. d) Fork GNOME2 and bring it back yourself. It's Free Software. -- Joh

Re: Can we stop whining about GNOME3 please?

2011-11-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/11 11:13, Walter Hurry wrote: > It seems fashionable to complain about GNOME3. If you don't like it (and > personally I detest it), then you have three choices: > > a) Wait until it improves (3,2, 3.3, 3.4)? > b) Put up with it as it as it is. > c) Switch to another desktop environment.

Re: Can we stop whining about GNOME3 please?

2011-11-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/11 11:55, John Hasler wrote: > Walter Hurry writes: >> you have three choices: > > You have four choices: > a) Wait until it improves (3,2, 3.3, 3.4)? > b) Put up with it as it as it is. > c) Switch to another desktop environment. There are several to choose >from. > d) Fork GNOME2 a

Re: GNOME 3 issue - Evolution is offline due to a network outage

2011-11-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > after upgrading all packages to latest GNOME 3 versions from testing > Evolution still starts with "Evolution is currently offline due to a > network outage. Evolution will return to online mode once a network > connection is established". It's impossible to connect it. Evolut

Re: Whats missing from Gnome3

2011-11-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Scott Ferguson wrote: > Richard wrote: > > Now when I was using rpm based distros, there was an app called > > alien which allowed .deb files to be loaded in an rpm system. Is > > there by chance an app to allow rpms to be loaded, it can't make a > > worse mess than there is already without the ex

Re: HTTP proxy over ssh recommendation?

2011-11-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Jari Fredriksson wrote: > Bob Proulx kirjoitti: > > I often have a situation that I would like to improve. I need to > > access web servers that exist on a private subnet. I can log in using > > ssh. > > sshuttle is all you need. It is not a proxy per se, but it allows a > "poor man's VPN" over

Re: update-flashplugin-nonfree issue

2011-11-12 Thread J. Bakshi
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:16:16 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > J. Bakshi wrote: > > I have run "update-flashplugin-nonfree --install" and it downloads the > > latest plugin > > at > > /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz > > > > after uncompromising it I get > >

[OT] can't see own post to the list

2011-11-12 Thread J. Bakshi
Hello, I have noticed that my own post to the list has been detected as spam at the gmail. Any way to avoid this ? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debia

Re: [OT] can't see own post to the list

2011-11-12 Thread Doug
On 11/12/2011 11:48 PM, J. Bakshi wrote: Hello, I have noticed that my own post to the list has been detected as spam at the gmail. Any way to avoid this ? Thanks Probably not spam. GMail deliberately removes your own list messages so you can't see them and know that you actually were succ

Re: [OT] can't see own post to the list

2011-11-12 Thread J. Bakshi
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:14:58 -0500 Doug wrote: > On 11/12/2011 11:48 PM, J. Bakshi wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have noticed that my own post to the list has been detected as spam at > > the gmail. > > Any way to avoid this ? > > > > Thanks > > > > > Probably not spam. GMail deliberately removes

Re: update-flashplugin-nonfree issue

2011-11-12 Thread Bob Proulx
J. Bakshi wrote: > When I executed the command as you suggested, I get as below > flash-mozilla.so - auto mode > link currently points to /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so > /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so - priority 50 > /usr/lib/lightspark/liblightsparkplugin.so - pr

Re: [OT] can't see own post to the list

2011-11-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/11 16:14, Doug wrote: > On 11/12/2011 11:48 PM, J. Bakshi wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have noticed that my own post to the list has been detected as spam >> at the gmail. >> Any way to avoid this ? >> >> Thanks >> >> > Probably not spam. Probably correct. It'd be the first time I've ever he