Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-11-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:42:25 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > >>> I can not run two applications w/ gksu: >>> >>> chromium and >>> >>> qbittorrent >>> >>> w/ the error: >>> >>> Couldn't set environment variable... >> >>Is it only happening with just th

Re: Unknown HZ value! (92) Assume 100.

2011-11-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:52:59 +, Camaleón wrote: > > I'm afraid the rootkit is not distribution specific. > > I would run a deep scan with the mentioned tool (rkhunter) to be sure. PMFJI. What is an rkhunter "deep scan"? I use rkhunter but am not aware of any "deep scan" option. Thanks.

sid upgrade texlive-base wont configure - solution

2011-11-24 Thread Mitchell Laks
I had persistent problems errors were encountered while processing: texlive-base texlive-latex-base feynmf texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended pdfjam texlive texlive-generic-recommended texlive-luatex texlive-metapost texlive-pictures texmacs ie the following Reading database ..

Re: Unknown HZ value! (92) Assume 100.

2011-11-24 Thread Weaver
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:52:59 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:06:24 +0100, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Brian wrote: > >> On Wed 23 Nov 2011 at 17:36:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> > >>> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:00:27 +0100, Andrea Ganduglia w

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 11/24/11, Sam Vagni wrote: > I just want to go into Linux, coming from Windows XP. Just > want to > know if Debian is good to go with and learn then? > > Just to clear my doubts that head people saying about its' > non-compatibility with the newest hardware and not having > latest >

Re: NCID with no rcS.d

2011-11-24 Thread Dmitriy Matrosov
2011/11/24 lrhorer : > Dmitriy Matrosov wrote: > >> 2011/11/24 lrhorer : >>> OK, so here's the deal.  I compiled and installed ncid on one of my >>> Debian servers  Everything seems to be working just fine.  There's >>> one small item, though.  When I took the init scripts and ran >>> update-rc.d,

Re: Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.

2011-11-24 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 24 November 2011 18:19:21 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Encouraging information.  Yes, I'd say Lenny is a contemporary > Debian.  In this case a difficulty appears to be that automation > > introduced in

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 24 November 2011 16:33:24 Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 24 Nov 2011, Lisi wrote: > > > but please tell me if KDE is the > > > default of GNOME is the default desktop for debian? > > > > GNOME is now the Debian default desktop. > > There are others, and of course you don't have to use a d

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 24 November 2011 16:15:45 Walter Hurry wrote: > I see no reason for OP to > avoid 64 bit Debian. Sorry - as usual I am not making myself clear. I am not suggesting that he should. I said that here would no doubt others who could better inform him of the pros and cons. All I was a

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 24 November 2011 19:47:01 Patrick Bartek wrote: > Contrary to most of the recommendations you'll get here (It's a Debian list > after all), I highly suggest you go with PCLinuxOS instead of Debian.  I > ALWAYS recommend PCLinuxOS to Windows users making their first foray into > Linux te

nvidia module successfully installed

2011-11-24 Thread Richard
Hi I had to purge everything I downloaded previously, blacklist nouveau, kill X & gdm3, the run NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-290.10.run, then reboot. No more shakey display and I can watch TV again without X crashing. -- Best wishes / 73 Richard Bown e-mail: rich...@g8jvm.com or richard.b...@blueyond

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:24:34 +, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 24 November 2011 16:15:45 Walter Hurry wrote: >> I see no reason for OP to avoid 64 bit Debian. > > Sorry - as usual I am not making myself clear. I am not suggesting that > he should. I said that here would no doubt others who could

Re: Make WiFi work.

2011-11-24 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Paul Isambert, 24.11.2011: > > You're absolutely right. So here's a detailed account of what I've > done, following what was exposed (in French) here: > http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/ndiswrapper > (Yeah, it's for Ubuntu, but that seemed good to me anyway.) >From your next message, I saw that you solve

Re: Latest iceweasel - package kept back

2011-11-24 Thread Rob Hurle
Hi Andrew and Brad, On 25 November 2011 00:44, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:26:47 -0500 > Andrew Reid wrote: > > Hello Andrew, > >>   You need to specify the backport repo in order to get the >> dependencies to work, I think. > > Dunno about Rob, but I'd already done that.  Trying

Re: missing user app gnome3~SOLVED

2011-11-24 Thread Richard
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:44:33 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:23:54 +, Richard wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:39:30 + (UTC) Camaleón > > wrote: > > (...) > > >> > until either ATI sort out the crap fglrx module that is unstable with > >> > kernel 3, or I buy a

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 24 November 2011 20:42:59 Walter Hurry wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:24:34 +, Lisi wrote: > > On Thursday 24 November 2011 16:15:45 Walter Hurry wrote: > >> I see no reason for OP to avoid 64 bit Debian. > > > > Sorry - as usual I am not making myself clear. I am not suggesting t

Re: What to expect following major update

2011-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Camaleón writes: >> 2) Should it be considered a bug that grub files are written when boot >>is not mounted. Seems like if the routine notices (which it does) >>that those files are absent, should there not be further code to >>check for boot being mounted? >>It seems it should n

Re: What to expect following major update

2011-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Alex Mestiashvili writes: >> 3) About etc resolv.conf being rendered useless during update: That >>two seems like it should be bug >> > Could you check that you don't have resolvconf installed ? > if yes than you should configure it or remove ... >>I pulled out an old backup with the

Re: What to expect following major update

2011-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Alex Mestiashvili writes: > Can't really imagine why /boot shouldn't be mounted .. > of course it is possible , but upgrading grub without having /boot > mounted sounds for me like shooting himself in the leg . I haven't kept boot mounted for yrs, and I hadn't noticed that grub was to be

Re: Unknown HZ value! (92) Assume 100.

2011-11-24 Thread Brian
On Thu 24 Nov 2011 at 18:52:59 +, Camaleón wrote: > Ancient Greeks went to Oracle at Delphi to get answers. Now we have > Google ;-) King Laius would have benefitted from a good dose of skeptism too. :) > I'm afraid the rootkit is not distribution specific. > > I would run a deep scan with

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi Sam, I'll throw in my 2 cents as well... On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Weaver wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:43:54 -0500 > Sam Vagni wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > Hello Sam, > > > > I just want to go into Linux, coming from Windows XP. Just want to > > know if Debian is good to go wi

Re: Latest iceweasel - package kept back

2011-11-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/11/11 08:21, Rob Hurle wrote: > Hi Andrew and Brad, > > On 25 November 2011 00:44, Brad Rogers wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:26:47 -0500 >> Andrew Reid wrote: >> >> Hello Andrew, >> >>> You need to specify the backport repo in order to get the >>> dependencies to work, I think. >> >>

Re: Unknown HZ value! (92) Assume 100.

2011-11-24 Thread Brian
On Thu 24 Nov 2011 at 19:11:16 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > PMFJI. What is an rkhunter "deep scan"? I use rkhunter but am not aware > of any "deep scan" option. 'deep scan' mode was a planned but unimplemented addition to rkhunter's capabilities. From the unpublished manual: --deep-scan

Re: best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

2011-11-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Bob Proulx wrote: > watches videos it is the vertical pixels that count the most. I would > hate to purchase a "new" machine with fewer vertical pixels than the > 1050 in my "old" machine. The best you can do is to get a T60/p with a proper BOE-Hydis 1600x1200 IPS display (or

Re: Password Management ?

2011-11-24 Thread Peter Beck
On 24/11/11 16:42, Chris Brennan wrote: I use KeePass, it's an offline database program to manage passwords, it's under active development and I've never had any real problems with it. I'm also using Keepass, it's available for all platforms (Linux, Win, Mac, Android,...) and there is a Web-Int

Re: Unknown HZ value! (92) Assume 100.

2011-11-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:38:05 +, Brian wrote: > On Thu 24 Nov 2011 at 19:11:16 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > >> PMFJI. What is an rkhunter "deep scan"? I use rkhunter but am not aware >> of any "deep scan" option. > > 'deep scan' mode was a planned but unimplemented addition to rkhunter's > ca

Re: Password Management ?

2011-11-24 Thread shawn wilson
On Nov 24, 2011 6:35 AM, "Olivier BATARD" wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm just interested on how, after googling for a long time, on a > debian, can we manage users's passwords. I mean how can we manage a > password database on a web php site for example ? > > How do you manage your user's passwords databa

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread shawn wilson
32 vs 64 bit - I still use 32 bit because I care about ram more than processing. Second, I'd use linux in a vm if I were you actually I am doing this more and more now. For instance I've got ubuntu in a virtualbox installed at work (because putty sucks, cygwin is a pain, etc - yeah I just use

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 11/24/11, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 24 November 2011 19:47:01 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Contrary to most of the recommendations you'll get > here (It's a Debian list > > after all), I highly suggest you go with PCLinuxOS > instead of Debian.  I > > ALWAYS recommend PCLinuxOS to Window

Re: What to expect following major update

2011-11-24 Thread Brian
On Thu 24 Nov 2011 at 16:11:43 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Camaleón writes: > > > If the package is installed and the config file needs to be updated the > > upgrade routine uses to ask what to do (keep the old file, compare both, > > replace it with the nre one...). If the partition where th

Re: Need help with Latex error; Sorry VERY LONG

2011-11-24 Thread John W. Foster
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 15:26 -0800, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > > So you run the command manually from the command line and get this > error correct ? > > Yes > > http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/projectsoes - does this has something to > do with you? > > No, this was in the borrowed source

Re: What to expect following major update

2011-11-24 Thread Brian
On Thu 24 Nov 2011 at 09:41:12 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > 2) Should it be considered a bug that grub files are written when boot >is not mounted. A file can be written to any directory, mounted or not. No bug here. > Seems like if the routine notices (which it does) >

This Christmas, give your old technology to charities and non profits, and recycle at the same time

2011-11-24 Thread ERA Donations
Hi there, I'm contacting you on behalf of the Electronic Recycling Association (www.era.ca) We are a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing the impact electronic waste has on our environment. We collect old computers and electronic equipment from various companies, individuals and gove

Resolved mostly: Help with CUPS- printing from Windows to Debian print server

2011-11-24 Thread keitho
OK, I fixed my immediate problem by changing the permissions for /home/smbprint/ like this: #chmod 777 /home/smbprint/ Now I can print from any Windows box to my Debian CUPS server. My understanding of security is very weak; luckily I am just working on my home setup. But I thought the whole poi

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2011-11-24 16:02, Walter Hurry wrote: > Ah, right, thanks. I didn't know that - I tend to stick with HP as I've > always had excellent results with their printers and HPLIP. I did the same for a long time, too. Finally I gave Epson a try and I like it, actually because of 1 special option (be

Re: Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

2011-11-24 Thread Alan Chandler
On 24/11/11 16:09, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:19:26 +, Alan Chandler wrote: I have some Freemind mindmap files ending with the .mm filename. Up until recently clicking on the filename would automatically start Freemind. (...) Anyone any idea how I can change the default app

Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

2011-11-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
I have yet to upgrade to Squeeze and I really think that it is about time. I know that some people had problems with the upgrade, but IIRC that was mainly due to the upgrade to the 2.6.32 kernel and the new udev. I have already done that upgrade and am running vmlinuz-2.6.32-bpo.3-686, so it

Re: Network slow with "new" kernel

2011-11-24 Thread debianuser . thegrue
Hello Alex, > > We have a few linux machines behind a firewall. When we start a > > download on the "newer" machines (kernel 2.6.32-5), the download > > starts fast (~3M/s), then quickly gets slower after about 10 or 20 > > seconds and soon stalls completely or proceeds at ~3 Byte/s or > > somethi

Re: Network slow with "new" kernel (debianuser: to exclusive)

2011-11-24 Thread debianuser . thegrue
Hello Camaleón, > > we have a strange problem here at our company: > > > > We have a few linux machines behind a firewall. > > What kind of firewall? Iptables rules or some kind of commercial > appliance? It's a commercial appliance: Sonicwall NSA3500. > Computers with older kernels are r

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