Re: cron.daily error for apt

2011-12-04 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 3 Dec 2011, Bob Proulx wrote: I do not see such a line in Squeeze or Sid. What version of apt do you have installed? hi Bob, it's difficult for me to understand this mess; I am on Squeeze. apt version is 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 here is my source.list ===

Are Web-API packages need to be in the 'main' repo ?

2011-12-04 Thread Alexey Eromenko
Hello Debian People ! Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) ships packages that integrate with web services (called in modern term 'Cloud Computing' or SaaS, 'Software-as-a-Service' if you will), such as the Facebook API. What if Facebook decides to close down it's APIs tomorrow ? Will Debian drop those packages f

Re: libpam-ssh

2011-12-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello: Actually it sounds as maintained project, as the last update is stamp 2011/06/14: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pam-ssh/ On the other hand, I have no trouble with it on my boxes. Jerome On 04/12/11 03:38, Allan Wind wrote: On 2011-12-04 00:56:44, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Poor me:

Re: iceweasel fills in my textareas

2011-12-04 Thread Alan Chandler
On 04/12/11 07:55, Bob Proulx wrote: Alan Chandler wrote: In a recent upgrade (last day or two) iceweasel suddenly started filling in empty text areas with text from a previous visit to the web site. ... Does anyone know a way of turning this behaviour off. Are you talking about form fields?

Viewing contents of AR archive in KDE

2011-12-04 Thread bd satish
Hi, Like y'all know, AR archive is used for static libraries [ libxyz.a ]. When opening it with Ark (KDE 4.4.5, Squeeze), it pops with with error "Unable to determine archive type". Instead it presents a list of all archive formats which it recognizes, but this list does not include AR archive.

Trying to use Wireshark on Lenny

2011-12-04 Thread Lisi
For a course that I am doing I need to run Wireshark on Lenny. The Lenny Wireshark package does not run, either on this occasion or previously. By "does not run" I mean that I can open it up, but I have found nothing that I can persuade it to do. It just sits there. On the previous occasio

Re: Creating PXE boot image

2011-12-04 Thread lrhorer
Johann Klammer wrote: > lrhorer wrote: >> I have PXE booting working from my Debian "Squeeze" server, and I can > What software package are you using? pxelinux? Yes. >> launch the Debian Network installer on a machine supporting PXE. I >> can;t quite figure out how to create a boot image from a

Re: Debian 5 update system broken

2011-12-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:58:13 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I am running Debian 5 on this computer (have been so far unable to > instal Debian 6 on anything). > > With an update notification (the gold star with the exclamation mark, in > the taskbar), I got the following error. (...) Al

Re: Debian 5 update system broken

2011-12-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:05:19 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:58:13 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: >> With an update notification (the gold star with the exclamation mark, >> in the taskbar), I got the following error. > > (...) > > Already reported: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin

Re: Corrupted security update package files

2011-12-04 Thread Florian Weimer
* Bill Wohler: > When updating lenny this morning (yes, upgrading is on my todo list), I > got the following error: > > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_lenny_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages > E: The package lists or status file could not be parse

Re: GRUB2 themes

2011-12-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:19:54 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I finally switched to grub-pc from grub-legacy. About time. Did it a > year ago too but went back, I forget why. > > Of course there is no comparison between the 2. > > Found a terrific theming guide by Towheed Mohammed: > http://www.4

Re: Creating PXE boot image

2011-12-04 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
You may look at the ltsp-build-image command, it does exactly what you want. I'm not saying you should use ltsp-server, you could download the source of this ltsp-build-image and see if you can use it in the way you want. What that does, roughly is take a chroot filesystem (in ltsp case norma

Re: Trying to use Wireshark on Lenny

2011-12-04 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
Looks like that .config-guess script is not asking uname -o, which would return your operational system. Check to see if there is a way to pass an argument to configure that tells manually which is your operational system (take the output from uname -o and paste it there) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Trying to use Wireshark on Lenny

2011-12-04 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 04 December 2011 14:35:46 Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: > Looks like that .config-guess script is not asking uname -o, which would > return your operational system. > > Check to see if there is a way to pass an argument to configure that > tells manually which is your operation

Re: iceweasel fills in my textareas

2011-12-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 07:42:03 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > In a recent upgrade (last day or two) iceweasel suddenly started filling > in empty text areas with text from a previous visit to the web site. > This appears to be to be potentially disasterous when I am filling in a > new form - with the

[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#650699: Fwd: fglrx-driver

2011-12-04 Thread lina
Sincerely looking for advice about following error: more Xorg.0.log | grep WW (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 16136.164] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist. [ 16136.195] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fglrx [ 16136

[solved] Re: Adding subtitles to video file

2011-12-04 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:53:47 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> I installed `subtitleeditor' in my Lenny system in order to add comments >> to a certain video file but, when I try to open that file from within >> subtitleeditor, the following error message appears: >> >> >> GStreamer plugins missin

Re: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#650699: Fwd: fglrx-driver

2011-12-04 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:24 AM, lina wrote: Sincerely looking for advice about following error: > > more Xorg.0.log | grep WW > >(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > [ 16136.164] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not > exist. > This one

Re: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#650699: Fwd: fglrx-driver

2011-12-04 Thread lina
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:24 AM, lina wrote: >> >> Sincerely looking for advice about following error: >> >>  more Xorg.0.log | grep WW >> >>        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. >> [ 16136.164] (WW) The direc

Re: Are Web-API packages need to be in the 'main' repo ?

2011-12-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:36:57 +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) ships packages What package(s), specifically? > that integrate with web services (called in modern term 'Cloud > Computing' or SaaS, 'Software-as-a-Service' if you will), such as the > Facebook API. What if Facebo

Re: Debian 5 update system broken

2011-12-04 Thread Bret Busby
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Camaleón wrote: Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:13:02 + (UTC) From: Camaleón To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian 5 update system broken Resent-Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:15:49 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:05:19 +0

Re: Debian 5 update system broken

2011-12-04 Thread Bret Busby
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:05:19 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:58:13 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: With an update notification (the gold star with the exclamation mark, in the taskbar), I got the following error. (...) Already reported: http:/

RE: Launcher controllsQuestion:solved

2011-12-04 Thread John W. Foster
Duh!!! I found the controls in the terminal screen preferences. Don't know what in the world I was thinking. 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.debian.org/

Re: Are Web-API packages need to be in the 'main' repo ?

2011-12-04 Thread Alexey Eromenko
> And I'm not saying that this kind of things shouldn't be discussed, on the > contrary, I'd keep tracking any application that is susceptible of > changing its mind. Also, CC'ing to "debian-legal" could be a good idea. Thanks. I have contacted debian-legal. And no, acting after those web APIs br

Re: Debian 5 update system broken

2011-12-04 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:48:17 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> That was fast... is now solved. Good job! > > But I have just tried again, and I get > > " > Could not initialize the package information > > A unresolvable problem occurred while initializing

Launcher controllsQuestion

2011-12-04 Thread John W. Foster
I use desktop launchers for a number of .php commands that execute scripts. I run them in the terminal mode. I need to see the output and close the terminal manually. How is this done? Currently the script executs then the terminal screen closes automatically. I figure there is some terminal launch

Re: Are Web-API packages need to be in the 'main' repo ?

2011-12-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:20:16 +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: >> And I'm not saying that this kind of things shouldn't be discussed, on >> the contrary, I'd keep tracking any application that is susceptible of >> changing its mind. Also, CC'ing to "debian-legal" could be a good idea. > > Thanks. I h

Re: Are Web-API packages need to be in the 'main' repo ?

2011-12-04 Thread Alexey Eromenko
> But why have they to break? Afterall, it can "break" any package. Nope. Things like the Linux kernel or OpenOffice will not just break. Even if they do -- they can be fixed, because it is Free Software. We cannot fix applications, that are dependent on non-free web services. >> It is the same

Re: cron.daily error for apt

2011-12-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >I do not see such a line in Squeeze or Sid. What version of apt do > >you have installed? > > it's difficult for me to understand this mess; > I am on Squeeze. apt version is > 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 That looks normal. >deb http://ftp.fr.deb

Re: Corrupted security update package files

2011-12-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > It will need to be fixed in the security archive. I am sure a fix > will come through quickly. Everything is working okay this morning. The problem in the security archive has been fixed. If you had commented out or removed the security repository for this problem then you s

Re: iceweasel fills in my textareas

2011-12-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Alan Chandler wrote: > I am not sure if this is the same or not. I have always had a > little dropdown box like thing appear when I start typing into a > textbox with a selection of offerings based on the first few > characters I have typed. It only fills the fields in if I pick it. > I like that

memtest86's no show

2011-12-04 Thread Albretch Mueller
~ Probably one of you have managed to run memtest86 on a 64-bit Intel box (hp-xw6600) ~ I downloaded and burned memtest86 Version 4.0b (Server) (26-Oct-2011) onto a CD, but when I boot up the box from the CD all I see is: ~ Memtest86 Version 4.0b Server - Sel

Re: Corrupted security update package files

2011-12-04 Thread Bill Wohler
Florian Weimer writes: > * Bill Wohler: > >> When updating lenny this morning (yes, upgrading is on my todo list), I >> got the following error: >> >> E: Problem with MergeList >> /var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_lenny_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages >> E: The package lists

Re: [OT]: Changing icedove's profile browser setting for http(s) links in emails

2011-12-04 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 03/12/2011 12:52, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:30:21 +, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: I searched allover but can't really find a solution... I need to be running one Icedove instance with the -no-remote argument because I need to keep profiles separate. Now the instance running with -

Re: relocation error: and segmentation fault

2011-12-04 Thread Dennis Wicks
Arno, et al, Thanks for the help and detail instructions. It isn't easy, but better than the alternative of a complete rebuild. And no, I can't run dpkg. The only things that run are those that were up at the time aptitude crashed. Like Thunderbird, browser, gthumb, OpenOffice, etc. Thanks

How to access bluetooth phone?

2011-12-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
I have never used bluetooth before and never had a bluetooth enabled phone, so please bear with me. I have just upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. I have a bluetooth USB dongle on my box. I have an LG420 through Tracphone. I have installed Bluez. I have turned bluetooth on at the phone and tried t

Re: How to access bluetooth phone?

2011-12-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Good so far, now make your cell phone discoverable. That's in bluetooth settings somewhere then try that again. If that fails, see if you can make your computer discoverable and try taking the computer over with the cell phone. Some of these pieces of equipment really don't work. On Sun, 4

Re: How to access bluetooth phone?

2011-12-04 Thread Mark Panen
On 05/12/2011 01:01, Marc Shapiro wrote: I have never used bluetooth before and never had a bluetooth enabled phone, so please bear with me. I have just upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. I have a bluetooth USB dongle on my box. I have an LG420 through Tracphone. I have installed Bluez. I have tu

Re: gnome 3 refugee: new kernel loses keyboard and mouse.

2011-12-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:23:09 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:13:49 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > >> On 23/11/2011 17:05, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> >>> But the story doesn't end there. It gets worse. >>> >>> This morning I upgraded again. Now I have a brand-new kernel >>> (3.

Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-04 Thread Dennis Wicks
Hi all, Is there any way to run apt or dpkg, etc. so I can install programs/pkgs on a different system than I am running on? I can't run anything on the other system right now, but I can mount the disks on a machine that is running OK. Many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: gnome 3 refugee: new kernel loses keyboard and mouse.

2011-12-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Only try this if your keyboard is a usb keyboard. If you do it with a ps/2 keyboard you'll probably have to buy a new motherboard after the people with those trucks that have lots of water visit you and put your computer out. pull the usb keyboard connection out of the machine before entering

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-04 Thread Victor Nitu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/05/2011 03:13 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there any way to run apt or dpkg, etc. so I can install programs/pkgs > on a different system than I am running on? > > I can't run anything on the other system right now, but I can mount t

Re: gnome 3 refugee: new kernel loses keyboard and mouse.

2011-12-04 Thread doug
On 12/04/2011 08:14 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: Only try this if your keyboard is a usb keyboard. If you do it with a ps/2 keyboard you'll probably have to buy a new motherboard after the people with those trucks that have lots of water visit you and put your computer out. pull the usb keyboard co

Spell checking with qtm clogging client

2011-12-04 Thread John S.
I use qtm with xfce on wheezy. I like it, but I am a poor speller and I like to have a spell checker available. With the above setup, qtm has appears to have no spell checker. Google came up with a file: libgtkspell0 >= 2.0.10.0 This file has been installed, but qtm does not show it as a depends, r

Re: How to access bluetooth phone?

2011-12-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/04/11 15:21, Jude DaShiell wrote: Good so far, now make your cell phone discoverable. That's in bluetooth settings somewhere then try that again. If that fails, see if you can make your computer discoverable and try taking the computer over with the cell phone. Some of these pieces of eq

Re: How to access bluetooth phone?

2011-12-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 12/04/11 16:00, Mark Panen wrote: On 05/12/2011 01:01, Marc Shapiro wrote: I have never used bluetooth before and never had a bluetooth enabled phone, so please bear with me. I have just upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. I have a bluetooth USB dongle on my box. I have an LG420 through Tracphon

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-04 Thread Dennis Wicks
Victor Nitu wrote the following on 12/04/2011 07:20 PM: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/05/2011 03:13 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Hi all, Is there any way to run apt or dpkg, etc. so I can install programs/pkgs on a different system than I am running on? I can't run anything o

Re: memtest86's no show

2011-12-04 Thread Albretch Mueller
// __ http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/ubuntu-releases/oneiric/ ~ DVD version of unbuntu (AMD is used for Intel x86 as well) ~ it is a displayed boot option ("test memory") ~ lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co