Re: grub2 screen resolution

2012-04-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/04/12 16:17, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > there is no man page for grub. !? grub-bin2h grub-editenv grub-emu grub-install grub-mkconfig grub-mkdevicemap grub-mkfont grub-mkimage grub-mkpasswd-pbkdf2 grub-mkrelpath grub-mkrescue grub-probe grub-reboot grub-script-check grub-set-default grub-set

Authentication problem using ldap credentials

2012-04-06 Thread stefano malini
Hi, i've problems trying login from my client ubuntu 10.10 using ldap user credential. ldap server is debian squeeze. i can enter using the local user of my computer and i can login from a shell using ldap user credential. this is the output of auth.log: Apr 4 15:50:51 dello gdm-session-wor

Re: iceweasel drawing problems

2012-04-06 Thread Rares Aioanei
On 04/05/2012 10:48 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 14:11:37 -0400, Dale Harris wrote: Anyone else having problems with iceweasel (on SID) pixelating text within it's window? Chromium is not doing the same thing, so why it makes me think it's not a video card driver problem.

Re: iceweasel drawing problems

2012-04-06 Thread wolf python london
On 6 April 2012 02:11, Dale Harris wrote: > Anyone else having problems with iceweasel (on SID)  pixelating text > within it's window?  Chromium is not doing the same thing, so why it > makes me think it's not a video card driver problem. > I have this problem too. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/b

Re: RAID1 does not boot

2012-04-06 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thank you every one for helping me. actually i followed and read every thing but just "grub install /dev/sdb" alone didn't help i also run some commands in grub as well grub install /dev/sda (not necessary ) grub install /dev/sdb grub grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) grub> root (hd1,0) grub>

Re: RAID1 does not boot

2012-04-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 01:31:15PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Thank you every one for helping me. actually i followed and read every > thing but just "grub install /dev/sdb" > alone didn't help i also run some commands in grub as well You're missing the dash between 'grub' and 'install'

Re: RAID1 does not boot

2012-04-06 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
sorry i just rewrote the line by mistake it is grub-install /dev/sda grub-install /dev/sdb Thanks for correcting On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 01:31:15PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> Thank you every one for helping me. actually i followed

How to retrieve package source from arbitrary repository

2012-04-06 Thread Malte Forkel
Hi, In order to rebuild or patch a package, I sometimes have to download its source from a repository which is not on my APT sources list. I'm looking for a tool to make retrieving the source as easy as possible. Until now, I have been using dget (from the devscripts package). With the URI of a .

Re: iceweasel drawing problems

2012-04-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Apr 2012, wolf python london wrote: > On 6 April 2012 02:11, Dale Harris wrote: > > Anyone else having problems with iceweasel (on SID)  pixelating text > > within it's window?  Chromium is not doing the same thing, so why it > > makes me think it's not a video card driver problem. > > > I h

Re: iceweasel drawing problems

2012-04-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-04-06 10:47 +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 06 Apr 2012, wolf python london wrote: >> On 6 April 2012 02:11, Dale Harris wrote: >> > Anyone else having problems with iceweasel (on SID)  pixelating text >> > within it's window?  Chromium is not doing the same thing, so why it >> > make

Re: OT: favorite free-software email-subscription / feeds.

2012-04-06 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:30:13 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day, Camaleón. > > > Thank You for Your time and answer. > You worte: > >>Sure, these are RSS feeds, no e-mail subscriptions anymore :-) > > Well, I am new to RSS, I have tried it w/ claws-mail plug-in and did not > like t

Re: Authentication problem using ldap credentials

2012-04-06 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:36:25 +0200, stefano malini wrote: > i've problems trying login from my client ubuntu 10.10 using ldap user > credential. ldap server is debian squeeze. i can enter using the local > user of my computer and i can login from a shell using ldap user > credential. (...) Mmm,

Re: ibm server black screen console

2012-04-06 Thread Joey L
You - know I think you might be on to something, because I do not get any major errors. And when I start the gdm3 - it starts up perfect. I think there is the IBM RSA board --- do you think the output is going there ? I did not do anything strange to the setup - I just installed squeeze as is. I do

Re: RAID1 does not boot

2012-04-06 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:31:15 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Thank you every one for helping me. actually i followed and read every > thing but just "grub install /dev/sdb" > alone didn't help What was the ouput for the above command? Maybe it returned an error but we can't know. > i als

apt-get ntfs-3g installation issue

2012-04-06 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i am trying to install a USB archive drive to my system and i want to use this add-on to utilize my disk with Read Wright rights. now when i run this command "apt-get install ntfs-3g" it give me this Err http://ftp.debian.org lenny/main libntfs-3g31 1:1.2531-1.1 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.1

Re: RAID1 does not boot

2012-04-06 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:31:15 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> Thank you every one for helping me. actually i followed and read every >> thing but just "grub install /dev/sdb" >>  alone didn't help > > What was the ouput for the above command

Reading from the pipe will see end-of-file when all writing descriptors have been closed

2012-04-06 Thread Regid Ichira
Quoting pipe(7): If all file descriptors referring to the write end of a pipe have been closed, then an attempt to read (2) from the pipe will see end-of-file ( read (2) will return 0). Consider a pipe with 1 reading and 1 writing processes. The reading process was put to sleep b

Re: apt-get ntfs-3g installation issue

2012-04-06 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:12:17 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i am trying to install a USB archive drive to my system and i want to > use this add-on to utilize my disk with Read Wright rights. now when i > run this command "apt-get install ntfs-3g" it give me this > > Err http://ftp.debian

Re: RAID1 does not boot

2012-04-06 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:26:44 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:31:15 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> >>> Thank you every one for helping me. actually i followed and read every >>> thing but just "grub install /dev/

Re: iceweasel drawing problems

2012-04-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Apr 2012, Sven Joachim wrote: > > I'm getting this on my laptop (radeon mobility X1400) but not my desktop > > (nvidia). > > Do you use the nvidia blob? With nouveau it is reproducible, see > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=95 and siblings. > > > But it's also somethin

Re: Pinpointing faulty kernel driver?

2012-04-06 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:40:15 +0200, lskovlun wrote: > On Apr 5, 2012 16:12 "Camaleón" wrote: > > > >> You can send the output to another machine using a serial cable and > instructing the kernel to dump the message there. I had to do this years >> ago to debug a kernel crash from a VM but to b

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

2012-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 06:29:19PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > 2. Add these lines to /etc/apt/preferences.d/backports (or > /etc/apt/preferences) : > > Package: * > Pin: release a=squeeze-backports > Pin-Priority: 500 > > WARNING TO STEP TWO: This will make all packages from backports have >

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

2012-04-06 Thread Lisi
On Friday 06 April 2012 17:02:05 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 06:29:19PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > 2. Add these lines to /etc/apt/preferences.d/backports (or > > /etc/apt/preferences) : > > > > Package: * > > Pin: release a=squeeze-backports > > Pin-Priority: 500 > > >

Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again

2012-04-06 Thread James Brown
On 06.04.2012 00:00, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 06/04/12 07:12, James Brown wrote: >> On 05.04.2012 10:08, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 05/04/12 19:08, James Brown wrote: On 04.04.2012 11:42, Brian wrote: > On Wed 04 Apr 2012 at 09:35:19 +, James Brown wrote: > >> After upgradi

Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again

2012-04-06 Thread James Brown
On 05.04.2012 10:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 05/04/12 19:04, James Brown wrote: >> On 04.04.2012 11:32, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 04/04/12 19:35, James Brown wrote: After upgrading from lenny to sqeeuze last year I faced witha problem of fonts in the console. Problem has been o

Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again

2012-04-06 Thread James Brown
On 05.04.2012 13:13, Brian wrote: > On Thu 05 Apr 2012 at 12:17:49 +, James Brown wrote: > >> On 05.04.2012 10:22, Brian wrote: >>> >>> What are FONTFACE and FONTSIZE in /etc/default/console-setup >> >> FONTFACE="Fixed" >> FONTSIZE="16" > > You can do better than this. Install the xfonts-term

Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again

2012-04-06 Thread James Brown
On 05.04.2012 13:22, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 5:04 AM, James Brown wrote: >> On 04.04.2012 11:32, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 04/04/12 19:35, James Brown wrote: After upgrading from lenny to sqeeuze last year I faced witha problem of fonts in the console. Problem has b

Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again

2012-04-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 06 apr 12, 16:35:33, James Brown wrote: > > I have no big problems with X screen resolution. After loading the > desktop environment I indeed have a screen more little than physical > display but I can fix it by using ordinary gnome means > (gnome-display-properties). But I cannot fix that

Re: How to retrieve package source from arbitrary repository

2012-04-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 06 apr 12, 12:08:31, Malte Forkel wrote: > > Is there a tool that will determine the .dsc file's URI given the > repository's base URI, the distribution name, and the package name? I > guess it would have to download and parse the Source control files, > ideally caching them for later use.

OT: i3 configuration

2012-04-06 Thread Brian Flaherty
Hello, I like tiling window managers and I've played around with awesome and i3 mainly. I prefer the manual layout of i3 to the dynamic layout of awesome. However, I like that awesome handles the osd notifications, let's me know dropbox is running, mounts usb drives, etc. If you use i3 and you

Re: How to boot PC-BSD from Debian

2012-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:48:05AM -0700, Weaver wrote: [attribution snipped!!!] > > I booted FreeBSD from Debian's GRUB2 with no problem, also NetBSD. If > > you still need the link, let me know. > > Definitely! > And thanks. > I had PC-BSD installed for a while and the entire house felt as thoug

apt-get update error with volatile.debian.org

2012-04-06 Thread MPR
Last year I started getting errors when running apt-get update. The errors look like this: W: Failed to fetch http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile/dists/squeeze/volatile/main/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.13 80] W: Failed to fetch http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volati

Re: Reading from the pipe will see end-of-file when all writing descriptors have been closed

2012-04-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Regid Ichira wrote: > Quoting pipe(7): > > If all file descriptors referring to the write end of a pipe > have been closed, then an attempt to read (2) from the pipe > will see end-of-file ( read (2) will return 0). > > Consider a pipe with 1 reading and 1 writing processes. The

Re: apt-get update error with volatile.debian.org

2012-04-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 06 apr 12, 10:42:51, MPR wrote: > > Does anyone know how to fix this? I had not made any changes to the > server to cause this and have just been living with it. Volatile has been replaced with squeeze-updates http://www.debian.org/volatile/ http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announc

Re: apt-get update error with volatile.debian.org

2012-04-06 Thread Bob Proulx
MPR wrote: > Last year I started getting errors when running apt-get update. The > errors look like this: > > W: Failed to fetch > http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile/dists/squeeze/volatile/main/source/Sources.gz > 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.13 80] Right. The Lenny volatile repositor

Re: apt-get update error with volatile.debian.org

2012-04-06 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:42 PM, MPR wrote: > > Last year I started getting errors when running apt-get update. The > errors look like this: > > W: Failed to fetch > http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile/dists/squeeze/volatile/main/source/Sources.gz >  404  Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.13 80] > >

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:38:30AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 08:55, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> There are many kinds of people, so everyone has different opinion > >> about top/bottom posting :) > > I have never understood why though, aside from people getting > used it d

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 04:03:05PM +, Camaleón wrote: > Bottom posting has been since long the preferred method for newsgroups > and then mailing lists but not for forums nor business communications. > > A bottom posting style does not mean "all the stuff goes to the bottom" Yes it does! Th

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:42:53PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > I already changed to bottom posting in Iceweasel and K9 mail. But > isn't posting HTML also forbidden? It isn't a matter of whether it's forbidden or not, its a matter of whether you want someone to bother taking time out to help

Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again

2012-04-06 Thread Brian
On Fri 06 Apr 2012 at 16:40:22 +, James Brown wrote: > On 05.04.2012 13:13, Brian wrote: > > > > You can do better than this. Install the xfonts-terminus package. I'm a > > little surprised your console-setup doesn't offer them. > > I know. But using terminus is not useful to me (in the case

Re: [NOT OT]: i3 configuration

2012-04-06 Thread Brian
On Fri 06 Apr 2012 at 10:26:40 -0700, Brian Flaherty wrote: > I like tiling window managers and I've played around with awesome and > i3 mainly. I prefer the manual layout of i3 to the dynamic layout of > awesome. However, I like that awesome handles the osd notifications, > let's me know dropbox

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 07:06:03PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 03.04.2012 17:42, Jon Dowland wrote: > > But, have we really > > had return receipts, HTML mail and top-posting all in the same thread? ☹ > > Yes we did, but you are forgetting GPG clearsigning vs GPG S/MIME and > was there som

Re: apt-get update error with volatile.debian.org

2012-04-06 Thread Lisi
On Friday 06 April 2012 18:42:51 MPR wrote: > Last year I started getting errors when running apt-get update. The > errors look like this: > > W: Failed to fetch > http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile/dists/squeeze/volatile/main/sour >ce/Sources.gz 404  Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.13 80] > > W:

installing source over package

2012-04-06 Thread Darren Crotchett
I had an issue with the cups-filters package on Wheezy. I found that the bug was resolved in the unstable branch. But, I wasn't sure how to get the unstable branch version of cups. So, I compiled cups-filters from source and installed it on top of my current version (did not uninstall the packag

Re: installing source over package

2012-04-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Darren Crotchett wrote: > I had an issue with the cups-filters package on Wheezy. I found that the > bug was resolved in the unstable branch. But, I wasn't sure how to get the > unstable branch version of cups. So, I compiled cups-filters from source > and installed it on top of my current versi

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-06 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Chris Bannister wrote: >On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 07:06:03PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: >> On 03.04.2012 17:42, Jon Dowland wrote: >> > But, have we really >> > had return receipts, HTML mail and top-posting all in the same >thread? ☹ >> >> Yes w

Re: apt-get update error with volatile.debian.org

2012-04-06 Thread MPR
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > That is incorrect and the source of your problems.  Remove those > lines.  Add these lines: > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze-updates main > deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze-updates main That fixed it! Thanks for th

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 11:38:29AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 04/04/12 07:46, Lisi wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 April 2012 22:35:00 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> Note that apt-get *installs* recommended packages by default since > >> Lenny and starting with Squeeze is the preferred program to

Re: installing source over package

2012-04-06 Thread Brian
On Fri 06 Apr 2012 at 14:08:25 -0500, Darren Crotchett wrote: > I had an issue with the cups-filters package on Wheezy. I found that the > bug was resolved in the unstable branch. But, I wasn't sure how to get the > unstable branch version of cups. So, I compiled cups-filters from source > and

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-06 Thread Lisi
On Friday 06 April 2012 20:34:28 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 11:38:29AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > On 04/04/12 07:46, Lisi wrote: > > > On Tuesday 03 April 2012 22:35:00 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > >> Note that apt-get *installs* recommended packages by default since > > >

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 12:35:00AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 04 apr 12, 02:01:41, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > For a start it is possibly all just hot air unless it is discussed on > > the debian-doc list and/or a patch submitted against the debian-faq > > package. I know that you ar

Re: installing source over package

2012-04-06 Thread Darren Crotchett
thanks On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Darren Crotchett wrote: > > I had an issue with the cups-filters package on Wheezy. I found that the > > bug was resolved in the unstable branch. But, I wasn't sure how to get > the > > unstable branch version of cups. So, I compiled

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 06 apr 12, 20:54:47, Lisi wrote: > > That is about spelling, not grammar. Since requires the perfect tense. It is > quite simply wrong in English to say "since installs". Leave out the > words "since Lenny", and "installs" becomes correct, but loses some of the > intended meaning.

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-06 Thread Lisi
On Friday 06 April 2012 21:38:44 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 06 apr 12, 20:54:47, Lisi wrote: > > That is about spelling, not grammar. Since requires the perfect tense. > > It is quite simply wrong in English to say "since installs". Leave > > out the words "since Lenny", and "installs" be

Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-06 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Hiya, Having a bad track record of not taking care of "dead tree" books, I am looking to buy an electronic book reader. The Amazon's Kindle does look good and it boasts a Linux kernel, but I am very disappointed at the many restrictions they want to place on me: automatic installation of firmware

Question about how to add icedove compilation bug report

2012-04-06 Thread André Silva
Hi for all, i'm André Silva (alias Emulatorman), a Parabola distro Hacker https://parabolagnulinux.org/hackers/#Emulatorman and i'm porting icedove-10.0.3-3 from Debian to Parabola distro (derivate from Archlinux) using the source code from your distro repo http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/ I

Re: [NOT OT]: i3 configuration

2012-04-06 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > On Fri 06 Apr 2012 at 10:26:40 -0700, Brian Flaherty wrote: > >> I like tiling window managers and I've played around with awesome and >> i3 mainly. I prefer the manual layout of i3 to the dynamic layout of >> awesome. However, I like that awesome handles the osd

Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again

2012-04-06 Thread Indulekha
James Brown, try this in /etc/default/console-setup and see what happens: CHARMAP="UTF-8" CODESET="Uni2" FONTFACE="TerminusBold" FONTSIZE="32x16" -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:12:45 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > Hiya, > > Having a bad track record of not taking care of "dead tree" books, I am > looking to buy an electronic book reader. > > The Amazon's Kindle does look good and it boasts a Linux kernel, but I > am very disappointed at th

Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-06 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 12:12:45AM +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > Hiya, > > Having a bad track record of not taking care of "dead tree" books, I am > looking to buy an electronic book reader. > > The Amazon's Kindle does look good and it boasts a Linux kernel, but I > am very disappointed

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:23:07 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > iQIuBAEBCAAYBQJPf0KXERxNaWthIFN1b21hbGFpbmVuAAoJEE21PP6CpGcoycAP > /iZU6Cdm8buOgsIT0LQEekvpC+ryn00/bUX9Xxcs9VvvBcMeXghr8TMnvbMnRLz1 > bzlo/hYvQh1EX62oT9JW8NkKz6ydq3QBecdPAGtYdaMVm1pNPkPITA8VF3GQHAvr > IMntClybbUIQU05GouahlZH0rMwxkHz5fx8

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

2012-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 05:21:01PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Friday 06 April 2012 17:02:05 Chris Bannister wrote: > > Ummm, well, obviously if you have backports in your sources list you are > > no longer running stable. > > It depends on the pinning. I have it in my sources.list, but I have to ask

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

2012-04-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Bannister wrote: > Perhaps better names would have been unpredictable/testing/predictable? Volatile, Staging, Repeatable? Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian From Scratch Revisited

2012-04-06 Thread David L. Craig
[odd--I never saw these replies in D-U-Ds 544-546, and so am replying via the website] It seems there isn't much interest here so I'll forego the cookbook. Interested parties should understand Debian IS IN FACT based upon source packages and all binary packages are built from these Debianized so

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 08:54:47PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Friday 06 April 2012 20:34:28 Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 11:38:29AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > On 04/04/12 07:46, Lisi wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 03 April 2012 22:35:00 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > >> Note tha

Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-06 Thread Peter Easthope
On 06/04/12 02:12 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: ... what I am looking for is a hardware reader that is designed to respect my freedoms. Preferably one that runs a GNU/Linux system, and which I am allowed to tinker with. It does not have to work out of the box, and I am prepared to invest time

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

2012-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 04:33:54PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > > Perhaps better names would have been unpredictable/testing/predictable? > > Volatile, Staging, Repeatable? Volatile has been used for ephemeral packages. No need to cloud murky waters even further. -- "Reli

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp (tmp cleaning)

2012-04-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Scott Ferguson wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > but, but, but I was told Big Data is the Big Thing I know you are just teasing but on a serious note I am really hoping good things come from the Freedom Box project. It addresses the problems with the current implementations of cloud computing. Pe

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/04/12 05:34, Chris Bannister wrote: > > http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=4904#comment-303296 > You shouldn't have eaten those mushrooms. Kind regards -- Iceweasel/Firefox/Chrome/Chromium/Iceape/IE extensions for finding answers to questions about Debian:- https://addons.mozilla.o

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/04/12 05:54, Lisi wrote: > On Friday 06 April 2012 20:34:28 Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 11:38:29AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 04/04/12 07:46, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 03 April 2012 22:35:00 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Note that apt-get *installs* recommended

Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again

2012-04-06 Thread Brian
On Fri 06 Apr 2012 at 16:29:54 -0500, Indulekha wrote: > James Brown, try this in /etc/default/console-setup > and see what happens: > > CHARMAP="UTF-8" > CODESET="Uni2" > FONTFACE="TerminusBold" > FONTSIZE="32x16" And run 'setupcon' after making the changes? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp (tmp cleaning)

2012-04-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/04/12 09:14, Bob Proulx wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >> but, but, but I was told Big Data is the Big Thing > > I know you are just teasing With teeth bared. Cloud is good for a number of things. Cloud is not good for most of the things it's being used and promoted

Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-06 Thread Frank McCormick
On 06/04/12 05:57 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:12:45 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Hiya, Having a bad track record of not taking care of "dead tree" books, I am looking to buy an electronic book reader. The Amazon's Kindle does look good and it boasts a Linux kernel, b

Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again

2012-04-06 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > On Fri 06 Apr 2012 at 16:29:54 -0500, Indulekha wrote: > >> James Brown, try this in /etc/default/console-setup >> and see what happens: >> >> CHARMAP="UTF-8" >> CODESET="Uni2" >> FONTFACE="TerminusBold" >> FONTSIZE="32x16" > > And run 'setupcon' after making th

Re: OT: favorite free-software email-subscription / feeds.

2012-04-06 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Camaleón. Thank You for Your time and extended answer! You worte: > Well, I am new to RSS, I have tried it w/ claws-mail plug-in and did not > > like that I was unable to remove the read feeds permanently - that is it > > was removed until next feeds update. Therefore, I li

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-06 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 7 Apr 2012, Chris Bannister wrote: AIUI, no one knows *yet* whether aptitude or apt-get will be preferred for Wheezy until the usual testing takes place near the time of actual release. look at this (from the Debian Project News, 23 Jan 2012) http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2012/