Re: How do I remove a bad file??

2012-05-02 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Dennis Wicks: >> Greetings; >> >> I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list; >> >> -? ? ?    ?             ?                ? Inbox.msf >> >> I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything else I >> have t

Re: Flashplayer on Debian Squeeze.

2012-05-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 02 May 2012 5:36:35 am Lisi wrote: > Hi, all! > > I have been trying to get Flashplayer going on my husband's computer. When > the advice on this list and the Debian website failed (as below), i just > deinstalled the lot and downloaded from the Adobe site. According to the > site,

Re: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid: aptitude ERROR

2012-05-02 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > >> On Mi, 02 mai 12, 08:52:26, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >>> today I run aptitude update and get errors: >>> http://paste.debian.net/166950/ >> >> Pastebin for 3 lines? >> >>> After that I run aptitude safe-upgrade and again,

Re: i would like to know how i can upgrade to the latest kernel on debian squeeze.

2012-05-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 02 mai 12, 15:33:41, Joey L wrote: > I thoiught it would be easy to google - how i can upgrade to the > latest kernel on debian squeeze. Latest kernel available in Debian or latest kernel released? You may be interested to know that backports has 3.2 which might be recent enough for your

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-02 Thread Indulekha
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 06:42:22PM +, Curt wrote: > > I like your signature, hearts and eighth notes, if music be the food of > love, play on... > Thank you kindly. :) -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-02 Thread Riccardo Romoli
Hi to all, I'm a newbie of Debian but using the Debian-Wiky I was able to install Debian 6 as single boot, on my MacBookPro (v.3.1). The only problem I notice, till now, is about the Alt key. I bought the computer as used from a German guy ignoring that the keyboard has the particularity to

Re: Themes and unreadable text

2012-05-02 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 02/05/2012, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 02 May 2012 08:26:12 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> i'm looking for a theme where the background in konqueror and >> tranmission is all white instead of its current >> grey/white/grey/white/etc which is difficult for me to read in the grey >> bars. The bl

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2012 #674

2012-05-02 Thread tina braxton
Please take me off this list. Thanks. From: "debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org" To: debian-user-dig...@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 3:54 AM Subject: debian-user-digest Digest V2012 #674 - Forwarded Message - debian-user-

Re: Flashplayer on Debian Squeeze.

2012-05-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/05/12 23:36, Lisi wrote: > Hi, all! > > I have been trying to get Flashplayer > > Thanks, > Lisi > > root@Hercules:/home/peter# update-flashplugin-nonfree --install > ERROR: wget failed to download > http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/fp10.sha512.i386.pgp.asc > More in

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/05/12 17:48, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I am running Debian 6. > > When I installed it, I had a swap partition of about 40GB set up, as is > shown by gparted. > > But, for some strnge reason, Debian 6will not use the swap space, > even > though gparted shows it to be "Active". I don

Re: Solved: Re: Can't install flashplugin.nonfree. ERROR: wget failed to download

2012-05-02 Thread Han Soo Chang
I thank you all for your help. But there seems to be a big misunderstanding. The issue is not how to use sudo or how to set up no-password. If you could see my original report, it would be clear. But it seems to have fallen off the thread. Here is what happened. $sudo apt-get install flashplu

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 02 May 2012 07:12:31 -0400 (EDT), Sian Mountbatten wrote: > ... > As a rule, your swap partition should be the same size as your RAM. > ... It is my understanding that, assuming suspend/resume is supported, your swap partition should be AT LEAST as large as TWICE the amount of RAM. Suspend

Re: dist-upgrades on sid (was: X server: connection refused)

2012-05-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jochen Spieker (02/05/2012): > Incidentally, apt-get dist-upgrade is less disastrous in this case. It > only suggests to remove xserver-xorg-video-all, > xserver-xorg-video-s3virge and xserver-xorg-video-tdfx while keeping > all important X related packages for my system. Background: http://blo

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2012 #674

2012-05-02 Thread Indulekha
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 03:52:05PM -0700, tina braxton wrote: >Please take me off this list. Thanks. > __ > I'm sure most of us would be happy to do that for you if we could. Please kindly reference the notice at the bottom

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-02 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/2/2012 5:05 PM, Riccardo Romoli wrote: Hi to all, I'm a newbie of Debian but using the Debian-Wiky I was able to install Debian 6 as single boot, on my MacBookPro (v.3.1). The only problem I notice, till now, is about the Alt key. I bought the computer as used from a German guy ignoring

Graphic problem on Debian testing installed on Dell Optiplex 960

2012-05-02 Thread Johan Mazel
Hi I have a Debian testing 64 bits running on a Dell Optiplex 960. I have three different kernels installed: 2.6.32-5, 3.2.0-1 and 3.2.0-2. Until a recent upgrade (through apt-get update/apt-get upgrade), I could not use the Gnome login screen with kernel versions 3.2.0-1 and 3.2.0-2: the top of

Re: Macbook pro re-mapping single key

2012-05-02 Thread Indulekha
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 09:00:12PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > On 5/2/2012 5:05 PM, Riccardo Romoli wrote: > >Hi to all, > > > >I'm a newbie of Debian but using the Debian-Wiky I was able to install > >Debian 6 as single boot, on my MacBookPro (v.3.1). The only problem I > >notice, till now, is

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-02 Thread Indulekha
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 03:54:21PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 02 May 2012 10:04:36 -0500, Indulekha wrote: > > > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 02:50:38PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> > So, do you run leafnode and point it at nntp://news.gmane.org then? > >> > >> I've never used Leafnode before.

Re: Debian problem

2012-05-02 Thread Johan Mazel
Thanks for all your answers. I sent another mail to this mailing list to expose my problem. Regards. Johan 2012/5/3 Camaleón : > On Wed, 02 May 2012 19:08:52 +0900, Johan Mazel wrote: > >> I have a problem with Debian Testing on an Dell Optiplex 960. Can I ask >> for some help on this list or shou

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