Re: need help configuring debian-6.05 with DNS

2012-06-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:59:27 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > Hold on! on ethic's /etc/host's file I had the *wrong* IP. "deb" is my > to-be new Linux server with 10.47.0.115 as its internal IP. Now I can > ping and dig and nslookup the computer *correctly*. This is > outstanding. A bad step for som

why ABIWORD?

2012-06-30 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hello: With my i386 wheezy, a today update/upgrade led to libreoffice (text) not launching. I resorted to abiword, new in my experience. I found abiword in great troubles with tables made by libreoffice odt. Suddendly, abiword was able to destroy nearly completely the content of the big table. Sho

Re: Re (3): Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-30 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 29 June 2012 23:41, Doug wrote: > On 06/29/2012 05:29 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > >> From: Dom >> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:02:45 +0100 >> >>> Ok, I've just tested this. It is a FAT filesystem limitation. >>> >> /snip/ > > I've looked at this thread a number of times, but I was then and

Re: DHCP + DNS questions

2012-06-30 Thread Soare Catalin
On Jun 25, 2012 10:07 AM, "Andrei POPESCU" wrote: > > On Lu, 25 iun 12, 01:09:36, Soare Catalin wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I've setup a dhcp+dns server on a small box where I've installed > > debian wheezy. It is for home use, as I happen to have a retarded > > router from my ISP which is

Re: DHCP + DNS questions

2012-06-30 Thread Soare Catalin
On Jun 25, 2012 10:07 AM, "Andrei POPESCU" wrote: > > On Lu, 25 iun 12, 01:09:36, Soare Catalin wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I've setup a dhcp+dns server on a small box where I've installed > > debian wheezy. It is for home use, as I happen to have a retarded > > router from my ISP which is

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:03:58 +0200, Denis Witt wrote: (...) >> and hey, it's open source! You can hire a programmer, make a fork >> ("FileZilla-S" for secure) and add all the enhancements you want ;- > > Forking a program for a single little feature doesn't make a lot of > sense to me. If you

Re: Joining pcl and jpg in Gimp.

2012-06-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:28:23 -0800, peasthope wrote: > I have a pcl file to join to a jpg to make a collage. > > Gimp can not import pcl directly but I can try to convert it to jpg or > png using netpbm. Can anyone recommend a favourite solution to this > problem? I would use a tool to convert

Re: Problem with Disk test

2012-06-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:01:17 -0600, Shane Johnson wrote: > I was wondering if someone could maybe shed some light on a problem I am > having. I have build a Debian Squeeze server using debootstrap with and > without backports. When I run badblocks from the installed system I > keep getting error

Re: why ABIWORD?

2012-06-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:16:04 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > With my i386 wheezy, a today update/upgrade led to libreoffice (text) > not launching. When that happens, run it from command line ("oowriter") and watch for the output. > I resorted to abiword, new in my experience. I found abiword

Re: why ABIWORD?

2012-06-30 Thread Joe
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:16:04 +0200 Francesco Pietra wrote: > Hello: > With my i386 wheezy, a today update/upgrade led to libreoffice (text) > not launching. I resorted to abiword, new in my experience. I found > abiword in great troubles with tables made by libreoffice odt. > Suddendly, abiword w

Re: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid - Howto setup bootlogd?

2012-06-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:49:46 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 29 iun 12, 14:53:25, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Uh? This has been installed since... wait, you're right, the package is >> not there, what the...? It may have been removed silently because I'm >> sure I had it working and installed mon

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-30 Thread Denis Witt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón schrieb: >>> and hey, it's open source! You can hire a programmer, make a >>> fork ("FileZilla-S" for secure) and add all the enhancements you >>> want ;- >> Forking a program for a single little feature doesn't make a lot >> of sense to me.

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:45:08 +0200, Denis Witt wrote: > Camaleón schrieb: > and hey, it's open source! You can hire a programmer, make a fork ("FileZilla-S" for secure) and add all the enhancements you want ;- >>> Forking a program for a single little feature doesn't make a lot of >>> s

Unable to install grub in mac mini server

2012-06-30 Thread Rodolfo kix Garcia
Hi, I have a mac mini server (2011). I installed Debian one year ago and all was fine. I setup grub without problems, but some days ago the computers was rebooted and I cannot boot it. I tried to reinstall grub, but no success. This is the configuration: 1. Mac mini server has two disks:

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-30 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Camaleón, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:45:08 +0200, Denis Witt wrote: > > I like how MacOS handle this, nearly every application designed for > > MacOS is using the built in Keychain. Of course, if the keychain tool > > isn't secure this is a big problem. > > That's similar to

Re: Debian's grub doesn't detect Ubuntu

2012-06-30 Thread John W. Foster
On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 13:51 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 27.06.2012 18:35, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > > On 27 June 2012 07:37, Mika Suomalainen > > wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > I have three OSes on this computer. They are Debian Sid, Ubuntu Precise > >> > and Windows 7. > >> > > >> >

gnome cannot start without kde

2012-06-30 Thread Andrey S. Rybak
hi all! I use gnome on testing branch of debian. Some time ago next strange thing was happened. In time of starting my computer i cannot achive even command prompt. Some infinite looping was occuring. But if i choose recovering regime of downloading there are no problem. This infinite loop disa

RE: Wireless network not found

2012-06-30 Thread Nathan D'elboux
Hi Camaleon, Thanks for your advice, >>if your wifi card(s) can only work at "g" speed > your AP has to be set to >>support only "g" (or "g" alongside "n" → b/g/n).> So it turned out that the router had a specific frequency set instead of auto or all frequencies. I changed that to auto and then

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:46:30 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello Camaleón, > > Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:45:08 +0200, Denis Witt wrote: >> > I like how MacOS handle this, nearly every application designed for >> > MacOS is using the built in Keychain. Of course, if the keychain

Re: gnome cannot start without kde

2012-06-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:38:16 +0300, Andrey S. Rybak wrote: > I use gnome on testing branch of debian. Some time ago next strange > thing was happened. In time of starting my computer i cannot achive even > command prompt. Some infinite looping was occuring. Any message printed in the screen? How

Re: gnome cannot start without kde

2012-06-30 Thread Andrey S. Rybak
Any message printed in the screen? How does the loop look like, what are you getting (e.g., are you continously going back to the login screen)? exactly, yes You can boot in recovery mode and work from there, at least you will able to look at the logs (the interesting one should be the "~/.xs

Re: gnome cannot start without kde

2012-06-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:37:37 +0300, Andrey S. Rybak wrote: >> Any message printed in the screen? How does the loop look like, what >> are you getting (e.g., are you continously going back to the login >> screen)? > exactly, yes Okay, this is important. >> You can boot in recovery mode and work

Re: grub-install says can't identify filesystem; won't install

2012-06-30 Thread Dan B.
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 28 iun 12, 21:41:23, Dan B. wrote: When I run "grub-install /dev/sdb1", it says: /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: unable to identify a filesystem in hd1,gpt1; safety check can't be performed. and does not install GRUB2. (It's still the same if I use the syntax ("gr

[1/2 OT] How to find the desktop near me?

2012-06-30 Thread lina
Hi, The desktop installed the Sid (seems not so relevant here.) Now the monitor/screen not work; other things are totally fine. I used to login desktop first and then ssh from laptop, Now since not be able to log in, how can I find its ip ? so I can connect from laptop. or shall I just find oth

Re: [1/2 OT] How to find the desktop near me?

2012-06-30 Thread lina
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:16 AM, lina wrote: > Hi, > > The desktop installed the Sid (seems not so relevant here.)  Now the > monitor/screen not work; other things are totally fine. > > I used to login desktop first and then ssh from laptop, > > Now since not be able to log in, how can I find its

Re: [1/2 OT] How to find the desktop near me?

2012-06-30 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2012-06-30 18:16, lina skrev: Hi, The desktop installed the Sid (seems not so relevant here.) Now the monitor/screen not work; other things are totally fine. I used to login desktop first and then ssh from laptop, Now since not be able to log in, how can I find its ip ? so I can connect from

Strange issue during boot

2012-06-30 Thread MR ZenWiz
This may be a little OT, but I've tried other "more relevant" OS lists and not gotten anywhere. I recently updated all the computers I use on a regular basis from Ubuntu 10.10 to Xubuntu 12.04. To its credit, this boots up to a graphic of Debian, which is, after all, the underlying OS distro for

Re: [1/2 OT] How to find the desktop near me?

2012-06-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 01 iul 12, 00:20:46, lina wrote: > On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:16 AM, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The desktop installed the Sid (seems not so relevant here.)  Now the > > monitor/screen not work; other things are totally fine. > > > > I used to login desktop first and then ssh from laptop, >

Re: [OT] Strange issue during boot

2012-06-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 30 iun 12, 09:31:24, MR ZenWiz wrote: > This may be a little OT, but I've tried other "more relevant" OS lists > and not gotten anywhere. But please (at least) mention [OT] in the subject, like I did. > I recently updated all the computers I use on a regular basis from > Ubuntu 10.10 to X

Re: [1/2 OT] How to find the desktop near me?

2012-06-30 Thread lina
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 01 iul 12, 00:20:46, lina wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:16 AM, lina wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > The desktop installed the Sid (seems not so relevant here.)  Now the >> > monitor/screen not work; other things are totally fine. >>

Re: Bridging eth0/br0 & NetworkManager - can they coexist?

2012-06-30 Thread Arun Khan
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Steve Dowe wrote: > Hello, > > I have absolutely no doubt that someone reading this list knows more > than I do on this.. :) > > The issue I'm having, using wheezy, is that if I set up a bridged > ethernet interface for eth0 (br0), as per instructions on the Debian

Re: [1/2 OT] How to find the desktop near me?

2012-06-30 Thread lina
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > 2012-06-30 18:16, lina skrev: > >> Hi, >> >> The desktop installed the Sid (seems not so relevant here.)  Now the >> monitor/screen not work; other things are totally fine. >> >> I used to login desktop first and then ssh from laptop, >> >>

Re: gnome cannot start without kde

2012-06-30 Thread Andrey S. Rybak
pastbin does not take my log for their size :)) (over 5mb) -- 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/4fef24ce.3070...@iop.kiev.ua

Re: [1/2 OT] How to find the desktop near me?

2012-06-30 Thread lina
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > 2012-06-30 18:16, lina skrev: > >> Hi, >> >> The desktop installed the Sid (seems not so relevant here.)  Now the >> monitor/screen not work; other things are totally fine. >> >> I used to login desktop first and then ssh from laptop, >> >>

Re: gnome cannot start without kde

2012-06-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 19:09:50 +0300, Andrey S. Rybak wrote: > pastbin does not take my log for their size :)) (over 5mb) The enormous size of the file tells me the problem is logged there :-) Upload the file elsewhere, for instance: http://www.sendspace.com/ Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UN

Re: [1/2 OT] How to find the desktop near me?

2012-06-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:16:22 +0800, lina wrote: > The desktop installed the Sid (seems not so relevant here.) Now the > monitor/screen not work; other things are totally fine. Is hardware that broke? > I used to login desktop first and then ssh from laptop, > > Now since not be able to log in,

Re: [1/2 OT] How to find the desktop near me?

2012-06-30 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 30 June 2012 17:27:52 Johan Grönqvist wrote: > > > I used to login desktop first and then ssh from laptop, > > > > Now since not be able to log in, how can I find its ip ? so I can > > connect from laptop. > > or > > shall I just find other monitor and connect? > > That seems to be the

Re: [1/2 OT] How to find the desktop near me?

2012-06-30 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 30 June 2012 18:19:41 lina wrote: > On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Johan Grönqvist > > wrote: > > 2012-06-30 18:16, lina skrev: > >> Hi, > >> > >> The desktop installed the Sid (seems not so relevant here.)  Now the > >> monitor/screen not work; other things are totally fine. > >> >

Re: [1/2 OT] How to find the desktop near me?

2012-06-30 Thread Erwan David
On 30/06/12 19:51, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 30 June 2012 17:27:52 Johan Grönqvist wrote: > > >>> I used to login desktop first and then ssh from laptop, >>> >>> Now since not be able to log in, how can I find its ip ? so I can >>> connect from laptop. >>> or >>> shall I just find other monitor an

VMBuilder for for squeeze

2012-06-30 Thread anotst01
Dear list, I need a tool to create VM images. Is there something like VMBuilder, but compatible with squeeze? Thanks a lot! -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: VMBuilder for for squeeze

2012-06-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:40:44 -0700, anotst01 wrote: > I need a tool to create VM images. > > Is there something like VMBuilder, but compatible with squeeze? There's a repo in launchpad for that tool, have you tried it? :-? http://wiki.debian.org/VMBuilder In Debian repos I see the "virtinst" p

Re: [1/2 OT] How to find the desktop near me?

2012-06-30 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-07-01 a las 02:11 +0800, lina escribió: (resending to the list) > On 1 Jul, 2012, at 1:35, Camaleón wrote: > > > On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:16:22 +0800, lina wrote: > > > >> The desktop installed the Sid (seems not so relevant here.) Now the > >> monitor/screen not work; other things are

Re: Hash Sum mismatch......

2012-06-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:59:23PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 29 iun 12, 14:25:26, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > JFTR, problems with third party repositories are off topic on this list. > > The repository 'www.deb-multimedia.org' is not affiliated with Debian in > > anyway and in fact

Re: gnome cannot start without kde

2012-06-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:24:04 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) > Upload the file elsewhere, for instance: > > http://www.sendspace.com/ (you send me the link in private, thanks) Wow! There are tons of errors... Okay, let me upload to pastebin the full log for the last session you opened a day ago:

Re: Hash Sum mismatch......

2012-06-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:01:01PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:25:26 +1200 "Chris Bannister > cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz" suggested this: > > >JFTR, problems with third party repositories are off topic on this > >list. The repository 'www.deb-multimedia.org' is not affiliated

Re: PS2 Keyboard not working after latest update

2012-06-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:43:56AM +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > Tried both of those but nothing. I have a theory that it might be a Udev > problem, but can't be certain. Does anyone have any ideas why a problem > like that might arise? Do you have any data to backup your theory? -- "If yo

Re: why ABIWORD?

2012-06-30 Thread Doug
On 06/30/2012 05:58 AM, Joe wrote: On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:16:04 +0200 Francesco Pietra wrote: /snip/ If someone demands a Word document, I would normally send an RTF file, which is somewhat more predictable and will open in any Word, and even then I'd use quite large margins. I do actually h

Re: VMBuilder for for squeeze

2012-06-30 Thread anotst01
virt-install requires user input (mouse, keyboard). I should have said, I need an unattended vm creator. VMBuilder from launchpad can only create Ubuntu images. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: why ABIWORD?

2012-06-30 Thread Weaver
I use both, for different reasons and don't intermix them. For print off office literature, Abiword is great and LibreOffice has its strengths. Then again, for other things, LyX is good. All good things come in time. Regards, Weaver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Reports of (Debian?) Linux kernel 2.6.32 livelocking when notified of leap second

2012-06-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, Has anyone been seeing this sort of thing in the last 22-ish hours? http://serverfault.com/questions/403732/anyone-else-experiencing-high-rates-of-linux-server-crashes-today I've run adjtimex -p on all of my servers and they're all reporting status 17, which as far as I can tell means the

Re: Re (3): Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-30 Thread Chris Davies
Keith McKenzie wrote: > It was about cp reporting 'no space left on device', whilst df said that > there was space available. The OS reported "No space left on device" (or more accurately, errno 28: ENOSPC) to cp. Rather than trying to guess whether this really meant what it said or whether it wa

Anfrage zum Linktausch

2012-06-30 Thread Schnaepperle.de
Hallo, Ich möchte gerne Links mit Ihnen austauschen. Ich besitze 3 Seiten: 1. www.schnaepperle.de 2. www.schnäpperle.de 3. www.hupendudler.de Schicken sie mir Ihren Link-text und URL, dann werde ich Ihren Link auf meiner Homepage veröffentlichen. Ich möchte dann aber auch, dass Sie meinen Link

Re: Bridging eth0/br0 & NetworkManager - can they coexist?

2012-06-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Arun Khan a écrit : > > When you use bridge: To the best of my knowledge - the IP is assigned > to the bridge and *not* eth0 the physical interface. eth0 should > *not* have any IP assigned to it. Except in some very specific situations. Exemple : you want the box act as a bridge with some pro

Re: Bridging eth0/br0 & NetworkManager - can they coexist?

2012-06-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Steve Dowe wrote: > > The issue I'm having, using wheezy, is that if I set up a bridged > ethernet interface for eth0 (br0), as per instructions on the Debian > wiki etc, NetworkManager can no longer manage my wired ethernet connection. > > If I edit /etc/NetworkM

Re: Joining pcl and jpg in Gimp.

2012-06-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:28:23PM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > I have a pcl file to join to a jpg to make a collage. > > Gimp can not import pcl directly but I can try to convert > it to jpg or png using netpbm. Can anyone recommend a > favourite solution to this problem? Do a google sea

Iceweasel quits on ^Q even when options and add-on say not to

2012-06-30 Thread Carl Fink
I'm using Iceweasel 10.0.5 under Wheezy. I fairly often press ^Q (quit) when I mean ^W (close tab). And Iceweasel closes, with no confirmation dialog and even if multiple tabs are open. I have set the option "Warn me when closing multiple tabs". It doesn't. I even installed the extension "Show Q

Kmail2

2012-06-30 Thread GeraldC
Hi to all, Although I run a debian server it does not pick up emails. I use another Linux OS for the workstation. (PCLinuxOS 2012.06-64 bit), kmail2 just does not work. No error messages it just does not send or receive mails. I appear to have it set up correctly but nothing happens. It does appe

left click does not work

2012-06-30 Thread 严海东
Hi to all: I run debian6/gnome in my PC, and after installing some softwares,such as scim,chrome, the left click of touchpad dose not work. It does not work by using a mouse either. And the right mouse button works fine and the mouse tracks fine Any help in this proble

Kmail2

2012-06-30 Thread Gerald
Hi to all, Although I run Debian on my server it does not pick up email. My workstation is yet another Linux distro, I am trying to set up kmail2 and it will not send or receive any email. I was wondering if anyone out in the great blue younder can point me in the right direction for solveing his

Re: Reports of (Debian?) Linux kernel 2.6.32 livelocking when notified of leap second

2012-06-30 Thread Andrew Reid
> Hello, > > Has anyone been seeing this sort of thing in the last 22-ish hours? > > http://serverfault.com/questions/403732/anyone-else-experiencing-high-rates > -of-linux-server-crashes-today I saw the buzz about this on Slashdot, but as far as I can tell none of my systems are having any p

Re: [1/2 OT] How to find the desktop near me?

2012-06-30 Thread lina
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: > El 2012-07-01 a las 02:11 +0800, lina escribió: > > (resending to the list) > >> On 1 Jul, 2012, at 1:35, Camaleón wrote: >> >> > On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:16:22 +0800, lina wrote: >> > >> >> The desktop installed the Sid (seems not so relevant here.