Re: Wheezy-backports

On Wednesday 22 May 2013 00:31:14 Wayne Topa wrote: > On 05/21/2013 06:06 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 May 2013 21:17:23 Brian wrote: > >> On Tue 21 May 2013 at 14:44:06 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > >>> On 05/21/2013 12:44 PM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 21 May 2013 at 11:32:32 -0400, Wayne

Re: Wheezy-backports

On Lu, 20 mai 13, 20:29:48, Wayne Topa wrote: > Using the instructions at > for a few days now, without success, I am getting the following > > " Could not connect to ftp.us.debian.org:80 (204.152.191.39). - connect > (110: Connection timed out)" Could

Re: Printer Sharing

On Mi, 22 mai 13, 08:58:06, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Debian Squeeze with a Samsung SCX-4300 usb printer. > > How to share this with other Linux and windows systems? Is the printer already installed correctly on the print server machine (hint: you might need package splix)? I

Re: GRUB2 error

Sorry, I cannot help with your original question, but this doesn't fit: Gary Roach: > > My wife let her Debian machine get over 450 packages behind before I > caught it. […] Oh yes, we are running Debian Wheezy (stable) and KDE > desktop […] Are you sure you are running wheezy? It has only been

Re: Missing Gnome Menu System...

On 22/05/13 00:19, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 08:26:36PM +0200, G�bor H�rsfalvi wrote: Dear Users, I don't know why, but today when I wish to open Gnome Menu -> System -> Settings or Administration menus I can't find them. Also when I click on the Gnome Menu by right butto

vlc, mplayer unable to play one particular CDDA / wav file

Hi, I'm a bit stuck as to how to report a problem with only a particular track on a particular commercial CD failing to play in mplayer or vlc (current versions in unstable) but playing alright in mplayer2. The track can be extracted by cdparanoia and plays fine in vlc and mplayer when saved a

Remove Evolution

Greetings. I'd like to remove Evolution from my Debian laptop installation as I use my browser to access email/calendar online via my tablet or phone. When I attempt to do so, aptitude informs me that it will remove pretty much the entire Gnome-Shell as well. How do I remove what I want while kee

Re: vlc, mplayer unable to play one particular CDDA / wav file

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 06:25:19PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Hi, I'm a bit stuck as to how to report a problem with only a > particular track on a particular commercial CD failing to play in > mplayer or vlc (current versions in unstable) but playing alright in > mplayer2. > > The track can be

Re: Remove Evolution

On Wed 22 May 2013 at 07:34:03 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > I'd like to remove Evolution from my Debian laptop installation as I use > my browser to access email/calendar online via my tablet or phone. > > When I attempt to do so, aptitude informs me that it will remove pretty > much the entire

Re: Remove Evolution

It's off topic, but I was *sure* this was about a Creationist trying to interfere with biology education. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com My DNS A record was corrupted for several hours. If you sent me mail on May 20-21, and your server was not correctly configured, it may no

Re: vlc, mplayer unable to play one particular CDDA / wav file

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 06:25:19PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Hi, I'm a bit stuck as to how to report a problem with only a > particular track on a particular commercial CD failing to play in > mplayer or vlc (current versions in unstable) but playing alright in > mplayer2. > > The track can be

Re: Wheezy-backports

On 05/20/2013 08:29 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: > Using the instructions at > for a few days now, without success, I am getting the following I Thought I had finished the above sentence when I sent this. My apologiz

ssh tunnel help

Hello all, Seems I'm a bit brain dead this morning, and I'm having difficulty remembering how to set up an ssh tunnel to our development server through the public facing system I can ssh into pub1 just fine, and from that shell I can ssh into the development server, dev1. What I want to do is to

Re: What the proper way to update debian/changelog

Forgot to ask, should the dch be used before dpkg-source -x *.dsc or after, to streamline updating the debian/changelog, to increase the least significant version # and add my change comment, and my id? If after, how about the directory already created by dpkg-source? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: ssh tunnel help

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 08:15:24AM -0500, Nelson Green wrote: >Hello all, > >Seems I'm a bit brain dead this morning, and I'm having difficulty >remembering how to set up an ssh tunnel to our development server through >the public facing system > >I can ssh into pub1 just fine

Re: ssh tunnel help

On 5/22/13 4:15 PM, Nelson Green wrote: > ... connect my psql client directly to that development server, on it's > port 5432. So I want to be able to locally run a command similar to: > [me@mymachine]$ psql -U dbusername -h dev1 -p xxx > where, if I remember correctly, xxx is the port I tunnel i

HP Probook 6570b

Hello everyone, I am in the search for a new laptop, and my first choice would have been a Thinkpad T series. However, I have a Thinkpad I use for work and I am dissatisfied by the new keyboard layout, so I started searching for something else. Hardware-wise, I am looking for a machine with an

Re: ssh tunnel help

On Wed, 22 May 2013, Lars Noodén wrote: > One way you could try is like this[1]: > > ssh -L 5432:localhost:5432 \ > -o 'ProxyCommand=ssh -W %h:%p pub1.example.org' \ > devel.example.org As a follow up here is a method that should work for older versions of ssh: ssh -L 5

Re: HP Probook 6570b

On Wed, 22 May 2013 17:22:44 +0300 Rares Aioanei wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am in the search for a new laptop, and my first choice would have > been a Thinkpad T series. However, I have a Thinkpad > I use for work and I am dissatisfied by the new keyboard layout, so I > started searching fo

Re: HP Probook 6570b

On 05/22/13 17:44, Frank Lanitz wrote: I'm administrating for one of my coworkers a ProBook 6570b running Ubuntu 12.04. The buildin Broadcom Wlan is having issues and I realty dislike the keyboard in favor of my Thinkpad T530 - not about the layout, but the typing. My advice is still to buy a T

Re: HP Probook 6570b

On Wed, 22 May 2013 16:44:27 +0200 Frank Lanitz wrote: > On Wed, 22 May 2013 17:22:44 +0300 > Rares Aioanei wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I am in the search for a new laptop, and my first choice would have > > been a Thinkpad T series. However, I have a Thinkpad > > I use for work and I

Debian 7 GNU/kFreeBSD Installation: Desktop Environment Default?

Hello!  There's a bit of an issue with the Debian 7 GNU/kFreeBSD default desktop in the default installation.  When I select any of the "default installation" options at the beginning of the installation the installer chooses XFCE desktop manager and desktop environment instead of the default G

Re: Debian 7 GNU/kFreeBSD Installation: Desktop Environment Default?

"Hello!  The= re's" n o n e e d t o u s e H T M L ;) , b u t p a r a g r a p h s w o u l db e h e l p f u l . On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 10:15 -0700, Artur Conley wrote: > What happened? GNOME became a desktop environment that doesn't fit to the needs of many Linux users anymore,

Re: GRUB2 error

On 05/21/2013 04:24 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi My wife let her Debian machine get over 450 packages behind before I caught it. What a mess. The last problem is that when booting up the Welcome to Grub notice appears and then: error:file not found Entering rescue mode gru

Re: Debian 7 GNU/kFreeBSD Installation: Desktop Environment Default?

On Wed, 22 May 2013 10:15:40 -0700 (PDT) Artur Conley wrote: > Who uses XFCE?(rhetorical question) I use xfce! I switched to xfce when kde changed the whole desktop in kde4. I used gnome for a time as well and wouldn't you know it, they changed the whole desktop too! Both kde and gnome made ch

Re: Debian 7 GNU/kFreeBSD Installation: Desktop Environment Default?

On Wed 22 May 2013 at 10:15:40 -0700, Artur Conley wrote: > Hello!  There's a bit of an issue with the Debian 7 GNU/kFreeBSD > default desktop in the default installation.  When I select any of the > "default installation" options at the beginning of the installation > the installer chooses XFCE d

Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware

Hi, I have the Bubba Two hardware [1], and I'm running on it the Debian Squeeze operating system so far. I have installed Squeeze by following these steps described here: http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2518 Now since Wheezy is out as stable release, I want to upgrade my Squeeze syst

SSL root certificate.

man openvpn has, "--ca file Certificate authority (CA) file in .pem format, also referred to as the root certificate. ... openssl req ... -out ca.crt" Whereas http://wiki.debian.org/Self-Signed_Certificate has "openssl req ... -out /etc/ssl/localcerts/apache.pem ..." In the openvpn example

Re: Upgrading Squeeze to Wheezy on Bubba Two hardware

On 2013-05-22 21:56 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > I have the Bubba Two hardware [1], and I'm running on it the Debian > Squeeze operating system so far. > I have installed Squeeze by following these steps described here: > http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2518 > > Now since Wheezy is out

Re: GRUB2 error

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > On 05/21/2013 04:24 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > > Hi > > My wife let her Debian machine get over 450 packages behind before I caught > it. What a mess. The last problem is that when booting up the Welcome to > Grub notice appears and then: >

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

Further to the questions I raised, I downloaded supergrub2 and I was able to access the system.However, after starting 3.9.3.slh-1 and running update-grub and grub-install /dev/sda0 ( the installation finished. No error reported) still, on rebooting, come to the same error of file not found and get

Re: GRUB2 error

On Wed 22 May 2013 at 11:20:38 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > On 05/21/2013 04:24 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > > I reinstalled grub2. The same problem persists. Does this refer to reinstalling the grub packages or to the command grub-install /dev/sdX ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

crackle and distortion on KDE audio

I've just installed KDE on wheezy as I have a black magic pro capture card and on gnome it kills all user permissions (Shutdown, eject cdrom, etc) but with KDE it works, go figure!! but I've noticed the audio crackles and distorts when playing any audio I've tried the inbuilt sound card and a soun

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

On 22/05/13 22:21, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Further to the questions I raised, I downloaded supergrub2 and I was able to access the system.However, after starting 3.9.3.slh-1 and running update-grub and grub-install /dev/sda0 ( the installation finished. No error reported) Is this a typo

Gain owner of a file using vim :w!

Dear users, I'm astonished by this (maybe I'm naive and I'm missing something). Yesterday as root I saved a file skel.bashrc in my /home/beco user, owned by root, group root. Today I edited it, logged as beco, and vi told me "warning, read only!". I edited anyway, just to test, and saved with :w

Re: crackle and distortion on KDE audio

On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 23:30 +0100, Dick Thomas wrote: > I've just installed KDE on wheezy > as I have a black magic pro capture card and on gnome it kills all > user permissions > (Shutdown, eject cdrom, etc) but with KDE it works, go figure!! > > but I've noticed the audio crackles and distorts w

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

On 05/22/2013 05:21 PM, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Further to the questions I raised, I downloaded supergrub2 and I was able to access the system.However, after starting 3.9.3.slh-1 and running update-grub and grub-install /dev/sda0 ( the installation finished. No error reported) still, on rebo

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

Thank uou Frank and Klaus. As you surmised, it was a typo : I meant to say /dev/sda to be sure I repeated the grub-install and the version given by bootinfoscript if 1.99 though AI have 2.00-14. When I use grub rescue and type set prefixs=(hd1,msdos1)/boot/grub and then root=(hd1,msdos1) and insmod

Re: Gain owner of a file using vim :w!

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 07:48:37PM -0300, Beco wrote: > Dear users, > > I'm astonished by this (maybe I'm naive and I'm missing something). > > Yesterday as root I saved a file skel.bashrc in my /home/beco user, owned > by root, group root. > > Today I edited it, logged as beco, and vi told me "

Re: GRUB2 error

On 05/22/2013 11:20 AM, Gary Roach wrote: To all the questions. I reinstalled grub2. The same problem persists. I have run update-grub2 (a stub that runs grub-mkconfig for grub2) several times with no improvement. i also ran grub-mkconfig directly. Same results. See listing below. I've had Wh

Re: Gain owner of a file using vim :w!

On 05/22/2013 04:48 PM, Beco wrote: Dear users, I'm astonished by this (maybe I'm naive and I'm missing something). Yesterday as root I saved a file skel.bashrc in my /home/beco user, owned by root, group root. Today I edited it, logged as beco, and vi told me "warning, read only!". I edit

Re: Gain owner of a file using vim :w!

Beco writes: > Dear users, > > I'm astonished by this (maybe I'm naive and I'm missing something). > > Yesterday as root I saved a file skel.bashrc in my /home/beco user, owned by > root, group root. > > Today I edited it, logged as beco, and vi told me "warning, read only!". I > edited anyway, j

Re: Apache won't process SSI

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 03:50:09PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > I don't see include.load mentioned there. My previous response: > > > Are you loading the 'mod_include' module? > > > > eg > > # a2enmod include > > That will just create a symlink in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled from > /etc/apache2/

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

On 05/22/2013 04:45 PM, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Thank uou Frank and Klaus. As you surmised, it was a typo : I meant to say /dev/sda to be sure I repeated the grub-install and the version given by bootinfoscript if 1.99 though AI have 2.00-14. When I use grub rescue and type set prefixs=(hd

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

On 05/22/2013 05:51 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 05/22/2013 04:45 PM, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Thank uou Frank and Klaus. As you surmised, it was a typo : I meant to say /dev/sda to be sure I repeated the grub-install and the version given by bootinfoscript if 1.99 though AI have 2.00-14. When

Re: Gain owner of a file using vim :w!

Joe Riel writes: > You have write permission to the directory, so you can delete the file > and create a new one, with yourself as the owner. That is, > essentially, what vi is doing. Note that if the file had had a hardlink in another directory, say one owned by root, that link (and therefor the

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

On Thu, 23 May 2013 08:51:38 +0800, Gary Roach wrote: Sebastian, Your root="(hd0,msdos1)" should be 'set root="(hd0,msdos1)".' I don't know whether that is a typo or whether leaving off set would make a difference but my information says it should be "set root". root="(hd0,msdos1)" is us

Re: GRUB2 error

On Thu, 23 May 2013 07:34:45 +0800, Gary Roach wrote: To all, I reinstalled grub2 with "Aptitude reinstall grub2". The installation seemed to work fine. I updated grub afterward. Brian asked grub-install /dev/sdX ? So.. # grub-install --recheck /dev/sdX # update-grub -- To UNSUBS

Re: Gain owner of a file using vim :w!

[sent privately by mistake] On Mi, 22 mai 13, 19:48:37, Beco wrote: > Dear users, > > I'm astonished by this (maybe I'm naive and I'm missing something). > > Yesterday as root I saved a file skel.bashrc in my /home/beco user, owned > by root, group root. > > Today I edited it, logged as beco, a

Re: What the proper way to update debian/changelog

On 23/05/13 01:17, T o n g wrote: > Forgot to ask, should the dch be used before dpkg-source -x *.dsc or > after, to streamline updating the debian/changelog, to increase the least > significant version # and add my change comment, and my id? If your source tree is being created by dpkg-source -