Re: boot fails on wheezy (SOLVED - not completely!)

On Ma, 04 iun 13, 16:39:05, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > sorry, but I think that you didn't understand: my BIOS perfectly detects all > existing drives, as > 1/ they are all listed in the BIOS "general" and "hard disc" menus > 2/ I was able to put the good one in the boot sequence. The BIO

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

On 04 Jun 2013, Goh Lip wrote: > > "Note that in DebianWheezy and beyond tasksel provides and uses > dummy packages (known as meta packages) to pull required > dependencies." > > but as there are 80 packages (seems heck a lot), be careful to > verify first. So leave them alone till you're sure. >

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

On Ma, 04 iun 13, 10:24:28, John Hasler wrote: > > So don't. It's merely informing you that those packages were > automatically installed as dependencies and that no packages depending > on them remain. If you don't want to see the message mark the packages > as manually-installed. Not necessar

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

On Ma, 04 iun 13, 09:15:35, Thomas H. George wrote: > My system is Wheezy. > ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > cdir lists the tracks on the cd. This may be obvious to you, but... the CD usually has a dedicated channel. Did you check the

Re: Alsa sound errors

On Ma, 04 iun 13, 22:50:35, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > So I swiched over to my wife's login and did the same thing: > > play /home/marc/public_html/footpain/media/montoya.wav > ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:985:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to create IPC semaphore > play FAIL formats: can't open output file `de

Re: Alsa sound errors

2013/6/5 Andrei POPESCU > On Ma, 04 iun 13, 22:50:35, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > > So I swiched over to my wife's login and did the same thing: > > > > play /home/marc/public_html/footpain/media/montoya.wav > > ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:985:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to create IPC > semaphore > > play

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

On 6/5/13 2:18 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 04 iun 13, 09:15:35, Thomas H. George wrote: >> My system is Wheezy. >> ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. >> workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. >> cdir lists the tracks on the cd. > > This may be obvious to you, but... the CD us

Everything Done Gone Experimental?

Recent apt-get upgrade was pulling everything from "experimental/main." There may be a package or two that I use from experimental-snapshots for kde, but otherwise I am plain-vanilla Sid. Wh

Re: Remplacement for zsafe on wheezy

Thanks you both, I'm going to test it. It seem to be better than zsafe, with more options. I just dislike qt library, but is a different story A question about keepassx, I saw it use AES 256bits to store password, is my password safe if somebody steal my laptop per example? Off course I plan to us

Re: Re (2): mkdosfs -C ...

On 05/06/13 02:46, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Since the original trial, the system was upgraded from Squeeze to Wheezy. From: Klaus Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 08:54:46 +0100 Increase block count a little, and hey presto: $ sudo mkdosfs -v -C FatFile2 1024 mkdosfs 3.0.16 (01 Mar 2013) FatFile2 ha

KVM time synchronisation - how to set default offset

Hello list, I'm using KVM (with the virt-manager GUI) on a Debian laptop to test various setups. I noticed that the time of these guests is not set up correctly, there is a 2 hour time difference (I'm on CEST, or GMT+2) The solution is to change the offset from UTC to localtime in the virtual mac

Re: KVM time synchronisation - how to set default offset

On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 10:50:15 +0200, Redalert Commander wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm using KVM (with the virt-manager GUI) on a Debian laptop to test > various setups. > I noticed that the time of these guests is not set up correctly, there > is a 2 hour time difference (I'm on CEST, or GMT+2) > >

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 08:11:31 +0100 Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 04 Jun 2013, Goh Lip wrote: > > > > "Note that in DebianWheezy and beyond tasksel provides and uses > > dummy packages (known as meta packages) to pull required > > dependencies." > > > > but as there are 80 packages (seems heck a l

Re: KVM time synchronisation - how to set default offset

2013/6/5 Jean-Marc : > On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 10:50:15 +0200, Redalert Commander > wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I'm using KVM (with the virt-manager GUI) on a Debian laptop to test >> various setups. >> I noticed that the time of these guests is not set up correctly, there >> is a 2 hour time differenc

Debian Wheezy Xen HP-Tools on DL380 G7 - hpasmlited general protection fault

Hi @all, I have a problem with HP-Tools on Debian/Wheezy/amd64 running under Xen-Hypervisor on a HP DL380 G7 system. The hp-health package cannot be installed, because the hpasmlited crashes with an general protection fault. Has anyone solved / circumvented this problem ? eg. some kernel/hypervi

Re: Debian Wheezy Xen HP-Tools on DL380 G7 - hpasmlited general protection fault

Hi, Haven't tried it for myself but maybe the Ubuntu Packages work since the have been built on Kernel 3.2. No idea if it really works but you should give it a try. Otherwise you would need to wait for HP to rebuild the Packages on Wheezy since HP currently has only Squeeze builds. Cheers, M

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

Andrei writes: > Not necessarily. The package being installed might conflict with them > (for good reasons) and aptitude doesn't always suggest the option with > fewer removals. In that case Aptitude would be stating that it proposed to remove them, not merely mentioning that they were no longer r

Re: Alsa sound errors

On 06/04/2013 11:48 PM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: The Wednesday 05 June 2013 07:50:35, Marc Shapiro wrote : So I swiched over to my wife's login and did the same thing: play /home/marc/public_html/footpain/media/montoya.wav Any help will be greatly appreciated. Marc

Re: Alsa sound errors

On 06/04/2013 11:04 PM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2013/6/5 Marc Shapiro mailto:marcns...@gmail.com>> There are three people with logins to my desktop box -- myself, my wife and my daughter. My daughter plays Flash games with sound all the time and has no problems. I run YouTube video

Re: goodbye-microsoft.com Install?

On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 17:14:36 -0400 Harry Prevor wrote: > On 6/3/13, Kailash Kalyani wrote: > > I tried the install a couple of days ago on my laptop. I got an > > offer to resize > > my windows partition. Can't recall getting an option to install > > inside the NTFS partition. > > Correct me if

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 02:50:09 -0500 Kent West wrote: > On 6/5/13 2:18 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 04 iun 13, 09:15:35, Thomas H. George wrote: > >> My system is Wheezy. > >> ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > >> workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > >> cdir lists the

Re: Alsa sound errors

On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:24:16 -0700 Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 06/04/2013 11:04 PM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > 2013/6/5 Marc Shapiro > > > > > > There are three people with logins to my desktop box -- myself, > > my wife and my daughter. My daughter plays Flash gam

Re (3): mkdosfs -C ...

From: Klaus Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:44:20 +0100 > Have you tried the mkdosfs on a file located somewhere else, ... It works in directory FatTest in my home directory. root@dalton:/home/peter# mkdosfs -C -v /home/peter/FatTest/FatFile 1024 mkdosfs 3.0.13 (30 Jun 2012) /home/peter/FatTest/Fat

Re: Remplacement for zsafe on wheezy

Mérof 42 writes: > Thanks you both, I'm going to test it. > It seem to be better than zsafe, with more options. > I just dislike qt library, but is a different story > > A question about keepassx, I saw it use AES 256bits to store password, is > my password safe if somebody steal my laptop per ex

Re: Debian Wheezy Xen HP-Tools on DL380 G7 - hpasmlited general protection fault

On 05.06.2013 12:11, Martin Holub wrote: > Haven't tried it for myself but maybe the Ubuntu Packages work since > the have been built on Kernel 3.2. No idea if it really works but you > should give it a try. Otherwise you would need to wait for HP to > rebuild the Packages on Wheezy since HP curren

Re: Debian 7 USB Drive Won't Work

Well, fair enough, I'll give isohybrid a try. I it's certainly a shame that I am stuck to something I first tried when the command line caused me the creeps. Nonetheless, my advice was addressed to someone who might be felling discouraged after trying to follow cryptic instructions on command line

Re: boot fails on wheezy (SOLVED)

Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > the problem was with the BIOS boot sequence, and as far as I know, > this is totally independant of any OS. You are correct. The BIOS has an ordering. The OS has an ordering. They are separate software and will each do their own thing. I have often had problems with

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

Anthony Campbell wrote: > If I try to install any package I see a list of some 80 packages which > were automatically installed and are no longer required. The list > includes apt, grub-pc-bin, and grub2-common. That does not make sense. Probably your package indexes are messed up. Try running '

Re: Trouble reinstalling everything.

Are you trying to use FF from experimental repo of mozilla in a purely debian stable release? That's bound to raise conflicts between its required libs. You may add sid and experimental to you source list and create a preferences file (/etc/apt/preferences.d/firefox). Read the man pages to learn h

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

On 05 Jun 2013, John Hasler wrote: > Andrei writes: > > Not necessarily. The package being installed might conflict with them > > (for good reasons) and aptitude doesn't always suggest the option with > > fewer removals. > > In that case Aptitude would be stating that it proposed to remove them, >

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 12:32:39PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 09:15:35 -0400 > "Thomas H. George" wrote: > > > My system is Wheezy. > > ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > > workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > > cdir lists the tracks on the cd. > > I'm n

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

On 05 Jun 2013, Bob Proulx wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > If I try to install any package I see a list of some 80 packages which > > were automatically installed and are no longer required. The list > > includes apt, grub-pc-bin, and grub2-common. > > That does not make sense. Probably your

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 10:18:50AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 04 iun 13, 09:15:35, Thomas H. George wrote: > > My system is Wheezy. > > ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > > workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > > cdir lists the tracks on the cd. > > This may be obvi

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 02:50:09AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > On 6/5/13 2:18 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 04 iun 13, 09:15:35, Thomas H. George wrote: > >> My system is Wheezy. > >> ogg123 plays ogg files perfectly with sound. > >> workbone plays the cd but there is no sound. > >> cdir lists

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 13:38:47 -0400 "Thomas H. George" wrote: Hello Thomas, >Indeed alsamixer used to show a seperate CD channel but not any more. >Maybe it still should and this is the problem? Settings menu, Configure Channels... KMix version 4.4, KDE 4.8.4 here. -- Regards _ / )

Re: Sound But No CD Sound

On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 19:00:52 +0100 Brad Rogers wrote: Hello Brad, >KMix version 4.4, KDE 4.8.4 here. Oops! KMix 4.1 -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" A friend of a friend he got beaten I Predict A Riot - Kaiser

Re: Debian 7 USB Drive Won't Work

On Wed 05 Jun 2013 at 13:21:22 -0300, André Nunes Batista wrote: > Well, fair enough, I'll give isohybrid a try. I it's certainly a shame > that I am stuck to something I first tried when the command line caused > me the creeps. > > Nonetheless, my advice was addressed to someone who might be fel

Activities? Dash? Hot-corner?

Yes, I just dist-upgraded to wheezy. I was so baffled by the gnew Gnome that I launched "Help" from the Accessories menu. Help tells me I am supposed to have the items I listed in my Subject: heading, i.e. if i may repeat myself, Activities, Dash, Hot-corner. None of these entities seem to exist o

Re: Alsa sound errors

On 05/06/13 21:31, Kailash wrote: On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:24:16 -0700 Marc Shapiro wrote: On 06/04/2013 11:04 PM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2013/6/5 Marc Shapiro mailto:marcns...@gmail.com>> There are three people with logins to my desktop box -- myself, my wife and my daughter. My daught

Re: Need help with netinst of wheezy on pentium 4 machine

Hi Paul, paul e condon wrote: > I purchased some time ago a refurb Dell GX620. I have received > conflicting advice on this list about whether I should use amd64 or > i386 CDs to install Wheezy, but amd64 CDs seem to get further into > the install so what I want help with now is all about amd64 ty

CUPS, "Add Printer Error".

http://wiki.debian.org/SystemPrinting#Add_Printer has, "Now you can add a printer by going to http://localhost:631/ and adding a printer via the Administration screen." Since grading from Squeeze to Wheezy, "Add Printer Error Unable to add printer: Unauthorized" http://wiki.debian.org/SystemPr

Re: CUPS, "Add Printer Error".

On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 05:20:27PM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > http://wiki.debian.org/SystemPrinting#Add_Printer has, > "Now you can add a printer by going to > http://localhost:631/ > and adding a printer via the Administration screen." > > Since grading from Squeeze to Wheezy, > "Add Pri

Re: Alsa sound errors

On 06/05/2013 01:54 PM, Klaus wrote: On 05/06/13 21:31, Kailash wrote: On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:24:16 -0700 Marc Shapiro wrote: On 06/04/2013 11:04 PM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2013/6/5 Marc Shapiro mailto:marcns...@gmail.com>> There are three people with logins to my desktop box -- mysel

Re: Alsa sound errors

2013/6/5 Marc Shapiro > On 06/04/2013 11:04 PM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > You should use > ipc_key_add_uid TRUE > > in your .asoundrc when defining dmix. > > Details are in > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm_plugins.html > > Regards > /r > > Is that a user lever file? I d

Re: Alsa sound errors

2013/6/5 Klaus > >> >> Searching the alsa-project.org website for ipc_key_add_uid indicates > that this feature was removed before v 1.0.10 ? > > > > > + Config

How to consistently install a set of packages?

I have a small number of personal different-hardware PCs, each with the same set of different OS currently managed by grub v1. With unison, rsync, scripts, and some care I successfully keep all OS and the shared data in sync. It works great for my needs. I now intend to add Debian wheezy and hope

Re: Activities? Dash? Hot-corner?

On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 14:55:23 -0400 "Eric d'Halibut" wrote: > Yes, I just dist-upgraded to wheezy. I was so baffled by the gnew > Gnome that I launched "Help" from the Accessories menu. Help tells me > I am supposed to have the items I listed in my Subject: heading, i.e. > if i may repeat myself, A

Re: Can't (re)install libapache2-mod-php5 on SID

On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:50:40 +0200 Csanyi Pal wrote: > Joe writes: > > > On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 20:36:18 +0200 > > Csanyi Pal wrote: > > >> on my Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid) system I can't (re)install > >> libapache2-mod-php5 debian package. > >> > >> It remain half configured after an upg

Re: Alsa sound errors

Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 06/05/2013 01:54 PM, Klaus wrote: > >On 05/06/13 21:31, Kailash wrote: > >>On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:24:16 -0700 > >>Marc Shapiro wrote: > >> > >>>On 06/04/2013 11:04 PM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > 2013/6/5 Marc Shapiro > > >

Re: How to consistently install a set of packages?

David wrote: > I have a small number of personal different-hardware PCs, each with > the same set of different OS currently managed by grub v1. With > unison, rsync, scripts, and some care I successfully keep all OS and > the shared data in sync. It works great for my needs. > > I now intend to ad

Re: Trouble reinstalling everything.

Thanks, I'm not entirely sure what man page to read to find how to do a preferences.d, I just tried man preferences.d. The list of man pages for section five is huge so I'd appreciate a hint. I added deb-src because I am a programmer and I occasionally play around with making my own patches though