Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1

2013-10-22 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/10/2013 14:47, Sureyya Sahin a écrit : [...] > I am very surprised to hear that you are happy with the free driver. > What is more puzzling is the fact that you didn't see any improvements > with your non-free install. with the free radeon driver, my laptop is not particularly heating. I ha

Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 11:06 +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 20/10/2013 14:47, Sureyya Sahin a écrit : > > [...] > > I am very surprised to hear that you are happy with the free driver. > > What is more puzzling is the fact that you didn't see any improvements > > with your non-free install. > >

(Előzd meg Te!)

2013-10-22 Thread Medibon
Kedves Olvasó! Manapság nehéz úgy érvényesülni az életben, hogy ne nyomd tövig a „gázpedált”, azaz, hogy ne hajszold túl magad. Fogadd meg jó tanácsunkat, és, ha már versenyre kelsz az idővel, akkor foglalkozz kicsit többet a betegségek megelőzésével is! A

Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1

2013-10-22 Thread didier gaumet
Le 22/10/2013 11:21, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : > You are using Xfce without Gnome desktop parts? I doubt this! Since it > was mentioned in this thread, e.g. gvfs is from Gnome desktop and you > likely will find a "few" other things from Gnome. [...] hi Ralf, to me gvfs (that I have installed) is mo

errant mouse-over behaviour.

2013-10-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
I've got this rather weird problem atm, in that if I mouse-over something it is picked up by the mouse! I can mouse-over text and it is immediately highlighted! How can I [a] stop this, and/or [b]re-calibrate the mouse to get rid of this behaviour. Its developed overnight for some reason, and has e

Re: errant mouse-over behaviour.

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 12:08 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I've got this rather weird problem atm, in that if I mouse-over > something it is picked up by the mouse! I can mouse-over text and it is > immediately highlighted! How can I [a] stop this, and/or > [b]re-calibrate the mouse to get rid of th

Re: errant mouse-over behaviour.

2013-10-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:15:34 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 12:08 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > I've got this rather weird problem atm, in that if I mouse-over > > something it is picked up by the mouse! I can mouse-over text and > > it is immediately highlighted! How can I [

Re: errant mouse-over behaviour.

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 12:28 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Nothing changed overnight to cause it to break A mouse's switch or microchip can break from one click or movement to the other. The PS/2 or USB port can break from one second to the other too. Did you run a software update overnight? If so,

Re: no .bash_hostory file was found in user home folder

2013-10-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i am using package "acct" (lastcomm is part of this package). my question is, isn't "acct" package depends upon user's .bash_history ? or it is maintaining its own log? yes i can see user can delete/edit their history file. is there anyway to record history permanently. a good solution for accoun

Re: Blacklisting threads

2013-10-22 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 20 October 2013 12:33:55 Joel Rees wrote: >> Was the sysadmin qualifications subthread that turned into a >> warstory fest that disgusting? > > That tedious. It was/is getting broken all the time, thus getting > tangled up with every

Re: Blacklisting threads

2013-10-22 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 22 Out 2013, Joel Rees wrote: Sorry about that. However, ... No, you're not sorry. [snip] It can be amusing, like the line about C not be created for writing OSses and the number of participants who acknowledged the idea as being valid before somebody spoke up. (I didn't speak up on t

Re: errant mouse-over behaviour.

2013-10-22 Thread Curt
On 2013-10-22, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > I've got this rather weird problem atm, in that if I mouse-over > something it is picked up by the mouse! I can mouse-over text and it is > immediately highlighted! How can I [a] stop this, and/or > [b]re-calibrate the mouse to get rid of this behaviour. Its

Re: errant mouse-over behaviour.

2013-10-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:42:52 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 12:28 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > Nothing changed overnight to cause it to break > > A mouse's switch or microchip can break from one click or movement to > the other. The PS/2 or USB port can break from one secon

Re: errant mouse-over behaviour.

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 11:57 +, Curt wrote: > On 2013-10-22, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > > > I've got this rather weird problem atm, in that if I mouse-over > > something it is picked up by the mouse! I can mouse-over text and it is > > immediately highlighted! How can I [a] stop this, and/or > >

RE: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-22 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, allow-auto eth0.9 iface eth0.9 inet static address 192.168.1.119 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 post-up ip address add 192.168.1.199/24 dev eth0.9 >> >> What I use is: >> -=-=-=-=-=- >> auto eth0 >> iface eth0 inet static >> address 172.

Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1

2013-10-22 Thread Brian
On Tue 22 Oct 2013 at 11:21:31 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 11:06 +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > > > > with the free radeon driver, my laptop is not particularly heating. > > I have enabled compositing in XFCE and no Gnome/KDE desktop parts are > > installed. > > You are usi

RE: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-22 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi Chris, > Bob Proulx wrote: >> Tom H wrote: >>> I'm pretty sure that the last time (six months ago?) Bob linked to a >>> Debian wiki page [...] that used multiple iface declarations for the >>> same nic (I've also used multiple declarations). > >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfigura

Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 13:42 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 22 Oct 2013 at 11:21:31 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 11:06 +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > > > > > > with the free radeon driver, my laptop is not particularly heating. > > > I have enabled compositing in XFCE and no

Re: Blacklisting threads

2013-10-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:07:12PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > What if she wants to read other threads of one of the participants of > the particular thread or any other unwanted thread? She'll still see messages in other threads from other participants, including context in quotes. If it's suffi

Re: Thinkpad E320 trackpoint doesn't work every time

2013-10-22 Thread Rares Aioanei
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/21/2013 06:17 PM, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > Hi > > I have recently got my hands on a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E320 - and > it works very nicely - with one small exception: [SNIP] > What DE/WM are you using? - -- Rares Aioanei -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: Thinkpad E320 trackpoint doesn't work every time

2013-10-22 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:07:49 +0300, Rares Aioanei wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On 10/21/2013 06:17 PM, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: >> Hi >> >> I have recently got my hands on a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E320 - and >> it works very nicely - with one small exception: >[SNIP] >>

Re: Blacklisting threads

2013-10-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
I've been working on a system to make boring threads less conspicuous. It's not finished, and when it is I'll do a proper writeup, but what I currently do is • make sure I have 256 colour terminals working (correct $TERM variable, uxterm, correct arguments to tmux, etc.) • I use the default

Re: How to format the command output like MySQL output

2013-10-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:07:44AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > And how is busybox going to solve the op's problem? The odds are he has it on the machine already, or can have it; if he doesn't have it, it can replace some things he does (thus saving space and memory); it can be compiled to have b

Re: errant mouse-over behaviour.

2013-10-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:28:29 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 11:57 +, Curt wrote: > > On 2013-10-22, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > > > > > I've got this rather weird problem atm, in that if I mouse-over > > > something it is picked up by the mouse! I can mouse-over text and > >

Re: Hp Proliant 460c drivers

2013-10-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 02:57:21PM -0500, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: > Hi list, > > I have installed Debian 7.1 on a few hp proliant blade servers, after > installing I've seen that network is not working properly. It recognises > around 8 interfaces, mii-tool says that there is not any link present.

Re: errant mouse-over behaviour.

2013-10-22 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:28:29 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 11:57 +, Curt wrote: >> > On 2013-10-22, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> > > >> > > I've got this rather weird problem atm, in that if I mouse-over >> > > some

Re: Hp Proliant 460c drivers

2013-10-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/21/2013 2:57 PM, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: Is this your first rodeo with HP servers? > I have installed Debian 7.1 on a few hp proliant blade servers, after > installing I've seen that network is not working properly. It recognises > around 8 interfaces, mii-tool says that there is not any lin

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-22 Thread Curt
On 2013-10-21, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > COBOL is still used, but tend to disappear, you can like it or not. I COBOL programs are in use globally in governmental and military agencies and in commercial enterprises, and are running on operating systems such as IBM's z/OS and z

Re: COBOL [was: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)]

2013-10-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Curt wrote: On 2013-10-21, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: COBOL is still used, but tend to disappear, you can like it or not. I COBOL programs are in use globally in governmental and military agencies and in commercial enterprises, and are running on operating systems such as IBM'

Re: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 unbootable: /dev/disk/by-uuid not created

2013-10-22 Thread Jogi Hofmüller
Dear all, I tried using linux-image-3.11-1 from sid today and got the same result. No RAID is created. I really don't know where to start looking now. Any ideas? Wrong list? Regards! Am 2013-10-18 12:42, schrieb Jogi Hofmüller: Hi jesse, Am 2013-10-18 10:35, schrieb Jesse Molina: As p

Re: Hp Proliant 460c drivers

2013-10-22 Thread Erick Ocrospoma
On Oct 22, 2013 8:36 AM, "Stan Hoeppner" wrote: > > On 10/21/2013 2:57 PM, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: > > Is this your first rodeo with HP servers? Blades yes > > I have installed Debian 7.1 on a few hp proliant blade servers, after > > installing I've seen that network is not working properly. It r

Re: XFCE without GNOME/KDE parts (Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1)

2013-10-22 Thread recoverym4n
Hi. On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:50:57 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > And I also don't use NetworkManager, my Ubuntus/Debian aren't different > to my Arch Linux, however, a default Xfce4 usually is used with lot's > Gnome applications. Out of curiosity, what are names of these Gnome applications? Reco

How to compile Kernel 2.6.32 on Debian Wheezy?

2013-10-22 Thread Benedikt Wildenhain
Hi, I would to like to use the rtai kernel patches on Debian Wheezy (Debian-Package rtai-source) on the i386 architecture, which are currently only available for various releases of Linux 2.6. As the most recent kernel patch included in rtai-source was hal-linux-2.6.32.11-x86-2.6-03.patch.gz, I f

Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1

2013-10-22 Thread Brian
On Tue 22 Oct 2013 at 14:50:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi gvfs Sorry, I have enough trouble deciphering Debian packing commands without having to extend my understanding to those used by non-Debian systems. Which is why I have [Snipped] > And I also don't

Re: Hp Proliant 460c drivers

2013-10-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/22/2013 10:11 AM, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: > On Oct 22, 2013 8:36 AM, "Stan Hoeppner" wrote: >> >> On 10/21/2013 2:57 PM, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: >> >> Is this your first rodeo with HP servers? > > Blades yes > >>> I have installed Debian 7.1 on a few hp proliant blade servers, after >>> inst

Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1

2013-10-22 Thread Sureyya Sahin
On 22/10/13 05:06 AM, didier gaumet wrote: Le 20/10/2013 14:47, Sureyya Sahin a écrit : with the free radeon driver, my laptop is not particularly heating. I have enabled compositing in XFCE and no Gnome/KDE desktop parts are installed. I have tried both default Gnome and Xfce with debian wh

Re: Dying hard drive?

2013-10-22 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 08:59:05AM +0200, Veljko wrote: > Do you guys have any advice for this? Should I first run dd on those drives. > They are part of RAID, so it should be difficult to read data from one drive > alone, but what is the best way to be sure? And obviously, I'll have to return > mo

Wheezy: mcelog not getting notified of ECC errors anymore?

2013-10-22 Thread biopsin
Hi, Im refering to a post @ http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2013/06/msg3.html Im not shure what to do :) but I was in the middle of a android build and these apeare log: Message from syslogd@builder at Oct 22 20:21:26 ... kernel:[18300.780062] [Hardware Error]: CPU:3 MC0_STATUS[-|CE|

Re: XFCE without GNOME/KDE parts (Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1)

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 19:34 +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: > Out of curiosity, what are names of these Gnome applications? Xfce does need gtk. Xfce doesn't provide some software, resp. only rudimentary software for some usages. Likely it's used with NetworManager, Gedit etc. and as mentioned

Re: How to compile Kernel 2.6.32 on Debian Wheezy?

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
If I compile patched kernels and something unneeded can't build, I simply disable it by the configuration. I don't know if it's possible in your case, but I would test it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: XFCE without GNOME/KDE parts (Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1)

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 19:34 +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: > Out of curiosity, what are names of these Gnome applications? Xfce does need gtk. Xfce doesn't provide some software, resp. only rudimentary software for some usages. Likely it's used with NetworManager, Gedit etc. and as mentioned

upgrade to wheezy

2013-10-22 Thread mess-mate
Hi, it's time to do an upgrade from my sqeeze to wheezy. Is there any particularity i have to observe ? Thanks in advance

Re: upgrade to wheezy

2013-10-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:19:43PM +0200, mess-mate wrote: > Hi, it's time to do an upgrade from my sqeeze to wheezy. > Is there any particularity i have to observe ? > Thanks in advance It's recommended you read the release notes for Wheezy: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes --

Re: upgrade to wheezy

2013-10-22 Thread Jochen Spieker
mess-mate: > Hi, it's time to do an upgrade from my sqeeze to wheezy. > Is there any particularity i have to observe ? Yes, it's all in the Release Notes: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/releasenotes J. -- Television advertisements are the apothesis of twentieth century culture. [Agree]

Re: upgrade to wheezy

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 22:19 +0200, mess-mate wrote: > Hi, it's time to do an upgrade from my sqeeze to wheezy. > Is there any particularity i have to observe ? > Thanks in advance As for all upgrades on all distros I know, there are release notes. http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/releasenote

Wheezy only boots to login prompt

2013-10-22 Thread Beru
I am using Debian 7.2 KDE. Today I updated the system (apt-get update) First the network crashed, network manager showing no network interface at all. Upon reboot, all I get is the login prompt. No network at all, and startx gives me a blank screen. During boot I can see that usb_modeswitch f

Re: XFCE without GNOME/KDE parts (Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1)

2013-10-22 Thread recoverym4n
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:18:39 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 19:34 +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: > > Out of curiosity, what are names of these Gnome applications? > > Xfce does need gtk. XFCE needs GTK+2. Current GNOME needs GTK+3. GNOME2 depended on libgconf, and no XF

Re: Wheezy only boots to login prompt

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 21:46 +0100, Beru wrote: > I am using Debian 7.2 KDE. > > Today I updated the system (apt-get update) First the network crashed, > network manager showing no network interface at all. Upon reboot, all > I get is the login prompt. No network at all, and startx gives me a > b

Re: Dying hard drive?

2013-10-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
is rsnapshot doing something different to usual: have you got a lot more files in your backup? is it now having to delete old snapshots, whereas before it hadn't hit some critical threshold? I found it to scale very poorly when I was using it. rdiff-backup is almost a drop-in replacement and doesn'

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-22 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/21/2013 5:26 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.10.2013 19:36, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 10/18/2013 1:10 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.10.2013 17:22, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 10/17/2013 12:42 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.10.2013 17:51, J

Re: XFCE without GNOME/KDE parts (Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1)

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 00:53 +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: > I was merely curious if there's some 'killer GNOME app' that I'm > missing, and it looks like it's still not. That's true, with one exception, I disagree regarding to gvfs. You perhaps can explain the OP how to use udev or anything

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-22 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/21/2013 5:40 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 21.10.2013 22:23, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 10/21/2013 3:49 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 19.10.2013 04:48, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 10/18/2013 7:33 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrot

Re: COBOL [was: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)]

2013-10-22 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/22/2013 10:01 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Curt wrote: On 2013-10-21, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: COBOL is still used, but tend to disappear, you can like it or not. I COBOL programs are in use globally in governmental and military agencies and in commercial enterprises, and

Re: Wheezy only boots to login prompt

2013-10-22 Thread Beru
Hi Ralf, No errors in Xorg.0.log, dmesg output and .xsession-errors ar both huge, so I'm hesitant to post them here. I have tried removing the ATI proprietary driver but it doesn't seem to help. The USB error went away when I unplugged the printer. I'm still stuck ! Thanks, Beru -- To UNS

Re: XFCE without GNOME/KDE parts (Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1)

2013-10-22 Thread recoverym4n
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 23:05:10 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 00:53 +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: > > I was merely curious if there's some 'killer GNOME app' that I'm > > missing, and it looks like it's still not. > > That's true, with one exception, I disagree regarding t

Re: upgrade to wheezy

2013-10-22 Thread mess-mate
On 22/10/2013 22:46, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 22:19 +0200, mess-mate wrote: Hi, it's time to do an upgrade from my sqeeze to wheezy. Is there any particularity i have to observe ? Thanks in advance As for all upgrades on all distros I know, there are release notes. http://www.

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 02:56:12 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 20:33 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:54:57 +0200 > > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 18:44 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 20:15:06 +0200 > > > > Ralf Mardorf

Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

2013-10-22 Thread anx_dev
Hi all, Since the change for pkexec, Synaptic cannot be started with a user with sudo privileges. This is _very_ cumbersome if you have to admin several machines with a central NIS for users and allowing only the user sitting on the machine to have sudo on _that_ machine. Should I report a bug?

Back in Time fails with Python errors

2013-10-22 Thread anx_dev
Hi all, Back in Time is failing with a Python fatal error in app.py. Is anyone having the same sort of error? Cheers -- 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.or

Nvidia 325.15 and Kernel > 3.9 for Lenovo Y500 (and others)

2013-10-22 Thread anx_dev
Hi all, Does anyone have any news about the errors with the Nvidia boards and kernels newer than 3.9? It seems to be localized to a few configurations where there's an Optimus card disabled. Other reports of the error: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/572092/linux/gt-650m-in-acer-aspi

tracking down a kernel oops

2013-10-22 Thread Jim McCloskey
Hello. I'm responsible for a bunch of debian machines, work-stations and servers, in an academic/research environment. They co-exist with OsX machines. Some months ago we were able to get some new hardware and had wheezy with gnome 3 installed on the new machines. It's been difficult keeping these

Re: Dying hard drive?

2013-10-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:01:07 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > is rsnapshot doing something different to usual: have you got a lot > more files in your backup? is it now having to delete old snapshots, > whereas before it hadn't hit some critical threshold? I found it to > scale very poorly when I

Re: Wheezy only boots to login prompt

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 22:47 +0100, Beru wrote: > No errors in Xorg.0.log, dmesg output and .xsession-errors ar both > huge, so I'm hesitant to post them here. The culprit seems to show up in .xsession-errors. Dmesg is huge, with or without errors, but .xsession-errors shouldn't exist, resp. it's n

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 17:56 -0400, Celejar wrote: > Do you have reason to believe this, or a source, or are you just > expressing your opinion, unshackled by facts and data? > > Quite likely not, but who said that that will be due to excessive > spinups / spindowns? It's the kind of breakage, the

Re: XFCE without GNOME/KDE parts (Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1)

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 02:04 +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 23:05:10 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 00:53 +0400, recovery...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I was merely curious if there's some 'killer GNOME app' that I'm > > > missing, and it looks like

Re: upgrade to wheezy

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 00:05 +0200, mess-mate wrote: > Thanks to all for the help !! You're welcome, but next time please write in plain text. On most mailing lists and this is one of them, HTML is frowned upon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 16:09 -0700, anx_dev wrote: > Synaptic cannot be started with a user with sudo privileges. Does it work if you use gksudo? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archiv

Re: Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

2013-10-22 Thread Frank McCormick
On 22/10/13 08:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 16:09 -0700, anx_dev wrote: Synaptic cannot be started with a user with sudo privileges. Does it work if you use gksudo? I have also had this problem for a while - I thought it was related to Mate which I run. gksudo will r

Re: Dying hard drive?

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 19:52 -0400, Celejar wrote: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/10/msg00182.html At least it's better to backup more files than wanted, as to miss files that are needed :D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-22 Thread berenger . morel
Le 22.10.2013 23:01, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 10/21/2013 5:26 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.10.2013 19:36, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 10/18/2013 1:10 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.10.2013 17:22, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 10/17/2013 12:42 PM, berenger.mo.

Re: Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

2013-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 20:34 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > I have also had this problem for a while - I thought it was related to > Mate which I run. > gksudo will run it here...but pkexec will not. I don't know pkexec. Does it allow something gksudo doesn't allow? If there should be the need to

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-22 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/22/2013 8:47 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 22.10.2013 23:01, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 10/21/2013 5:26 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.10.2013 19:36, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 10/18/2013 1:10 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.10.2013 17:22,

Re: Dying hard drive?

2013-10-22 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 02:40:27 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 19:52 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/10/msg00182.html > > At least it's better to backup more files than wanted, as to miss files > that are needed :D. Fair enough ;) Celejar --

Re: Hp Proliant 460c drivers

2013-10-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/22/2013 1:42 PM, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: > On Oct 22, 2013 12:15 PM, "Stan Hoeppner" wrote: >> >> On 10/22/2013 10:11 AM, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: >>> On Oct 22, 2013 8:36 AM, "Stan Hoeppner" wrote: On 10/21/2013 2:57 PM, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: Is this your first rodeo with

Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-22 Thread Mark Phillips
I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this morning on an old server (Debian Squeeze) and the system won't boot now. I get the error kernel panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown -block(0,0) One of the updates was to kernel 2.6.32-5-686. I can boot in to safe mode with this

Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-22 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. I am wondering whether the amd64 versions of Debian 6 and 7 install and run on a UEFI/GPT system. From what I understand, FreeBSD does not yet install and run on a UEFI/GPT system, and so I assume that Debian kfreebsd also does not yet install and run on a UEFI/GPT system, and I am wo

Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-22 Thread David Christensen
On 10/22/13 22:03, Bret Busby wrote: I am wondering whether the amd64 versions of Debian 6 and 7 install and run on a UEFI/GPT system. Yes. I have an Intel DQ67SW motherboard (has UEFI) with 3 TB Seagate hard drives (formatted with GPT), and have run both Squeeze and Wheezy on it. HTH, D

Re: XFCE without GNOME/KDE parts (Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1)

2013-10-22 Thread recoverym4n
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 02:18:10 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > That makes me wonder, perhaps this works because your install is that > clean. There may be other differences. Versions, build options, etc. And there's always ltrace and strace to make sure that the software behaves exactly the way you w

Re: Back in Time fails with Python errors

2013-10-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 04:11:09PM -0700, anx_dev wrote: > Hi all, > > Back in Time is failing with a Python fatal error in app.py. Is anyone having > the same sort of error? Possibly. Possibly not. If you listed what the error actually was, it may be helpful in resolving it. -- Karl E. Jo