Controlling the list?

2002-09-10 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; How do I get a list of commands for this list server? What I am looking for is how to start/stop digest mode, sending me a copy of my own posts, holding (stopping) the posts while on vacation, things like that. No matter what I try I get a message back on how to retrieve things from

Building debian on S/390?

2002-09-10 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Has anyone here installed debian on a S/390? I have downloaded jigdo and libdb3, built and installed libdb3 but I am getting hung up on making jigdo. Before I spend anymore time beating my head against the desk I thought there might be a better way. I am doing this under TurboLinux

Help - Can't install on IBM PC

2004-04-05 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Yesterday I tried to install Debian on an IBM NetVista model 2254. This is a 1.+ Mhz Pentium that was running Win2k satisfactorily but has recently been replaced. I tried to install Debian from the iso cd image #1 but no luck. Same results when I tried several other linux distribs. The

Form filling, etc.

2021-05-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings, My bank and credit company use javascript or something similar to build the login screen so my password manager can't find the user-id and password fields to fill them in. The fields don't show up in the downloaded source code or in the source code so that is no help. Can anybod

dpkg --configure -a crashes system

2022-02-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
I can't install/upgrade because I get the message E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. When I run the dpkg command I get one message Setting up linux-image-4.19.0-18-amd64 (4.19.208-1) then within a few seconds the system crashes

Copy/paste between host and KVM/windows 10 guest??

2022-04-07 Thread Dennis Wicks
It doesn't work for me and the suggested solutions I have found are referring to a linux guest. TIA for pointers, suggestions, solutions! Denniis

What happened?

2022-04-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
When I first installed Debian 10, I installed Win 10 in a virtual machine using KVM/QEMU and everything just worked. I could copy/paste between host and vm and access host disks in the vm. And zfs file systems worked. The main problem was that dpkg would kill the system trying to setup linux

Solved (partially) Re: What happened?

2022-04-21 Thread Dennis Wicks
Dennis Wicks wrote on 4/16/22 18:16: When I first installed Debian 10, I installed Win 10 in a virtual machine using KVM/QEMU and everything just worked. I could copy/paste between host and vm and access host disks in the vm. And zfs file systems worked. The main problem was that dpkg would

Re: Solved (partially) Re: What happened?

2022-04-22 Thread Dennis Wicks
The Wanderer wrote on 4/21/22 17:14: On 2022-04-21 at 14:37, Dennis Wicks wrote: Dennis Wicks wrote on 4/16/22 18:16: When I first installed Debian 10, I installed Win 10 in a virtual machine using KVM/QEMU and everything just worked. I could copy/paste between host and vm and access host

Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

2022-05-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Thomas Schmitt wrote on 5/6/22 13:24: Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: I think you're vastly underestimating the average age of subscribers on this list. Huh ? ... What ? ... Age ? ... Whom do you call old ? I am 83. First desktop was an IBM PC running IBM DOS Version 1, I think. Also saw my firs

Need help -- Virtual Machine Manager

2020-09-04 Thread Dennis Wicks
I'm running Win10 with Virtual Machine Manager on Deb 10.4. How to I attach my CD drive to Win10 so I can install some software? Many TIA! Dennis

Re: Need help -- Virtual Machine Manager

2020-09-05 Thread Dennis Wicks
Fabien Roucaute wrote on 9/5/20 1:40 AM: Le 05/09/2020 à 01:57, Dennis Wicks a écrit : I'm running Win10 with Virtual Machine Manager on Deb 10.4. How to I attach my CD drive to Win10 so I can install some software? Many TIA! Dennis Either the ISO or the CD-ROM need to be on the hos

Help - How to paste from host (Debian) to Virtual machine (Win10)

2020-09-07 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings! Is there any way that I can copy and paste from Deb host to VM Win10 and vice versa? Many TIA! Dennis

Re: Help - How to paste from host (Debian) to Virtual machine (Win10)

2020-09-08 Thread Dennis Wicks
Kushal Kumaran wrote on 9/7/20 7:31 PM: Dennis Wicks writes: Greetings! Is there any way that I can copy and paste from Deb host to VM Win10 and vice versa? Assuming you are using qemu-kvm to run your VM, the search keyword would be SPICE. You need to have the appropriate devices

Linux not seeing all SATA drives

2020-10-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
I have 3 SATA drives on my system. I replaced all my red cables with new black cables. The BIOS sees all of them but when linux finishes booting it only sees two of them. Do I have to do something to linux so it sees the third drive? FYI, I have the system disk in sata-1, the drive on sata2 is

Re: Linux not seeing all SATA drives

2020-10-13 Thread Dennis Wicks
David Christensen wrote on 10/12/20 10:01 PM: On 2020-10-12 19:19, Dennis Wicks wrote: I have 3 SATA drives on my system. I replaced all my red cables with new black cables. The BIOS sees all of them but when linux finishes booting it only sees two of them. Do I have to do something to linux

Monitor resolution wrong

2021-01-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; When I boot kernel 4.19.0-13-amd64 my monitor res is 1024x768. It should be 1680x1050 which I get when I boot into kernel 4.19.0-12-amd64. Also, when I look at the xfce display settings when I have -13 booted it has some generic display listed and only the 1024x768 res. When I am b

Re: Monitor resolution wrong

2021-01-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Felix Miata wrote on 1/9/21 3:33 PM: Dennis Wicks composed on 2021-01-09 15:00 (UTC-0600): When I boot kernel 4.19.0-13-amd64 my monitor res is 1024x768. It should be 1680x1050 which I get when I boot into kernel 4.19.0-12-amd64. Also, when I look at the xfce display settings when I have -13

Re: Monitor resolution wrong

2021-01-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Alexander V. Makartsev wrote on 1/9/21 6:22 PM: On 10.01.2021 04:08, Dennis Wicks wrote: Felix Miata wrote on 1/9/21 3:33 PM: Dennis Wicks composed on 2021-01-09 15:00 (UTC-0600): When I boot kernel 4.19.0-13-amd64 my monitor res is 1024x768. It should be 1680x1050 which I get when I boot

Disk errors ...

2021-01-13 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I am getting very frequent disk errors and I can't figure out which drive they are occurring on. I get two messages: [174384.704895] sata_sil :05:00.0: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT domain=0x address=0xcf99c100 flags=0x] [174384.705153] AMD-Vi: Event logged [I

Re: old red cables cause Disk errors ...

2021-01-13 Thread Dennis Wicks
Felix Miata wrote on 1/13/21 5:21 PM: Michael Howard composed on 2021-01-13 22:57 (UTC): David Christensen wrote: Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 01:55:37PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: If you have any red SATA cables, replace them with new black SATA 6 Make sure you

Problem: Slow Boot -- Hibernation?

2019-05-14 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; First off, I am running Debian Buster/Sid (that's what it says!) and the kernel is 4.19.0-4-686-pae. 32 bit system, 4 Gig of memory (3.xx usable!), IDE disks. My boots are getting slower and slower. I'll start from the top. The first thing that happens is I get a message R

Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail.

2019-05-14 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; During the boot process there are several mount "jobs" started, and they all finish/fail with two messages; Dependency failed for ... Timeout waiting for ... that is except for root. I removed all the mounts for user partitions from fstab and just left the mounts

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-27 Thread Dennis Wicks
Gene Heskett wrote on 6/17/19 11:49 AM: On Monday 17 June 2019 10:54:19 am Dan Ritter wrote: [big snip!] And short of commenting every line in /e/i.d/avahi-* out, I don't know how to stop that PITA from [/big snip] Cheers, Gene Heskett Gene; No need for such butchery! Just insert a state

Re: Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail.

2019-06-28 Thread Dennis Wicks
andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote on 6/24/19 2:09 AM: On Ma, 14 mai 19, 16:38:37, Dennis Wicks wrote: How do I prevent the mounts from failing and make the system continue on with the boot process? You could start by attaching your /etc/fstab and copy-pasting the output of 'lsblk -f'

Setting up bind9/DNS

2019-06-28 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings, I have apache2 installed on my local machine with a bunch of virtual hosts that I use for test and development of html, wordpress, etc. It works fine to access the virt hosts locally, but I want to access them from other systems on my local network; windows/IE of various versions,

Re: Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail.

2019-06-30 Thread Dennis Wicks
andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote on 6/29/19 1:15 AM: On Vi, 28 iun 19, 11:26:43, Dennis Wicks wrote: andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote on 6/24/19 2:09 AM: On Ma, 14 mai 19, 16:38:37, Dennis Wicks wrote: How do I prevent the mounts from failing and make the system continue on with the boot process

mount weirdness

2019-08-05 Thread Dennis Wicks
I recently rebooted after an upgrade that generated "Jul 28 17:13 initrd.img-4.19.0-5-686-pae" and when I was finally U&R I discovered that a mount didn't happen. (I am on Debian 10 Bullseye and my last kernel resulted in "Jul 18 17:23 vmlinuz-4.19.0-5-686-pae".) I have mount points /w

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Requested info attached: I *cannot* mount *any* partition on /wa1 but I *can* mount *any* partition on any other mount point. Regards, and Thanks! Dennis Andrei POPESCU wrote on 8/6/19 1:06 AM: On Lu, 05 aug 19, 15:33:57, Dennis Wicks wrote: It seems that something in the mount process does

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Thomas Schmitt wrote on 8/6/19 10:30 AM: Hi, Dennis Wicks wrote: I *cannot* mount *any* partition on /wa1 but I *can* mount *any* partition on any other mount point. So what do you get from these shell commands ? I am currently running with "ln -s /wa11 /wa1" so this isn'

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Felix Miata wrote on 8/6/19 10:33 AM: Dennis Wicks composed on 2019-08-06 10:09 (UTC-0500): I *cannot* mount *any* partition on /wa1 What is output from ls -ld /wa*/ ? wix@dgwicks:/$ ls -ld /wa*/ drwxrwxrwx 17 root root 4096 Jun 17 14:07 /wa1/ drwxrwxrwx 17 root root 4096 Jun 17 14:07 /wa11

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
the paths that I have starting with "/wa1/..."! On Tuesday, August 06, 2019 11:09:32 AM Dennis Wicks wrote: Requested info attached: I *cannot* mount *any* partition on /wa1 but I *can* mount *any* partition on any other mount point. Regards, and Thanks! Dennis Andrei POPESCU wrote

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Richard Hector wrote on 8/6/19 12:42 PM: On 7/08/19 5:31 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: rhkra...@gmail.com wrote on 8/6/19 10:34 AM: I didn't fully understand your fstab, but is there a typo -- wa11 vs. wa1? No. My current config is;    /wa1 -> wa11 ( soft link )    /wa11    ( <

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-07 Thread Dennis Wicks
David Wright wrote on 8/6/19 1:48 PM: On Tue 06 Aug 2019 at 12:18:21 (-0500), Dennis Wicks wrote: Thomas Schmitt wrote on 8/6/19 10:30 AM: Dennis Wicks wrote: I *cannot* mount *any* partition on /wa1 but I *can* mount *any* partition on any other mount point. So what do you get from these

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-07 Thread Dennis Wicks
Thomas Schmitt wrote on 8/6/19 1:58 PM: Hi, more ideas: exit value, verbous mode. mount -v /dev/sdc /wa1 echo $? A nominally successful mount command would yield 0 as "$?". Maybe -v yields some extra insight. Have a nice day :) Thomas Thanks, Thomas! I'll put a note in my fstab so

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Curt wrote on 8/8/19 3:19 AM: On 2019-08-05, Dennis Wicks wrote: So anyway, I typed in "sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1" and it seemed to finish successfully, but "ls /wa1" indicated that in fact it had not. Nothing mounted on wa1! Many other tests told me the same thing. &qu

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Curt wrote on 8/8/19 3:41 AM: On 2019-08-08, Curt wrote: On 2019-08-05, Dennis Wicks wrote: So anyway, I typed in "sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1" and it seemed to finish successfully, but "ls /wa1" indicated that in fact it had not. Nothing mounted on wa1! Many other te

Re: mount weirdness

2019-08-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
David Wright wrote on 8/8/19 9:04 AM: On Thu 08 Aug 2019 at 08:19:22 (-), Curt wrote: On 2019-08-05, Dennis Wicks wrote: So anyway, I typed in "sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1" and it seemed to finish successfully, but "ls /wa1" indicated that in fact it had not. Nothing

mount weirdness reloaded

2019-08-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings once again; Tomorrow morning I am going to reboot and see if my problem happens again. If you have some suggestions on what info to gather then let me know. Bear in mind that during the boot process my system is pretty much unresponsive for the hour or so until the window manager

kvm CM how to attach existing hdd partition

2020-04-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Well, I have my VM created and installed Windows 10 in it, and everything windows seems to work just fine. Now, how do I make existing partitions available to the Windows system? Can't find anything recent that appears to address the situation. Many TIA! Dennis

kvm by example

2020-04-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Found a web page that guides you step by step through defining a VM and installing Windows 10 in it. Make a note of this or save it some where in case you or a friend needs it! >> https://getlabsdone.com/10-easy-steps-to-install-windows-10-on-linux-kvm/ << Worked great for me!

Error importing gpg key

2020-05-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
The tor website says to use the command gpg --auto-key-locate nodefault,wkd --locate-keys torbrow...@torproject.org When I do that I get an error message gpg: keyserver option 'ca-cert-file' is obsolete; please use 'hkp-cacert' in dirmngr.conf I have searched the net and man pages and I c

Re: Error importing gpg key - Solved!

2020-05-26 Thread Dennis Wicks
Reco wrote on 5/16/20 6:14 PM: sed -i '/^keyserver-options/d' ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf Thanks! Solves the problem!

VPN suggestions?

2018-07-10 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I want to set up a VPN for several computers in my house that are all on a local network. And suggestions, hints, warnings? TIA!! Dennis

Which kernel should I use?

2018-09-27 Thread Dennis Wicks
I notice that there is available two different kernels; linux-image-4.9.0-8-686-pae and linux-image-4.9.0-8-rt-686-pae I am running on a Pentium 4. Which one of these should I be using? And just for curiosities sake, why? TIA! Dennis

Re: Which kernel should I use?

2018-09-27 Thread Dennis Wicks
Dennis Wicks wrote on 09/27/2018 06:40 PM: > I notice that there is available two different kernels; > > linux-image-4.9.0-8-686-pae > > and > > linux-image-4.9.0-8-rt-686-pae > > I am running on a Pentium 4. > > Which one of these should I be

Where is xfce.org?

2018-09-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
What has happened to xfce.org? It seems to have disappeared and left no tracks.

Re: "passwd username" asks for current password of user even tho I'm root

2018-10-10 Thread Dennis Wicks
Mariusz Gronczewski wrote on 10/10/18 8:17 AM: > Hi, > > On previous releases, and on our CentOS systems I could change password of > user by just sudo-ing to root and typing "passwd testuser" > > In current Debian release, doing that asks me to specify that user password, > which is pointless

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread Dennis Wicks
Richard Owlett wrote on 10/26/18 9:41 AM: > Many man pages end with: >> The full documentation for Ed is maintained as a Texinfo >> manual. If the info > and XYZ programs are properly >> installed at your site, the command >> >>     info XYZ >> >> should give you access to the complete manual. >

Help with gitlab

2018-10-26 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; So far everything I have wanted to get from git has had a button for "download zip file" and everything worked great. I am trying to get a package that doesn't have a download link. Anybody know the secret command to get the source in some usable format? I have tried the regular rt-clk

Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

2018-10-26 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greg Wooledge wrote on 10/26/18 3:16 PM: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 03:13:20PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: >> sudo apt show XYZ > > For the record, you don't need to be root to use apt show, or apt-cache show. > > > Right you are! I guess it has bec

Need help making new boot vol

2019-01-15 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have copied my boot, root and home partitions to a larger device but I think I need to run grub to actually make the disk boot. All of the writeups that I can find are way too old or just old enough that the file names for a lot of things aren't the same as what I have. I am running

vnc 64bit-32bitor Buster to Bullseye

2019-10-07 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have a vanilla 64-bit install of Buster which claims to be Debian 10.1. I am trying to vnc from there to my old 32-bit machine which is running Bullseye (don't know what it claims to be). Using tightvncserver on the 32-bit side and xtightvncviewer on the 64-bit side I have mana

How to configure e-net port again

2020-01-30 Thread Dennis Wicks
I am running Debian Buster 10, upgrade within the past week. I tried to change my e-net to use dhcp, which I thought it was but it wasn't picking up all the info from the DHCP server, specifically the IP addr. Now it doesn't work at all. How can I run through the setup/init process that it we

Re: How to configure e-net port again

2020-01-31 Thread Dennis Wicks
Daryl wrote on 1/30/20 7:52 PM: On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 19:48:36 -0600 Dennis Wicks wrote: I am running Debian Buster 10, upgrade within the past week. I tried to change my e-net to use dhcp, which I thought it was but it wasn't picking up all the info from the DHCP server, specifically t

Re: How to configure e-net port again

2020-01-31 Thread Dennis Wicks
john doe wrote on 1/31/20 1:00 AM: On 1/31/2020 2:48 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: I am running Debian Buster 10, upgrade within the past week. I tried to change my e-net to use dhcp, which I thought it was but it How did you try to change your e-net to use dhcp? wasn't picking up all the

Re: How to configure e-net port again -- SOLVED (sort of)

2020-01-31 Thread Dennis Wicks
Michael Stone wrote on 1/31/20 2:00 PM: On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 11:27:06AM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: john doe wrote on 1/31/20 1:00 AM: On 1/31/2020 2:48 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: I am running Debian Buster 10, upgrade within the past week. I tried to change my e-net to use dhcp, which I

Best file system to use?

2020-02-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have 4TB running on an AMD Ryzen under Buster. What is the current consensus of the best file system to use for general data usage? I have been using xfs but that is based on info from many years ago. Many TIA! Dennis

Running virtual systems

2020-02-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; The last time that I ran any virtual systems virtualbox and other software was the only way to go. Now I see that there is support in hardware for running virtual systems directly. I am running Buster on AMD Ryzen. What is the best way to run virtual systems, and where can I find s

TV tuner/capture cards?

2008-07-19 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Does anybody know of a tv tuner/capture card that will work with Debian? An FM tuner option would be nice, but not necessary. TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Linux on Dell Inspiron 1720?

2008-07-23 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; We just bought a Dell Inspiron Mod. 1720. It has Win. Vista installed and it really uis not very impressive. Does anyone know if Debian will install and run good on this hardware? It has integrated camera, wi-fi, sound and graphics. Do you think these will function under linux?

Re: Linux on Dell Inspiron 1720?

2008-07-23 Thread Dennis Wicks
Damon L. Chesser wrote the following on 07/23/2008 07:00 PM: On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 18:43 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; We just bought a Dell Inspiron Mod. 1720. It has Win. Vista installed and it really uis not very impressive. Does anyone know if Debian will install and run good on

Wi-Fi in Inspiron 1720 - Help!

2008-07-26 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have lenny running very good except for one big hangup. I can't get the wireless card to work. It shows in lspci as a Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller. I have read many many how-to's and forum threads on how to get it to work, but after several days of attempts and retries, no j

Strange msgs in syslog

2008-05-10 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have just noticed that syslog on my firewall contains hundreds if not thousands of messages like this. Do they indicate an error of some kind? If not, how do I turn them off? kernel: BANDWIDTH_IN:IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=00:10:b5:bf:2f:3c:00:0c:f1:a2:cf:0e:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=19

Help: Errors from aptitude install

2008-06-11 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Specifically I am trying to install samba and its parts, samba-common samba smbclient smbfs, on Lenny and I keep getting errors like the following. Setting up samba-common (2:3.0.30-2) ... Error: unknown response from debconf:'keep_current' dpkg: error processing samba-

Suggestions for video/tv capture?

2009-09-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have a lot of VHS tapes that I would like to put on CDs or DVDs. Any suggestions for a decent capture card? I would prefer one that is O/S neutral so I can run it on Deb or XP, but that isn't an absolute requirement. Grateful for any help! TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Suggestions for video/tv capture?

2009-09-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
150 cards, but they are getting harder to find these days. They use the ivtv drivers under Linux, and the manufacturer's drivers under Windows work quite well. > - Dave > - Original Message - > From: Dennis Wicks > Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:03 pm > S

Re: Suggestions for video/tv capture?

2009-10-03 Thread Dennis Wicks
Thanks for all the help. I have gotten a card that works extremely well! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Iceweasel blocking pop-ups

2009-02-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I turned off the popup blocker in IW but it seems to still be blocking them. I am on http://www.rhapsody.com/channels trying to play one of the music channels. I tried it on Win XP I'net explorer and it said popups were being blocked so I turned off the popup blocker and everyt

unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I regularly use the -a option to unzip to fix DOS/Windows line endings and have never had a problem. Until yesterday and today! Today it treated everything as a binary file and all the text/ascii files still had ^M at the end of each line. Yesterday it treated a pdf file as a tex

unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I regularly use the -a option to unzip to fix DOS/Windows line endings and have never had a problem. Until yesterday and today! Today it treated everything as a binary file and all the text/ascii files still had ^M at the end of each line. Yesterday it treated a pdf file as a text fil

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
Dave Ewart wrote the following on 02/16/2009 10:42 AM: On Monday, 16.02.2009 at 16:37 +, Avi Greenbury wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: I don't believe it. Show us! In the interests of satisfying my curiosity: vm-linux2:/# rm -rf / rm: cannot remove root directory `/' vm-linux2:/# That's ra

Re: unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
dgwicks:~# unzip -v UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP. It doesn't look like it has changed in the past five years, which makes me think it might be something else that unzip interacts with. But I have no idea what it might be. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Iceweasel blocking pop-ups

2009-02-17 Thread Dennis Wicks
Jonathan Kaye wrote the following on 02/17/2009 12:55 AM: tyler wrote: Dennis Wicks writes: Greetings; I turned off the popup blocker in IW but it seems to still be blocking them. I tried it in Iceweasel 3.0.6-1 and it doesn't work at all, even with the popup blocker turned of

Re: unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-17 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 02/16/2009 07:05 PM: On 02/16/2009 06:50 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: dgwicks:~# unzip -v UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP. It doesn't look like it has changed in the past five years, which makes me think it might be something

Any info about http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/

2009-02-19 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I saw a regerence to http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/ in a recent email, but the site doesn't respond. I have tried several different browsers but they all go into a "waiting for reply" mode and nothing comes back. Any info appreciated. TIA, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Numeric keypad doesn't work!

2009-02-25 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I just noticed today that my numeric keypad doesn't work under Gnome, but works fine in a console session. (Ctl-Alt-F1) I've tried changing the keyboard brands and models but nothing makes any difference. Still doesn't work, regardless of NumLock setting. And the LED does turn on a

Re: Numeric keypad doesn't work!

2009-02-26 Thread Dennis Wicks
Jeff Soules wrote the following on 02/25/2009 11:36 PM: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I just noticed today that my numeric keypad doesn't work under Gnome, but works fine in a console session. (Ctl-Alt-F1) I've tried changing the keyboard brands

Error: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size

2009-02-27 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have two programs that are failing at startup with this message; /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size Does any one know what the problem is? I have already installed/reinstalled everything I coould find that seemed to be connected with font config.

Re: Numeric keypad doesn't work! - Solved

2009-02-28 Thread Dennis Wicks
Pal Trendweaver wrote the following on 02/27/2009 05:33 PM: Op woensdag 25-02-2009 om 23:27 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Dennis Wicks: Greetings; I just noticed today that my numeric keypad doesn't work under Gnome, but works fine in a console session. (Ctl-Alt-F1) I've tried ch

Re: Error: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size

2009-03-03 Thread Dennis Wicks
Florian Kulzer wrote the following on 02/28/2009 06:40 AM: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 20:08:06 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have two programs that are failing at startup with this message; /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size Does any one know what the

Re: Staying on topic and quoting

2009-03-11 Thread Dennis Wicks
Steven Demetrius wrote the following on 03/11/2009 02:07 AM: Staying on topic and quoting. One of the things that causes confusion is going off topic and improper quoting. Staying on topic makes the thread easy to follow and understand. We all go off topic now and then but we need to curb this

Local mirroring How-To?

2009-03-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I remember there was a discussion sometime back about this but I can't locate it. Here is my situation. I have six Debian/Lenny machines that I have to update/upgrade at various times, and some of these runs take hours for each system over my 768Kbs connection. I have the space

Samba problem

2009-06-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
All of a sudden (ie. I can't think of anything that changed.) samba on one linux machine is not working. One symptom is: dgwicks:~# smbclient -L joyce Connection to joyce failed (Error NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED) another is: dgwicks:~# mount //joyce/edrv mount error 111 = Connection refu

Need help with Mail::Sender

2009-06-25 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Following the docs I have it working basically, but it is not handling html w/inline images correctly. Instead of getting a html message with inline image it is sending a blank email with both the html and the jpg image as attachments. Here is my program. Does anyone see the pro

How to create hidden files?

2009-07-03 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Back in the dim distant past I remember that one could create hidden or "secret" file with Basic on DOS and at least early Windows (3.0). I was never able to figure out where those files were. Any way, is there a way of doing this in linux? I know that some commands/programs won'

Need help installing ndiswrapper

2008-10-04 Thread Dennis Wicks
I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly. In the INSTALL it states: You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules directory. The command ls /lib/modules/`una

Need help installing ndiswrapper

2008-10-05 Thread Dennis Wicks
I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly. In the INSTALL it states: You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules directory. The command ls /lib/modules/`una

Re: Need help installing ndiswrapper

2008-10-05 Thread Dennis Wicks
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote the following on 10/05/2008 02:33 PM: Dennis Wicks wrote: I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly. In the INSTALL it states: You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the kernel. Make sure there is a li

Re: Need help installing ndiswrapper

2008-10-08 Thread Dennis Wicks
Florian Kulzer wrote the following on 10/07/2008 03:16 PM: On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 17:54:00 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote the following on 10/05/2008 02:33 PM: Dennis Wicks wrote: I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly. In the INSTA

Can't run aptitude

2008-10-11 Thread Dennis Wicks
When I try to do nearly anything with aptitude I get dgwicks:~# aptitude update Writing extended state information... Done Err http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111 Connection refused) and

Re: Can't run aptitude

2008-10-13 Thread Dennis Wicks
Jochen Schulz wrote the following on 10/12/2008 08:06 AM: Dennis Wicks: When I try to do nearly anything with aptitude I get dgwicks:~# aptitude update Writing extended state information... Done Err http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg Could not connect to

virtual box version mismatch

2008-10-21 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have tried this on two different machines w/different kernels but both lenny and after I do the "modprobe vboxdrv" as demanded by vbox I get the message following and I have just installed latest vbox stuff. The version of the VirtualBox kernel modules and the version

Re: virtual box version mismatch

2008-10-23 Thread Dennis Wicks
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote the following on 10/23/2008 11:21 AM: Op Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:34:52 +0200 Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: Exactly what it says. 'The version of the VirtualBox kernel modules and the version of VirtualBox application are not matching.' You may have upgraded one (or was upgraded dur

Can I expand VBox disk drives?

2008-11-01 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I installed VBox with Dynamically Expanding Image for the disk drives but the C drive has expanded to the point that it is nearly full. Is there any way I can expand the available space for VBox vdi drives? Many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Adobe Reader install fails - out of space

2008-11-01 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; When I installed Debian on my laptop I chose the option to set up various separate file systems. Should have followed the KISS principle! Anyway, I downloaded AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2_SU1-1.i386.deb from the Adobe web site and tried to install it with dpkg -i but I get this result.

Re: Can I expand VBox disk drives?

2008-11-01 Thread Dennis Wicks
Alex Samad wrote the following on 11/01/2008 04:32 PM: On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 03:48:56PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I installed VBox with Dynamically Expanding Image for the disk drives but the C drive has expanded to the point that it is nearly full. Is there any way I can

Where is touch pad configure?

2008-11-03 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have lenny/gnome installed on a laptop with a touch pad and I can't find any thing/place to configure/customize it. It is working, but is way to sensitive. TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Need suggestions for internet messenger app

2008-11-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have installed Ayttm and Pidgin and both work OK except they don't support microphone/speaker or webcam. Does anyone know of messenger/chat programs that do? Also need to work on Yahoo network. I'm running lenny/gnome. Many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Need suggestions for internet messenger app

2008-11-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
H.S. wrote the following on 11/12/2008 11:17 PM: Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have installed Ayttm and Pidgin and both work OK except they don't support microphone/speaker or webcam. ^ Does anyone know of messenger/chat programs th

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