Re: thunderbird

2021-05-30 Thread Frank McCormick
ssary information, I would try claws mail. --doug I tried Claws mail a few years ago. I could never get it setup properly for IMAP. Thunderbird did it flawlessly. -- Frank McCormick

Thunderbird problems

2021-06-14 Thread Frank McCormick
The latest version of Thunderbird which was updated recently is giving me problems connecting to gmail. How can I downgrade Thunderbird on this machine? I am running Bullseye -- Frank McCormick

Re: Thunderbird problems

2021-06-14 Thread Frank McCormick
On 6/14/21 9:46 PM, Robbi Nespu wrote: On 6/15/21 6:24 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: The latest version of Thunderbird which was updated recently is giving me problems connecting to gmail. How can I downgrade Thunderbird on this machine? I am running Bullseye Let me guess, you unable to

Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Frank McCormick
puter. Thanks -- Frank McCormick

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2021-07-21 10:52 a.m., Kushal Kumaran wrote: On Wed, Jul 21 2021 at 09:26:41 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: Got a bunch of strange errors during this morning upgrade of Bullseye. Setting up systemd (247.3-6) ... Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Frank McCormick
On 7/21/21 12:24 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:04:13PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: frank@fedora ~$ stat /   File: /   Size: 4096    Blocks: 8  IO Block: 4096 directory Device: 806h/2054d  Inode: 2   Links: 18 Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x

can't boot to a graphical interface.

2020-10-02 Thread Frank McCormick
, and if I noot to a CLI I have no trouble accessing them using sudo and midnight commander. I tried reinstalling systemd but it ended with the same problem. Can anyone help? Thanks -- Frank McCormick

Re: can't boot to a graphical interface.

2020-10-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 10/3/20 11:20 AM, Kent West wrote: On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 8:01 AM songbird <mailto:songb...@anthive.com>> wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: > While compiling an application today my Debian bullseye system somehow > got messed up. It will boot to a CLI but n

Hiding an app

2020-10-13 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running the Mate desktop on Debian Bullseye. I just installed TZclock after removing the Mate clock from the taskbar. One annoyance is TZclock appears on the taskbar. Does anyone know how to prevent this? Thanks -- Frank McCormick

Re: Hiding an app

2020-10-13 Thread Frank McCormick
On 10/13/20 1:37 PM, Carl Fink wrote: On 10/13/20 12:17 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running the Mate desktop on Debian Bullseye. I just installed TZclock after removing the Mate clock from the taskbar. One annoyance is TZclock appears on the taskbar. Does anyone know how to prevent

borked upgrade ?

2019-05-20 Thread Frank McCormick
e process' exit code is 'killed' and its exit status is 15. May 20 18:16:16 franklin systemd[1]: packagekit.service: Succeeded. -- Subject: Unit succeeded -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- The unit packagekit.service has successfully entered the 'dead' state. Is this stuff I should be worried about ? -- Frank McCormick

Update errors

2020-07-08 Thread Frank McCormick
ory not empty dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/fonts/eot': Directory not empty Should I go in an remove these directories/files...or just leave it alone ? -- Frank McCormick

Re: Update errors

2020-07-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 7/8/20 10:45 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2020-07-08 10:20 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: Apt flagged a couple of errors during this morning upate. Warnings, not errors, and they are coming from dpkg. dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/fonts/woff/font-aw

delay before desktop loads

2018-07-29 Thread Frank McCormick
I've been experiencing a long delay - upwards of 2 minutes before the desktop on my Debian Sid loads and displays. This happens no matter what desktop I try, Cinnamon,Mate or Icewm. This is my hardware. frank@franklin:~$ inxi CPU: Dual Core Intel Core i5 660 (-MT MCP-) speed/min/max: 1453/11

Re: delay before desktop loads

2018-07-29 Thread Frank McCormick
On 07/29/2018 05:05 PM, Matthew Crews wrote: On 7/29/18 12:07 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: This is an extract of the journalctl log showing the long delay. Jul 29 12:04:45 franklin ntpd[652]: Soliciting pool server 144.217.252.208 Jul 29 12:04:45 franklin ntpd[652]: Soliciting pool server

[SOLVED] Re: delay before desktop loads

2018-07-29 Thread Frank McCormick
On 07/29/2018 06:38 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 07/29/2018 05:28 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 07/29/2018 05:05 PM, Matthew Crews wrote: On 7/29/18 12:07 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: This is an extract of the journalctl log showing the long delay. Jul 29 12:04:45 franklin ntpd[652

Re: delay before desktop loads

2018-07-29 Thread Frank McCormick
On 07/29/2018 05:28 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 07/29/2018 05:05 PM, Matthew Crews wrote: On 7/29/18 12:07 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: This is an extract of the journalctl log showing the long delay. Jul 29 12:04:45 franklin ntpd[652]: Soliciting pool server 144.217.252.208 Jul 29 12

Re: delay before desktop loads

2018-07-29 Thread Frank McCormick
On 07/29/2018 06:58 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 30/07/18 07:07, Frank McCormick wrote: I've been experiencing a long delay - upwards of 2 minutes before the desktop on my Debian Sid loads and displays. This happens no matter what desktop I try, Cinnamon,Mate or Icewm. [...] I ent

Xorg log file filling up with error

2018-09-17 Thread Frank McCormick
Just noticed today when my xorg logfile grew to 2 gb. This error : 39.263] (EE) modeset(0): Failed to get GBM bo for flip to new front. is repeated hundreds of time. I have filed a bug, but in the meantime is there away to avoid this, perhaps using the xorg.conf file. I don't have one at the mo

Re: Xorg log file filling up with error

2018-09-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On 9/18/18 3:58 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2018, Frank McCormick wrote: Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:44:16 From: Frank McCormick To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Xorg log file filling up with error Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 19:59:39 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian

fedora 28 installation causing problems for Debian Sid

2018-09-19 Thread Frank McCormick
I installed Fedora 28 on a second partition sda6 on my hd yesterday. It seemed to go well, but this morning when I booted into my regular system Debian Sid and tried to install Grub into the Debian partition sda5 it refused saying ext2 file systems are not supported without blocklists. sda5 has

Re: fedora 28 installation causing problems for Debian Sid

2018-09-19 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2018-09-19 10:02 a.m., Frank McCormick wrote: I installed Fedora 28 on a second partition sda6 on my hd yesterday. It seemed to go well, but this morning when I booted into my regular system Debian Sid and tried to install Grub into the Debian partition sda5 it refused saying ext2 file

Re: Which is the best open source ecommerce platform?

2018-09-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 9/26/18 10:21 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 01:57:14PM +, Curt wrote: On 2018-09-26, John Hasler wrote: Look at ledgersmb: I looked briefly but remained unconvinced this is an ecommerce platform. It is an accou

Re: Forgotten MATE tools

2018-09-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 9/26/18 11:21 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm setting up a new machine with MATE desktop. Some time back I had been pointed to two very convenient tools. One added an option to the Caja that when clicking on a file/directory allowed opening as administrator. The other was a tool used whe

Re: Line wrap problem - Pluma 1.16.1 on Debian 9.1

2018-10-17 Thread Frank McCormick
I'll try it to see if I have an hardware specific problem. https://github.com/mate-desktop/pluma Tells you how to report a bug, incidentally telling you where their bug reporting system is, so you can look through it. -dsr- Confirmed here with Pluma 1.20.2 -- Frank McCormick

Re: Sound suddenly not working.

2018-11-03 Thread Frank McCormick
t" as only output device, instead of "Speakers" as previously. What to check? Same here. Running Mate on Sid. I noticed libasound2 and libasound2-data were both upgraded yesterday and then my problem started. Maybe bug-filing time ?? -- Frank McCormick

Re: Seeing progross during fsck on boot

2022-09-03 Thread Frank McCormick
to stop displaying a completion bar or emitting progress information. -- Frank McCormick

Re: debian sid no boot after this morning's update

2023-01-05 Thread Frank McCormick
r problems and the system then booted fine. The strange thing in my mind is how the whole thing happened, as only the lightdm greeter had been updated and that was a few days ago. Thanks for the suggestion - Ill try to keep it in mind. -- Frank McCormick

Re: debian sid no boot after this morning's update

2023-01-05 Thread Frank McCormick
drivers, video firmware, etc. We suspect this already, but confirmation is always good. These are good ideas I will try then next time I have a similar problem, hopefully never. Thanks for all your help and advice. -- Frank McCormick

Re: debian sid no boot after this morning's update

2023-01-05 Thread Frank McCormick
he help of Charles Curley's posting of the permission on his system. I think we are now back to normal, whatever that means. Thanks all -- Frank McCormick

Re: debian sid no boot after this morning's update

2023-01-05 Thread Frank McCormick
directory. I did indeed. In checking what I had there were a couple of differences which hadn't seemed to make much difference. But I have fixed those now. I appreciate your help. -- Frank McCormick

Re: debian sid no boot after this morning's update

2023-01-05 Thread Frank McCormick
every good wish, as ever, Andy Cater Thanks for any help. -- Frank McCormick

Latest kernel gives blank screen when it boots

2018-12-01 Thread Frank McCormick
I have spent the last several days setting up Fedora on another partition. When it came to boot back into Debian Sid this morning I discovered my screen goes blank after the first few seconds. The previous kernel is fine. 4.18.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.18.10-2 (2018-11-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux This

Latest kernel gives blank screen when it boots

2018-12-01 Thread Frank McCormick
Can anyone help? Where should I look first. Thanks -- Frank McCormick

Re: Latest kernel gives blank screen when it boots

2018-12-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12/1/18 2:39 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Frank McCormick composed on 2018-12-01 14:12 (UTC-0500): ... Can anyone help? Where should I look first. Try purging xserver-xorg-video-intel and restarting the server. Last official release of that driver was over 4 years ago. https

Re: Latest kernel gives blank screen when it boots

2018-12-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12/1/18 3:18 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2018-12-01 14:12 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: I have spent the last several days setting up Fedora on another partition. When it came to boot back into Debian Sid this morning I discovered my screen goes blank after the first few seconds. Quite

Re: Latest kernel gives blank screen when it boots

2018-12-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12/1/18 5:53 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Frank McCormick composed on 2018-12-01 17:19 (UTC-0500): Felix Miata wrote: Frank McCormick composed on 2018-12-01 14:12 (UTC-0500): ... Try purging xserver-xorg-video-intel and restarting the server. Last official release of that driver was

Re: Latest kernel gives blank screen when it boots

2018-12-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12/1/18 7:05 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Frank McCormick composed on 2018-12-01 18:10 (UTC-0500): Felix Miata wrote: Frank McCormick composed on 2018-12-01 17:19 (UTC-0500): Felix Miata wrote: Frank McCormick composed on 2018-12-01 14:12 (UTC-0500): ... Try purging xserver-xorg

Re: missing avidemux Debian package

2019-01-25 Thread Frank McCormick
http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ for details. regards I was under the impression that it has been suggested in the past to not use packages from deb-multimedia.org as it causes other problems? -- Frank McCormick

Audio problems in Sid

2019-02-03 Thread Frank McCormick
Audio driver: snd_hda_intel Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-2-amd64 Can someone suggest where I should start looking ?? Thanks -- Frank McCormick

Re: Audio problems in Sid

2019-02-03 Thread Frank McCormick
I have since discovered the problem seemingly only affects Google-Chrome in Youtube. Firefox in youtube has sound and VLC plays mp3's fine. Just a Chrome problem ?? On 2/3/19 2:09 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: Running Debian Sid uptodate. Lost all sound this morning after an APT u

Re: Audio problems in Sid

2019-02-03 Thread Frank McCormick
Sorry for the noise. Youtube is having BIG problems. And Chrome is apparently loading videos in a tab with audio MUTED !! On 2/3/19 2:09 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: Running Debian Sid uptodate. Lost all sound this morning after an APT update/upgrade. I don't see anything in the update

Debian Sid updates

2019-02-23 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running Debian Sid and have not had any updates for a couple of days. I gather this is because of the upcoming release of Buster? I have read some advice on the net that I should change my sources list to point to Buster to avoid a cascade of updates. Is this advisable ? Thanks -- Frank

Re: Debian Sid updates

2019-02-23 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2/23/19 10:05 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 09:44:55AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Debian Sid and have not had any updates for a couple of days. I gather this is because of the upcoming release of Buster? The soft freeze started a few days ago, so

Re: Debian Sid updates

2019-02-23 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2/23/19 11:15 AM, Default User wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2019, 10:12 Frank McCormick <mailto:debianl...@videotron.ca>> wrote: On 2/23/19 10:05 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 09:44:55AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: >> I am runn

Re: Debian Sid updates

2019-02-23 Thread Frank McCormick
" was a better choice. I don't recall why. Before apt-get I used aptitude in the cli. Wish I could get definitive answers. Although they don't seem to differ a lot in execution. Actually a couple of times Synaptic dug me out of trouble when the others couldn't. -- Frank McCormick

Re: Debian Sid updates

2019-02-24 Thread Frank McCormick
sible. Thus it makes no difference which you use, except in that if you use apt-get exclusively you might miss out on some new features. Seems like continuing with apt is the best idea. -- Frank McCormick

Mate desktop delay

2019-10-13 Thread Frank McCormick
- at that time as I recall it had something to do with the system entropy for random numbers. Anybody recall this? Could it be back ? -- Frank McCormick

Re: Mate desktop delay

2019-10-14 Thread Frank McCormick
On 10/14/19 8:08 AM, Anuradha Weeraman wrote: On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 11:52:50PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Debian Sid/Buster and the Mate desktop. For the last 4 or 5 weeks there has been a delay of perhaps 30-40 seconds before the desktop appears. I have looked at dmsg logs

Re: Mate desktop delay

2019-10-14 Thread Frank McCormick
On 10/14/19 11:13 AM, songbird wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: ... I find it strange the random bug does not delay boot time in my case, but apparently does delay the appearance of the desktop after GDM. i'm running MATE from testing with lightdm, and haven't experienced this pr

Re: Mate desktop delay

2019-10-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 10/14/19 11:19 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 10/14/19 11:13 AM, songbird wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: ... I find it strange the random bug does not delay boot time in my case, but apparently does delay the appearance of the desktop after GDM.    i'm running MATE from testing

Hiding apps

2019-10-24 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running Debian Sid with Mate. I would like to run tzclock at startup, but it appears in the taskbar as a regular program. Is there a way to hide it from the taskbar ? -- Frank McCormick

Re: fail2ban for apache2

2019-11-11 Thread Frank McCormick
ga_cocosdc HTTP/1.1" 200 16133 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Daum/4.1; +http://cs.daum.net/faq/15/4118.html?faqId=28966)" I did ask earlier if daum was a bot but no one answered. They are becoming a mite pesky. Here's your answer: https://www.distilnetworks.com/bot-directory/bot/daum-4-1/ Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- Frank McCormick

errors installing new kernal

2020-01-06 Thread Frank McCormick
_q9Lba2/lib/modules/5.4.0-2-amd64/modules.builtin.bin' System seems unaffected. Is this error serious?? -- Frank McCormick

Re: errors installing new kernal

2020-01-06 Thread Frank McCormick
On 1/6/20 5:10 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2020-01-06 16:28 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: Updating Debian Sid today.. a new kernel was part of the installation..apt spit out a couple of pages of this error: depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could not open

no mouse in midnight commander

2020-02-01 Thread Frank McCormick
o put up a bigger MC on the screen. This is the script at the moment xterm -g 140x40+140+20 -fn 10x20 -e mc -x I am running Debian Sid fully updated. -- Frank McCormick

Re: no mouse in midnight commander

2020-02-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2/1/20 2:39 PM, Joe wrote: On Sat, 1 Feb 2020 13:46:52 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: I noticed this morning that my mouse no longer works in MC. When I use it, it leaves keycodes on mc's command line at the bottom of the screen. Because I use Rox-filer to put icons on the deskt

systemd logging stopped

2020-02-04 Thread Frank McCormick
Noticed this morning that systemd is no longer logging boots on my machine. There is a log in /var/log/journal, but it's from yesterday. I seem to recall a message here about a change in logging but I can't find it. I am running Debian Sid fully updated. Can anyone help? -- Frank McCormick

Re: systemd logging stopped

2020-02-04 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2/4/20 11:31 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 2/4/20 7:56 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: Noticed this morning that systemd is no longer logging boots on my machine. There is a  log in /var/log/journal, but it's from yesterday. I seem to recall a message here about a change in logging but I

Re: systemd logging stopped

2020-02-04 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2/4/20 11:30 AM, john doe wrote: On 2/4/2020 4:56 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: Noticed this morning that systemd is no longer logging boots on my machine. There is a  log in /var/log/journal, but it's from yesterday. I seem to recall a message here about a change in logging but I can&#

More info on systemd logging fail

2020-02-04 Thread Frank McCormick
ocket" -- Frank McCormick

Systemd logging stopped (SOLVED)

2020-02-04 Thread Frank McCormick
I have since rebooted to a shutdown and logging is back. I don't know why simple reboots didn't solve the problem but it's solved now. -- Frank McCormick

Re: apt-get update success but with errors

2007-03-05 Thread Frank McCormick
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:53:42 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:03:02PM +0100, Jonas Geiregat wrote: > > At the end of the 'apt-get update' I get the follow output: > > > > Fetched 74.6kB in 6s > > (11.3kB/s) Reading package lists... Done > > W: GP

Re: apt-get update success but with errors

2007-03-05 Thread Frank McCormick
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:19:29 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > Funny but I get the exact same error everytime I run aptitude > > update - but the second time I run it I get no error. And yes > > debian-archive-keyr

tar vs

2007-03-17 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:59:01AM EST, Adam Porter wrote: > I've read the man page, googled this list and the rest of the Net, but I > still can't figure out why this doesn't work: > > $ tar xjf *.tar.bz2 > tar: beryl-core-0.2.0.tar.bz2: Not found i

Re: tar vs

2007-03-17 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:16:04 +0200 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:08:08 -0400 > Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What is Linuxs "obsession" with t

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

2007-03-18 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:39:48 + (GMT) > Thanks all for your help with this. Just for the sake of completeness > I will try adding an extra '.' after my name. If that doesn't work my > only option may be to legally change my name to Tyle Smit. Sorry

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-20 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:15:18 +0100 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Exactly. So, if you want to keep your software current and run > Ubuntu, then you need to reinstall the operating system every six > months. If you run Debian Stable, it wil

Problem after installing KDE desktop

2007-03-22 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have encountered a problem after installing KDE desktop which may be related to the installation. I was using IceWM, with Rox in the startup files to put icons on the desktop. After the installation of KDE, there are now two IceWM choi

Re: Problem after installing KDE desktop

2007-03-22 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:44:02 -0400 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have encountered a problem after installing KDE desktop which > may be related to the installation. > I was using IceWM, with Rox in

Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After trying KDE for a couple of days...I decided it wasn't for me. Sudo aptitude purge kde-desktop. Results: Network is screwed as that process also removed avahi-daemon. Now booting up Etch results in a bunch of error messages, and no net

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:23:34 -0400 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Results: Network is screwed as that process also removed > > avahi-daemon. Now booting up Etch results in a bunch of error > > messages, and no network. Unless I can figu

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:33:54 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Have you tried reinstalling avahi-daemon? And what kind of errors are > > you getting exactly? > > > > I've had trouble with gnome and avahi-daemon a

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:37:54 -0400 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Have you tried reinstalling avahi-daemon? And what kind of errors are > > you getting exactly? > > > I am about to try that

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:55:24 +0200 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >OK I re-installed avahi-daemon ( and related dependecies) - the > > error messages are

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:59:04 -0400 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >OK I re-installed avahi-daemon ( and related dependecies) - the > > error messages are gone---and I can bring up eth0 with "ifconfig > > eth0 up" but dchp is not runni

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:14:14 -0400 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Michael, see my reply to Andrei. DHCP started running by itself > > just before I was about to re-install it. Alls well that ends well. > > Thanks for the replies

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:54:30 +0200 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Well another 'minor' problem has arisen, probably connected to the > >

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-23 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:17:14 +0100 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:14:14 -0400 > > Well another 'minor' problem has arisen, probably connected to

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-23 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:07:06 + Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:32:29 +0100 > Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > The fact that your working network connection was broken by > > installing a

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-23 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:05:48 +0100 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:17:14 +0100 > > Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-26 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:33:32 +1200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Bannister) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:43:49AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > >Aptitude was the only package manager used on this machine > > following the ad

Re: xdm suddenly stopped

2007-03-28 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:19:03 +0530 (IST) Arvind Marathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I had a debian etch running on my system for the past few months. > Today the system was working fine, i was out for a while for tea, > when i came back, it

Re: aptitude "initialising package status" takes _really_ long

2007-07-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:17:04 -0700 Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > at the start of aptitude and after every action you have took, > > > aptitude has to initialise its package status. This is the same > > > step as "loading cache". Yesterday I have updated aptitude to . > > > Since the

Re: aptitude 0.4.4-4+b1 is very slow....

2007-07-04 Thread Frank McCormick
On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:01:57 +0800 Magicloud Magiclouds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > I am using unstable brench. > A few days ago, apt updated, so aptitude can not be installed. > Yesterday, I found that aptitude was updated and can be installed, so > I did it. Now I find out

Re: udev at boot

2007-07-11 Thread Frank McCormick
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:58:10 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 05:47:06PM +0200, Lucio Crusca wrote: > > Hello *, > > > > I'm fighting with a problem that comes up sometimes at reboot with > > Etch. Sometimes the system hangs on the message: > > > >

undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Frank McCormick
The leanup from a mini HD crash this week ( I suspect the drive is dying) left an undeletable file in lost+found. No combination of rm or shred will kill it, sudo or no- sudo - chown reports its owned by an unknown owner and unknown group. Anybody have any ideas to get rid of it ? Thanks --

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Frank McCormick
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:32:47 +1000 Julian De Marchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > The leanup from a mini HD crash this week ( I suspect the drive is > > dying) left an undeletable file in lost+found. > > > > No combination

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Frank McCormick
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:36:19 -0400 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:32:47 +1000 > Julian De Marchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > > The leanup from a mini HD crash this week

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:36:49 -0700 Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue July 17 2007 19:52, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:36:19 -0400 > > > > > > > > > > > > Anybody have any ideas to get rid of it ? > > &

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:37:38 -0600 Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 17, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > > >> > >> Can't move it...can't chown it. It just tells me operation not > >> permitted. The file is also d

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:40:05 +1000 Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is the output of ls -l > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lost+found/#573699/drivers/i2c/busses$ ls -l * > >---s---r-t 1 9932

Re: undeleteable file (SOLVED)

2007-07-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:38:12 -0400 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:40:05 +1000 > Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What is the output of "lsattr" ? It could be that it has the >

SID warning

2007-07-22 Thread Frank McCormick
Just a note that the latest updates including a new ImLib will break IceWm. You'll have to create a new symbolic link called libimlib.so.11 in /usr/lib pointing to libimlib.so.9.15 then IceWm will run again. - Cheers - Change the world one loan at a time - visit Kiva.org to find out how

Weird cron behavior

2007-08-05 Thread Frank McCormick
I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these messages in my mail this morning: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sudo aptitude update Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:10:01 -0400 Hit ftp://gulus.usherbrooke.ca sid Release.

Re: Weird cron behavior

2007-08-06 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:01:47 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:26:28AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these > > messages in my mail this morning:

Re: Weird cron behavior

2007-08-06 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:41:20 +0300 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 09:26:28AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these > > messages in my mail this morning:

Re: Weird cron behavior

2007-08-11 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:42:29 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > I left my machine on overnight ( I usually don't ) and got these > > messages in my mail this morning: > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) > > T

Re: Weird cron behavior

2007-08-11 Thread Frank McCormick
Damn! 10 seconds after I wrote the mail below I did sudo crontab -l and got: 0-59 5 * * * sudo aptitude update How the he** did that get into there?? Would it be part of a cron or anacron update?? On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:56:49 -0400 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > O

Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-13 Thread Frank McCormick
I have taken the first steps towards compiling an Nvidia module for my Quadro-pro card... I downloaded and installed the source for the current kernel, which aptitude dumped into /usr/src. Reading the readme, one of the first things it says is " DO NOT USE THE /usr/src area" because that is whe

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