Re: scanner not recognized

2015-08-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/08/15 05:23 PM, Joe wrote: On Sat, 01 Aug 2015 16:30:40 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: Wish it were that simple in my case.nothing in syslog indicates the system even realizes the scanner is attached. I tied attaching it to my wife win7 only machine and nothing happens. Like I said

Re: scanner not recognized

2015-08-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/08/15 09:44 AM, Johann Spies wrote: I found that I could not use my Lide (I think it is a 10 - I am not at home right now) on USB-3 ports but it works without a problem on USB-2. Try all the ports on your computer. Regards Johann On 1 August 2015 at 17:26, Frank McCormick mailto:debianl

Aptitude is broken

2015-08-08 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running Debian Sid and for the past 4 or 5 days I have had to switch from using aptitude to upgrade to using apt-get. This is what I get: root@frank-debian:/home/frank# aptitude aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol: _ZN7cwidget7widgets5pager8set_textERKSsPKc root@fra

Re: Aptitude is broken

2015-08-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/08/15 11:09 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: Frank McCormick: This is what I get: root@frank-debian:/home/frank# aptitude aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol: _ZN7cwidget7widgets5pager8set_textERKSsPKc You should search for existing bug reports and consider creating one

Re: Aptitude is broken

2015-08-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/08/15 11:16 AM, Joe wrote: On Sat, 08 Aug 2015 10:43:49 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Debian Sid and for the past 4 or 5 days I have had to switch from using aptitude to upgrade to using apt-get. This is what I get: root@frank-debian:/home/frank# aptitude aptitude: symbol

Re: Aptitude is broken

2015-08-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/08/15 11:49 AM, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: On 2015-08-08 10:43:49, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Debian Sid and for the past 4 or 5 days I have had to switch from using aptitude to upgrade to using apt-get. This is what I get: root@frank-debian:/home/frank# aptitude aptitude

Re: Aptitude is broken

2015-08-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/08/15 01:32 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 08/08/15 11:49 AM, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: On 2015-08-08 10:43:49, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Debian Sid and for the past 4 or 5 days I have had to switch from using aptitude to upgrade to using apt-get. This is what I get: root

Lightdm problems

2015-11-05 Thread Frank McCormick
I updated my Sid system (under Systemd) a few days ago after I hadn't updated for a week or more. Naturally there were a lot of new packages. I noticed almost immediately that all of the options to hibernate sleep and reboot are greyed out. I use lightdm along with several window managers includin

Lightdm problems

2015-11-05 Thread Frank McCormick
I updated my Sid system (under Systemd) a few days ago after I hadn't updated for a week or more. Naturally there were a lot of new packages. I noticed almost immediately that all of the options to hibernate sleep and reboot are greyed out. I use lightdm along with several window managers includin

Re: Mate desktop - was Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-07-16 Thread Frank McCormick
On 16/07/15 12:35 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 15/07/2015, Bret Busby wrote: On 04/07/2015, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-06-22, Bret Busby wrote: [...] Is it really too much to ask, for application names to be in english? Yes it is. And, does it have all of thev functionality of gnome 2,

Re: Mate desktop - was Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-07-16 Thread Frank McCormick
On 16/07/15 05:19 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 17/07/2015, Frank McCormick wrote: For example, how to change the font and font size in the panel and the title bars of windows; as an example, the font for the names of the menu's, in the panel, is too small, making it difficult to

Weird problem with wbar

2015-12-29 Thread Frank McCormick
I have switched back to running wbar on several of my desktops and have run into a strange problem. Because it happened under openbox the first time I noticed it, I posted the problem on that list but so far nobody has come up with any ideas. so I thought I try here. I am running Debian Sid wi

(SOLVED) Re: Weird problem with wbar

2015-12-29 Thread Frank McCormick
On 29/12/15 06:16 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I have switched back to running wbar on several of my desktops and have run into a strange problem. Because it happened under openbox the first time I noticed it, I posted the problem on that list but so far nobody has come up with any ideas. so I

turning off Google Chrome's warning

2016-01-21 Thread Frank McCormick
Does anyone know how to urn off the warning from Google-Chrome that comes up every time you go into the browser. The warning is about Google no longer supporting 32 bit versions as of March. It's really annoying. Thanks

Re: turning off Google Chrome's warning

2016-01-21 Thread Frank McCormick
On 21/01/16 07:51 PM, Mike Castle wrote: Besides switching to 64-bit or chromium or keeping the browser open? (Actually, does chromium issue the same warning?) mrc No it doesn't. Personally I don't think Google-Chrome is a good reason to switch to 64-bit. But getting rid of the warning wou

Re: turning off Google Chrome's warning

2016-01-21 Thread Frank McCormick
On 21/01/16 09:41 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2016, at 18:55, Frank McCormick wrote: Does anyone know how to urn off the warning from Google-Chrome that comes up every time you go into the browser. The warning is about Google no longer supporting 32 bit versions as of March. It&#

Re: turning off Google Chrome's warning

2016-01-22 Thread Frank McCormick
On 21/01/16 10:40 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2016, at 21:59, Frank McCormick wrote: On 21/01/16 09:41 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: What does chrome give you that chromium does not? Nothing that I know of...but I thought that staying with the Google product is just simpler. I&#x

Re: gftp in Jessie

2016-01-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/27/2016 08:36 AM, Markos wrote: Hi, I used to use gftp as a ftp client, but I don't find it in Jessie. What happened to it? What is another similar alternative to gftp in Jessie? Thanks, Markos http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=125743

Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

2016-02-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/02/16 06:27 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:32:43AM +, Brian wrote: On Mon 11 Jan 2016 at 00:51:24 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 23:40:28 -0500, Gary wrote: On 10/01/16 07:15 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: After solving all my mount problems and chan

changing partition names

2016-02-14 Thread Frank McCormick
I have deleted a partition from my HD containing a distro I no longer use. As a result, my partitions on /dev/sda are numbered sda1. sda2 (windows) and sda4. sda3 contained the distro I dumped. Can I just use fdisk or fsdisk to dump the existing partition record edit the file to change sda4 to

Re: changing partition names

2016-02-14 Thread Frank McCormick
On 14/02/16 05:00 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Sun, February 14, 2016 2:42 pm, Frank McCormick wrote: Can I just use fdisk or fsdisk to dump the existing partition record edit the file to change sda4 to sda3 and then use fdisk or sfdisk to read the file and create a properly named

Re: changing partition names

2016-02-14 Thread Frank McCormick
On 14/02/16 07:56 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 19:11:37 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: On 14/02/16 05:00 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Sun, February 14, 2016 2:42 pm, Frank McCormick wrote: Can I just use fdisk or fsdisk to

Re: changing partition names

2016-02-14 Thread Frank McCormick
On 14/02/16 07:49 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Frank McCormick composed on 2016-02-14 15:42 (UTC-0500): I have deleted a partition from my HD containing a distro I no longer use. What motivated doing so? What exactly was/were your goal(s) in doing so? To put the 15 gigs of space to better use

Re: changing partition names

2016-02-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/02/16 05:49 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 03:42:33PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: I have deleted a partition from my HD containing a distro I no longer use. As a result, my partitions on /dev/sda are numbered sda1. sda2 (windows) and sda4. sda3 contained the distro

Re: changing partition names

2016-02-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/02/16 06:32 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-02-15 23:16 (UTC): Pascal Hambourg wrote: Why would you want to renumber the partition ? It provides absolutely no benefit and can break things such as the bootloader which may seek data on partitions identified by their nu

xorg under Mate hogging cpu

2016-03-03 Thread Frank McCormick
Sorry folks. PEBKAC I think. Marco was listed as one of the startup programs...totally unnecessary I think. Mate is back to normal. I am running Mate as a main desktop on Debian Sid and noticed today xorg is hogging the cpu. Htop reports 12-15% cpu for xorg, and that is up quite a bit from t

xorg under Mate hogging cpu

2016-03-03 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running Mate as a main desktop on Debian Sid and noticed today xorg is hogging the cpu. Htop reports 12-15% cpu for xorg, and that is up quite a bit from the past. I don't recall the last time xorg or related packages were updated. Is there a way to figure out what's the problem ?

Missing firmware after upgrade to 64 bit

2016-03-20 Thread Frank McCormick
Installed 64 bit version of Stretch yesterday and noticed this morning I am apparently missing some firmware. update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-1-amd64 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso5.bin for module tg3 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/t

Re: Missing firmware after upgrade to 64 bit

2016-03-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 20/03/16 10:33 AM, Charlie Kravetz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 10:12:45 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: Installed 64 bit version of Stretch yesterday and noticed this morning I am apparently missing some firmware. update-initramfs: Generating

Re: Missing firmware after upgrade to 64 bit

2016-03-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 20/03/16 10:37 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Frank McCormick a écrit : Installed 64 bit version of Stretch yesterday and noticed this morning I am apparently missing some firmware. update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-1-amd64 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon

Re: Missing firmware after upgrade to 64 bit

2016-03-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 20/03/16 10:30 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: Installed 64 bit version of Stretch yesterday and noticed this morning I am apparently missing some firmware. update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-1-amd64 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso5

Re: x86_64 vs i386

2016-03-21 Thread Frank McCormick
On 21/03/16 07:23 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 21 March 2016 15:11:36 Stefan Monnier wrote: to Google Chrome, which has indeed "thrown i386 machines under the bus", and What do you mean by that? There won't be any new versions of Debian's i386 version of the chromium package? Stef

Re: repositories frozen since Mar 20th?

2016-03-25 Thread Frank McCormick
On 25/03/16 12:15 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2016, at 07:05, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Meanwhile, the issue seems to be fixed. New packages appearing again in the testing and sid repositories. Yes, it is fixed. It was broken for two or three days, only. Users of debm

Re: repositories frozen since Mar 20th?

2016-03-25 Thread Frank McCormick
On 25/03/16 03:55 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: Last time I checked...last night...the google-chrome repository still wasn't fixed. However my system still downloaded and installed the latest google-chrome. That still is out of the hands of the Debian maintainers, th

Some Flash news

2016-05-16 Thread Frank McCormick
For those still using Flash and/or Chrome http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2458329/googles-chrome-browser-will-switch-off-flash-content-by-default

Re: Chomium "The sync server is busy..."

2011-11-12 Thread Frank McCormick
On 11-11-12 04:32 PM, Douglas Saylor wrote: I've been getting this message for 2-days now. Anyone know if this is a Google or Debian problem? It's happened beforea Google problem usually. It was happening to me for 2 or 3 weeks about a month ago. -- Cheers Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: help with Sabrent 802.11N PCI wireless card, Ralink driver?

2011-12-29 Thread Frank McCormick
On 29/12/11 08:57 PM, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: I am attempting to install a Sabrent 802.11N PCI wireless adapter card into a fresh wheezy install. I guess I am confused about which firmware and driver to use. When I do a ifup wlan0 I get the follwing error mesage: phy0 -> rt2800pci_mcu_st

swapon permissions

2012-01-12 Thread Frank McCormick
Noticed today in the middle of bootup messages that swapon is complaining about permissions set to 1660 and were insecure. It suggested (as I recall) 0660. I never saw this before. How do I go about changing them ? -- Cheers Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re: swapon permissions

2012-01-12 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12-01-12 12:21 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-01-12 16:17 +0100, Tomas Volka wrote: On Čt 12-01-12 | 09:21, Frank McCormick wrote: Noticed today in the middle of bootup messages that swapon is complaining about permissions set to 1660 and were insecure. It suggested (as I recall) 0660. I

Re: swapon permissions

2012-01-12 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12-01-12 02:10 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-01-12 19:57 +0100, Frank McCormick wrote: On 12-01-12 12:21 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-01-12 16:17 +0100, Tomas Volka wrote: On Čt 12-01-12 | 09:21, Frank McCormick wrote: Noticed today in the middle of bootup messages that swapon is

Re: booting Debian-6 in run level 3

2012-01-13 Thread Frank McCormick
On 13/01/12 11:40 AM, Curt wrote: On 2012-01-13, Bijoy Lobo wrote: Hi Everyone, I have read online that Debian Squeeze has no differentiation in runlevels from 2-5, although I would like to boot my debian box in CLI mode. Any way I can achieve this? For me the easiest way to boot into the

Re: "Gnome" package now requires installing "tracker"?

2012-02-14 Thread Frank McCormick
On 14/02/12 11:50 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:07:34 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: On 14.02.2012 17:04, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:55:28 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:52:25 +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote:

Re: "Gnome" package now requires installing "tracker"?

2012-02-14 Thread Frank McCormick
On 14/02/12 11:50 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:07:34 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: On 14.02.2012 17:04, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:55:28 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:52:25 +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote:

Guake

2012-02-26 Thread Frank McCormick
I recently started to use guake again after a long time. I notice it comes up without a top window frame. Is this the normal appearance or a bug ? -- Cheers Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: Guake

2012-02-27 Thread Frank McCormick
On 27/02/12 01:32 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:00:05 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: I recently started to use guake again after a long time. I notice it comes up without a top window frame. Is this the normal appearance or a bug ? I've never used this terminal so I don&#

Re: Desktop icons missing

2012-03-01 Thread Frank McCormick
On 01/03/12 11:15 PM, Charles Krinke wrote: I have two related questions after updating to wheezy today. 1. Gnome classic desktop displays no desktop icons. That is, the launchers from ~/Desktop/ do not display. Is there a way to caues them to display? I have temporarily changed to XFCE and the

Re: Desktop icons missing

2012-03-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/03/12 11:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:28:34 +0100, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Camaleón wrote: I can't recall if gnome-classic hides the icons over the desktop, I would have expected they are visible to mimic the GNOME 2.x style. OTOH, the top menu is still there and app

Re: Desktop icons missing

2012-03-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/03/12 12:33 PM, Charles Krinke wrote: Dear Kai: I am the OP and you are correct. The issue is that after doing the wheezy update, all the desktop icons are missing, that is, those items defined in ~/Desktop for the normal user do not appear anymore and I am trying to get back to seeing the

Re: Desktop icons missing

2012-03-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/03/12 01:48 PM, Charles Krinke wrote: Dear Frank: Maybe my issue is I dont quite get what you are saying. There is no gconf-editor program. I can see a gconftool program, but dont know how to enable the Desktop programs to be displayed or even if this is the right tool. Didn't we ju

Re: Desktop icons missing

2012-03-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/03/12 03:42 PM, Charles Krinke wrote: Thank you very much for working with me. I was able to run "nautilus -n", logoug and log back in. I was also able to run gconf-editor and find "apps/nautilus/preferences", but in there there are five settings and none is "show desktop". Although I can

Re: Desktop icons missing

2012-03-03 Thread Frank McCormick
On 03/03/12 03:42 PM, Charles Krinke wrote: X>> If you are running Gnome-classic, AND there are desktop files in ~/Desktop, go into a terminal and run "nautilus -n". You then should have desktop icons. Log out, and log back in. They should be there still. If it doesn't work, in a terminal wind

Latest update borks

2012-03-05 Thread Frank McCormick
The latest upgrade to Sid has apparently borked creation of initrd.img. This is what was upgraded: sid:/home/frank# aptitude full-upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0 gir1.2-webkit-3.0 libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libwebkitgtk

Re: Latest update borks

2012-03-05 Thread Frank McCormick
On 05/03/12 08:58 AM, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Frank, Frank McCormick wrote: sid:/home/frank# aptitude full-upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0 gir1.2-webkit-3.0 libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0

Re: Latest update borks

2012-03-05 Thread Frank McCormick
On 05/03/12 03:38 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-03-05 14:46 +0100, Frank McCormick wrote: The latest upgrade to Sid has apparently borked creation of initrd.img. This is what was upgraded: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-2

PAE kernels on old P4's (WAS Re: Latest update borks)

2012-03-05 Thread Frank McCormick
On 05/03/12 09:48 PM, Rui Miguel P. Bernardo wrote: On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Rui Miguel P. Bernardo wrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 05/03/12 03:38 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-03-05 14:46 +0100, Frank McCormick wrote: The latest upgrade to Sid

Re: PAE kernels on old P4's (WAS Re: Latest update borks)

2012-03-06 Thread Frank McCormick
On 06/03/12 04:28 PM, Weaver wrote: On 05/03/12 09:48 PM, Rui Miguel P. Bernardo wrote: On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Rui Miguel P. Bernardo wrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 05/03/12 03:38 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-03-05 14:46 +0100, Frank

Re: PAE kernels on old P4's (WAS Re: Latest update borks)

2012-03-06 Thread Frank McCormick
On 06/03/12 05:06 PM, Jari Fredriksson wrote: 6.3.2012 23:28, Weaver kirjoitti: The 3.0 series PAE kernels won't run on this machine... Yes they do. I'm currently running 686 PAE 3.2.7-1 on a Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz machine - this one - on a separate install. Qualifying remark - no gui, but it

Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Frank McCormick
I installed yet another distro yesterday (on sda7), chose not to have it install the boot loader, exited after the install and rebooted into Debian Sid. From the command line I updated grub.cfg via update-grub. Rebooted again and found that Grub had written 3 lines, all the same for the new

Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/03/12 07:22 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 15 mar 12, 16:12:04, Frank McCormick wrote: Any clues as to why Grub is doing what it's doing ? Please post the full output of an 'update-grub' run. Kind regards, Andrei sid:/home/frank# update-grub Generating gru

Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/03/12 07:40 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 16:12:04 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I installed yet another distro yesterday (on sda7), chose not to have it install the boot loader, exited after the install and rebooted into Debian Sid. From the command line I updated grub.cfg via

Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/03/12 09:18 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 20:58:32 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: and found that Grub had written 3 lines,(into grub.cfg) all the same for the new installation (which was absolute linux by the way). Ah, I'm with you now, I think. There are three entrie

Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg

2012-03-15 Thread Frank McCormick
On 15/03/12 10:10 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 15/03/12 09:18 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 20:58:32 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: and found that Grub had written 3 lines,(into grub.cfg) all the same for the new installation (which was absolute linux by the way). Ah, I'm wit

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

2012-03-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 20/03/12 01:01 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:45:58 +0700 Ken Heard dijo: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:29:28 +0700, Ken Heard wrote: I have a Lenovo R61 laptop which has a built-in SD card slot. The operating

Problematic upgrade

2012-03-21 Thread Frank McCormick
Just upgraded my Sid system Will install 13 packages, and remove 0 packages. 24.6 kB of disk space will be freed === [UPGRADE] acpid 1:2.0.15-1 -> 1:2.0.15-2 [UPGRADE] cups-filters 1.0.5-1 -> 1.0.7-1 [UPGRADE] gir1.2-fre

Installing XBMC on testing

2009-10-20 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know how to get XBMC ( media centre app) installed on Debian testing. Apparently at least 2 of the libraries needed are not available for Debian. I went as far as trying to install the Ubuntu Intrepid edition (this has worked for other s

Re: Installing XBMC on testing

2009-10-20 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:11:28 +0200 "thveillon.debian" wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > Does anyone know how to get XBMC ( media centre app) installed on > > Debian testing. Apparently at least 2 of the librari

Re: Installing XBMC on testing

2009-10-20 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:05:50 +0200 "thveillon.debian" wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:11:28 +0200 > > "thveillon.debian" wrote: > > > >> Frank McCormick wrote: > &g

X lockups yet again

2009-10-24 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I knew it was too good to last - after my trouble of lockups with X a few weeks ago. It has started again. X was upgraded in Squeeze this morning and not an hour later my machine was frozen tighter than a well...it was frozen. I am beginning to

Re: google chrome extensions

2009-10-26 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:30:57 -0400 Bogdan wrote: > Hey, > > Has anyone managed to get the extensions going for the latest chromium > build ( 4.0.223.11)? > They seem to install fine but they do not work, and also, are not > getting listed when "a

Re: google chrome extensions

2009-10-27 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:30:31 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:30:57 -0400 > > Bogdan wrote: > > > >> Hey, > >> > >> Has anyone managed to get the extensions going for the latest > >> chromium build ( 4.0.223.11)? > >> They se

Re: google chrome extensions

2009-10-27 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:16:56 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Has anyone managed to get the extensions going for the latest > chromium build ( 4.0.223.11)? > They seem to install fine but they do not work, and also, are not > gett

Re: Cannot start X -- launches frozen & crashes all VT's

2009-10-29 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:26:30 +0100 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:30:29 -0700, John Magolske wrote: > > Still can't get this to work...very perplexing. X launches in a > > frozen state, crashing any VT that may be open. Any sugges

Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-05 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am having problems fixing the adobe-flashplugin package and because it's broken, some other upgrades to my system (testing) won't go ahead. I foolishly tried to install the package from Adobe and now I guess because it's newer than the current pac

Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-05 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I am having problems fixing the adobe-flashplugin package and > because it's broken, some other upgrades to my system (testing) > won't go ahead. I foolishly tried to install the package from > Adobe Replying to myself here -- This is what hap

Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-05 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:51:03 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:59:03AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > > > I am having problems fixing the adobe-flashplugin package and > [...] > > > > This is what

[SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-06 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:44:47 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:59:03AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am having probl

Re: [SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-06 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:58:36 +0100 Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Frank McCormick: > > Andrew Sackville-West: > > > Frank McCormick: > > > > I am at wits endabout to wipe the partition > > > > > state...s

Re: [SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-06 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:25:08 -0600 John Hasler wrote: > Sjoerd Hiemstra writes: > > It looks like aptitude is not able, at the moment, to recover a > > package from that 'half-configured' state. > > Dpkg usually can. > -- > John Hasler > Unfo

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-07 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:14:18 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:40:53PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: > > On 7-12-2009 19:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [... snip resolution to dns delays...] > > >> > > >> How did you go a

sawfish wm

2009-12-23 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Installed the Sawfish window manager today - along with sawfish-themes. Picked it from the GDM login menu - and was presented with a grey screen, where nothing works...left/right/middle clicks produce nothing . What am I missing ?? - -- Frank

Re: sawfish wm

2009-12-23 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:40:32 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Installed the Sawfish window manager today - along with > sawfish-themes. Picked it from the GDM login menu - a

Re: Gnome buggers: please reopen bug 358731

2010-01-10 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:57:26 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell wrote: > On 2010-01-09 at 16:40:22 -0500, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Does someone here have the proper permissions to reopen a Gnome > > bug that was incorrectly marked as dupe? Thanks: > > > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358731

Java and firefox

2010-01-10 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Any Java experts here ? My Firefox (3.5.5) has started to throw java errors complaining about not being able to find the main class. I reinstalled sun-java-bin from the repositories but that didn't change anything. So I purged it and the sun java plu

Re: Java and firefox

2010-01-10 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:20:52 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: > Any Java experts here ? My Firefox (3.5.5) has started to throw > java errors complaining about not being able to find the main class. > I reinstalled sun-java-bin from the reposit

Re: Gnome [Nautilus] debuggers: please reopen bug 358731

2010-01-12 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:45:53 + (GMT) "s. keeling" wrote: > s. keeling : > > Frank McCormick : > > > > > >How many developers does it take to fix a bug? Apparently > > > too many. Read through

Re: /etc/resolv.conf and resolvconf

2010-01-21 Thread Frank McCormick
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:05:53 -0500 Ed Jabbour wrote: > Sometime ago, I switched to OpenDNS using the resolvconf program. > I now want to switch back to the default DNS provided by the > gateway - 192.168.1.254, which, I think, passes over to ATT's > server. I'd use resolvconf, but I forgot how a

Re: /etc/resolv.conf and resolvconf

2010-01-21 Thread Frank McCormick
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:04:30 -0500 Ed Jabbour wrote: > On Thursday 21 January 2010 06:44:14 pm Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:05:53 -0500 > > > > Ed Jabbour wrote: > > > Sometime ago, I switched to OpenDNS using the resolvconf > > > pr

Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-06 Thread Frank McCormick
On 06/04/12 05:57 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:12:45 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Hiya, Having a bad track record of not taking care of "dead tree" books, I am looking to buy an electronic book reader. The Amazon's Kindle does look good and it boasts a Linux kernel, b

terminal prompts

2012-04-07 Thread Frank McCormick
I have run into a problem in Mepis but have been unable to get an answer yet from that community group. The distro is based on Debian Squeeze so I thought someone here night have the answer. Normally I run Debian Sid...Mepis is just an experiment The distro runs fine but slow under KDE, bu

Re: terminal prompts

2012-04-07 Thread Frank McCormick
On 04/07/2012 04:29 PM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: �I have run into a problem in Mepis but have been unable to get an answer yet from that community group. The distro is based on Debian Squeeze so I thought someone here night have the answer. Normally

Re: terminal prompts

2012-04-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/04/12 05:49 AM, Paul Saunders wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:37:32 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: On 04/07/2012 04:29 PM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: [cut] The distro runs fine but slow under KDE, but after I Installed Icewm, I notice when I

Grub-install problems was Re: terminal prompts

2012-04-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/04/12 08:51 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 08/04/12 05:49 AM, Paul Saunders wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:37:32 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: On 04/07/2012 04:29 PM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: [cut] The distro runs fine but slow under KDE

Re: Grub-install problems was Re: terminal prompts

2012-04-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12-04-08 12:09 PM, Indulekha wrote: In linux.debian.user, Frank McCormick wrote: I mounted sda2, and tried to ChRoot into it. I couldn't...I kept getting an error message "unable to run /bin/zsh" Perhaps because it's /usr/bin/zsh? I don't know...I didn'

Re: Grub-install problems was Re: terminal prompts

2012-04-09 Thread Frank McCormick
On 09/04/12 04:44 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On 08/04/2012 17:42, Frank McCormick wrote: That worked...but I caused another problem. I still didn't like Mepis, so I booted into Debian Sid and forgetting Grub had been last installed by Mepis, formatted the partition. Well you know

Sid upgrade problems

2012-04-17 Thread Frank McCormick
This is what I saw after the last upgrade on my Sid installation: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... dpkg: warning: version 'v' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-v dpkg: warning: version 'v' has bad syntax: version

Re: Sid upgrade problems

2012-04-17 Thread Frank McCormick
On 18/04/12 12:57 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: This is what I saw after the last upgrade on my Sid installation: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... dpkg: warning: version 'v' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.

Re: Can't upgrade anyting in Sid

2012-04-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On 18/04/12 11:20 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: [ Please try to adopt the posting/quoting style that I use (interleaved responses with appropriate trimming). It is in everybody's interest if each individual message by itself is easily understandable, with the relevant part of its "history" i

Re: Sid upgrade problems

2012-04-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On 18/04/12 02:42 PM, hvw59601 wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: On 18/04/12 12:57 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: This is what I saw after the last upgrade on my Sid installation: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... dpkg: warning: version 'v' has bad syntax: version number does

backing up

2012-05-26 Thread Frank McCormick
Is there an easy way to back up a couple of profile directories when you exit a window manager. I'd like to back up .thunderbird at least when I quit Icewm to GDM... Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

backing up

2012-05-26 Thread Frank McCormick
Can anyone suggest an easy way to back up a couple of profile directories (such as .thunderbird) when existing a window manager to return to GDM ? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

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