Apache Backuppc problem

Hi all. Debian Stretch OS I have installed the BackupPC /Apache2 package before and had no trouble accessing the BackupPC GUI at localhost/backuppc. This time (using apt install backuppc) I keep getting a window asking if I wish to save a bin file. The server downloads a file like W6gLcuk0.bi

Cups - software cant find

Hi I have a 3 computer, plus linksys switch, home network. Two of the computers run Win2K and one uses Debian Linux. One of the Win2K systems is acting as my print server. I use Samba on the Debian box to tie everything together. The network works fine. The CUPS installation on the Debian box

Re: Mapping version number to version name

Ottavio Caruso wrote: Hi all, Happy New Year! I know I can get my Debian's version number in /etc/debian_version file. But how I map this to its name (Sarge, Potato, Woody)? Thank you Happy New Year to You too. There is a list of releases with numbers at http://www.debian.org/releases/ but t

CUPS - application software cant find CUPS

Hi (Originally CUPS - software cant find) This is a re-issue of the same problem. I had no takers on the first round and am still having serious problems. I have tried everything in the debian mini HOWTO to no avail. I have a 3 computer, plus linksys switch, home network. Two of the computer

Re: CUPS - application software cant find CUPS

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 06:29:33PM +, Gary Roach wrote: HP 940C fine. Not one single piece of application software on the Debian box can find CUPS. Do you have the cups-bsd package installed on your Debian box? Regards, -Roberto Thanks for the reply

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Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

On 09/20/2013 08:40 PM, drew craig wrote: On Friday, September 13, 2013 10:00:03 AM UTC-4, Lisi Reisz wrote: The problem has arisen since I upgraded. Sound was fine in Squeeze. Now, when I run alsamixergui: lisi@Tux-II:~$ alsamixergui I get an error box saying: alsamixer: function s

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

On 09/21/2013 02:39 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 09:46:45AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: root@mysystem:/etc# service alsa-utils restart [ ok ] Shutting down ALSA...done. [] Setting up ALSA...warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with err

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

On 09/21/2013 04:18 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: In reply to your question: root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29 2012 /var/lib/alsa root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /root drwx-- 15

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

On 09/22/2013 10:35 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 09/21/2013 04:18 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: In reply to your question: root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29 2012 /var/lib/alsa root

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

On 09/23/2013 10:59 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 09/22/2013 10:35 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 09/21/2013 04:18 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: In reply to your question: root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa drwxr-xr-x 2 root root

Debian setup for python django development

Hi all, I have been trying to set up a python, django, mysql development project and am really confused. All of the documentation seems to ignore the apt-get installation methods used by ebian and its derivatives. Does pip install the same as Aptitude ( I don't think so). If I use virtualenvwr

Re: excessive CPU usage

On 09/21/2014 11:54 AM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all For the last few months I have been plagued by very slow response from my system. As an example, it takes 2 1/2 minutes to drag and drop 80 files from my email inbox to the trash bin in icedove. It has taken as high as 5 minutes for iceweasel

Re: excessive CPU usage (SOLVED)

On 09/21/2014 11:54 AM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all For the last few months I have been plagued by very slow response from my system. As an example, it takes 2 1/2 minutes to drag and drop 80 files from my email inbox to the trash bin in icedove. It has taken as high as 5 minutes for iceweasel

segfaults and error 4 in ld-2.13.so with soffice.bin and kate

After cloning my bad drive to a new one and installing the new drive (see previous messages titled excessive CPU usage) i am left with the following problem: Kate and libreoffice.writer refuse to open and give the errors soffice.bin[10369]: segfault at 7ffe25921b1c ip 7ffd559f97c3 sp

Re: segfaults and error 4 in ld-2.13.so with soffice.bin and kate

On 10/07/2014 03:00 PM, Gary Roach wrote: After cloning my bad drive to a new one and installing the new drive (see previous messages titled excessive CPU usage) i am left with the following problem: Kate and libreoffice.writer refuse to open and give the errors soffice.bin[10369]: segfault

Re: segfaults and error 4 in ld-2.13.so with soffice.bin and kate

On 10/11/2014 06:28 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2014, Gary Roach wrote: After cloning my bad drive to a new one and installing the new drive (see previous messages titled excessive CPU usage) i am left with the following problem: Kate and libreoffice.writer refuse to open and give

Re: segfaults and error 4 in ld-2.13.so with soffice.bin and kate

On 10/11/2014 06:28 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2014, Gary Roach wrote: After cloning my bad drive to a new one and installing the new drive (see previous messages titled excessive CPU usage) i am left with the following problem: Kate and libreoffice.writer refuse to open and give

Re: segfaults and error 4 in ld-2.13.so with soffice.bin and kate (SOLVED)

On 10/12/2014 09:30 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 10/11/2014 06:28 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2014, Gary Roach wrote: After cloning my bad drive to a new one and installing the new drive (see previous messages titled excessive CPU usage) i am left with the following problem: Kate and

proofing searchable pdf files

Hi all, Problem: I am working on an archiving project and wish to archive documents to searchable pdf files but can't seem to figure out how to proof read and correct the text overlay. Any suggestions. System: Debian Wheezy Intel i5-750 processor HP Officejet Pro 8600

Re: proofing searchable pdf files

On 10/30/2014 05:47 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, Problem: I am working on an archiving project and wish to archive documents to searchable pdf files but can't seem to figure out how to proof read and correct the text overlay. Any suggestions. Tesseract seems to do a really grea

Re: proofing searchable pdf files

On 10/31/2014 04:15 PM, Doug wrote: On 10/31/2014 06:31 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 10/30/2014 05:47 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, This is part of a medium sized, low budget archiving project that will process serveral thousand documents, all done by low tech volunteers. So I really need

Re: proofing searchable pdf files

On 11/01/2014 06:35 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 31/10/14 11:47, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, Problem: I am working on an archiving project and wish to archive documents to searchable pdf files but can't seem to figure out how to proof read and correct the text overlay. Any suggestions. I&

Re: Joey Hess is out?

On 11/07/2014 06:20 PM, golinux wrote: On Fri, 11/7/14, Carl Fink wrote: Subject: Re: Joey Hess is out? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, November 7, 2014, 7:49 PM Anyone else read the subject line and think, "Why would I care that Joey is gay?" -

Re: Joey Hess is out?

On 11/07/2014 06:20 PM, golinux wrote: On Fri, 11/7/14, Carl Fink wrote: Subject: Re: Joey Hess is out? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, November 7, 2014, 7:49 PM Anyone else read the subject line and think, "Why would I care that Joey is gay?" -

Re: Joey Hess is out?

On 11/08/2014 06:01 PM, golinux wrote: Subject: Re: Joey Hess is out? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, November 7, 2014, 7:49 PM Anyone else read the subject line and think, "Why would I care that Joey is gay?" Did you actually RE

Re: Joey Hess is out?

On 11/08/2014 04:19 AM, Keith Peter wrote: Hello Bret and All Mr Hess was writing to the 1000+ Debian developers so the subject line *may* have made instant sense to them, but I take the wider point. We had better explain the 'so long and thanks for all the fish' quote as well (looking at your

Xsane error with Workforce 645 printer

Hi everyone Our old epson printer just threw a rod so we replace it with a new Epson Workforce 645 printer. Nice printer. I am trying to get the scanner to work with Xsane and keep getting the error " Failed to start scanner:Error during device I/O" The printer is setup as a stand alone netwo

workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets

Earlier I was complaining about Xsine not working with this new printer but the main problem seems to be that the printer doesn't see any of the computers on the hardwired network. I am running Squeeze, Wheezy and Win2K on various systems on the hardwired part of the LAN. I have Samba installe

Re: [OT] Re: workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets

On 09/11/2012 09:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: El 2012-09-11 a las 09:26 -0700, Gary Roach escribió: (please, reply to the list) Sorry. I'll be more careful in the future. On 09/11/2012 07:24 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:02:42 -0700, Gary Roach

Re: [OT] Re: workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets

OK. Lets start over. Configuration: 1. Epson Workforce 645 All in one 2. Network mix of hardwired Win2K and linux computers and an XP wireless. All with fixed IP addresses. 3. 645 now hardwired to router. Fixed IP address set in router and 645. 4. Router - Actiontec M1424-WR plus Cisco extentio

Re: [OT] Re: workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets (SOLVED SORT OF)

On 09/13/2012 08:58 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:14:09 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: OK. Lets start over. Configuration: 1. Epson Workforce 645 All in one 2. Network mix of hardwired Win2K and linux computers and an XP wireless. All with fixed IP addresses. 3. 645 now hardwired

Re: [OT] Re: workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets (SOLVED SORT OF)

On 09/14/2012 09:19 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:20:30 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: On 09/13/2012 08:58 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) Next time, instead giving your money to Epson that shows no interest in Linux, consider twice another alternatives (HP has a nice job

Film scanner software / hardware.

After review a gazillion scanners I have concluded that the Plustek OpticFilm 7400 is my best choice for my needs and my budget. Unfortunately, they don't support Linux. Vuescan doesn't support this Plustek scanner. Does anyone know of a software solution to this problem or know of a scanner fo

Using Debian icedove to automatically send mail

Is there any way to setup Icedove to automatically send out a monthly message. System: Debian Sqeeze KDE Desktop Icedove mail client I have tried to setup Exim several times with no success. I don't want to go there. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Adding user to dual boot laptop

I have a Toshiba Qosmio with 2 60 GB hard drives, one with Windows XP and the other with Debian Squeeze. I just decided to add my wife as a user to the linux side. For some reason the login screen won't work. I set up her account in passwd and group and I set up her home directory. I can log h

Fwd: Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop

Original Message From: - Tue Oct 09 19:43:56 2012 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 0080 X-Mozilla-Keys: Message-ID: <5074e0eb.6080...@verizon.net> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:43:55 -0700 From: Gary Roach User-Agent: Mozilla/5.

Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop

On 10/09/2012 04:53 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I have a Toshiba Qosmio with 2 60 GB hard drives, one with Windows XP and the other with Debian Squeeze. I just decided to add my wife as a user to the linux side. For some reason the login screen won't work. I set up her account in passwd and

Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop

On 10/11/2012 11:32 AM, Curt wrote: On 2012-10-10, Gary Roach wrote: 3. Permissions, owners and structure for files passwd, shadow and group are exactly the same as my entries. How about user home directory and other user file permissions (which shouldn't belong to

Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop

On 10/12/2012 09:34 AM, Joe wrote: On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:03:04 + (UTC) Curt wrote: On 2012-10-11, Gary Roach wrote: On 10/11/2012 11:32 AM, Curt wrote: On 2012-10-10, Gary Roach wrote: 3. Permissions, owners and structure for files passwd, shadow and

BackupPC restore problem

Hi all I sent a copy of this to the backuppc mailing list but response is a bit slow. So if someone has some experience with backuppc and can help, it will be sincerely appreciated. I got home from vacation, fired up the systems and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days of recovery att

Re: BackupPC restore problem

On 11/14/2012 05:53 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 11/14/12 12:48, Gary Roach wrote: I got home from vacation, fired up the systems and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days of recovery attempts didn't work so I reformatted and reinstalled the Debian Squeeze system. What do you

SD card formatting problem

I have a 32GB sd card that I have been trying to use as a transfer disk for a 19GB file. Each time, the file copies (cp command) to 4GB and stops. I tried to reformat to vfat with the same results. The df command shows the card has 32GB. I thought that vfat was only good to 4 GB but the card ca

Can;t fix doc-base installation problem

Hi everyone: I've had to restore one of my systems from cold iron. Aptitude seems to be hanging up when trying to install / purge / update doc-base. I've tried Aptitude, dpkg and apt-get including the -f switch with no joy. Below is a typical example: root@mycomputer:/home/gary# aptitude

Re: SD card formatting problem (SOLVED)

On 11/17/2012 02:47 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Saturday 17 November 2012 10:36:07 you wrote: I have a 32GB sd card that I have been trying to use as a transfer disk for a 19GB file. Each time, the file copies (cp command) to 4GB and stops. I tried to reformat to vfat with the same results. Th

Re: Netflix on Debian Linux

On 11/20/2012 11:13 AM, Mark Allums wrote: Hi Guys, Last month I signed a netflix account just to be amazed it did not work nor give support to linux. It requires Silverlight, which Microsoft never ported to Linux. Silverlight requires Dot Net, and while Mono works really well, it can'

Re: Netflix on Debian Linux

On 11/20/2012 02:33 PM, Beco wrote: Hi Ralf, yes I agree: using software that is not stable sucks. I won't try this "fix" and bang my head to have "some" version of wine and silverlight to work. Nah... Thanks Gary D., for the link. I see your point, and I was angry when I discovered they didn't

Re: Guide / Tools

On 11/21/2012 06:02 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Crypticmofo wrote: Hello I'm new to debian and i hang out in the irc channels .. i realize that irc is there really for support so i wanted to take my question here .. From the more exprienced Debian users can you guys paste or post a list of

Re: Can;t fix doc-base installation problem

On 11/20/2012 10:49 AM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi everyone: I've had to restore one of my systems from cold iron. Aptitude seems to be hanging up when trying to install / purge / update doc-base. I've tried Aptitude, dpkg and apt-get including the -f switch with no joy. Below is

Re: Can't fix doc-base installation problem (DONE)

On 11/22/2012 03:46 AM, Tom Furie wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 04:19:28PM -0800, Gary Roach wrote: root@mycomputer:/etc/doc-base# aptitude reinstall doc-base It seems that some files are missing (install-docs?) but I can't determine what they are or where they are. Some

Re: Guide / Tools

On 11/21/2012 06:02 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Crypticmofo wrote: Hello I'm new to debian and i hang out in the irc channels .. i realize that irc is there really for support so i wanted to take my question here .. From the more exprienced Debian users can you guys paste or post a list of the

Re: screensaver recommendation

On 11/23/2012 10:52 AM, Javier Vasquez wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:42:33AM +0800, lina wrote: Hi, I wish to have a screensaver. Thanks ahead for recommendation. Below are some background info.: lightdm

Restore problems with backuppc and apache

I have a Wheezy system setup with backuppc to back up 3 computers - all ext3/4 systems. I have been trying to restore to a cold iron system. Every time I try to create a restore.tar file the process stops at 331KB when the file should be about 21GB. The file contains the directories and no dat

Restore problems with backuppc and apache

I have a Wheezy system setup with backuppc to back up 3 computers - all ext3/4 systems. I have been trying to restore to a cold iron system. Every time I try to create a restore.tar file the process stops at 331KB when the file should be about 21GB. The file contains the directories and no dat

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

On 11/24/2012 05:06 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:02:42AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 11/24/12, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 23 nov 12, 07:25:29, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2012 23 Nov 05:43 -0600, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Thinkpad. Avoid ATI

Re: Printer brand recommendations

On 11/26/2012 07:10 AM, Curt Howland wrote: Hi. I have a HP inkjet printer, PSC2100 from 2003, which still works fine but something in Debian has changed. It used to print graphics and photographs very well. But a year or so ago graphics stopped being "nice" and started being grainy and speckled

Messed up root

I've done the unthinkable. I accidentally changed root to qroot in my /etc/passwd file and then proceeded to log out of root. All of the files in /etc were changed to owner qroot and the root password doesn't work any more. I have a new Knoppix CD and a new Debian network install CD. Can I use

Re: Kobo or Kindle

On 11/30/2012 05:46 AM, Johann Spies wrote: On 29 November 2012 15:36, Kelly Clowers > wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Beco wrote: > Dear fellows, I have a Kobo and I like it pretty well. One issue I do have is that browsing through a lar

Re: Messed up root (SOLVED)

/ alright , as we go now ... chroot /mnt/ /bin/bash and now is on your debian and you can change the owner to root ... chown -hR root /etc On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 04:43:29PM -0800, Gary Roach wrote: I've done the unthinkable. I accidentally changed root to qroot in my /etc/passwd file and

Apt-get hangup

I just had to do a major restore on one of my systems and am having trouble with updates. Openoffice.org seems to be the biggest problem. There is a whole bunch of partially configured packages and I can't seem to do any of the aptitude, apt-get, dpkg-reconfigure or apt-cache functions. A examp

Slow mirror connections

I have a Verizon Fios 50 MBs connection but have noticed of late that any significant updates (using Aptitude) start out at about 4-5 mBytes/s and after about 15 - 20% of the files have been transfered the transfer rate drops to about 1/20th of normal speed. Does anyone have any idea why this

Re: Slow mirror connections

On 07/01/2014 07:07 PM, Donald Norwood wrote: On 07/01/2014 08:45 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I have a Verizon Fios 50 MBs connection but have noticed of late that any significant updates (using Aptitude) start out at about 4-5 mBytes/s and after about 15 - 20% of the files have been transfered

excessive CPU usage

Hi all For the last few months I have been plagued by very slow response from my system. As an example, it takes 2 1/2 minutes to drag and drop 80 files from my email inbox to the trash bin in icedove. It has taken as high as 5 minutes for iceweasel to load. This problem is not just these pac

libc-bin, libc-bin-amd64 conflict

Hi all, I am running an Intel i5-750, 4 core processor with Debian 3.2.54-2 x86-64 OS and Debian Squeeze. Recent attempts to update the system, with Aptitude (and dpkg), have failed because of a conflict between libc-bin and libc-bin-amd64. I have not been able to resolve the conflict. My dpk

Re: libc-bin, libc-bin-amd64 conflict

On 04/23/2014 03:43 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 23 apr 14, 11:58:49, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, I am running an Intel i5-750, 4 core processor with Debian 3.2.54-2 x86-64 OS and Debian Squeeze. Recent attempts to update the system, with Aptitude (and dpkg), have failed because of a

Re: libc-bin, libc-bin-amd64 conflict (Solved)

On 04/26/2014 02:57 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 25 apr 14, 17:29:13, Gary Roach wrote: When running Aptitude, a red bar in the bottom half of the screen says "Unable to resolve dependencies". If I hit "g" after I update package list and Mark Upgradable, the top

iceweasel bookmarks gone

Hi All, Somewhere along the line all of my iceweasel bookmarks disappeared. The backup copy is still in the system but doesn't appear to contain any of my old bookmarks. Would the old bookarks be stored someplace other than .mozilla/firefox/hxwu63mv.default/bookmarkbackups#? Or am I just out o

Re: iceweasel bookmarks gone

On 04/30/2014 11:20 AM, Curt wrote: On 2014-04-29, Gary Roach wrote: Somewhere along the line all of my iceweasel bookmarks disappeared. The backup copy is still in the system but doesn't appear to contain any of my old bookmarks. Would the old bookarks be stored someplace other than .mo

Vertualbox installation errors

Hi All I have given up on Wine for running some of my Windoz only software. Too many glitches. I am trying to install Virtualbox and am getting installation errors as follows: root@supercrunch:/home/gary# aptitude install virtualbox The following NEW packages will be installed: dkms{a} libg

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

On 05/15/2014 08:43 AM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi All I have given up on Wine for running some of my Windoz only software. Too many glitches. I am trying to install Virtualbox and am getting installation errors as follows: root@supercrunch:/home/gary# aptitude install virtualbox The following

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

On 05/17/2014 01:27 AM, Filip wrote: On Fri, 16 May 2014 12:06:51 -0700 Gary Roach wrote: Here is an attempt to answer all of the questions and suggestions: I am definitely installing Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 ( I checked the grub config files) You'll have to stop telling only half o

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

On 05/17/2014 08:49 AM, Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:23:07AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry, I thought I had. --print-architecture => i386, --print-foreign-architectures => amd64 And there it is - you are running a 32-bit system with a 64-bit kernel. Cheers, Tom And ho

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

On 05/17/2014 11:04 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 17 mai 14, 10:29:43, Gary Roach wrote: On 05/17/2014 08:49 AM, Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:23:07AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry, I thought I had. --print-architecture => i386, --print-foreign-architectures => amd6

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

On 05/17/2014 01:14 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 17 mai 14, 12:34:12, Gary Roach wrote: On 05/17/2014 11:04 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 17 mai 14, 10:29:43, Gary Roach wrote: On 05/17/2014 08:49 AM, Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:23:07AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry

Re: interpreting Gkrellm charts

On 06/01/2014 11:51 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 01/06/14 02:20 PM, Curt wrote: On 2014-06-01, Gary Dale wrote: Curious. I noticed that nepomuk-server and dolphin both had a number of zombie processes (around 16 each) attached. I killed the parent processes then did a reinstall of dolphin and libne

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

On 12/11/2012 07:50 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Mark Panen wrote: Hi, I am replying to all, not used to sitting in the dark with the light of the notebook to type only, Out here in the sticks there are always power failures when it rains. I normally use pop, n

Re: Apt-get hangup (SOLVED)

On 12/06/2012 11:03 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Gary Roach wrote: I just had to do a major restore on one of my systems and am having trouble with updates. What happened? And what did you do when you say you did a major restore? Setting up openoffice.org-core (1:3.2.1-11

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

On 12/11/2012 09:10 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Gary Roach wrote: The first thing I would do is run a post check on the motherboard. If you are lucky your board has a built in post card Uh, what? I would not call that luck, I would call that "I

KDE kickoff launcher problem

Hi again (still?): Debian Squeeze system. After hammering down all of the problems caused by my abortive restore operation, I am left with problems with the KDE Kickoff launcher. Some of my software packages work fine with either the kickoff launcher or with desktop icons. Others won't work w

Re: Apt-get hangup (SOLVED)

On 12/12/2012 01:10 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Gary Roach wrote: The restore problem is a long story. Lets just say that what i've got is all I'm going to get. Ouch. Sorry to hear. But good to hear that things have moved forward for you. Things have changed since I st

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

On 12/16/2012 07:50 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/12/2012 8:02 PM, Mark Panen wrote: "The OP should be experienced with soldering multi-layer boards" really why should he be? Are all IT personal hardware fundies as well? I started late in the IT business with a totally different previous vocati

Combining Icedove data

Hi all; I am trying to combine the information from my laptop version of Icedove into the icedove copy on my home PC. I have the import / export addon installed on the PC copy. Both files presently reside at /etc/.icedove/x.default on the PC. I am presently using Debian Wheezy and Icedove

Re: Combining Icedove data

On 01/05/2013 03:45 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 01/05/13 13:27, Gary Roach wrote: I am trying to combine the information from my laptop version of Icedove into the icedove copy on my home PC. Inside Icedove, I keep my e-mail messages in local folders named after my username and year (for

Re: Combining Icedove data

On 01/06/2013 05:03 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 01/06/13 13:57, Gary Roach wrote: Unfortunately, I have two of the .default directories that need to be combined into one. Have you tried the file system copy and paste method I outlined? Did it work? If it didn't work or doesn&#

icedove's auxiliary functions not working.

Debian wheezy Icedove 10.0.11 Recently Icedove quit following url's to the web browser and quit playing embedded videos. I can't seem to find the source of the problem. I've checked all of the settings on both iceweasel and icedove and couldn't fine anything wrong. Iceweasel works fine. Any su

Re: icedove's auxiliary functions not working. (Solved)

On 01/12/2013 01:30 PM, Steven Rosenberg wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Debian wheezy Icedove 10.0.11 Recently Icedove quit following url's to the web browser and quit playing embedded videos. I can't seem to find the source of the problem. I've che

Re: icedove's auxiliary functions not working.

On 01/12/2013 12:10 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Debian wheezy Icedove 10.0.11 Recently Icedove quit following url's to the web browser and quit playing embedded videos. I can't seem to find the source of the problem. I've checked all of the settings on both iceweasel and icedove an

Grub infinite loop problem on dual boot system

Hi all; I have a Toshiba Qosmio laptop that has 2 60 GB drives. I formatted one with the Windows XP that is needed to run all of the bells and whistles that the Qosmio provides. I installed Debian Squeeze on the other drive and used Grub as the boot loader. This setup worked fine. I recently

Re: Grub infinite loop problem on dual boot system

On 01/28/2013 02:57 PM, sp113438 wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:15:07 -0800 Gary Roach wrote: Hi all; I have a Toshiba Qosmio laptop that has 2 60 GB drives. I formatted one with the Windows XP that is needed to run all of the bells and whistles that the Qosmio provides. I installed Debian

Archiving Selected emails from icedove

Hi all; I need to archive to disk all of my emails from one organization for the year of 2012. I wish to burn them to CD in a format that others could read much later. Can anyone tell me how to do this.I think that the real problems are getting the selected emails out of icedove and then getti

Data Archiving

Hi all, I have a records archiving problem and don't know where to start. There are 100 years of records that include hand written material, type written hard copy, photos and a lot of email. I would like to have a system based around mysql (if possible) that would allow flexible data mining.

Re: Data Archiving

On 04/07/2013 05:56 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 4/8/13, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, I have a records archiving problem and don't know where to start. There are 100 years of records that include hand written material, type written hard copy, photos and a lot of email. I would like to h

LVM mounting problems

Hi all, I needed to expand my Debian Wheezy system by adding a 1 TB drive and decided to switch over to LVM2 in the process. I rolled up my old 160 GB drive into the 1 TB drive and called the whole thing "bigdisk" and chopped the drive into 3 logical volumes. Everything seemed to work until I

GRUB2 error

Hi My wife let her Debian machine get over 450 packages behind before I caught it. What a mess. The last problem is that when booting up the Welcome to Grub notice appears and then: error:file not found Entering rescue mode grubrescue> If I run "ls" I find that the roo

Re: GRUB2 error

On 05/21/2013 04:24 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi My wife let her Debian machine get over 450 packages behind before I caught it. What a mess. The last problem is that when booting up the Welcome to Grub notice appears and then: error:file not found Entering rescue mode

Re: GRUB2 error

On 05/22/2013 11:20 AM, Gary Roach wrote: To all the questions. I reinstalled grub2. The same problem persists. I have run update-grub2 (a stub that runs grub-mkconfig for grub2) several times with no improvement. i also ran grub-mkconfig directly. Same results. See listing below. I'v

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

On 05/22/2013 04:45 PM, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Thank uou Frank and Klaus. As you surmised, it was a typo : I meant to say /dev/sda to be sure I repeated the grub-install and the version given by bootinfoscript if 1.99 though AI have 2.00-14. When I use grub rescue and type set prefixs=(hd

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

On 05/22/2013 05:51 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 05/22/2013 04:45 PM, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Thank uou Frank and Klaus. As you surmised, it was a typo : I meant to say /dev/sda to be sure I repeated the grub-install and the version given by bootinfoscript if 1.99 though AI have 2.00-14. When

Re: GRUB2 error (Solved)

On 05/21/2013 04:24 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi My wife let her Debian machine get over 450 packages behind before I caught it. What a mess. The last problem is that when booting up the Welcome to Grub notice appears and then: error:file not found Entering rescue mode

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

On 05/23/2013 11:30 AM, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Thank you Klaus. /dev/sda is hd0 and is the permanent hard disk. It has the MBR on which I want to install Grub. /dev/sdb is the removable hard disk.Its first partition is, as you say, hd1,msdos1 on which grub2 is installed under /boot/grub.

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