Keyboard-driver-bug ???

2007-03-19 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi all, I discovered something, which seems to be a bug. Maybe someone can verify it. In the moment I cannot test it in amd64 (my Server is down), can someone else do it ? Can someone verify thIs bug, too ? Description: The keyboard periodically switches into "Shift-modus", and some seconds

Keyboard-driver-bug ??? (Update)

2007-03-19 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi all, I found out, that the described bug is created by KDE. It appears only, when the keyboard, choosen by KDE in controlcenter and activated, differs from the one in xorg.conf. Maybe this might help. If someone knows, which package is responsible for it, he might inform the KDE developers

rsync, ssh, scp: How to send via eth1 or higher ?

2006-07-28 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, is there any way, to send files over a device greater than eth0 ? If eth0 is online, ssh, scp and rsync always wants to send over eth0. In the manpages I found no way to change it. (Background: I have wired cable on eth0 and wireless on eth1. You might say: "Just change it !" But as

Re: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 11. September 2006 17:29 schrieb Joost Kraaijeveld: > Hi , > > I want a bootable USB stick that will boot any machine that allows me to > boot from USB: a Debian Live USB (and not CD). I have found a howto on > the internet (http://feraga.com/) but that one does not seem to work for > me

Re: Problems upgrading libc6

2007-04-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag, 10. April 2007 02:23 schrieb Andrew J. Barr: > Luis Hidalgo wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I think I have a serious problem. I tried to upgrade my packages using > > apt-get upgrade but instead of being successful > > the following message appeared: > > > > dpkg: error processing > > /var/cach

Language of Website

2007-06-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi webmasters/maintainers, since half a year the Debian (www.debian.org) site shows the English language as default. It should be in German, as konqueror is configured to German language. On all other sites this is working perfectly, the only site it does not is the Debian site. Did I miss some

Re: linux-image-k7 & nvidia-glx

2006-11-05 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 5. November 2006 19:17 schrieb Thilo Six: > Hello > > I have installed Debian and upgraded to unstable. > Then i installed nvidia-glx on linux-image-k7 but i get an error screen > when gdm starts that Xorg can´t be loaded. > > With linux-image-486 no problems. > > Is this a bug and shou

Re: linux-image-k7 & nvidia-glx

2006-11-05 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 5. November 2006 20:20 schrieb Benjamí Villoslada: > El Diumenge 05 Novembre 2006 19:37, Hans-J. Ullrich va escriure: > > 3, Install the package "nvidia-glx" > > > > 4.  Remove /etc/init.d/kdm, /etc/init.d/gdm and/or /etc/init.d/xdm > > >

Re: linux-image-k7 & nvidia-glx

2006-11-05 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 5. November 2006 20:59 schrieb Florian Kulzer: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 20:27:14 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 5. November 2006 20:20 schrieb Benjamí Villoslada: > > > El Diumenge 05 Novembre 2006 19:37, Hans-J. Ullrich va escriure: > > &g

Re: cannot eject a DVD disc

2009-04-27 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
It might be a problem of package "eject". From time to time an upgrade of this package changes the permissions of /usr/bin/eject to 750 (root:root), but should be 755 (root:root) Good luck! Hans

Re: Thanks

2013-08-31 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Xfce isn't GNOME 2, but it's ok. Yeah! XFCE is great. Tried it, too, on my netbook. It is fast and well usable. I also was very pleased with LXDE, which is also very lightweight and highly usable. In fact, I still could not find a decision, which one is better or faster. So I did the bst thin

Strange libs

2013-08-31 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, since 3 weeks I got two new directories, which is looking strange for me. These are /lib64 and /libx32. The second one was created by package "libc6-x32", but I cannot see the necessary of this libs. Can someone enlighten me, when and why this was installed? Must have been during an u

Re: itunes under debian

2013-09-03 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag, 3. September 2013, 19:23:20 schrieb Pascal Obry: > Le 03/09/2013 19:00, Mike McGinn a écrit : > > Has anyone in this group had any luck getting iTunes to work under Linux? > I believe, iTunes10 can be installed in Playonlinux, when you set a mark in the "testing" option. Sorry, but

Akonadi / Kmail Problem

2013-09-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I am running debian/jessie. After upgrading to kmail2 I discovered, that randomly (this means wthin one or two days a week), a window pops up, whch want me to enter the password for my mailaccount. Strangely it is every time the same mailaccount. I have several ones. It is no differe

Re: Can not format USB drive

2013-09-22 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Therefore I am starting to belive that stick can be broken after all :) > Nevertheless I will wait for some time expecting that somebody had > experienced something similar and can give me some other advice than to > throw away that stick. > > Martin > Bye Hi! Did you try "testdisk"? Nice tool

Re: HDD repair help please

2013-09-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Donnerstag, 26. September 2013, 18:08:54 schrieb Gábor Hársfalvi: > Hi, > > How could I repair my HDD with disk manager or similar? > > Because, it has got a lots of bad sector. > > Before I could do that with fsck in recovery mode after umount /home. But > now it can't work - it says device

[OT] How to redirect input/output to another console?

2012-09-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I know, maybe this is not the right forum, as my question is not really debian based. But maybe you might want to help either. I have a friend far away from me, which is using debian/testing same as me. As I am helping this woman sometimes, and she is willing to learn, I would give

Re: [OT] How to redirect input/output to another console?

2012-09-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello list, thank you all guys and ladies for all the answers, I got. Yes, it was screen, I was looking for. I used screen a long time ago, but forgot about the correct syntax. However, I did not know about tmux, this was new for me. I will test them both as soon, she is back from holiday. I

Re: Disable X-Server temporary

2012-09-19 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Mittwoch, 19. September 2012 schrieb Pietro Paolini: > Hi all, > > How disable the X-Server temporary ? > > Thanks, > Pietro I made good expierience, by moving gdm, xdm or kdm (whatever you are using) just right out of the way. I simply moved it form /etc/init.d/ into my /root folder. Then

can multiarch break my system?

2012-10-01 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I would like to install wine on my pure 64-bit system. Wine is telling me, that I need to add i386 architecture on it (dpkg --add-architecture). Of course I need 32-bit libs. But before I do this, I want to make sure, that under no circumstances, other libs, that I need for wine (or

Re: wi-fi connection and wicd

2012-10-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> When I try to connect I get the message that no wireless connection is > available. There are in fact 7 within easy wireless reach, one of them my > own, and my wireless router is currently about 9 inches away from the > netbook on the same desk. > > Where do I go next?? > > Thanks, > Lisi H

Re: wi-fi connection and wicd

2012-10-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Lisi, > > What kernel version are you running? > > 2.6.32-5-686 > > Thanks for your reply, > Lisi there is also another bugreport by me from earlier times. But I guess, this reason might be in older kernels, too. At the moment I am running kernek 3.5 from experimental with no errors at all

please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-20 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Dear package-teams, please do not put everything to multiarch! Just let me explain, why I think so. As already reported here, many users (and me too) got into a lot of problems, beccause the 32-bit nvidia drivers are now put into multiarch. Doing so, several applications, like googleeearth,

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-20 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Hans, the state of multiarch, post-Wheezy, is that it is not ready for > use. As you have found, it is not compatible with everything, or > perhaps it should be put the other way: Not everything may be compatible > with it. People are advised to be patient about updating/upgrading, > especiall

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-21 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> What I'm trying to say is that ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk probably > contain all of those libraries. > > If you want to keep your system light you should probably install the > real 32-bit skype (not the pseudo-amd64 one), because that package will > depend only on the 32-bit libraries it real

Re: please put not all into multiarch!

2012-10-21 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Could you please provide copy-paste of the output and also the output of > 'apt-cache policy skype' (or the full filename if you just downloaded > it). > > Kind regards, > Andrei Yes, i would kindly like to. Here is the output: apt-cache policy skype skype: Installiert: (keine)

Log flooding: Oct 28 11:44:21 localhost kernel: [ 3348.008429] option: option_instat_callback: error -2

2012-10-28 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Folks, since some time my logs are flooded with the folowwing message: Oct 28 11:45:09 localhost kernel: [ 3395.992226] option: option_instat_callback: error -2 Oct 28 11:45:14 localhost kernel: [ 3401.009057] option: option_instat_callback: error -2 Oct 28 11:45:19 localhost kernel: [ 3406

Re: wheezy amd64: google-earth black screen

2012-11-15 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Freitag, 16. November 2012 schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: > Hi, > > > I installed google-earth, but on starting it all I get is a black screen. > Googling this you get 100's of hits, referring to things that I have > installed. > Relevant to this I have installed: > > nvidia-glx > nvidia-glx-ia32 >

Spamd: How much memory is normal?

2012-11-28 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, just a little question. I am using spamassassin and bayes. The system is telling me, that two processes "spamd" are running with each about 600MB. I guess, this memory is forked and not 1,2 GB. Anyway, 600MB seems pretty much memory for spamd, but as far as I googled, it seems ok.

multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-07 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I am still fighting with multiarch. On my 64-bit system I have a several 32-bit applications installed. Just to name the best known: skype and googleearth. As they are 32-bit, I also installed ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk (and this already for since a long long time). Just to make cle

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-07 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Have a look at the contents of ia32-libs-*. The ‘new’ libraries APT > wants to install already exist on your system, just in one ugly > enormous package that has to be downloaded in full each time one of > the libraries it contains changes. You also don’t get to choose which > of the libraries in

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Maybe I described my problem not exactly enough. My English might be better. Let me try again. 1. I have a running amd64 system, which is running 32-bit applications perfectly (due to ia32-libs) 2. aptitude upgrade wants to deinstall ia32-libs, as there are dependencies in i386 repo (ia32-libs:

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> > Current Wheezy: > - i386 packages can be directly installed as Architecture:i386 and > directly depend on X:i386 etc. as needed > - ia32-libs:amd64 is empty and depends on X:i386, Y:i386, Z:i386 to > ensure that if you upgrade from Squeeze, all libraries previously > found on your syste

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Thanks for the answer, Andrei, but something is still not completely clear. > > When you purge a package (any package) all its files should be removed > by dpkg, but sometimes packages generate files on install and don't > clean up on removal[1]. This is usually a bug which should be reported. > I

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Martin, > > We had it in debian-user-german to an almost unbearable extent. Please > read some of the recent threads there. > > Thus please forgive me when this starts getting on my nerves. > > I may better try to stay away from this thread from now on. > > Thanks for your long answer. Wel

Re: Need help recovering hard drive

2012-12-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Dennis, I would try to mount it in a livefile system. Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK) comes there in my mind. It has some tools, which might save and restore data. You might also take a look at Recobery-is-possible (RIP), another fine rescue system. If ypur harddrive is Windows FAT or NTFS take a

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

2012-12-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Martin, sorry, if I was too harsh in my last mail. Maybe I found not the best English words. Again, sorry for that. However, I found a solution indeed. 1. As googleearth package and skype do need ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk packages, I reinstalled them. 2. The other needed 64-bit-libs and

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Itay, maybe it is a problem with the UUID. Just check on the new harddrive the file /etc/fstab, if there is an UUID set for the harddrive. If so, comment it out and set just an entry with /dev/sda1 (or whatever) fpor the required. Here is an example: # /dev/sda7 / ext3

Re: Yast for debian

2012-12-17 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 17. Dezember 2012 schrieb Muhammad Yousuf Khan: > is there any tool equivalent to yast in Debian? > > Thanks You might want to try "webmin" and/or "usermin". But it is no more in the debian repositories. I guess, no debian-developer took a look at it for years. They said at that time

Re: Laptop fan control

2012-12-22 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Samstag, 22. Dezember 2012 schrieb Jack Schneider: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:33:31 +1100 > > Daniel Dalton wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm using a Dell vostro 3350 machine. > > > > At times I feel the intensity of the fan is unnecessarily high. > > > > This occurs when for example using firefo

kde - problem with automounter

2012-12-22 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi all, I cannot mount a usb-drive in kde (with the tool in the taskbar, you know, what I mean). IMO it might be a solution, to delete some cache, but I am not sure, which is the correct one. To see, what happens, here is my log: # this happens, when I input my drive: ec 22 20:07:05 localhos

Re: kde - problem with automounter UPDATE

2012-12-22 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Forgot to tell: I am running debian/wheezy, amd6. Sorry, to ne unprecise Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121022.04351.hans.ullr...@loop.d

Re: kde - problem with automounter

2012-12-22 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> A typo it should be ~/.cache ;). > > Hth, > Ralf Hi Ralf! Good idea! But did not work, sorry, But I still think, it is a caching problem. Maybe some day it might repair itself??? Who knows Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: admin password?

2012-12-31 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi! I know two ways, how to "crack" a system with a lost root password. 1. Use a livefile-cd like knoppix and mount the partitition witrh /etc/shadow on. Then remove everything at root between the first two :: At next boot, you will not be asked for a root password. 2. Boot with "kon-boot".

Update hanged, now stuck in loop

2013-02-07 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, during the last upgrade, it stuck during the update of the package "virtuoso- opensource-6.1". Now I am sticking in a loop. I cannot deinstall the package, as it wants configure itself and then hangs up, nor I can reinstall it, as I am running into the same loop again. I also tried

KDE4 - wrong root password?

2013-03-14 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, since some time I discovered a strange behaviour. Whenever I want to kill a process, or need root privileges (i.e. with kdesu) and I need to enter my root password, this is not accepted. But - when I use the password of the user I am working with in this cases, it will work. This i

syslinux, live-build - looking for files

2013-03-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I am looking for the following files for wheezy: ldlinux.c32 libcom32.c32 libutil.c32 They should be in package live-build: apt-file search ldlinux.c32 live-build: /usr/share/live/build/bootloaders/extlinux/ldlinux.c32 live-build: /usr/share/live/build/bootloaders/isolinux/ldlinux.c3

Re: syslinux, live-build - looking for files

2013-03-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 24. März 2013 schrieb David Sastre Medina: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 06:45:51PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 24. März 2013 schrieben Sie: > > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 07:31:21PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > > > I am looking for

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-16 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Mittwoch, 17. April 2013 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > Linux greer 3.2.6 #1 SMP Mon Feb 20 17:05:10 CST 2012 i686 GNU/Linux > 22:35:31 up 412 days, 10:05, 1 user, load average: 1.18, 0.97, 0.44 Great, but beat this! More than 500 days. At about 650 days uptime I rebooted accidentlly. See the m

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-16 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Mittwoch, 17. April 2013 schrieb Tixy: > On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 22:59 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Linux greer 3.2.6 #1 SMP Mon Feb 20 17:05:10 CST 2012 i686 GNU/Linux > > > > 22:35:31 up 412 days, 10:05, 1 user, load average: 1.18, 0.97, 0.44 > > So you are over a year behind in installi

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-17 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
It is interesting. Whenever I someone is telling of big uptime, the arguiment is: Your server can not be secure! You have an old kernel! You MUST install/update the newest kernel and of course reboot. But this is not correct. For which reason a new kernel is necessary? 1. If there are extrem

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-19 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Whatever I see in all your comments is this: Most of the people show a big uptime. 100 days, 400 days, 500 days, even more than a 1000 days! So many people do this. It proves, how stable a good system can be and it also shows the great work of the developers. If I compare it to other commerci

Re: .wav to text?

2013-04-21 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
I suppose, they are more in unstable. :) Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201304211754.45383.hans.ullr...@loop.de

Re: .wav to text?

2013-04-21 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Thus, my question of where are these packages :) Just add the unstable repo to your sources.list, then do an "apt-get update" and after this you can install pocketsphinx. Either do "apt-get install pocketsphinx", or you can install any package by doing "apt-get install somepackagename/unstab

Re: .wav to text?

2013-04-22 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Thank you for the pointer, but I just need to update my local repo as > I usually do. I actually was just intrigued as to why I could not find > this package on packages.d.o (and neither in my local repo), that's > all. It is evidently just hitting the repos. Very cool to see libre > debian-pack

Don't do that!

2013-04-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Today I learnt this: Do NOT use ext4 for the /boot partition, where your kernel resides. I did this on my EEEPC to speed up boot, and today I got at boot the error message: initrd.img corrupt. My EEEPC has got an ssd inside and /usr, /home and /var are encrypted partitions. It took me hours a

Re: Don't do that!

2013-04-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag, 23. April 2013 schrieb Brad Alexander: > That is interesting. I have a similar setup on my workstation: > > /dev/sda2 ext4964532 59380856156 7% /boot > > With the rest of the filesystems in an encrypted LVM container. I built > (rebuilt) this machine

Re: failed to install xserver-xorg-core

2013-05-06 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 6. Mai 2013 schrieb Kejia柯嘉: > Hi, > > I tried to upgrade squeez to wheezy, but lost gui. I guess it is > necessary to re-install xserver-xorg-core, but failed to do that: > `` > apt-get install xserver-xorg-core > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state

Re: failed to install xserver-xorg-core

2013-05-06 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 6. Mai 2013 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Mon, 6 May 2013 14:47:57 -0400 > Kejia柯嘉 wrote: > > Hello Kejia柯嘉, > > >I purged the nvidia driver and re-installed it (by nvidia-installer). > >But the nouveau module is still loaded even if I did everything > >indicated here: > >http://www.pimp-

Re: google earth ia32-libs-gtk on wheezy:

2013-05-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
uple of times, I removed it from my machine about 8 months ago. > > I installed googleearth-package, run make-googleearth-package, > installed the compiled googleearth_6.0.3.2197+0.7.0-1_amd64.deb. > Pretty standard. Googleeartg will not run without 32-bit accelerator drivers. If you use Nvidia-

Re: google earth ia32-libs-gtk on wheezy:

2013-05-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Donnerstag, 9. Mai 2013 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Thu, 9 May 2013 21:12:07 +0200 > "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: > > Hello Hans-J., > > >Googleeartg will not run without 32-bit accelerator drivers. If you use > > Good point; I'd forgotten that. >

Re: W-Lan won't work

2013-05-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Freitag, 10. Mai 2013 schrieb Mariusz Wojcik: > After an upgrade from wheezy to Sid W-Lan module won’t work. rfkill says me > that W-Lan is hard blocked but I haven’t blocked it hard. I use Asus X75A > with W-Lan with W-Lan modul Qualcomm Atheros AR9485. > > Greets, > > Mariusz Wojcik Maybe co

Re: google earth ia32-libs-gtk on wheezy:

2013-05-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> $ /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin > gives: > /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: error while loading shared > libraries: libgoogleearth_free.so: cannot open shared object file: No > such file or directory > > # /usr/local/bin/googleearth > gives: > Couldn't run Google Earth (googleearth-

Re: google earth ia32-libs-gtk on wheezy:

2013-05-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Seems ok for me. > $ /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin > /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: error while loading shared > libraries: libgoogleearth_free.so: cannot open shared object file: No > such file or directory Try to build teh package as real root, not with sudo and install the package

Re: google earth ia32-libs-gtk on wheezy:

2013-05-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> as real root, googleearth won't install, > # apt-get install ./googleearth_6.0.3.2197+0.7.0-1_amd64.deb > No no, don't use apt-get. If you want to install via apt-get, the package must be in /var/cache/apt/archives. Just install it with dpkg -i /path_to_where_the_package_is/googleearth_bla

libreoffice wheezy

2013-05-18 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello! Can someone explain why the version in wheezy-backports is higher than in wheezy (aka stable) ? IMO wheezy-backports should be older than stable, shouldn't it? Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Libreoffice4 in wheezy? Several questions

2013-05-19 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello all, I wanted to install LO4 in wheezy. I wondered, why it is in wheezy-backports but not in testing. Maybe the packages in wheezy-backports are too young for testing? However, I managed it by using aptitude and made sure, all dependencies are correct. But I guess, there is an easier w

Re: Libreoffice4 in wheezy? Several questions

2013-05-19 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Andrei, > > But I guess, there is an easier way, to update my ONLY my installed > > packages out of wheezy. In the wiki I read, you can use apt-get -t > > wheezy-backports install $package, which worked well. > > Not sure what you mean here, could you please rephrase/elaborate? > No, not qui

Re: Libreoffice4 in wheezy? Several questions

2013-05-20 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 19. Mai 2013 schrieb Lisi Reisz: > On Sunday 19 May 2013 17:05:40 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Your backported packages, _and_ _only_ your backported > > packages will be updated from wheezy-backports. > > Sorry, upgraded. > > Lisi Hi Lisi, no they did not. I thought, libreoffice would au

Re: Libreoffice4 in wheezy? Several questions

2013-05-20 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Dear Andrei > Dear Hans-J, could you please clarify your terminology? What do you mean > by 'automatically update' in above paragraph? Which one of the following > do you mean: > > 1. I have version 1 and expected version 2~bpo from backports > to be installed What I meant was "I have bla-3.0

Re: Libreoffice4 in wheezy? Several questions

2013-05-20 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Lisi! > > It does. The lower pinning is to prevent backports from upgrading your > whole installation. If you install from Stable and do not change your > sources.list, upgrades will only be taken from Stable. To repeat what I > said earlier, packages from backports _and_ _only_ packages fro

Re: Wheezy-backports

2013-05-21 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Wayne, > > topa@dj:~$ fping http://ftp.debian.org/debian > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian address not found > > For some reason, which I haven't figured out, is why they are not found? > DNS problem or ipv6 or ??? > Doesn't wor here, too. But try "ping ftp.debian.org" as root. Should work

wheeezy-backports - strange policy?

2013-05-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I made my minds about wheezy-backports now for a long time, and allow me, to open this discussion. Pleae correct me, if I am wrong: IMO wheezy-backports is the successor to debian-volatile and is intended for use of debian/stable users (aka wheezy at the moment). As far as I read, p

Re: 32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

2013-05-25 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 26. Mai 2013 schrieb Alan Ianson: > I just installed wheezy on an amd64 machine and am trying to run a > 32bit program but it doesn't run. I'm using the stock amd64 kernel and > the debian packaged nvidia drivers. I used to install an ia32 (or > somesuch) nvidia package to run 32 bit pr

Re: 32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

2013-05-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 26. Mai 2013 schrieb Dick Thomas: > On 26/05/13 07:21, Alex Moonshine wrote: > >> On Sun, 26 May 2013 08:01:33 +0200 > >> "Hans-J. Ullrich" mailto:hans.ullr...@loop.de>> > > > > wrote: > >> > This will not work. The pro

Re: 32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

2013-05-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 26. Mai 2013 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Du, 26 mai 13, 17:31:50, Dick Thomas wrote: > > sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 > > sudo sed -i 's/deb\ /deb\ [arch=amd64,i386]\ /g' /etc/apt/sources.list > > This is not necessary. > > Kind regards, > Andrei Hi Andrei, no this does not wo

java and other plugins in konqueror

2013-05-31 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello all, I got into a slight problem, which I meanwhile could solve. The problem was, that konqueror didn't want to start the java-applet, when it was needed, although - java was existent - icedetea-plugin was installed - java path was correct - update-alternative --config java was correctly

Re: LINUX on floppy

2013-06-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Samstag, 8. Juni 2013 schrieb alex.pad...@laposte.net: > Hi, > > I have a bugg with fsck and I can't repare the file system of my hard disk. > Do you know an LINUX on floppy with a boot to repare my file system. > Thanks > Regards > > Alex Hi Alex, try Trinux (google at it) or you can use to

Remove user data of uninstalled packages

2013-06-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi there, just a question. Is there any way to remove user configuration files of uninstalled packages except to delete ~./whatever manually? apt-get --purge ~c (and aptitude purge) does that for configuration files in /etc, but do you know a similar way for files below /home ? If this is not

Re: Remove user data of uninstalled packages

2013-06-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 9. Juni 2013 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Sun, 9 Jun 2013 16:38:53 +0200 > "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: > > Hello Hans-J., > > >just a question. Is there any way to remove user configuration files of > >uninstalled packages except to delete ~./whatever

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag, 11. Juni 2013 schrieb Brian: > On Wed 12 Jun 2013 at 01:46:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 07:27:35PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes > > > fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. > > > > > > I'd like

Re: Root can startx, main user can't - new Wheezy install

2013-06-12 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Thanks for your thoughts, > > Nick Hi Nick! You might want to check the settings of .Xauthority in users ~/home. I had the issue, that its rights were changed from user:user to root:root after I started LXDE. When changed back to KDE, it won't start again. I manually deleted the file and l

debian.de failure?

2013-06-16 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi, is there a DNS problem known for the domain debian.de? Konqueror is telling me unknown domain:www.debian.de Yesterday everything worked fine, and strangewise I can still get channel.debian.de without any problem. If everything is ok, please let me also know. Best regards Hans -- T

Re: computer rendered un-usable

2013-06-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Yes, for the swap I agree, regarding to /home there aren't real advantages > on a home PC, when disk space was expensive it had a disadvantage, since > the user had to take care how to allocate the disk space. > > Mounting / as r only isn't really needed, if you install a new Linux and > you wa

Re: computer rendered un-usable

2013-06-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 24. Juni 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:52:34 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich > wrote: > > Hi Hans :) > Hi Ralf, > In my home there are exactly those configs you mentioned, but no data, > such as large audio productions, just a few pics etc., howeve

Re: Separate partitions for filesystems (was Re: computer rendered un-usable)

2013-06-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 24. Juni 2013 schrieb David Guntner: > Hans-J. Ullrich grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Oh, and please do not misunderstand. Of course, I know, that an extra > > partition is not really needed for /home. It is just a nice-to-have. I > > just wanted to point on thin

Re: computer rendered un-usable

2013-06-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 24. Juni 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > Hi Hans :) > > On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 17:32 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Did I mention, I am a professionel? :) > This was just a little joke. :) > There's no need to mention this, because this is what my guess

Re: TRIM support with XFS

2013-06-29 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> So my question is: Does TRIM work with XFS in Wheezy and what should I do > to use it? > > John Hi John, as far as I know, the partitions will be correct created by debian. Trimmings is not a problem of the filesystem, but of partitioning. So, you can either partitition with debian (whhezy

Repository pinning?

2013-06-29 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello folks, I want to add a repository to debian, exactly the kali repository, because it has packets, which are not in debian repo. But I do not want automatically debian packets from the kali repo. Can I use pinning for a special entry in sources.list so it does only install those packages,

Re: wheezy keyboard shortcuts w/ lxde

2013-07-12 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Robert, just a clue. As far as I know, lxde iks using the environment of the shell. So just install and configure the packages consolöe-data, console-setup and maybe kbd to your needs. Also make sure, your packages for the required language are installed. These are moytly packages *-l10n-*, I

Re: *Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Samstag, 13. Juli 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > I forgot to mention that we experience floppy disks as very reliable, > but useless for data of modern computers, because of the low amount of > data that can be stored. Don't know, if these are already mentionened. There are Datadisks called "wor

Re: *Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> This seems not to be a solution for most of us. > > Regards, > Ralf Yeah, it was just an idea. :) However, for backup purposes, my solutions are the following: Solution 1: If you have another server available, use rsync and make two copies. First one, just copy all files to a folder on the

Re: *Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Huh, and I forgot to mention "back-in-time". Based on rsync, nice tool, and there is a debian package available. Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.or

live-build questions

2013-07-17 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi all, don't know, if I may ask these questions here, but I allow me to do so. 1. How can build a new iso, when I already did a live build? (in case, when there are new package versions available) lb clean and lb clean --binary did not help. The second build started again, hen I did a lb clean

acpi problem

2013-08-03 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I am looking for a solution of a little problem. My Acer 7520G has got a volume knob aside, and when I turn it, volume is getting higher or lower (it is just a digitally stepping wheel). But in my syslog I find thus messages: Aug 3 08:58:38 localhost logger: acpid: action VOLUP is

Re: acpi problem

2013-08-03 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Reading and understanding the following may get you closer to your goal, > specifically the section on volume control: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acpid Hi Stan! Yeah, that's what I was looking for. Great! It will help me a lot. I think, I will now be able to get this thing to

32-bit problems with nvidia packages

2013-08-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello list, I need to use some 32-bit applications on my amd64 system. These are 3d- accelerated. But it looks lioke there is a bug in the packages. When I for example start googleearth, it starts, but I cannot see the planet. This problem exists since the change to multiarch. However, when I

Re: 32-bit problems with nvidia packages

2013-08-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag, 13. August 2013 schrieb Brad Alexander: > Hi Hans, > > Is it possible that you have some version creep? I had this on my multiarch > sid system. There was a bug which made all of the VTs disappear. The quick > fix was to upgrade a few of the packages (including nvidia-glx, iirc) to >

Re: Formatted Disk

2013-08-16 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Freitag, 16. August 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 10:30 +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > > Ethan Rosenberg, PhD: > > > I have a usb drive, with data on it, that I [stupidly!!] tried to > > > name using fdisk. Of course, it erased the data. I have not used > > > the drive sin

question to live-build

2013-08-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I hope, someone is more experienced with live-build than me. The problem: I have set up a live-build for kali-linux, which I want often build for new updates. But I do not want to download the whole stuff every time, so I am using apt-cacher-ng, which is working perfectly I also wa

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