Is there a problem with the update manager or the sites from which it
get updates? I haven't seen an update since Friday Feb 13. It tells me
my system is up-to-date but up until last Friday I would get updates 5-6
times a week. Also, whenever the update manager starts up, mplayer
shows up in
me someone has advised me of my error. I certainly
will not repeat my error.
John Lindsay
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I have a HP 990C working just fine under debian (lenny) however I have
seen at a local liquidation store the following laser printers available
at a very good price and it may be time to upgrade. They are the Brother
hl-2170, Brother hl-2140 and the Samsung scx-4300. Has anyone gotten
these pri
I have just switched over to Debian. I like it a lot better than
openSuse and my wife likes it as well. In icedove, if i click on a url
it opens up the default web browser. I would much prefer it to open up
the Iceweasel browser which is my preferred browser. Where in icedove
can I change it to
Star Liu wrote:
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:02 AM, John Lindsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have just switched over to Debian. I like it a lot better than openSuse
and my wife likes it as well. In icedove, if i click on a url it opens up
the default web browser. I would much prefer it t
I have a debian (I believe it is lenny) system running and somehow
managed to install a second drive (called /new-disk) where owner and
group are root. As user I can open the drive up and add and delete files
but can't create folders (create folders is greyed out when '/new-disk'
icon is opene
I have installed Debian on my Thinkpad A22. Seems to be working fine
except for the wireless. I also have Wine installed as I want to run an
executable program that downloads a file to an FTA receiver via the
serial port. Do I need to 'turn on' the serial port under Linux or would
it already b
I have spent the day updating my one computer (running m$crap) whilst
listening to my favourite station on my Debian computer (which has been
up and running since Dec1 without a reboot which is more than I can say
about the other OS!!!)). At 6hrs I had to restart my browser and access
the web
Somehow my iceweasel has been infected with the UKASH scam. I have tried
my kapersky rescue disc and it told me my system has been cleaned (this
disc was made late 2011/early 2012 and it did an update prior to
scanning). If I run iceweasel after a reboot the ukash blocker shows up.
How can I ge
s for
the information. Now all I have to do is get clamtk (4.37) updated to
the latest at 4.45.
John
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 09:58 -0400, John Lindsay wrote:
> Somehow my iceweasel has been infected with the UKASH scam. I have tried
> my kapersky rescue disc and it told me my system has be
I am going to post this in several messages to keep things relatively
concise.
Here is my sources.list. Top 16 lines were generated by
http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/
I left the first 3 as a basic sources.list.
The next 13 were also generated by the above but I marked them as ignore.
The last 16
The following is what I get when I type "apt-get update" and obviously
it failed to update. My original sources.list (see part 1 - updating
squeeze to wheezy) (bottom 16 lines) had squeeze and I was getting
similar results.
Later today I am going to try and shorten sources list and simplify i
Thank you Clive for your reply. Here are my settings now after doing the
change to my sources.list:
uname -a shows:
Linux debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.60-1+deb7u3 i686 GNU/Linux
lsb_release -a shows
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:Debian
Description:Debian
Greeting
I have been trying to update my Debian 6 (squeeze) to Debian 7 (wheezy).
I have been reading the following URLs and trying to make sense of them
with respect to upgrading.
http://www.garron.me/en/linux/upgrade-debian-squeeze-wheezy-6.0-7.0.html
http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-upgra
I posted the following on the Multisystem site but have received no
replies as yet so I'll try here since I have learned a lot about Debian
and Linux by following this list and even asking for help on some things.
Anyway, I installed Multisystem following the instructions on this web site
http:
This may have been answered previously but I couldn't find any info on
it -- when I click on a link in Icedove, it will open Iceweasel to that
link (provided of course it is a valid link). However when I try to go
home (which is facebook) iceweasel seems to hang. Clicking a bookmark
does nothin
If I try 'sudo' in a terminal window, it asks for my password. If I try
'root's' password I get 'user not in sudoers file'. If I try my user
password I get 'user not in sudoers file. this incident will be reported.'
I'm trying to run 'sudo apt-get install mono-complete monodevelop' in a
termin
On 01/04/13 07:18 PM, John Lindsay wrote:
If I try 'sudo' in a terminal window, it asks for my password. If I
try 'root's' password I get 'user not in sudoers file'. If I try my
user password I get 'user not in sudoers file. this incident will be
repo
Somehow I seem to have deleted my top toolbar. How do I make a new
on/retrieve a standard toolbar or retrieve my old one? I was trying to
delete a 'greyed out' icon and deleted the whole bar instead?
John
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On 07/04/13 11:16 AM, John Lindsay wrote:
Somehow I seem to have deleted my top toolbar. How do I make a new
on/retrieve a standard toolbar or retrieve my old one? I was trying to
delete a 'greyed out' icon and deleted the whole bar instead?
John
Yes, more information should
I have two files, linux_2.6.x_VCP_Driver_Source.zip and
linux_2.6.x_VCP_Driver_Source.zip. Each 'unzips' to the following files.
These are Silicon Labs USB drivers.
linux_2.6.x_VCP_Driver_Source.zip
linux_2.6.x_VCP_Driver_Source.zip
cp210x.c
A site has grabbed hold of ICEWEASEL and when I try to leave or close
iceweasel a pop-up appears asking
This page is asking you to confirm that you want to leave - data you
have entered may not be saved.
I select leave and it just keeps poping back. I cannot close iceweasel.
I rebooted and w
Thanks for the info -- Running kernel 2.6.x.xx so I know which USB
driver I need to install
On 11/08/13 01:02 PM, Kruppt wrote:
On 2013-08-11, John Lindsay wrote:
What I want to know is how do I determine the
kernel version of my debian 6 system so
I can load the correct
I have a HP P1102w printer. I turned off the printer and computer while
away for several days. When I powered up the units, it wouldn't print.
Somehow I have managed to get the following printers on the print manager
original Hewlett-Packard_HP_Laserjet_Professional_P1102w
one I creat
I apoligise if this is too long but I wanted to make sure I got all
the info posted.
John Lindsay
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I am running a HP Laserjet P1606dn on Debian 6. I want to reprint a
'completed job'. I can see the completed job in the print queue but I do
not see any way to reprint it? Any ideas?
John
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When I try to backup my home directory I get an error message regarding
a folder called '.mozilla'. Looking at it as root there does not appear
to be anything inside -- can I get rid of it or is it an essential part
of iceweasel/mozilla? It doesn't stop my backup from completing -- it's
just a
I have been following the following info on
http://www.howtoforge.com/upgrade-debian-lenny-to-squeeze-in-a-few-simple-steps
My last root teminal command was
apt-get dist-upgrade
It seems to be working ok up to this screen ---
Package configuration
┌──┤ Configuring gr
ome minor annoyances which I managed to fix back to
working condition.
Thanks for the replies.
John
On 17/12/11 06:42 PM, Brian wrote:
On Sat 17 Dec 2011 at 18:07:47 -0500, John Lindsay wrote:
I have been following the following info on
http://www.howtoforge.com/upgrade-debian-lenny
Since my upgrade to Squeeze, I have discovered ALL previous deleted
files and folders plus recently deleted (since upgrade) show up in trash
and I can't delete them. I get a 'file operations' window with a bar
graph that says preparing but when checked -- everything is still there.
There is som
available.
On 18/12/11 04:21 PM, John Lindsay wrote:
Since my upgrade to Squeeze, I have discovered ALL previous deleted
files and folders plus recently deleted (since upgrade) show up in
trash and I can't delete them. I get a 'file operations' window with a
bar graph that say
see 44G of
free space available.
On 18/12/11 04:21 PM, John Lindsay wrote:
Since my upgrade to Squeeze, I have discovered ALL previous deleted
files and folders plus recently deleted (since upgrade) show up in
trash and I can't delete them. I get a 'file operations' window wi
Thank you Bob and Don for the info. I will certainly look into this
sometime this next week and let you know how I make out.
John
On 18/12/11 06:42 PM, Don Juan wrote:
On 12/18/2011 02:44 PM, John Lindsay wrote:
Well, I guess it really helps to do some digging -- found this
find -name
I have squeeze working reasonably well with some minor gripes (or
differences between Lenny and Squeeze).
First: Under Lenny, when I plugged my USB sticks into my computer I
could read/write/delete files and folders with no problem. I could (and
needed to) unmount the drive to delete the icon
How do I get Iceweasel (under Lenny) to recognize or use Adobe
Flashplayer 10.1 or better. I can't get any CNN or BBC videos to play as
they keep telling me I need 10.1.
I've done some searching and tried the various methods mentioned in
various sites. I have DLed the tar from Adobe. I've trie
To Camaleon and Bob
Many thanks for your input. Placing libflashplayer.co into my
/.mozilla/plugins folder worked 100%. That was the information I was
missing.
Have a Happy and prosperous New Years
John
On 28/12/11 02:14 PM, John Lindsay wrote:
How do I get Iceweasel (under Lenny) to
Does anyone use Reciva to access some internet radio stations? If so,
how does one get WMA and MP3 formats to play. AAC format allows a
selection and allows movie player to open and receive the selected
station (only one I've run across using AAC is an Australian site). I'm
running Debian 6.
Greetings all
Is anyone running any of the following displays
1)Dell S199WFPV 19" wide
2)LG L226WTY 22' wide
3)LG L19WTY-BF 19" wide
4)Acer X223WBO 22' wide
I am currently running a Benq T904. Nothing wrong with it but for less
the 1/2 what I originally paid for the Benq I can get one of the
I just installed an HP Laserjet P1102w. I have the Hp status icon
showing in the upper RH side of my toolbar. The printer icon shows up
whenever I print something BUT I have the following folders and files
residing in my Downloads folder and I want to know if I can just delete
them or did I rea
Recently I had to do a reboot. I get the following 'grub' screen
titleDebian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686
root(hd0,0)
kernel/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet
initrd/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
titleDebian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686
How do I get Live365 and Reciva to play when I select a station to
listen to? Live365 opens up another window that has 'undefined' and
overlapping text all over the place. Reciva opens a window and out of 10
different streams only one played. The rest opened up another window
that says its play
I am currently using debian lenny as my primary computer. It's a Dell
Dimension 8300, P4, 3.4G with 1G Ram. 60G HD.
I also have a Dell Optiplex GX620 which currently has win7 on a 300G HD
with 1.5g ram. I will be removing files from the win7 and storing them
on DVDs and installing Debian on it.
John Lindsay wrote:
I am currently using debian lenny as my primary computer. It's a Dell
Dimension 8300, P4, 3.4G with 1G Ram. 60G HD.
I also have a Dell Optiplex GX620 which currently has win7 on a 300G
HD with 1.5g ram. I will be removing files from the win7 and storing
them on DVD
I plugged my wife's sony ereader into my debian (lenny) machine USB
socket primarily to charge it up properly. I was very surprised when it
came up with the 'do you want to run the program' and actually mounted
the volume. I was able to look at the files but didn't do anything else.
I did forge
I just picked up an Iomega 2TB external USB drive. It is formatted NTSF.
When plugged into my Win7 pc it is seen however it does not show up on
screen under Debian (lenny). Is this drive supported? How can I get it
seen by debian?
John
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elejar wrote:
On Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:22:04 -0400
John Lindsay wrote:
I just picked up an Iomega 2TB external USB dr
I did it again; sending a reply to the sender rather than the group --
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Bob Proulx wrote:
John Lindsay wrote:
I just picked up an Iomega 2TB external USB drive. It is formatted
NTSF. When plugged into my Win7 pc it is seen however it does not
Hi Celejar
I tried 'mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt' as /sda1 returned drive does not exist.
Using 'tail -F /var/log/syslog' when I try the mount command using
"/sdb1" returns -
Sep 6 15:40:38 tux-net kernel: [119018.389495] sdb: sdb1
Sep 6 15:40:38 tux-net kernel: [119018.422500] sd 4:0:0:0:
Hi Celelar
Just going through
'applications->Debian->applications->system->administration' and started
up 'gnome partition editor'. It showed me that its file system is ntsf;
its mountpoint is /mnt; its label is IOMEGA HDD; total size is 1.82TB
and I have used 61.37 GB.
It is mounted -- but n
With regards to the problem I am having getting this IOMEGA drive to be
seen by my primary computer running Debian Lenny -- I deleted the
partitions, recreated the partitions as ext3, then ext4 and finally
ntsf . I then checked mstab after 'mount ./dev./sdb1 /mnt' after each
change and it sh
Just to update things--- Fired up second computer which is my test
machine. Installed Ubuntu 10.04 and IOMEGA drive seen as a laptop icon
immediately after turning it on. Was able to load/unload/move files with
no problems. I then deleted partition, re formatted using fat. Unmounted
drive and
Lisi wrote:
On Friday 10 September 2010 03:45:35 John Lindsay wrote:
Still trying to find out what is available to enable the drive in Debian.
Have you tried turning the icon on?
Lisi
Hi Lisa
How do you turn it on? If I plug in a memory stick it automatically
recognizes it
John Lindsay wrote:
I just picked up an Iomega 2TB external USB drive. It is formatted
NTSF. When plugged into my Win7 pc it is seen however it does not show
up on screen under Debian (lenny). Is this drive supported? How can I
get it seen by debian?
John
Well, success of sorts. I
Hi All
I am still trying to get this USB drive to show up as an icon on the
desktop and to show up under the toolbar 'Places' like my 8GB USB memory
stick and my /new-disk hdb (115GB internal drive). I am using Debian
Lenny with Gnome as a desktop.
Here is my 'mount' display
/dev/sda1 on /
Lisi wrote:
On Saturday 18 September 2010 22:50:05 John Lindsay wrote:
Here is my 'fstab'
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#
proc/proc procdefaults0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3errors=re
Lisi wrote:
On Saturday 18 September 2010 22:50:05 John Lindsay wrote:
Here is my 'fstab'
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#
proc/proc procdefaults0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3errors=re
John Lindsay wrote:
Lisi wrote:
I don't know whther it is at all relevant, but your fstab appears to
be trying to mount two different drives on the same mount point (/).
Lisi
Actually it is the 'mtab' that shows the two '/dev/sda1' entries.
I'll try
Lisi wrote:
On Sunday 19 September 2010 11:29:44 John Lindsay wrote:
Lisi wrote:
On Saturday 18 September 2010 22:50:05 John Lindsay wrote:
Here is my 'fstab'
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#
proc/proc
All of a sudden I am getting the following message when I click on the
update manager icon ---
| enter password for keyring 'default' to unlock
| the application 'gksu' (/usr/bin/gksu) wants access to the keyring
'default' but it is locked
I can do two actions -- enter the admin password and
As a further update I clicked -System-Administration-Update manager from
the toolbar and got the list of updates available.
The 9 available updates consist primarily of 'LIBHAMLIB' utilities and
'man-db -- on-line manual pager.
I have to assume that it is a legitimate request for my admin passw
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