Re: windows won't boot anymore after installation of debian

eway or the other. Reinstall GRUB and it should be fine. It looks more like the windows partition got messed up either when the windows bootup was killed (for whatever reason) or when running ntfsfix. A 'fixboot' in windows rescue mode might help. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To

Re: console login : number of access failures

and maybe a non root user can see what the root did before ! Why did they choose this behavior ?? Check out the files .bash_logout in the respective home directories -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How does GMail know I use Firebug extension in Iceweasel?

Recently gmail has begun displaying the following notice when I login to its web interface: "Firebug is known to make Gmail slow unless it is configured correctly." It offers a couple of option to disable/configure it. However what I find disturbing is how gmail 'knows' what extensions I have

Re: How does GMail know I use Firebug extension in Iceweasel?

Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/28/07 18:17, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Recently gmail has begun displaying the following notice when I login to its web interface: "Firebug is known to make Gmail slow unless it is configured correctly." It offers a couple of option to disable/configure i

Re: Icedove+Gmail IMAP: crashing when reading message

n doing so for several months. Sending works fine too. I have not tried other IMAP accounts as I don't have any but I don't mind trying some if it can help diagonise the problem. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Icedove+Gmail IMAP: crashing when reading message

Has anybody tried gmail's IMAP interface in icedove? In my case, icedove is able to retrieve the message headers, but crashes as soon as I attempt to read a message. I am using icedove 2.0.0.6-1 on sid. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: How does GMail know I use Firebug extension in Iceweasel?

Ron Johnson wrote: Disabling javascript renders most sites pretty useless. I have played around with noscript for a couple of months before turning it off. Why? Noscript is great... Sure, it is. Maybe I should give it another try, but it was too much of a bother to "

Re: How does GMail know I use Firebug extension in Iceweasel?

Kelly Clowers wrote: Firebug sets the value of the DOM element window.console to "Firebug" and creates the elements window.console.firebug and console.firebug Thank you for that info. This indeed should be the way gmail detects the presence of firebug. I just hope sites do not start taking

Re: How does GMail know I use Firebug extension in Iceweasel?

Celejar wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:56:23 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] privacy implications? Disabling javascript renders most sites pretty useless. I have played around with noscript for a couple of months before turning it off. "Most sites pre

Re: Icedove+Gmail IMAP: crashing when reading message

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Has anybody tried gmail's IMAP interface in icedove? In my case, icedove is able to retrieve the message headers, but crashes as soon as I attempt to read a message. I am using icedove 2.0.0.6-1 on sid. Try running iceweasel wit

Re: Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device

Samuel Bächler wrote: Hi Everyone Does anyone know what is going wrong on my system or what I am doing wrong or else? To mount a memory stick I do: # mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb Are you sure /dev/sda1 is your usb stick and not your primary hard disk? Do a tail -f /var/log/syslog and t

Re: Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device

Ron Johnson wrote: Since the "drive letter" of removable devices is subject to change, I now use UUID values in /etc/fstab instead of /dev/sd??. (Except for /boot and /.) # blkid /dev/sdXY # vi /etc/fstab (Replace /dev/sdXY with UUID="") Also, if you have hal installed, GNOME & KDE should aut

Re: Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device

Samuel Bächler wrote: # tail -f /var/log/syslog Dec 2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: SCSI device sdb: 249120 512-byte hdwr sectors (128 MB) Dec 2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off Dec 2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: sdb: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08 Dec 2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: sdb:

Re: Files/directories dated 2012?

Robert Bond wrote: I ran apt-get update on my etch system yesterday. It has been a while so 40+ packages showed up to be upgraded. I installed them... Most of it appeared to be Open Office upgrades. The upgrade blew up. I tracked the problem down to the fact that many files and directories on my

Re: Send stderr to variable, but send stdout to screen?

Tony Heal wrote: I have an error handling function that traps, reports and exits on an error. My problem is that I want to do all of that and I want to still see stdout. Try this: $ errors=$(command 2>&1 1> $(tty)) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: non-free and multimedia cds

Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello. Just a while back, I switched to dialup, rather than a high speed network connection. Before I did, I downloaded the three stable dvds, and more recently, got the update DVD. Is it possible to order/purchase a CD and/or DVD that has the debian multimedia, and non-f

Re: finding the rpm of the hard drive

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Actually, this is where the problem originated. We looked at the part numbers of a hard drive in a cluster and ordered the parts online. But to our dismay, we found that they have different rpm even though their part numbers are same. I don't think this is a reliable

Re: Jpeg to pdf filter?

ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: Is there such a utility that can convert a scaned image (saved in jpeg) to a pdf format? try `convert' from the imagemagick suite. For eg: convert source.jpg dest.pdf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: pdftk in Lenny

Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Well, when I did need it, I could reboot into etch which I've still got, and where it works fine. Since I used it only now and then, that was just a minor annoyance. If you have the etch install on a partition in the same machine, you can just mount it somewhere and use

CD burnt in sid unreadable on windows

I have been using the command: mkisofs -J -v -l -r -o file.iso directory to create an iso image for burning to cd. Never had any problem with it until recently when a couple of my friends started complaining that they were unable to read those cds in windows. Upon investigating, I found that

Re-Export NFS mounted directory?

nel-server version 1:1.0.10-6+etch.1 Please help me out Thanks, Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XDMCP question

Hüvely Balázs wrote: Hi All! I have a problem with XDMCP. It's works fine, i can connect it to XDMCP remote server, but i cannot disconnect from the session... I only able to log out, and re-login. How can I make detachable XDMCP sessions like in windows remote desktop. I do not think that i

Re: How to create an image of HD?

Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey guys, I am planning to buy a new hard drive for my laptop and replace the existing one. However, I love my setup right now and wouldn't want to change it. I know there are some FLOSS tools that can be used to image/clone hard drives. Any suggestions? Anybody have a

Re: crashed disk

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Backups before the crash? You need a functioning system. Don't power up that crashed disk until you are ready to pull all readable sectors off it into one image file. There are dedicated programmes to do this and will do multiple read tries. Note that this does not invo

Re: How to create an image of HD?

Max Hyre wrote: Amit Uttamchandani wrote: If you are planning on having the same partition size for your root partition, then you can simply use dd to clone the entire parition. Actually, the dd method will work even if you want to have a larger partition on your new drive. Couldn't you

Re-Export NFS mounted directory?

nel-server version 1:1.0.10-6+etch.1 Please help me out Thanks, Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about torrent

Pantor wrote: Hi, why only one torrent it is aloud to download with GNOME bittorrent? Here is an answer after second torrent is on: couldnt listen 98, adress already in use Check the settings for max_port and min_port under /apps/gnome-btdownload/settings (in gconf-editor) Ensure that bo

Re: Wodim Woes

you can directly pass the device name to wodim, like: wodim dev=/dev/cdrom [other opts] Works for me. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bash history

that normal? Or is there some sort of caching that I can configure better? set -o histappend appends the history file instead of overwriting it. Also, have a look at the variable HISTCONTROL and HISTIGNORE -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: bash history

Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2008-01-17 05:37:34 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: set -o histappend appends the history file instead of overwriting it. $ set -o histappend bash: set: histappend: invalid option name Sorry about that. It should be "shopt -s histappend" But even

Re: etch --> testing

d shooting himself in the foot later) IMHO, based on your description, I really think ubuntu would be a better distribution for your friend. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Password protecting grub

I have been trying to achieve something similar on my system. Password protection in grub2 appears to be quite different from that in grub-legacy. In grub2, authentication is activated by the lines (from the grub info manual, the section on security): set superusers="root" password_pbkdf2 root gr

Re: Password protecting grub

> > But, be advised that once you do this, all the menu entries in grub will > be > > inaccessible until the password is supplied. > > It would be nice to have a way of requiring a password only if it > required > > to boot a non-default entry. > > That's what > menuentry "May be run by any u

"page allocation failure" errors

Hello, My debian stable system has been spewing "page allocation failure" errors since the past few months. I have attached a sample error log. This does not occur too frequently. Sometimes, my system functions normally for several weeks before these errors crop up. When they do, my system is

Text invisible in gtk1.2 apps after dist-upgrade

Hi, I have recently done a dist-upgrade. Now all the text on dialogs, menus and buttons is missing. Applications using gtk2 libs are fine. The problem is present only for gtk1.2 apps(xmms, gmplayer, multi-gnome-terminal) Anybody else facing this problem? Any pointers would be helpful. Thanks and r

Re: Firefox pausing network activity during vt-switch / screenlock

> By the way, > > "Firefox hangs after switching between virtual terminals (Linux)" > > Ok, so I followed the recommendations from this page and disabled > > hardware acceleration. It seems to fix the problem. Indeed it did! Disabling hardware

Re: Firefox pausing network activity during vt-switch / screenlock

On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 8:32 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > > Paused downloads is a more apparent symptom, however I have not tried to > reproduce it (I prefer wget that sets file modification time accordingly > to Last-Modified header). True. wget would have been ideal for large downloads. But sometimes

Firefox pausing network activity during vt-switch / screenlock

Hello, Firefox (and thunderbird, as well) seems to be pausing all network activity when doing a vt-switch or user-switching or locking the screen. The effect of this is that ongoing downloads freeze and are resumed (sometimes fail) only after unlocking the screen. Chromium, on the other hand appe

Re: beeps and other sounds

On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 4:03 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > The more-portable version of this is printf '\a'. > > The issue, though, is that what the terminal *does* with this \007 > byte depends on a truly formidable number of different settings and > layers. The terminal may cause the system to be

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