Loading themes in emacs

2014-02-20 Thread Sharon Kimble
I have the strange problem in that if I load a theme using 'M-x load-theme' and then put in a theme name when prompted like 'brin' it only shows the theme background colour in the fringe and the mode-line and nowhere else. Its the same whatever theme I load. The relevant section from my .emacs is

compton and shadows

2014-03-06 Thread Sharon Kimble
If you use 'compton' and a launcher like 'docky' or 'plank' in 'fluxbox' you will find that there is a *shadow* extending to about one inch above your launcher. In this shadow you are unable to click any button or pane-descriptor like in 'tmux', it is effectively 'dead-ground' and unusable. Is the

Re: compton and shadows

2014-03-07 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 06:26:47 +0100 Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > What are the effects of the -C (uppercase c) switch? No discernible difference. Sharon. > > -- > Gian Uberto Lauri > Messaggio inviato da un tablet > > > On 07/mar/2014, at 03:46, Sharon Kimble > &

Re: compton and shadows

2014-03-07 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 07:16:43 + Peter Tynan wrote: > On 7 March 2014 02:46, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > If you use 'compton' and a launcher like 'docky' or 'plank' in > > 'fluxbox' you will find that there is a *shadow* extending to about &

A SOLUTION - Re: compton and shadows

2014-03-07 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 11:05:41 + Sharon Kimble wrote: > On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 07:16:43 + > Peter Tynan wrote: > > > On 7 March 2014 02:46, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > > If you use 'compton' and a launcher like 'docky' or 'plank' in

Re: questions about password safes

2014-03-08 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 12:05:00 -0500 Dave Woyciesjes wrote: > On 03/07/2014 11:56 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I run Wheezy, desktop Xfce. I want to start using a password > > safe. I've done some searching on the Web and would like to use > > Bruce Schneier's "Password Safe". There is a package in

How to rename my wired connection from 'eno1' to 'eth0'?

2017-06-13 Thread Sharon Kimble
Due to a hard-drive failure I've had to install Debian 9 and I've got a peculiar problem. My wired connection is showing as 'eno1' instead of the unexpected 'eth0', which means that my 'vnstat' is failing to record my network traffic. So how do I change its name please? I've googled but haven't f

Re: How to rename my wired connection from 'eno1' to 'eth0'?

2017-06-13 Thread Sharon Kimble
Dejan Jocic writes: > On 13-06-17, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> Due to a hard-drive failure I've had to install Debian 9 and I've got a >> peculiar problem. >> >> My wired connection is showing as 'eno1' instead of the unexpected >> &

new computer and now missing firmware

2017-06-18 Thread Sharon Kimble
I've just got a new computer and I'm finding that something isn't loading due to missing driver/s. Logwatch shows this - --8<---cut here---start->8--- WARNING: Kernel Errors Present EXT4-fs (sdd1): error count since last ...: 1 Time(s) EXT4-fs (sdd1

Re: new computer and now missing firmware

2017-06-20 Thread Sharon Kimble
Georgi Naplatanov writes: > On 06/18/2017 11:51 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> I've just got a new computer and I'm finding that something isn't >> loading due to missing driver/s. >> >> Logwatch shows this - >> >> --8<--

kernel errors only showing on reboot - nouveau & tpm_crb

2017-07-30 Thread Sharon Kimble
Every time that I reboot this shows up in my daily logwatch - --8<---cut here---start->8--- WARNING: Kernel Errors Present intel-lpss: probe of :00:1e.0 failed with error -22 ...: 2 Time(s) nouveau: probe of :01:00.0 failed with error -12 ...

How to restart root sending emails?

2017-03-12 Thread Sharon Kimble
In an effort to get gnus to read root emails I've chowned /var/mail/mail, added myself to the 'mail' group, changed the permissions of /var/mail/mail, and generally frigged around with it. Consequently root emails have seemingly not run my expected logwatch this morning, and neither did it yesterd

Re: Sound Problem

2017-03-12 Thread Sharon Kimble
"Stephen P. Molnar" writes: > On 03/11/2017 05:36 PM, Dominic Knight wrote: >> On Sat, 2017-03-11 at 09:39 -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: >>> Up to date Jessie. >>> >>> Sound worked until I turned power off to the external speakers. The >>> sound has not been working since I turned the speakers

Re: How to restart root sending emails?

2017-03-13 Thread Sharon Kimble
Andy Smith writes: > Hi Sharon, > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 10:55:05AM +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> In an effort to get gnus to read root emails I've chowned >> /var/mail/mail, added myself to the 'mail' group, changed the >> permissions of /var/mail/

Sound problems (mpd, mpv mainly)

2017-03-31 Thread Sharon Kimble
Since an upgrade on 2017-03-28 my debian Jessie system is continuously dropping my soundcard such that mpd and mpv have no sound at all, but, at this time qmmp and mplayer2 both have sound and work as they should. My sound card is an on-board chip here - --8<---cut here--

Re: Sound problems (mpd, mpv mainly)

2017-04-01 Thread Sharon Kimble
Sharon Kimble writes: > Since an upgrade on 2017-03-28 my debian Jessie system is continuously > dropping my soundcard such that mpd and mpv have no sound at all, but, > at this time qmmp and mplayer2 both have sound and work as they should. > > My sound card is an on-board chip

fstab entry for a 3.6TB drive

2015-10-15 Thread Sharon Kimble
I'm trying to mount a 3.6TB hard drive formatted and labelled with gparted, and I have twice managed to lock myself out of the computer until I removed the offending line in fstab. This is the fstab line that I'm going to try and use - --8<---cut here---start-

Re: fstab entry for a 3.6TB drive

2015-10-15 Thread Sharon Kimble
Darac Marjal writes: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 01:52:37PM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> I'm trying to mount a 3.6TB hard drive formatted and labelled with >> gparted, and I have twice managed to lock myself out of the computer >> until I removed the offendi

Re: FW: xfsdump package not available in testing?

2015-10-16 Thread Sharon Kimble
Nemeth Gyorgy writes: > 2015-10-16 08:04 keltezéssel, James Homuth írta: > >> Poking around the Debian packages website, xfsdump should be available >> in Stretch per that page (link included below). However: >> # apt-get install xfsdump >> Reading package lists... >> D

SOLVED - Re: fstab entry for a 3.6TB drive

2015-10-16 Thread Sharon Kimble
Cindy-Sue Causey writes: > On 10/15/15, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> Darac Marjal writes: >> >>> Also, does /back-a exist (mount won't create the mountpoint itself, so >>> your root filesystem should have a "back-a" directory entry)? >>>

How to run 'vnstat' as user?

2015-10-19 Thread Sharon Kimble
I'm having great difficulty in getting vnstat to run as user, like I had on my previous i386 computer. I have created the new 64bit eth0 binary file in ~/cron/lib/ so that it is backed up with my regular backups with obnam. Except it seems that only root or vnstat can run and own the ~/cron/lib/eth

Re: How to run 'vnstat' as user?

2015-10-19 Thread Sharon Kimble
writes: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 03:09:29PM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> I'm having great difficulty in getting vnstat to run as user, like I had >> on my previous i386 computer. I have created the new 64bit eth0 binary >> file in ~/cron/lib/ so that it is backed

Re: How to run 'vnstat' as user?

2015-10-20 Thread Sharon Kimble
writes: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 06:09:41PM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> writes: >> >> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 03:09:29PM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> I'm having great difficulty in getting vnstat to run as user, like I had >> >>

Solved [was Re: How to run 'vnstat' as user?]

2015-10-23 Thread Sharon Kimble
to...@tuxteam.de writes: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 02:19:35PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:44:41AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> > writes: >> >> [...] >> >> > > Still confused here. What's the content of thi

installing hplip-3.15.11 for my HP Deskjet_1000_J110

2015-11-26 Thread Sharon Kimble
I've been trying to set up my HP Deskjet_1000_J110 which is recognised by jessie, but when I print a test page it does it with no problem, but when I try to print a letter from libreoffice, it just churns out blank pages. So I've downloaded hplip-3.15.11 and tried to run it to install it, but it

Re: installing hplip-3.15.11 for my HP Deskjet_1000_J110

2015-11-27 Thread Sharon Kimble
Brian writes: > On Thu 26 Nov 2015 at 19:03:49 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I've been >trying to set up my HP Deskjet_1000_J110 which is recognised > by >jessie, but when I print a test page it does it with no problem, but > >when I try to print a letter from libre

Re: installing hplip-3.15.11 for my HP Deskjet_1000_J110

2015-11-27 Thread Sharon Kimble
Brian writes: > On Fri 27 Nov 2015 at 10:08:44 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> > Does the machine print with >> > >> > lp -d print_queue >> >> No, it says - >> >> --8<---cut here---

Trying to remove "architecture i386"

2015-11-30 Thread Sharon Kimble
I am running a "amd64" version of jessie and in an effort to get 'crossover_14.1.11-1.deb' installed, which is 32-bit. To do this I issued the command - ╭ │sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 ╰ and then - ╭ │dpkg --print-foreign-architectures ╰ then I did a 'apt-get update' and tr

Re: Trying to remove "architecture i386"

2015-12-01 Thread Sharon Kimble
Ansgar Burchardt <"Ansgar Burchardt"@43-1.org> writes: > Sharon Kimble writes: >> ╭ >> │sudo dpkg --remove-architecture i386 >> ╰ >> >> which failed saying - >> >> dpkg: error: cannot remove architecture 'i386'

Re: Trying to remove "architecture i386"

2015-12-01 Thread Sharon Kimble
Sharon Kimble writes: > I am running a "amd64" version of jessie and in an effort to get > 'crossover_14.1.11-1.deb' installed, which is 32-bit. To do this I issued the > command - > > ╭ > │sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 > ╰ > &g

Lenovo 050 desktop crashing

2015-02-24 Thread Sharon Kimble
I have just bought a new computer,a Lenovo 050 desktop. Its working reasonably okay except for the occasional crashes. For instance, I've had it a fortnight now and its longest uptime has been just over 3 days, even though its on all the time! It has crashed when I've been using it, and its crashe

Re: Lenovo 050 desktop crashing

2015-02-24 Thread Sharon Kimble
Darac Marjal writes: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:23:08AM +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> I have just bought a new computer,a Lenovo 050 desktop. Its working >> reasonably okay except for the occasional crashes. For instance, I've >> had it a fortnight now and its lo

Re: Lenovo 050 desktop crashing

2015-02-24 Thread Sharon Kimble
Petter Adsen writes: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 11:23:08 + > Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> I have just bought a new computer,a Lenovo 050 desktop. Its working >> reasonably okay except for the occasional crashes. For instance, I've >> had it a fortnight now and its l

Re: Lenovo 050 desktop crashing

2015-02-24 Thread Sharon Kimble
Darac Marjal writes: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:23:08AM +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> I have just bought a new computer,a Lenovo 050 desktop. Its working >> reasonably okay except for the occasional crashes. For instance, I've >> had it a fortnight now and its lo

Re: Lenovo 050 desktop crashing

2015-02-24 Thread Sharon Kimble
Patrick Bartek writes: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> I have just bought a new computer,a Lenovo 050 desktop. Its working > > I couldn't find an 050 model. Did you mean H50? Nope, its a Lenovo 050 Desktop from ebuyer. > >> reasonably okay e

Re: Lenovo 050 desktop crashing

2015-02-25 Thread Sharon Kimble
Eike Lantzsch writes: > On Tuesday 24 February 2015 18:56:23 Sharon Kimble wrote: >> Patrick Bartek writes: >> > On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> I have just bought a new computer,a Lenovo 050 desktop. Its working >> > >> >

Re: Lenovo 050 desktop crashing

2015-02-25 Thread Sharon Kimble
David Christensen writes: > On 02/24/2015 03:23 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> I have just bought a new computer,a Lenovo 050 desktop. Its working >> reasonably okay except for the occasional crashes. >> ... >> It has crashed when I've been using it, and its crash

Re: Lenovo 050 desktop crashing

2015-02-25 Thread Sharon Kimble
Patrick Bartek writes: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> Patrick Bartek writes: >> >> > On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> > >> >> I have just bought a new computer,a Lenovo 050 desktop. Its working >> > >>

Moving from a "686-pae" kernel to "amd64"?

2015-02-28 Thread Sharon Kimble
I installed this "jessie" setup on 10/02/14 from an old "wheezy" net-install disc dated 28/05/13! I'm in the process of downloading a jessie net-install for future installation. This setup is currently running a "3.16.0-4-686-pae" kernel. Is it a good idea to convert to a 64bit kernel, specificall

Re: Moving from a "686-pae" kernel to "amd64"?

2015-02-28 Thread Sharon Kimble
Sorry, I meant that I installed this "jessie" setup on 10/02/15! Got the year wrong! Ooops! Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk my git repo = https://bitbucket.org/boudiccas/dots TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk Debian testing, fluxbox 1.3.6, emacs 24.4.1.0 signature.asc D

Re: Moving from a "686-pae" kernel to "amd64"?

2015-02-28 Thread Sharon Kimble
Bob Proulx writes: > Sharon Kimble wrote: >> This setup is currently running a "3.16.0-4-686-pae" kernel. Is it a >> good idea to convert to a 64bit kernel, specifically >> "3.16.0-4-amd64"? > > How much memory do you have in your system? 4G act

How to access my new fileserver?

2016-01-10 Thread Sharon Kimble
I'm just setting up a home fileserver, going through a tp-link adsl2+ modem and router. I've installed the base system with a 7gb /, 2 gb swap and 2gb /home. I can log in as my user "foo" on the computer, and have installed openssh-server, htop, lm-sensors, emacs, and screen. I've rebooted and chec

Re: How to access my new fileserver?

2016-01-10 Thread Sharon Kimble
David Christensen writes: > On 01/10/2016 08:27 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> I'm just setting up a home fileserver, going through a tp-link adsl2+ >> modem and router. I've installed the base system with a 7gb /, 2 gb swap >> and 2gb /home. I can log in as my user

Re: How to access my new fileserver?

2016-01-10 Thread Sharon Kimble
writes: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 04:27:13PM +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > [...] > >> But I can't ssh into it using 'ssh foo@fooserver'. Every time that I try >> it appears not to connect, just leaving a blank access line and my ram >> is gradua

Re: docbook2html error

2011-10-18 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 18 October 2011 11:04, Chandrabhanu Mahapatra wrote: > After I installed docbook-utils "sudo apt-get docbook-utils" running > docbook2html  gives error > jw: There is no frontend called > "/usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/frontends/docbook". > > there is no folder "utils-0.6.14" in  /

Re: Formatting external HDD

2011-10-18 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 18 October 2011 18:02, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:54:32 +0100, Lisi wrote: > >> I have just acquired a one T HDD for use as an external HDD.  I now need >> to decide how to partition it.  I am intending to use it for backup >> purposes, and have bought what seems ot me ot be a

Re: docbook2html error

2011-10-19 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 19 October 2011 11:22, Chandrabhanu Mahapatra wrote: > I am sorry for asking a Ubuntu related question on debian forum. I > thought as Ubuntu is debian based so your experiences will help. That may have been relevant in years gone past, but Debian and Ubuntu have both grown up and away from ea

Lack of sound

2011-12-20 Thread Sharon Kimble
I have a problem with playing sound at present, I hear faint music when watching a film out of the left ear [with earphones, my preferred choice] and nothing out of the right ear. I've turned up all speakers that I can find to their maximum, but with no appreciable gain. The relevant part of .

Re: Lack of sound

2011-12-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
all to no avail, sorry. Thanks Sharon. On 21 December 2011 05:35, Porcia Silvia wrote: > On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:30:02 +0100 > Sharon Kimble wrote: > >>am now using alsa. The problem occurred when we >> were trying to debug a problem with playing mp4 films on VLC, my >>

Re: Lack of sound

2011-12-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
This gives command not found. Sharon. On 21 December 2011 12:41, lina wrote: > # alsactl init > > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> I've already reinstalled vlc and it made no difference, I did sudo >> apt-get remove vlc, sudo apt-get a

Re: Lack of sound

2011-12-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
21 December 2011 13:03, lina wrote: > as root run > alsactl init > > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> This gives command not found. >> >> Sharon. >> >> On 21 December 2011 12:41, lina wrote: >>> # alsactl init >>>

Re: Lack of sound

2011-12-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
I forgot to say, how do I get the sound card recognised then please? Sharon. On 21 December 2011 13:09, Sharon Kimble wrote: > This now gives ;- > ~~~ >  sudo alsactl init > [sudo] password for boztu: > Unknown hardware: "CMI8738-MC6"

Re: Lack of sound

2011-12-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
perly again. Thanks to all who helped. Sharon. On 21 December 2011 13:19, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I forgot to say, how do I get the sound card recognised then please? > > Sharon. > > On 21 December 2011 13:09, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> This now gives ;- >>

Ownership of external usb hard drive

2011-12-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
I have an external usb hard drive that I use solely for storing backups which are done every three hours of my home folder. It is 'owned' by root, but I want to have the user boztu to have ownership of it so that boztu can write to it from their cron backup program, but how do I do it please? At t

Re: Ownership of external usb hard drive

2011-12-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 22 December 2011 00:59, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 22/12/11 11:26, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> I have an external usb hard drive that I use solely for storing >> backups which are done every three hours of my home folder. It is >> 'owned' by root, but I want

Re: Ownership of external usb hard drive

2011-12-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 22 December 2011 02:04, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 22/12/11 12:39, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> On 22 December 2011 00:59, Scott Ferguson >> wrote: >>> On 22/12/11 11:26, Sharon Kimble wrote: >>>> I have an external usb hard drive that I use solely for stori

Re: Ownership of external usb hard drive

2011-12-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 22 December 2011 10:52, Raf Czlonka wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:35:34AM GMT, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> I've just tried to create a folder on the external h/d which failed. >> This is the error report;- >> ~~~ >>  mkdi

Re: Ownership of external usb hard drive

2011-12-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 22 December 2011 11:11, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 22/12/11 21:35, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> On 22 December 2011 02:04, Scott Ferguson >> wrote: >>> On 22/12/11 12:39, Sharon Kimble wrote: >>>> On 22 December 2011 00:59, Scott Ferguson >>>> wro

Re: Ownership of external usb hard drive

2011-12-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 22 December 2011 13:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 22/12/11 23:34, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> On 22 December 2011 11:11, Scott Ferguson >> wrote: >>> On 22/12/11 21:35, Sharon Kimble wrote: >>>> On 22 December 2011 02:04, Scott Ferguson >>>> wro

Re: Ownership of external usb hard drive

2011-12-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 22 December 2011 17:09, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:26:04 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> I have an external usb hard drive that I use solely for storing backups >> which are done every three hours of my home folder. It is 'owned' by >> root, bu

SOLVED - ownership of external usb h/d

2011-12-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
After much help on IRC in hte #debian channel, it now works. I had to ;= ls -l /media .. which showed drwxr-xr-x 182 root root 12288 Dec 20 21:42 8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459 Then ... chown root:boztu /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459 Then chmod 775 /me

NOT solved - ownership of external usb h/d

2011-12-23 Thread Sharon Kimble
Tonight at midnight my backup of my home directory failed, and on investigation why it couldn't make a directory i found that i didn’t have the right permissions. On further checking I found that the ownership had reverted to root:root, so I rebooted. When everything had come back online I checked

Re: NOT solved - ownership of external usb h/d

2011-12-24 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 24 December 2011 16:36, Brian wrote: > On Sat 24 Dec 2011 at 01:42:00 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> Tonight at midnight my backup of my home directory failed, and on >> investigation why it couldn't make a directory i found that i didn’t >> have the right permi

Re: NOT solved - ownership of external usb h/d

2011-12-24 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 24 December 2011 17:50, Brian wrote: > On Sat 24 Dec 2011 at 17:20:03 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> On 24 December 2011 16:36, Brian wrote: >> > >> > Please post the output of '/sbin/fdisk /dev/sdX' for the drive. >> >>  !532 >>

Doubled external usb hard drives?

2011-12-25 Thread Sharon Kimble
This morning my usb external hard drive started playing up by showing two instances, i.e.;- ~~~ ls -l /media total 48 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 22 20:10 8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459 drwxrwxr-x 184 root boztu 12288 Dec 24 18:13 8eef3b99-c17b-

Re: Doubled external usb hard drives?

2011-12-25 Thread Sharon Kimble
I've found that if i put a backspace [ _ ] after 8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ then I can access the drive in konqureor and the cli. So its not all doom and gloom. Sharon. On 25 December 2011 15:16, Sharon Kimble wrote: > This morning my usb external hard drive started playi

Re: Ownership of external usb hard drive

2011-12-25 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 23 December 2011 15:12, Curt wrote: > On 2011-12-23, Curt wrote: >> On 2011-12-22, Walter Hurry wrote: > Very succinctly put, except the hard drive is automatically mounted by Gnome, thats the only mistake you made. >>> >>> It wouldn't be if it were in fstab. >>> >> It sure does

Renamiing a USB external h/d

2012-01-12 Thread Sharon Kimble
I have a USB external hard drive for my backups which is formatted ext 3. It is currently named as '/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ ' and mounted via fstab. I've tried using e2label as follows;- sudo e2label /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ /media/backup e2label: Is a dire

Re: Renamiing a USB external h/d

2012-01-12 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 12 January 2012 14:28, hvw59601 wrote: > Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> I have a USB external hard drive for my backups which is formatted ext >> 3. It is currently named as >> '/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459_ ' and mounted via fstab. >

Re: Renamiing a USB external h/d

2012-01-13 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 12 January 2012 18:39, hvw59601 wrote: > Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> On 12 January 2012 14:28, hvw59601 wrote: >>> >>> Sharon Kimble wrote: >>>> >>>> I have a USB external hard drive for my backups which is formatted ext >>>

Re: Renamiing a USB external h/d

2012-01-13 Thread Sharon Kimble
Thanks Andrei, its now all working perfectly. Sharon. On 13 January 2012 12:28, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 13 ian 12, 11:06:26, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> OKay, this is what I did;- >> sudo umount /dev/sdb1 >> >> sudo e2label /dev/sdb1 backup >> >&

Excluding folders in rsync command?

2012-01-15 Thread Sharon Kimble
is it possible to exclude directories/folders from a rsync command please? i know you can do files using a wildcard like *.avi, but is it possible to exclude e.g. /home/boztu/videos ? Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/

changing bootup parameters

2012-01-15 Thread Sharon Kimble
where do I change the file output of the boot screen messages that scroll by so fast and are so small as to be unreadable before you get to the logon screen please? i want to make them bigger and brighter so that they are readable, like in RHEL, Fedora or Centos. this is during bootup and before th

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-15 Thread Sharon Kimble
x-centos user and i like to see the messages as they happen before logon, so that I can spot anything out of the ordinary. Thats why I want them readable, and reading the log after logon is not acceptable. Thanks Sharon. > > On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> where d

rsync exclusions

2012-01-16 Thread Sharon Kimble
I'm just fine tuning my rsync exclusion file which is called perfectly okay and works well, but now \i want to add these lines to it;- -/icedove/nipl* -/gnash/* -/mozilla/firefox/* -/opera/* Will they work with wildcards like that please to exclude the whole of the program and cache? If not, how

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-16 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 16/01/2012, Brian wrote: > On Mon 16 Jan 2012 at 04:57:13 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> where do I change the file output of the boot screen messages that >> scroll by so fast and are so small as to be unreadable before you get >> to the logon screen please? i want

SOLVED Re: loss of sound in VLC

2012-02-02 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 02/02/2012, Jon Dowland wrote: > On 02/02/12 01:18, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> Can anyone suggest further things to try to regain sound on vlc which >> worked very well until the recent upgrade. > > If you create a new guest user, does VLC work for that user? > > I

Upgrade to wheezy possible?

2012-03-28 Thread Sharon Kimble
Is it possible to upgrade to wheezy from squeeze with only 670.9mb available in my /usr partition please? Or do I need to repartition and reinstall squeeze and then upgrade to wheezy? Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever = http://www.efever.blogsp

Re: Upgrade to wheezy possible?

2012-03-28 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 28 March 2012 23:29, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 28 mar 12, 22:49:00, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> Is it possible to upgrade to wheezy from squeeze with only 670.9mb >> available in my /usr partition please? > > There's not enough info to tell. For a (very) slim syst

Re: Upgrade to wheezy possible?

2012-03-29 Thread Sharon Kimble
s bug .. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=645713 . so I'll have to wait until that bug is sorted out. Thanks to you all for your ideas Sharon. On 29/03/2012, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 28. März 2012 schrieb Sharon Kimble: >> Is it possible to upg

Re: Upgrade to wheezy possible?

2012-03-31 Thread Sharon Kimble
30/03/2012, Bob Proulx wrote: > Sharon Kimble wrote: >> Is it possible to upgrade to wheezy from squeeze with only 670.9mb >> available in my /usr partition please? Or do I need to repartition and >> reinstall squeeze and then upgrade to wheezy? > > If I were in that mode

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

2012-04-12 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 12/04/2012, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:48:15 +0530, Amrish Purohit wrote: > >> Hi, > > Hi, please, avoid using html formatting when posting, it's very hard to > read under some clients, thanks. > >> I installed debian stable kde with live cd >> "debian-live-6.0.3-i386-kde-desktop.

genisoimage and burning the iso created.

2012-04-28 Thread Sharon Kimble
i have just created an iso of some of my music collection so that i can play them off the DVD, delete them off the hard drive and free up more space for new music, that’s the plan anyhow. The command i used was . genisoimage -o ~/irishceltic.iso /home/boztu/Music/Irish\ Celtic\ Music\ Coll

SOLVED Re: genisoimage and burning the iso created.

2012-04-29 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 29/04/2012, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 02:13:37 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> i have just created an iso of some of my music collection so that i can >> play them off the DVD, delete them off the hard drive and free up more >> space for new music

genisoimage and truncating of file names

2012-04-29 Thread Sharon Kimble
I am creating an iso with genisoimage prepatory to burning it to dvd for backing up of my music collection, and on checking the resulting disc I'm finding that the mp3 name is truncated to the first word of its title. I feel that this is happening with genisoimage and would obvioulsy like to have t

Re: genisoimage and truncating of file names

2012-04-30 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 30/04/2012, keith wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:47:11 +0100 > Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> I am creating an iso with genisoimage prepatory to burning it to dvd >> for backing up of my music collection, and on checking the resulting >> disc I'm finding that

Re: SOLVED Re: genisoimage and burning the iso created.

2012-04-30 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 30/04/2012, Indulekha wrote: > Sharon Kimble wrote: >> On 29/04/2012, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 02:13:37 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >>> >>>> i have just created an iso of some of my music collection so that i can >>>> play t

Script request for files truncating with genisoimage

2012-04-30 Thread Sharon Kimble
i am using genisoimage on this folder ./home/boztu/Music/Irish Celtic Music Collection Version 2 which contains 2976 mp3s, but it is truncating the file names after the first word of their title. It appears to be doing this at the first space that it encounters, so I'm hoping someone can h

Re: SOLVED Re: genisoimage and burning the iso created.

2012-04-30 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 30/04/2012, Indulekha wrote: > Sharon Kimble wrote: >>> >> I installed datapacker from the repo but do not understand how to use >> it. It does not appear to be able to be directed to a specific >> directory where the mp3 files are without checking other

Re: Script request for files truncating with genisoimage

2012-04-30 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 30/04/2012, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 07:09:02PM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> i am using genisoimage on this folder ./home/boztu/Music/Irish Celtic >> Music Collection Version 2 which contains 2976 mp3s, but it is >> truncating >> the

Re: genisoimage and truncating of file names

2012-04-30 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 30/04/2012, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On 30/04/2012, keith wrote: >> On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:47:11 +0100 >> Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >>> I am creating an iso with genisoimage prepatory to burning it to dvd >>> for backing up of my music collection, and

Re: genisoimage and truncating of file names

2012-04-30 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 01/05/2012, Indulekha wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 01:16:54AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> On 30/04/2012, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> > On 30/04/2012, keith wrote: >> >> On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:47:11 +0100 >> >> Sharon Kimble wrote: >>

Themes and unreadable text

2012-05-02 Thread Sharon Kimble
i'm looking for a theme where the background in konqueror and tranmission is all white instead of its current grey/white/grey/white/etc which is difficult for me to read in the grey bars. The black text just seems to merge into the grey background which i find almost impossible to read, and that’s

Re: Themes and unreadable text

2012-05-02 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 02/05/2012, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 02 May 2012 08:26:12 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> i'm looking for a theme where the background in konqueror and >> tranmission is all white instead of its current >> grey/white/grey/white/etc which is difficult for me to

backported libreoffice minus its autospellcheck

2012-05-06 Thread Sharon Kimble
Yesterday I installed the backported version of libreoffice which is working reasonably well, except for writer not having the autospellcheck enabled. Does anyone know of a workround for this that will enable spellchecking to be done as i type please? Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://w

Re: backported libreoffice minus its autospellcheck

2012-05-08 Thread Sharon Kimble
Yes I do have myspell installed ;- ... locate myspell /usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so /usr/share/myspell /usr/share/myspell/dicts /usr/share/myspell/infos /usr/share/myspell/dicts/DicOOo.sxw /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en-US.aff /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en-US.dic /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en

grey/white/grey/white/etc bars

2012-05-08 Thread Sharon Kimble
Does anyone know how to get rid of the grey/white/grey/white etc bars in the background of programmes like konqueror, rhythmbox, kmail and virtually everything please? I find them very annoying and they make the black text in the grey bars almost impossible to read for one of advancing years. Any

Re: grey/white/grey/white/etc bars

2012-05-08 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 09/05/2012, Indulekha wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 02:17:46AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> Does anyone know how to get rid of the grey/white/grey/white etc bars in >> the >> background of programmes like konqueror, rhythmbox, kmail and virtually >> everythin

Re: Re: backported libreoffice minus its autospellcheck

2012-05-09 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 09/05/2012, Clive Standbridge wrote: >> Yes I do have myspell installed ;- ... locate myspell >> /usr/lib/enchant/libenchant_myspell.so >> /usr/share/myspell >> /usr/share/myspell/dicts >> /usr/share/myspell/infos >> /usr/share/myspell/dicts/DicOOo.sxw >> /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en-US.aff

Re: grey/white/grey/white/etc bars

2012-05-09 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 09/05/2012, John Anderson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/05/12 02:17, Sharon Kimble uttered these pearls of wisdom:: >> Does anyone know how to get rid of the grey/white/grey/white etc bars in >> the >> background of progra

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