Re: Chromium in Sid not working

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 05:37:26PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Stephen Allen wrote: > > > The linux Chrome binary from Google appears to work fine on both machines. > > > > I don't use the Debian Chromium as it's too old. > > I think you must be thinking

Re: Chromium in Sid not working

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 05:28:26PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Stephen Allen wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Stephen Allen wrote: > > > > I don't use the Debian Chromium as it's too old. > > > > > > I think you must be thinking of the Ch

Re: How can I get GNOME 2 back

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 04:24:17PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:33:08 +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Well until then maybe GNOME 3 has evolved into a more usable state. > > (...) > > It is "usable" right now. > > Current version 3.0 (the one available in testing) is not

Re: what does the s stand for

On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 08:48:00PM -0500, doug wrote: > On 12/02/2011 07:11 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > >You can get the online upstream GNU copy from here: > > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/index.html > > > > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node

Re: [OT] where should I look for google sync information ?

On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 08:49:30PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > Dear list, > > I have activated google sync operation in my android phone to sync contact. > How can I verify/see those info at my google account ? > ---end quoted text--- Maybe it's visible on your Google profile. AFAIK it can be mana

Re: (argh) "Could not perform immediate configuration"

On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 07:11:40PM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote: > Hi, Folks -- > > I decided to go ahead and try upgrading to Wheezy on this laptop (Acer Aspire > 5250, gift for my sister) to see if any of the three previously mentioned > problems might clear. Now I'm stuck at "Could not perform imm

Re: iceweasel no more support by google

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 03:51:41PM +, Lisi wrote: > It probably matters which version you have, and the mozilla site is likely to > be more up-to-date. > > I personally have found, on several computers over the last six months, that > Iceweasel works fine with GMail, until I install Google

Re: Ownership of external usb hard drive

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 07:36:13PM +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > 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 mistak

Re: Can't upgrade anyting in Sid

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 01:58:57PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >Does anyone know how this whole ball of wax started ?? Why does it matter, one has to expect issues like this when running Sid. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: any tiny webcam viewer ?

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 06:05:15PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:14:35 +0100 > Darac Marjal wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:12:50PM +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > > > > > > Dear list, > > > > > > I have tested my webcam with guvcviwe and the cam is running fine. > > > Now

2 users on desktop, should be one right?

Just noticed this when glancing at htop it mentioned 2 users on my laptop, when I should be the only one logged in. who stephen tty7 2012-04-25 11:49 (:0) stephen pts/02012-04-25 11:52 (:0) This is on a Sid box, updated this morning. I have re-booted the laptop in question and

Re: 2 users on desktop, should be one right?

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 04:29:09PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:58:44 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > Just noticed this when glancing at htop it mentioned 2 users on my > > laptop, when I should be the only one logged in. > > > > who > >

Re: 2 users on desktop, should be one right?

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 09:24:28PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > > Doesn't do it for me, I'm just seeing the pts entry. > > joe@jresid:~$ who > joe pts/02012-04-25 21:19 (:0) > > joe@jresid:~$ w > 21:21:13 up 2:30, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.14, 0.12 > USER TTY FROM

Re: Anyway of keeping gnome2 while upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 07:32:03PM +0100, Ellwood Blues wrote: > 2012/4/27 Ralf Mardorf : > > On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 17:26 +0100, Ellwood Blues wrote: > >> http://mate-desktop.org/install/#debian > > > > No experiences here, but I heard that it shouldn't be a good successor > > of GNOME2. > > > >

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:03:52AM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:16 AM, wrote: > > +20 > > > > Oh and as far as that thing I said about having Cred, Camaleón assist more > > people on this list than just about anyone, so he's got Cred. > > > > Pick your battles a bit wi

Re: So much for Skype.

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:58:21AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > So Skype has been bought by Microsoft. > > I expect the Linux version of Skype to be abolished in short order. Oh > well, thus the fate of proprietary software. I'm sure St. Ignucious is > shaking his head with the inevitability of it

Re: Chromium 11 on Debian 6.0.1 Stable

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:39:03PM -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: > I have been looking for an operating system that would allow me to have > the latest browser, but the stability of Debian Stable, and I realized > that I just want to keep using Debian. I have looked into apt-pinning to > install Chr

Re: Re: posting (was: Threading)

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:54:51PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Test reply from link in archive at: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/06/msg01787.html > > I want to see if the reply ends up in the thread properly, I think > it should as the html link from the online archive is th

Re: posting

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:12:55AM +0200, Florian Snow wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Ralf Mardorf: > > I take this issue seriously and try my best to fix the issue, but sorry > > everybody, I won't waste time by reading more replies regarding to > > posting. I STOP READING AND REPLYING TO THIS THREAD

Re: Running Squeeze on a 2 GB usb stick?

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 09:17:15PM -0700, Mark wrote: > Hi - I have a work laptop with Windows and since it tracks basically > everything I do, I'd like to install Squeeze to a 2 GB usb stick I have > laying around so I can boot to that instead of the internal hdd for personal > use. I plan on doi

Re: mlocate db update disabled

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:10:51PM +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > All my boxes have mlocate working fine, except one Ubuntu box. I guess > that its mlocate db updating is disabled. How to verify it and get it > working? ---end quoted text--- Are you sure it's even installed? I noticed on a few

Re: pdfedit

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 06:03:20PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I guess I'm too stupid to figure it out. > > I have a pdf document that I would like to add two lines of text to > (different positions, different fonts). Under the 'Page' menu I see an > icon for adding text but it is greyed out. I d

ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

Hello. For various reasons, needed to reinstall Debian Testing (Wheezy) on a flash drive formatted into 2 partitions. A system partition and one for HOME. Since the install I'm no longer able to use Synaptic with my password (I enabled sudo in the Installer). I used the exact User name and Pass

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 05:32:03AM +, darkestkhan wrote: > 2011/9/1 Stephen Allen : > > Hello. > > What do I have to do to fix this? > > check out /etc/sudoers if it contains all fields ---end quoted text--- It contains just 2 fields; # User privilege speci

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 11:32:00AM +, darkestkhan wrote: > 2011/9/3 Stephen Allen : > > It contains just 2 fields; > > > >        # User privilege specification > >        root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL > > > >        # Allow members of group sudo to exe

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:03:38AM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 19:48:33 -0400 > Stephen Allen wrote: > > Cool. Thanks for the help. > > > > Strange why that line isn't there aye? > > > > > > Sudo in sid has just been updated to a

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 08:04:20AM +, darkestkhan wrote: > 2011/9/3 Stephen Allen : > > On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 11:32:00AM +, darkestkhan wrote: > >> /etc/sudoers contains informations about who has rights to access root > >> level privileges (though I kno

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 10:32:03PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > darkestkhan wrote: > > Stephen Allen wrote: > > > Unfortuantely the suggested fix didn't work. > > Just recently a new sudo entered Wheezy Testing and it changed the > behavior of secure_path. See Bug#6

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

Just to follow-up to my previous email, Bob's suggestion didn't work either. That stanza was already entered. Thanks. -- 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

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 11:00:29PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Stephen Allen wrote: > > Just to follow-up to my previous email, Bob's suggestion didn't work > > either. That stanza was already entered. > > Are you running Synaptic through sudo? Or is it asking yo

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 12:48:26PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > I don't think the "re" part matters. At this point it is simply an > install. And the discussion of sudo was just a red herring > distracting from the real problem. I think the real problem is that > if you are running Synaptic fro

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 08:32:47PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Stephen Allen wrote: > > > So I guess perhaps the way forward is to add a root user, install su > > and remove sudoers? > > You already have a root user account. All Unix-like machines will > have a root us

Re: ReInstall of System borked Admin Pwd for Apps

On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 11:53:14AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Stephen Allen wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > You already have a root user account. All Unix-like machines will > > > have a root user superuser account. That is uid 0 on the machine by > > >

Re: kernel oops with Google Chrome after recent security update (2.6.32-35squeeze1)

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 09:19:52AM +, Curt wrote: > After installing a kernel security update yesterday, I'm getting random > kernel oops when using Google Chrome. Anybody else seeing this > phenomenon? > ---end quoted text--- No all is fine here on Wheezy 3.0.01 kernel latest Chrome Develope

Re: Still can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMac

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 06:00:06PM +1000, Mike Hore wrote: > > Thanks. I had looked at that and I think I've got the video problem > sorted out -- but the boot is still hanging at a later stage as I > explained in my earlier post. > > Cheers, Mike. There is a Debian Mac list; probably get bett

Re: Still can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMac

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:07:26PM +1000, Mike Hore wrote: > > > > Sorry Stephen, but there doesn't seem to be any such list. Were you > thinking of the PPC list? > ---end quoted text--- Thought it was MacOS and not strictly PPC. Guess not? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: debian testing - questions

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 02:12:20PM +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: > Good day, > > Please, Where should I ask questions about debian testing (wheezy). > > Thanks > Johan S > ---end quoted text--- If they're end user questions and not developer related, here is as good a place as any. ;) -- To

Exim GMail smarthost

Hello folks. I've spent this morning Google'ing and Yahoo'ing attempting to find a tutorial for setting up Exim4 to send to GMail Smarthost. Strange, I haven't found anything yet, although I've found a good one on configuring fetchmail for GMail. Does anyone have an URL where it shows someone li

Re: Exim GMail smarthost

Stephen Allen wrote: > Hello folks. > > I've spent this morning Google'ing and Yahoo'ing attempting to find a > tutorial for setting up Exim4 to send to GMail Smarthost. > > Strange, I haven't found anything yet, although I've found a good one on &

Re: Exim GMail smarthost

Jacob S wrote: > Which exim4 packages are you trying to install? It looks like most of > the config files in my /etc/exim4 were created by the exim4-config > package, not exim4 or exim4-base, as one might expect. Yeah I was thinking much the same thing, however in installing all the exim4 packag

Re: Exim GMail smarthost

From: Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: David Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Bcc: Subject: Re: Exim GMail smarthost Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 03:25:53PM -0600 or thereabouts, David Berg wrote: > Search the archives for my posts. I just posted what your looking

Re: Exim GMail smarthost

> Doesn't the router, transport and TLS have to be configured as well ? > All I had to do on my sarge box was configure with debconf for > smarthost delivery with smtp.gmail.com for the server, then add the > second line to the passwd.config file and e-mails were sent just fine. Hm, well that's

exim4, sa-exim, clamav

OK having lots of problems here. Unfortunately, I've mis configured this setup. Can someone help me out here ? I have the following enabled in my exim4.conf (monolithic); # Dynamically loadable local_scan rules! :-) #local_scan_path = /usr/lib/exim4/accept.so # You don't *really* need to turn S

Re: HP Deskjet 6840 Printer Problem

Michael Kerwin wrote: > I am trying to get an HP Deskjet 6840 inkjet Printer to work with my > Debian 3.1 Sarge stable system. > > I am trying to get it to work with lpr Use CUPS instead, and check out this article; It supposedly w

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