date:20110620

On 21/06/11 14:46, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Would you know the reasons why "imapsync" has been in Lenny but no more
> in "squeeze" nor "sid"?
> 
from:-
http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/imapsync.html

todo :- The package should be updated to follow the last version of
Debian Policy (Standards-Version 3.9.2 instead of 3.7.3).

problems:- This package is neither part of unstable nor experimental.
This probably means that the package has been removed (or has been
renamed). Thus the information here is of little interest ... *the
package is going to disappear unless someone takes it over and
reintroduces it into unstable.* (emphasis is mine)

from:-
http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/imapsync/news/20110126T163914Z.html

The script that generates this mail tries to extract removal
reasons from comments in the britney hint files. Those comments
were not originally meant to be machine readable, so if the
reason for removing your package seems to be nonsense, it is
probably the reporting script that got confused. Please check the
actual hints file before you complain about meaningless removals.

Package homepage:-
http://ks.lamiral.info/imapsync/
author:- Gilles LAMIRAL

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imapsync

2011-06-20 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby

Hi all,

Would you know the reasons why "imapsync" has been in Lenny but no more
in "squeeze" nor "sid"?

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Re: Hibernate fails

On 21/06/11 12:58, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:14:28PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> 


>>> Surely refusing to suspend because WiFi can't be connected to is broken
>>> behavior for a hibernate program?
>>
>> Dunno - it's not "proven" it's the wireless yet.
>> Even then it depends on whether it does what it's supposed to do (not
>> the same as what we users might wish it to do).
>> eg. on one of my laptops the lack of a license for the sound card driver
>> means it's non-free - so the fact it doesn't work on resume could be
>> interpreted as broken behaviour(I've fixed it) - but it's not broken, it
>> was never designed to support that module in the first place.
> 
> You're reading "broken" as "not what the programmer intended." I'm using it
> to mean "not what the end-user expects or wants." Not to be argumentative
> but I'm correct and you're wrong. :-)

No - I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken ;-p

If we can't disable wifi then we need to ensure it's working before
trying to "fix" the problem it appears to be causing hibernation.
Does the wifi work for you (under Debian)??
What is your wifi chipset??
If it requires ndiswrapper then it's a similar scenario to the Crystal
Sound codec.

Does the wifi work for you (under Debian)??

Please post the contents of /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
NOTE: remove your key before posting.

What do you use to handle wpa_supplicant's networks?? (eg. wicd,
NetworkManager)

Reference: http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/

> 
>> Sounds right. Only way to break out it to hold down the power button -
>> or pull the battery (and ps)?.
> 
> Correct.


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Re: Almost everyday a new issue: this time Amarok

On 21/06/11 09:52, he who wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Ron Johnson  > wrote:
> 
> On 06/20/2011 07:35 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> Unfortunately Aqualung has only a small subset of Amarok 2s
> capabilities. And I've yet to find anything that matches Amarok - it
> easily handles my 260GB music collection (53k+ songs (5130
> albums) as
> well as lyric files, photos, music videos, and album art - auto
> display
> of Wikipedia entries for playing tracks - plugins for musicbrainz,
> dozens of extension scripts, and it's easy to write more. It
> uses mysql
> (or other) database and has extensive playlist capability.
> As an added bonus it crashes every time I shut it down :-(  But
> nothing
> breaks, and nothing beats it.
> 
> 
> The music files are stored directly in a database?
> 
> 
> Just playlists and program specific information I believe. The music
> directories, files, their tags and any changes therein made by Amarok
> remain accessible by other programs.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Freeman
> 

Yes.
The point, which I failed to make, is that I can modify the database to
suit my own requirements, without being restricted to the music
player/collection manager interface. Amarok doesn't alter the actual
files and happily works with files in multiple locations.
All the other music players that I've tried don't work well with large
collections and/or don't allow me to use musicbrainz. Amarok can
directly use musicbrainz but doesn't stop me from using Picard as well.

The crash on closing I experience (Squeeze) may well be one of my dodgy
scripts - but as it doesn't reduce the functionality of Amarok I can
happily live with it.

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Re: [OT] Re: After fresh install to stable now KMail crashes

2011-06-20 Thread briand

On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:12:32 -0700
he who  wrote:

> (I don't like gmail.)
> 

Try claws mail.


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Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-20 Thread Carl Fink

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:14:28PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:

> I saw one in a shop today does the front of yours look like this?
> http://ge.tt/9NJkgG5/v
> 
> If it does - please use the switches and try again, otherwise let me
> know and we'll try the next fence.

Sort of like that, but on mine there's no built-in bluetooth. As I wrote
before, it's a USB dongle:

> > I removed the
> > bluetooth dongle before booting. It had no effect.

The switch for WiFi on this model is not on-off, it's just a reset button.
Can't turn off anything.

I just checked and you can't even turn WiFi off in the BIOS.

> > Surely refusing to suspend because WiFi can't be connected to is broken
> > behavior for a hibernate program?
> 
> Dunno - it's not "proven" it's the wireless yet.
> Even then it depends on whether it does what it's supposed to do (not
> the same as what we users might wish it to do).
> eg. on one of my laptops the lack of a license for the sound card driver
> means it's non-free - so the fact it doesn't work on resume could be
> interpreted as broken behaviour(I've fixed it) - but it's not broken, it
> was never designed to support that module in the first place.

You're reading "broken" as "not what the programmer intended." I'm using it
to mean "not what the end-user expects or wants." Not to be argumentative
but I'm correct and you're wrong. :-)

> Sounds right. Only way to break out it to hold down the power button -
> or pull the battery (and ps)?.

Correct.
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[OT] Re: After fresh install to stable now KMail crashes

2011-06-20 Thread he who

(I don't like gmail.)

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Re: After fresh install to stable now KMail crashes

2011-06-20 Thread he who

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:19 PM, AG wrote:

> On 20/06/11 16:45, Camaleón wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:12:14 +0100, AG wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Taking prior advice on avoiding the apparently high degree of volatility
>>> in the current testing, at least as far as my experience has been so
>>> far,
>>>
>>>
>> The opposite applies for me. Testing has been very stable, despite its
>> name.
>>
>> I've only reported two small bugs for two applications (quadrapassel and
>> gnibbles, a couple of gnome games) that seems to be solved for now and
>> currently I'm only seeing one glicth with gnome-keyring. But nothing more.
>>
>> I'm running GNOME.
>>
>>
>>
>>> I reinstalled to stable (squeeze), and now after having configured
>>> everything, so KMail starts to crash.
>>>
>>> I can open it just fine and it runs for a bit and then once it has been
>>> minised to the system tray it crashes.
>>>
>>> This is the debug report:
>>>
>>>
>> (...)
>>
>> KDE SC (at least starting from 4.6) will be highly dependant on akonadi
>> and nepomuk so I would first ensure both services are properly configured
>> and running, just in case...
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>>
>>
> Well, so far so good.  I deleted the two Akonadi folders and rebooted, and
> it has been a few hours now and no more crashes, so I'm taking this as a
> positive outcome.
>
>
Is it this "unreproducible" bug?:

 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=580706

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Re: Almost everyday a new issue: this time Amarok

2011-06-20 Thread he who

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Ron Johnson  wrote:

> On 06/20/2011 07:35 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> [snip]
>
>  Unfortunately Aqualung has only a small subset of Amarok 2s
>> capabilities. And I've yet to find anything that matches Amarok - it
>> easily handles my 260GB music collection (53k+ songs (5130 albums) as
>> well as lyric files, photos, music videos, and album art - auto display
>> of Wikipedia entries for playing tracks - plugins for musicbrainz,
>> dozens of extension scripts, and it's easy to write more. It uses mysql
>> (or other) database and has extensive playlist capability.
>> As an added bonus it crashes every time I shut it down :-(  But nothing
>> breaks, and nothing beats it.
>>
>
> The music files are stored directly in a database?
>
>
Just playlists and program specific information I believe. The music
directories, files, their tags and any changes therein made by Amarok remain
accessible by other programs.

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Re: WARNING: Stay off Sid /lib upgrades!

2011-06-20 Thread Brad Alexander

Something I have taken to doing lately is to, at least on occasion, use the
aptitude TUI. Once you get your head around the interface and its use, it is
a very powerful way to upgrade your system, including very fine-grained
control of the cleaning up the cruft on your system.

--b

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Heddle Weaver wrote:

>
>
> On 20 June 2011 17:57, Sven Joachim  wrote:
>
>> On 2011-06-20 09:38 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>
>> > On Mi, 15 iun 11, 17:55:56, David Baron wrote:
>> >
>> > [snip sid problems]
>> >
>> > I don't have these issues and I think messing with packages under the
>> > package managers control just asks for trouble. Did you consider
>> > re-installing?
>>
>> David's misadventures are tracked in http://bugs.debian.org/630608.
>> Nobody else seems to be able to reproduce the problem.
>>
>
> I had an issue tonight when upgrading.
> Libre office didn't upgrade, it seemed to uninstall and I found it again in
> 'uninstalled packages'. Reinstalled it and I'm back in action.
> I'm studying and submitting work done in Libre Office that is supposed to
> be done in Word and none of them seem to be able to spot the difference.
> If I'm late a day or two in submitting they don't seem to mind.
> SID doesn't seem to be any different to what it is normally.
> Freezing for a minute or two, but that's just part of it.
> Regards,
>
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Re: Almost everyday a new issue: this time Amarok

2011-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson


On 06/20/2011 07:35 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
[snip]

Unfortunately Aqualung has only a small subset of Amarok 2s
capabilities. And I've yet to find anything that matches Amarok - it
easily handles my 260GB music collection (53k+ songs (5130 albums) as
well as lyric files, photos, music videos, and album art - auto display
of Wikipedia entries for playing tracks - plugins for musicbrainz,
dozens of extension scripts, and it's easy to write more. It uses mysql
(or other) database and has extensive playlist capability.
As an added bonus it crashes every time I shut it down :-(  But nothing
breaks, and nothing beats it.


The music files are stored directly in a database?

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Re: How to stipulate default applications in GNOME

2011-06-20 Thread ZykoticK9


On 20/06/11 04:22 PM, AG wrote:


In GNOME, if the options selected under "preferred applications" for
browsers doesn't get applied, how can I set an application to be the
default?


Along with x-www-browser, something else that may, or may not, be an 
issue is the value of gnome-www-browser.


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Re: How to stipulate default applications in GNOME


On 20/06/11 09:23, Andrei POPESCU wrote:

On Vi, 17 iun 11, 17:55:24, AG wrote:
   

Hey list

In GNOME, if the options selected under "preferred applications" for
browsers doesn't get applied, how can I set an application to be the
default?

Case in point: I use Kmail&  Icedove, and want Iceape as my default
browser for clicking links, etc.  Icedove remembers this and
complies, but KMail keeps opening Konqueror.  I seem to recall that
there was a way I could set up a default, but don't remember the
specifics.
 

Since KMail is a KDE app you probably need to do the change in KDE's
control center. Check also (as root):

update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

Regards,
Andrei
   


Andrei

Thanks - have now finally been able to get around to doing this.

Can you shine a light on why Konqueror is likely to have been assigned 
100 as a priority number and how can I change that, especially since 
doing the update and selecting Iceape didn't change the default browser 
triggered from within KMail?


There are 5 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing 
/usr/bin/x-www-browser).


  SelectionPath   Priority   Status

  0/usr/bin/konqueror  100   auto mode
  1/usr/bin/epiphany-browser   85manual mode
* 2/usr/bin/iceape 80manual mode
  3/usr/bin/iceweasel  70manual mode
  4/usr/bin/konqueror  100   manual mode
  5/usr/bin/swiftfox   70manual mode

Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:

I only have a few KDE apps installed - KMail, KAddressbook, Amarok, 
Konqueror and maybe a few KDE games, so unless I deliberately install 
KDE Control Center (or whatever it is called) I will have to try and 
adjust it via GNOME.  I have already listed Iceape as my preferred 
browser under the GNOME preferred applications option.


Thanks for your help

AG


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Re (4): QCAD Pro in Squeeze

2011-06-20 Thread peasthope

From:   kuLa 
Date:   Mon, 20 Jun 2011 06:17:27 +0100
> if you're going to buy something have a look at this
> http://www.bricscad.com/
> but I guess difference in price is significant

Certainly appealing but too expensive for my needs and budget.

[To see how it works, I've tried to include all the References 
in the header in this message.  If Chuck or Lee complains I'll 
know there's an error. ]

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Re: After fresh install to stable now KMail crashes


On 20/06/11 16:45, Camaleón wrote:

On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:12:14 +0100, AG wrote:

   

Taking prior advice on avoiding the apparently high degree of volatility
in the current testing, at least as far as my experience has been so
far,
 

The opposite applies for me. Testing has been very stable, despite its
name.

I've only reported two small bugs for two applications (quadrapassel and
gnibbles, a couple of gnome games) that seems to be solved for now and
currently I'm only seeing one glicth with gnome-keyring. But nothing more.

I'm running GNOME.

   

I reinstalled to stable (squeeze), and now after having configured
everything, so KMail starts to crash.

I can open it just fine and it runs for a bit and then once it has been
minised to the system tray it crashes.

This is the debug report:
 

(...)

KDE SC (at least starting from 4.6) will be highly dependant on akonadi
and nepomuk so I would first ensure both services are properly configured
and running, just in case...

Greetings,

   
Well, so far so good.  I deleted the two Akonadi folders and rebooted, 
and it has been a few hours now and no more crashes, so I'm taking this 
as a positive outcome.


Cheers

AG


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X bother consoles

2011-06-20 Thread maderios


Hi
After changing my hardware, a curious problem appeared with Wheezy and 
Squeeze.
When starting X from a console, the space of the other consoles seem 
"zoomed": the bottom of the console is not visible but I can always 
return the data from the keyboard, "blindly".
The command 'setupcon' restores the normal console  but when I restart 
X, console is disturbed again. The graphic card is a Nvidia Quadro600 so 
I tested kernel mode setting with the driver 'Nouveau': no problem. The 
console doesnt seem disturbed because of the framebuffer . By cons, 
as I have not intend to use Nouveau driver, I would like consoles back 
normal. I tested also with another graphics card (MatroxP690, vesa 
driver), same problem.

 I dont  understand how  X server can change the consoles display.
Thank you for any help, ideas / suggestions on this oddity.
Maderios


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Re: After fresh install to stable now KMail crashes

2011-06-20 Thread lee

AG  writes:

> Hello again
>
> Taking prior advice on avoiding the apparently high degree of
> volatility in the current testing, at least as far as my experience
> has been so far, I reinstalled to stable (squeeze),

Volatility?

> and now after having configured everything, so KMail starts to crash.

What happens when you run it in ddd?


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Re: After fresh install to stable now KMail crashes

On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:08:58 +0100, AG wrote:

> On 20/06/11 16:45, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:12:14 +0100, AG wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Taking prior advice on avoiding the apparently high degree of
>>> volatility in the current testing, at least as far as my experience
>>> has been so far,
>>>  
>> The opposite applies for me. Testing has been very stable, despite its
>> name.
>>
>>
> Hey Camaleón
> 
> That has definitely *not* been my experience given the number of issues
> I've come to this list about and that is after a completely fresh
> installation.  It was reaching the point that I had begun to dread
> logging out for fear of what I would find broken/ missing/ frozen the
> next time I logged on.  Hence the re-install to squeeze ... and guess
> what?  Yet another problem!

Maybe you need to re-think your layout.

Since years I've been told that mixing environments (I mean, the two big 
ones, GNOME and KDE) and their applications was not a problem. I've never 
agreed with that possition and always tried to keep these two as separate 
as possible to avoid problems.

Nowadays, GNOME and KDE are both needing from specific applications to be 
launched and I find that -specially KDE- is starting (since KDE 4.x) to 
make (ab)use of db backends for almost anything, for running your system 
session and also applications.

In brief, I'm sure most of the users running a pure KDE environment do 
not face all that problems. Well, yes, but that's another question and we 
should add a new variable... KDE 4.6 is more stable than KDE 4.4, that's 
another well-known fact ;-)

So calm down and go resolving your crashes with a high dose of patience. 
But don't give up! "Patience is a virtue".

>> KDE SC (at least starting from 4.6) will be highly dependant on akonadi
>> and nepomuk so I would first ensure both services are properly
>> configured and running, just in case...
>>
>>
>>
> Any suggestions on how to do this, because so far - touch wood - this is
> the only issue I've come across, but then again, the system has only
> been running a couple of hours so there is still time.

That depends... are you running Kmail from a KDE session or are you in 
GNOME or...? Most of the KDE settings (like Akonadi/Nepomuk setup) are 
configured from "User Settings" or whatever it is named now :-), so I 
would start from that.

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Re: After fresh install to stable now KMail crashes


On 20/06/11 16:45, Camaleón wrote:

On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:12:14 +0100, AG wrote:

   

Taking prior advice on avoiding the apparently high degree of volatility
in the current testing, at least as far as my experience has been so
far,
 

The opposite applies for me. Testing has been very stable, despite its
name.
   


Hey Camaleón

That has definitely *not* been my experience given the number of issues 
I've come to this list about and that is after a completely fresh 
installation.  It was reaching the point that I had begun to dread 
logging out for fear of what I would find broken/ missing/ frozen the 
next time I logged on.  Hence the re-install to squeeze ... and guess 
what?  Yet another problem!




(...)

KDE SC (at least starting from 4.6) will be highly dependant on akonadi
and nepomuk so I would first ensure both services are properly configured
and running, just in case...

   


Any suggestions on how to do this, because so far - touch wood - this is 
the only issue I've come across, but then again, the system has only 
been running a couple of hours so there is still time.


Cheers

AG




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Re: After fresh install to stable now KMail crashes

On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:12:14 +0100, AG wrote:

> Taking prior advice on avoiding the apparently high degree of volatility
> in the current testing, at least as far as my experience has been so
> far, 

The opposite applies for me. Testing has been very stable, despite its 
name.

I've only reported two small bugs for two applications (quadrapassel and 
gnibbles, a couple of gnome games) that seems to be solved for now and 
currently I'm only seeing one glicth with gnome-keyring. But nothing more.

I'm running GNOME.

> I reinstalled to stable (squeeze), and now after having configured
> everything, so KMail starts to crash.
> 
> I can open it just fine and it runs for a bit and then once it has been
> minised to the system tray it crashes.
> 
> This is the debug report:

(...)

KDE SC (at least starting from 4.6) will be highly dependant on akonadi 
and nepomuk so I would first ensure both services are properly configured 
and running, just in case...

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Re: [OT] Google search default lang.

2011-06-20 Thread Lisi

On Monday 20 June 2011 13:55:43 Scott Ferguson wrote:
> Chrome => spanner_thingie => Options => Under the hood => Location => Do
> not allow any site to track my physical location

Seems not to be available in the GB version (and yes, Google has, I now 
realise, customised mine to British English).  I wonder why they think that 
people speaking US English are going to be more paranoid than those of us 
this side of the pond

Lisi

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After fresh install to stable now KMail crashes

Hello again

Taking prior advice on avoiding the apparently high degree of volatility
in the current testing, at least as far as my experience has been so
far, I reinstalled to stable (squeeze), and now after having configured
everything, so KMail starts to crash.

I can open it just fine and it runs for a bit and then once it has been
minised to the system tray it crashes.

This is the debug report:

Akonadi Server Self-Test Report
===

Test 1: SUCCESS

Database driver found.
Details: The QtSQL driver 'QMYSQL' is required by your current Akonadi
server configuration and was found on your system.

File content of '/home/ag/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc':
[%General]
Driver=QMYSQL
SizeThreshold=4096
ExternalPayload=false

[QMYSQL]
Name=akonadi
Host=
Options="UNIX_SOCKET=/home/ag/.local/share/akonadi/socket-valhalla/mysql.socket"
ServerPath=/usr/sbin/mysqld
StartServer=true
User=
Password=

[Debug]
Tracer=null

Test 2: SUCCESS

MySQL server found.
Details: You currently have configured Akonadi to use the MySQL server
'/usr/sbin/mysqld'.
Make sure you have the MySQL server installed, set the correct path and
ensure you have the necessary read and execution rights on the server
executable. The server executable is typically called 'mysqld', its
locations varies depending on the distribution.

Test 3: SUCCESS

MySQL server is executable.
Details: MySQL server found: /usr/sbin/mysqld Ver 5.1.49-3 for
debian-linux-gnu on i486 ((Debian))

Test 4: ERROR

MySQL server log contains errors.
Details: The MySQL server error log file 'href='/home/ag/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err'>/home/ag/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err'
contains errors.

File content of '/home/ag/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/mysql.err':
110620 16:06:40 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
110620 16:06:40 InnoDB: Retrying to lock the first data file
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error: 11
InnoDB: Check that you do not already have another mysqld process
InnoDB: using the same InnoDB data or log files.
InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, er

Re: [OT] Google search default lang.

On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:09:09 +, Camaleón wrote:

> For normal search (not the browser's google search bar, because this one
> is another type of "beast") there are two approaches you can try:
> 
> 1. Set the browser's language to "english-us" or "english" 
> 2. Use Google's cookies to save your defaults
> 
> Google search facility is starting to be a real pain with all that
> presets enabled...

Additional information about Google's auto-location discover service and 
how to tweak it:

***
Specify your preferred location
http://www.google.es/support/websearch/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.cs&guide=1224171&answer=179386&rd=1
***

Of course, this is yet another horrible cookie-based setting that cannot 
be turned off (like auto-complete search and preview). 

Thanks Google for annoy your users with features that no one asked for ;-(

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Re: e4rat broken; ext4_fiemap to be fixed any time soon?

On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:47:21 -0400, John Lindgren wrote:

> After updating a Squeeze system today (hadn't done so for a while), I
> find that e4rat (http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/) is broken because it
> needs the FS_IOC_FIEMAP ioctl, which is intentionally broken by a kernel
> patch dated March 15: ext4-Disable-FS_IOC_FIEMAP-ioctl.patch.

The problem seems quite serious.
 
> Now, the comment in that patch says, "A fix is pending, but until that
> has been well-tested let's disable it."  So I'm just wondering, how long
> do we have to live with the current EOPNOTSUPP behavior before that fix
> is applied?
> 
> More info about the e4rat problem here:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/e4rat/forums/forum/1392080/topic/4573412.

Have you considered asking this into debian kernel mailing list? :-?

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Re: Created RAID wiki page. Please add some information. ; gre

2011-06-20 Thread Jon Dowland

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 07:28:00PM -0700, giovanni_re wrote:
> It would be great if someone would add some useful info to this wiki
> page.  :)

This is not the way to go about requesting information be added to the Debian
Wiki.

There are already several pages on the topic, as a search will show:

What information is missing?  What do you want to know?

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Re: [OT] Google search default lang.

2011-06-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom


Scott Ferguson wrote:

On 20/06/11 18:35, Dave Sherohman wrote:

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 01:14:11PM -0300, Leandro DUTRA wrote:

2011/6/19 Lisi :

Google -> language tools (under "advanced") -> preferences

Even better, set the system???s or the user account???s language.

Oh, if only it were that simple...  Most internationalized websites
(including Google) seem to have completely given up on Accept-Language
headers[1] in favor of relying on IP geolocation.  I'm an American expat
living in Sweden, so my browsers are set to send

Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv-se

Despite this, every time my Google cookie expires, it sends me the
Swedish version of the page.  Setting language preferences on the client
side does *not* work[2] for Google or most other sites.


[1] apparently on the theory that "most users don't know how to set
their preferred lanuages, so the header specifies the browser's default
instead of the user's preference"

[2] even though it damn well should



Are you sure this is not also Google's geolocation feature?
Firefox/Iceweasel => about:config => geo.enabled (double-click to disable)

Chrome => spanner_thingie => Options => Under the hood => Location => Do
not allow any site to track my physical location

You can test here:-
http://benwerd.com/lab/geo.php

There used to be are Google url that did the same thing
(www.google.com/nl or similar) I cant' remember the what it was - and
whether it still works.



Good clues. But google search still shows up in Spanish :-(

Hugo


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Segfault on grub update

2011-06-20 Thread titantoppler

Hi list,

Did an upgrade on my computer running Wheezy today. grub-pc was one of the
packages that needed to be updated. However, it failed with a segfault
during the configuration.

Syslog has this to say:
Jun 20 20:34:59 argon kernel: [ 8265.445561] grub-probe[31617]: segfault at
14 ip 08077f0a sp bfd40b00 error 4 in grub-probe[8048000+3d000]

Tried to uninstall and reinstall grub2 + grub-pc (stupid, now I don't dare
to reboot the computer), but no dice - grub2 refuses to configure because of
grub-pc, grub-pc still segfaults.

Tried to run grub-install (with a --debug option):

+ /usr/sbin/grub-probe --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --target=device
/boot/grub
Segmentation fault
+ grub_device=
+ exit 1
root@argon:/#


Any ideas on why this is happening?

Thanks.

Re: [OT] Google search default lang.

On 20/06/11 18:35, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 01:14:11PM -0300, Leandro DUTRA wrote:
>> 2011/6/19 Lisi :
>>>
>>> Google -> language tools (under "advanced") -> preferences
>>
>> Even better, set the system???s or the user account???s language.
> 
> Oh, if only it were that simple...  Most internationalized websites
> (including Google) seem to have completely given up on Accept-Language
> headers[1] in favor of relying on IP geolocation.  I'm an American expat
> living in Sweden, so my browsers are set to send
> 
> Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv-se
> 
> Despite this, every time my Google cookie expires, it sends me the
> Swedish version of the page.  Setting language preferences on the client
> side does *not* work[2] for Google or most other sites.
> 
> 
> [1] apparently on the theory that "most users don't know how to set
> their preferred lanuages, so the header specifies the browser's default
> instead of the user's preference"
> 
> [2] even though it damn well should
> 

Are you sure this is not also Google's geolocation feature?
Firefox/Iceweasel => about:config => geo.enabled (double-click to disable)

Chrome => spanner_thingie => Options => Under the hood => Location => Do
not allow any site to track my physical location

You can test here:-
http://benwerd.com/lab/geo.php

There used to be are Google url that did the same thing
(www.google.com/nl or similar) I cant' remember the what it was - and
whether it still works.

Cheers


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Re: no keyboard in xorg after the change of runlevel

2011-06-20 Thread Lukas Baxa

Thanks, Sven. That was the problem. udev wasn't
restarted after the change of runlevel back.
I wanted to change the runlevel to single-user
because I wanted to remount my filesystems
on top of lvm read-only for a short time and
create lvm snapshots with consistent filesystems.
So I need to stop some daemons and processes
to be able to remount the filesystems read-only.
I'm going to stop only those services I need.

On 06/18/2011 11:33 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2011-06-18 22:25 +0200, Lukas Baxa wrote:
> 
>> I discovered a problem with Xorg recently. When I change
>> the runlevel to single-user mode (i.e. to 1) and then back
>> to multi-user mode (i.e. to 2) and start the X server
>> again, my keyboard doesn't work anymore under X. The same
>> happens if I boot directly into runlevel 1 and then change
>> it to 2.
> 
> Don't do that.  One of the problems of the Debian boot system is that it
> starts too many services in runlevel S.  When you switch too runlevel 1,
> they get killed and will not be restarted in runlevel 2.  This includes
> udev, among others¹.
> 
>> I suppose that the problem is that the evdev module (generic
>> input driver module) gets unloaded at the end for some reason.
> 
> The X server relies on udev for detecting input devices, and if udev is
> not running this will not work.
> 
>> Have anybody met similar problem before? Or can anybody give
>> me a clue how to solve this problem? I'm asking before
>> filing a new bug under the xserver-xorg-input-evdev package.
> 
> Sadly, the most sensible thing after entering runlevel 1 is to reboot.
> Otherwise you have to restart udev, dhclient, wpasupplicant and what not
> by hand which is cumbersome and error-prone.
> 
> Sven
> 
> 
> ¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=444980
> 
> 


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Re: Almost everyday a new issue: this time Amarok

On 20/06/11 17:04, Lisi wrote:
> On Sunday 19 June 2011 23:42:42 Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 06/19/2011 01:22 PM, Lisi wrote:
>>> On Sunday 19 June 2011 19:01:07 AG wrote:
 Did that and the Amrok app still crashes.
>>>
>>> Is this Anarok 2.x.  I have heard complaints about it before.  I am still
>>> sitting pretty on Amarok 1.4.5, which is more than adequate for my
>>> (admittedly undemanding) needs.
>>
>> Try aqualung.
> 
> Why?  I like Amarok.  
> 
>> It's gooey and plays music. 
> 
> Lisi
> 
> 
Unfortunately Aqualung has only a small subset of Amarok 2s
capabilities. And I've yet to find anything that matches Amarok - it
easily handles my 260GB music collection (53k+ songs (5130 albums) as
well as lyric files, photos, music videos, and album art - auto display
of Wikipedia entries for playing tracks - plugins for musicbrainz,
dozens of extension scripts, and it's easy to write more. It uses mysql
(or other) database and has extensive playlist capability.
As an added bonus it crashes every time I shut it down :-(  But nothing
breaks, and nothing beats it.
Apart from crashing the new - built-in contact the developer feature
repeatedly lets you know they received your message - sort of like an
echo! :-D

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Re: Hibernate fails

On 20/06/11 04:27, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 02:05:07PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> 
>> Please repeat the last process - except this time toggle off blue tooth
>> and any other wireless devices beforehand.
>> Be sure to wait at least ten minutes after running:-
>> echo disk > /sys/power/state
>> Afterwards please post the output of:-
>> cat /var/log/pm-suspend.log | grep Failed
> 
> Done. Here's the output:
> 
> Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or directory
> Having NetworkManager put all interaces to sleep...Failed.
> Having NetworkManager put all interaces to sleep...Failed.
> Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or directory
> Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or directory
> Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or directory
> Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or directory
> 
>> I suspect it is either the wireless device (log supports that) or your
>> hard drive - we'll either have to change the .conf or add some quirks
>> switches to the hibernate command. Failing that we can try an
>> alternative hibernate method from Sid.
> 
> I never ran nm-applet this round. (I have to manually do so under fluxbox.)
> There is no way to hardware-disable WiFi on tihs netbook. 

I saw one in a shop today does the front of yours look like this?
http://ge.tt/9NJkgG5/v

If it does - please use the switches and try again, otherwise let me
know and we'll try the next fence.

> I removed the
> bluetooth dongle before booting. It had no effect.
> 
> Surely refusing to suspend because WiFi can't be connected to is broken
> behavior for a hibernate program?

Dunno - it's not "proven" it's the wireless yet.
Even then it depends on whether it does what it's supposed to do (not
the same as what we users might wish it to do).
eg. on one of my laptops the lack of a license for the sound card driver
means it's non-free - so the fact it doesn't work on resume could be
interpreted as broken behaviour(I've fixed it) - but it's not broken, it
was never designed to support that module in the first place.

> 
> Additional info: apparently it's not actually suspending. 

Makes sense considering the logs - I suspect it doesn't get to the point
where it starts writing the resume image.

> The fan stays on
> and the power button won't trigger a resume (nor will anything else).
> However, the CPU may be shut down, since the fan starts to blow cold
> exhaust, something that never happens while an OS is running, even if there
> is almost no load.

Sounds right. Only way to break out it to hold down the power button -
or pull the battery (and ps)?.

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(Solved → bug) Re: Missed 3D (ahem!) capabilities under virtualbox

On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:17:10 +, Camaleón wrote:

> I had open a bug report for Quadrapassel and wanted to test if it was
> working now (to close the bug) but it seems I've lost 3D capabilities in
> my virtualbox machine that runs Wheezy:

(...)

Ohh... it was a little bug :-)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=630780

Going to run the update routine now.

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Re: message threading; was Re (3): QCAD Pro in Squeeze

On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:15:57 -0800, peasthope wrote:

>> Would you please fix your mail client so you stop breaking the list
>> threading?
> 
> Usually I manage to set In-reply-to to the Message-id of the message
> being replied to.  In the Web archive, the Follow-Ups and References
> seem OK.  Can anyone tell me what other parameter might be required to
> "fix" threading as Chuck says?

(...)

I see nothing broken :-?

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/06/thrd4.html#01594

Your MUA seems to add an extra (n) number to the subject but it respects 
the threading.

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Re: Debian Squeeze netinstall doesn't recognize wired connection

On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:38:37 -0400, John Mollman wrote:

> I'm going to give Debian Squeeze a try on my netbook, but when I boot up
> using the netinstall CD, the installer fails to auto configure the wired
> connection with DHCP. I'm thinking the network card in this netbook
> (Toshiba NB505) is too new for the kernel 2.6.32.

But the installer detects the network adapter?

If yes, try to configure it by hand by providing static values (no DHCP).
 
> Is there a special kernel module I could load on startup in order to get
> the wired connection to work for the install? After the install, I plan
> to use a kernel module to get the wireless working found on this wiki
> page: http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x#Squeeze
> 
> Any idea what I should do to get the network card to operate with the
> wired connection for the install?

It is listed here:

http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/Toshiba/NB505/

And seems to use a commom ethernet chipset/driver :-?

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Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-20 Thread Carl Fink

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:53:23AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Du, 19 iun 11, 14:27:34, Carl Fink wrote:
> > 
> > Additional info: apparently it's not actually suspending. The fan stays on
> > and the power button won't trigger a resume (nor will anything else).
> > However, the CPU may be shut down, since the fan starts to blow cold
> > exhaust, something that never happens while an OS is running, even if there
> > is almost no load.
> 
> How long did you wait? Writing the suspend image to disk may take a 
> while...

20 minutes. If it takes longer than that, it's broken. Actually if it takes
longer than three minutes it's broken.
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Re: Debian Squeeze netinstall doesn't recognize wired connection

2011-06-20 Thread Brian

On Sun 19 Jun 2011 at 20:38:37 -0400, John Mollman wrote:

> I'm going to give Debian Squeeze a try on my netbook, but when I boot
> up using the netinstall CD, the installer fails to auto configure the
> wired connection with DHCP. I'm thinking the network card in this
> netbook (Toshiba NB505) is too new for the kernel 2.6.32.

Doubtless there is another OS installed on your netbook. Use it to
determine the LAN adapter details. Post the details.


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Re: WARNING: Stay off Sid /lib upgrades!

2011-06-20 Thread Heddle Weaver

On 20 June 2011 17:57, Sven Joachim  wrote:

> On 2011-06-20 09:38 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > On Mi, 15 iun 11, 17:55:56, David Baron wrote:
> >
> > [snip sid problems]
> >
> > I don't have these issues and I think messing with packages under the
> > package managers control just asks for trouble. Did you consider
> > re-installing?
>
> David's misadventures are tracked in http://bugs.debian.org/630608.
> Nobody else seems to be able to reproduce the problem.
>

I had an issue tonight when upgrading.
Libre office didn't upgrade, it seemed to uninstall and I found it again in
'uninstalled packages'. Reinstalled it and I'm back in action.
I'm studying and submitting work done in Libre Office that is supposed to be
done in Word and none of them seem to be able to spot the difference.
If I'm late a day or two in submitting they don't seem to mind.
SID doesn't seem to be any different to what it is normally.
Freezing for a minute or two, but that's just part of it.
Regards,

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Re: How to stipulate default applications in GNOME

2011-06-20 Thread mark

In the KDE control center:
KDE Components
Component Chooser 
--- Web Browser 
in the following browser: /usr/bin iceweasel
Apply.

Mark
On Monday 20 June 2011 04:23:05 am Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Vi, 17 iun 11, 17:55:24, AG wrote:
> > Hey list
> >
> > In GNOME, if the options selected under "preferred applications"
> > for browsers doesn't get applied, how can I set an application to
> > be the default?
> >
> > Case in point: I use Kmail & Icedove, and want Iceape as my
> > default browser for clicking links, etc.  Icedove remembers this
> > and complies, but KMail keeps opening Konqueror.  I seem to
> > recall that there was a way I could set up a default, but don't
> > remember the specifics.
>
> Since KMail is a KDE app you probably need to do the change in
> KDE's control center. Check also (as root):
>
> update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
>
> Regards,
> Andrei



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Re: Debian Squeeze netinstall doesn't recognize wired connection

On Du, 19 iun 11, 20:38:37, John Mollman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm going to give Debian Squeeze a try on my netbook, but when I boot
> up using the netinstall CD, the installer fails to auto configure the
> wired connection with DHCP. I'm thinking the network card in this
> netbook (Toshiba NB505) is too new for the kernel 2.6.32.

Maybe your card needs non-free firmware? Try the image with firmware.

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Re: [OT] Google search default lang.

2011-06-20 Thread Lorenzo Sutton

Dave Sherohman wrote:
> [---]
> Despite this, every time my Google cookie expires, it sends me the
> Swedish version of the page.  Setting language preferences on the client
> side does *not* work[2] for Google or most other sites.
Not to mention the ever-so-bothering location selection thingy which
always pops up in youtube whenever I delete my cookies :-| ...
> [1] apparently on the theory that "most users don't know how to set
> their preferred lanuages, so the header specifies the browser's default
> instead of the user's preference"
Or try and force you to register and (maybe always) log-in so you can
"save your preferences"
> [2] even though it damn well should
>


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Re: [OT] Google search default lang.

2011-06-20 Thread Dave Sherohman

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 01:14:11PM -0300, Leandro DUTRA wrote:
> 2011/6/19 Lisi :
> >
> > Google -> language tools (under "advanced") -> preferences
> 
> Even better, set the system???s or the user account???s language.

Oh, if only it were that simple...  Most internationalized websites
(including Google) seem to have completely given up on Accept-Language
headers[1] in favor of relying on IP geolocation.  I'm an American expat
living in Sweden, so my browsers are set to send

Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv-se

Despite this, every time my Google cookie expires, it sends me the
Swedish version of the page.  Setting language preferences on the client
side does *not* work[2] for Google or most other sites.

[1] apparently on the theory that "most users don't know how to set
their preferred lanuages, so the header specifies the browser's default
instead of the user's preference"

[2] even though it damn well should

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Re: How to stipulate default applications in GNOME

On Vi, 17 iun 11, 17:55:24, AG wrote:
> Hey list
> 
> In GNOME, if the options selected under "preferred applications" for
> browsers doesn't get applied, how can I set an application to be the
> default?
> 
> Case in point: I use Kmail & Icedove, and want Iceape as my default
> browser for clicking links, etc.  Icedove remembers this and
> complies, but KMail keeps opening Konqueror.  I seem to recall that
> there was a way I could set up a default, but don't remember the
> specifics.

Since KMail is a KDE app you probably need to do the change in KDE's 
control center. Check also (as root):

update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

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Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1160

On Vi, 17 iun 11, 02:10:29, John Mollman wrote:
> After I entered the command `usermod -a -G plugdev john' Thunar still
> won't let me mount my flash drive with my normal user account. I get
> the same error message.

Don't forget to logout-login first.

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Re: Regenerating /var/lib/dpkg/status

On Vi, 17 iun 11, 00:38:02, William Hopkins wrote:
> > 
> > To find packages installed and then removed but not purged:
> > 
> >   grep-status -F Status 'deinstall ok config-files' -ns Package
> 
> OT, but an easier way to do this is dpkg -l | grep ^rc

# aptitude search ~c # inspect the list
# aptitude purge ~c  # get rid of them

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Re: location dhcpd.conf

On Vi, 17 iun 11, 16:05:24, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
> 
> Normaly I would agree but in this case the upgrade changed 
> dhcp3-server into isc-dhcp-server for me. So I would have liked to 
> read somewhere logical that the config file location had been changed.
> Oh well, if that's all I'm going to run into then upgrading the next 
> bunch of servers should be a piece of cake. ;-)

If you feel strong enough about this to come up with a patch for the 
Release Notes it might even be included ;)

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[solved] Q4Wine issues Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1175

2011-06-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf


> >  Forwarded Message 
> > From: Ralf Mardorf
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Q4Wine needs wineserver path
> > Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:09:22 +0200
> > 
> > What's the wineserver path?
> > 
> > Q4Wine is version 0.120-r1-4 (testing)
> > Wine is version 1.0.1-3.1 (stable), there's no version for testing

http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=wineserver&mode=filename&suite=testing&arch=any

$ ls /usr/lib/wine/wineserver -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 313732 Nov 17  2010 /usr/lib/wine/wineserver

The next things missing are

"Console application settings:
Binary: ?
Arguments: ?"

For the bin I added "/usr/bin/gnome-terminal" and nothing for the
arguments.

Next issue

"Select quick mount profile"

There was no need to edit it, so I kept it unedited.

Now I can start Q4Wine. Until now I dunno if it will do what it should
do.


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Re: WARNING: Stay off Sid /lib upgrades!

2011-06-20 Thread Sven Joachim

On 2011-06-20 09:38 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:

> On Mi, 15 iun 11, 17:55:56, David Baron wrote:
>
> [snip sid problems]
>
> I don't have these issues and I think messing with packages under the 
> package managers control just asks for trouble. Did you consider 
> re-installing?

David's misadventures are tracked in http://bugs.debian.org/630608.
Nobody else seems to be able to reproduce the problem.

Sven


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Re: Hibernate fails

On Du, 19 iun 11, 14:27:34, Carl Fink wrote:
> 
> Additional info: apparently it's not actually suspending. The fan stays on
> and the power button won't trigger a resume (nor will anything else).
> However, the CPU may be shut down, since the fan starts to blow cold
> exhaust, something that never happens while an OS is running, even if there
> is almost no load.

How long did you wait? Writing the suspend image to disk may take a 
while...

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Re: Features Missing in Debian's Package Management System

On Mi, 15 iun 11, 19:32:13, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Additional to this, my suggestion:
...
> 2. An option, to see, which files will be installed BEFORE the first 
> installation or at renewing (although, I think, apt-file might be able 
> to handle this somehow, not sure)

Why would I care about *every single file* installed by the package 
manager? That's why there is a package manager, to handle this ;)

> 3. And last but not least: An option, to blacklisting broken packages! (very 
> important)
 
apt-listbugs and aptitude's forbid-version (as already mentioned)

> For Point 3., some thoughts: In the past there were sometimes broken packages 
> in debian/testing, which were running fine in stable, were fixed in sid, but 
> never fixed in testing, until they went from sid to testing. (At the moment 
> there is a problem with the kernel "unable to enumerate usb device", which is 
> fixed in 2.6.39.1 , but all kernels between 2.6.32-5-amd64 (version 
> 34) and the mentioned kernel version above are broken.

What do you mean by broken, they work fine here.

> How are those problems handled? If they are handled at all!

Handled by whom? Users?

> Please don't feel bothered, but that is a problem, which I discovered from 
> time to time. I thought about that, but found no solution yet (except by 
> transferring working packages fron sid to testing as fast as possible).

You might want to test rolling (a.k.a bob) ;)

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Re: [OT] Google search default lang.

2011-06-20 Thread Lorenzo Sutton

Hi,

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Using Google search always returns my results in Spanish because
> Google has figured out that my ISP is in a Spanish speaking country.
> But I want the results in US Eglish and always have to do an extra
> mouse click on 'Google.com in English'
>
> Apparently Google does not record that I always click on that and
> adjusts the default language.
>
> Anybody know how to set the default language for search?
I had a similar problem with Italian where I actually want to perform
some searches in English, some in Italian. I made myself a simple custom
(html) homepage with a form for google search with language selection. [1]

Maybe it can be helpful once modified to your use case...

Ciao,
Lorenzo.

[1]: http://paste.debian.net/120412
>
> Hugo
>
>


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[solved] Q4Wine issues Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1175

2011-06-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf

At least this mail seems to be one of the mails my provider didn't send,
while I also didn't receive a postmaster reply. Sorry, if I should have
missed, if it should have come through the list. I guess if issues are
solved, they should be available by the archive.

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Subject: [solved] Q4Wine issues Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011
#1175
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:37:55 +0200

> >  Forwarded Message 
> > From: Ralf Mardorf
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Q4Wine needs wineserver path
> > Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:09:22 +0200
> > 
> > What's the wineserver path?
> > 
> > Q4Wine is version 0.120-r1-4 (testing)
> > Wine is version 1.0.1-3.1 (stable), there's no version for testing

http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=wineserver&mode=filename&suite=testing&arch=any

$ ls /usr/lib/wine/wineserver -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 313732 Nov 17  2010 /usr/lib/wine/wineserver

The next things missing are

"Console application settings:
Binary: ?
Arguments: ?"

For the bin I added "/usr/bin/gnome-terminal" and nothing for the
arguments.

Next issue

"Select quick mount profile"

There was no need to edit it, so I kept it unedited.

Now I can start Q4Wine. Until now I dunno if it will do what it should
do.

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Re: WARNING: Stay off Sid /lib upgrades!