Re: New Gnome in Wheezy

2013-07-10 Thread John Tate
You can alter the menu options by hitting super and typing "main menu" and you will surely find it. Extensions make it pretty damn good. It takes some getting used to. You can go classic with gdm (the login screen), just select a user and there is a little dropdown in the bottom left. It is a lim

Re: Steam game TF2 needs newer libc

2013-07-10 Thread John Tate
od to be a part of something! Thanks for the tip. On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 06:25:24AM +0100, John Tate wrote: >> An update for steam has come out and now I can't run my favourite game TF2. >> >>

upgrade to testing, problems with new kernels initrd

2013-07-10 Thread John Tate
Help would be greatly appreciated. John Tate. -- www.johntate.org -- 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.org/cahnfuaumkpbgxdrmaoejqg

apt-get sources.list from debgen problems

2013-07-09 Thread John Tate
I used debgen to get a testing sources.list to do a dist-upgrade to testing. I'm getting 404's, what should my sources list really look like? It currently looks like this... deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian testing main contr

Steam game TF2 needs newer libc

2013-07-09 Thread John Tate
An update for steam has come out and now I can't run my favourite game TF2. /bin/sh: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /home/john/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so) It's because it is written for Ubuntu basically, I figure testing wou

Re: Huge autoremove list that looks crippling.

2013-06-27 Thread John Tate
apt-get install task-gnome-desktop worked. On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 6:11 PM, John Tate wrote: > Debian removed iceweasel as far as I know. > > apt-get remove xul-ext-foxyproxy-standard seemed to start it. > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: >> On

Re: Huge autoremove list that looks crippling.

2013-06-27 Thread John Tate
Debian removed iceweasel as far as I know. apt-get remove xul-ext-foxyproxy-standard seemed to start it. On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 27 iun 13, 11:42:19, John Tate wrote: >> I installed xul-ext-foxyproxy-standard with the Iceweasel beta, it &

Huge autoremove list that looks crippling.

2013-06-26 Thread John Tate
I installed xul-ext-foxyproxy-standard with the Iceweasel beta, it removed iceweasel, I have no idea why that happened maybe because it's beta. When I installed iceweasel again I got a huge autoremove list from hell itself. root@fekete:~# apt-get install iceweasel Reading package lists... Done Bui

Strange amounts of cpu usage

2013-06-24 Thread John Tate
I have a process using 339% of CPU on Debian Wheezy. john@fekete:~$ ps aux | grep shallot john 31424 339 0.0 175088 1576 pts/9Rl+ 23:02 1:38 shallot -f keys/test ^ This is rather weird. -- www.johntate.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Enigmail stopped working

2013-06-22 Thread John Tate
It's magically started working. Thank you, computer Gods. On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 11:55 AM, John Tate wrote: > Enigmail is no longer automatically decrypting emails or allowing me > to do it manually in Icedove. There is nothing out of the ordinary in > the

Enigmail stopped working

2013-06-21 Thread John Tate
Enigmail is no longer automatically decrypting emails or allowing me to do it manually in Icedove. There is nothing out of the ordinary in the console output. -- www.johntate.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Gnome shell won't open.

2013-06-14 Thread John Tate
I play games and I've a GTX 460. How about they just fix gdm3 so it sends me into Gnome Classic? It never did anything else... when it was in beta. A stable should be stable. On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 14 iun 13, 17:46:52, John Tate wrote: >>

Re: Trouble reinstalling everything.

2013-06-14 Thread John Tate
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 04:24:06AM +1000, John Tate wrote: >> Noted, unhide has not noticed anything nor unhide.rb or rkhunter but I >> get considerable lag sometimes as if screenshots are being taken of >> the desktop.

Re: Gnome shell won't open.

2013-06-14 Thread John Tate
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 12 iun 13, 01:34:50, John Tate wrote: >> Are they the latest? I am considering trying them. I will have to make the >> time. > > Why does it matter? The later ones tend to perform better from what I'

Re: Trouble reinstalling everything.

2013-06-11 Thread John Tate
master and conquer a rootkit pretty quickly, providing the boot process is secure. Ah, the difference between complex systems and simple ones... It would be nice if there was something sure to remove known rootkits. I don't think the "hacker" if there is one is a very talented one. John Ta

Re: Trouble reinstalling everything.

2013-06-11 Thread John Tate
: > On Jo, 06 iun 13, 16:32:53, John Tate wrote: >> Thanks, I'm not entirely sure what man page to read to find how to do a >> preferences.d, I just tried man preferences.d. The list of man pages for >> section five is huge so I'd appreciate a hint. > > apt_pref

Re: Gnome shell won't open.

2013-06-11 Thread John Tate
Are they the latest? I am considering trying them. I will have to make the time. On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 10 iun 13, 15:59:34, John Tate wrote: >> I'm using nvidia's binary blob instead of the drivers in apt, and for some >&

Re: Gnome shell won't open.

2013-06-09 Thread John Tate
I just get gnome-classic, so there could be a bug of it not detecting the situation. On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 3:44 PM, John Tate wrote: > I am getting errors and gnome shell won't open. I'm not sure why, my > system installed the latest security updates today is the only system >

Gnome shell won't open.

2013-06-09 Thread John Tate
I am getting errors and gnome shell won't open. I'm not sure why, my system installed the latest security updates today is the only system change I can think of. I get the following output from gnome-session... GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/home/john/.cache/keyring-5FLzEO GPG_AGENT_INFO=/home/john/.cach

Re: Trouble reinstalling everything.

2013-06-05 Thread John Tate
non-free contrib > > deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main non-free contrib > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main non-free contrib > > deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ experimental iceweasel-beta > > deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free > > > I mostly want to reinstall everything to replace all the rc scripts used > to lower the likelihood of any rootkits being installed, along with > anything that has been messed with. > > John Tate > -- > www.johntate.org > > -- www.johntate.org

Trouble reinstalling everything.

2013-06-04 Thread John Tate
th anything that has been messed with. John Tate -- www.johntate.org

Re: nvidia-settings read only

2013-06-03 Thread John Tate
PESCU wrote: > On Lu, 03 iun 13, 11:46:41, John Tate wrote: > > I am using a custom kernel on Wheezy and the proprietary nvidia kernel > > driver, I believe if I use the nvidia driver from apt-get it will not > work > > with my card (correct me if I am wrong). > > You

nvidia-settings read only

2013-06-02 Thread John Tate
I am using a custom kernel on Wheezy and the proprietary nvidia kernel driver, I believe if I use the nvidia driver from apt-get it will not work with my card (correct me if I am wrong). In nvidia-settings everything is read-only which is strange because I am running it as root. The fan does not r

Re: mdadm devices have the same name after install of Debian Wheezy

2013-04-30 Thread John Tate
gt; Ummm LVM is on dm and raid software is on md, try to check your lvm.conf > into your initrd, because i thin the reason of your problem is, the vg was > not found > > Thanks > > > 2013/4/30 John Tate > >> I installed Debian Wheezy on a computer with two hard driv

mdadm devices have the same name after install of Debian Wheezy

2013-04-29 Thread John Tate
I installed Debian Wheezy on a computer with two hard drives. Each drive has a software RAID partition (RAID1) but the first partition on the first drive is GPT and the second drive's first partition is /boot. On the software raid is a LVM with root, swap, and home all encrypted. I also tried encry