Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-17 Thread songbird
songbird wrote: ok, figured the four that are missing and generating null file names are local or obsolete packages that i have installed... that i can work around. new version of script (with some simple changes to make things go faster and to make it more flexible for other uses

Re: a simple script for restoring downloaded debs

2014-07-17 Thread songbird
songbird wrote: ... and the next version, which gets me down to 61 missing files. it is getting late so i'll have to take another look at this again later... = #!/bin/sh # # debarch=/archives/debian/jessie dest=/var/cache/apt/archives pkglist=`dpkg -l | egrep '^ii ' | cut

Re: how to catch the calling library

2013-06-01 Thread songbird
, Jerome what type of executable? possibly gdb can give a backtrace. songbird -- 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/obeo7a-g76@id-306963.user.uni

slow connection improvement using debdelta

2013-05-13 Thread songbird
from my current update run: Created,time 167.18sec, speed 19kB/sec, locales-all_2.17-2_i386.deb Patching done, time 10.73sec, speed 441k/sec (script 8.94sec 530k/sec) (unaccounted 1.79sec) songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-05-01 Thread songbird
Siard wrote: songbird wrote: in the future i'll have to proof read every copy and paste operation for funny translations. i don't know about you and how much you reference technical documents and copy and paste, but the sort of mistranslation is one that would make me shudder

can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread songbird
and paste underpinnings... thanks much, songbird -- 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/us445a-10l@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de

Re: gnome3 mouse issues?

2013-04-30 Thread songbird
out if you open a text terminal and use tailf you may see things as they happen instead of trying to find them later. try plugging the mouse into a different slot. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread songbird
. they all translate the text: particle size between 200-500 =C2=B5m before into: particle size between 200=E2=80=93500 mm before regards winfried thanks! not sure where to file a bug report for this? anyone have a good suggestion? songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread songbird
Darac Marjal wrote: songbird wrote: when cutting and pasting from evince to a terminal the process is translating a um into a mm which is a signifcant change for a technical document. =20 the source document used was downloaded from: =20 http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130425/srep01732

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread songbird
Siard wrote: songbird wrote: when cutting and pasting from evince to a terminal the process is translating a um into a mm which is a signifcant change for a technical document. the source document used was downloaded from: http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130425/srep01732/pdf

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread songbird
Claudius Hubig wrote: songbird wrote: i can verify that in the Times New Roman font i'm using in Libreoffice that when i paste a µ into it that it does work correctly, but when i hit return at the end of the line it translates the initial µ into a capital M. this happens on the first

Re: can someone replicate this cut and paste bug?

2013-04-30 Thread songbird
it in from the character map (U+03BC GREEK SMALL LETTER MU). even when i'm pasting it as a Times New Roman font character. so it does seem to be in the font. as the other person said before, it seems that copy/paste does not preserve fonts/formatting. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: gnome3 mouse issues?

2013-04-28 Thread songbird
or not, but if so, check or change the battery. if you look at the syslog or messages you might see related information. from a text console i will run tailf /var/log/messages or tailf /var/log/syslog to see what is happening as it happens. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Awk, filtering match through external command

2012-11-10 Thread songbird
/etc/group | cut -d: -f1` example run: me@ant(16)~$ result=`head /etc/group | cut -d: -f1` me@ant(17)~$ echo $result root daemon bin sys adm tty disk lp mail news songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Newbie password problem(s)

2012-10-17 Thread songbird
? one is distinct from the other... if i am testing things out and need to reboot i use: # shutdown -r now to do a complete shut down before rebooting i use: # shutdown -h now which powers things off for my setup. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Reason to NOT install from online repositories

2012-10-15 Thread songbird
into the library with the USB stick for the really large files (over 32Mb). otherwise i fire it up later when people won't complain so much about not being able to call and let it run when i'm snoozing or reading. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2012-10-06 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: songbird wrote: ... if anything just try to copy the first dvd and see what happens and what error messages come out of apt-get or synaptic and go from there. ls /dvd01 if you have the first dvd mounted to /dvd01 should give you the top directories and then you

Re: Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2012-10-05 Thread songbird
to copy the first dvd and see what happens and what error messages come out of apt-get or synaptic and go from there. ls /dvd01 if you have the first dvd mounted to /dvd01 should give you the top directories and then you can look further down in from there to see how it looks. songbird

Re: dev pts mystery

2012-09-05 Thread songbird
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 04 Sep 2012, songbird wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 03 Sep 2012, songbird wrote: somehow (i can't say what happened or i'd have the answer), now it looks like: crw--w 1 me tty 136, 0 Sep 3 20:05 0 crw--w 1 me

Re: dev pts mystery [solved]

2012-09-05 Thread songbird
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: p.s. thank you. :) songbird -- 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/efjkh9-3ta@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de

Re: broken pacakages in Synaptic

2012-09-04 Thread songbird
Johan Vermeire wrote: Hi, How can I select in Synaptic only the broken pacakages or is there another way to do it ? mine show up using the Status button (right under Sections in the lower left) when they happen. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: dev pts mystery

2012-09-04 Thread songbird
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 03 Sep 2012, songbird wrote: somehow (i can't say what happened or i'd have the answer), now it looks like: crw--w 1 me tty 136, 0 Sep 3 20:05 0 crw--w 1 me tty 136, 1 Sep 3 20:10 1 crw--w 1 root tty 136, 2 Sep 4 2012 2

Re: dev pts mystery

2012-09-04 Thread songbird
Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:30:48 -0400, songbird wrote: (...) so are there any ideas on how to remove /dev/pts/2 or reset the whole udev tty virtual device setup? (...) Maybe this helps (or gives you some hints): http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems

dev pts mystery

2012-09-03 Thread songbird
3.5.2-1~experimental.1 i386 Linux 3.5 for modern PCs thanks for any ideas, it sure has me puzzled... songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: some problems in mounting usb

2012-09-03 Thread songbird
x from all even with a umask use: $ chmod a-x PIIS0006349512003256.pdf songbird -- 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/jnbgh9-6q6@id-306963.user.uni

Re: upgrading to wheezy: punctual list of issues

2012-09-01 Thread songbird
Dr Beco wrote: songbird wrote: does update-grub as root accomplish anything? check the release notes (in progress) at: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/releasenotes for your architecture. songbird Yep! Thanks! Now I got a very nice kernel panic, but booted 3.2! I

Re: upgrading to wheezy: punctual list of issues

2012-08-31 Thread songbird
/releases/wheezy/releasenotes for your architecture. songbird -- 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/5d28h9-cu4@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de

Re: no man pages... ??

2012-08-30 Thread songbird
Tony Baldwin wrote: ... try mandb -c as root. songbird -- 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/70u5h9-aii@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de

Re: How does partman works ?

2012-05-23 Thread songbird
of partman could be useful, i did not find any on the web. check debian-boot mailing list and archives... that is the most common place i see talk of partman partition size formulas. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade stops with a timeout.

2012-05-15 Thread songbird
on this problem, only with some similar report for ubuntu. Searching Timeout was reached in aptitude's source code doesn't have any results either... maybe its a bug in something that aptitude depends on (such as apt or dpkg). songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Corrupted windows in KDE after last upgrade in debian/testing

2012-05-14 Thread songbird
guess this isn't a kde or gnome problem... songbird -- 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/l3l789-fvm@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de

Re: Does anyone care about dialup?

2012-05-08 Thread songbird
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Re: gnome panel fonts on startup (solved for now)

2012-05-08 Thread songbird
Camaleón wrote: songbird wrote: ... the fonts work correctly on startup and restarts of Gnome Panel under fallback. I wonder why is that gnome-shell fails. Is that okay for you? right now it is very ok for me. :) if i try to push gnome-shell to the most recent version it wants

Re: gnome panel fonts on startup (solved for now)

2012-05-07 Thread songbird
songbird wrote: Camaleón wrote: ... Let the updates do their work :-) thanks, but no change in the situation with latest updates. as it turns out, the Gnome transition going on with updates to sid/wheezy crashed my new Gnome and it retreated to running fallback instead. the fonts

Re: gnome panel fonts on startup

2012-04-21 Thread songbird
graphics driver. i'll look into that next. sorry for being short, this is a quick update. ;) songbird -- 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/jrdc69-u8f

Re: gnome panel fonts on startup

2012-04-20 Thread songbird
Camaleón wrote: songbird wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) What VGA driver are you using? Although you firstly thought there is no relation between this and your UI problems, true is that there can be :-) (intel cards use to work smoothly with gnome-shell while ati/nvidia and the closed source

Re: gnome panel fonts on startup

2012-04-17 Thread songbird
could point me to code and i think by what you've said i may figure something out. i'm finding places to alter and test the result as soon as i can get the build environment set up. i've gone too far ahead for the moment. thank you for your replies, songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: gnome panel fonts on startup

2012-04-16 Thread songbird
Camaleón wrote: songbird wrote: what controls the display of the fonts in the gnome-panel when it first starts up? Well, starting from gnome-shell, mutter is the window manager which relies in clutter as the graphical library to draw the GUI. ok, thanks for the names. i can look

gnome panel fonts on startup

2012-04-15 Thread songbird
not work for a font display at first, but then work after i refresh something via the accessiblity menu... but then what do i know. thus i ask here. :) thanks, songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: learning automake, etc. and being minimalistic

2012-04-13 Thread songbird
the complete build environment that i have. all set, good to leave the extra stuff in there, then distcheck works. so taking out the dist-hook for a general release is the proper fix. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: learning automake, etc. and being minimalistic

2012-04-12 Thread songbird
Alberto Luaces wrote: songbird writes: in the years of tinkering on linux i've never really dug into a lot of things, much preferring to hope packages work out of the box and if they don't give up and go find something else to do (there's always something else to do :) ). [...] ok

learning automake, etc. and being minimalistic

2012-04-11 Thread songbird
comments, and of course i'll keep digging at this when i have time. :) songbird -- 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/utsg59-k4c@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de

Re: [OT] Re: thank you debian and debian user community here

2012-04-04 Thread songbird
Camaleón wrote: songbird wrote: thank you to the many kind people here who spend their time helping others. Your welcome. My Paypal account to send donatives is... (just joking) ;-) ha! if you lived locally i'd offer free food. I join to your acknowledgment to debian and its big

thank you debian and debian user community here

2012-04-03 Thread songbird
thank you to the many kind people here who spend their time helping others. songbird -- 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/3tvs49-nsi@id-306963

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