Re: How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?
Greetings; Well, thank you for that pointer because that is nowhere near intuitive! Is there something wrong with using man, I wonder? Because that is the first thing I tried, then man -k cursor, then info big-cursor. No man and no info. Anyway, the referenced file was not particularly enlightening either. I commented out the entry Xcursor.theme: whiteglass as suggested and started a new session for a new user and I still have the same small cursors and mouse pointers. Hmm ... is restart X code for shutdown restart? Anyway, thanks for the help! Dennis NN_il_Confusionario wrote the following on 05/07/2008 09:46 AM: On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:50:10AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Then aptitude install big-cursor Nothing changed Is there something else I need to do? less /usr/share/doc/big-cursor/README.Debian (this is a useful general rule) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?
NN_il_Confusionario wrote the following on 05/08/2008 10:48 AM: On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:11:26AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: NN_il_Confusionario wrote the following on 05/07/2008 09:46 AM: less /usr/share/doc/big-cursor/README.Debian (this is a useful general rule) that is nowhere near intuitive! many debian packages have documentation in /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGENAME and often there is a README.Debian (or similar names) with debian specific post-installation instructions. new session for a new user and I still have the same small cursors and mouse pointers. you do not need a new session but a new istance of the X server (or possibly not, as the above file explains). If you are using gdm / kdm / xdm / wdm ... (as opposed to startx), then a logout does NOT start a new istance of the X server, since the display manager ?dm keeps alive the old istance of X. You can restart the display manager /etc/init.d/gdm restart and/or kill the X server (and so lose all unsaved data in your session) from the X server itself (unless disabled in xorg.conf): altctrlbackspace with a console command: killall X and/or log in in console and manually start a new X istance: startx -- :1 OK, I started a third instance by logging on a third linux user on a console (tty3) and running startx -- :2 and there was no difference in the new session. I have two other instances(?) of x-session-manager running. Do I have to get all of these shutdown for the change to take effect? Thanks for the help! (My head hurts!) Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?
H.S. wrote the following on 05/07/2008 12:26 AM:
Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
Manu Hack wrote the following on 05/06/2008 01:11 PM:
Sorry, I tried both suggestions and I don't see any changes of
differences in anything.
Dennis
Could you list the steps and actions you tried?
As per your previous:
On debian Lenny:
{~}$ apt-cache search cursors
big-cursor - larger mouse cursors for X
comixcursors - X11 mouse theme with a comic feeling
crystalcursors - X11 mouse theme with the crystal lookfeel
dmz-cursor-theme - Style neutral, scalable cursor theme
icoutils - Create and extract MS Windows icons and cursors
libxcursor1 - X cursor management library
oxygencursors - Oxygen mouse cursor theme
python-psycopg2 - Python module for PostgreSQL
uqm - The Ur-Quan Masters - An inter-galatic adventure game
uqm-russian - Russian addon for 'The Ur-Quan Masters' game
uqm-content - The Ur-Quan Masters - Game data files
Then aptitude install big-cursor
Nothing changed so I went searching through Gnome menus
for anything to do with mouse or cursor and found
nothing that would give me any choices to change
cursors or mouse pointers.
Then per per other response from Manu:
update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme
Chose a couple different ones and again nothing
changed. Again I could find nothing in Gnome that
allowed me to change cursors or mouse pointers.
Is there something else I need to do?
Thanks!
Dennis
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How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?
Greetings; Search as I may I can not find how to do this. I am running gnome and a hi-res screen. My cursor and mouse pointer are too small to see easily on the screen. How do I make them bigger? Many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?
Manu Hack wrote the following on 05/06/2008 01:11 PM: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Dennis G. Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings; Search as I may I can not find how to do this. I am running gnome and a hi-res screen. My cursor and mouse pointer are too small to see easily on the screen. How do I make them bigger? Sorry, I tried both suggestions and I don't see any changes of differences in anything. Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wine: Problem running some programs
pedxing wrote the following on 05/01/2008 03:14 AM: Paul Johnson wrote the following on 04/29/2008 02:33 PM: I sure would like to see a Pagemaker equivalent that is as good as OpenOffice is to Word/xcel/etc. and GIMP is to PhotoShop. Both OO and GIMP are the superior packages for my money. Have you looked at Scribus? -pedxing Yes, I have looked at it. It is a DTP program but it isn't the equivalent of Pagemaker or Framemaker. And please pay attention to your attributions. It was I that said I sure would like ..., not Paul Johnson! Regards, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wine: Problem running some programs
Paul Johnson wrote the following on 04/29/2008 02:33 PM: On Tuesday 29 April 2008 11:31:23 am Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Still don't find wine really usable. So far can't adjust the resolution and for some reason some programs just won't install. Well, they install, but won't run afterward. Which programs, specifically? Have you checked the WineHQ AppDB to see if there's a trick to make it work? Specifically? Don't remember. I gave up after the fifth or sixth one. Looking for tricks for every windows program I have to install another program to run in wine really isn't worth it. FileZilla from Windows seems to work good though. That was my first trial. That brings up the question, Why use a compatability layer when there's [a zillion tools that do the same thing natively|a native port]? You only did that for testing purposes and not because you didn't search for filezilla in Debian, right? :o) Well, the question makes an incorrect assumption. Generally it is a similar thing. There wasn't any FZ for non-windows when I first tried it. And then when one finally came around it really wasn't FZ, just a GUI for running native ftp with no site manager as I remember. The newest one is closer to the original FZ but has no memory for the screen format. It takes me several minutes to get the rows and columns stretched out so I can see a useful amount of information. So I generally use FireFTP. But now I have discovered that every ftp program I have tried that has its genesis in windows still put DOS line endings on when they download. Including FireFTP. I sure would like to see a Pagemaker equivalent that is as good as OpenOffice is to Word/xcel/etc. and GIMP is to PhotoShop. Both OO and GIMP are the superior packages for my money. As for most of the other windows things I use, what's in Windows can stay in windows now that I have discovered VirtualBox. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How about LVM?
Mark Maas wrote the following on 04/26/2008 10:35 AM: On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 08:43 -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Makes sense. How many are there? Is it worth putting your backup process as a drbd set? (Network Raid) so you can install some HA for your backup? That way you could install two identical servers, one master the other slave. drbd would keep everything synched, you have *less* chance of losing your disk based backups. May I also ask what it is your backing up? I could be of more help when we know more of what you are trying to backup. I don't know that I want to go to the effort of a full drbd setup right now, but I think the raid under LVM sounds like a good idea. I have one big Debian machine (general purpose desktop) and three smaller ones ( (1) firewall, (2) web development local web server, and (3) the backup system ) then there is a large Win2k desktop and four windows notebooks that get unplugged and taken on a trip every so often. The big Win2k system is going to become a Debian system pretty quick with a few VirtualBox Windows machines for the things that must be done on Windows. Right now my backup system runs rsynch and puts the backups on two 250GB drives. Changing things around so it all fits somewhere is developing into more of a chore than I want or need! Since I have to ad some more disks anyway I am thinking that now might be a good time to make some changes. Again, any suggestions or guidance much appreciated! Thanks! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bochs? Anybody {using,used,know anything about} it?
Paul Johnson wrote the following on 04/11/2008 09:07 PM: On Friday 11 April 2008 06:21:39 pm Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I found bochs to be exceedingly difficult to use compared to other alternatives, such as virtualbox-ose, which runs fantastically and is fairly simple to use. Note that virtualization isn't suitable for gaming, and odds are high you can probably get it done easier in wine instead of wasting space on a whole windows install. Thanks for pointing me towards VirtualBox-OSE! It works great! I think it is going to eliminate a big Win2k machine by turning it into a Linux/Debian system with VirtualBox running a few programs that don't have a linux equivalent. Still don't find wine really usable. So far can't adjust the resolution and for some reason some programs just won't install. Well, they install, but won't run afterward. FileZilla from Windows seems to work good though. That was my first trial. Thanks for the help! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: *****SPAM***** Re: Re: cupsys does not print: update
Mark Maas wrote the following on 04/26/2008 07:08 AM: On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 11:02 +0200, Francois Bottin wrote: You may subscribe his address to any mailing list that asks confirmation through mail: the responder doesn't change the subject... You're wicked... And I love that ;-) There is a way that you can send an unsubscribe for anyone, but you need to telnet to a SMTP server and type all the stuff in by hand. Back when I was playing with computers for a living I did it quite frequently, but retirement and age have moved a lot of that information off to the archives. Good Luck! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How about LVM?
Greetings; What do you think of LVM? Is it stable and reliable enough to use for a backup repository? I have several 250GB drives I am thinking of using for backup but administering the assignment of data to drives would be a headache. I am thinking that LVM might solve that by letting me make one big dataspace. Comments? Thanks for all the help, no matter what I ask! TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to refresh Debian to install software set
Greetings; I have four Debian systems and a couple of them seem to have gotten in the state that they don't have a full set of packages for some reason. Is there any way to do a refresh or reinstall of the system to make sure everything is there? Short of an install from the beginning that is!! I can figure that one out with no help. ;-) Many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to refresh Debian to install software set
Damon L. Chesser wrote the following on 04/24/2008 08:09 AM: Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have four Debian systems and a couple of them seem to have gotten in the state that they don't have a full set of packages for some reason. Is there any way to do a refresh or reinstall of the system to make sure everything is there? Short of an install from the beginning that is!! I can figure that one out with no help. ;-) Many TIA! Dennis Dennis, One way it to get on a good system and do: dpkg --get-selections complete_good_package_backup.txt Move that file over to a bad system and: dpkg --set-selections complete_good_package_backup.txt followed by apt-get dselect-upgrade your bad system will now install all the packages your good system has listed. This is also a way to clone a load out (that and copy /etc, /var, and any data). I do not think it will remove any pacakges bad has that good does not unless it conflicts with the upgrade (but I have not tried it, so am not sure). Thanks, Damon, I'll think about that method. The problem is that I don't know if I have a system that qualifies as a good system right now! :-( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to refresh Debian to install software set
Mumia W.. wrote the following on 04/24/2008 12:06 PM: On 04/24/2008 11:40 AM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: [...] I don't know if I have a system that qualifies as a good system right now! :-( What do you mean when you say they don't have a full set of packages? Things don't act the same on every system How do you know that packages are missing? eg. in file manager I double-click a zip file and nothing happens. There is no archive manager now. But there was! Iceweasel just shuts down on one machine, not another. Wine doesn't open on one system anymore. And other strange things like that. How do you know which packages are missing? I don't know which packages are missing! I just know that _some_ of them are. And there's the rub! I can usually figure out how to fix the problems that come up, but that doesn't get all of them fixed. I am tired of running around with a fly-swatter. I need a *big* can of ~raid~!! TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: locale problems
s. keeling wrote the following on 04/21/2008 08:29 PM: Dennis G. Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I keep getting these message while running aptitude. Any idea what I need to do to get rid of them? I can't find anything. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = en_US:en_GB:en, LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = en_US are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C). This a FAQ. As root: dpkg-reconfigure locales Enable whatever you expect to use. Google locale perl site:lists.debian.org might help (but I didn't look too closely). Thanks, but as usual, it isn't that easy! locales is broken, can't install, remove or purge it. Dependencies that are virtual packages, and a bunch of other sh.. but now that I know what the desired action is I'll keep banging away at it until I can do it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem: ldconfig: /usr/lib/xxx... is not a symbolic link
Greetings; Well, locales is installed and working, I guess. Now I am getting screens full of messages like ldconfig: /usr/lib/libgnutls-openssl.so.11 is not a symbolic link I was installing a bunch of packages and it seemed to repeat, but not with every program. Anybody know how to fix this and get the symlinks back like they are supposed to be? TIA again! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
locale problems
Greetings; I keep getting these message while running aptitude. Any idea what I need to do to get rid of them? I can't find anything. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = en_US:en_GB:en, LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = en_US are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C). Many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Which backup package?
Greetings; It is time that I started getting serious about backing up my systems. I have nine systems on my network, one will be used just for backup restore (Debian/lenny) I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations? As usual, many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bochs? Anybody {using,used,know anything about} it?
Paul Johnson wrote the following on 04/11/2008 09:07 PM: On Friday 11 April 2008 06:21:39 pm Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings, Just stumbled over some software known as Bochs. It sounds as if I could install that on my Debian 4.0 system and then be able to run Win 2k as needed in a partition when needed. Is Bochs fast enough to be practical? I have a P4, 1.5GB mem. What I do right now is use several networked laptops running Windows VNC. Right now I am beginning to look for better alternatives. I found bochs to be exceedingly difficult to use compared to other alternatives, such as virtualbox-ose, which runs fantastically and is fairly simple to use. Note that virtualization isn't suitable for gaming, and odds are high you can probably get it done easier in wine instead of wasting space on a whole windows install. NN_il_Confusionario wrote the following on 04/11/2008 10:33 PM: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 08:21:39PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Is Bochs fast enough to be practical? about 8 years ago I have seen a install process of windows 95 that needed more than 8 hours to complete on a pentium 166 with debian and bochs. So I expect bochs to be at least 10 times slower than the bare hardware. This is not suprising, since bochs is portable along architectures and emulates everything in software. If you use etch on i386 or amd64, a better choice would be virtualbox from backports.org (or qemu if your architecture is not i386 or amd64) Thanks for the info! I will take a look at virtualbox. Sounds like it would be better for my purposes. Re: wine. It just doesn't seem to work too well for me. And when I look at the web page it looks like it is concentrated on gaming rather than real work. Many thanks! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bochs? Anybody {using,used,know anything about} it?
Greetings, Just stumbled over some software known as Bochs. It sounds as if I could install that on my Debian 4.0 system and then be able to run Win 2k as needed in a partition when needed. Is Bochs fast enough to be practical? I have a P4, 1.5GB mem. What I do right now is use several networked laptops running Windows VNC. Right now I am beginning to look for better alternatives. TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Difference between bind and bind9
Greetings; I was just doing some reading about DNS and came across a reference to bind9. I find that there are packages for both a bind and a bind9 in the dist. What is the difference between them? Any particular preferences? TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Difference between bind and bind9
Sven Joachim wrote the following on 04/10/2008 09:55 AM: Hello Dennis, On 2008-04-10 16:37 +0200, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I was just doing some reading about DNS and came across a reference to bind9. I find that there are packages for both a bind and a bind9 in the dist. What is the difference between them? The bind package includes version 8 of the nameserver, bind9 version 9. Any particular preferences? Definitely you should use bind9, the bind package is deprecated. It has already been removed from testing and unstable, will not be part of the next Debian release and has an outstanding security bug¹. Sven ¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442910 Sven, Thanks for that quick response! Probably saved me a ton of grief!! :-) MANY THANKS!! Dennis (You will notice that the previous reply came from the list to the list. Another example of strange things that can happen to email unbeknownst to the user!)
How do I get aptitude to unhold???
Yeah, it should be simple, but it isn't doing it! I have a whole bunch of packages held from back when I had a buggy apt-get and aptitude and now I want to upgrade and I can't get them unheld. Where is that list at? Is there any way I can just go delete the list/file? This is what I do: aptitude unhold sysvinit etc. and aptitude -f unhold sysvinit etc. No joy! TIA, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian is losing its users
Simon Jolle wrote the following on 03/26/2008 06:06 AM: 2008/3/26, Wei Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Hi Wei The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most famous search engines. This indicates that Debian is losing its users, e.g. about 50% in the last 3 years. Link to this statistics? cheers Simon And what most famous search engines are you referring to? Google? I doubt that searches for Debian in any context have anything to do with the number of people using it. I have three Debian systems, soon to be four, and I haven't done a search for debian in years! I know where to find what I want; debian.org, sourceforge.net and debian-user@lists.debian.org, to start with. I would guess the most likely person to do a search for any alternative operating system would be a Windows user who is sick and tired of it and is looking for something to replace it! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Errors installing dansguardian
Greetings; I am trying to install dansguardian and it won't go. I have tried renaming and removing file directories to no avail. I always get these errors from aptitude install. Setting up dansguardian (2.8.0.6-antivirus-6.4.4.1-2) ... grep: /etc/dansguardian/dansguardian.conf: No such file or directory Starting DansGuardian: dansguardianError opening /etc/dansguardian/dansguardian.conf failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript dansguardian, action start failed. dpkg: error processing dansguardian (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: dansguardian E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up dansguardian (2.8.0.6-antivirus-6.4.4.1-2) ... grep: /etc/dansguardian/dansguardian.conf: No such file or directory Starting DansGuardian: dansguardianError opening /etc/dansguardian/dansguardian.conf failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript dansguardian, action start failed. dpkg: error processing dansguardian (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: dansguardian Any body have a workaround or alternate install procedure? TIA Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why Red Hat is the business distro
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 03/17/2008 07:42 PM: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 14:57, Steve Lamb wrote: On Mon, March 17, 2008 7:29 am, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html Er, Ron? Wrong CP? This links to an article about Spitzer. No. It's about the Price-placebo effect. Am I the only one on this list who can see that people who think that expensive wines and energy drinks are better than cheap wines and energy drinks just might also think that expensive operating systems are better than cheap operating systems? No, there are at least two of us! ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Icedove shuts down after send
Greetings; I just updated icedove via aptitude install icedove and now everytime I do a send icedove shuts down. No messages that I can find. I can start it back up and it works fine until I try to send another message. I am running gnome and; Icedove 1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1-0etch1 kernel 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Wed May 9 23:03:12 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Icedove shuts down after send
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote the following on 03/16/2008
11:19 AM:
Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
Greetings;
I just updated icedove via aptitude install icedove and
now everytime I do a send icedove shuts down. No
messages that I can find. I can start it back up and it
works fine until I try to send another message.
I am running gnome and;
Icedove 1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1-0etch1
The icedove:about says it is
version 1.5.0.14pre (20080208)
That appears to be the version from etch. Is it possible for you to
upgrade to the latest version?
As far as I am concerned, whatever I get from
aptitude install prog_name
is the latest, greatest, and only! Every time I have
tried to install something any other way I have wound
up in a big pile of doo-doo!
(If you have a safe, sure way of getting the *real*
latest and greatest I would love to hear about it!)
If not, then try running icedove from a
terminal window and see if there are any error messages in the terminal
when it shuts down.
That I can do, finally. (It doesn't work to just change
Launcher Properties to Run in terminal) Yes, there is
a message:
- dgwicks:~$ icedove
- DOUBLE-CLICK: 400 -- -1 THRESHOLD: 8 -- -1
/usr/lib/icedove/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 2397
Segmentation fault $prog ${1+$@}
- You have mail in /var/mail/wix
- dgwicks:~$
kernel 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Wed May 9 23:03:12 UTC
2007 i686 GNU/Linux
TIA!
Dennis
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Re: Icedove shuts down after send
Greetings again; Well, this seems to be a known problem which isn't getting fixed. So, can anybody tell me how to backout the last update to Icedove? It is really inconvenient to have to restart it every time I send an email! :-( TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Icedove shuts down after send
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 03/16/2008 04:45 PM: On 03/16/08 16:14, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings again; Well, this seems to be a known problem which isn't getting fixed. So, can anybody tell me how to backout the last update to Icedove? It is really inconvenient to have to restart it every time I send an email! :-( Doesn't it occur only when you have another Icedove window open at the same time? I have the main Icedove window open, list of accounts and folders in the left pane and list of emails in folder in right pane. Then there is this compose window. Can't have any less. If I close the main window then Icedove shuts down. When I click send in this window it will send the message and then cancel and shutdown. (You know, you could always purge icedove and install Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 directly from mozilla.org.) Well, I will try that, but as I mentioned in an earlier post, I never have much luck with installing like that! Oh, does purging Icedove erase all of my mail boxes, folders and config information? That would be a *bad*thing*! Thanks, Dennis (I will now click send and Icedove will shut down!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Icedove shuts down after send
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 03/16/2008 05:17 PM: This is the error, I think. There are a few work-around possibilities. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466527 Yes, that is the one, but I don't see any fixes. Several people have the problem with no extensions installed. (You know, you could always purge icedove and install Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 directly from mozilla.org.) Well, I will try that, but as I mentioned in an earlier post, I never have much luck with installing like that! Oh, does purging Icedove erase all of my mail boxes, folders and config information? That would be a *bad*thing*! Scroll thru /etc/password and delete every user's Tbird directory? I think not! Not what I meant! There is just me and root on the machine. I have 25+ email accounts being handled by Icedove, and each has many folders. If purging Icedove resulted in removing all that info it would be a disaster! (I will now click send and Icedove will shut down!) God is telling to to move off Stable. Probably! How do I do that? Where is the Migration Guide?? Thanks! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firewall suggestions?
Andrei Popescu wrote the following on 02/14/2008 06:24 AM: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:52:42AM +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: Is combination (proxy and anti-virus) reliable enough for other programs except web browsers and ftp clients ? I mean programs such as instant messengers for example. ... and torrents. Regards, Andrei Thanks for the concerns comments. There is no IM nor torrents nor sneaker-net. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Firewall suggestions?
Greetings! It seems the time has come to build a dedicated firewall machine for myself. The win 2k machine I have been using is getting too flaky. I have a P-II HP box that was a pretty solid performer that I think will do for the hardware. (Agree/disagree?) I need some suggestions for the firewall software, running on Debian, of course! No sense reinventing the wheel. I need something that either includes http/ftp proxy or something else that will provide that service. Also socks 4/5 and probably a virus/adware scanner too. Thanks for any suggestions and/or pointers to recent resources on the subject! TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firewall suggestions?
Georgi Naplatanov wrote the following on 02/13/2008 10:44 AM: Ipcop is a good choice too, but i can not understand why you need antivirus on firewall/router machine. http://ipcop.org/ Regards Georgi I need anti-virus because I have five (today) Windows systems behind the firewall and it is much easier, quicker, cheaper, reliable, safer, etc. to check for viruses at the point of entry than maintain and update separate anti-virus solutions on each system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I upgrade to sid?
IIRC somebody said they were running sid and had no problems with Iceweasel so I'm thinking that upgrading might be the answer to my problems. How do I do it? Is it as easy as aptitude dist-upgrade ?? What do I have to change to get to sid instead of etch? TIA for any help! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Iceweasel problems - 3 of 3
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 02/07/2008 08:25 AM: On 02/07/08 08:00, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 02/07/2008 06:49 AM: On 02/06/08 15:06, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Well, this is the third of the most aggravating problems. Iceweasel will just go to sleep. I have clicked on a link or pasted a url in the address bar and it is doing nothing. It displays STOPPED in the status bar and will not load any pages, either i'net or local network. The system monitor and top don't show that there is anything in particular going on and other apps have a good, quick response. Time cures the problem. Generally after a while something breaks loose and it sort of catches up and things work. I have the cache disabled. It doesn't seem to make any difference one way or the other. Thanks for any help. Seems to me that this is a network or DNS issue, not an Iceweasel problem. Ron, You'd certainly think so, wouldn't you? But it is only Iceweasel,on this machine, that has these problems. Not Opera or Konq on this system or any browser on any other system on my localnet. Of course everything else on the my net that does any browsing is Win 2k. The other two Debian systems are a web server and and a backup/archive system. Any other browsers I can try on Debian? link2, lynx, w3c, chimera2, epiphany, galeon, iceape, midori, netsurf konqueror. And I'm sure I missed some. I guess I should have said ... that aren' Mozilla based. It seems that every browser that has Mozilla attached to it has the problem. I haven't exhausted your list yet, but so far that is pretty consistent. Amaya, from W3C, seems to be a little buggy, or else it doesn't suppport everything a real browser does! So, any browsers to try that aren't Moz based? Tnx!! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Iceweasel problems - 3 of 3
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 02/07/2008 06:49 AM: On 02/06/08 15:06, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Well, this is the third of the most aggravating problems. Iceweasel will just go to sleep. I have clicked on a link or pasted a url in the address bar and it is doing nothing. It displays STOPPED in the status bar and will not load any pages, either i'net or local network. The system monitor and top don't show that there is anything in particular going on and other apps have a good, quick response. Time cures the problem. Generally after a while something breaks loose and it sort of catches up and things work. I have the cache disabled. It doesn't seem to make any difference one way or the other. Thanks for any help. Seems to me that this is a network or DNS issue, not an Iceweasel problem. Ron, You'd certainly think so, wouldn't you? But it is only Iceweasel,on this machine, that has these problems. Not Opera or Konq on this system or any browser on any other system on my localnet. Of course everything else on the my net that does any browsing is Win 2k. The other two Debian systems are a web server and and a backup/archive system. Any other browsers I can try on Debian? Tnx, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 02/07/2008 06:33 AM: On 02/06/08 15:00, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: When I restart Iceweasel it reopens all the windows and tabs as designed with one not-so-small problem. It opens *every* window or tab that was ever opened before, nopt just the ones that were open when it crashed or was shutdown. It doesn't seem to know or care that those particular items were closed by either clicking the Xs or any of the other means, not just minimized. Any ideas on this one? What version of Iceweasel and branch of Debian are you running? (Maybe you mentioned it earlier, but I don't remember.) I ask that because I've never experienced any symptoms like what you describe. Ron, I am running etch and Iceweasel 2.0.0.10 and I just finished doing an aptitude upgrade, which didn't seem to affect these problems one way or the other. Tnx, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Iceweasel problems - YouTube infiltration
Mihira Fernando wrote the following on 02/07/2008 04:13 AM: Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; Well, just ran into a another frequent problem. I just re-booted and restarted Iceweasel. (22 windows, I don't know how many tabs.) I had a bad feeling as soon as I saw that all the favicons were YouTube. There you go. As others reported before, Flash doesn't play nicely on Iceweasel. 22 youtube windows will certainly crash Iceweasel. This is a behavior I have noticed on Iceweasel as well. Load flash intensive pages or lots of pages that has flash components in Iceweasel and the weasel looses its cool and crashes. Sometimes it just freezes other times it terminates on its own. However upon restarting Iceweasel it asks to restore the crashed session or start a new session. If you don't get that prompt, then your configuration has deviated from the default. Everytime I try to get an internet page, either refresh or new link, I get the following message, and no page. Not Found The requested URL /~joyce/album/ was not found on this server. Apache Server at www.youtube.com Port 80 It appears that it is really sending the request to YouTube. I have no idea why! Youtube is using flash. That's the reason. Thanks for any help! Dennis Mihira. Mihira, Slight misunderstanding. None of these pages had a youtube URL or contained any flash stuff in it. Iceweasel just all of a sudden starts sending all requests to Youtube. It also occasionally sends them to Redhat, but not as often. The little Youtube favicon will show up in the tabs when this is happening, doesn't make any difference what the actual page is! I have installed Flash Block and Block Site so I will see what effect they have. Tnx! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Iceweasel problems - YouTube infiltration
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 02/07/2008 06:53 AM: On 02/06/08 16:27, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Mike Bird wrote the following on 02/06/2008 04:05 PM: On Wed February 6 2008 13:42:55 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Everytime I try to get an internet page, either refresh or new link, I get the following message, and no page. Not Found The requested URL /~joyce/album/ was not found on this server. Apache Server at www.youtube.com Port 80 It appears that it is really sending the request to YouTube. I have no idea why! Check that Edit / Preferences / Advanced / Network / Settings specifies a direct connection to the internet. --Mike Bird Can't do that. I don't have a direct connection, I have a proxy. It has worked flawlessly for oh ... 10 years, and still does. Other systems, Windows 2k, on the network don't have that problem, and neither do Opera or Konq on this machine. The Flashblock plugin might help you. Also, is this amd64? Ron, Thanks for the tip. I just installed Flashblock, so we will see what happens. No, this isn't AMD64, P4 with lots of memory and paging area. Tnx! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Iceweasel problems - where to report them?
Greetings; I have several serious problems with Iceweasel. Where do I report them? It seems every thing I have found is for Firefox problems. Tnx! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Iceweasel problems - 1 of 3
OK, here is the first one. Iceweasel will just shutdown on its own. All windows and tabs are gone, for no reason. Sometimes when I come back from eating or getting a cup of coffee it will have happened. The latest was while I was in another session. (Ctl-Alt-Fx) I was using VNC to do some work on a Windows machine on my network and when I came back Iceweasel was gone! When I start it back up it recovers all the windows and tabs, so I don't lose anything but time. (But, see the next problem.) I have the cache disabled, if that makes a difference. It seems to work better that way! Thanks for any help! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3
When I restart Iceweasel it reopens all the windows and tabs as designed with one not-so-small problem. It opens *every* window or tab that was ever opened before, nopt just the ones that were open when it crashed or was shutdown. It doesn't seem to know or care that those particular items were closed by either clicking the Xs or any of the other means, not just minimized. Any ideas on this one? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Iceweasel problems - 3 of 3
Well, this is the third of the most aggravating problems. Iceweasel will just go to sleep. I have clicked on a link or pasted a url in the address bar and it is doing nothing. It displays STOPPED in the status bar and will not load any pages, either i'net or local network. The system monitor and top don't show that there is anything in particular going on and other apps have a good, quick response. Time cures the problem. Generally after a while something breaks loose and it sort of catches up and things work. I have the cache disabled. It doesn't seem to make any difference one way or the other. Thanks for any help. Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Iceweasel problems - YouTube infiltration
Greetings; Well, just ran into a another frequent problem. I just re-booted and restarted Iceweasel. (22 windows, I don't know how many tabs.) I had a bad feeling as soon as I saw that all the favicons were YouTube. Everytime I try to get an internet page, either refresh or new link, I get the following message, and no page. Not Found The requested URL /~joyce/album/ was not found on this server. Apache Server at www.youtube.com Port 80 It appears that it is really sending the request to YouTube. I have no idea why! Thanks for any help! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3
Davide Mancusi wrote the following on 02/06/2008 03:28 PM: Dennis G. Wicks ha scritto: When I restart Iceweasel it reopens all the windows and tabs as designed with one not-so-small problem. It opens *every* window or tab that was ever opened before, nopt just the ones that were open when it crashed or was shutdown. It doesn't seem to know or care that those particular items were closed by either clicking the Xs or any of the other means, not just minimized. Any ideas on this one? Have you tried to move your .mozilla directory out of the way and to restart with a fresh profile? Maybe some extension or some setting are causing problems... HTH, Davide Davide, OK, that seems to solve that problem but creates three more. What files do I have to copy to the new .mozilla to get my bookmarks, userid/passwords, and extension/plugins back? Thanks! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Iceweasel problems - YouTube infiltration
Mike Bird wrote the following on 02/06/2008 04:05 PM: On Wed February 6 2008 13:42:55 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Everytime I try to get an internet page, either refresh or new link, I get the following message, and no page. Not Found The requested URL /~joyce/album/ was not found on this server. Apache Server at www.youtube.com Port 80 It appears that it is really sending the request to YouTube. I have no idea why! Check that Edit / Preferences / Advanced / Network / Settings specifies a direct connection to the internet. --Mike Bird Can't do that. I don't have a direct connection, I have a proxy. It has worked flawlessly for oh ... 10 years, and still does. Other systems, Windows 2k, on the network don't have that problem, and neither do Opera or Konq on this machine. Tnx, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: su doesn't work Authentication failure
Kevin Buhr wrote the following on 01/31/2008 12:50 PM: paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is possible to do 'su someuser' from root but it's not possible to get back to root then using just 'su' or change from a normal user to another user account. [ . . . ] Jan 31 15:44:18 myserver su[27729]: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=pts/4 ruser=myuser rhost= user=root The euid=1000 should read euid=0: your su is running as the invoking user, so it fails for non-root users. The most likely explanation is that /bin/su doesn't have the setuid flag set, so that would be the first thing to check. (If the setuid bit *is* set, the problem may be that your root partition has been mounted with the nosuid mount flag or something.) If you have a logical explanation for the missing bit, great, otherwise good security practice would suggest that you give a little thought before restoring setuid bits on files where it has mysteriously disappeared. If your version of the login package is the latest official Etch version 1:4.0.18.1-7, then md5sum /bin/su From aptitude show login == 1:4.0.18.1-7 == should give: 1381ae1ac77b512258657b096522bb6a /bin/su c80fc747e24fa8bfa099cbef0bfb926f /bin/su == from md5sum /bin/su If your Etch version matches mine but the md5 doesn't, you might start to get pretty worried. What should I be worried about and start looking for? BTW, nobody can get access to my system unless they break into my house, and that hasn't happened. I even did a reinstall of the login package just to make sure the above was right! Regards, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Errors trying to do aptitude upgrade
Daniel Burrows wrote the following on 01/30/2008 09:31 AM: On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:51:35AM -0600, Dennis G. Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Greetings; I am running aptitude upgrade after aptitude update and everything works fine up to a point. Everything is downloaded and after it starts the installs I get messages like this. This is the first set. Preparing to replace util-linux 2.12r-19 (using .../util-linux_2.12r-19etch1_i386.deb) ... Errno architecture (i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi-2.6.18.3) does not match executable architecture (i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi-2.6.22-3-amd64) at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm line 11. It looks like you have a local copy of a Perl module for the wrong architecture. Maybe fixing that would help? Daniel Thanks! That got me pointed in the right direction and after a lot of fumbling and fearing that I had destroyed my system I found the the one that was causing the problem. Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Errors trying to do aptitude upgrade
Greetings; I am running aptitude upgrade after aptitude update and everything works fine up to a point. Everything is downloaded and after it starts the installs I get messages like this. This is the first set. Preparing to replace util-linux 2.12r-19 (using .../util-linux_2.12r-19etch1_i386.deb) ... Errno architecture (i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi-2.6.18.3) does not match executable architecture (i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi-2.6.22-3-amd64) at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm line 11. Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/install-info line 308. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/install-info line 308. dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 9 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... Errno architecture (i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi-2.6.18.3) does not match executable architecture (i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi-2.6.22-3-amd64) at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm line 11. I am running on a P4 and uname shows Linux dgwicks 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Wed May 9 23:03:12 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux It looks like neither of the configs it is checking is the config I actually have! Anybody knopw how to fix this so I can finish the upgrade process? Many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cpan doesn't work after etch upgrade
Greetings, I just did an upgrade on etch and got perl 5.8.8 and when I do cpan -v I get /usr/local/bin/cpan script version 1.9, CPAN.pm version 1.9102 When I try to run cpan by any method, ie. either just cpan or perl -MCPAN -e shell I get the following: - - - - - - - - - - - - CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.16) CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v2.036) CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9707) Fetching with LWP: ftp://cpan.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't locate object method configure via package Net::HTTP] CPAN: Net::FTP loaded ok (v2.77) Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://cpan.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Catching error: 'Can't locate object method new via package Net::FTP at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Net/FTP.pm line 74. ' at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/CPAN.pm line 274 CPAN::shell() called at -e line 1 Fetching with LWP: ftp://cpan.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't locate object method configure via package Net::HTTP] Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://cpan.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Lockfile removed. Can't locate object method new via package Net::FTP at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Net/FTP.pm line 74. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I have tried rebuilding the config file and that didn't help. I tried installing some of the modules it was having problems with but can't do that either. Same result. Any ideas how to get out of this Catch 22? Many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to install from .deb file
Greetings; I seem to remember that I installed programs/packages directly from .deb files that I downloaded from SourceForge etc. but I can't recall the procedure. Can anyone refresh my memory? TIA, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shut down or leave on?
David Brodbeck wrote the following on 08/28/2007 01:32 PM: On Aug 28, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Raquel wrote: I also understand that when the hard disks get power that the platters torque just a tad, if not causing heads to come into contact with the platter, at least causing wear on bearings. In theory start-ups put more stress on the spindle motor, yes. I can't remember the last time I saw a hard disk that had a spindle motor failure, though. Also, modern hard disks move the heads to a safe landing zone before they spin down. On machines I don't rely on to provide network services, I shut them down when they're not in use. I also set hard disks to spin down after a half hour or so of inactivity. I turn off the lights in rooms I'm not in, too, although I'm sure this shortens the life of the light bulbs. ;) Hmmm ... True, but I can buy many light bulbs for the cost of any component of my PC! Leave it on! Set your screen saver to blank the screen to save your monitor and that will save power. The most common failure mode of drives is bearing failure. When you keep them on and spinning they are warm and happy. When you turn them off they get cold and cranky and the bearings may lock up. When this happens there is very little you can do about. Head crashes are an uncommon occurrence these days. 15-20 years they were more common, but bearing failure was still the #1 cause of drive failure. As for the environment, it will be much happier if you don't use battery operated devices, use nuclear or hydro generated electricity, and only travel by shanks mare (walking). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help - Gnome won't rune
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 07/14/2007 05:49 AM: Dump gdm (or whichever is the display manager of your choice). From that command line, su and remove [xgk]dm and reboot. Then you'll get a console and log in using that, and type startx to get to GNOME. Thanks! That got me back on. I figured you meant to rm /usr/sbin/gdm but I just mv'd it to a different name. Just in case! So, what do I have to do to get gdm(?) to behave like it used to? The ability to run more than one Gnome session is really handy. I mean what I happens when I do ctl-alt-F8, -F9, etc. Thanks again! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help - Gnome won't rune
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 07/14/2007 07:51 AM: On 07/14/07 07:33, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 07/14/2007 05:49 AM: Dump gdm (or whichever is the display manager of your choice). From that command line, su and remove [xgk]dm and reboot. Then you'll get a console and log in using that, and type startx to get to GNOME. Thanks! That got me back on. I figured you meant to rm /usr/sbin/gdm but I just mv'd it to a different name. Just in case! So, what do I have to do to get gdm(?) to behave like it used to? The ability to run more than one Gnome session is really handy. Whatever for? Because I can! I mean what I happens when I do ctl-alt-F8, -F9, etc. Seriously though, it is nice to be able to separate things by workspace within a session, but I like to have a different sessions for root and similar functions that I don't want to get tangled up in my run-of-the-mill user stuff. Thanks and Good Luck! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help - Gnome won't rune
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote the following on 07/14/2007 08:08 AM: On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 08:02:49AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Seriously though, it is nice to be able to separate things by workspace within a session, but I like to have a different sessions for root and similar functions that I don't want to get tangled up in my run-of-the-mill user stuff. Why would you have root run gnome? AFAIK, you should either use sudo or su to become root for a specific application then exit. Doug. Different strokes for different folks, Doug. AFAIK, there is no rule I have to follow as to how I use root. You need a command line for su or sudo and I don't want to take the time to open a terminal window. And most of the things I do involve things that are more easily done with lists. And I hate typing cd after cd after cd then a dozen file names. Even my old standby command chain tar pcfl - . | ( cd dir ; tar xfp - ) is a lot easier and quicker with Nautilus and a mouse! Thanks for the comment though. At least you are reading the posts! ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setting in /etc/profile in debian
Here is how to do it. I posted this back on 31 March 2007. This illustrats the value of searching the archives first. Good Luck! Dennis 1. Open a terminal window. 2. Click Edit 3. Click Current Profile 4. Select Title and Command tab 5. Mark check box Run command as login shell under Command. 6. Close the edit window 7. Close the terminal window 8. Open a terminal window again and your profiles will have been run! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printers won't run
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 19:16:01 -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:24:08 -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: [ snip: We are trying to solve a problem with CUPS when printing on a remote printer which is shared on a Windows machine. ] Seems to work fine. dgwicks:~$ smbclient -N -L joyce Anonymous login successful Domain=[PINEYWOODS] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] [...] HPDeskjet Printer HP Deskjet 6500 Series [...] This is a home network so I don't use ids or passwords. They would just unnecessarily complicate things. Try to change the DeviceURI in /etc/cups/printers.conf to DeviceURI smb://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/HPDeskjet or DeviceURI smb://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/joyce/HPDeskjet and check if that improves the situation. You have to restart CUPS after you make a change to the configuration files; to do this, run: invoke-rc.d cupsys restart (If this does not work try uppercase letters for user, workgroup and server.) Florian, None of those things made any difference. the HPDeskjet would not go ready and would not print. Nothing appeared to change. All the messages in the error log looked the same. I didn't run diff on them, but I didn't notice anything obviously different. I did notice a couple of things. In the error log are a lot of messages that say cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. The error_log that you put on the web has 746 lines with this message and furthermore 570 lines with cupsdAuthorize: Local authentication certificate not found! If I set the loglevel to debug and print one page on our SMB-shared network printer I get 20 lines with No authentication ... and 0 lines with the message about the certificate. I have never used a network printer that did not require full user/password credentials, therefore I do not know if what you see is normal for your guest/anonymous login configuration. And the HPDeskjet is referred to as //localhost/printers/DeskJet-6540 When I check the HPDeskjet properties from the various places it does appear that it is recognized as being a remote printer on //joyce though. I think that is normal. As far as your Linux system is concerned, the printer is called DeskJet-6540 and it can be accessed via CUPS on localhost. (Note that these DeviceURIs start with ipp:// and not with smb://.) Only the SMB backend of CUPS needs to know where to send the print jobs in the end. Let's try something else: Point your browser of choice to http://localhost:631/printers/ and check the Printer State for DeskJet-6540. If it says stopped then you should see a green Start Printer button in the row of buttons below the printer properties and status messages. Try to start the printer again. (You will be asked for a username and password; either use root or your normal account if you are a member of the lpadmin group.) Can you start the printer? Does it stop again if you try to print the next job? You might have to use Cancel All Jobs to clear the print queue. Florian; Initially it says /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb failed right after the printer name. Then Printer State: stopped, accepting jobs, published. I clicked the green start button and after a few screen flashes I get Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published. I printed a web page, refreshed the LPS screen and then it says DeskJet-6540 /usr/lib/cups/backend/SMB failed Printer State: stopped, accepting jobs, published. I reset everything and tried printing a page w/ABIWord. The SMB failed message appeared, but the printer didn't stop and didn't print anything. Everything seemed to be in limbo. I canceled the job after about 5 minutes. Then I reset everything and tried printing a plain text file from gedit. Same thing. No difference at all. I am getting discouraged. It will probably turn out to be a Windows problem! Thanks for the help! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printers won't run
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:58:55 -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: After following the suggestions of Florian and Samuel the Epson CX7800 prints now. But it won't print test pages. (?) That may have been the only problem with it to begin with. The HP (remote) still doesn't print. Test pages or otherwise. [...] Before I copied the error_log I stopped cups, rm'd the error_log and then started cups, then printed a file, not a test page, to the HP so there shouldn't be too many extraneous msgs in the error_log. DeviceURI smb://JOYCE/HPDeskjet You are not supplying any login credentials to joyce if the DeviceURI is set up like that. This will only work if your Linux username is identical to your Windows username and if joyce does not require a password for that user. Please check if you can see the printer listed when you run smbclient -N -L joyce while you are logged in on your Linux machine as your normal user. If you can see the printer make sure that HPDeskjet is indeed the name under which joyce reports the printer to samba clients. Seems to work fine. dgwicks:~$ smbclient -N -L joyce Anonymous login successful Domain=[PINEYWOODS] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] Sharename Type Comment - --- IPC$IPC Remote IPC D$ Disk Default share X$ Disk Default share print$ Disk Printer Drivers D-Drv Disk G-Drive Disk HPDeskjet Printer HP Deskjet 6500 Series z-image-i Disk z-image-k Disk z-image-j Disk c-drv Disk z-image-f Disk z-image-g Disk z-image-h Disk I-Drive Disk Y$ Disk Default share ADMIN$ Disk Remote Admin z-image-e Disk z-image-p Disk C$ Disk Default share Anonymous login successful Domain=[PINEYWOODS] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] Server Comment ---- WorkgroupMaster ---- dgwicks:~$ This is a home network so I don't use ids or passwords. They would just unnecessarily complicate things. Tnx, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printers won't run
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:24:08 -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: [ snip: We are trying to solve a problem with CUPS when printing on a remote printer which is shared on a Windows machine. ] Seems to work fine. dgwicks:~$ smbclient -N -L joyce Anonymous login successful Domain=[PINEYWOODS] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] [...] HPDeskjet Printer HP Deskjet 6500 Series [...] This is a home network so I don't use ids or passwords. They would just unnecessarily complicate things. Try to change the DeviceURI in /etc/cups/printers.conf to DeviceURI smb://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/HPDeskjet or DeviceURI smb://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/joyce/HPDeskjet and check if that improves the situation. You have to restart CUPS after you make a change to the configuration files; to do this, run: invoke-rc.d cupsys restart (If this does not work try uppercase letters for user, workgroup and server.) Florian, None of those things made any difference. the HPDeskjet would not go ready and would not print. Nothing appeared to change. All the messages in the error log looked the same. I didn't run diff on them, but I didn't notice anything obviously different. I did notice a couple of things. In the error log are a lot of messages that say cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. And the HPDeskjet is referred to as //localhost/printers/DeskJet-6540 When I check the HPDeskjet properties from the various places it does appear that it is recognized as being a remote printer on //joyce though. Just wondering -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printers won't run
After following the suggestions of Florian and Samuel the Epson CX7800 prints now. But it won't print test pages. (?) That may have been the only problem with it to begin with. The HP (remote) still doesn't print. Test pages or otherwise. I could swear that I attached some files sometime back, but today my post gets rejected. So, I have uploaded the printers.conf file and the error_log file, as plain text and zipped, to: http://www.mgssub.com/xfer/ You can browse them there or download them as you prefer. (For those who may see this later the files will be deleted 7 days after the date of this post.) Before I copied the error_log I stopped cups, rm'd the error_log and then started cups, then printed a file, not a test page, to the HP so there shouldn't be too many extraneous msgs in the error_log. Thanks for the help! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Printers won't run
Greetings; I have two printers. I set both of them up using the Add Printer Wizard in/from Gnome. I have printed test pages but they are stuck in the queue with a status of job-stopped. The first printer is a windows printer, HP Deskjet 6540, IP connected, and all of my windows computers can send to it just fine. Just not my Debian Etch. The second printer has the same problem. It is a local USB connected Epson Stylus CX7800. It worked on this computer in it's previous incarnation as a Win 2k machine. The HP will eventually change to a Stopped state, and I can't resume it. I assume this has something to do with it being a shared network printer. I have poked around and can't find any error messages. The status commands that I have found don't tell me anything I don't know already. Any ideas what might be wrong? Where can I jab something to get an status/info/error message that will get me started on solving this problem? Many TIA, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Oh-NOOOOS: Microsoft says Linux infringes 235 of its Patents.
David Baron wrote: On Monday 14 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pretty much as expected, *IT* is going to use more Patent FUD to try to kill Linux. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/1000338 67/index.htm But then, PJ at Groklaw is a bit pessimistic. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070513234519615 Come on, when will Microsoft actually come clean and tell us *WHAT* 235 Patents. List Please. Microsoft's business practices have always been based on lying and being all around deceitful. I would just take what they say with a grain of salt if I were you, because with the failure of Vista all I can see is Microsoft trying to bring down GNU/Linux with it. Now there must be a reason why Microsoft browbeat and legally harrassed Robertson until he gave up the name Lindows. Certainly. It is the same old story. The guy with the most money wins. MS took Robertson to court and he couldn't afford to fight them, even if he could have won. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More Iceweasel strangeness
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2007 05:08:15 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: un1xer wrote: Try to backup your .mozilla folder and delete the original, start Iceweasel and test it out, if the problem is gone than you know its something related to your profile settings and not a system wide problem. Good point. My home and .mozilla is on a separate partition to get the same access from several different Debian running partitions. That will probably lead to various problems, as different versions of the same software update your dot files. I suggest routinely re-testing with a new profile whenever you encounter strangeness :-) OK! Thanks for the tips. I am at Iceweasel 2.0.0.3. Although I have done this seeral times, I created a new .mozilla and a new profile, at the same time, so we shall see if that has any effect on either of the persisting Iceweasel problems I have. Many thanks! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: escape characters in sed
Hans du Plooy wrote:
Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
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Hash: SHA1
Hans du Plooy escribió:
Hi guys,
I'm trying to do a search/replace on some text. Looks like this:
1.2.3.4(1.2.3.4)
To my mind, this should replace the '(' with a space
sed 's/\\)/ /
But it does nothing. Why? How do I do this?
Well, I think you're replacing `)' and not `('
Typo, sorry. Should be:
sed 's/\\(/ /'
Still doesn't work though :-) I guess the question should be, how to
excape a ( character?
Thanks
Hans
I think you have too many \, try
sed 's/\(/ /'
That is the way it would be done in perl, vim, etc.
but sed may be different! ;-)
Good Luck!
Dennis
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More Iceweasel strangeness
Greetings; Very often when I click on a link on a web page or in an email Iceweasel will give me a 404 that purports to be from the server on the remote host. But, if I paste the same url into Opera it pops right up with the page. Then if I go back to Iceweasel and click the GO button or do a refresh I still get a 404! If I let it age for a few minutes (I haven't timed how long exactly.) Iceweasel will give me the page. Any ideas? (etch, gnome, Iceweasel, all latest versions.) TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More Iceweasel strangeness
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/07 08:26, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; Very often when I click on a link on a web page or in an email Iceweasel will give me a 404 that purports to be from the server on the remote host. But, if I paste the same url into Opera it pops right up with the page. Then if I go back to Iceweasel and click the GO button or do a refresh I still get a 404! If I let it age for a few minutes (I haven't timed how long exactly.) Iceweasel will give me the page. Any ideas? (etch, gnome, Iceweasel, all latest versions.) Examples? Examples? Take your pick! Google.com Mozilla.xxx debian.org www.linux.org etc. ad nauseum. It doesn't have any favorites! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: default email program
Nigel Henry wrote: On Friday 11 May 2007 23:26, Jesus Arocho wrote: I am using debian etch. When I click on an email link on a web site the system will try to launch evolution. How can I change the default email program to something else, kmail in my case? I'm in KDE, but IIRC, in Gnome you go to preferences, more preferences, and then preferred applications. Then you can set your preferred webbrowser, email client, etc. Just select Kmail for your email client, and your done. Nigel. It is actually, Desktop (in the top panel) Preferences Preferred Applications Good Luck! Dennis Standardization! Standardization! My mouse for some standardization! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?
Problem Update: Thanks to every one! I created a new user and the programs that were getting floating point exceptions ran! I went back to my normal id and deleted a lot of .x files and directories. Now all those programs work there too. The only bad thing is that I got too enthusiastic and deleted some things I shouldn't have. Now I need to remember all my setups and customizations. Yeah, I know, backup, backup, backup. Also Too soon old, too late smart! Also, the aptitude commands that were posted seem to have cured it if the obsession with removing everything, and I will remember to use it all the time from now on. This problem is SOLVED!!! Many Thanks! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?
Problem Update: I have my system repaired so I have several browsers that I can use but I still have the same problem. (Keep reading!) I contacted the vendor and they said that my clock was wrong, I didn't accept cookies, and my Internet sharing proxy was blocking cookies. I have verified that none of these are the problem. They say that they can logon to my account using ** Firefox/Ubuntu **. I cannot logon to my account using (Firefox/Iceweasel,Opera,Iceape,Konqueror) on Etch. I always get an error message Your session has expired. Please login again. I can dual boot Windos 2000, and I can logon successfully there, with all browsers. Anybody got any ideas? The login page is www.aweber.com and my uid is d . g . wicks pwd is dw . 4511 . wx (apply perl concatneation) . Can someone give this a try and see if it works for you? Is there any diff Debian/Etch Ubuntu that would account for this? Many TIA, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Celejar wrote: On Wed, 09 May 2007 16:14:44 -0400 Amy Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The whole mission is a textbook example of how it probably is impossible to bring about democracy, peace and freedom by application of force. Impossible? Where were Germany and Japan before and after WWII? Before: A lot more populous. After: In ruins. Seriously, though...are you advocating dropping nuclear bombs on people in order to force them to be free? 'Cause if I recall that's how we got Japan to lay down arms... First, I was simply providing a counter example to Johannes' aforementioned assertion, but not necessarily advocating anything. Second, what about Germany? Third, WRT Japan I suppose we had three choices: a) the Bomb b) continued conventional war c) negotiated peace / truce / ceasefire. It's easy to argue for a over b (minimization of the total loss of life, including total loss of enemy life), although I know that one can argue the contrary also. WRT option c, do you think that was a historically realistic possibility? [It's not a rhetorical question; my knowledge of the period isn't that strong.] You forget about the second bomb. It was dropped before the Japanese government had a chance to figure out what had happened in Hiroshima and before they had a chance to surrender in face of the first bomb. (The second bomb was dropped 3 days after the first. In the confusion and destruction caused by the first bombing it took days for the Japanese government to figure out what had happened in Hiroshima. No internet, no telephone, etc.) No matter what justification one might have for dropping the first bomb, I guess at least the second bomb was both military and morally 'useless'. Johannes Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki My understanding of the period leads me to believe that the second bomb was dropped as to prove to the Japanese that the first bomb was not a fluke and the same type of bomb could be repeatedly dropped until they surrendered. While I agree that it came a bit too soon after the first bomb, and some diplomatic efforts should have been attempted after the first, lines of communication were poor then, and how many more Allied lives would have been lost if the fighting continued? The number of American lives were the only things that the US considered worthwhile at the time. Joe That was publicly. The estimates of US casualties, IIRC, were 500.000 at a minimum. There were people who were concerned with the number of Japanese casualties, although it wasn't widely publicized, it was believed that the pacification and conquest of Japan would result in the effective annihilation of the Japanese race. Not something that anybody wanted to be remembered for! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?
Mumia W.. wrote: On 05/10/2007 11:08 AM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Problem Update: I have my system repaired so I have several browsers that I can use but I still have the same problem. (Keep reading!) I contacted the vendor and they said that my clock was wrong, I didn't accept cookies, and my Internet sharing proxy was blocking cookies. I have verified that none of these are the problem. They say that they can logon to my account using ** Firefox/Ubuntu **. I cannot logon to my account using (Firefox/Iceweasel,Opera,Iceape,Konqueror) on Etch. I always get an error message Your session has expired. Please login again. I can dual boot Windos 2000, and I can logon successfully there, with all browsers. Anybody got any ideas? The login page is www.aweber.com and my uid is d . g . wicks pwd is dw . 4511 . wx (apply perl concatneation) . Can someone give this a try and see if it works for you? Is there any diff Debian/Etch Ubuntu that would account for this? Many TIA, Dennis I'm not going to log into your account, but I will suggest that you create a new profile for Iceweasel http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile and try to log in with that profile. If that works, then something is messed up in your old Iceweasel profile. Makes no difference. Exact same results. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?
Celejar wrote: On Mon, 07 May 2007 09:22:28 -0500 Dennis G. Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I guess I will give up and do what I have been thinking about for a couple of weeks. Set up a windows machine and stick it down in my server room. Then I can VNC to it to do those Windows only things like this topic, Pagemaker, OpenOffice, Opera, etc. It won't OpenOffice and Opera are Windows only? [snip] No, they aren't. But they won't run on my machine (Etch) Eg: dgwicks:~$ openoffice /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice: line 254: 5256 Floating point exception$sd_prog/$sd_binary $@ ** (process:5240): WARNING **: Unknown error forking main binary / abnormal early exit ... dgwicks:~$ dgwicks:~$ opera ERROR: ld.so: object 'libawt.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. Floating point exception dgwicks:~$ Again, Thank You All! Dennis Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I refresh Etch completely?
Greetings; I think I have something basically wrong with my system. Programs that nobody else has problems with fail with a floating point exception. Web pages that work fine for everybody else don't work on my system and throw a bunch of javascript and java errors. I upgraded from Sarge according to the instructions but I have had all sorts of problems with it. I have reinstalled the kernel. Reformatted the swap file. Reinstalled a couple of the problem programs after doing an apt-get clean so a new deb file would be downloaded. No help. It seems to me that either something got corrupted during the upgrade, there is something left over from Sarge that shouldn't be, or there is the wrong version of a library somewhere. Is this a clue? When I try to use aptitude it wants to remove 150+ unused packages, including Gnome. Doesn't feel right to me so I don't use it. Any way, any ideas short of the old Windows stand by, Format the hard drive and reinstall? Many TIA, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?
Vibhav Sharma wrote: David Claughton wrote: Dennis G. Wicks wrote: - These web sites work *on*all*other*systems* I have accessed them from For example? - These are *big*corps* with 1000s of users/customers. If it were a problem on their side I think they would have found and fixed it by now. I wouldn't be so sure about that. Often if the site works in IE they're happy. Can you provide a couple or three example URLs? Maybe if people here can see what you see they might be able to provide more specific advice. Dave. F Yup, I did some javascript work awhile back and thank god for Firefox/Iceweasel. It gives lots of detailed debugging info if you write bad code. Though it still runs it. Actually the problem is with javascripts implementation. It is supposed to very tolerant of code. So developers developing in it only work till It works point. Also behaviour is not completely consistent across browsers. Firefox / Iceweasel is actually most compliant to the specification. IE does the same job but not always according to specification. What that means is that you have to write slightly different code for IE and different code for FF/Iceweasel to get the same thing done. And in FF/Iceweasel you do it that way W3C defined it is to be done. IE is the one that does it differently. Don't worry about it unless some functionality breaks. which though I think is quite unlikely. And those big corporations, they are basically writing broken code so that it runs on both IE and FF. Not their fault either. Vibhav Sharma Drishti-Soft Solutions Pvt Ltd SCO-36, Sector 31 Gurgaon, INDIA-122001 P: 91 124 4085120 F: 91 124 4039120 W: http://www.drishti-soft.com Well curse words!!! I was afraid that it would turn out to be something along this line. I guess I will give up and do what I have been thinking about for a couple of weeks. Set up a windows machine and stick it down in my server room. Then I can VNC to it to do those Windows only things like this topic, Pagemaker, OpenOffice, Opera, etc. It won't be nice or neat, but at least I will be able to get something done instead of beating my head against the wall! Thanks for all the help and suggestions, and sorry for getting upset but it really gets frustrating at times. Again, Thank You All! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:22:28AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I was afraid that it would turn out to be something along this line. I guess I will give up and do what I have been thinking about for a couple of weeks. Set up a windows machine and stick it down in my server room. Then I can VNC to it to do those Windows only things like this topic, Pagemaker, OpenOffice, Opera, etc. It won't be nice or neat, but at least I will be able to get something done instead of beating my head against the wall! What happens if you try Konqueror? Just Konq, not necessarily the whole KDE. Doug. Oh yes. Another failed experiment. Running Konqueror from the Gnome ApplicationsInternet dropdown does nothing. No errors, no new windows or tasks, nothing. If I open a terminal session then; dgwicks:~$ konqueror Floating point exception dgwicks:~$ I installed it with apt-get and it only installed a couple of things extra. All appeared reasonable. I first tried aptitude and it wanted to delete half of my system. Probably thought I was changing from Gnome to KDE. I replied 'n' to the prompt. Just as an aside, it seems most of the things that fail on my system get a floating point exception. Is that a clue to something? Thanks for the help! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?
Atis wrote: If I open a terminal session then; dgwicks:~$ konqueror Floating point exception dgwicks:~$ That's not normal. Can you describe what system you have - hardware and software (sorry, maybe you said distro somewhere before, but i'm too lazy to follow). Can you provide output of: aptitude search linux-image | grep ^i cat /etc/debian_version cat /etc/apt/sources.list cat /proc/cpuinfo Regards, atis OK: dgwicks:~$ aptitude search linux-image | grep ^i i linux-image-2.6-686 - Linux kernel 2.6 image on PPro/Celeron/PII i linux-image-2.6.18-4-686- Linux 2.6.18 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PII dgwicks:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 4.0 dgwicks:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list #deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb http://debian.scribus.net/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ etch non-free #deb http://debian.tagancha.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb-src http://debian.scribus.net/debian/ stable main non-free contrib #deb-src http://debian.tagancha.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb http://debian.scribus.net/debian/ testing main non-free contrib #deb http://debian.tagancha.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib #deb-src http://debian.scribus.net/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib #deb-src http://debian.tagancha.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contri deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib ##deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free # deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib # deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing non-free dgwicks:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz stepping: 9 cpu MHz : 2593.719 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings: 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr bogomips: 5191.47 processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz stepping: 9 cpu MHz : 2593.719 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings: 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr bogomips: 5187.73 dgwicks:~$ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?
I appreciate the help and the effort, but come on people! - I *am* running Iceweasel/FireFox. - These web sites work *on*all*other*systems* I have accessed them from, and have done so for weeks, months, and years. It has to be a problem with Debian, Iceweasel, their implementation of JavaScript, or some strange config option on my system. - These are *big*corps* with 1000s of users/customers. If it were a problem on their side I think they would have found and fixed it by now. Esp. since in one case the problem prevents logins. The only other browsers I have found that I can install here are Opera and Amaya. Opera fails at startup with a floating point exception. Amaya just doesn't support javascript. Anything else I have found that might be installable is mozilla based so probably not worth the effort. Any more suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?
Greetings; I am having problems with some web pages not working. (Not working means just that. The details vary from page to page.) When I check the error console I find a lot of messages like: Warning: assignment to undeclared variable speed Warning: assignment to undeclared variable len Warning: assignment to undeclared variable tid I know from looking at some of my own pages that these are referring to Java statements in the html similar to this: script language=javascript !-- Clock in Java Script .. var dateform speed=1000 len=56 tid = 0; ... This is old code and works fine on other systems, etc. So, any ideas how to fix this? Is it Iceweasel, Java or Debian? Many TIA as usual, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi Dennis. Dennis G. Wicks, 05.05.2007 15:02: I am having problems with some web pages not working. (Not working means just that. The details vary from page to page.) When I check the error console I find a lot of messages like: Warning: assignment to undeclared variable speed Warning: assignment to undeclared variable len Warning: assignment to undeclared variable tid I know from looking at some of my own pages that these are referring to Java statements in the html similar to this: script language=javascript !-- Clock in Java Script .. var dateform speed=1000 len=56 tid = 0; ... This is not Java, but JavaScript; they are completely different languages. This is old code and works fine on other systems, etc. So, any ideas how to fix this? Declare the variables just as you did with the variable dateform by prepending them with the keyword var Regards, Mathias Sorry, not under my control! ALL pages that use javascript have this problem, not just mine; aweber, MSN, yahoo, whatever. All of them work fine on my wife's desktop and all of our notebooks. The problem only occurs on my desktop w/Debian/Etch Iceweasel (also Iceape and Galeon), so something is not right somewhere. I can't get any non-Mozilla browser installed to try any of them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to change Iceweasel reported browser
Greetings; Is there some way to change which browser Iceweasel claims to be? I know I have ran across this feature before, but I haven't had any reason to need it until today. Many TIA, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to change Iceweasel reported browser
Thanks! That did the trick. And I didn't even have to reboot! :-D Andrew J. Barr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; Is there some way to change which browser Iceweasel claims to be? I know I have ran across this feature before, but I haven't had any reason to need it until today. Also, if you just want to do away with Iceweasel in the user agent all together (a good idea, IMHO), just open about:config and change the general.useragent.extra.firefox preference to Firefox/2.0.0.3. Sad to say it, but a lot of web sites (especially this web 2.0 crap) will work better that way. Many TIA, Dennis - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 (en-US; X11; Linux 2.6.21 i686) Debian/4.1 Why must I fail at every attempt at masonry? -- Homer Simpson, Mom and Pop Art [AABF15] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGMi9AhuM+Z62a52oRAmHVAJ9wvEeotFpxyBVDzU2LAxIlwfu23wCeOwF2 bT+pF179PH87c3m+h8/FUHU= =q4pA -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Opera won't run
Greetings; Just reinstalled the latest version of Opera but when I start it I get dgwicks:~# opera http://www.debian.org ERROR: ld.so: object 'libjvm.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libawt.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. Floating point exception dgwicks:~# Opera is Opera 9.20 . Build 638 for Linux. Qt library 3.3.7. I have checked their site but I don't find any help there. Any suggestions? TIA, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need ftp client
Does anyone know of an ftp client for Debian or linux similar to the windows pkgs cute-ftp or FileZilla? These are GUI packages that have stored profiles, socks proxy capabilities, and other handy features. I have been working on making FileZilla work with wine but it is turning out to be far from trivial! Many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker
Just in case you are interested, the problems I had with scribus-ng seem to be caused by the package maintainer not updating the dependencies when they went from sarge to etch. It was still calling for sarge qt3 libraries and they weren't available, and it wouldn't work with them if they were available. Now I am waiting for them to get that straightened out so I can get a good install and put this project to bed. Thanks for all the help! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need DTP to replace PageMaker
Greetings; I need a DTP program to functionally replace PageMaker. I installed Scribus but it doesn't work on my system. I reported the bug but after a few hours of activity I haven't heard anything from them for several days. Is there another package I could take a look at or try out? It would be nice if it could at least read old PM files! Many TIA, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:00:06AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I need a DTP program to functionally replace PageMaker. I installed Scribus but it doesn't work on my system. I reported the bug but after a few hours of activity I haven't heard anything from them for several days. Are you using the old scribus package or the new scribus package (scribus-ng, IIRC)? Regards, -Roberto Makes no difference. Both versions get a floating point exception at startup. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker
David Goodenough wrote: On Friday 13 April 2007 15:25, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:00:06AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I need a DTP program to functionally replace PageMaker. I installed Scribus but it doesn't work on my system. I reported the bug but after a few hours of activity I haven't heard anything from them for several days. Are you using the old scribus package or the new scribus package (scribus-ng, IIRC)? Regards, -Roberto Makes no difference. Both versions get a floating point exception at startup. what platform are you running on (hw and sw). I have been running first scribus and recently scribus-ng for several years and I have never seen the kind of error you describe. Also which debian dist are you running? David I am running a P4 2+ GHz on an Intel mobo. Recently installed Sarge then upgraded to etch just before it went stable. did an upgrade just after that to make sure that everything was up to date. I don't think I have anything installed that didn't come from debian.org via either aptitude or apt-get. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker
Kevin Mark wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:25:09AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:00:06AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I need a DTP program to functionally replace PageMaker. I installed Scribus but it doesn't work on my system. I reported the bug but after a few hours of activity I haven't heard anything from them for several days. Are you using the old scribus package or the new scribus package (scribus-ng, IIRC)? Regards, -Roberto Makes no difference. Both versions get a floating point exception at startup. If you could provide the session showing the error message, we could help more. I use 'script' to do this sometimes. Describing or paraphrasing an error message is less helpful then actually seeing the exact output. -K No big mystery there. Session follows [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux dgwicks 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:17:36 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scribus-ng --help Floating point exception [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ TIA! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All Read!! Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Dennis G. Wicks wrote: No big mystery there. Session follows [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux dgwicks 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:17:36 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scribus-ng --help Floating point exception [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ That's strange. On my Debian etch, scribus-ng works and I get [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux johannes2 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:17:36 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scribus-ng --help Scribus, Open Source Desktop Publishing --- Homepage: http://www.scribus.net Documentation: http://docs.scribus.net Wiki: http://wiki.scribus.net Issues: http://bugs.scribus.net Usage: scribus [option ... ] [file] Options: -h, --help Print help (this message) and exit -l, --lang Uses xx as shortcut for a language, eg `en' or `de' -la, --langs-available List the currently installed interface languages -fi, --font-infoShow information on the console when fonts are being loaded -ns, --no-splashDo not show the splashscreen on startup -v, --version Output version information and exit -sb, --swap-buttons Use right to left dialog button ordering (eg. Cancel/No/Yes instead of Yes/No/Cancel) -pr, --prefs filename Use filename as path for user given preferences [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which scribus-ng /usr/bin/scribus-ng [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l scribus-ng Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-=-=-== ii scribus-ng1.3.3.6.dfsg-1Open Source Desktop Page Layout - developmental br Yes, exceeding strange! All of my output looks exactly like yours except for the floating point exception as a result of everything I do. I tried reinstalling all the dependencies and it didn't make any difference. I'll post some stuff at the bug site and see if I can wake them up. Meantime, are there any alternatives to scribus or some other program that might work? Many thanks everyone! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker
Greg Folkert wrote: Are you using Etch/Stable or Lenny/Testing or Sid? Please try this, additionally: strace scibus-ng Please paste the output and send it here. I am using etch upgraded from sarge after etch went to stable. I zipped up the strace output and attached it. Hope that is OK. It is way too big to just paste it in! Thanks! Dennis strace_scribus-ng.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
Re: Next time you make a trace file... ( was Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker)
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/07 13:05, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: [snip] I zipped up the strace output and attached it. Hope that is OK. It is way too big to just paste it in! please try to remember to add .txt to text file names. It makes things easier for GUI tools. Thanks. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGH8hmS9HxQb37XmcRAjETAJ94043ZSc6mYl/Uv9Ri0nKsNYbf8ACgyd6P PkB+FkBH05a0HznDiEtls1I= =2aU2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Really? I thought that was strictly a DOS/Windows-ism. The more things change the more they remain the same! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker
Adam Frank wrote: I zipped up the strace output and attached it. Hope that is OK. It is way too big to just paste it in! Looks like your missing some stuff... what does ldd /usr/bin/scribus-ng say? I was just going to post that on the scribus bug list, but since you asked ... dgwicks:/home/wix# ldd /usr/bin/scribus-ng linux-gate.so.1 = (0xe000) libcups.so.2 = /usr/lib/libcups.so.2 (0xb7f0) libgnutls.so.13 = /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.13 (0xb7e91000) libtasn1.so.3 = /usr/lib/libtasn1.so.3 (0xb7e7e000) libgcrypt.so.11 = /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so.11 (0xb7e2d000) libgpg-error.so.0 = /usr/lib/libgpg-error.so.0 (0xb7e29000) libcrypt.so.1 = /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libcrypt.so.1 (0xb7dfb000) liblcms.so.1 = /usr/lib/liblcms.so.1 (0xb7dc8000) libtiff.so.4 = /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4 (0xb7d73000) libqt-mt.so.3 = /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 (0xb759a000) libaudio.so.2 = /usr/lib/libaudio.so.2 (0xb7584000) libXt.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0xb7535000) libjpeg.so.62 = /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0xb7515000) libXi.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0xb750d000) libXrender.so.1 = /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb7504000) libXrandr.so.2 = /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0xb7501000) libXcursor.so.1 = /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0xb74f8000) libXinerama.so.1 = /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0xb74f5000) libXft.so.2 = /usr/lib/libXft.so.2 (0xb74e2000) libfontconfig.so.1 = /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb74b7000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb74b2000) libpng12.so.0 = /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb748f000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7481000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb7478000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb746) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb744e000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7361000) libart_lgpl_2.so.2 = /usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so.2 (0xb734b000) libfreetype.so.6 = /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb72e1000) libz.so.1 = /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb72cd000) libnsl.so.1 = /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnsl.so.1 (0xb72b7000) libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb71d2000) libm.so.6 = /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb71ac000) libc.so.6 = /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb707b000) libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb707) libXfixes.so.3 = /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0xb706b000) libexpat.so.1 = /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb704a000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f3e000) libXau.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb7047000) libXdmcp.so.6 = /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb7042000) dgwicks:/home/wix# -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/07 14:27, Adam Frank wrote: Here's an interesting read about Scribus on Debian: http://www.scribus.net/index.php?name=Sectionsreq=viewarticleartid=4page=1 That page is out-of-date, at least as far as Sid is concerned. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGH+uhS9HxQb37XmcRAlZaAJ9ILZDvRLGcT6LsgSlfooAbdG6ZjQCeKE1H r2FTtzjD9pDa1qrUEPLsFvs= =IMSi -END PGP SIGNATURE- Well, I installed everything using the instructions on that page and several things were upgraded to a higher version. No difference! Same error, same time, same place. Thanks for all the help. Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!
I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and some launchers I had set up are gone. I have been searching and doing diffs to try and locate the problem, but no luck. Too many differences. Also, right-clicking on the desktop does not do anything now either. Anybody know of an easy way to get back to where I was? TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!
I have tried nearly everything and no joy ... yet! I have faith in you guys! I created a new account and it works fine. So does root. Nautilus seems to work fine. I have a couple of launchers in a side panel that do nautilus /H/hunters/public_html or similar and they work fine. Also /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop is checked. ... Wait!!! WTF Well, it is working now! I don't know just when it happened. Sometime in the course of composing this something triggered it. I just spotted an icon peeking out from behind a window! I knew somebody had the solution, it just didn't work the first time! I just wish I knew what it was that did it. In any event, thanks everybody for the help! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there a C# for Debian-Etch?
I was trying to install a package, Gnome-RDP, and it popped up a message that it can't find c#. Is there one? If so where? Can't find one on debian.org. (Gnome-RDP is a ssh client with profiles, and other neat stuff ... It sounds like it anyway.) As always, many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem
I think my Firefox/Weasel browser has been hi-jacked. Regardless the url it displays a page that says * The Web site for the supplied URL is under construction. Please come back and visit soon. and an ad for making web sites for funeral homes! If I use Galeon or lynx I get to the real site. I tried shutting down all FF/IW sessions but it doesn't do any good. Any suggestions on how to stop this? Many TIA! Dennis * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to get profile to run when starting gnome terminal
I know there is a way to do it, but I haven't found the right piece of doc yet I guess. How do I get /etc/profile and friends to be run when gnome starts up a terminal session? TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get profile to run when starting gnome terminal
Michael Pobega wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 10:52:01AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I know there is a way to do it, but I haven't found the right piece of doc yet I guess. How do I get /etc/profile and friends to be run when gnome starts up a terminal session? TIA! Dennis /etc/profile should automatically run. Try running GNOME-Terminal with -e bash and see if that works. Michael, That wasn't it, but it put me on the track. Here's how in case you ever need to do it. 1. Open a terminal window. 2. Click Edit 3. Click Current Profile 4. Select Title and Command tab 5. Mark check box Run command as login shell under Command. 6. Close the edit window 7. Close the terminal window 8. Open a terminal window again and your profiles will have been run! Thanks for getting me pointed in the right direct. I was thinking of an entry in a .rc or .ini file or some such. Thanks again! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
