Re: changing my e-mail address
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:25:25 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel pierre.frenk...@laposte.net wrote: hi, I want to change the address used for my subscription to this list. On other lists, there is generally an option to modify the e-mail address used for subscribing, but I didn't find that for debian lists. Otherwise, I can of course unsubscribe, and subscribe with the new one PS: what bothers me is that I wrote several times to listow...@lists.debian.org, for a problem with bounces and for the present question, and never got any answer, although they say: You are welcome to contact listmas...@lists.debian.org it seems that this address is just managed by a robot... occam's razor The entirely carefree bunch who manage this list don't even get a beer at the end of the day. You're more than welcome to contact them, and they're more than welcome to go snag a beer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110416051104.5daa8d03@t61.debian-linux
^^ SPAM
Best one yet I've seen on this list. Nearly had me for a second. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110416154513.19a947f9@t61.debian-linux
Re: mua and mail service provider statistics
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:05:43 +0800 Chen Wei weichen...@aol.com wrote: hi list, as a first time debian-user subscriber, I feel been buried alive by incoming emails, though I heard there are some monster maillists, linux kernel maillist for example, are carrying even heavier traffic. Wondering how to manage so many emails, out of curiosity, I did a statistics on choice of mail client and email service, based on 1494 messages received since subscribed to this list. Here is what I found. I simply mark threads ignored and I don't seen anymore mails regarding that topic. I currently use claws-mail, and I see you're using mutt. If I remember correctly you should easily be able to mark a thread as ignored. That will greatly reduce the number of mails, you'll only see new threads. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110413093813.7634f757@t61.debian-linux
Re: tomboy, and mono dependencies in gnome?
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:35:15 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Why is tomboy in the default basic desktop when installed from the netinstall CD? And, more to the point, when I run synaptic and check on uninstalling libmono-cor or whatever, it threatens to uninstall gnome. (Not really a big deal, I'm comfortable using XFCE.) Let it do it's thing and reinstall gnome-session and go from there. gnome-desktop-environment is a metapackage which has a lot of dependencies including tomboy etc. gnome-session, while also a metapackage, it has less dependencies giving you a very basic gnome desktop to get started with. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110319105701.2ffdb5a7@t61.debian-linux
Re: events/0 and events/1 maxing CPU to 100%, related to wireless or eth0 on a T61 Thinkpad
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 19:09:25 -0800 Kyle Barbour k...@kylebarbour.org wrote: Hello all, I upgraded to Debian Squeeze a week ago on my Lenovo Thinkpad T61. Starting earlier today, after no trigger that I could determine, my CPU (an Intel Core 2 Duo) began maxing out on one or both cores to the point where doing anything on the computer was incredibly choppy. I initially thought that this might have something to do with running compiz, which had been problematic a year ago, but the choppiness and CPU maxing was observed after running $ metacity --replace and in the gdm login screen after a reboot. I then thought that this might have something to do with my wireless, which is frequently dropping connections, having difficulty connecting, and from which kerneloops has been sending off kernel errors for the past few days (my kernel is 2.6.32-5-686 from the Squeeze repos). I use wicd as a wireless manager, however, killing the wicd process and # /etc/init.d/wicd stop failed to help. This still seems like a possible problem source, as I've seen some posts that suggest that removing wicd entirely and rebooting solves the problem even when stopping the process doesn't (such as in the post cited below). However, as removing wicd eliminates what is currently my only way of accessing the internet, I haven't tried that. Further, what I'm about to describe seems to possibly contradict this being a wireless issue (although it might still be). I eventually found this post, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88781, which suggests running shutting down the eth0 interface (# ifconfig eth0 down). Shockingly, that actually worked, although the CPU still frequently runs high. Turning eth0 back on causes the CPU to max out again. This fix is imperfect since I'd like to be able to use the eth0 interface, but it works at the moment. Any idea what's going on here and/or how to fix it? Kyle I have the identical hardware and also use wicd. I've not experienced any of the above. I've commented out eth0 from /etc/network/interfaces as I don't even own a cable. # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface #allow-hotplug eth0 #iface eth0 inet dhcp It's been that way since Lenny. Have you looked around http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki for possible problems? This would be the first I've heard of it and any time something with a T61 comes up I pay pretty close attention. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110307222445.4f9c4f6e@t61.debian-linux
Re: Turning off desktop icons
On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 11:10:39 -0500 Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: I have run into a problem in re-arranging my desktop. I'd like to turn off Nautilus managing the desktop, and lose the icons. Problem is I can't do it - the usual gconf-editor change (apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop) aren't working. Has something changed in the Nautilus setup ? Here on Squeeze it works as expected. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19569481/Screenshot-Configuration%20Editor%20-%20desktop.png -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110305113356.2df2d612@t61.debian-linux
Re: some software like ConvertXtoDVD
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:09:44 +0330 hamed hosseini hoss...@gmail.com wrote: i want software for create dvd movie in linux,like ConvertXtoDVD in windows? I just made my first DVD movie yesterday with devede. Worked as I expected. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110304104845.75886612@t61.debian-linux
Re: creating a pv guest Ubuntu on a Ubuntu desktop is failing on pv-ops Dom0 kernel
This is not Ubuntu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110302110728.01f92a53@t61.debian-linux
Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:34:04 +0200 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: [Cross-posted to: d-community-offtopic, debian-user] [For those who don't know what I'm talking about, please see #425439 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425439] Hi, Being the stubborn person that I am, I want to give one more chance to the -offtopic list for Debian users and/or developers. Thanks to Holger Levsen, the list is currently hosted on lists.alioth.debian.org by the Debian Community project and has some 30+ subscribers. However, activity is zero (not counting the occasional spam). Interestingly, the OT threads on debian-user also went down a lot since a few years, for reasons unknown to me. So, unless something happens on the list (apart from this thread and the spam) I intend to remove/delete the list within a month. Regards, Andrei Well I like the idea of this list, and it would be nice to see more activity. I'm not exactly sure why the list would need to be killed. Running out of space? lol. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110228111319.42fb7675@t61.debian-linux
Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:56:07 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Jason Hsu jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com wrote: Are there any rankings of the most popular Linux distros for the enterprise desktop? My guess is that the most popular enterprise desktop distros are Ubuntu, RedHat, and SUSE. http://distrowatch.com/ is probably what you want. Well I think their stats are not the greatest. I'm sure most people know that every 15 year old kid has downloaded Ubuntu no less than about a thousand times. Same kid has no idea about the rolling upgrade process and wait's so patiently until the official release party has said, yes it's done.. All the while LOUDLY proclaiming that it can't be found by pointing a source list at the newest and lamest project. Even more the reason they are all surprised how developers actually have access to 11.04 or whatever and they wait for /. to announce where to 'find' a beta build or whatever.. distrowatch is like counting the miles of a car tire stuck in snow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110228150921.14799d9d@t61.debian-linux
Re: Need to confirm re 'fstab', before rebooting my Squeeze
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:28:19 -0500 PMA peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu wrote: Hi List. I have installed Squeeze from scratch using a USB stick. The installer regarded that stick as /dev/sda. So the /etc/fstab that it installed lists my system disk (til now always /dev/sda) as /dev/sdb, and similarly my 2nd disk (til now /dev/sdb) as /dev/sdc. If I now run 'mount' (with USB stick removed), it names these devices as I had originally -- system disk '/dev/sda', secondary '/dev/sdb'. Meanwhile, /etc/fstab is specifying each device, not as either of those names, but as a mile-long UUID number. So my question: When I rebooting, can I safely assume that, because fstab is using UUIDs and not /dev/...(s), the system won't get confused? Thanks, Pete I had an entry listing /dev/sdb1 as... #/dev/sdb1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 Which was a known bug. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597223 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110226170401.6a44167e@t61.debian-linux
Re: Need to confirm re 'fstab', before rebooting my Squeeze
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 17:04:01 -0500 Slicky Johnson slickyjohn...@gmail.com wrote: I had an entry listing /dev/sdb1 as... #/dev/sdb1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 Which was a known bug. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597223 I should have included that I commented the line out by hand to fix the bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110226171325.34175370@t61.debian-linux
Re: How do you remotely access a home server/network?
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:56:10 -0600 Jason Hsu jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com wrote: I've learned how to turn an old computer into a firewall and DHCP server for my tiny home network. I understand that I can install an SSH server on this machine so that I can access it from outside. Once I have this SSH server connected to the Internet, how do I access it from another location? I have DSL broadband service, but I don't think I have a static IP address. Best bet is to set yourself up with a free account at http://www.dyndns.com/ then install and configure ddclient. That will report your IP so you only need to remember what you've setup on dyndns. Lets say you pick jason.homelinux.net... Next you would most likely want to move the port openssh server is listening on from 22 to something else. we'll say 32123.. Next you would run.. ssh -p 32123 usern...@jason.homelinux.net That should do it. The reason to move away from 22 is to give yourself an added buffer of security for port sweeps by the script kiddies. Of course there are other dns services and other programs like ddclient. However, it's what I've used over the last couple of years and works fine for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110226181108.3cd25c2f@t61.debian-linux
Re: Need to confirm re 'fstab', before rebooting my Squeeze
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:21:19 + Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sat 26 Feb 2011 at 15:28:19 -0500, PMA wrote: So my question: When I rebooting, can I safely assume that, because fstab is using UUIDs and not /dev/...(s), the system won't get confused? One possible gotcha. When GRUB was installed where was it installed to? If it's to /dev/sda you may have a little remedial work to do! This caught me out a couple of times when I forgot to remove the USB stick at that stage of the install. I didn't run into that. The installer correctly identified the root partition, MBR etc. I only was burned by the fact it listed /dev/sdb1 as a cdrom device in fstab, but /dev/sdb1 was basically behaving like one. So when a thumb was plugged in after the install had completed, it would fail to auto mount on my desktop as expected. Suppose a udev rule was confused. Mounting the device to a mount point by hand worked fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110226185410.57544c09@t61.debian-linux
Re: How do you remotely access a home server/network?
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:46:25 + Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sat 26 Feb 2011 at 16:12:33 -0700, Aaron Toponce wrote: Either way, you're exposing your internal network to the Internet if you don't have good security procedures in place. Have a strong password (I recommend http://passwordcard.org), chroot jail your daemon, use remote logging, and take advantage of strict firewalls. In other words, lock it down. If the strong password is being used by only one person (which appears to be the case here) in what sense is it lacking if it is the only security in place? Doesn't it give sufficient lockdown? Well this thread could certainly go on forever. Jason, also have a look at the securing Debian manual with attention on ssh. Perhaps removing passwords all together and only using a key, no root, etc. From experience I will say moving your listening port from 22 to something else will keep your logs fairly clear. Internet facing machine I'm looking at right now only had 8 packets hit 22 yesterday. Dropped of course and not by chance from the same Chinese IP. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110226191813.42059955@t61.debian-linux
Re: repos for dropbox and skype
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:14:22 -0600 mike cutie and maia msto...@centurytel.net wrote: Hi, Is their a set of repos to install bidgin I have sid non-free already enabled When I do an Apt-get install skype And Apt-get install dropbox It says it can't find them and I have done a search on google and the repos I found don't work any help wood be greetfully reseved Dropbox builds itself. I have no idea about skype. I know Debian won't package it. Check both skype and Dropbox websites. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110220123846.5130e675@t61.debian-linux
Re: gnome menu problem
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:26:35 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:37:29 +0100, Anton Bretterklieber wrote: after update gnome to gnome 2.30 (debian 32-bit testing, debian 64-bit stable), I can't start programs in the panel. Clicking on icons, panel and all icons disappear and then desktop refreshes and all is in place. (...) Create a new user, login and check if it happens the same. Greetings, Or move .gnome2 out of the way and log back in.. I think that's the only one you'd need. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110219124656.7f328032@t61.debian-linux
Re: Can't run update-initramfs
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:39:02 -0600 Noah Duffy n.milo.du...@gmail.com wrote: I was trying to install Plymouth on Debain Squeeze. I followed the basic instructions, but the only thing I was unable to run was update-initramfs. It just tells me that the command isn't found. I'm a little confused. Is there something else I need to install or do? I did have initramfs-tools installed (it came with Plymouth). Noah Duffy Skype - Noah0504 | Jabber/Google Talk - n.milo.du...@gmail.com I just did this less than a week ago on Squeeze. I ran exactly... update-initramfs -u Everything works as expected. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110218184413.406d7477@t61.debian-linux
Re: Multimedia Lenny is History!
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 14:19:22 -0800 freeman hew...@gmail.com wrote: As of Monday: http://debian-multimedia.org/ Why leave etch but remove lenny? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110209103920.12b4db51@t61.debian-linux
Re: Autorun is VERY bad
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 13:36:49 -0500 Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca wrote: On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:21:48 -0800 kellyr...@zoho.com wrote: How to disable autorun? Are there any hidden autorun features on a standard Debian install?? http://securitytube.net/USB-Autorun-attacks-against-Linux-at-Shmoocon-2011-video.aspx In the gnome desktop manager open up the file manager, or run nautilus Then, Edit Preferences Media Never Prompt or start programs on media insertion Hope that helps! -M Do you know of a way to deploy this setting across a number of machines without physical access? Basically what file to edit by hand this check box enables? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110207134553.61c8a05d@t61.debian-linux
new first for Sid
aptitude safe-upgrade breaks/hangs with the following... patch (2.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low The options -U --unified-reject-files and --global-reject-file have now been removed. -- Christoph Berg m...@debian.org Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:17:11 +0100 /tmp/tmpwB77U9 (END) I've not seen anything like this in my 6 years of running Debian. I keep a install of Sid around in a VM (VBox) to track the progress of Debian. Hopefully I'm not the only one blind sided by this. Understandably there will be all sorts of nonsense directly after a release, but this is a first. I'm curious how this problem even hit Sid. I thought everything was passed through a system (forget the name) to ensure updates build properly on end users? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110207141308.15de62d9@t61.debian-linux
Re: new first for Sid
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 14:13:08 -0500 Slicky Johnson slickyjohn...@gmail.com wrote: aptitude safe-upgrade breaks/hangs with the following... patch (2.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low The options -U --unified-reject-files and --global-reject-file have now been removed. -- Christoph Berg m...@debian.org Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:17:11 +0100 /tmp/tmpwB77U9 (END) I've not seen anything like this in my 6 years of running Debian. I keep a install of Sid around in a VM (VBox) to track the progress of Debian. Hopefully I'm not the only one blind sided by this. Understandably there will be all sorts of nonsense directly after a release, but this is a first. I'm curious how this problem even hit Sid. I thought everything was passed through a system (forget the name) to ensure updates build properly on end users? Interestingly enough 'apt-get upgrade' made it though just fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110207142341.2d0c5e3c@t61.debian-linux
Re: new first for Sid
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 14:13:08 -0500 Slicky Johnson slickyjohn...@gmail.com wrote: aptitude safe-upgrade breaks/hangs with the following... patch (2.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low The options -U --unified-reject-files and --global-reject-file have now been removed. -- Christoph Berg m...@debian.org Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:17:11 +0100 /tmp/tmpwB77U9 (END) I've not seen anything like this in my 6 years of running Debian. I keep a install of Sid around in a VM (VBox) to track the progress of Debian. Hopefully I'm not the only one blind sided by this. Understandably there will be all sorts of nonsense directly after a release, but this is a first. I'm curious how this problem even hit Sid. I thought everything was passed through a system (forget the name) to ensure updates build properly on end users? I'm guessing you were blind sided because you have 'testing' in your source.list rather than a code name ie squeeze|wheezy. If that is indeed the case you should change your habits. It's no different than if you're running Sid at the moment. There will be a flood of all sorts of unexpected things that are not documented (yet) because of the release. Actually, a broken system would be what I expect out of all that. Pay close attention of whats is really going down each time you run a package manager and read at least this list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110207191205.1346349c@t61.debian-linux
Re: Autorun is VERY bad
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:21:48 -0800 kellyremo kellyr...@zoho.com wrote: How to disable autorun? Are there any hidden autorun features on a standard Debian install?? http://securitytube.net/USB-Autorun-attacks-against-Linux-at-Shmoocon-2011-video.aspx Asking the ##gnome crew it appears the default is to auto_run. It can be disable as noted in this thread. The file and line that is changed after the GUI tweak is /.gconf/apps/nautilus/preferences/%gconf.xml:entry name=media_autorun_never mtime=1297104269 type=bool value=true/ However I'm told Via Juhaz in ##gnome the best way to generate that is with.. gconftool-2 -t bool -s /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_autorun_never and for default, add something like --direct --config-source=xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults you can set it mandatory too if the users shouldn't be able to change it back. the exact path you should use may depend on distro, /etc/gconf/2/path probably has a commented list of the config sources I'll have to look into it more tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110207191856.553a692a@t61.debian-linux
Re: new first for Sid
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 19:12:05 -0500 Slicky Johnson slickyjohn...@gmail.com wrote: I'm guessing you were blind sided because you have 'testing' in your source.list rather than a code name ie squeeze|wheezy. If that is indeed the case you should change your habits. It's no different than if you're running Sid at the moment. There will be a flood of all sorts of unexpected things that are not documented (yet) because of the release. Actually, a broken system would be what I expect out of all that. Pay close attention of whats is really going down each time you run a package manager and read at least this list. Disregard the above. I'm not sure how I managed to send this reply to the wrong thread. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110207192448.057fd02c@t61.debian-linux
Re: KPackage
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:45:31 -0600 lrhorer lrho...@satx.rr.com wrote: For whatever reason, someone has decided to remove KPackage from the Debian distro. 'Really bad idea, if you ask me. Anyway, when I upgraded one of my systems to Squeeze, I issued the `apt-get autoremove` command before I realized it would remove KPackage. I also have another system that was just upgraded, and if I were to issue the autoremove command, it would also remove it on that system. Is there a good way to prevent apt-get from removing a package (in this case, KPackage) it thinks is no longer necessary and yet still issue the `apt- get autoremove` command? Is there a good way to get KPackage back onto the other system? Is there some way we could get someone to reverse the decision to remove KPackage from Debian? pin the package to lenny and or mark it as a hold? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110207201904.7b3b628e@t61.debian-linux
Re: Anyone else having problems installing Squeeze Stable on AMD64?
On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 17:34:16 -0700 Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Unetbootin works fine with Squeeze, you can find it in the Squeeze repos. How is it better than simply using 'cp'? On my system /dev/sdg is a usb flash device. For example I did: The method from the install doc's has always worked well for me. # zcat boot.img.gz /dev/sdX # cp favorite.iso /dev/sdX http://debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-easy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110206194503.2b460372@t61.debian-linux
Re: ntp synaptic
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:42:11 -0500 Paul Cartwright deb...@pcartwright.com wrote: ---8--- As far as the time being wrong, what is the Normal ntp package that gets installed, or could be installed? I have a package installed, ntpdate, but it doesn't look like it has a daemon. I tried ntpd openntpd but when I run them ( /etc/init.d/ntpd start) they fail, with no log entries anywhere. suggestions? Paul, chrony has served me well for a few years now across all my machines. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110127131929.41cb4ad2@t61.debian-linux
Re: Missing files in home-directory
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:22:27 +0200 Matthias Andersson matthias.anders...@pp1.inet.fi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! My dad called me yesterday regarding a problem on his machine running Debian Lenny. He said he had installed the updates sometime last week and noticed that all of his files (.pdf, music and photos) went missing from his home-directory. I had him burn debian livecd and check the drives with gparted and that did not result in any errors. What could be the problem? Have him email you the output of 'find /home email-to-son.txt' Look for where he hid them. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk08X2kACgkQ6baBhW8Czri3nACdEKjhJpoJhP/6krcYIniZvlTb pmIAn2JaxqiZAJkVcqmT7nVD/LPQRZiI =Jgjl -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Looking for a audio note player
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 05:13:45 + (UTC) T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Any music player can play audio file, but by audio note player, I mean/ hope that the player knows the audio notes. Let me explain with example, Take this as an example, Synaptics' TouchPads Support MultiTouch on Linux! http://goinglinux.com/2010shownotes.html#glp100 I've downloaded the mp3 file, is there any way for any audio-note-aware player to know about the following time stamps, so that it plays audio files just like DVD player play chaptered DVD videos (so that user can jump back and forth between those chapter points)? Thanks 00:00 Going Linux #100 - Synaptics 00:15 Introduction 01:20 Adopting Ubuntu 10.04 02:45 Is Larry switching to Mint? 04:20 Announcing our DVD archives (coming soon) 08:42 Synatpics (not the package manager) introduces advance MultiTouch capabilities for Linux 13:44 The press release 17:36 Is it downloadable? 18:05 Current TouchPad capabilitieson Linux laptops 22:48 iTunes, goinglinux.com, goingli...@gmail.com, @goinglinux, feedback, listen, subscribe 25:29 End I think what you are looking for is similar to the bookmarks feature rockbox provides? However, the bookmarks are not very informative. I've yet to see an audio player that provides this feature other than what rockbox does for portable mp3 players. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110122124334.7875f9b4@t61.debian-linux
Re: Debian question
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 19:03:57 -0600 Kimberly Harvey kharve...@gmail.com wrote: I have installed the django into the linux-Debian on my machine. I ran the linux program, and a black screen pops up asking for the root password. I did that, then the next thing it shows is the Debian:~# What does that mean? I am trying to go into the Django site where it has the internet, the terminals, etc. So how can I access that?? I hate to come off as a complete ass. If anything I hope you take this as a way to better understand both your system and the technical communities as a whole. You must remember when you post a question we have no idea what is going on in your head or what you have tried. You need to be very specific. I mean to the point of too much detail, believe me there is no such thing when it comes to systems. I mean no offense to you personally, but you should really consider the following guidelines. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Good luck and bring back some details. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110122204337.22de1a09@t61.debian-linux
Re: LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:34:16 +0100 Arturo Gutierrez arturo.gutierrez.go...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, Trying to install Oracle 9.2.0.4 (64 bits) on Debian x85_64 , to avoid some install problems is necesary to set the variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 However when I set this variable on my bash shell, any command fails with : error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. My Debian version is: Linux version 2.6.26-2-686 (Debian 2.6.26-26lenny1) (da...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-25)) #1 SMP Thu Nov 25 01:53:57 UTC 2010 Do you know how fix this problem? Many thanks Arturo Do you have libc6 installed? $ aptitude search libc6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110121100345.24c3e49f@t61.debian-linux
Re: Wrong counter in update notifier
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:09:05 +0200 John Kapnogiannis smokej...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I am using a mix of testing and unstable with kde. The update notifier always shows a wrong counter. If there are no updates it shows 2. Else if the number of updates is n it shows n+2. This gets annoying cause it pops up everytime I log in. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks John I had the same problem earlier this month with a new Squeeze install. I ended up simply removing the package 'update-notifier' because I normally find the updates via aptitude anyhow. Matter of fact I don't keep any of the GUI package manages around either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110119213428.37175532@t61.debian-linux
Re: Why is Evolution and Epiphany now a part of gnome-core?
I took a moment this morning to compare the differences between the
two packages mentioned thus far in this thread, gnome-core and
gnome-session.
gnome-core contains 524 packages
gnome-session contains 368 packages
There is a 367MB difference between the installed sizes of gnome-core
and gnome-session, and a 150MB difference in what will be downloaded.
gnome-core contains all packages supplied by gnome-session. gnome-core
however has the additional 157 packages listed below. That is a rather
large difference only adding a couple end user applications.
bogofilter{a}
bogofilter-bdb{a}
bogofilter-common{a}
dmz-cursor-theme{a}
eog{a}
epiphany-browser{a}
epiphany-browser-data{a}
evince{a}
evince-common{a}
evolution{a}
evolution-common{a}
evolution-plugins{a}
evolution-webcal{a}
file-roller{a}
freepats{a}
gedit{a}
gedit-common{a}
gir1.0-clutter-1.0{a}
gir1.0-freedesktop{a}
gir1.0-glib-2.0{a}
gir1.0-gstreamer-0.10{a}
gir1.0-gtk-2.0{a}
gir1.0-json-glib-1.0{a}
gnome-core
gnome-disk-utility{a}
gnome-js-common{a}
gnome-screensaver{a}
gnome-session{a}
gnome-terminal{a}
gnome-terminal-data{a}
gnome-themes{a}
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg{a}
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad{a}
gtk2-engines{a}
gtk2-engines-pixbuf{a}
libass4{a}
libavahi-gobject0{a}
libavahi-ui0{a}
libavcodec52{a}
libavformat52{a}
libavutil49{a}
libboost-python1.42.0{a}
libcdaudio1{a}
libcelt0-0{a}
libclutter-1.0-0{a}
libcupsimage2{a}
libcurl3-gnutls{a}
libdc1394-22{a}
libdca0{a}
libdirac-encoder0{a}
libdirectfb-1.2-9{a}
libdjvulibre21{a}
libdjvulibre-text{a}
libelf1{a}
libenca0{a}
libepc-1.0-2{a}
libepc-common{a}
libepc-ui-1.0-2{a}
libevince2{a}
libevolution{a}
libfaad2{a}
libfftw3-3{a}
libflite1{a}
libgalago3{a}
libgdata7{a}
libgdata-common{a}
libgdu-gtk0{a}
libgirepository1.0-0{a}
libgme0{a}
libgs8{a}
libgsl0ldbl{a}
libgsm1{a}
libgtkhtml3.14-19{a}
libgtkhtml-editor0{a}
libgtkhtml-editor-common{a}
libgtkimageview0{a}
libgtksourceview2.0-0{a}
libgtksourceview2.0-common{a}
libiptcdata0{a}
libjack-jackd2-0{a}
libjbig2dec0{a}
libjson-glib-1.0-0{a}
libkate1{a}
libkpathsea5{a}
liblcms1{a}
liblircclient0{a}
liblua5.1-0{a}
libmimic0{a}
libmms0{a}
libmodplug1{a}
libmpcdec6{a}
libmusicbrainz4c2a{a}
libofa0{a}
libopenjpeg2{a}
libopenspc0{a}
libpaper1{a}
libpaper-utils{a}
libpoppler5{a}
libpoppler-glib4{a}
libpostproc51{a}
libpython2.6{a}
libraptor1{a}
librasqal2{a}
librdf0{a}
librpm1{a}
librpmio1{a}
libschroedinger-1.0-0{a}
libseed0{a}
libslv2-9{a}
libsoundtouch1c2{a}
libspectre1{a}
libswscale0{a}
libsysfs2{a}
libt1-5{a}
libtidy-0.99-0{a}
libts-0.0-0{a}
libvpx0{a}
libwildmidi1{a}
libzbar0{a}
p7zip-full{a}
python-axiom{a}
python-beautifulsoup{a}
python-clientform{a}
python-coherence{a}
python-crypto{a}
python-epsilon{a}
python-feedparser{a}
python-gdata{a}
python-gdbm{a}
python-gst0.10{a}
python-gtksourceview2{a}
python-httplib2{a}
python-louie{a}
python-mechanize{a}
python-nevow{a}
python-openssl{a}
python-pam{a}
python-pkg-resources{a}
python-pyasn1{a}
python-pysqlite2{a}
python-rdflib{a}
python-serial{a}
python-tagpy{a}
python-twisted-bin{a}
python-twisted-conch{a}
python-twisted-core{a}
python-twisted-web{a}
python-utidylib{a}
python-xdg{a}
python-zope.interface{a}
rpm2cpio{a}
rpm-common{a}
totem{a}
totem-coherence{a}
totem-common{a}
totem-plugins{a}
tsconf{a}
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Unable to mount Thumb
I've started getting problems with Squeeze and gnome auto-mounting any external usb drives. I get the notification window which contains... Unable to mount Thumb Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so This is the last entry in dmesg [279695.080121] usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 19 [279695.213149] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5530 [279695.213157] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [279695.213164] usb 2-1: Product: Cruzer [279695.213169] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: SanDisk [279695.213174] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 22437207B7A13B68 [279695.213373] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [279695.214916] scsi25 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices [279695.218741] usb-storage: device found at 19 [279695.218746] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning [279700.216411] usb-storage: device scan complete [279700.216942] scsi 25:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Cruzer 8.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS [279700.218649] sd 25:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [279700.219749] sd 25:0:0:0: [sdb] 7856127 512-byte logical blocks: (4.02 GB/3.74 GiB) [279700.220258] sd 25:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [279700.220265] sd 25:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08 [279700.220271] sd 25:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [279700.222709] sd 25:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [279700.222718] sdb: sdb1 [279700.230252] sd 25:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [279700.230262] sd 25:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk [279700.561998] UDF-fs: No VRS found [279700.562002] UDF-fs: Rescanning with blocksize 2048 [279700.563369] UDF-fs: No VRS found [279700.563372] UDF-fs: No partition found (1) [279700.619266] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format. And how fdisk reports the drive. Disk /dev/sdb: 4022 MB, 4022337024 bytes 124 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders Units = cylinders of 7688 * 512 = 3936256 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 11021 3924723+ 83 Linux I'm able to manually mount the drives just fine, and they are auto mounted as expected from another workstation also running Squeeze. The only thing different between the two is the problem machine it partitioned with encrypted LVMs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110114120318.2f53c466@t61.debian-linux
Re: Unable to mount Thumb
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:05:20 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:03:18 -0500, Slicky Johnson wrote: I've started getting problems with Squeeze and gnome auto-mounting any external usb drives. I get the notification window which contains... (...) Could it be related to this bug? :-? udev: The First partition on USB flashdrives always attempts to be mounted as ISOFS http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597223 Greetings, That is my exact problem. Commenting out the line /dev/sdb1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660,user,noauto 0 0 in fstab has solved the issue for now. I had forgot to add in the OP that subsequent drives plugged in would mount as expected. ie /sdc etc.. Hope someone else will find this useful. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110114195611.30991006@t61.debian-linux
Re: How to make an upgraded system clean by automatically removing abandoned config files?
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:10:07 -0500 Drew Engelbrecht naturalt...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed some abandoned configuration files have been left lying around my harddrive, which by their existence have a (sometimes negative) effect on my upgraded system. They were installed by packages in lenny, but would not be installed in a fresh installation of squeeze. Despite unmodified configuration files getting replaced by newer ones when upgrading, it seems that if they don't belong to the same package in squeeze as in lenny, then they are not removed... even though that file may be unmodified from the original (and now useless or even harmful.) For example, there's the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file that dpkg-reconfigure doesn't change or remove in squeeze (and doesn't add, if there's not one there.) Also, there was a file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ for wacom input. Something like 50 errors would show up when I booted, because of this file. I noticed that using the loate command for the xserver-xorg-input-wacom package listed the problematic rules file, so my system knew that it was there and associated with the package. I tried purging the wacom package and reinstalling xserver-xorg-input-all. The file and the problem went away. Unfortunately, I don't think that it's feasible to purge and reinstall the entire installation base though ;-) so I'm still looking for a general solution. Is there a way to remove deprecated files like these automatically? I'm having some minor issues with squeeze, and I can't help but wonder if there are still some zombie config files that are creating issues here by making my system less like a clean install of squeeze. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, -Drew Perhaps 'aptitude search ~c' will fill your needs. It will search for unused configuration files. http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s05.html#searchConfigFiles ?config-files, ~c Matches packages which have been removed, but whose configuration files remain on the system (ie, they were removed but not purged). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110113205627.0fd2f734@t61.debian-linux
Re: recursively count the words occurrence in the text files
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:34:59 -0800 (PST) S Mathias smathias1...@yahoo.com wrote: I just can't google for it: I'm searching for a bash one liner (awk, perl, or anything) for this: there are text files, in several directories: mkdir one mkdir two mkdir three echo word1 word2 word3 one/asf.txt echo word2 word4, word5 one/asfcxv saf.txt echo word1. word2 one/dsgsdg.txt echo word6, word3! two/sdgsd dsf.txt echo word6 two/ergd.txt echo asdf, word2 three/werdf.txt echo word7, word8 word9 word10 three/qwerb erfsdgdsg.txt echo word4 word3 three/web erg as.txt so it does the magic* recursively: $ SOMEMAGIC output.txt cat output.txt asdf 1 word1 2 word2 4 word3 3 word4 2 word5 1 word6 2 word7 1 word8 1 word9 1 word10 1 $ *recursively count the words occurrence in the text files like: word1 2 can anyone point to a howto/link? [re: i just can't google for it :\] grep or find -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101230134440.52dd8...@t61.debian-linux
Re: chronyc settime and digital clock in LXDE in Squeeze
On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:01:19 -0700 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Folk, Clock Format is set to %R, which according to strftime.man specifies a 24 hour format. After chronyc settime 16:50 the clock displays 4:50. Am I misusing chronyc? Is the digital clock in LXDE unable to display the 24 hour format? Thanks for any ideas, ... Peter E. I use chrony as well but with gnome. I've never used 'settime' and have allowed chrony to manage the time on its own which has worked well for a couple of years now. Perhaps when evoking 'settime' chrony adds it's own format. Maybe dig around in chrony's rc file? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101227201725.377e0...@t61.debian-linux
Removing mktmp and diff
Is it safe to remove these from Squeeze?
$ deborphan
mktemp
diff
$ aptitude why diff
Unable to find a reason to install diff.
aptitude why mktemp
Unable to find a reason to install mktemp.
# aptitude purge diff mktemp
The following packages will be REMOVED:
diff{p} mktemp{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 57.3 kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y
The following ESSENTIAL packages will be REMOVED!
diff mktemp
WARNING: Performing this action will probably cause your system to
break! Do NOT continue unless you know EXACTLY what you are doing!
To continue, type the phrase I am aware that this is a very bad idea:
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Re: Debian Squeeze and encrypted LVM
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:26:07 +0330 Nima Azarbayjany i.adore.deb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Today I installed Debian Squeeze on an entirely encrypted LVM partition as proposed by the Installer (beta2). After several hours of initializing my disk it finally installed and when I booted into the new system I saw an unrecognized partition entry in my Places menu, Computer, and the Gnome Disk Utility which refers to /dev/dm-0 which cannot be mounted and has the same size as my hard drive. Can anyone please tell me what is this weird thing and how to get rid of it? I found a bug report which seems to describe exactly the same issue but no workarounds and explanations: http://osdir.com/ml/debian-bugs-dist/2010-12/msg04429.html. Thanks. Nima :-) Same here. I've just learned to forget about it. I suppose it will be sorted out soon enough. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101222091602.75277...@t61.debian-linux
Re: lenny squeeze etc etc
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:23:16 + Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 22 December 2010 14:27:38 John Hasler wrote: Lisi writes: It is, however, easier if the names are in some easily remembered progression (e.g. Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty etc.) than if they are random (Woody, Sarge, Etch, Lenny ...) They are characters from the movie Toy Story. Yes, I know. But I don't see how that is supposed to make it easy to remember them! I do now know the progression since Sarge, but am very hazy on what came before that. I think that Potato came before Woody, but I may not be right. And were there any others between them, or after them and before Sarge? Though they are certainly less irritatingly twee than Hardy etc. But, provided that one remembers that the first was Warty Warthog, it is easy to work out whether or not something is missing. Lisi http://tinyurl.com/34dfgz2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101222102913.6d70d...@t61.debian-linux
Re: Wireless internet for squeeze desktop
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:38:35 -0800 Peter Tenenbaum peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, everyone -- In the near future I need to change the network setup for my desktop squeeze workstation so that it uses a wireless internet connection (it's using the ethernet spigot right now). Can anyone suggest a wireless card or wireless USB adaptor which has good compatibility / support in squeeze? Thanks in advance, -PT Anything by Ubiquiti. http://www.ubnt.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101217102152.5b00a...@t61.debian-linux
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Re: dist upgrade nightmare!
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:32:42 -0500 (EST) Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: I tried taking a friend's machine from lenny to squeeze and it turned into a disaster. As a consequence of the attempt his entire package update and repair systems are broken. apt-get -f install can't fix anything and dpkg --configure -a can't fix anything anymore and as a consequence of those two acts, it's impossible to update his system. I can't even downgrade back to lenny! What I would like to know is if emergency procedures exist that can clear the mess out that these operations created and get the system back to some known state. I wouldn't mind this so much if the upgrade had simply failed but a system breaking like this where even though useable with the squeeze kernel on it is there nothing can be installed or uninstalled with apt-get and aptitude apparently got turned into a zombi placed in not fully installed or uninstalled or deferred status. If I had done this to my own computer that would be one thing, but this is a computer of a friend and I don't appreciate these tools for having ended up leaving this kind of damage. Any chance you filled up a partition while bringing in the new packages? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101215201445.2f96a...@t61.debian-linux
Re: Can not set execute permission to file in usb storage media with fat32 format
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:16:11 +0800 gulfstream gulfstream.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everybody! I want to execute some script file in usb storage media with fat32 format, but I can not set execute permission to them with chown +x. What shall I do? Thank you! gulfstream Who's the owner if the storage media? ls -l /mount/point -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101215202012.38bef...@t61.debian-linux
