Re: Thinking about using Debian

[T Elcor]

 From: Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com

  P.S. Please don't top post.  Thanks.
 
 Funny... I belonged to many lists 15 or 20 years ago. All wanted folks to top 
 post and bitched about bottom-posts. Why? Bottom posts require scrolling to 
 see 
 that latest reply. Oh well.

No, bottom posting does not necessarily require scrolling to see the latest 
response providing that people
quote only what is relevant to the response. In other words, that's yet another 
reason to bottom post, 
as it promotes a more efficient email style by reducing mindless quoting.


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Re: wheezy freeze

[T Elcor]

- Original Message -

 I know, I use Testing since it exists. Though, freeze is much too long and 
 thus 
 'five attributes duu' anew whenever Debian changes release, since 
 years and years and years. And if you mean Ubuntu as rolling-release distro - 
 I 
 have tried it and do not like it. Sorry.

Debian is one of non-commercial distros (perhaps the only one) that you can use 
in production environment. It's stable and one needs stability in production, I 
hope Debian's approach regarding stability never changes.

If you don't value the stability (and respectively years between different 
releases of Debian) then perhaps Debian isn't the right distro for you.


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Wheezy: KDE: Kickoff Application Launcher menu editor

[T Elcor]

Hi,

I remember in squeeze it was possible to right-mouse-button click on the 
Kickoff Application Launcher icon and then launch the menu editor that would 
allow to edit Kickoff Application Launcher's settings.

In wheezy the Kickoff App Launcher menu editor no longer seems to be present. 
How does one go about editing Kickoff Application Launcher's settings in 
wheezy, for example, removing old menu entries, etc?

Thanks


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OT: Wheezy: Error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0

[T Elcor]

Hi,

Am trying to reflash my cellphone from wheezy using reflash program and am 
getting a weird No such file or directory error for  libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0. I 
had tried adding  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu to the PATH but got the same 
error message.

Any ideas? Thanks



$ ./reflash
./reflash: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot 
open shared object file: No such file or directory

$ ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Aug  6 12:30 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 - libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.10

$ ls -l /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4442248 Aug  6 12:30 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.10

# dpkg -S libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
libgtk2.0-0:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
libgtk2.0-0:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.10

# uname -a
Linux test 3.2.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 23 02:45:17 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux



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Re: OT: Wheezy: Error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0

[T Elcor]

- Original Message -

 From: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net

 # ldconfig

# ldconfig -v | grep -i libgtk-x11-2
ldconfig: Path `/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' given more than once
ldconfig: Path `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' given more than once
    libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 - libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.10

I'm beginning to suspect reflash is a 32-bit program. Could this be the 
reason?  Thanks


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Re: OT: Wheezy: Error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0

[T Elcor]

- Original Message -
  I'm beginning to suspect reflash is a 32-bit program. Could 
 this be the reason?  Thanks
 
 I guess you're right.
 
 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730884

Yes, it is a 32-bit app,  # aptitude install lib32ncurses5 libgtk2.0-0 
ia32-libs-gtk solves it. Thanks



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Re: IA64 or AMD64?

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- Original Message -

 From: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com

 Go back and re-read my original reply to the OP.  Then explain to the
 list what it was that I said which so compelled you to go to battle.

The problem is that you make some questionable assumptions, hold them as 
absolute truth and
then proceed  to insult other people on the list. Specifically, from your post:

 You are either:

 1.  Horribly lazy
 2.  Incompetent

This creates a hostile and non-constructive environment and is in violation of 
Debian Code of Conduct, please see 
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct . If you cannot respond to a 
simple question without resorting to insults, consider not responding at all.


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Re: IA64 or AMD64?

[T Elcor]

- Original Message -


 You are either:
 
 1.  Horribly lazy
 2.  Incompetent

 Stan, just my personal opinion but I think there's no need (and no gain) 
 to say this on the list

I agree. I find this list to be very helpful but lately there seems to have 
been a lot of unnecessary hostility on the list. This is counter-productive as 
some users may get the impression that the list is hijacked by angry people who 
are just waiting for an opportunity to jump on anyone they (wrongly) perceive 
as lazy, incompetent or whatever.

If someone deems a question stupid and below his level of expertise one can 
always ignore the question, as there is no obligation for anyone to answer any 
questions on this list. Perhaps someone else will give a simple answer to a 
simple/stupid question without any of the name calling.


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Re: IA64 or AMD64?

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- Original Message -

From: Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com

 This list, as with most others, is not to be used as a
 primary technical support resource.  People should be making at least a
 cursory effort to search for information before asking here.

Please see the Code of Conduct ( 
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct ) instead of inventing your 
own rules.


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Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

[T Elcor]

- Original Message from Lionel Trésaugues -

 Lowering the brightness helps a little bit to make the pain more bearable,
 but it is still unpleasant and hurtful after a while.

Another thing you may want to try is to connect your monitor through the VGA 
connector instead of DVI, if you have the right cable.

Not sure if that would help, just curious if that would make any difference.


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Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

[T Elcor]

- Original Message -

From: Lionel Trésaugues lionel.tresaug...@gmail.com

 I am experiencing a physical pain whenever I am in front of my
 computer running either Debian (Wheezy) or Debian-based distributions
 (such as Mint LMDE, XFCE or MATE edition). Switching from XFCE to MATE
 doesn't lead to any improvements .

 My eyes start to suffer and soon, I can feel that an headache is coming.

Try to identify what's causing your discomfort: Does your monitor flicker when 
you're running Debian? Fonts too small/blurry? Bad color scheme? Something else?

For CRT monitors, anything below 75Hz refresh rate results in visible 
flickering, in my experience. For LCD, 60Hz seems to work just fine.

 The proprietary Nvidia drivers are enabled and my screen uses a
 resolution of 1366x768 at 60Hz (same settings as the one provided by
 the Ubuntu-based distributions). Different Nvidia drivers (series 295
 and 302) led to the same effect.

Consider removing proprietary drivers as an experiment. I'm running wheezy with 
LCD and ATI chipset  without any proprietary drivers and it works well for me.

HTH


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[OT] Grub2: grub.cfg for live Knoppix running from USB-card

[T Elcor]

Hi,

Am trying to create a bootable USB card running Knoppix, which I use as a 
recovery tool in case if there are problems with my main Debian system.

I succeeded creating a bootable USB-card based on grub1 but am having problems 
with grub2, see http://knoppix.net/wiki/USB_Based_FAQ for instructions I used.

Anyone running Knoppix from a USB-card with grub2? How does your 
/boot/grub/grub.cfg look like?

Thanks


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Re: [OT] Grub2: grub.cfg for live Knoppix running from USB-card

[T Elcor]

- Original Message -

From: Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com

 Don't you think that you;e more likely to find Knoppix users on a
 Knoppix list like debian-knoppix or in a Knoppix Forum like
 http://knoppix.net/forum/ ?

I think you're right, of course. I simply don't have an account there and was 
hoping maybe I could solve this little problem without creating new accounts 
(already have too many). Thanks


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Re: What Version To Install On iMac?

[T Elcor]

- Original Message -

From: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz

 The usual definition is disapproved. 
 I don't think disapproved is the correct word in that sense.

deprecated in software means the use of some item is discouraged/disapproved 
and one shouldn't be using it. Whether a deprecated item is supported or not  
is a different question (hint: WONTFIX).

dep·re·cate
vt \ˈde-pri-ˌkāt\
dep·re·cat·ed  dep·re·cat·ing
Definition of DEPRECATE
1 a archaic : to pray against (as an evil) b : to seek to avert
2 : to express disapproval of
3 a : play down : make little of  b : belittle, disparage


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Re: What Version To Install On iMac?

[T Elcor]

- Original Message -
 Hello, I would like to know which version of Debian 6 I would download for 
 installing on iMac with specifications shown below.
 
 Model Name:    iMac
 Model Identifier:    iMac8,1
 Processor Name:    Intel Core 2 Duo

amd64 or i386 both should work, I would go with amd64 (see 
http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/ ).

I would also install Debian 7 (wheezy) as Debian 6 will probably be deprecated 
soon.

HTH


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Grub2: How to clone a bootable disk?

[T Elcor]

Hi,

I have two identical hard drives, one HD contains a bootable wheezy 
installation and I'd like to clone it to the other HD. My first idea was to use 
dd but since grub2 uses disk IDs in /boot/grub/devices.map and /etc/fstab 
then once the disk is cloned it probably will not boot, unless I fix the 
entries in the above files. To fix the files I need to know disk IDs and 
partition UUIDs... not sure how to get them. Is there an easier way to clone a 
bootable disk without editing grub2 and fstab files?

Thanks


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Re: Grub2: How to clone a bootable disk?

[T Elcor]

From: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com

   To fix the files I need to  know disk IDs and partition UUIDs... not sure 
 how to get them. 
 
 ls -ls /dev/disk/by-*id will tell.

Thank you. A lot clearer now.



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Re: Printing files under KDE in wheezy

[T Elcor]

--- On Sat, 7/28/12, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:

 To print to a physical printer you need a printing service.
 The election 
 of the service will depend on your needs.
 
 More info here:
 
 http://wiki.debian.org/SystemPrinting#Other_printing_Systems
 
 Thought basically and simplifying a lot, yes: you need CUPS
 :-)

Thanks, I'll try that.


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Printing files under KDE in wheezy

[T Elcor]

Hi,

I'm a bit confused what packages I need to install to be able to print files 
under KDE in wheezy. Is it lpr, cups or pdq? Something else?

Thanks


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Re: OT: A web-based mail list archive suggestion?

[T Elcor]

--- On Sat, 7/14/12, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:

  However, for mailing lists and forums I
 prefer to use a NNTP newsreader, it does a better job.

I used to do that but then switched to a web-based mail list archive. It's just 
more convenient for me as I don't have to download messages for the lists I 
browse/search only occasionally, plus (better) presentation/search/history/etc.

That's what I'm really looking for: a good web-based mail list archive that 
presents thread's messages in an easy to read manner (one page), keeps several 
years of history (where applicable) and has a good search functionality.

Thanks


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Re: OT: A web-based mail list archive suggestion?

[T Elcor]

--- On Sat, 7/14/12, Mora Zyx freakyfrac...@teknomada.es wrote:

 Maybe check out http://markmail.org/ ...

Thanks, though it looks like it requires the use of Javascript and even 
Flash(!) to work properly. :)





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OT: Web based newsreader suggestion?

[T Elcor]

Hi,

Does anyone know of a free, good web based newsreader? I plan to use it to read 
debian user group. I know of http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user and 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ but don't particularly like either of them.

Old Google Groups would be fine but they now require the use of Javascript and 
that's a no-go feature for me.

Thanks


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Re: OT: Web based newsreader suggestion?

[T Elcor]

--- On Fri, 7/13/12, Dom to...@rpdom.net wrote:

 Before I subscribed to this list, I used to read it using
 Icedove as a newsreader (I still do for some other groups).

Perhaps I should clarify that by web-based I mean browser-based. Preferably, 
the server would group all messages related to a thread and present them all on 
one page in an easy to read, consistent manner. GMANE ( 
http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user ) does it almost right but 
perhaps there's something better.

Thanks


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Wheezy: Virtualization package recommendations

[T Elcor]

Hi,

I'm looking into running Windows XP as guest on a Debian Wheezy box. The 
hardware is fairly recent (should support virtualization) and Windows XP will 
be used only occasionally, not a production environment, so the goal is to have 
an easy virtualization setup that minimally impacts the host OS (Debian). 

Any ideas? Thanks


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Re: Wheezy: Virtualization package recommendations

[T Elcor]

--- On Sat, 6/23/12, green greenfreedo...@gmail.com wrote:

 virtualbox for a full GUI or kvm for full functionality 
 via CLI

I wonder if kvm will work without enabling virtualization option in the BIOS. 
Guest OS performance isn't a priority for me (while host OS is), so I don't 
care about hardware acceleration.

Thanks


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Re: Problem updating debian 6

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--- On Wed, 5/23/12, David Seira davidse...@gmail.com wrote:

 I remove the index files in the directory you said but the
 result is the same:

I solved my recent problem with aptitude (and apt) by installing bzip2 package. 
Until then I was getting rather ridiculous error messages from aptitude, which 
in no way indicated that absence of bzip2 was the problem. Just FYI.


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SOLVED: Re: Wheezy: aptitude update fails

[T Elcor]

--- On Fri, 5/18/12, T Elcor tel...@yahoo.com wrote:

  Get: 3 http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/non-free
 Translation-en [61.5 kB]
  Err http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/main
 Translation-en
    404  Not Found [IP:
 128.61.240.89 80]

I was able to solve the problem by installing bzip2 package.

Apparently bzip2 package is now required for aptitude to work correctly though 
there is no dependency between them and the error messages aptitude provides 
give no clue.


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SOLVED: Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

[T Elcor]

--- On Mon, 5/14/12, T Elcor tel...@yahoo.com wrote:

 For some reason VLC player refuses to play video files. It
 starts up, shows the first frame of the video but doesn't
 play it further. What's strange, KDE DragonPlayer plays the
 same videos fine and I believe DragonPlayer relies on VLC
 libraries to play videos.
 
 Any ideas? Thanks

The VLC player is working fine now after updating the system to the latest 
packages in wheezy and manually removing old obsolete packages that can no 
longer be downloaded. I had a couple of those.

# aptitude show vlc
Package: vlc 
Version: 2.0.1-4+b2

# aptitude show phonon-backend-vlc
Package: phonon-backend-vlc  
Version: 0.5.0-1


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Re: SOLVED: Re: Wheezy: aptitude update fails

[T Elcor]

--- On Wed, 5/23/12, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:

 Are we still talking about the Hash Sum mismatch error? 

I was getting Hash Sum mismatch error only when I was going against a non-US 
mirror, with a US mirror (which I use by default) I was getting 404 Not Found.

 If so, it makes no sense because:

 1/ apt-get was failing in the same way than aptitude
 
 2/ bzip2 has been installed in my system since it was
 installed and I 
 also got the same errors
 
 So the Hash Sum mismatch message has to be a different
 problem.

Maybe. The good thing is now both aptitude and apt are working, and not only 
that but they are working with US and non-US mirrors.

If you're curious, you may want to remove bzip2 and see what you get. And by 
the way, thanks for your help.


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Re: SOLVED: Re: Wheezy: aptitude update fails

[T Elcor]

--- On Wed, 5/23/12, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:

 Ah, fine then, it had to be some sort of problem at the
 mirrors or 
 repositories infrastructure...
  
  If you're curious, you may want to remove bzip2 and see
 what you get.

Actually, you were right that it was a problem with the mirrors and 
repositories, and bzip2 isn't necessary for aptitude to work correctly.

I ran some tests and aptitude is working fine with or without bzip2, I guess my 
installing of bzip2 coincided with fixing of the problem on the infrastructure 
side.


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Re: Wheezy: aptitude update fails

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--- On Mon, 5/21/12, wrote:

I filed a bug, they are asking for other people's input who are having the same 
issue:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673521


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Re: iceweasel preferences

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--- On Mon, 5/21/12, John W. Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com wrote:

 Only reason I dont like iceweasel is
 because when I right click on a
 link in an opened web page, the menue that pops up offers to
 open a new
 web page first the it offeres to open a new tab as the
 second choice
 then others... I want to change the order that it presents
 to new tab
 first then new web page.

If all you want is just to open a link in a new tab then just do Ctrl + (click 
on a link), and iceweasel will open the link in a new tab.

Go to Tabs section in preferences and make sure the following options are 
enabled:
[X] Open new windows in a new tab instead
[X] When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately

HTH


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Re: Wheezy: aptitude update fails

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--- On Sat, 5/19/12, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:

 Weird... I'm also using wheezy and haven't experienced any
 problem though 
 I use apt-get update  apt-get -V dist-upgrade to
 update the system.
 
 Are you (or your ISP) behind some kind of proxy?

Not that I know of. Besides, I can access the following URLs from the browser 
without any problems:
  http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/
  http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/non-free/

It's beginning to look like an aptitude problem to me.


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Re: Wheezy: aptitude update fails

[T Elcor]

--- On Sat, 5/19/12, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:

 Okay, you can try with a different mirror. Edit your
 sources.list file 
 and keep only this line (comment out # the rest):
 
 deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free
 
 Then jump to a console and run:
 
 apt-get update  apt-get -V dist-upgrade
 
 And put here the output.

Here it is:

# apt-get update
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates InRelease
Ign http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main TranslationIndex   
Err http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 128.31.0.36 80]
Ign http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main Translation-en
Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy InRelease
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,876 B]
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy/main TranslationIndex [2,295 B]
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy/non-free TranslationIndex
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy/non-free amd64 Packages [90.9 kB]
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy/main Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy/non-free Translation-en
Fetched 10.2 kB in 2s (4,211 B/s)
W: Failed to fetch 
http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404 
 Not Found [IP: 128.31.0.36 80]

W: Failed to fetch 
gzip:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_non-free_binary-amd64_Packages
  Hash Sum mismatch

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones 
used instead.


# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main


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Re: Wheezy: aptitude update fails

[T Elcor]

--- On Sat, 5/19/12, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:

 security still fails because you did not commented out...

In theory, security may fail because there are no security updates for wheezy 
yet, in practice that line was working fine for months without any problems 
until several days ago.

 Clean your local apt cache:
 
 apt-get clean
 
  # cat /etc/apt/sources.list
  deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy
 main 
  deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy
 non-free 
  deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
 
 Then, put these two lines *as is* in your sources.list:
 
 deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib
 non-free
 #deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
 
 Finally, refresh your repo cache (apt-get update) and resend
 the output.


# apt-get clean
# apt-get update
Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy InRelease
Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy/contrib amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [6,991 B]
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy/contrib TranslationIndex
Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy/main TranslationIndex
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy/non-free TranslationIndex
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy/non-free amd64 Packages [90.9 kB]
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy/main Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy/non-free Translation-en_US
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy/non-free Translation-en
Fetched 6,992 B in 1s (3,569 B/s)
W: Failed to fetch 
gzip:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_wheezy_non-free_binary-amd64_Packages
  Hash Sum mismatch

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones 
used instead.


# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free


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Re: Problem updating debian 6

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--- On Fri, 5/18/12, David Seira davidse...@gmail.com wrote:

 From: David Seira davidse...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: Problem updating debian 6
 To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Friday, May 18, 2012, 2:33 AM
 Hi Andrei,
 I've tried to change the mirror but with the
 same problem. Furthermore, if I try to upgrade the system it
 shows me the next error:
 E: Failed to download 
 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openssl/libssl-dev_0.9.8o-4squeeze13_amd64.deb:

I'm having a problem updating wheezy, perhaps those problems are related. It's 
been going on for several days now:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/05/msg01689.html


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Re: Wheezy: aptitude update fails

[T Elcor]

--- On Fri, 5/18/12, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:

 Get: 3 http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/non-free Translation-en [61.5 kB]
 Err http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/main Translation-en
   404  Not Found [IP: 128.61.240.89 80]

 Is this still hitting you? It could have been a transient error :-? 

Still having this problem. Weird, IPs change, so it doesn't look like a single 
failed server problem.


 Tip: you can use a one-liner instead: 
 deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free 

Tried it, the error is still there.

Thanks


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Wheezy: Err http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/main Translation-en 404 Not Found [IP: 128.61.240.89 80]

[T Elcor]

Hi,

Started to have problems safe-upgrading wheezy several day ago. Any ideas? 
Thanks


# aptitude update  aptitude safe-upgrade
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy InRelease
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates InRelease
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/non-free amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
Get: 1 http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages [979 B]
Get: 2 http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/main Translation-en [3,834 kB]
Get: 3 http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/non-free Translation-en [61.5 kB]
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/main Translation-en 
   
  404  Not Found [IP: 128.61.240.89 80]
Err http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 149.20.20.6 80]
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/non-free Translation-en
  404  Not Found [IP: 128.61.240.89 80]
Ign http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main Translation-en
Fetched 3 B in 1s (2 B/s)
W: Failed to fetch 
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/i18n/Translation-en: 404  Not 
Found [IP: 128.61.240.89 80]

W: Failed to fetch 
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/non-free/i18n/Translation-en: 404  
Not Found [IP: 128.61.240.89 80]

W: Failed to fetch 
http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages: 404 
 Not Found [IP: 149.20.20.6 80]

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones 
used instead.
E: Couldn't rebuild package cache



# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy non-free

# security updates
deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main


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Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

[T Elcor]

Hi,

For some reason VLC player refuses to play video files. It starts up, shows the 
first frame of the video but doesn't play it further. What's strange, KDE 
DragonPlayer plays the same videos fine and I believe DragonPlayer relies on 
VLC libraries to play videos.

Any ideas? Thanks


# aptitude show phonon-backend-vlc
Package: phonon-backend-vlc  
State: installed
Version: 0.5.0-1


# aptitude show vlc
Package: vlc 
State: installed
Version: 2.0.1-4+b1



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Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

[T Elcor]

--- On Mon, 5/14/12, Bob s...@homeurl.co.uk wrote:

 Try opening it from the a shell prompt with the option like
 below
 vlc --ffmpeg-threads 1 /home/bob/Videos/lolcat.mkv
 
 Let us know if that helps

Didn't help but here's the output:

$ vlc --ffmpeg-threads 1  file:///some/file/name.mp4
VLC media player 2.0.1 Twoflower (revision 2.0.1-0-gf432547)
[0x21ab108] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to 
use vlc without interface.
[0x263a7d8] xcb_xv vout display error: no available XVideo adaptor
[0x7f8b90d94d28] freetype spu text error: Breaking unbreakable line


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Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

[T Elcor]

--- On Mon, 5/14/12, Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net wrote:

 ..try vlc --ffmpeg-threads 0 
 file:///some/file/name.mp4,
 the zero here means auto.

Tried it, pretty much the same output:

$vlc --ffmpeg-threads 0  file:///some/file/name.mp4
VLC media player 2.0.1 Twoflower (revision 2.0.1-0-gf432547)
[0x987108] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to 
use vlc without interface.
[0x1c9ed48] xcb_xv vout display error: no available XVideo adaptor
[0x7fccc1296c18] freetype spu text error: Breaking unbreakable line

Thanks


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Re: OT: More about GPG signing

[T Elcor]

--- On Fri, 5/11/12, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com 
wrote:

 Paraphrase yes. Useful analogy I don't believe so.
 
 A better analogy would be:-
 Is the post reduced in value if Tony's was name was not
 added to the
 sender field?
 
 The answer is yes.

Not necessarily. If there were several users with the same name on this list, a 
full email address would be a better identifier than name. And if someone 
decided to use the same name AND email address as another user, signing one's 
messages would be a good idea to avoid confusion/misrepresentation.

Anyway, this interesting discussion seems to begin going in circles, so the 
important points for me are:

1. Debian Code of Conduct has nothing against signing one's emails, inline or 
otherwise, while other things like HTML emails and spam are explicitly 
forbidden (yet they appear almost daily anyway). See 
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct 

2. Some people consider the practice of signing their emails useful, as it 
provides some benefits to them.

3. Even if one doesn't agree with such a practice, it's pretty harmless 
comparing to some other uses or abuses of the list.

4. If one still feels strongly that signed emails should not be used on this 
list, one may want to suggest such a change to the Debian Code of Conduct. I 
doubt it would pass though.

HTH


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Re: Wheezy: Can only play ogv video

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--- On Thu, 5/10/12, Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com wrote:

 I just use vlc, mplayer, and w32codecs.
 With those three it seems I can play anything.
 In fact, vlc alone is probably enough.

VLC alone didn't work for me, I don't remember if I tried ogv but MP4s didn't 
play for sure. What phonon-backend are you using, if any? What package are 
w32codecs in?

Thanks


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Re: Wheezy: Can only play ogv video

[T Elcor]

--- On Fri, 5/11/12, Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com wrote:

 Another thing that works is go to the mplayer homepage and
 download one
 of the codecs packages, extract the codecs, and put them in
 /usr/lib/codecs (create it if it doesn't exist).
 Then install mplayer. 

I just installed mplayer and it does play MP4 files in a kind of smallish 
window. But that doesn't appear to affect KDE integrated DragonPlayer or 
Kmplayer, that is, they still don't play MP4s. Not sure how to get them to 
work. Thanks


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Re: Wheezy: Can only play ogv video

[T Elcor]

--- On Fri, 5/11/12, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote:

 You need to install, as tv.debian has already suggested, the
 full set of codecs. Follow his/her suggestion and run:
   aptitude search
 ~S~i~n'(libav|aac|aad|gstreamer|lame|ogg|ogv|mpeg|quicktime|xine|vlc)'
 then compare your output to the one listed in tv.debian's
 answer.

My problem with that approach is that the list seems to contain packages that 
are mutually exclusive, for example, phonon-backend-vlc and 
phonon-backend-gstreamer. If you have the former, you don't need the later. And 
some packages are just weird: :)
 i   gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
 i   gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
 i   gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 

Generally, I prefer to install only the packages I need, so I was hoping 
there'd be a more straightforward way then that.


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Re: Wheezy: Can only play ogv video

[T Elcor]

--- On Fri, 5/11/12, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote:

 If you want the various codecs, you need the packages that
 contain them. 
 The good, bad and ugly packages refer to the codec licensing

Ah, I see. But it also kind of validates my point: it doesn't really make sense 
to install all three of them, does it?

Anyway, at this point I'd be happy if I could just get MP4 files to play, 
forget other codecs.


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SOLVED: Re: Wheezy: Can only play ogv video

[T Elcor]

--- On Fri, 5/11/12, Christopher Judd j...@wadsworth.org wrote:

 Try just installing phonon-backend-vlc (and whatever
 dependencies it pulls in).

That was a good suggestion, and I was able to (kind of) solve the problem. I 
now can play MP4, OGV, AVI and WMV files with KDE DragonPlayer without issues, 
which is what I wanted to achieve in the first place.

Hilariously, a new issue appeared: VLC player can't play any of the above video 
files, it just starts up, shows the first frame of the video and hangs. I have 
to kill -9 to get rid of it. Still it's a step forward.

Here's what I did:

# aptitude install phonon-backend-vlc
 [...]

# aptitude purge phonon-backend-gstreamer --purge-unused
 [...]

# aptitude install phonon-backend-vlc vlc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libsdl-image1.2{a} libtar0{a} libupnp6{ab} libva-x11-1{a} libwebp2{a} 
libxcb-composite0{a} 
  libxcb-keysyms1{a} libxcb-randr0{a} libxcb-xfixes0{a} vlc 
The following packages will be upgraded:
  vlc-nox 
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse 
1 packages upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,904 kB/5,156 kB of archives. After unpacking 4,706 kB will be 
used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libupnp6 : Conflicts: libupnp3 but 1:1.6.6-5.1 is installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

 Remove the following packages:
1) libupnp3



Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libsdl-image1.2{a} libtar0{a} libupnp6{a} libva-x11-1{a} libwebp2{a} 
libxcb-composite0{a} libxcb-keysyms1{a} 
  libxcb-randr0{a} libxcb-xfixes0{a} vlc 
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libupnp3{a} 
The following packages will be upgraded:
  vlc-nox 
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse 
1 packages upgraded, 10 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,904 kB/5,156 kB of archives. After unpacking 4,329 kB will be 
used.


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Wheezy: Can only play ogv video

[T Elcor]

Hi,

After replacing phonon-backend-xine (it's been deprecated) with 
phonon-backend-gstreamer, I can only play videos in Ogg Vorbis (ogv) format. I 
suspect some codecs may be missing and need to be installed but I'm having a 
difficulty finding them.

Any ideas? Thanks


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Re: Wheezy: Can only play ogv video

[T Elcor]

--- On Thu, 5/10/12, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote:

 I'm booted to Ubuntu Studio Precise, I can't reboot to
 Debian, I've got
 no time. On Ubuntu I've got installed:
 [...snip...]

Thanks, that's a lot of packages though. I was hoping for a more succinct list, 
just the packages I need to play mp4, avi and wmv, in addition to ogv.


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Wheezy: dragon player not working with phonon-backend-gstreamer?

[T Elcor]

Hi,

I used dragon player with phonon-backend-xine and it was working fine. However, 
since phonon-backend-xine had been deprecated in wheezy, I installed 
phonon-backend-gstreamer and removed phonon-backend-xine. The result is that 
dragon player is no longer able to play videos (mp4s), dragon player starts up 
and just shows blank square instead of the video. Tried the vlc backed with the 
same non-working result.

Any ideas? Thanks


$ aptitude show dragonplayer
Package: dragonplayer
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 4:4.7.4-2
Priority: optional
Section: video


$ aptitude show  phonon-backend-gstreamer
Package: phonon-backend-gstreamer
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 4:4.6.0.0-1
Priority: optional


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Re: Wheezy: dragon player not working with phonon-backend-gstreamer?

[T Elcor]

--- On Mon, 4/16/12, Christopher Judd j...@wadsworth.org wrote:

 
  aptitude show dragonplayer
  
 It
 works fine here (wheezy, amd64) with the same version of
 dragonplayer, using phonon-backend-vlc.

Weird, I can't get it to work. Tried installing phonon-backend-vlc, it still 
doesn't work, purged phonon-backend-gstreamer, it still doesn't work, 
reinstalled phonon-backend-vlc, dragon player still doesn't work.

Not sure what to try next.


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Re: OT: Beware of fake flash memory cards! (was Need help compiling C files)

[T Elcor]

--- On Tue, 4/10/12, T Elcor tel...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Any ideas why I'm getting these errors while trying to 
 compile F3 flash memory test program? The source is at:
   http://oss.digirati.com.br/f3/ 

That was a useful program indeed. The moral of the story: beware of fake flash 
memory cards regardless of what is written on them or where they come from.


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OT: Need help compiling C files

[T Elcor]

Hi,

Any ideas why I'm getting these errors while trying to compile F3 flash memory 
test program? The source is at:
  http://oss.digirati.com.br/f3/ 

Tried adding -I /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6/include option, without 
quotes, but that didn't help. I'm not a C/C++ developer at all. Thanks

$ make linux
gcc -Wall -c utils.c
In file included from utils.c:1:0:
utils.h:4:19: fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [linux] Error 1


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Re: OT: Need help compiling C files

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--- On Tue, 4/10/12, Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in wrote:

 It works for me.
 
 Please try sudo apt-get install build-essential and then try
 again; the
 headers might not be present.

I'm on Wheezy, installing build-essential appears to be a bit problematic:

# aptitude install make gcc build-essential 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  build-essential bzip2{a} dpkg-dev{a} g++{a} g++-4.6{a} libc-dev-bin{a} 
libc6-dev{a} 
  libclass-isa-perl{a} libdpkg-perl{a} libfile-fcntllock-perl{a} 
libstdc++6-4.6-dev{a} libswitch-perl{a} 
  libtimedate-perl{a} linux-libc-dev{a} 
The following packages will be upgraded:
  perl perl-base perl-modules 
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  fakeroot libalgorithm-merge-perl manpages-dev 
3 packages upgraded, 14 newly installed, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded.
Need to get 23.8 MB of archives. After unpacking 35.2 MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libtext-charwidth-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.4 which is a virtual package.
 libuuid-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.3 which is a virtual package.
 libdbi-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.3 which is a virtual package.
 liblocale-gettext-perl : PreDepends: perlapi-5.12.4 which is a virtual package.
 libdbd-mysql-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.4 which is a virtual package.
 libperl5.12 : Depends: perl-base (= 5.12.4-6) but 5.14.2-9 is to be installed.
 libtext-iconv-perl : Depends: perlapi-5.12.4 which is a virtual package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

 Remove the following packages: list of 144 packages


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Re: OT: Need help compiling C files

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--- On Tue, 4/10/12, Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in wrote:

 I don't know how one would get over this. It is possible
 that you are
 caught in the midst of a transition, but I am not sure.
 
 Should you just want the stdio.h header, maybe getting
 libc6-dev
 should do. You could try installing just that.

That worked, thanks for  your help.



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Re: Wheezy: Can't see no maps in navit

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--- On Tue, 4/3/12, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:

 A shoot in the dark: did you disable the rest of the pre-set
 maps?

Eventually I did.

 There are more tips here:
 
 http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/OpenStreetMap#Tips


That was a good suggestion. The only way I was able to get it working is to 
copy /etc/navit/navit.xml to ~/.navit/navit.xml and edit the local user copy. 
Editing /etc/navit/navit.xml seems to have no effect.

From the usability perspective, it also help to enable zoom buttons in 
navit.xml, as they are disabled by default, making the map of little use.

Thanks for your help.


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Wheezy: Can't see no maps in navit

[T Elcor]

Hi,

I can't see no maps in navit at all. What I did:

 1) Installed navit
 2) Created and downloaded bin file with maps from 
http://maps5.navit-project.org/
 3) Updated /etc/navit/navit.xml to point to the downloaded maps:

 mapset enabled=yes map type=binfile enabled=yes 
data=/path/to/my/maps/osm_file.bin/
 /mapset

 4) When I run navit, a window opens up and it's just filled from border to 
border with yellow-brownish background, that's it. If I click somewhere inside 
the window, I can get to configuration menus and in the Maps section navit 
lists the bin file I set up in step 3. But still it shows no maps.

Any ideas? Thanks


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Re: Wheezy: Spellchecker no longer working in Iceweasel 10?

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--- On Mon, 3/19/12, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:

 It works here.
 
  Iceweasel's preference
    layout.spellcheckDefault = 2
 
 I have that value set to 1.

Yes, I changed that intentionally.


 When you right-click over an input text box (or textarea),
 can you select the language?

That was what fixed it. I have only one language there - English - but 
apparently I still need to select it now for the spellchecker to work. Weird, I 
didn't have to do that before.

More importantly, is there a way to configure Iceweasel so it treats all 
textboxes as English by default and I don't have to remember selecting the 
language, especially since I have only one language there.

Thanks


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Re: Wheezy: Spellchecker no longer working in Iceweasel 10?

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--- On Mon, 3/19/12, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:

 My default is set to Spanish (Castilian), so maybe you need
 to tweak this:
 
 http://kb.mozillazine.org/Spellchecker.dictionary
 
 From about:config → spellchecker.dictionary →
 en_US (or whatever you 
 want as default)

I've already had spellchecker.dictionary set to en_US but with some 
pages/checkboxes the language still needs to be selected manually. With other 
pages it just works. Whether the page specifies language with html lang=... 
tag does not appear to have much of an effect.

Still it's a step forward. Thanks for your help.


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Re: Wheezy: Spellchecker no longer working in Iceweasel 10?

[T Elcor]

--- On Mon, 3/19/12, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:

 You mean with those pages where does not work it defaults to
 nothing (no language)?

On the pages where it doesn't work, I have to do RMB click, then click on 
Languages, then click on English / Uninted States. After that a bullet 
appears next to English / Uninted States indicating, I guess, that English is 
now selected/active language and the spellchecker works after that. If I don't 
click on English / Uninted States the spellchecker doesn't work.

 Can you send a sample URI? Just curious :-?

Sure. The following URL leads to Edit comment page with a multiline textbox 
that has Comment: label next to it. The spellchecker doesn't work for me in 
that textbox unless I select the language as described above. 

http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2733961op=replythreshold=1commentsort=0mode=threadpid=op=replythreshold=1commentsort=0mode=threadpid=


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Wheezy: Spellchecker no longer working in Iceweasel 10?

[T Elcor]

Hi,

For some reason, spellchecker is no longer working for me in text fields in 
Iceweasel 10 (that is, there is no indication of misspelled words). Iceweasel's 
preference
  layout.spellcheckDefault = 2

Check my spelling as I type preference box is checked.

As far as I remember, spellchecker was working fine in Iceweasel 9.

Any ideas? Thanks



$ aptitude show iceweasel
Package: iceweasel   
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 10.0.2-1
Priority: optional
Section: web
Maintainer: Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages 
pkg-mozilla-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Uncompressed Size: 6,524 k
Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.5), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (= 
2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.10),
 libnspr4-0d (= 1.8.0.10), libstdc++6 (= 4.1.1), fontconfig, procps, 
debianutils (= 1.16),
 xulrunner-10.0 (= 10.0.2-1)
Suggests: ttf-lyx | latex-xft-fonts, xfonts-mathml, ttf-mathematica4.1, 
mozplugger, libgssapi-krb5-2 |
  libkrb53
Provides: gnome-www-browser, www-browser
Description: Web browser based on Firefox


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Re: Nepomuk

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--- On Wed, 2/22/12, Shaun Jones mister.s.jo...@gmail.com wrote:

  In the control panel you can turn it off I believe it was
 in the advanced tab.

Yes, one could try to do that but in my case that POS is still running. I tried 
to kill it (and I thought I did) but it just won't die! :(

# ps -A u | grep -i Nepomuk
luser 27372  3.0  0.5 302652 20436 ?Sl   19:33   0:00 
/usr/bin/akonadi_nepomuk_contact_feeder --identifier 
akonadi_nepomuk_contact_feeder
luser 27377  0.5  0.2 136620  7304 ?S19:33   0:00 
/usr/bin/nepomukserver
root 27379  0.0  0.0   7792   856 pts/0S+   19:33   0:00 grep -i Nepomuk


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syslog: kernel: ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)

[T Elcor]

Hi,

Any ideas what the following messages in the syslog mean (there are a lot of 
them) or how to fix it? If the messages are related to a hard disk problem, how 
to determine which one - there are several HDs in that box and the system seems 
to be working OK.

Thanks


Feb 10 16:59:40 testbox kernel: [ 1179.840079] ata4: irq_stat 0x0040, 
connection status changed
Feb 10 16:59:40 testbox kernel: [ 1179.840082] ata4: SError: { CommWake 10B8B 
DevExch }
Feb 10 16:59:40 testbox kernel: [ 1179.840089] ata4: limiting SATA link speed 
to 1.5 Gbps
Feb 10 16:59:40 testbox kernel: [ 1179.840092] ata4: hard resetting link
Feb 10 16:59:41 testbox kernel: [ 1180.676082] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 
SControl 310)
Feb 10 16:59:41 testbox kernel: [ 1180.692071] ata4: EH complete
Feb 10 16:59:41 testbox kernel: [ 1180.727663] ata4: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 
0x0 SErr 0x40c action 0xe f


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Re: Dvorak Keyboards.

[T Elcor]

--- On Sun, 1/7/12, Paul Johnson wrote:

  I like the app, I can certainly see improvement in my case.

  $ aptitude show klavaro
  Package: klavaro
  Version: 1.9.3-1

 It's a shame this doesn't support USA Cherokee layout. 

It supports custom layouts, select Custom as Keyboard, you may be able to 
define a custom USA Cherokee layout. I've never tried defining custom layouts 
though, not sure how much effort is involved.


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Re: Dvorak Keyboards.

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--- On Fri, 1/6/12, Weaver wea...@riseup.net wrote:

 You could use a blank keyboard with a dvorak layout pretty effectively
 pretty quickly if you used the speakup feature to put speech on your sound
 card for those typing sessions.

I'd suggest klavaro application to improve one's typing skills, it supports 
several popular layouts including dvorak. With a blank keyboard one would need 
to be able to blind type.

I like the app, I can certainly see improvement in my case.


$ aptitude show klavaro
Package: klavaro
Version: 1.9.3-1
...
Description: Flexible touch typing tutor
 Klavaro is a simple tutor to teach correct typing, almost independently of 
language and very flexible
 regarding to new or unknown keyboard layouts. 
 
 Its key features are: 
 * Internationalization 
 * Ready to use keyboard layouts 
 * Keyboard layout editor 
 * Basic course 
 * Adaptability, velocity and fluidness exercises 
 * Progress charts.
Homepage: http://klavaro.sourceforge.net


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Re: Frequent disk full crashes with KDE Nepomuk

[T Elcor]

--- On Sun, 12/25/11, Chris Bell chrisb...@chrisbell.org.uk wrote:

 I have now deselected nepomuk and
 cleared the index
 and log files, and the approx. 6% use of / appears stable
 at the moment.
    The files cleared are
 
 #
 /home/username/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend/soprano-virtuoso.db
 
 #
 /home/username/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend/soprano-virtuoso-temp.db
 
 #
 /home/username/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend/soprano-virtuoso.log


Nepomuk may still be running though. In my experience it's not that easy to 
kill. Check

$ ps -A u | grep -i nepomuk

You may also want to consider removing/renaming the 
/usr/share/autostart/nepomukserver.desktop file, it may start nepomuk next 
time you restart KDE.

Does anybody use nepomuk at all? I've not met such a person yet.


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Wheezy: Iceweasel: Bank login fails with Skype buttons for kopete plugin disabled

[T Elcor]

Hi,

I'm experiencing a weird problem when I'm not able to log in to my bank account 
if I disable the Skype buttons for kopete plugin in iceweasel. Login attempts 
just fail with a cryptic Unable to Process Request - Try Again Later or 
Contact Customer Support message.

I struggled with this problem for a while and was able to identify it to the 
pluginreg.dat file in my profile and then to the enabled/disabled state of 
the Skype buttons plugin. If the plugin enabled then I can log in, if it's 
disabled then I can't.

I'm kind of puzzled and concerned why my bank transactions should have anything 
to do with the Skype buttons or Kopete.

Any ideas? Thanks


$ uname -a
Linux test 3.1.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 14 08:02:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux


$ aptitude show iceweasel
Package: iceweasel   
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 8.0-3+b1
Priority: optional
Section: web
Maintainer: Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages 
pkg-mozilla-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Uncompressed Size: 5,875 k
Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.5), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (= 
2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.10),
 libnspr4-0d (= 1.8.0.10), libstdc++6 (= 4.1.1), fontconfig, procps, 
debianutils (= 1.16),
 xulrunner-8.0 (= 8.0-3+b1)
Suggests: ttf-lyx | latex-xft-fonts, xfonts-mathml, ttf-mathematica4.1, 
mozplugger, libgssapi-krb5-2 |
  libkrb53
Provides: gnome-www-browser, www-browser
Description: Web browser based on Firefox
 Iceweasel is Firefox, rebranded. It is a powerful, extensible web browser with 
support for modern web
 application technologies.


$ aptitude show kopete
Package: kopete  
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 4:4.6.5-3
Priority: optional
Section: net
Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org
Uncompressed Size: 18.6 M
Depends: kdebase-runtime, kdepim-runtime, libc6 (= 2.4), libexpat1 (= 
1.95.8), libgadu3 (= 1:1.8.0+r592),
 libgif4 (= 4.1.4), libglib2.0-0 (= 2.12.0), libidn11 (= 1.13), 
libjasper1, libkabc4 (= 4:4.6),
 libkcmutils4 (= 4:4.6), libkde3support4 (= 4:4.6), libkdecore5 (= 
4:4.6), libkdeui5 (= 4:4.6),
 libkdnssd4 (= 4:4.6), libkemoticons4 (= 4:4.6), libkhtml5 (= 
4:4.6), libkio5 (= 4:4.6),
 libkmime4 (= 4:4.6), libknewstuff2-4 (= 4:4.6), libknotifyconfig4 
(= 4:4.6), libkopete4 (=
 4:4.6.1), libkparts4 (= 4:4.6), libkpimidentities4 (= 4:4.6), 
libmeanwhile1 (= 1.0.2),
 libmediastreamer0 (= 3.3.2), libmsn0.3 (= 4.1~), libortp8 (= 
3.3.2), libotr2 (= 3.2.0),
 libphonon4 (= 4:4.2.0), libqca2 (= 2.0.2), libqimageblitz4 (= 
1:0.0.4), libqt4-dbus (= 4:4.5.3),
 libqt4-network (= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-qt3support (= 4:4.5.3), 
libqt4-sql (= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-xml (=
 4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (= 4:4.7.0~beta2), libqtgui4 (= 4:4.5.3), 
libsolid4 (= 4:4.6), libssl1.0.0
 (= 1.0.0), libstdc++6 (= 4.6), libv4l-0 (= 0.5.0), libx11-6, 
libxml2 (= 2.7.4), libxslt1.1 (=
 1.1.25), phonon, zlib1g (= 1:1.1.4)
Recommends: libqca2-plugin-ossl, libqt4-sql-sqlite
Suggests: kdeartwork-emoticons, khelpcenter4, texlive-latex-base
Description: instant messaging and chat application
 Kopete is an instant messaging and chat application with support for a wide 
variety of services, such as
 AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, MSN, and Jabber.  Advanced features and additional protocols 
are available as plugins. 
 
 This package is part of the KDE networking module.
Homepage: http://www.kde.org/


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Re: OT: Javascript regex Q

[T Elcor]

--- On Wed, 10/5/11, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote:

  
  Is there a way to write a single Javascript regex that
 would match all of the following three patterns:
  
    a.domain.tld
    b.domain.tld
      domain.tld/c/
 

 
 /.*/
 
 Or, perhaps you're after /domain.tld/
 
 Either should work, though I'd expect the first to be
 quicker in your case.

No, this isn't what I'm looking for. I'm not after blocking everything or the 
whole domain.tld, only the three above URI patterns.

I came across this trying to rewrite my ad blocking list in a more elegant way, 
but couldn't see any obvious way to make it with one regex without blocking 
more than necessary.

Thanks


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Re: OT: Javascript regex Q

[T Elcor]

--- On Wed, 10/5/11, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br wrote:

 ^(a\.)?domain\.tld(\/c\/)?$
 
 JavaScript syntax might be slightly different, but that's
 the idea.

I had similar idea
   (a\.|b\.|)domain\.tld(|/c/) 
but just like your regex it would block the whole domain.tld as well, which 
isn't what I want.


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Re: OT: Javascript regex Q

[T Elcor]

--- On Wed, 10/5/11, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br wrote:

 Well, ([ab]\.domain.tld)|(domain.tld/c/)
 
 should work and is one regexp, but it is ugly.

Yeah, that should work but I was hoping there'd be a more elegant way of doing 
that.

 I'd use two separate ones

That's what I'm doing now.


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OT: Javascript regex Q

[T Elcor]

Hi,

Is there a way to write a single Javascript regex that would match all of the 
following three patterns:

  a.domain.tld
  b.domain.tld
domain.tld/c/

Thanks


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Re: Wheezy: Mouse cursor in FF/Iceweasel

[T Elcor]

--- On Thu, 8/18/11, Selim T. Erdogan se...@alumni.cs.utexas.edu wrote:

 Go to the configuration page by typing about:config in
 your address bar.  
 This'll get you a huge list of things you can
 configure.  Filter by cursor.
 You should see ui.use_activity_cursor.  Make its
 value true.

It worked, thanks.


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Wheezy: Mouse cursor in FF/Iceweasel

[T Elcor]

Hi,

I remember there was a time when FF/Iceweasel would change a regular 
arrow-shaped mouse cursor to arrow with hourglass when Iceweasel was busy 
doing something like, for example, retrieving a page. Now the cursor just stays 
arrow while Iceweasel is retrieving the page, which may be confusing when it 
takes a while for the new page to show up.

I'm using Oxygen Chrome cursor theme in KDE and it appears there's a busy 
cursor in that theme but for some reason Iceweasel doesn't appear to be using 
it.

Any ideas? Thanks


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Wheezy: KDE 4.7.x plans?

[T Elcor]

Hi,

Anybody know when/if KDE 4.7.x will make it to wheezy? It should, hopefully, 
resolve some issues I have with KDE 4.6.5

Thanks


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Re: Debian 7 'Wheezy' to introduce multiarch support

[T Elcor]

--- On Tue, 7/26/11, Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net wrote:

 I have a very naive question regarding the multiarch
 transition:
 will the upgrade of Debian box from Squeeze to Wheezy be
 messy ? or as smooth as previous upgrades ?

In my case, the upgrade from squeeze to wheezy was rather straightforward and 
no more difficult than previous upgrades.


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Re: Wheezy: Ctrl+F (find file) doesn't work in Konqueror?

[T Elcor]

--- On Wed, 7/6/11, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote:

  Strangely, Ctrl+F no longer works for me in Konqueror
 (nothing
  happens) in Wheezy. Was the find file functionality
 removed from
  Konqueror or is it a bug?
 
 Perhaps your key bindings changed.  (Ctrl-F would
 search text on a web
 page, not find files by default.)  In testing,
 konqueror is messed up so
 badly that it's unusable.
 

The problem is the find file functionality doesn't appear to be in the 
konqueror at all, at least I can't find a way to access it. It's not in the 
konqueror menu, Ctrl+F doesn't work... not a good change.

Is there a way to get it back? Thanks



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Re: Wheezy: Ctrl+F (find file) doesn't work in Konqueror?

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--- On Wed, 7/6/11, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:

 Maybe you're facing this KDE upstream bug, solved at 4.7.0
 
 KFind has no menu item under Tools in Konqueror or Dolphin
 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253398
 
 Greetings,
 
 -- 
 Camaleón

Thanks, looks very close. Find file (Ctrl+F) does work in Dolphin though and it 
does have a menu item under Edit.

KDE 4.x.x looks like a horrible disaster that never ends. Time to start looking 
for another desktop.



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Re: Wheezy: Ctrl+F (find file) doesn't work in Konqueror?

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--- On Wed, 7/6/11, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:

 Have you looked at Trinity?
 
 Lisi

Trinity looks very nice. I was hoping KDE 4.x.x would get their act together 
but now I'm no longer sure. We'll see.

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Re: [wheezy] KDE hangs on logout

[T Elcor]

--- On Tue, 7/5/11, Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote:

 
  01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies
 Inc RS880 [Radeon
 {snipped}
  Radeon backlight functions on i A
  xserver-xorg-video-radeon       
          - X.Org X server --
 AMD/ATI
 {snipped}

 
 I've just seen this on my laptop, which uses ATI/Radeon
 video hardware.
 Like you, only a hard reset worked, as the keyboard seemed
 to be 'dead'
 on exit from a KDE session.
 
 I installed the (non-free) fglrx-glx driver and my problems
 were
 resolved.


Are you running squeeze or wheezy? 

The fglrx-glx description suggests installing xserver-xorg-video-radeon 
instead, that's why I installed xserver-xorg-video-radeon. It was working fine 
in squeeze.

Thanks


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Wheezy: Ctrl+F doesn

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Re: Wheezy: Ctrl+F doesn't work in Konqueror

[T Elcor]

Hi,

Strangely, Ctrl+F no longer works for me in Konqueror (nothing happens) in 
Wheezy. Was the find file functionality removed from Konqueror or is it a bug?

Thanks


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[wheezy] KDE hangs on logout

[T Elcor]

Hi,

Am having problems with KDE in wheezy:

1. KDE hangs on logout (Kmenu-Leave-Logout). Logging out results in a blank 
black screen and the system just hangs there, hardware reset is needed to 
reboot the system. When rebooted the system restarts and KDE works fine with 
the exception that it doesn't remember previous display settings (see below).

2. KDE refuses to remember display resolution settings: I set it to 1600x1200 
and click the Save as Default button, yet after logging out (and hanging and 
resetting, see #1 above) KDE reverts to 1280x1024 Auto mode.

When I was upgrading to wheezy from squeeze, there were warnings that some 
drivers were moved to the non-free area but I didn't install any non-free 
drivers after the upgrade.

There was no problem with logging out of KDE in squeeze.


# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS880 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge 
(int gfx)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge 
(PCIE port 5)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller 
[IDE mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 
Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI 
Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 
Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI 
Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3c)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 
Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor 
HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address 
Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM 
Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor 
Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link 
Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]
01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS880 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4200]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI 
Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
03:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 
Controller (PHY/Link)


# aptitude search radeon
i A libdrm-radeon1- Userspace interface to 
radeon-specific kernel DRM se
p   libdrm-radeon1-dbg- Userspace interface to 
radeon-specific kernel DRM se
p   radeontool- utility to control ATI Radeon 
backlight functions on
i A xserver-xorg-video-radeon - X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI 
Radeon display driver 
p   xserver-xorg-video-radeon-dbg - X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI 
Radeon display driver (deb


# uname -a
Linux srv072 2.6.39-2-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 8 11:01:04 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux


Any ideas? Thanks


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Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

[T Elcor]

--- On Fri, 7/1/11, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote:

 What you have described is not sufficient to enable a
 hidden menu entry.
 It is unclear to me that you followed all the steps I
 outlined, please
 confirm that you did the following. *Pay particular
 attention to step 2.*

Yes, I missed the step 2. Now I've tried it and the File Manager - Super User 
Mode behaves seemingly in the same non-functional way, that is, shows up in 
the bottom launch panel like it's starting up, hangs there for about 15 secs, 
then shuts down/disappears. But it doesn't work.


 NOTE: for future reference - a command line suggestion
 prefaced by $
 means run as user, # means run as root.
 it's a good idea to only run commands as root *when no other way is possible* 
 ;-)

Good point, I agree.


  Assumption: you're running Squeeze (from uname
 -r)??
  
  # uname -a Linux testbox 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jan
 12 03:40:32
  UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
 
 Is that yes??

Yes, I'm running squeeze.


 Please post the entire, unmodified /etc/apt/sources.list

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list 
# 
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux squeeze-di-rc2 _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot 
amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20110121-20:07]/ squeeze main

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
## add non-free to install:  unrar
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze non-free
# security updates
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main

# Optionally install sources
#deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main



 Also the output, if any, of:-
 $ dpkg --get-selections sudo

$ dpkg --get-selections sudo
No packages found matching sudo


  I remember there was a way to access Run as a
 different
  user functionality from the Alt+F2 feature (when you
 click on the
  wrench) but now it seems to have gone.
 
 ??

By the wrench I mean an icon that resembles the wrench, you can see it on the 
left side of the Alt+F2 window. As I remember, a while ago it was possible to 
run an app through Alt+F2 and specify Run As a different user settings. Once 
you selected an app to run you'd click on the similar looking wrench icon 
next to the selected app and it would open a new window where you'd specify 
Run As a different user settings. Now I can no longer find a way to do that. 
Perhaps they removed that plugin or whatever from Alt+F2.


 It seems generally that your paths must be wrong since it is installed.
 What is your $PATH and can a KDE user compare to their own?

$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games


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Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

[T Elcor]

--- On Fri, 7/1/11, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote:

 What you have described is not sufficient to enable a
 hidden menu entry.
 It is unclear to me that you followed all the steps I
 outlined, please
 confirm that you did the following. *Pay particular
 attention to step 2.*

Yes, I missed the step 2. Now I've tried it and the File Manager - Super User 
Mode behaves seemingly in the same non-functional way, that is, shows up in 
the bottom launch panel like it's starting up, hangs there for about 15 secs, 
then shuts down/disappears. But it doesn't work.


 NOTE: for future reference - a command line suggestion
 prefaced by $
 means run as user, # means run as root.
 it's a good idea to only run commands as root *when no other way is possible* 
 ;-)

Good point, I agree.


  Assumption: you're running Squeeze (from uname
 -r)??
  
  # uname -a Linux testbox 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jan
 12 03:40:32
  UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
 
 Is that yes??

Yes, I'm running squeeze.


 Please post the entire, unmodified /etc/apt/sources.list

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list 
# 
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux squeeze-di-rc2 _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot 
amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20110121-20:07]/ squeeze main

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
## add non-free to install:  unrar
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze non-free
# security updates
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main

# Optionally install sources
#deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main



 Also the output, if any, of:-
 $ dpkg --get-selections sudo

$ dpkg --get-selections sudo
No packages found matching sudo


  I remember there was a way to access Run as a
 different
  user functionality from the Alt+F2 feature (when you
 click on the
  wrench) but now it seems to have gone.
 
 ??

By the wrench I mean an icon that resembles the wrench, you can see it on the 
left side of the Alt+F2 window. As I remember, a while ago it was possible to 
run an app through Alt+F2 and specify Run As a different user settings. Once 
you selected an app to run you'd click on the similar looking wrench icon 
next to the selected app and it would open a new window where you'd specify 
Run As a different user settings. Now I can no longer find a way to do that. 
Perhaps they removed that plugin or whatever from Alt+F2.

Anyway, I just discovered I can't run konqueror from Alt+F2 even without 
switching the user, with the similar non-functional effects: it starts, shows 
up in the app panel, hangs there for about 15 secs and then shuts down. Dolphin 
runs fine. Kwrite runs fine. Kate runs fine.

Weird. I use konqueror every day, the only difference I start it by clicking on 
the respective System tray icon or from the Favorites menu. And it works fine.

 It seems generally that your paths must be wrong since it is installed.
 What is your $PATH and can a KDE user compare to their own?

$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games


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Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

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--- On Sat, 7/2/11, T Elcor tel...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Anyway, I just discovered I can't run konqueror from Alt+F2
 even without switching the user

Never mind, it's fine.


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[SOLVED] Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

[T Elcor]

--- On Fri, 7/1/11, T Elcor tel...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To reproduce:
 1. Open the KDE Menu Editor
 2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste
 Konqueror to Konqueror-2)
 3. Goto the Advanced tab and check the Run as a
 different user checkbox
 4. Type root in the username box
 5. Save changes
 6. Run Konqueror-2 from the KDE Kickoff Application
 Laucher.
 
 Konqueror-2 shows up briefly in the applicaton panel at the
 bottom but it doesn't run.


Considering that I was going to need a couple of apps from testing anyway, I 
decided to upgrade to testing/wheezy. After upgrade the procedure described 
above worked fine from the very first time, konqueror runs as root without any 
issues.

Not sure why it didn't work in squeeze. Thanks to everybody for help.


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Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

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--- On Sat, 7/2/11, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote:

  
  Also the output, if any, of:- $ dpkg
 --get-selections sudo
  
  $ dpkg --get-selections sudo No packages found
 matching sudo
  
 
 And yet you say it was originally enabled... (?) :-/

Yes, it was working a while ago in squeeze and it's working now in wheezy, 
which I just upgraded to. In both cases sudo wasn't/isn't installed.

## Running wheezy now
$ uname -a
Linux textbox 2.6.39-2-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 8 11:01:04 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ dpkg --get-selections sudo
No packages found matching sudo.


 If I type konqueror into it - a drop-down list appears with
 konqueror in
 it - on the right-hand side of it is the wrench icon you
 refer to.
 http://ge.tt/9pOmkd5/v

I see drop-down list, I see konqueror but the wrench is still not there for 
me, even on wheezy. Weird.


 Regrettably I don't have time to pursue this at present.
 Some suggestions (shooting in the dark):-

I got it partially working so it's no longer critical, though ideally I'd like 
to find out what happened to my wrench in Alt+F2.

Thanks for your help.


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Can't run apps as root in KDE

[T Elcor]

Hi,

Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To reproduce:
1. Open the KDE Menu Editor
2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste Konqueror to Konqueror-2)
3. Goto the Advanced tab and check the Run as a different user checkbox
4. Type root in the username box
5. Save changes
6. Run Konqueror-2 from the KDE Kickoff Application Laucher.

Konqueror-2 shows up briefly in the applicaton panel at the bottom but it 
doesn't run.

Any ideas? Thanks




# uname -a
Linux testbox 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 03:40:32 UTC 2011 x86_64 
GNU/Linux


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Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

[T Elcor]

--- On Fri, 7/1/11, eqisow eqi...@gmail.com wrote:

  Am having problems running KDE apps as root. To
 reproduce:
 
  1. Open the KDE Menu Editor
 
  2. Setup a new app item (for example, copy and paste
 Konqueror to Konqueror-2)
 
  3. Goto the Advanced tab and check the
 Run as a different user checkbox
 
  4. Type root in the username box
 
  5. Save changes
 
  6. Run Konqueror-2 from the KDE Kickoff Application
 Laucher.
 
 
 
  Konqueror-2 shows up briefly in the applicaton panel
 at the bottom but it doesn't run.
 
 
 
  Any ideas? Thanks
 
 
 
 


 What happens if you leave the user blank? Not sure if
 that's the cause, but you shouldn't have to specify
 'root'.

Removing root doesn't seem to change anything.


 Have you tried;
 alt+F2 to get krunner (I think that it is called),  then enter:
 kdesu application-that-you-want-to-run-as-root enter


When I do Alt+F2, then type kdesu konqueror (without quotes) and then try to 
press Enter nothing happens, pressing Enter doesn't seem to have any 
effect. Have you tried it yourself?

Thanks


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Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

[T Elcor]

--- On Fri, 7/1/11, William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com wrote:

 Try the same command from a terminal window, and see what
 errors you get.

luser@testbox:~$ kdesu konqueror
bash: kdesu: command not found
luser@testbox:~$ whereis kdesu
kdesu: /usr/share/man/man1/kdesu.1.gz
luser@testbox:~$ which kdesu
luser@testbox:~$ 


# dpkg -S kdesu
kdebase-runtime: /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu
kdebase-runtime: /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesud
libkdesu5: /usr/share/doc/libkdesu5/TODO.gz
libkdesu5: /usr/share/doc/libkdesu5/changelog.Debian.gz
libkdesu5: /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu_stub
libkdesu5: /usr/share/doc/libkdesu5/NEWS.Debian.gz
libkdesu5: /usr/lib/libkdesu.so.5
libkdesu5: /usr/share/doc/libkdesu5/copyright
kdebase-runtime-data: /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kdesu/common
libkdesu5: /usr/share/doc/libkdesu5/README.gz
kdebase-runtime-data: /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kdesu
kdebase-runtime-data: /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kdesu/index.docbook
kdebase-runtime-data: /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kdesu/man-kdesu.1.docbook
kdebase-runtime-data: /usr/share/man/man1/kdesu.1.gz
libkdesu5: /usr/share/doc/libkdesu5
libkdesu5: /usr/lib/libkdesu.so.5.4.0
kdebase-runtime-data: /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kdesu/index.cache.bz2
libkdesu5: /usr/share/doc/libkdesu5/AUTHORS


# ls -l /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 54720 Jul 20  2010 /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdes

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Re: Can't run apps as root in KDE

[T Elcor]

--- On Fri, 7/1/11, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote:

 Did you enable sudo during the install?

I had this functionality working a while ago (I use it only occasionally), but 
then it stopped working. Maybe it was a security update that killed it or 
perhaps something else. Something has changed. I remember there was a way to 
access Run as a different user functionality from the Alt+F2 feature (when 
you click on the wrench) but now it seems to have gone.


 *By default Squeeze KDE has a hidden konqueror as root
 menu entry*
 did you try that? :-)

I enabled hidden items, saved the menu editor settings and even restarted KDE. 
Still the Kickoff Launcher doesn't show File Manager - Super User Mode item 
for me to run, so I can't run it. But the Launcher does show Konqueror-2 entry 
that I had a while back and then deleted. Where it still gets Konqueror-2 from 
I'm not sure.


 If that fails to produce a password prompt please post the
 output of:-
 $ ls -alL /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu

# ls -alL /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 54720 Jul 20  2010 /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu



 Assumption: you're running Squeeze (from uname -r)??

# uname -a
Linux testbox 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12
03:40:32 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux


Thanks


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