Re: lenny upgrade: font size

On 2009-04-13 08:07 +0200, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I just successfully upgraded Etch to Lenny. However, the font > size is now very small. I use Fluxbox, and the font size is small on > the desktop of Fluxbox (the bottom window panel), and within the > applications as well. Does anyone k

lenny upgrade: font size

Hello. I just successfully upgraded Etch to Lenny. However, the font size is now very small. I use Fluxbox, and the font size is small on the desktop of Fluxbox (the bottom window panel), and within the applications as well. Does anyone know how this can be fixed? Mark PS, While I'm happy with

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2009 #643

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 09:34:27 -0400 Leonardo Cuyar Morales wrote: > Hello I want to begin a new with this: > > I use sudo user to do some commands like root but after I "sudo su" to > become root I can't write archives and files owned by root, is there a > program who let me write this file

Re: Display problem after apt-get dist-upgrade

On 2009-04-13 07:48 +0200, Kuang Chen wrote: > I apt-get and apt-get dist-upgraded everyday and I think > several xorg-related and intel graphics card got upgraded a > few days ago. Then the display of my computer got messed > up. The windows repait themselves slowly when they are

Re: new KDE (4.2) in Unstable, how's your experience?

On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:46:30 -0400 "H.S." wrote: > Hello, > > Has anybody been playing around with the new KDE we got a few days ago > in Sid? > > The graphics are nice, but looks like the GUI is not as fast or > responsive as the older one. This is on a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core > Process

Display problem after apt-get dist-upgrade

Hi, I apt-get and apt-get dist-upgraded everyday and I think several xorg-related and intel graphics card got upgraded a few days ago. Then the display of my computer got messed up. The windows repait themselves slowly when they are moved around: one can even see the obvious de

Re: vim

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > > hr mahan wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I would like to use vim as editor for my Fortran programs.  In Fedora vim >> colorizes the program's text.  I would like to have this option enabled on >> my Debian box as well.  What is the so

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 23:13:36 -0700 (PDT) Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > > Hi There, > > My friend told me about Home Server, and when I have a read about it, wow > The only feature that interest me is "Drive Extender" > > (taken from Windows Home Server Technical Brief - Drive Extender.docx) > "...

Re: [Partially solved] Re: Locale errors

I ran into this too. Same problem -- extra set of quotes in the environment variables after doing "sudo -i" . I put LANG=C LANGUAGE=C export LANG export LANGUAGE at the end of /root/.bashrc and the problem went away. But now that two of us have seen it, I think there's a bug in "sudo

Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

Hi, On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Long Wind wrote: > I have a cell phone > it can't play some mp3 > maybe it supports only 128K > So I want to convert hight quality mp3 to 128K > Which package in etch? I would recommend lame; it's in the multimedia repository (http://www.debian-multimedia.org

Re: Rsync Insists on Replacing Files

On Apr 12, 2009, at 7:42 PM, H.S. wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: rsync -av server::Data /MacRAID/Data/ (Forgot if that one required the "/" at the end or not. Whichever I used, it did copy directly to that directory without creating an extra subdirectory.) $> rsync /source/path /dest w

Re: Rsync Permissions Issue

On Apr 12, 2009, at 7:48 PM, H.S. wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Apr 12, 2009, at 12:20 PM, H.S. wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another. Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them so there was never a permission is

GlusterFS (was Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent)

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 04:08:30PM -0400, Stefan Monnier (monn...@iro.umontreal.ca) wrote: > > If someone has actual experience about dealing with lost > > disk in WHS, please tell us. > > Actually, I'd rather you don't tell us: just tell him. > This is a mailing list dedicated to Debian, so Win

Re: related to mail servers, mta and mda

H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > This is a beginner's (no experience with setting up mail servers) query > about MTA's and MUA's. I am trying to see if I can setup an mta or a > related application on my Debian machine which is being run as a router > for my home lan such that it can send email to an exte

Re: [Partially solved] Re: Locale errors

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 20:14, Celejar wrote: > So you seem to be correct; for some reason, in the sudo shell, the LC* > variables are getting extra quotes.  Any idea why?  [There's nothing > that looks interesting in root's '.bashrc'; it's basically empty.] Something to do with the preservati

[Partially solved] Re: Locale errors

On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:14:50 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > In <20090412201956.993b4446.cele...@gmail.com>, Celejar wrote: > >~# man cp > >man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct > > > >Or, while running aptitude: > > > >perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > >p

Re: Locale errors

On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:51:53 -0700 Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:19, Celejar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been seeing all sorts of errors related to locales in the root > > account, e.g.: > > > > ~# man cp > > man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct >

Re: related to mail servers, mta and mda

On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:53:11 -0400 "H.S." wrote: > Hello, > > This is a beginner's (no experience with setting up mail servers) > query about MTA's and MUA's. I am trying to see if I can setup an > mta or a related application on my Debian machine which is being > run as a router for my home lan

Re: Locale errors

In <20090412201956.993b4446.cele...@gmail.com>, Celejar wrote: >~# man cp >man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct > >Or, while running aptitude: > >perl: warning: Setting locale failed. >perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LANGUAGE = (unset), >

Re: xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers (in sid)

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 22:45, niclas w wrote: > 'xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers' > error message when starting amarik. > No sound when using amarok(or any other player). > But I hear the startup and shutdown jingle... > > Any ideas whats wrong or how to find whats wrong? > > Usin

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:42, Paul Scott wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:28, Paul Scott wrote: >>> There are no input.x11 devices in the hal database!  I clearly totally >>> missed some basic changes in Xorg.  I have been looking fo

Re: X and tty7

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 05:08:16PM +0930, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: > How can the association between X11 and tty7 changed? E.g. to tty24? > # > # Note that on most Debian systems tty7 is used by the X Window System, > # so if you want to add more getty's go ahead but skip tty7 if you run X. > > Wh

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

On Apr 12, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:28, Paul Scott wrote: On Apr 12, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,12.Apr.09, 01:40:41, Paul Scott wrote: Just go to sid, should work. As a minimum you probably need xserver-xorg-video-nv, xserver-

related to mail servers, mta and mda

Hello, This is a beginner's (no experience with setting up mail servers) query about MTA's and MUA's. I am trying to see if I can setup an mta or a related application on my Debian machine which is being run as a router for my home lan such that it can send email to an external email address. It d

Re: Locale errors

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:19, Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > I've been seeing all sorts of errors related to locales in the root > account, e.g.: > > ~# man cp > man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct > > Or, while running aptitude: > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. >

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:28, Paul Scott wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Sun,12.Apr.09, 01:40:41, Paul Scott wrote: >> Just go to sid, should work. As a minimum you probably need xserver-xorg-video-nv, xserver-xorg-input-evdev and hal.[1] If you >>>

Locale errors

Hi, I've been seeing all sorts of errors related to locales in the root account, e.g.: ~# man cp man: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct Or, while running aptitude: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANG

Re: Rsync Permissions Issue

Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2009, at 12:20 PM, H.S. wrote: > >> Hal Vaughan wrote: >>> I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another. >>> Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them so >>> there was never a permission issue. Now I'm trying to back

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

On Apr 12, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,12.Apr.09, 01:40:41, Paul Scott wrote: Just go to sid, should work. As a minimum you probably need xserver-xorg-video-nv, xserver-xorg-input-evdev and hal.[1] If you still have troubles please post the full Xorg.0.log. [1] You don't r

Re: Rsync Insists on Replacing Files

Hal Vaughan wrote: > > rsync -av server::Data /MacRAID/Data/ (Forgot if that one required the > "/" at the end or not. Whichever I used, it did copy directly to that > directory without creating an extra subdirectory.) $> rsync /source/path /dest will transfer the directory "path" into /dest

Re: Best way to install a new session manager

On Apr 11, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,11.Apr.09, 14:14:12, Rick Thomas wrote: After installing from the default CD (e.g. "businesscard") I'd like to make other session managers than Gnome available. (e.g. xfce or kde). What's the best way to do that so as to get all pa

DPL voice meeting live -was Re: Berkeleytip

Thanks for the reminder, Martin. :) [Reference: http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/ http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal ] Yes, yesterday I looked through the Debian website to find info about the elections, & read up on both candidate platforms, & the vote results had just been p

bluetooth headset no longer working

Hi, Running fairly uptodate Sid. In the past (most recently, several months ago?) I've successfully used a bluetooth headset; it no longer works. The headset connects (it shows as connected in the Gnome bluetooth applet, and I hear the various tones / beeps from the headset that it uses to signa

Re: Aptitude issue

Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:07:50 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: I'm having an issue with Aptitude that I'm not sure how to correct. I was having an issue with OpenOffice so I decided the easiest way to resolve the problem might be to completely remove it, then re-install it.

Re: [solved] How to set/change option for a specific input device with new Xorg+HAL

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 15:14, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 14:35, Florian Kulzer > wrote: > > > >> First of all, I would check if Xorg really uses the list of input >> devices from HAL. Here is what my log tells me now, with all former >> InputDevice sections and related entri

Re: Beginner's tip for transferring large directories between systems when sshd not allowed (e.g. between VMWare host and guest)

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 04:00:37AM -0700, DanKegel wrote: > Here's a tip that might come in handy when > transferring large directory trees between systems > where running sshd isn't allowed. > > I use vmware occasionally, and when I do, I sometimes need > to transfer large directory trees between

Re: Rsync Permissions Issue

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 09:45:05PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another. > Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them so > there was never a permission issue. Now I'm trying to back up from my > iMac to my Debia

Problems Upgrading librdf0

I'm running a mixed system, and currently have librdf0_1.0.8-1 installed. librdf0_1.0.8-2 recently migrated to testing and I keep running into bug 522103 during the upgrade. Specifically, librdf0 wants a new version of libsqlite3-0, but it apparently has a ABI (and based on my read, API) chang

Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

2009/4/13 Long Wind : > Thank Bob, but your command does not work. > > Below is output of your command: > Output #0, mp2, to 'real128.mp3': >  Stream #0.0: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128000 kb/s > Stream mapping: >  Stream #0.0 -> #0.0 > [mp2 @ 0xb7ec5f08]bitrate 128000 is not allowed in mp2 >

Re: [solved] How to set/change option for a specific input device with new Xorg+HAL

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 14:35, Florian Kulzer wrote: > First of all, I would check if Xorg really uses the list of input > devices from HAL. Here is what my log tells me now, with all former > InputDevice sections and related entries in ServerLayout commented out: > > $ grep -i hal /var/log/Xor

Re: I can not run KDE - it simply hangs on booting when splash screen shows blinking HDD.

2009/4/13 Sthu Deus : > Good day. > > I can not run KDE - it simply hangs on booting when splash screen shows > blinking HDD. > > I use therefore WM for now, but when I run KDE apps. I see long hanging > before I actually see the apps. itself: kate (this one complains on > mime/types), korhanizer,

Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

Thank Bob, but your command does not work. Below is output of your command: FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-pthreads --enable-vorbis --enable-libogg --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-libgsm --enable-dc1394 -

Re: [solved] How to set/change option for a specific input device with new Xorg+HAL

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 13:51:21 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 00:02, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sat,11.Apr.09, 12:45:34, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > > > >> I have personally not gotten the fdi file to have any effect, so I > >> use setxkbmap in my xinitrc. However, I have

Re: xserver woes (ATI Radeon) after upgrade to xorg 1.7.4

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:46:31PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > However, I still cannot get the desktop extended across both monitors. > I can either get one monitor or a clone mode, but xrandr fails this > command: > > $ xrandr --output DVI-0 --left-of DVI-1 > xrandr: screen cannot b

Re: [solved] How to set/change option for a specific input device with new Xorg+HAL

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 00:02, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,11.Apr.09, 12:45:34, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> I have personally not gotten the fdi file to have any effect, so I >> use setxkbmap in my xinitrc. However, I have seen plenty of >> blog posts where people got it working with no trouble.

Re: Making ATI and Broadcom work on a Lenny laptop

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 09:01, Klistvud wrote: > Dne sobota 11 april 2009 ob 21:26:49 je Kelly Clowers napisal(a): >> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:03, Klistvud wrote: >> > Howdie! >> > >> > Anyone tried to make an ATI 1200 and a BCM4328 work on a Lenny laptop? I >> > am trying to finalize my Lenny

apt-p2p

Is apt-p2p safe? I just read it on slashdot, does anybody use it?

Re: Missing dependencies of soundtracker

On Sunday 12 April 2009 20:51, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 18:07:03 +0200, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: > > Florian Kulzer pisze: > >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:00:14 +0200, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I would like to install soundtracker (it's one of the best tr

Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

> So I want to convert high quality mp3 to 128K > Which package in etch? Not sure about MP3, but at least for Ogg `sox' works fine for such tasks and it does support MP3. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

> If someone has actual experience about dealing with lost > disk in WHS, please tell us. Actually, I'd rather you don't tell us: just tell him. This is a mailing list dedicated to Debian, so Windows discussions are off-topic. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: reduce XFS

>> ps.: or is there any other stable FS that supports online shrink/extend? > ext3 (probably also ext4), but I never tried it myself. Everytime I tried, ext3 refused to shrink online. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: disk space used by apt

Javier Barroso: >> * Marcin K?apkowski [090412 18:19 +0200] >>> >>> Is there any locking mechanism which allow avoid eating whole disc by apt? -- snip > This option in apt config help: APT::Archives::MaxAge Thanks for that! Unfortunately, the only place where I can find it documented is /etc/cron

I can not run KDE - it simply hangs on booting when splash screen shows blinking HDD.

Good day. I can not run KDE - it simply hangs on booting when splash screen shows blinking HDD. I use therefore WM for now, but when I run KDE apps. I see long hanging before I actually see the apps. itself: kate (this one complains on mime/types), korhanizer, k3b, terminal-emu... If You have an

Re: Rsync Permissions Issue

On Apr 12, 2009, at 12:20 PM, H.S. wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another. Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them so there was never a permission issue. Now I'm trying to back up from my iMac to my Debian ser

Re: disk space used by apt

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 20:46:23 +0200, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: > Javier Barroso pisze: >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Elimar Riesebieter >> wrote: >> >>> * Marcin Kłapkowski [090412 18:19 +0200] >>> Hi, I have problems with wolfing disk space by apt. After I'm doing

Re: Missing dependencies of soundtracker

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 18:07:03 +0200, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: > Florian Kulzer pisze: >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:00:14 +0200, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I would like to install soundtracker (it's one of the best tracker >>> I've heard and used before). >>> I'm using sid,

Re: disk space used by apt

Javier Barroso pisze: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * Marcin K?apkowski [090412 18:19 +0200] Hi, I have problems with wolfing disk space by apt. After I'm doing some upgrades, I have a lot of apt archive files. When I do apt-get update, or whatever with ap

Error compiling oomon-2.3.1

OOMon has been configured with the following options: Binaries: /home/steffan/oomon/bin Configuration files: /home/steffan/oomon/etc Log files: /home/steffan/oomon/logs Perl-Compatible Regular Expres

Rsync Insists on Replacing Files

At this point my workstation is an iMac and my server is running Lenny. I've had this happen before, though, with two Linux computers, which leads me to think it's rsync and the issue is OS agnostic. I have two 1-terabyte RAIDs, one on my server, one on my workstation. In the past this wa

Re: Updated Squeeze, X won't start

On 2009-04-12 18:24 +0200, Carl Fink wrote: > This morning, I found my Squeeze system totally frozen. Well, that's false, > it would display the X screen (icewm as wm), but changing to a different > desktop failed, I couldn't scroll or make any buttons react to the mouse, > etc. > > I could use Ct

Re: Problems when audio capturing with headset

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 15:37:20 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm trying to test the operation of my headset in Debian GNU/Linux > Squeeze to be able to use it with a softphone. Although the sound works > with the rest of the applications with the headphone, in order to listen > what

Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 09:05:49 -0400, Long Wind (longwind2...@gmail.com) wrote: > I have a cell phone > it can't play some mp3 > maybe it supports only 128K > So I want to convert hight quality mp3 to 128K > Which package in etch? > mplayer maybe, but can you tell me all the command options? >

Re: Rsync Permissions Issue

On Apr 12, 2009, at 12:20 PM, H.S. wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another. Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them so there was never a permission issue. Now I'm trying to back up from my iMac to my Debian ser

Re: postgresql & sid

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 00:58:05 +0430, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > Dear all, > When i use dpkg -l "postgresql*" i see following output: [ snip: the relevant packages seem to be installed ] > When i use debian:/home/mohsen# /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 start > debian:/home/mohsen# > > I didn't

Updated Squeeze, X won't start

This morning, I found my Squeeze system totally frozen. Well, that's false, it would display the X screen (icewm as wm), but changing to a different desktop failed, I couldn't scroll or make any buttons react to the mouse, etc. I could use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to reach a VT, but that also ignored the keybo

ALSA configuration problems

Hi, I have Etch on AMD Sempron 3000. i have no problems playing audio CDs or DVDs.  But if I try stream video there is no sound at all.  Mlayer stated the following error: alsa-lib: 'pcm_hw.c:1248:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy' I fact the device pcmC0D0

New version of kernel-package now in unstable

Hi, This brings to an end an enhancement for kernel-package that have been in development for over an year. These changes make kernel-package more nimble (you can just update the sources, hack on a file, and run make-kpkg and it should just work to incorporate your changes, no need for

Re: disk space used by apt

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Marcin K?apkowski [090412 18:19 +0200] >> Hi, >> >> I have problems with wolfing disk space by apt. After I'm doing some >> upgrades, I have a lot of apt archive files. When I do apt-get update, >> or whatever with apt, it gives me tha

Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Long Wind wrote: > I have a cell phone > it can't play some mp3 > maybe it supports only 128K > So I want to convert hight quality mp3 to 128K > Which package in etch? > mplayer maybe, but can you tell me all the command options? > Thanks! You can also convert the

Re: disk space used by apt

* Marcin K?apkowski [090412 18:19 +0200] > Hi, > > I have problems with wolfing disk space by apt. After I'm doing some > upgrades, I have a lot of apt archive files. When I do apt-get update, > or whatever with apt, it gives me that results: > > # du --max-depth 1 -h / | grep [0-9]G | sort -nr

Re: Rsync Permissions Issue

Hal Vaughan wrote: > I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another. > Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them so > there was never a permission issue. Now I'm trying to back up from my > iMac to my Debian server. I can't put the iMac on NIS (or proba

disk space used by apt

Hi, I have problems with wolfing disk space by apt. After I'm doing some upgrades, I have a lot of apt archive files. When I do apt-get update, or whatever with apt, it gives me that results: # du --max-depth 1 -h / | grep [0-9]G | sort -nr 3,0G var 2,5G var/cache # du --max-depth 1 -h /

Re: Flashdrive, read-only, cannot write

On Sunday 12 April 2009 11:05:29 am Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > I had this flash drive for a few months and a few days ago, I > couldn't store data in it. I even try to reformat it but it just > won't let me. Any suggestion before I buy a new one? There was a thread on slashdot on this subject withi

Re: Missing dependencies of soundtracker

Florian Kulzer pisze: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:00:14 +0200, Marcin K�apkowski wrote: Hi, I would like to install soundtracker (it's one of the best tracker I've heard and used before). I'm using sid, and in repo there is version 0.6.8-2+b1 of soundtracker. But, I get missing dependenci

Re: Rsync Permissions Issue

Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another. Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them so there was never a permission issue. Now I'm trying to back up from my iMac to my Debian server. I can't put the iMac on NIS (or probably

Re: Making ATI and Broadcom work on a Lenny laptop

Dne sobota 11 april 2009 ob 21:26:49 je Kelly Clowers napisal(a): > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:03, Klistvud wrote: > > Howdie! > > > > Anyone tried to make an ATI 1200 and a BCM4328 work on a Lenny laptop? I > > am trying to finalize my Lenny installation on a HP Compaq 6715b and have > > a few qu

usermod change username problem

Dear Debian community: I have got a specific problem using usermod to change my previous username olduser to newuser. This is what I use: sudo usermod -l newuser -md /home/newuser olduser[:w newuser is the new login name and -md use /home/newuser as the new home directory and moves /home/olduser

Re: Missing dependencies of soundtracker

On Sunday 12 April 2009 16:00, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to install soundtracker (it's one of the best tracker I've > heard and used before). > I'm using sid, and in repo there is version 0.6.8-2+b1 of soundtracker. > But, I get missing dependencies: > > # sudo apt-get install

Packages cannot be authenticated

What is the significance of this message, when installing from a downloaded (with Jigdo) Lenny DVD? "WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! postgresql-pltcl-8.3" (I went ahead and installed it.) -- Miguel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: X and tty7

On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: I would set 'FirstVT=24' in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and then edit /etc/inittab to add as many consoles as needed if this is what you want (personally Thanks. -- Miguel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Ton of Lenny updates

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:17:40PM +0100, Russell Gadd wrote: > There are 59 updates waiting for me to install. I never had this many when > I ran Etch for a couple of years, is something odd happening? 5.0r1 http://debian.org/News/2009/20090412 Etch also got another update: http://debi

Missing dependencies of soundtracker

Hi, I would like to install soundtracker (it's one of the best tracker I've heard and used before). I'm using sid, and in repo there is version 0.6.8-2+b1 of soundtracker. But, I get missing dependencies: # sudo apt-get install soundtracker ... Następujące pakiety mają niespełnione zależności:

Re: Ton of Lenny updates

On Sunday 12 April 2009 15:17:40 Russell Gadd wrote: > There are 59 updates waiting for me to install. I never had this many when > I ran Etch for a couple of years, is something odd happening? As a result of your email I have just updated (last night there were no updates!). There were 53 upda

Re: reduce XFS

On Sun,12.Apr.09, 14:24:10, Erik Xavior wrote: > I was only thinking that XFS size can be extended with "xfs_growfs" after an > lvextend - online. But is there a stable way to shrink XFS size online? With > LVM it would be great :D :) > Thank you! As far as I recall from several sources (and a Go

Flashdrive, read-only, cannot write

I had this flash drive for a few months and a few days ago, I couldn't store data in it. I even try to reformat it but it just won't let me. Any suggestion before I buy a new one? Disk /dev/sdc: 2004 MB, 2004877312 bytes 16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 7648 cylinders Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 2

Vuze, port 27714

I'm using lenny amd64. It's weird that vuze keeps pestering me about port 27714 being closed since there's no rule blocking that port on iptables ctrl:~# iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt

Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:47:08PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: > Here's my current backup arrangement: > > Data is stored in filesystems on LVM volumes over RAID1. While RAID1 > presents some protection from disk failure, it gives no protection > against data corruption due to flaky hardware or

Re: X and tty7

On Sun,12.Apr.09, 14:35:28, Sven Joachim wrote: > > If I read the comments right gdm will allocate VT 7 to X11 (don't > > know what happens if VT 7 is already taken by getty or so). > > I don't use gdm, but this behavior seems broken to me. Why can't it > just use the first available VT by defa

Re: Missing dependencies of soundtracker

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:00:14 +0200, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to install soundtracker (it's one of the best tracker I've > heard and used before). > I'm using sid, and in repo there is version 0.6.8-2+b1 of soundtracker. > But, I get missing dependencies: > > # sudo apt-

Ton of Lenny updates

There are 59 updates waiting for me to install. I never had this many when I ran Etch for a couple of years, is something odd happening?

which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

I have a cell phone it can't play some mp3 maybe it supports only 128K So I want to convert hight quality mp3 to 128K Which package in etch? mplayer maybe, but can you tell me all the command options? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: X and tty7

On 2009-04-12 13:49 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,12.Apr.09, 20:05:30, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >>> On Sun,12.Apr.09, 17:08:16, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: How can the association between X11 and tty7 changed? E.g. to tty24? >>> >>> It depe

Re: reduce XFS

I was only thinking that XFS size can be extended with "xfs_growfs" after an lvextend - online. But is there a stable way to shrink XFS size online? With LVM it would be great :D :) Thank you! ps.: or is there any other stable FS that supports online shrink/extend?

Re: smbumount would nout unmount as user

On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:52:19 + (UTC), Virgo P??rna wrote: > I just upgraded Debian Eth system to Lenny (and also upgraded kernel and > changed > from k7 version to amd64 version). Now I'm having a problem. When I mount > share from > Windows XP machine with smbmount, then I cannot unmo

Re: X and tty7

On Sun,12.Apr.09, 20:05:30, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: > On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Sun,12.Apr.09, 17:08:16, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: >>> How can the association between X11 and tty7 changed? E.g. to tty24? >> >> It depends on how you start X. Also (not what you asked for), but

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

On Sun,12.Apr.09, 01:40:41, Paul Scott wrote: >> Just go to sid, should work. As a minimum you probably need >> xserver-xorg-video-nv, xserver-xorg-input-evdev and hal.[1] If you >> still >> have troubles please post the full Xorg.0.log. >> >> [1] You don't really need hal, but it's more work to

Beginner's tip for transferring large directories between systems when sshd not allowed (e.g. between VMWare host and guest)

Here's a tip that might come in handy when transferring large directory trees between systems where running sshd isn't allowed. I use vmware occasionally, and when I do, I sometimes need to transfer large directory trees between the host and guest. The corporate Linux laptop I'm using doesn't allo

Re: Aptitude issue

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:07:50 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: > I'm having an issue with Aptitude that I'm not sure how to correct. I > was having an issue with OpenOffice so I decided the easiest way to > resolve the problem might be to completely remove it, then re-install > it. That is when the

Re: [OT] Cursing Re: Dell Precision Workstation T7400 - 32bit

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:18:52AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <49db1705.8060...@gmail.com>, Avi Greenbury wrote: > >Cassiel wrote: > >> It comes with the f***ing vista pre-installed and (obviously) I want to > >> install debian. > >Also, in general, if it's not appropriate to write a

Re: Consolechars Question

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:57:36AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Start mutt like so: > > chr...@box:~$ LANG=C mutt > > Once started, type ! > > then when you see "Shell command:" type: > > echo $LANG > > it should display: > > C > > Ah-ha! The response to echo $LANG is en_US.UTF-8 both befor

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