Re: vmware 1.0.8 (or .9) with 2.6.29

2009-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
Mirco Piccin wrote: HI I'm seriously thinking to switch to virtualbox ose... me too but my image will not boot in VB, I have taken a copy of the boot disks to see what I can do, but I am not hopeful - its a W2000 server image. This is the exact reason I want to move to VB from vmware I also

Re: vmware 1.0.8 (or .9) with 2.6.29

2009-05-06 Thread Mirco Piccin
HI >> I'm seriously thinking to switch to virtualbox ose... > > me too but my image will not boot in VB, I have taken a copy of the boot > disks to see what I can do, but I am not hopeful - its a W2000 server > image.  This is the exact reason I want to move to VB from vmware I also need to work

Re: vmware 1.0.8 (or .9) with 2.6.29

2009-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
Alex Samad wrote: I'm seriously thinking to switch to virtualbox ose... me too but my image will not boot in VB, I have taken a copy of the boot disks to see what I can do, but I am not hopeful - its a W2000 server image. This is the exact reason I want to move to VB from vmware I suspect

Re: lenny upgrade -> lost CPU temp monitor

2009-05-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,07.May.09, 00:39:51, Adam Hardy wrote: > I had the exact same problem when I upgraded from sarge to etch but I > lost the grey cells storing the memory of what I did to sort it out. > > Looking around the net, I'm not getting much beyond the idea that udev > should be creating something fo

Re: how to use mplayer to convert real media audio file to mp3

2009-05-06 Thread Long Wind
It didn't work ffmpeg says "Unsupported codec (id=0) for input stream" I use ffmpeg from debian-multimedia for etch On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 18:34, Long Wind wrote: >> I use etch >> Do you know the mplayer command to convert real media audio-

Re: ideas for Linux router?

2009-05-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 09:23:52PM -0400, Zachary Uram wrote: > Hello, > > I got an awesome deal today on a Linksys wired Etherfast Cable/DSL > router and 4 port switch - $5 USD at our local Goodwill Computer Store. > They get donations and then sell them (they are a non-profit corp. that helps >

Re: Problem increasing ip_conntrack_max on boot

2009-05-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:11:26PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > I added the following line in the file /etc/sysctl.conf > > net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max = 32768 > > in order to modify the value of ip_conntrack_max in boot time, but I > obtain the following error message: >

Re: cups virtual printer for PDF and print to file path

2009-05-06 Thread H.S.
Mark Shroyer wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 09:35:44PM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> Mark Shroyer wrote: >> > As far as I know, the "save to PDF" functionality provided in Ubuntu >>> (and I assume Sid is the same way) is through gtkprint, not CUPS-PDF. >>> The version of GTK in Lenny does not provide th

Re: how to use mplayer to convert real media audio file to mp3

2009-05-06 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 18:34, Long Wind wrote: > I use etch > Do you know the mplayer command to convert real media audio-only file > to a mp3 file? ffmpeg -i inputfile.ext -ar 44100 -ab 256 output.mp3 there is probably an mplayer version of this, but I don't know what it might be. I use this t

Re: termcap-compat in repository

2009-05-06 Thread Rod James Bio
Thanks for the info Roger. Maybe symlinking will do the job for me. -- Rod Roger Leigh wrote: On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 03:30:40PM +0800, Rod James Bio wrote: |I've been running to an error when I am installing "Sun Web Server". After running the setup-script i get: /usr/src/sun-webserver/

Re: cups virtual printer for PDF and print to file path

2009-05-06 Thread Mark Shroyer
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 09:35:44PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Mark Shroyer wrote: > > As far as I know, the "save to PDF" functionality provided in Ubuntu > > (and I assume Sid is the same way) is through gtkprint, not CUPS-PDF. > > The version of GTK in Lenny does not provide this, I don't know about >

Re: how to use mplayer to convert real media audio file to mp3

2009-05-06 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 09:34:58PM -0400, Long Wind wrote: > I use etch > Do you know the mplayer command to convert real media audio-only file > to a mp3 file? Nope, but I suggest you try out pacpl - multi-purpose audio converter/ripper/tagger script HTH Oli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 6 May 2009 18:46:29 -0400 JoeHill wrote: > Raquel wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 May 2009 11:39:25 -0400 > > JoeHill wrote: > > > > > Raquel wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, 6 May 2009 08:56:15 -0400 > > > > Christopher Judd wrote: > > > > > > > > > My son is fed up with Windows and wants

ideas for Linux router?

2009-05-06 Thread Zachary Uram
Hello, I got an awesome deal today on a Linksys wired Etherfast Cable/DSL router and 4 port switch - $5 USD at our local Goodwill Computer Store. They get donations and then sell them (they are a non-profit corp. that helps the disabled). The model number is: BEFSR41 version 3. What exactly can I

Re: cups virtual printer for PDF and print to file path

2009-05-06 Thread H.S.
Mark Shroyer wrote: > As far as I know, the "save to PDF" functionality provided in Ubuntu > (and I assume Sid is the same way) is through gtkprint, not CUPS-PDF. > The version of GTK in Lenny does not provide this, I don't know about > Squeeze. hmm... apt-cache searching gtkprint in Testing and

how to use mplayer to convert real media audio file to mp3

2009-05-06 Thread Long Wind
I use etch Do you know the mplayer command to convert real media audio-only file to a mp3 file? I try audacity: 1) connect lineout of sound card to linein 2) play real media audio with real player 3) use audacity to record the sound The result isn't good, there's noise and loss Thanks! -- To

Problem increasing ip_conntrack_max on boot

2009-05-06 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all! I added the following line in the file /etc/sysctl.conf net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max = 32768 in order to modify the value of ip_conntrack_max in boot time, but I obtain the following error message: error: "net.ipv4.ip_conntrack_max" is an unknown key My impression is that this

evince printer dialog

2009-05-06 Thread tyler
Hi, I'm trying to configure Evince, but the description in the help files doesn't seem to match what I see on the screen. In the `usage' section of the manual, it says the print dialog has three tabs, "printer", "job" and "paper". In the "printer" tab I should find the "printer", "settings" and "l

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Walter Lundby
Brad Rogers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 06 May 2009 10:17:48 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: Hello Frank, Similar thing happened to me! Synaptic was also removed along with some Python utilities. Is this part of what put me in python apt hell? At

Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

2009-05-06 Thread PierPaolo
...sorry: On Th(...) > > >> Less memory may mean more disk activity as you need more swapping and >> have less memory to cache access to the disk. More disk activity >> probably increases the power consumption (if the disk can't rest). >> >> -- >> > So can you put SWAP in a ram file ??? >

Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

2009-05-06 Thread PierPaolo
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 15:01, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 03:45:17PM +0200, Kaixi Luo wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm a new Linux user (currently using Debian 5 testing) and I've noticed > > that the battery of my laptop used to last much longer with Windows Vista > (4 > > hours) t

Re: cups virtual printer for PDF and print to file path

2009-05-06 Thread Mark Shroyer
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:47:12PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > My print to file box (Sid, IW 3.0.9) offers me a choice of ps or pdf. > > Mine doesn't. I too have the same version (3.0.9-1). I wonder if I am > missing some other package which provides this functinality in iceweasel. As

Spell check in OpenOffice Writer

2009-05-06 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently did a full install of Lenny, as opposed to my usual Sid. Spell checking in OpenOffice isn't working. Spell checking is selected, the dictionaries are selected in setup, but misspelled words are not underlined, or detected when I tell it t

lenny upgrade -> lost CPU temp monitor

2009-05-06 Thread Adam Hardy
I had the exact same problem when I upgraded from sarge to etch but I lost the grey cells storing the memory of what I did to sort it out. Looking around the net, I'm not getting much beyond the idea that udev should be creating something for me that it doesn't want to. I tried removing and p

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread JoeHill
Raquel wrote: > On Wed, 6 May 2009 11:39:25 -0400 > JoeHill wrote: > > > Raquel wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 6 May 2009 08:56:15 -0400 > > > Christopher Judd wrote: > > > > > > > My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his > > > > system, and run ubuntu or debian. The only

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread JoeHill
Raquel wrote: > On Wed, 6 May 2009 11:39:25 -0400 > JoeHill wrote: > > > Raquel wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 6 May 2009 08:56:15 -0400 > > > Christopher Judd wrote: > > > > > > > My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his > > > > system, and run ubuntu or debian. The only

Re: vmware 1.0.8 (or .9) with 2.6.29

2009-05-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:39:40PM +0200, Mirco Piccin wrote: > Hi, > my experience is similar to your. > I've strongly used vmware-server (1.08) installed in my job laptop. > After last kernel update, there was no way to recompile vmware network > modules. > I've tried any-any-update patch, tri

Re: 2.6.29 + nfs => reconnect_path: npd != pd

2009-05-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:01:47PM +0200, Stephan Austermühle wrote: > Hi Alex, > > same problem for me: > > [1099727.763258] reconnect_path: npd != pd > > The NFS client tells me "Stale NFS handle". Neither remounting the filesystem > nor rebooting the NFS client helped. > > NFS client:

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 6 May 2009 11:39:25 -0400 JoeHill wrote: > Raquel wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 May 2009 08:56:15 -0400 > > Christopher Judd wrote: > > > > > My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his > > > system, and run ubuntu or debian. The only thing holding him > > > back at this ti

Re: vmware 1.0.8 (or .9) with 2.6.29

2009-05-06 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi, my experience is similar to your. I've strongly used vmware-server (1.08) installed in my job laptop. After last kernel update, there was no way to recompile vmware network modules. I've tried any-any-update patch, tried any known fix but without success. The only vmware-server release that i

Re: [OT] Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

2009-05-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 11:09:22PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090506023930.gb12...@samad.com.au>, Alex Samad wrote: > >how can you create files in $HOME that the owner of $HOME can't delete > >? > > b...@monster:~$ sudo mkdir data > [sudo] password for bss: > b...@monster:~$ sudo

Re: HDD spinup when in sleep mode, strange behaviour

2009-05-06 Thread green
komodo wrote at 2009-05-06 02:02 -0500: > On Sunday 03 of May 2009 04:31:57 green wrote: > > komodo wrote at 2009-05-02 13:01 -0600: > > > Everything works fine, but now, every 30min i hear that disk is spined > > > up, and after ten seconds is spinned down. So i thought that the problem > > > is i

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Brad Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 06 May 2009 10:17:48 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: Hello Frank, >Similar thing happened to me! Synaptic was also removed along with > some Python utilities. Attempting to upgrade apt or apt-utils causes stuff to get removed, including Sy

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-05-06 20:44 +0200, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > >> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> >>> Everyone suffering from this bug should downgrade apt to 0.7.20.2 or, >>> even better, 0.7.20.2+lenny1 from stable-security.  T

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/06/09 19:44, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2009-05-06 16:40 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: >> >>> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:02:57AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman >>> was heard to say: I did my

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-05-06 20:44 +0200, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> Everyone suffering from this bug should downgrade apt to 0.7.20.2 or, >> even better, 0.7.20.2+lenny1 from stable-security.  Then aptitude, >> synaptic and other reverse dependencies of

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-05-06 16:40 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: > >> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:02:57AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman >> was heard to say: >>> I did my daily testing update this morning, and aptitude has >>> disappeared.  Attempts to apt-get insta

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-05-06 19:30 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Wed, 06 May 2009 16:56:23 +0200 > Sven Joachim wrote: > >> Alas, there has been an upload of apt to testing-security which >> broke things, because that version of apt provides >> libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.6 instead. I've informed the testing >

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,06.May.09, 13:30:07, Frank McCormick wrote: > > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > required: sg3-utils bluez-gnome python-gst0.10 libmtp8 ... > > What to do ?? Mark as manually installed the packages you know you need and let it remove the rest. Rega

Re: visible comments in grub

2009-05-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,06.May.09, 14:04:46, Bhasker C V wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to hide a menu item in grub but not hide it totally. > The need is something like this: > > Suppose I change some command line parameters in one of the OS I load > using grub, I would still want to see the old parameter lin

Re: squeeze, dns, fetchmail error

2009-05-06 Thread Hugh Lawson
Bhasker C V writes: > On Wed, 6 May 2009, Hugh Lawson wrote: > > fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of pop-server.triad.rr.com > > (pop-server.triad.rr.com): Name or service not known > > fetchmail: Query status=11 (DNS) Bhasker C V: > Is all the DNS servers in the resolv.conf co

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 06 May 2009 16:56:23 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > Alas, there has been an upload of apt to testing-security which > broke things, because that version of apt provides > libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.6 instead. I've informed the testing > security te

Re: filter utility to send cron e-mail only if unexpected output

2009-05-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a01ac7b.4010...@fgm.com>, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >Does Debian have any utility to address the following situation? Not that I know of. >I have some scripts that I run both manually and as cron jobs. The > scripts generate stdout/stderr output reporting what they're doing. > >I want to see t

Re: filter utility to send cron e-mail only if unexpected output

2009-05-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:27:55AM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Does Debian have any utility to address the following situation? > > I have some scripts that I run both manually and as cron jobs. The scripts > generate stdout/stderr output reporting what they're doing. > > I want to see the o

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:56:15AM -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: > Hi, > > My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his system, > and run ubuntu or debian. The only thing holding him back at this time > is itunes. Like most teenagers, he uses it regularly and has a rathe

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 07:42:36AM +0200, Leonardo Canducci wrote: > 2009/5/6 Michael Pobega : > > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:39:06PM +0200, Leonardo Canducci wrote: > >> > >> 1. cheap, light and small, otherwise no use for a netbook :) > >> > > > > Eee PC 901 :D > > > > 8.9" screen, 2.1 lbs weight

Re: logging writes to disk (keeping disk from spinning down)

2009-05-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [2009.03.09.2232 +0100]: > It would be nice to have harddrives spin down and up as needed, > even with RAID1, and theoretically, there is no reason that > couldn't happen. I just don't want to start thinking about the > problems that come from powering down and RAID1 in

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 6 May 2009 11:39:25 -0400 JoeHill wrote: > Raquel wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 May 2009 08:56:15 -0400 > > Christopher Judd wrote: > > > > > My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his > > > system, and run ubuntu or debian. The only thing holding him > > > back at this ti

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 6 May 2009 11:36:11 -0400 JoeHill wrote: > Raquel wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 May 2009 08:14:28 -0500 > > Neal Hogan wrote: > > > > > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Christopher Judd > > > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > >        My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it > >

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 06:58, Christopher Judd wrote: > On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Kumar Appaiah wrote: >> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:56:15AM -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: >> >     My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his >> > system, and run ubuntu or debian.  The only thing h

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread thveillon.debian
Christopher Judd wrote : > Hi, > > My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his system, > and run ubuntu or debian. The only thing holding him back at this time > is itunes. Like most teenagers, he uses it regularly and has a rather > large itunes library. Does anyone h

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread JoeHill
Christopher Judd wrote: > My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his system, > and run ubuntu or debian. The only thing holding him back at this time > is itunes. Like most teenagers, he uses it regularly and has a rather > large itunes library. Does anyone have expe

Re: squeeze, dns, fetchmail error

2009-05-06 Thread Bhasker C V
On Wed, 6 May 2009, Hugh Lawson wrote: How to troubleshoot this error? I've done hours of googling but can't find anything that helps. fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of pop-server.triad.rr.com (pop-server.triad.rr.com): Name or service not known fetchmail: Query status=11 (DNS) I

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 14:14:28 Neal Hogan wrote: > There are a handful of packages that can deal with an ipod (transfer > to and from). I've had success with Amarok. I understand that others > have used gtkpod and Banshee. My granddaughter uses Songbird and certainly seems happy with it. Lisi

Re: cups virtual printer for PDF and print to file path

2009-05-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
> In the second case, if I check the 'print to file' check box, I am asked > for the location but the printed file is a PS file instead of a PDF file. IIUC the "print to file" thingy is completely separate from CUPS and doesn't use it. It basically saves the file *before* passing it on the CUPS,

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread JoeHill
Raquel wrote: > On Wed, 6 May 2009 08:56:15 -0400 > Christopher Judd wrote: > > > My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his > > system, and run ubuntu or debian. The only thing holding him back > > at this time is itunes. > > You will hear a lot of "it works with $somepla

squeeze, dns, fetchmail error

2009-05-06 Thread Hugh Lawson
How to troubleshoot this error? I've done hours of googling but can't find anything that helps. fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of pop-server.triad.rr.com (pop-server.triad.rr.com): Name or service not known fetchmail: Query status=11 (DNS) If I replace "pop-server.triad.rr.com" wi

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread JoeHill
Raquel wrote: > On Wed, 6 May 2009 08:14:28 -0500 > Neal Hogan wrote: > > > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Christopher Judd > > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > >        My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from > > > his system, and run ubuntu or debian.  The only thing holding hi

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 6 May 2009 08:56:15 -0400 Christopher Judd wrote: > My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his > system, and run ubuntu or debian. The only thing holding him back > at this time is itunes. You will hear a lot of "it works with $someplayer". That is a VERY broad statem

filter utility to send cron e-mail only if unexpected output

2009-05-06 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Does Debian have any utility to address the following situation? I have some scripts that I run both manually and as cron jobs. The scripts generate stdout/stderr output reporting what they're doing. I want to see the output when I run the scripts manually. However, when the scripts are run by

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 6 May 2009 08:14:28 -0500 Neal Hogan wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Christopher Judd > wrote: > > Hi, > > > >        My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from > > his system, and run ubuntu or debian.  The only thing holding him > > back at this time is itunes.  

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-05-06 16:40 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:02:57AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman > was heard to say: >> I did my daily testing update this morning, and aptitude has >> disappeared. Attempts to apt-get install aptitude are so far >> unsuccessful, because of unmet depe

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:02:57AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman > was heard to say: >> I did my daily testing update this morning, and aptitude has >> disappeared.  Attempts to apt-get install aptitude are so far >> unsuccessful, because of unme

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:02:57AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman was heard to say: > I did my daily testing update this morning, and aptitude has > disappeared. Attempts to apt-get install aptitude are so far > unsuccessful, because of unmet dependencies. Attempts to install > those missing dependenci

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread thveillon.debian
Patrick Wiseman wrote : > I did my daily testing update this morning, and aptitude has > disappeared. Attempts to apt-get install aptitude are so far > unsuccessful, because of unmet dependencies. Attempts to install > those missing dependencies also fail, in particular the following: > > # apt-

Re: emacs snapshot and inconsolata

2009-05-06 Thread H.S.
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-05-06 01:25 +0200, H.S. wrote: > >> I am using emacs snapshot from >> deb http://emacs.orebokech.com sid main >> >> repo on a Debian Testing machine. I have observed that since the last >> several weeks, I am not able to select inconsolata as the buffer font. >> If I

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 06 May 2009 10:02:57 -0400 Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I did my daily testing update this morning, and aptitude has > disappeared. Attempts to apt-get install aptitude are so far > unsuccessful, because of unmet dependencies. Attempts to insta

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread Christopher Judd
On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:56:15AM -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: > > My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his > > system, and run ubuntu or debian. The only thing holding him back > > at this time is itunes. Like most teena

testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
I did my daily testing update this morning, and aptitude has disappeared. Attempts to apt-get install aptitude are so far unsuccessful, because of unmet dependencies. Attempts to install those missing dependencies also fail, in particular the following: # apt-get install libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6-4.6

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Christopher Judd wrote: > My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his system, > and run ubuntu or debian. The only thing holding him back at this time > is itunes. Sorry not directly related to your question, but anyway: I have never used itunes, but I use amarok on my

2.6.29.4 Woes

2009-05-06 Thread David Baron
Upgraded 2.6.29 kernel source from Sid. On boot, floods the screen with stuff like unix _struct disagrees This may be from udev trying to respond to a kunix.ko Did not know there was such an animal. Kernel is compiled using the same .config as worked in 2.6.29 1-3. Luckily, I have a 2.6.92

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:56:15AM -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: > My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his system, > and run ubuntu or debian. The only thing holding him back at this time > is itunes. Like most teenagers, he uses it regularly and has a rather > larg

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 06 Mai 2009, Christopher Judd wrote: Hi, My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his system, and run ubuntu or debian. The only thing holding him back at this time is itunes. Like most teenagers, he uses it regularly and has a rather large itunes library. Does

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Christopher Judd wrote: > Hi, > >        My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his system, > and run ubuntu or debian.  The only thing holding him back at this time > is itunes.  Like most teenagers, he uses it regularly and has a rather > large i

Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread Christopher Judd
Hi, My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his system, and run ubuntu or debian. The only thing holding him back at this time is itunes. Like most teenagers, he uses it regularly and has a rather large itunes library. Does anyone have experience running a recent ve

visible comments in grub

2009-05-06 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi all, I am trying to hide a menu item in grub but not hide it totally. The need is something like this: Suppose I change some command line parameters in one of the OS I load using grub, I would still want to see the old parameter line but inactive so that the line remains as a comment but i

Re: SheevaPlug

2009-05-06 Thread Christopher Judd
On Monday 04 May 2009, Daryl Styrk wrote: > ... > > I'm looking for some input from the list. Does anyone have one > running Debian? How's it working out for you? Would you consider the > SheevaPlug over the discontinued slug? How do you go about hooking > multiple drives into the unit as I've

Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

2009-05-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 03:45:17PM +0200, Kaixi Luo wrote: > Hello, > I'm a new Linux user (currently using Debian 5 testing) and I've noticed > that the battery of my laptop used to last much longer with Windows Vista (4 > hours) than with Debian (2.5 hours). How's that possible?I mean, Debian >

A little gift - Kousik

2009-05-06 Thread Kousik Maiti
Kousik Maiti belongs to Skoost and sent you a little gift. Click below to collect your gift: http://www.skoost.com/fun?debian%2Duser%40lists%2Edebian%2Eorg/15300299/10 P.S. This is a safe and innocent gift that Kousik Maiti sent from Skoost, the free goodies website. This e-mail was sent to debi

Re: nmap, script scan

2009-05-06 Thread Bhasker C V
On Wed, 6 May 2009, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: 2009/5/6 Bhasker C V But you had re-installed zenmap. Can you try re-installing nmap ? zenmap would just change the front-end but the back-end is still corrupted. Try re-installing nmap package instead. purging zenmap remov

Re: nmap, script scan

2009-05-06 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/5/6 Bhasker C V > But you had re-installed zenmap. > Can you try re-installing nmap ? > zenmap would just change the front-end but the back-end is still corrupted. > > Try re-installing nmap package instead. > purging zenmap removes nmap also. So I reinstalled nmap but still the same. I even

Re: nmap, script scan

2009-05-06 Thread Bhasker C V
But you had re-installed zenmap. Can you try re-installing nmap ? zenmap would just change the front-end but the back-end is still corrupted. Try re-installing nmap package instead. On Wed, 6 May 2009, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: 2009/5/6 Bhasker C V On Wed, 6 May 2009, Umarzuki Mochlis wrot

Re: 2.6.29 + nfs => reconnect_path: npd != pd

2009-05-06 Thread Stephan Austermühle
Hi Alex, same problem for me: [1099727.763258] reconnect_path: npd != pd The NFS client tells me "Stale NFS handle". Neither remounting the filesystem nor rebooting the NFS client helped. NFS client: Linux n0030 2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 21:39:38 UTC 2009 x86_64 GN

Re: nmap, script scan

2009-05-06 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/5/6 Bhasker C V > On Wed, 6 May 2009, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > I wonder what could've caused this >> >> umarz...@ctrl:~$ nmap -A -T4 10.xx.xxx.29 >> >> Starting Nmap 4.62 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-05-06 15:07 MYT >> LUA INTERPRETER in nse_init.cc:763: /usr/shar

Re: emacs snapshot and inconsolata

2009-05-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-05-06 01:25 +0200, H.S. wrote: > I am using emacs snapshot from > deb http://emacs.orebokech.com sid main > > repo on a Debian Testing machine. I have observed that since the last > several weeks, I am not able to select inconsolata as the buffer font. > If I try to select inconsolata, the

Confirm Your Xmission Account !

2009-05-06 Thread Webmaster
Message-Id: <20090506091602.7da28...@http003.easynetonline.easynet.fr> Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 11:16:02 +0200 (CEST) Dear " Xmission" Account Subscriber, We are currently performing maintenance on our Digital webmail Server. We intend upgrading our Digital Xmission webmail Security Server f

Re: termcap-compat in repository

2009-05-06 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 03:30:40PM +0800, Rod James Bio wrote: > |I've been running to an error when I am installing "Sun Web Server". > After running the setup-script i get: > > /usr/src/sun-webserver/./.setup: error while loading shared libraries: > libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shared object

Re: nmap, script scan

2009-05-06 Thread Bhasker C V
On Wed, 6 May 2009, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: I wonder what could've caused this umarz...@ctrl:~$ nmap -A -T4 10.xx.xxx.29 Starting Nmap 4.62 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-05-06 15:07 MYT LUA INTERPRETER in nse_init.cc:763: /usr/share/nmap/scripts/robots.nse:4: module 'htt

termcap-compat in repository

2009-05-06 Thread Rod James Bio
|I've been running to an error when I am installing "Sun Web Server". After running the setup-script i get: /usr/src/sun-webserver/./.setup: error while loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Now I read somewhere that debian provid

nmap, script scan

2009-05-06 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
I wonder what could've caused this umarz...@ctrl:~$ nmap -A -T4 10.xx.xxx.29 Starting Nmap 4.62 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-05-06 15:07 MYT LUA INTERPRETER in nse_init.cc:763: /usr/share/nmap/scripts/robots.nse:4: module 'http' not found: no field package.preload['

Re: cups virtual printer for PDF and print to file path

2009-05-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 05 May 2009 21:47:12 -0400 "H.S." wrote: Hello H.S., > Mine doesn't. I too have the same version (3.0.9-1). I wonder if I am > missing some other package which provides this functinality in > iceweasel. Does here, by using click boxes, next to the filename dialog. > The default locatio

Re: HDD spinup when in sleep mode, strange behaviour

2009-05-06 Thread komodo
On Sunday 03 of May 2009 04:31:57 green wrote: > komodo wrote at 2009-05-02 13:01 -0600: > > Everything works fine, but now, every 30min i hear that disk is spined > > up, and after ten seconds is spinned down. So i thought that the problem > > is in the smartd, which check disks every 30min's, but

Re: Retrieving the signal while plugging a USB key

2009-05-06 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 04:55:05PM +0200, User Debian wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know if there is a command I can type with Debian to > detect if a USB key has physically connected to the computer. > > My main concern is to get a signal, trace, alarm, etc related to the > physical conn