On Wed,13.May.09, 13:21:37, Alex Samad wrote:
> Hi
>
> I noticed I can't get any 2.6.28 images from the repo's, I can find
> 2.6.26. But I don't want to go back that far.
>
> I am trying to build zaptel for 2.6.29 and it doesn't seem ready yet so
> I thought I would go back to 2.6.28
>
> Any re
On Wed,13.May.09, 00:33:51, Michael Casey wrote:
> If I del the # from
>
> #send host-name
> #send dhcp-client-identifier
>
> then I could ping the Debian pc by hostname
>
> but if I think of itI just comment it out, then the dhcp of my router
> will give good ip's, thanks :)
'send host-nam
I executed deluser --remove-all-files --backup and it
searched for files to remove and backed up three files from the user's
home directory -- but it left the user's home directory in place with
its contents. The group and user were deleted, so the remaining files
have owners of "500" -- the
Well,
It finally upgraded eog, but now it's transmission-gtk that has the
same problem...
=
greybox:~# aptitude -Pv safe-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states.
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 21:04, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> According to the Linux Kernel Archives: The latest stable version of
> the Linux kernel is: 2.6.29.3. So why is the latest kernel in
> testing 2.6.26?
Presumably, there were bugs that prevented newer versions from
migrating in from Sid.
Hi,
I would assume at some point you freeze changes to the distro so you can test
against a known setup, ie a case of manageability.
regards
Steven
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According to the Linux Kernel Archives: The latest stable version of
the Linux kernel is: 2.6.29.3. So why is the latest kernel in
testing 2.6.26?
Patrick
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On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:27:49AM +0300, Eftaxiopoulos Dimitrios wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a laptop with a 4 core CPU (CPU0, CPU1, CPU2, CPU3), running
> unstable/amd64. I want to run an executable in parallel, on all 4 cores in my
> machine. When I type
>
> mpirun -np 4 executable_name
>
> I g
I really did it this time. While looking over all my options carefully, I noted
that in the documentation for kuser -- kde's user manager -- there's a line
that says "delete users at your own risk"! That made me a little nervous about
deleting a user with any method I chose. So I noticed that I
Hi
I noticed I can't get any 2.6.28 images from the repo's, I can find
2.6.26. But I don't want to go back that far.
I am trying to build zaptel for 2.6.29 and it doesn't seem ready yet so
I thought I would go back to 2.6.28
Any reason its not there ?
Alex
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Nick Lidakis wrote:
> After a quite a bit of reading about this mutt mua people are so fond
> of, I had the nerve to try to put down Mozilla's Thunderbird down for
> a while and take the mutt for a walk.
>
> Using -among other online sources- the debian mutt wiki as a guide,
> I get mutt installe
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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 06:19:29PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
>
> I actually thought it was more appropriate to ask the Debian list as
> Mutt is just a MUA relying (as I understand it) on external tools to
> prcocess mail. When I asked if I horribly
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 06:08:09PM -0400, Daryl Styrk wrote:
> You should probably ask this at mutt-us...@mutt.org.was the spam
> finding its way to your INBOX? Were the messages flagged as spam with
> IceDove?
I actually thought it was more appropriate to ask the Debian list as
Mutt is just a
If I del the # from
#send host-name
#send dhcp-client-identifier
then I could ping the Debian pc by hostname
but if I think of itI just comment it out, then the dhcp of my router
will give good ip's, thanks :)
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Michael Casey wrote:
> when I finish a "Desktop
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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 04:50:23PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
> After a quite a bit of reading about this mutt mua people are so fond
> of, I had the nerve to try to put down Mozilla's Thunderbird down for
> a while and take the mutt for a walk.
>
>
Hello,
I have a laptop with a 4 core CPU (CPU0, CPU1, CPU2, CPU3), running
unstable/amd64. I want to run an executable in parallel, on all 4 cores in my
machine. When I type
mpirun -np 4 executable_name
I get the message:
ssh: connect to host my_machine_name port 22: Connection refused
In <985593.51811...@web110307.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>, Charlie Dorff wrote:
>I am new to debian and wanted to know if someone could recommend some good
> documentation or books about how to use debian.
I don't how you missed it:
http://www.debian.org/doc/
and
http://www.debian.org/doc/books
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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Charlie Dorff wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to debian and wanted to know if someone could recommend some good
> documentation or books about how to use debian. Thanks.
> Charlie
>
>
The best documentation/support that you could find is in:
http://www.debian.org/support
Hi,
I am new to debian and wanted to know if someone could recommend some good
documentation or books about how to use debian. Thanks.
Charlie
After a quite a bit of reading about this mutt mua people are so fond
of, I had the nerve to try to put down Mozilla's Thunderbird down for
a while and take the mutt for a walk.
Using -among other online sources- the debian mutt wiki as a guide,
I get mutt installed, configure a decent (for a ro
> I agree and think that a normal severity bug against html2ps is in order, if
> it is indeed true.
>From TFMP:
-e encoding --encoding encoding
The document encoding. Currently recognized values are ISO-8859-1,
EUC-JP, SHIFT-JIS, and ISO-2022-JP (other EUC-xx encodings may also
work). The
On Tue,12.May.09, 13:01:10, Michael Casey wrote:
> when I finish a "Desktop Debian" install, I always have to change the dhcp
> id, in: "/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf" because the "send dhcp-client-identifier"
> is always the same
>
> Is this a feature or a bug? :) or I must write a script to change th
On Tue,12.May.09, 12:15:55, T o n g wrote:
>
> # CD-RW_CRX195E1 (pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:0:0)
> ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:0:0",
> SYMLINK+="cdrom", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
> ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-:00:06.0-scsi-0:0:0:0",
> SYMLINK+="cdrw",
> a2ps can use lynx, but I doubt you want lynx-like output.
>
I will look into that, as the most complex thing here is a table (no
images). I think that lynx supports tables.
> There are some headless "browsers" out there, but most seem
> to be about testing, not output or they output images, not
In <1840f6970905121259r55fe9ef9k400d6ea3b114f...@mail.gmail.com>, Kelly
Clowers wrote:
>On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:30, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> 2) html2ps
>> Does not work with UTF-8 text!
>That is just pathetic in this day and age.
I agree and think that a normal severity bug against html2ps is in
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:30, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I need to convert an HTML document to PDF from the CLI. Currently, I
> am using a Firefox extension to do this:
> http://torisugari.googlepages.com/commandlineprint2
>
> However, this has many drawbacks and I would like to remove the
> dependency
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 03:49:41PM +0200, steef wrote:
> thanks daryl, i copied the file into /usr/bin and now it works.
> thanks for your patience. i should have known this myself
>
> kr.,
>
> steef
No problem. Let us know if it will accomplish what your after.
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problem solved:
I used
nfsvers=3
option in fstab
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Michael Casey wrote:
> I have an NFS share. I mounted it with mount. I can browse it in eg.:
> midnight commander, I can play a film from it with the command-line
> mplayer
>
> Why can't I browse the NFS dire
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 06:09, Mark Goldshtein
wrote:
> Hello, list!
>
> Would you, please, help me to correct a problem with improper
> displaying of some symbols? It takes place everywhere, from console
> output in Brasero to web pages in browser and window title. Couple
> examples are below, mp
Gav Ford wrote:
I have conky working fine with Lenny and Gnome, I needed to add the following
to the .conkyrc:
own_window yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,skip_taskbar
own_window_transparent yes
double_buffer yes
And comment out:
#own_window_type root
Which worked fine under
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> 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
Solved.
I removed gvfs and got my xfce4 up!
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I have an NFS share. I mounted it with mount. I can browse it in eg.:
midnight commander, I can play a film from it with the command-line
mplayer
Why can't I browse the NFS directory with Nautilus (GNOME) ??? :( - When I
open the NFS folder with Nautilus...it just waits...and waits :) :D :
I wrote:
> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> In <4a01ac7b.4010...@fgm.com>, Barclay, Daniel wrote:
...
>>> 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 scri
Op Mon, 11 May 2009 16:04:21 -0400 Edward C. Jones wrote:
> A while ago a big KDE update was put into unstable. I have not done
> the upgrade because synaptic wants to remove the following packages:
>
> ...
> kde-core
> kdeaddons
> kdebase
> ...
>
> Removing konqueror, kdebase, kde-core, and kcon
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 01:38:44PM +, Zoho Vignochi wrote:
[...] I want to use Xephyr to be able to log into another user account
without logging out of my user account. [...]
It works very well except for the keyboard. It maps the wrong keys.
You might be seeing Xorg bug #19365 [1].
[1]
Alex Samad wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:07:18PM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote:
>> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>>> 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
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On 05/12/09 09:11, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2009, Harry Rickards wrote:
>
>> On 12 May 2009, at 08:02, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
>>
>>> What is Lenny's default window manager?
>>>
>>> How do I configure gdm to use a different one?
>
>>
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:58:23PM +, T o n g wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:50:12 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
>
> > I'm using the VLC packages for sid/i386 from debian-multimedia.org.
>
> Are you sure? AFAIK, debian-multimedia doesn't contain vlc any more.
> What's your
>
> apt-cache policy
I try to start gonome and got this error output:
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
SESSION_MANAGER=local/laia:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/17100,unix/laia:/tmp/.ICE-unix/17100
1242136429.423451 Session manager: disconnected...
/usr/bin/gnome-session: symbol lookup error:
/usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvf
On May 12, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 05:31:40PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
greybox:~# aptitude -Pv safe-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package
T o n g wrote:
$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules
# This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_cd_rules
# program, run by the cd-aliases-generator.rules rules file.
#
# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single
# line, and set the $GENERATED
Harry Rickards wrote:
On 12 May 2009, at 07:42, JoeHill wrote:
Freddy Freeloader wrote:
Just an update on this. I have asked on #gnucash if the patch for this
bug can be backported to 2.2.6 upstream and they say this is a Debian
problem as it is fixed in Gnucash. They will not do anything to
Daryl Styrk wrote:
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 09:53:31AM +0200, steef wrote:
thank you daryl:
but now i am confused. i downloaded poweriso-1.3.tar.gz, unzipped it
with ark, and it opens like a windows-executive. what did i do wrong??
steef
No if I remember correctly that is correct..
Hello:
I am running debian unstable with GNOME. I want to use Xephyr to be able
to log into another user account without logging out of my user account.
There is a menu option "New Login in a Window" which issues the command:
gdmflexiserver --xnest
It works very well except for the keyboard. I
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 01:24:32AM -0500, M. Lewis wrote:
> I'm running Sid. I'm trying to install sun-java6-plugin, but aptitude is
> giving me 'untrusted package' warnings:
>
> moe:~# aptitude install sun-java6-plugin
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state in
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 05:31:40PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> greybox:~# aptitude -Pv safe-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions..
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:27:14PM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
>>> Please cc me as I am not currently subscribing to the list.
>>
>> Since you only just created the user, I'd just go ahead and delete it
>> (us
Hello, list!
Would you, please, help me to correct a problem with improper
displaying of some symbols? It takes place everywhere, from console
output in Brasero to web pages in browser and window title. Couple
examples are below, mplayer window title and Gmail web interface in
SeaMonkey.
I have n
On Tue, 12 May 2009 10:20:31 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > My DVD device is used to be /dev/dvd or /dev/dvdrw. But today
> > after I rebooted my box, there are no /dev/dvd or /dev/dvdrw
> > devices any more. They are changed to /dev/dvd1 and /dev/dvdrw1
> > instead.
>
> Those are usually symb
> Conky is one issue and a rather minor one at that and rates as an annoyance.
> It may just be that Gnome and Conky don't play nicely together, because
> trying it out on Fluxbox, Xfce4 and even KDE all is fine. Gnome however,
> well that is something I will continue to hack away at.
I have c
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 09:53:31AM +0200, steef wrote:
> thank you daryl:
>
> but now i am confused. i downloaded poweriso-1.3.tar.gz, unzipped it
> with ark, and it opens like a windows-executive. what did i do wrong??
>
> steef
No if I remember correctly that is correct.. put it in ~/bin and
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:12:59AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon,11.May.09, 22:27:57, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
>
> >> I usually (rightly or wrongly) vim /etc/passwd, then find / -uid 500 -exec
> >> chmod 1000 "{}" \; and maybe the same if I have to change the gid.
>
> > Let me see if I unde
Miguel Obliviemo:
> On Tue, 12 May 2009, Harry Rickards wrote:
>
>> On 12 May 2009, at 08:02, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
>>
>>> What is Lenny's default window manager?
>>>
>>> How do I configure gdm to use a different one?
>
>> I may be completely wrong here, but I *think* it's xfce4. To change
>
when I finish a "Desktop Debian" install, I always have to change the dhcp
id, in: "/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf" because the "send dhcp-client-identifier"
is always the same
Is this a feature or a bug? :) or I must write a script to change the dhcp
identifier to a random id :P
thank you
On Tue,12.May.09, 16:16:47, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Good day.
>
> I can not set up postfix to send email through SSL-connection (465). It
> works for plain connection (on 25 port) only.
>
> If You have any suggestion on what could be a culprit, I would like to
> know. I can provide any necessary infor
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Good day.
>
> I can not set up postfix to send email through SSL-connection (465). It
> works for plain connection (on 25 port) only.
>
> If You have any suggestion on what could be a culprit, I would like to
> know. I can provide any necessary
Good day.
I can not set up postfix to send email through SSL-connection (465). It
works for plain connection (on 25 port) only.
If You have any suggestion on what could be a culprit, I would like to
know. I can provide any necessary information: logs and confs.
Thank You for Your effort and time
On Ma,12.mai.09, 17:22:35, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
>> You install the WM/DE you want (by using your preferred package manager)
>
> I don't understand. I used apt-get, and it (fvwm) is on the machine.
> I don't know what "preferred package manager" means.
There are many package managers, use the
On 12 May 2009 09:52:35 Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Tue,12.May.09, 16:32:53, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
> >> What is Lenny's default window manager?
> >
http://debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apbs04.html.en#preseed-pkgsel
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Daryl Styrk wrote:
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 10:55:09AM +0200, steef wrote:
hi folks,
dows anybody know how to convert a .img_file into an .iso_file under
stable? can a package like nrg2iso do the job? found some
ubuntu-packages, like ccd2iso, but ubuntu is not debian.
thank you,
steef
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Harry Rickards wrote:
On 12 May 2009, at 08:02, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
What is Lenny's default window manager?
How do I configure gdm to use a different one?
I may be completely wrong here, but I *think* it's xfce4. To change
I wanted to know that so I could kill i
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Tue,12.May.09, 16:32:53, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
What is Lenny's default window manager?
Depends on how you installed. The "normal" CD1 installs the Gnome
Desktop Environment, but it is also possible to install KDE, Xfce or
LXDE instead.
Sorry,
On Tue,12.May.09, 16:32:53, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
> What is Lenny's default window manager?
Depends on how you installed. The "normal" CD1 installs the Gnome
Desktop Environment, but it is also possible to install KDE, Xfce or
LXDE instead.
> How do I configure gdm to use a different one?
Yo
On Tue,12.May.09, 09:23:50, Angelin Lalev wrote:
> One of my xen domains just crashed and left the ext3 filesystem of one
> of my DomU debian installations in a horrible state. Subsequent fsck
> deleted a bunch of files.
> Now I want to fix a package or two by reinstalling the configurations.
>
bro, if it's a command line program you can do this in the crontab:
@reboot /home/me/bin/myscript.sh
more info: http://team.macnn.com/drafts/crontab_defs.html
On some systems you can even start GUI programs with the @reboot
You'll have to test and depends a bit on startup order and desktop
On 12 May 2009, at 08:02, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
What is Lenny's default window manager?
How do I configure gdm to use a different one?
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I may be completely wrong here, but I *think* it's xfce4. To change
it, install a new one (e.g # aptitude install openbox), and when you
l
On Tue,12.May.09, 05:37:24, T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My DVD device is used to be /dev/dvd or /dev/dvdrw. But today
> after I rebooted my box, there are no /dev/dvd or /dev/dvdrw
> devices any more. They are changed to /dev/dvd1 and /dev/dvdrw1
> instead.
Those are usually symbolic links to the
On Mon,11.May.09, 22:27:57, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
>> I usually (rightly or wrongly) vim /etc/passwd, then find / -uid 500 -exec
>> chmod 1000 "{}" \; and maybe the same if I have to change the gid.
> Let me see if I understand this correctly. Here's what it appears to me
> that I should do.
>
Allan Wind ? ?:
On 2009-05-12T14:16:43, J.Hwan.Kim wrote:
I'd like to know how to start a program automatically after booting.
For example, I wish to let "Mail Notification" program start
automatically after logging on.
Could you tell me the method?
Are you using KDE/GDM, or XFCE? Aut
Allan Wind ? ?:
On 2009-05-12T14:16:43, J.Hwan.Kim wrote:
I'd like to know how to start a program automatically after booting.
For example, I wish to let "Mail Notification" program start
automatically after logging on.
Could you tell me the method?
Are you using KDE/GDM, or XFCE? Aut
What is Lenny's default window manager?
How do I configure gdm to use a different one?
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