Usb, XEN and Debian (long)

2009-05-28 Thread Angelin Lalev
I have XEN installation which includes Debian lenny system as Dom0 and Ubuntu 9.04 Server as DomU. I want Ubuntu system to become the printing server for my home network and to have cups, samba and foomatic (should I explain why I'd like to put those in the toughest sandbox available). I have two

Diagnosing sound problems

2009-05-28 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi deb-gurus, after an update, sound on my system stopped starting automatically and I needed to run alsaconf after each boot to get it started. So I updated all packages on my system and now it seems that even alsaconf was automatically removed. Using the Audio Settings panel in gnome, the te

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 02:21:38PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > lee wrote: > > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:44:49AM -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> Have you tried reinstalling kdm with aptitude? Or purging it and then > >> installing it again? Purging might recreate the config files. > > > > Yes, I tried that, but

What happened to network devices?

2009-05-28 Thread lee
Hi, what happened to network devices like /dev/eth0? cat:~# dhcp_probe -f /dev/eth0 note: starting, version 1.3.0 error: dhcp_probe: bad interface '/dev/eth0': SIOCGIFADDR: /dev/eth0: No such device note: exiting cat:~# find / -name eth0 /proc/irq/20/eth0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0 /proc

Re: ctrl+S in rtorrent in konsole suspends output instead of starting torrents

2009-05-28 Thread H.S.
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In , H.S. wrote: >> I have just noticed that I cannot start or resume torrents in konsole >> with the usual CTRL+S rtorrent key combo in konsole as I was able to in >> the past (till several weeks ago perhaps). It instead suspends output >> (and CTRL+q needs to be pr

Re: udev tutorials or howtos?

2009-05-28 Thread Spiro Harvey
This is an excellent starting point: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=udev+tutorial+howto -- section .data sig: db 'Spiro Harvey',0x0a db 'UNIX Specialist, Writer, Editor',0x0a homepage: db 'http://twiddle.starforge.net.nz',0x0a signature.asc Description: P

udev tutorials or howtos?

2009-05-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Do any such files exist? Earlier I tried using mtools and even mount to access a floppy disk and udev is configured to block access even to root. In future maybe mtools could talk to udev and give udev some clues and/or instructions to tell it to create certain devices when those might not yet

Re: Problems with Exim av_scanner using a separate ClamAV server

2009-05-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <200905281654.47500@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >I'm getting errors in my /var/log/exim4/paniclog: >2009-05-28 20:15:17 1M9m0T-00059K-21 malware acl condition: clamd: >connection to 172.20.2.91, port 1189 failed (Connection refused) >2009-05-28 20:18:42 1M9m3l-0005GE-PF

hylafax

2009-05-28 Thread Tom Low-Shang
Is Hylafax still the only open source fax server available? I found Hylafax+ which appears to be a fork. If anyone here has used both, please share your experiences. Is there anything that makes Hylafax+ the better choice? I'd prefer to stick with the Lenny Hylafax package unless there is a compell

Re: Enable multicast packet forward

2009-05-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 02:18:49AM +0900, EQMaker wrote: > Dears... > > How can I make my linux-box to multicast packet forward enable? > > I made up unicast forwarding by edit [/etc/sysctl.conf] > Yea... just uncomment... > > But.. I couldn't find about multicast section at [/etc/sysctl.conf] >

Re: Midori dependencies problem with sid

2009-05-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:21:38AM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > In <20090528153521.ga31...@emurlahn.burrows.local>, Daniel Burrows wrote: > >On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:02:59AM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." > was heard to say: > >> Isn't that supposed to change in the fu

Re: Backports for Lenny ?

2009-05-28 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 28 May 2009 19:21:09 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > S. Fishpaste wrote: >> Is too soon from the release to expect some Backports for Lenny ? I'm not >> in a particular rush, just wondering > > There are some backports available, like Openoffice 3.0 and samb

How to improve performance on laptop?

2009-05-28 Thread Michael Yang
Hi, I have my laptop installed with Debian for two years. It's been working fine, although some problems happened and got fixed. (Now is Lenny, 2.6.24, Xfce4). The system has been very stable, but just with performance issues now. The time to start the system is OK (usually about 22secs in bootcha

Hard lock from the very start, almost

2009-05-28 Thread John
IMP T-42p, not quite up-to-date sid Before upgrading, for some reason I tried suspend (Fn-F4). The machine suspended, but would not come back. Eventually I just held the power button until it stopped. Now it is almost totally locked up tight: I get an initial flash of the lights, then only the li

disk spins up immediately after noflushd spins it down

2009-05-28 Thread H.S.
Hello, I have two hard disks (IDE) on my Testing machine. The main one that I use is hda. I have some partitions on hdb. I use noflushd to spin hdb down when it is not in use. However, I have noticed recently that the disk spins up immediately after noflushd spins it down. I see these in syslog: a

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:08:00AM -0500, lee wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:42:57AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > As far as I know, the only digital media that is designed to last that > > long on the shelf without data loss is tape. Since tape technology > > moves apace, you should pro

System suspend to ram when booting or trying to resume

2009-05-28 Thread Guillaume de Rorthais
Hi, I've got a problem with the suspend to ram under SID, kernel 2.6.29 under a macbook 2,1. When booting, the system suspend directly. Then, when trying to resume it, it go back to sleep instantly. This suspend happen a second after init start launching the rc scripts. I removed the acpi-

Problems with Exim av_scanner using a separate ClamAV server

2009-05-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
I'm getting errors in my /var/log/exim4/paniclog: 2009-05-28 20:15:17 1M9m0T-00059K-21 malware acl condition: clamd: connection to 172.20.2.91, port 1189 failed (Connection refused) 2009-05-28 20:18:42 1M9m3l-0005GE-PF malware acl condition: clamd: connection to 172.20.2.91, port 1114 failed (Con

Re: Rhow to mount a usb disk automatic?

2009-05-28 Thread Ivan T. Ivanov
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 02:52 +0800, Yi Zhao wrote: > hi, all, when I instert my usb disk into my computer, I can see the > icon of the new volume in the desktop automatic, but, I will get a > error message said "invalid mount option when attempting to mount the > volume "samsum"", when I double clic

Re: ctrl+S in rtorrent in konsole suspends output instead of starting torrents

2009-05-28 Thread H.S.
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In , H.S. wrote: >> I have just noticed that I cannot start or resume torrents in konsole >> with the usual CTRL+S rtorrent key combo in konsole as I was able to in >> the past (till several weeks ago perhaps). It instead suspends output >> (and CTRL+q needs to be pr

Re: Icewasel - IPv6

2009-05-28 Thread Paul Johnson
K. Jantzen wrote: > I installed Debain-AMD64 and almost evrything works perfectly. > > Exception: Iceweasel is extremely slow. > I assume that this is, like with Firefox in other distributions, due to > the IPv6 processing. After having turned off IPv6 > Firefox is fast. > How/where can I turn off

Re: Icewasel - IPv6

2009-05-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:17:23PM +0200, rimaya wrote: > 2009/5/28 Johannes Wiedersich > > > rimaya wrote: > > > > > echo "blacklist ipv6" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist/ --> reboot > > > > Why reboot? Is 'modprobe -r ipv6' not sufficient? > > > > Johannes > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: ctrl+S in rtorrent in konsole suspends output instead of starting torrents

2009-05-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , H.S. wrote: >I have just noticed that I cannot start or resume torrents in konsole >with the usual CTRL+S rtorrent key combo in konsole as I was able to in >the past (till several weeks ago perhaps). It instead suspends output >(and CTRL+q needs to be pressed to cancel that). How do I change t

Re: Rhow to mount a usb disk automatic?

2009-05-28 Thread Yi Zhao
hi, I'm using "Lenny" Who has ownership of the file/disk?  ls -l /mount/point # after you have inserted the disk I think the root has ownership of the disk, but, I don't know where the disk mount on, because I can't access the volume, so everytime I mount the disk manual, for example, I will tr

ctrl+S in rtorrent in konsole suspends output instead of starting torrents

2009-05-28 Thread H.S.
Hello, I have just noticed that I cannot start or resume torrents in konsole with the usual CTRL+S rtorrent key combo in konsole as I was able to in the past (till several weeks ago perhaps). It instead suspends output (and CTRL+q needs to be pressed to cancel that). How do I change this flow cont

Re: iceweasel preferences help needed

2009-05-28 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-05-28_14:27:08, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Paul E Condon > wrote: > > I have a desire to have iceweasel work in a way that seems not easy > > to configure: > > > > Now, when iceweasel starts, the text and graphics are always displayed > > too large to fit wit

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-28 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Csanyi Pal wrote: > Yes, with Debian Etch, but not with Debian Lenny! > So: can one install on it say a Debian GNU/Linux Lenny? I suppose you can, although I didn't try it. I think you can install anything you want; I heavily customised mine (in fact I am no longer using any of the Bubba-specif

Re: Rhow to mount a usb disk automatic?

2009-05-28 Thread Daryl Styrk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 02:52:00AM +0800, Yi Zhao wrote: > hi, all, when I instert my usb disk into my computer, I can see the > icon of the new volume in the desktop automatic, but, I will get a > error message said "invalid mount option when attempti

Re: Rhow to mount a usb disk automatic?

2009-05-28 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Yi Zhao wrote: > hi, all, when I instert my usb disk into my computer, I can see the icon of > the new volume in the desktop automatic, but, I will get a error message > said "invalid mount option when attempting to mount the volume "samsum"", > when I double click

Re: iceweasel preferences help needed

2009-05-28 Thread Daryl Styrk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 02:34:16PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > If you are having too large fonts in multiple applications, perhaps it > is your fonts settings in Appearance preferences that is causing this. > > In Iceweasel, you can change fonts from Appe

Re: Login-Problem

2009-05-28 Thread Bob McGowan
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 19:59 +0200, K. Jantzen wrote: > Changing the login screen I must have changed something that now prevents > a "normal" login (with the possibility to login as user or as admin). > Instead of the login screen I get a screen saying: > "Please wait: Scanning local network" > >

Rhow to mount a usb disk automatic?

2009-05-28 Thread Yi Zhao
hi, all, when I instert my usb disk into my computer, I can see the icon of the new volume in the desktop automatic, but, I will get a error message said "invalid mount option when attempting to mount the volume "samsum"", when I double click this icon to open it, I got "permission denied", how to

Re: Is gnome built on top of twm?

2009-05-28 Thread AG
Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-05-26_09:40:05, Foss User wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Claudius Hubig wrote: Foss User wrote: Please see the following output I generated from Squeeze. $ aptitude why twm i ? gnome ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Depends ?gnome-desktop-environment

Re: iceweasel preferences help needed

2009-05-28 Thread H.S.
Paul E Condon wrote: > I have a desire to have iceweasel work in a way that seems not easy > to configure: > > Now, when iceweasel starts, the text and graphics are always displayed > too large to fit within the window in which it is displayed. As a > consequence there is always, or almost always

Re: iceweasel preferences help needed

2009-05-28 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have a desire to have iceweasel work in a way that seems not easy > to configure: > > Now, when iceweasel starts, the text and graphics are always displayed > too large to fit within the window in which it is displayed. As a > consequence t

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread H.S.
lee wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:44:49AM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> Have you tried reinstalling kdm with aptitude? Or purging it and then >> installing it again? Purging might recreate the config files. > > Yes, I tried that, but it didn't change anything. > > It's working now, but I don't like

iceweasel preferences help needed

2009-05-28 Thread Paul E Condon
I have a desire to have iceweasel work in a way that seems not easy to configure: Now, when iceweasel starts, the text and graphics are always displayed too large to fit within the window in which it is displayed. As a consequence there is always, or almost always, a horizontal scroll bar at the

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:12:18PM +0200, komodo wrote: > > > What about this ? > > > > > > http://albertech.net/2009/04/kde-how-to-fix-no-greeter-widget-plugin-load > > >ed-error/ > > > > That fits perfectly, thanks! The symptoms are the same, and > > kdebase-workspace is currently not installed.

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:44:49AM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > Have you tried reinstalling kdm with aptitude? Or purging it and then > installing it again? Purging might recreate the config files. Yes, I tried that, but it didn't change anything. It's working now, but I don't like it ... -- To UNS

Login-Problem

2009-05-28 Thread K. Jantzen
Changing the login screen I must have changed something that now prevents a "normal" login (with the possibility to login as user or as admin). Instead of the login screen I get a screen saying: "Please wait: Scanning local network" I don't want to scan the local network, I just want to log in!

Re: hi, all, help me with debian installation!!

2009-05-28 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-05-27_23:18:52, Yi Zhao wrote: > yes, I do this, but, when I choose this, it tell me this operation will > create a new partitions on this disk, I think this will erase my data on my > disk, so I choose "go back" > ? > I can't find choose partitions in other operations... > ? > ? > thanks

Re: Backports for Lenny ?

2009-05-28 Thread Daryl Styrk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 07:21:09PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > S. Fishpaste wrote: > > Is too soon from the release to expect some Backports for Lenny ? I'm not > > in a particular rush, just wondering Bless the backports for wicd. http://ww

Re: Backports for Lenny ?

2009-05-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
S. Fishpaste wrote: > Is too soon from the release to expect some Backports for Lenny ? I'm not > in a particular rush, just wondering There are some backports available, like Openoffice 3.0 and samba 3.3.4. There will be others as well, just check it out. Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Enable multicast packet forward

2009-05-28 Thread EQMaker
Dears... How can I make my linux-box to multicast packet forward enable? I made up unicast forwarding by edit [/etc/sysctl.conf] Yea... just uncomment... But.. I couldn't find about multicast section at [/etc/sysctl.conf] To make [net.ipv4.conf.all.mc_forwarding=1] and [net.ipv4.conf.default.mc

Backports for Lenny ?

2009-05-28 Thread S. Fishpaste
Hi All; Is too soon from the release to expect some Backports for Lenny ? I'm not in a particular rush, just wondering -- Regards, Steve Toronto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Midori dependencies problem with sid

2009-05-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090528153521.ga31...@emurlahn.burrows.local>, Daniel Burrows wrote: >On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:02:59AM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: >> Isn't that supposed to change in the future (but perhaps not before >> Squeeze) so that we can have versioned dependencies on virtual

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 04:37:33PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090527210120.gq5...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: > >On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:11:38PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> > You might check out the database component of KOffice 2. > >> > It is supposed to be a

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-28 Thread Muzer
Csanyi Pal wrote: Alex Samad writes: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:35:02AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel writes: Csanyi Pal wrote: What is the recommended new hardware for firewall/gateway or for a web, mail, file & printer server at a small home networ

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-28 Thread Csanyi Pal
Alex Samad writes: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:35:02AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> Jan Willem Stumpel writes: >> >> > Csanyi Pal wrote: >> > >> >> What is the recommended new hardware for firewall/gateway or >> >> for a web, mail, file & printer server at a small home network? >> >> >> >> Any

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread H.S.
lee wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:22:32PM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> I agree with Boyd in his understanding of your post. What is the use of >> language if you say one thing that a reasonable person would understand >> but meant something completely different? If a reasonable receiver does >> not

Re: Midori dependencies problem with sid

2009-05-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:02:59AM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > Isn't that supposed to change in the future (but perhaps not before Squeeze) > so that we can have versioned dependencies on virtual packages? Yes. It's been supposed to change in the future for at least t

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 04:35:01PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090527205951.gp5...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: > >On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:10:54PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> >It's > >> >something hidden from the user instead of telling them about > >>

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:42:57AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > If your backup/archive hardware won't connect to the new computer, then > you'll need to migrate the data to new archive hardware first, then > migrate the computer to new hardware. Yes, but then you might have overlooked somethin

Re: lossless audio

2009-05-28 Thread steef
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In <4a1e9561.5020...@home.nl>, steef wrote: with shntool and the (compiled and installed0 mac_library it is very easy to convert .ape-files into .flac-files; both lossless formats. this is done without quality_loss, as sources on the internet say. converting .f

Re: Does the vfat partition need defrag under Gnu/Linux ?

2009-05-28 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-05-27_11:41:09, Hashimoto wrote: > Hello, > > I have an external disk actually using one vfat partition type, so I'm > wondering if it's necessary to defrag it since I used to save and remove > a lot and large files. > > Any suggestions ? It sounds like the external disk is in active wr

Re: intro

2009-05-28 Thread green
Tony Baldwin wrote at 2009-05-23 09:22 -0600: > So, I'm new to Debian, but not gnu/linux, having given up lesser OSes > some 9+ years ago. > I am digging Debian! > I feel like I finally got off the porch and am running with the big dogs! Debian is great; I hope you enjoy it. signature.asc Desc

Re: Midori dependencies problem with sid

2009-05-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-05-28 16:02 +0200, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090528135056.gb13...@emurlahn.burrows.local>, Daniel Burrows wrote: >> >> Also, a request for a package with a version constraint can never >>be satisfied by another package, even if a Provides relationship >>exists. > > Isn't that

Re: Hello!! I'm New

2009-05-28 Thread green
EQMaker wrote at 2009-05-27 02:59 -0600: >I installed Debian on my computer lastnight. >This is my first try on linux too. > >I want became 'linuxer' like all of you... Like has been mentioned: (a) decide what you want your system to do for you and then (b) make it happen. As you le

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:44:12AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Where do you get a good case for $20? Shop around a bit and you'll > > find that useable ones start at about $250, and good ones cost more > > --- if you can find one at all. > > Buy an old computer and use that case. That's w

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 07:40:37AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Where do you get a good case for $20? Shop around a bit and you'll > > find that useable ones start at about $250, and good ones cost more > > You should start looking for a new place to buy cases. Do you know a good place? I was lu

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:14:03AM -0400, Brendan wrote: > > Where do you get a good case for $20? Shop around a bit and you'll > > find that useable ones start at about $250, and good ones cost more > > --- if you can find one at all. > > 250? Is this a gold case? Show me where you can buy the f

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread komodo
On Thursday 28 of May 2009 16:01:14 lee wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:42:08PM +0200, komodo wrote: > > On Thursday 28 of May 2009 15:00:29 lee wrote: > > > I already mentioned about 3 or 4 times in this thread that kdm, when > > > it tries to start, says that there is no greeting widget and t

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 04:23:18PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090527205142.go5...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: > >On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:03:29PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> >> Older releases are maintained in the archive > >> >For 30 years or more? >

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,28.May.09, 08:58:03, lee wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:22:57PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > lee wrote: > >> For the second time in this thread: Is there another way to start kde > >> than using kdm (or gdm)? Though they can be nice to have, I don't want > >> to have to use either

Re: Midori dependencies problem with sid

2009-05-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090528135056.gb13...@emurlahn.burrows.local>, Daniel Burrows wrote: >On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:59:50AM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: >> You have the package "libwebkit-1.0-2" version "1.1.7-1". But, the >> package "midori" needs the package "libwebkit-1.0-1" version "1

Re: lossless audio

2009-05-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a1e9561.5020...@home.nl>, steef wrote: > with shntool and the (compiled and installed0 mac_library it is very >easy to convert .ape-files into .flac-files; both lossless formats. > >this is done without quality_loss, as sources on the internet say. > >converting .flac into .wav_files for the a

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:42:08PM +0200, komodo wrote: > On Thursday 28 of May 2009 15:00:29 lee wrote: > > > I already mentioned about 3 or 4 times in this thread that kdm, when > > it tries to start, says that there is no greeting widget and that I > > should check the configuration. I'm merely

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:22:57PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > lee wrote: >> For the second time in this thread: Is there another way to start kde >> than using kdm (or gdm)? Though they can be nice to have, I don't want >> to have to use either of them. > > Isn't startx or startkde supposed to

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 04:19:07PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090527205036.gn5...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: > >On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:01:08PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> So, yes, you did say that. You just didn't use those words, which is > >> why

Re: Midori dependencies problem with sid

2009-05-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:59:50AM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > You have the package "libwebkit-1.0-2" version "1.1.7-1". But, the package > "midori" needs the package "libwebkit-1.0-1" version "1.0.1" or greater. > Package names are only compared for equality; they are

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread komodo
On Thursday 28 of May 2009 15:00:29 lee wrote: > I already mentioned about 3 or 4 times in this thread that kdm, when > it tries to start, says that there is no greeting widget and that I > should check the configuration. I'm merely expecting it to work > because no packages are broken, no depende

lossless audio

2009-05-28 Thread steef
hi list, with shntool and the (compiled and installed0 mac_library it is very easy to convert .ape-files into .flac-files; both lossless formats. this is done without quality_loss, as sources on the internet say. converting .flac into .wav_files for the audio-player in my car is very easy as

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:51:25PM -0500, lee wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:21:15PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > If the issue is saving $20 on a case, then you are just $20 short of > > having a working solution. Sounds good to me. > > Where do you get a good case for $20? Shop around a bit

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread thveillon.debian
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > lee wrote: >> For the second time in this thread: Is there another way to start kde >> than using kdm (or gdm)? Though they can be nice to have, I don't want >> to have to use either of them. > > Isn't startx or startkde supposed to do that? Login at the console and > try

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:18:54AM -0500, lee wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:46:47AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In <20090526142918.gc5...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: > > >On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 01:17:16PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > >> Use the old softw

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-05-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:08:59PM -0400, Chris Jones was heard to say: > There appear to be keyboards where some keys are physically located in a > spot that's easily accessible with the thumbs. > > Maybe I should buy one? On that note: one of my colleagues bought a keyboard with pedals a f

Re: Operating system-level virtualization: how to make it?

2009-05-28 Thread Victor Padro
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:39:38AM -0500, Victor Padro wrote: > > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Douglas A. Tutty > wrote: > > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:46:49PM +0200, Laurent Guignard wrote: > > > > On Fri, 22 May 2009 18:02:27 +0

Re: Operating system-level virtualization: how to make it?

2009-05-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:39:38AM -0500, Victor Padro wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:46:49PM +0200, Laurent Guignard wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 May 2009 18:02:27 +, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > > > > On 22-05-2009, Sthu Deus wrote: >

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
lee wrote: For the second time in this thread: Is there another way to start kde than using kdm (or gdm)? Though they can be nice to have, I don't want to have to use either of them. Isn't startx or startkde supposed to do that? Login at the console and try that. FYI, I have kde 4.2 and kdm wo

Re: Icewasel - IPv6

2009-05-28 Thread rimaya
2009/5/28 Johannes Wiedersich > rimaya wrote: > > > echo "blacklist ipv6" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist/ --> reboot > > Why reboot? Is 'modprobe -r ipv6' not sufficient? > > Johannes > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:22:32PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > I agree with Boyd in his understanding of your post. What is the use of > language if you say one thing that a reasonable person would understand > but meant something completely different? If a reasonable receiver does > not understand the me

Re: Lenny printing competition -- still open?

2009-05-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
I just noticed the "Print to Win" or "Print 2 Win" promotion in the HOWTO directory >> Just a joke, I suppose ;-) > Not quite. The language promotes another operating system. NB: If you don't like the wording of the document and/or would like to improve it's contents, please go ahead a

Re: Lenny printing competition -- still open?

2009-05-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Miguel Obliviemo wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>> In , Miguel >>> Obliviemo >>> wrote: I just noticed the "Print to Win" or "Print 2 Win" promotion in the HOWTO directory >>> >> Just a joke, I suppose ;-) > > Not quite. The

Re: Cross-compiler tool chain

2009-05-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
Oliver Schneider: > > Debian is available for a whole lot of different architectures. Is > there a cross compiler tool chain which is used to do the builds and > if so, is it available to the Debian users? As far as I know, all packages ending up in the official archive need to be built on their

Re: Lenny printing competition -- still open?

2009-05-28 Thread Muzer
Miguel Obliviemo wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In , Miguel Obliviemo wrote: I just noticed the "Print to Win" or "Print 2 Win" promotion in the HOWTO directory I have no idea what you are talking about and couldn't find a reference to

Re: Icewasel - IPv6

2009-05-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
rimaya wrote: > echo "blacklist ipv6" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist/ --> reboot Why reboot? Is 'modprobe -r ipv6' not sufficient? Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Lenny printing competition -- still open?

2009-05-28 Thread Miguel Obliviemo
On Wed, 27 May 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In , Miguel Obliviemo wrote: I just noticed the "Print to Win" or "Print 2 Win" promotion in the HOWTO directory I have no idea what you are talking about and couldn't find a reference to a similarly named anything

Re: Lenny printing competition -- still open?

2009-05-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Miguel Obliviemo wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> In , Miguel >> Obliviemo >> wrote: >>> I just noticed the "Print to Win" or "Print 2 Win" promotion in the >>> HOWTO directory >>Please provide a >> package+pathna

Re: Lenny printing competition -- still open?

2009-05-28 Thread Miguel Obliviemo
On Wed, 27 May 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In , Miguel Obliviemo wrote: I just noticed the "Print to Win" or "Print 2 Win" promotion in the HOWTO directory I have no idea what you are talking about and couldn't find a reference to a similarly named anything on my Lenny/Squeeze system.

Cross-compiler tool chain

2009-05-28 Thread Oliver Schneider
Hi, Debian is available for a whole lot of different architectures. Is there a cross compiler tool chain which is used to do the builds and if so, is it available to the Debian users? Thanks, // Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Installing Debian 5 Lenny 64bit from DVD - Problem

2009-05-28 Thread George
George wrote: St. Joseph's College of Engineering and Technology wrote: Sir, Sub : Installing Debian 5 Lenny 64bit from DVD - Problem   I downloaded DVD version of Debian 5 Linux 64bit (IA) from your site ( 2 ISO images), I tried to install it on my Intel Core2 Duo

Re: Installing Debian 5 Lenny 64bit from DVD - Problem

2009-05-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
St. Joseph's College of Engineering and Technology: > > I downloaded *DVD version of Debian 5 Linux 64bit (IA) from your site > ( 2 ISO images)*, I tried to install it on my* Intel Core2 Duo* machine. For an Intel Core2Duo you need an amd64 image, not ia64. The latter is only for Itanium pr

Re: Installing Debian 5 Lenny 64bit from DVD - Problem

2009-05-28 Thread George
St. Joseph's College of Engineering and Technology wrote: Sir, Sub : Installing Debian 5 Lenny 64bit from DVD - Problem   I downloaded DVD version of Debian 5 Linux 64bit (IA) from your site ( 2 ISO images), I tried to install it on my Intel Core2 Duo machine. while trying to boo

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:35:02AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Jan Willem Stumpel writes: > > > Csanyi Pal wrote: > > > >> What is the recommended new hardware for firewall/gateway or > >> for a web, mail, file & printer server at a small home network? > >> > >> Any advices will be appreciated! >

Installing Debian 5 Lenny 64bit from DVD - Problem

2009-05-28 Thread St. Joseph's College of Engineering and Technology
Sir, *Sub : Installing Debian 5 Lenny 64bit from DVD - Problem* I downloaded *DVD version of Debian 5 Linux 64bit (IA) from your site ( 2 ISO images)*, I tried to install it on my* Intel Core2 Duo* machine. while trying to boot form the DVD ROM, No boot screen for Debian, a cursor is blink

Re: Does the vfat partition need defrag under Gnu/Linux ?

2009-05-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Muzer wrote: > Yeah. It's annoying that Linux can't defrag FAT natively (or most > filesystems for that matter, the notable exception being ext4). I've been using linux fs on workstations and servers for many years and never missed the 'defrag' feature. From what I recall from the old windows time

Re: Icewasel - IPv6

2009-05-28 Thread rimaya
why do you disable IPv6? echo "blacklist ipv6" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist/ --> reboot 2009/5/28 K. Jantzen > I installed Debain-AMD64 and almost evrything works perfectly. > > Exception: Iceweasel is extremely slow. > I assume that this is, like with Firefox in other distributions, due to

Icewasel - IPv6

2009-05-28 Thread K. Jantzen
I installed Debain-AMD64 and almost evrything works perfectly. Exception: Iceweasel is extremely slow. I assume that this is, like with Firefox in other distributions, due to the IPv6 processing. After having turned off IPv6 Firefox is fast. How/where can I turn off IPv6 in Debian? -- K. Jantz

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-28 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/28/09 08:58, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:59:32PM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 05/27/09 17:57, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >>> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:19:17AM +0100, Ha

Re: Does the vfat partition need defrag under Gnu/Linux ?

2009-05-28 Thread Muzer
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:41:09AM -0300, Hashimoto wrote: I have an external disk actually using one vfat partition type, so I'm wondering if it's necessary to defrag it since I used to save and remove a lot and large files. This isn't really a Linux question;

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