Re: Lost my window manager

2009-11-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
John Jason Jordan: > > [snip bluetooth mouse problems] Sorry, cannot comment on that. > Unfortunately, the entire Gnome panel is gone. Clicking on where things > are supposed to be in the panel does nothing. Is the panel gone or is it empty? > Windows have no title bar > or icons in the corner

Re: Permissions for /dev/fuse changing at boot

2009-11-05 Thread Vincenzo Tibullo
2009/11/6 Todd A. Jacobs : > Every time my system reboots, ownership of /dev/fuse is changed from > root.fuse to root.root. How can I make the changes permanent, so that > users in the fuse group have access to the device across reboots? > > -- I suggest to wait for the bugs correction to income t

Re: bug - Setting up php5-idn (1.2b-5.3)

2009-11-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <350858.31469...@web33306.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, kiw...@yahoo.com wrote: >Setting up php5-idn (1.2b-5.3) ... >*** WARNING: ucf was run from a maintainer script that uses debconf, but > the script did not pass --debconf-ok to ucf. The maintainer > script should be fixed to n

Re: Permissions for /dev/fuse changing at boot

2009-11-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20091106040753.gp3...@penguin.codegnome.org>, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: >Every time my system reboots, ownership of /dev/fuse is changed from >root.fuse to root.root. How can I make the changes permanent, so that >users in the fuse group have access to the device across reboots? Udev rule, probabl

Lost my window manager

2009-11-05 Thread John Jason Jordan
Debian testing amd64, fresh install, idiot newbie user four days old. I had everything pretty much working and configured except for my bluetooth mouse. Finally I succeeded in getting it working, although I cannot tell you how. I had installed Blueman, but it couldn't get the mouse paired either.

bug - Setting up php5-idn (1.2b-5.3)

2009-11-05 Thread kiwi_b
Hi all, I am getting a warning show up as follows: Setting up php5-idn (1.2b-5.3) ... *** WARNING: ucf was run from a maintainer script that uses debconf, but the script did not pass --debconf-ok to ucf. The maintainer script should be fixed to not stop debconf before cal

Permissions for /dev/fuse changing at boot

2009-11-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Every time my system reboots, ownership of /dev/fuse is changed from root.fuse to root.root. How can I make the changes permanent, so that users in the fuse group have access to the device across reboots? -- "Oh, look: rocks!" -- Doctor Who, "Destiny of the Daleks" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Rate-limiting based on packets per second?

2009-11-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I've read the iptables man page, but I'm not really sure I understand how to rate-limit packets per second globally. What I'm trying to do is create a rule that would limit my overall inbound flows to <=200 packets per second- I don't care about the size, I just want to limit the number of packets.

Re: Serious clock problem

2009-11-05 Thread Andrew Reid
On Wednesday 04 November 2009 17:53:03 FTALOVER wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running VMW ESXi 3i (3.5.0) on an 4 CPUs DELL Poweredge 1950. This > machine is hosting 8 virtual machines, 5 running Etch and 3 running > Lenny. All guests were running fine until I upgraded the kernel to > linux-image-2.6.

Re: apt-get does not resume downloading

2009-11-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 02:00:59AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd: > > > It does resume downloading, just not in the middle of a single file. (It > > will > > only download files that are missing.) Resuming in the middle of a file > > has > > shown to be p

Re: blurry fonts (again)

2009-11-05 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:03:39 +0100 Florian Kulzer wrote: ... > OK, so let's recap: > > You print the Hebrew Wikipedia homepage with "print to file" in > iceweasel. You get a PDF with misaligned Hebrew characters (kerning > seems to be off) and this font information: > > name

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-05 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:56:48 +0200 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: ... > audio editor: > audio player: [g]mplayer > cd-ripper: > DBMS: > desktop environment OR window manager: xfce[4] > development: perl > disc burner: > e-mail client: sylpheed > file manager: mc > finance: > ftp client: ncftp > game

Re: OT: strip hebrew vowels and accents from utf-8 text

2009-11-05 Thread David Purton
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 04:00:59PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > Can anyone suggest a simple way to strip vowels out of utf-8 encoded > > hebrew text, leaving just the consenants? > > #! /usr/bin/perl -w > > use strict; > use Encode; > > while (<>) { > $_ = Encode::decode('utf-8', $_); >

Re: A laptop installation challenge

2009-11-05 Thread Kevin Buhr
AG writes: > > On one disk I found something that booted into the grub prompt. I > did some reading up on grub and some basic commands. I didn't get > very far - it reports back that there is an ext2fs loaded on > /dev/hda1 which I'm assuming was root, although I am sure that when > I partitione

External HDD drive with ext4 mount only as root

2009-11-05 Thread Ivan Marin
Hello list, I'm just salvaged a laptop HDD, put it on a USB case, and formatted with ext4. But when I plug it on, it mounts only with root permissions. USB Flash drives mounts correctly here. I'm not willing to put a line on fstab, as this HDD will be used on several different machines. How can I

Re: Slow booting

2009-11-05 Thread Kevin Buhr
Kamil Kułaga writes: > > After init of soundcard and before swap activation i have 90 seconds > hole. Is it normal? Can I configure kernel to somewhat avoid this? Unfortunately, I think adding a large swap partition (yours is 6GB) can be a slow operation under Linux. Google for "slow swapon" and

Re: blurry fonts (again)

2009-11-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 16:40:06 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 22:34:26 +0100 Florian Kulzer wrote: [ I sent test files to Celejar off-list. ] > > The files are attached; I am curious to find out whether the fonts > > chosen by my system resulted in correct Hebrew typesetting. > > I

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-05 Thread green
Andrew Sackville-West wrote at 2009-11-05 15:33 -0600: > On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 03:56:48PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > any FLOSS developer deserving great honours (max 5 at most, unless > > you insist): > > the uncelebrated random user that sends in the one-line > patch to fix their

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-05 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:56:48 +0200 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe shared this with us all: >Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites If something >doesn't fit in any of the categories, put it under misc utilities. >Please don't add what you haven't really used. You can include more >than one

what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-05 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Here we go. audio editor: audacity, xcfa audio player: amarok cd-ripper: k3b, xcfa DBMS: sqlite desktop environment OR window manager: kde4 (despite, well, you know...) development: disc burner: k3b e-mail client: icedove/thunderbird file manager: dolphin finance: ftp client: filezilla games: wesn

Re: Depends overkill, how do you weed out the packages

2009-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 04:23:37PM -0500, vr wrote: > I have a fresh install of Debian Lenny 503 amd64 via a netinst CDROM. I've > only installed a couple of packages like openbox because I want to run as > lean a desktop I can to try out virtualbox-3.0. > > I figured openbox would be enough to ha

Re: What's best way to use Debian w/o my laptop? Flash + union?

2009-11-05 Thread Jaime Di Cristina
No, those etherwake packets are not IP packets, they're "raw" ethernet packets and are hence not routable over the internet: you can only send them from a machine on the same physical ethernet network. I agree. But there are other tools that send the magic packet as UDP. That way you ca

Re: blurry fonts (again)

2009-11-05 Thread Celejar
[Putting it back on list, since I assume that you only sent the files privately to me due to their size.] On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 22:34:26 +0100 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 16:14:14 -0500, Celejar wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 21:31:11 +0100 Florian Kulzer > > wrote: > > > > >

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 03:56:48PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites If something > doesn't fit in any of the categories, put it under misc utilities. > Please don't add what you haven't really used. You can include more > than one entrant

Re: Depends overkill, how do you weed out the packages

2009-11-05 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:23:37 -0500 vr wrote: ... > This doesn't seem right so I am looking for pointers on how to trim down > this list of what I perceive as excessive bloat. Included is the list of > "stuff" Lenny wants me to install. I've marked some of the things I think I > know what they ar

Re: apt-get does not resume downloading

2009-11-05 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:01:42 +0700 Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Celejar: > > > But under some poor network conditions that I, and probably others, > > have experienced, the current system renders it virtually impossible to > > download large packages (e.g., openoffice.or

Depends overkill, how do you weed out the packages

2009-11-05 Thread vr
I have a fresh install of Debian Lenny 503 amd64 via a netinst CDROM. I've only installed a couple of packages like openbox because I want to run as lean a desktop I can to try out virtualbox-3.0. I figured openbox would be enough to handle the "GUI" needed for virtualbox-3.0 but after adding the

Re: Samba --- Can't see files in konqueror or nautulus

2009-11-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 20:20:23 +0100, Erik Grootjans wrote: > Hi, > > I have update my samba server with the latest version 3.2.5 on > Debian - lenny and i have a problem. > > I can see the shares (including the Samba shares) from an XP workstation. > I can't see any shares on my Linux Debian

Re: blurry fonts (again)

2009-11-05 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 21:31:11 +0100 Florian Kulzer wrote: > Is it OK if I send you the files off-list (about 500K total)? Sure; please do. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sou

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe writes: > audio player: amarok > cd-ripper: abcde > desktop environment OR window manager: KDE4 > development: emacs > disc burner: k3b > e-mail client: Kontact > finance: kmymoney > image viewer: gwenview > instant messenger: kopete > misc utilities: grep > p2p: kt

Re: OT: strip hebrew vowels and accents from utf-8 text

2009-11-05 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:50:56 +1030 David Purton wrote: > Can anyone suggest a simple way to strip vowels out of utf-8 encoded > hebrew text, leaving just the consenants? > > i.e., given something like בָָּ֟֟רָא, pipe it through something so that the > output is ברא. The unicode characters to id

Re: blurry fonts (again)

2009-11-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 14:38:17 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:52:05 +0100 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > ... > > > (I hope the rapidshare links work; I currently have no personal webspace > > for sharing files.) > > Thanks very much for your help, but unfortunately, Rapidshare is gi

Re: How do I make udev give me /dev/lp0 ?

2009-11-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 20:17:55 +0100, Mark Weyer wrote: > > Does the device appear if you run as root 'modprobe parport'? > > No, this does not change the contents of /dev at all. Try "modprobe lp". -- Regards,| Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: slow backup using lvm snapshots and tar

2009-11-05 Thread Berni Elbourn
Israel Garcia wrote: Hi list: I'm using this command to create s snapshot of every LV's server, mount the LV, make a TGZ to a shared folder (NFS), then umount LV image and remove snapshot LV. The problem is tar backup is extremely slow (it takes 3 hours to make backup of all servers). This is

Re: Serious clock problem

2009-11-05 Thread Gilles Mocellin
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 10:40:16AM +, Michal wrote: > Steve Reilly wrote: > > FTALOVER wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm running VMW ESXi 3i (3.5.0) on an 4 CPUs DELL Poweredge 1950. This > >> machine is hosting 8 virtual machines, 5 running Etch and 3 running > >> Lenny. All guests were runn

Re: blurry fonts (again)

2009-11-05 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:52:05 +0100 Florian Kulzer wrote: ... > (I hope the rapidshare links work; I currently have no personal webspace > for sharing files.) Thanks very much for your help, but unfortunately, Rapidshare is giving me a hard time: > Error > You want to download the following fil

Re: How do I make udev give me /dev/lp0 ?

2009-11-05 Thread Mark Weyer
> Does the device appear if you run as root 'modprobe parport'? No, this does not change the contents of /dev at all. Thanks anyway, Caeles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: slow backup using lvm snapshots and tar

2009-11-05 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-05 01:18:48, Israel Garcia wrote: > Hi list: > > I'm using this command to create s snapshot of every LV's server, > mount the LV, make a TGZ to a shared folder (NFS), then umount LV > image and remove snapshot LV. The problem is tar backup is extremely > slow (it takes 3 hours to make b

Re: What's best way to use Debian w/o my laptop? Flash + union?

2009-11-05 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:23:26 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: ... > > wiki.debian.org/WakeOnLan was all I needed. man ethtool is worth > > reading too. > > Good read, thanks. Sadly, it doesn't seem to provide any trick I > didn't know yet, except for the "byte-reversed MAC address" oddity. > Incid

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-05 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-11-05 15:56 (+0200), Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > audio player: Amarok > cd-ripper: abcde > desktop environment OR window manager: KDE > development: Emacs > disc burner: k3b > e-mail client: Emacs (Gnus) > file manager: Konqueror > ftp client: lftp > mathematics: Emacs (

Re: apt-get does not resume downloading

2009-11-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Celejar: > But under some poor network conditions that I, and probably others, > have experienced, the current system renders it virtually impossible to > download large packages (e.g., openoffice.org-common, wesnoth-data), > while resuming would give us at leas

Re: apt-get does not resume downloading

2009-11-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd: > It does resume downloading, just not in the middle of a single file. (It > will > only download files that are missing.) Resuming in the middle of a file has > shown to be problematic and is not supported by all the mirrors anyway. > Resuming in t