Re: automount - gnome-volume-manager vs. nautilus

2010-02-08 Thread Wincent
I use xface4 (locale is zh_CN.UTF-8), thunar-volman automount portable disk. However, when it mounts, it doesn't take care of encoding. Thus, all the files with non-English (e.g. Chinese) characters don't show correctly. How can I solve this issue? Thanks. > Well, if it works, why not. It should

Search engine for documentation indexing?

2010-02-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
I'd like to build an index of the documentation in /usr/share/doc, but I am quite unhappy with the options I have tried so far: 1. dwww has a built in cgi for searching an index built by swish++. Unfortunately swish++ indexing seems to take forever (it's described as "lighting fast" on the upstre

RE: Looking for: A quick how to make a deb from a (kernel) rpm

2010-02-08 Thread Mike Viau
> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 17:17:37 -0500 > From: zlinux...@wowway.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Looking for: A quick how to make a deb from a (kernel) rpm > > On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:44:23 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote: > > I guess I'm getting old and can't see. > > ... >

Re: eth0 - eth1 confusion vs. local network

2010-02-08 Thread Frank Miles
I won't belabor this. Putting in a different NIC fixed things. No fuss, though interesting that it (presumably udev) wanted to call it eth2. I can live with that. Thanks again, everyone! -Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Bug#564829: How to turn off all APT security checking?

2010-02-08 Thread jidanni
OK, I'll try messing with the order next time it happens. I can tell you one thing for sure, now that is has recovered: It is the _Release files that are the problem. The Packages.bz2 files are fine. It was the _Release file that finally caught up later to it: $ md5sum Packages.bz2* 10c9ee48399ebee

Re: Bug#564829: How to turn off all APT security checking?

2010-02-08 Thread jidanni
Today it's W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian-multimedia/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 $ wget -Y off http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian-multimedia/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 $ wget -Y off --no-cache http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian-multimedia/dists/sid/main/bi

Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 11:58:51 -0500 (EST), Tom Furie wrote: > The commented option lines are showing their default values. It might be > worth setting VTAllocation=false (in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf, [daemon] > section) and see if that has any effect. > > Hmm, from a gdm session logged in on tty7, logging

Re: Where is Bash Prompt Set??

2010-02-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Scott put forth on 2/8/2010 5:21 PM: > Hi, I'm new to debian, but not to linux. (experimenting with lenny...) > > This is the question I asked myself while seeing various prompts after > I thought I had customised them. Near as I can tell, there are three > different scripts which fiddle with the

"readlink: no such file or directory" at boot

2010-02-08 Thread jidanni
Anybody else observe the "readlink: no such file or directory" warnings at boot? See bugs 564812 565224 565225. My grub line is "linux /boot/vmlinuz-... quiet". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Re: Where is Bash Prompt Set??

2010-02-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 08 February 2010 17:21:38 Scott wrote: > Hi, I'm new to debian, but not to linux. (experimenting with lenny...) > > This is the question I asked myself while seeing various prompts after > I thought I had customised them. Near as I can tell, there are three > different scripts which fidd

Where is Bash Prompt Set??

2010-02-08 Thread Scott
Hi, I'm new to debian, but not to linux. (experimenting with lenny...) This is the question I asked myself while seeing various prompts after I thought I had customised them. Near as I can tell, there are three different scripts which fiddle with the default bash prompt: /etc/profile /etc/ba

Re: knetworkmanager on debian testing broken

2010-02-08 Thread godo
Have the same problem with WiFi. I don't think it's knetworkmanager or networ-kmanager. I install previous version but it's the same. Works on Sid also (second laptop)! Last 14 days I was think that is problem with Broadcom. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.

Re: knetworkmanager on debian testing broken

2010-02-08 Thread godo
Have the same problem with WiFi. I don't think it's knetworkmanager or networ-kmanager. I install previous version but it's the same. Works on Sid also (second laptop)! Last 14 days I was think that is problem with Broadcom. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.

Re: knetworkmanager on debian testing broken

2010-02-08 Thread godo
Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: After yesterday'ss upgrade to version 0.7.999-2, I cannot connect to any network, wireless or not. Related bug: 567354 - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567354 Hi Γιώργος Πάλλας, I was downgrade few packages and it seems its works. I was install libnm-ut

Re: eth0 - eth1 confusion vs. local network

2010-02-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Andrei Popescu put forth on 2/8/2010 2:29 PM: > On Mon,08.Feb.10, 01:15:43, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >>> Perhaps the kernel brings eth1 into existence by first establishing it as >>> eth0, then renaming it to eth1; then bringing the "real" eth0 into >>> existence. >> >> The above can happen when yo

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-02-08 Thread Adam Hardy
Ken Teague on 08/02/10 18:45, wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: a...@isengard:~$ nslookup www.trade2win.com - 194.74.65.68 Server: 194.74.65.68 Address:194.74.65.68#53 ** server can't find www.trade2win.com: NXDOMAIN I ran about 8 queries for www.trade

Re: Looking for: A quick how to make a deb from a (kernel) rpm

2010-02-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:44:23 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote: > I guess I'm getting old and can't see. > ... OK, let's try again. I did find this package http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xen-hypervisor-3.4-amd64 But this is the hypervisor only, not the dom0 kernel that needs to go with it

unix2dos/dos2unix no longer included in tofrodos 1.7.8.debian.1-2

2010-02-08 Thread Jeppe Øland
After upgrading tofrodos to 1.7.8.debian.1-2, dos2unix and unix2dos are no longer installed. The release notes say they have been dropped so that the dos2unix package can be introduced ... but as far as I can tell, there is no such package yet. Any plan of adding this package? Regards, -Jeppe

RE: Looking for: A quick how to make a deb from a (kernel) rpm

2010-02-08 Thread Mike Viau
> From: b...@iguanasuicide.net > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Looking for: A quick how to make a deb from a (kernel) rpm > Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:07:01 -0600 > > On Monday 08 February 2010 14:46:44 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > I thought there were also some possible trad

Re: Looking for: A quick how to make a deb from a (kernel) rpm

2010-02-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:28:59 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote: > I'll be the first to admit that I know nothing about xen (isn't that a > particular sect of Buddhism? :-) ) but it looks to me like the xen > kernel patches have been mainstreamed since 2.6.26. See, for example, >http://packages

Re: Looking for: A quick how to make a deb from a (kernel) rpm

2010-02-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:46:44 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I have stable, backports, testing, unstable, and even experimental. Sorry, > DDs have not yet packaged anything newer than 2.6.26 that includes the Xen > patches. I thought there were also some possible trademark issues wi

Re: Grandma uses Logitech Vid, how to chat with her with Debian?

2010-02-08 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 16:02:29 -0500, S. Fishpaste in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 08:59:40 -0500, Celejar in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: >> On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 07:52:06 + >> Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 10:40:14AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:

Re: Looking for: A quick how to make a deb from a (kernel) rpm

2010-02-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 08 February 2010 14:46:44 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I thought there were also some possible trademark issues with > newer Xen releases, so it's possible there's some delay there as well. Bug 391935 -- Done (not an issue) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b..

Re: Looking for: A quick how to make a deb from a (kernel) rpm

2010-02-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 08 February 2010 14:01:26 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:24:06 -0500 (EST), Mike Viau wrote: > > I need the xen patches that are incorperated in the kernel. > > > I also happen to know the kernel is more recent then my 2.6.26-2-amd64 > > kernel in Debian Lenny. > > The se

Re: font substitution by acroread [SOLVED]

2010-02-08 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 08:02:42 -0500, I wrote: > I often come across PDFs containing Arial font (as reported by pdffonts from > poppler-utils). For example, this one: > > http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/archive/10prmrpiira_pa.pdf > > When I view these in acroread (8.1.7-0.1, lenny), I get some font

Re: unionfs

2010-02-08 Thread Alex Samad
thanks On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:08:50AM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Sunday 07 February 2010 17:32:45 Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am looking at trying out unionfs, I notice there is onlythe > > unionfs-fuse package - is this the way debian is going with unionfs or > > how do you use the

Re: eth0 - eth1 confusion vs. local network

2010-02-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,08.Feb.10, 01:15:43, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Perhaps the kernel brings eth1 into existence by first establishing it as > > eth0, then renaming it to eth1; then bringing the "real" eth0 into > > existence. > > The above can happen when you add NICs to the system. I hate UDEV for this, >

Re: What does "Stale NFS file handle" mean?

2010-02-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,08.Feb.10, 12:43:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > While it may not convince anyone one way or the other, I simply ignore any > HTML-only email. So, I won't be providing help to anyone using HTML-only > email. I strongly suspect there are others like me on this list as well. To > r

unix2dos/dos2unix no longer included in tofrodos 1.7.8.debian.1-2

2010-02-08 Thread Jeppe Øland
After upgrading tofrodos to 1.7.8.debian.1-2, dos2unix and unix2dos are no longer installed. The release notes say they have been dropped so that the dos2unix package can be introduced ... but as far as I can tell, there is no such package yet. Any plan of adding this package? Regards, -Jeppe

RE: Looking for: A quick how to make a deb from a (kernel) rpm

2010-02-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:24:06 -0500 (EST), Mike Viau wrote: > > Very fair question. > > I need the xen patches that are incorperated in the kernel. +1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8 > > (ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/master/x86_64/kern

Re: Looking for: A quick how to make a deb from a (kernel) rpm

2010-02-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mike Viau put forth on 2/8/2010 1:24 PM: > If the kernel.org kernels can work with Debian I don't see a reason why the > SUSE kernel can not work with a Debian system either. I do. The files available from kernel.org are source, not binary. They are vanilla. Properly configured and built, a k

RE: Looking for: A quick how to make a deb from a (kernel) rpm

2010-02-08 Thread Mike Viau
Very fair question. I need the xen patches that are incorperated in the kernel. (ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/master/x86_64/kernel-xen.rpm) I also happen to know the kernel is more recent then my 2.6.26-2-amd64 kernel in Debian Lenny. I am aware that I will be giving up the De

Re: eth0 - eth1 confusion vs. local network

2010-02-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Frank Miles put forth on 2/8/2010 10:32 AM: > Thanks so much to Stan, Tom H, and Cameleon! > > It seems that the consensus is that it's a NIC problem. In case > it wasn't previously clear, the RealTek 8169 is part of the Gigabyte > motherboard. > > I thought that I'd escaped non-free-firmware he

Re: Looking for: A quick how to make a deb from a (kernel) rpm

2010-02-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:58:06 -0500 (EST), Mike Viau wrote: > > Hello Debian community, > > I have been looking for a guide to convert an rpm package (specifically > a kernel - > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/master/x86_64/kernel-xen.rpm) > over into a deb binary or even a tarball wil

Re: knetworkmanager on debian testing broken

2010-02-08 Thread godo
Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: After yesterday'ss upgrade to version 0.7.999-2, I cannot connect to any network, wireless or not. Related bug: 567354 - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567354 Have the same problem with WiFi. I don't think it's knetworkmanager or networ-kmanager. I inst

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-02-08 Thread Ken Teague
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: > a...@isengard:~$ nslookup www.trade2win.com - 194.74.65.68 > Server:         194.74.65.68 > Address:        194.74.65.68#53 > > ** server can't find www.trade2win.com: NXDOMAIN I ran about 8 queries for www.trade2win.com against 194.74.65.68 wi

Quero te encontar..!

2010-02-08 Thread vladla-camelia
Estou com saudades... Não sei explicar direito O que os meus sentidos dizem, O que sei dizer É que o seu beijo tocou não só os meus lábios, Mas também o meu coração... Senti uma sensação maravilhosa. Só os Anjos são testemunhas dos Acontecimentos e dos sentimentos. Você chegou tão de repente,

Re: What does "Stale NFS file handle" mean?

2010-02-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 08 February 2010 12:15:13 MPR wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:51 AM, marc wrote: > > Please switch off HTML. > > Please join the 21st century. It's not 1990 any more. Mail clients > have come a long way. Still, HTML is not welcome on this list. Please see the code of conduct http:/

Re: What does "Stale NFS file handle" mean?

2010-02-08 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:15:13 -0800, MPR wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:51 AM, marc wrote: >> Please switch off HTML. > > Please join the 21st century. It's not 1990 any more. Mail clients have > come a long way. Newsreaders and Mutt do not ;-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: What does "Stale NFS file handle" mean?

2010-02-08 Thread MPR
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:51 AM, marc wrote: > Please switch off HTML. Please join the 21st century. It's not 1990 any more. Mail clients have come a long way. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Looking for: A quick how to make a deb from a (kernel) rpm

2010-02-08 Thread Mike Viau
Hello Debian community, I have been looking for a guide to convert an rpm package (specifically a kernel - ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/master/x86_64/kernel-xen.rpm) over into a deb binary or even a tarball will work for me. Unfortunately my internet searches are resulting in v

Re: which debian i should install?

2010-02-08 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:33:42 +0100 Sjoerd Hiemstra dijo: >John Jason Jordan: >> Several years ago Mark Shuttleworth decided that it was time for >> Linux on the desktop. He founded Canonical, and the fact that Ubuntu >> now *owns* the Linux desktop market has proved him right. >> >> A couple year

failure of authentication for Qpopper

2010-02-08 Thread peasthope
Another problem since the update of Squeeze yesterday. Qpopper was removed and I reinstalled it. As for the original installation, I left qpopper.conf as installed. When the mailer attempts retrieval from qpopper this message appears. RCV: -ERR [AUTH] PAM authentication failed for user "peter

Re: What does "Stale NFS file handle" mean?

2010-02-08 Thread Michael Yang
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > In <338752d11002080825q5afc23fcif2276c96ad259...@mail.gmail.com>, Michael > Yang > wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:51 AM, marc wrote: > >> Michael Yang wrote: > >> > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Micha

Re: What does "Stale NFS file handle" mean?

2010-02-08 Thread Michael Yang
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > In <338752d11002080825q5afc23fcif2276c96ad259...@mail.gmail.com>, Michael > Yang > wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:51 AM, marc wrote: > >> Michael Yang wrote: > >> > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Micha

Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-08 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:13:48AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > /var/log/Xorg.0.log tells you what console it started on, and the flags > indicate that the option is supplied on the command line. For example, > >Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, >

Re: eth0 - eth1 confusion vs. local network

2010-02-08 Thread Frank Miles
Thanks so much to Stan, Tom H, and Cameleon! It seems that the consensus is that it's a NIC problem. In case it wasn't previously clear, the RealTek 8169 is part of the Gigabyte motherboard. I thought that I'd escaped non-free-firmware hell by getting a MB with the graphics based on an Intel ch

Re: How to use USB modems/phones in Debian?

2010-02-08 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:38:37 +0500, surreal wrote: > I have got a test model of Nokia 7210 phone which can also be used as a > gsm modem and be used to surf the web(very slow speed) > > How to enable it under Debian Lenny? There are no Linux drivers provided > with that. > > Please contact me if

Re: What does "Stale NFS file handle" mean?

2010-02-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <338752d11002080825q5afc23fcif2276c96ad259...@mail.gmail.com>, Michael Yang wrote: >On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:51 AM, marc wrote: >> Michael Yang wrote: >> > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Michael Yang >> > wrote: >> >> When I list files under my $HOME, I found following two files that can >>

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2010-02-08, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 08 February 2010 13:02:42 Steve Kleene wrote: >> I often come across PDFs containing Arial font (as reported by pdffonts >> from poppler-utils). For example, this one: >> >> http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/archive/10prmrpiira_pa.pdf > >> I don't have Arial o

Re: Plz suggest the kernels that can be used in GNU

2010-02-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <409375.55103...@web7802.mail.in.yahoo.com>, AZAD NIKARTHIL wrote: >Can any one give information about anyother kernel other than Linux is now > using in GNU Linux uses GPLv2. The *BSD kernels all use a 2-clause BSD license (I think). OpenSolaris kernel uses the CDDL. GNU Mach uses some GP

Re: What does "Stale NFS file handle" mean?

2010-02-08 Thread Michael Yang
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:51 AM, marc wrote: > Michael Yang wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Michael Yang > wrote: > > > >> When I list files under my $HOME, I found following two files that can > not > >> be accessed: > >> > >> ls: cannot access .xsession-errors: Stale NFS file handl

Re: What does "Stale NFS file handle" mean?

2010-02-08 Thread Michael Yang
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Alex Samad wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:36:39AM -0500, Michael Yang wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 03:35:37PM -0500, Michael Yang wrote: > > > ... > > > > ls: cannot access .xsession-errors: S

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

2010-02-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <9ef66fac1002070041q10da895en25d5be9efb4ed...@mail.gmail.com>, Albretch Mueller wrote: >On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Sat,06.Feb.10, 22:37:13, Albretch Mueller wrote: >>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> > On Sat,06.Feb.10, 13:13:33, Al

Re: knetworkmanager on debian testing broken

2010-02-08 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > >> Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: >> >>> After yesterday'ss upgrade to version 0.7.999-2, I cannot connect to any >>> network, wireless or not. >>> >>> Related bug: 567354 - >>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567354 >>> >>>

Re: local install with apt-get still producing caches in /var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...}

2010-02-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <9ef66fac1002060513q7316011fvececd062063ad...@mail.gmail.com>, Albretch Mueller wrote: >~ > After taking snapshots of my file system before and after >installations using apt-get, I noticed lots of files in: >~ >/var/lib/dpkg/{info,alternatives,info, ...} Right, that's where dpkg keeps informa

frozen mouse pointer in Lxde in Squeeze

2010-02-08 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Yesterday afternoon I updated Squeeze on the home machine. Consequently, the Lxde screen appears OK except that the mouse pointer is immobile. Has anyone solved this? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/ http://carnot.yi.org/ = http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/

Substitute for KShowMail?

2010-02-08 Thread Camaleón
Hello, I am looking for a good replacement of KShowMail (a pop/imap mail checker with advanced functions -the ability of deleting and reading e-mails is a must). Right now I'm using "mail-notification" (in a GNOME environment) but is rather feature-lacking when compared with its KDE counterpa

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-08 Thread Lisi
On Monday 08 February 2010 13:02:42 Steve Kleene wrote: > I often come across PDFs containing Arial font (as reported by pdffonts > from poppler-utils). For example, this one: > > http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/archive/10prmrpiira_pa.pdf > I don't have Arial on my Lenny system, so I assume that

Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 06:26:33 -0500 (EST), Tom Furie wrote: > I haven't filed a bug report because I'm not sure what to file it > against. I'm not even sure it could be called a bug, I don't have > anything in my config to tell GDM to specifically start on tty7, so it > just grabs the first available

Re: unionfs

2010-02-08 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 07 February 2010 17:32:45 Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > I am looking at trying out unionfs, I notice there is onlythe > unionfs-fuse package - is this the way debian is going with unionfs or > how do you use the kernel version - can't seem to find any comparisons > between the 2 The Deb

Re: unionfs

2010-02-08 Thread green
Alex Samad wrote at 2010-02-07 16:32 -0600: > I am looking at trying out unionfs, I notice there is onlythe > unionfs-fuse package - is this the way debian is going with unionfs or > how do you use the kernel version - can't seem to find any comparisons > between the 2 You may be interested in auf

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-08 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 08:02:42AM EST, Steve Kleene wrote: > I often come across PDFs containing Arial font (as reported by pdffonts from > poppler-utils). For example, this one: > > http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/archive/10prmrpiira_pa.pdf > > When I view these in acroread (8.1.7-0.1, lenny),

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-08 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:02:42 -0500, Steve Kleene wrote: (...) > I can imagine two solutions but don't know how to execute either one. > First, I could arrange to have a sane font (e.g. Helvetica) substituted > instead of whatever one I'm getting now. I managed that by creating ~/.fonts.conf

Re: Personal keylogger?

2010-02-08 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:51:57 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: (...) > Is there a personal keylogger that I could install to see what I am > hitting? Thanks. There is LKL¹, but seems to be only available for 32 bits: *** userspace keylogger for x86 architecture LKL is a userspace keylogger that runs u

font substitution by acroread

2010-02-08 Thread Steve Kleene
I often come across PDFs containing Arial font (as reported by pdffonts from poppler-utils). For example, this one: http://cdmrp.army.mil/funding/archive/10prmrpiira_pa.pdf When I view these in acroread (8.1.7-0.1, lenny), I get some font that's really horrible to read. The upper-case letters

RE: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-08 Thread Simon Billis
Rudi Ahlers sent a missive on 2010-02-07: >> 2010/2/5 Simon Billis >> Do you have any shared storage that you're using which supports >> snapshots? If you do, then a combination of coalescing the running VM's >> to disk and taking a snap and also using traditional backup methods >> (appli

Re: which debian i should install?

2010-02-08 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
John Jason Jordan: > Several years ago Mark Shuttleworth decided that it was time for Linux > on the desktop. He founded Canonical, and the fact that Ubuntu now > *owns* the Linux desktop market has proved him right. > > A couple years ago I had front row seats to a speech he gave about his > expe

How to use USB modems/phones in Debian?

2010-02-08 Thread surreal
I have got a test model of Nokia 7210 phone which can also be used as a gsm modem and be used to surf the web(very slow speed) How to enable it under Debian Lenny? There are no Linux drivers provided with that. Please contact me if you have used such USB based phones for accessing web. -- Harsh

Re: knetworkmanager on debian testing broken

2010-02-08 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: >> After yesterday'ss upgrade to version 0.7.999-2, I cannot connect to any >> network, wireless or not. >> >> Related bug: 567354 - >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567354 >> >> >> > > And by the way, I have a question: I have se

Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-08 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 10:06:20PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > I must confess I never even thought to check that. The next time > it happens, I'll give it a try. Have either of you come up with > a consistent scenario that always reproduces the failure? I'm not > explicitly stopping and rest

Re: A tool for auto amplifying of wav/flac files.

2010-02-08 Thread Sebastian
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:49PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > > Then it is not what I wanna do - I want to change the file itself so that ANY > player might read it the way I want, and of course, it should be lossless > still. > > --c8ef04c7bbaf635f1cced39b63a1f635 What I'd do in a case like that

Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-08 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun February 7 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: > I must confess I never even thought to check that.  The next time > it happens, I'll give it a try.  Have either of you come up with > a consistent scenario that always reproduces the failure?  I'm not > explicitly stopping and restarting the X server

Re: knetworkmanager on debian testing broken

2010-02-08 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > After yesterday'ss upgrade to version 0.7.999-2, I cannot connect to any > network, wireless or not. > > Related bug: 567354 - > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567354 > > > And by the way, I have a question: I have seen on a kubuntu machine, a nice netw

knetworkmanager on debian testing broken

2010-02-08 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
After yesterday'ss upgrade to version 0.7.999-2, I cannot connect to any network, wireless or not. Related bug: 567354 - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567354 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: What does "Stale NFS file handle" mean?

2010-02-08 Thread marc
Michael Yang wrote: > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Michael Yang wrote: > >> When I list files under my $HOME, I found following two files that can not >> be accessed: >> >> ls: cannot access .xsession-errors: Stale NFS file handle >> ls: cannot access .Xauthority: Stale NFS file handle >> tota

Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-08 Thread josé Santos
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 01:11:02AM +, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:01:17 + > Tom Furie wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 06:02:30PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > > > > > I have been having trouble lately with los

Re: No Umlauts on console with Kernel 2.6.26

2010-02-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,07.Feb.10, 21:20:03, Sven Joachim wrote: > > If you want to display these and many other characters, install the > console-setup package and pick the VGA font in its configuration dialog, > for instance. This is what I do. The Terminus font (will be pulled as dependency of console-setup)

Re: one website gives "address not found" from LAN

2010-02-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,07.Feb.10, 19:25:41, Adam Hardy wrote: [big snip] > OK here's my nslookup experiment - here's my resolv.conf which > contains 4.2.2.1 because I modified my dhcp3/dhclient.conf to append > 4.2.2.1 after the BT nameserver (this is a gateway machine): > > a...@isengard:~$ cat /etc/resolv.con

Re: A tool for auto amplifying of wav/flac files.

2010-02-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
Sthu Deus: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Jochen: > >> '--apply-replaygain-which-is-not-lossless' to change audio information >> directly. But, as the name suggests, it is generally not recommended to >> use it. > > Then it is not what I wanna do - I want to change the file itself so > tha