On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Andrew McGlashan
wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>>
>> You have "/" set up as a RAID 1 array md0 with sda1 and sdb1 as its
>> components.
>
> No / would be on an internal drive, right now that is not the concern as it
> has nothing to do with the external drive array(s) in
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:52 AM, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Tom H [2011.06.26.2328 +0200]:
>>
>> "mdadm --examine /dev/sda1" returns mdadm UUIDs of the array and
>> the partition. (I've never seen the mdadm UUID of a partition be
>> used for anything. Can an array be assembled by refer
On 6/26/11, William Hopkins wrote:
> try dpkg-reconfigure locales
Thank you again. That command (above) clued me to the fact that the
packages 'locales' was not even installed. Who knew?
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* Rick Thomas [2011-06-27 07:16:46 CEST]:
> I don't know why this works, but I noticed that one of my machines had a
> package called "cups-pdf" installed (which hauls in "libpaper-utils" --
> more on this later...) and on that machine I got a choice of two
> printers (as Greg notes above) o
Tom H wrote:
You have "/" set up as a RAID 1 array md0 with sda1 and sdb1 as its components.
No / would be on an internal drive, right now that is not the concern
as it has nothing to do with the external drive array(s) in question for
this issue.
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On 6/26/11, William Hopkins wrote:
> x11vnc is for creating a VNC instance to an existing X server. You just want
> a VNC server: look into tightvncserver.
Yes, that is what I have running now, I think
>From 'ps ax':
27765 pts/1S 0:00 Xtightvnc :01 -desktop X -auth /home/bob/.Xauthor
On 06/26/11 20:38, Greg Madden wrote:
On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:04:40 pm Rick Thomas wrote:
I've tried everything I can think of, but every time I create a new
document in LibreOffice Writer it wants to print on A4 paper. I'm in
the US and everything else uses US-Letter paper. As I underst
also sprach Tom H [2011.06.26.2328 +0200]:
> "mdadm --examine /dev/sda1" returns mdadm UUIDs of the array and
> the partition. (I've never seen the mdadm UUID of a partition be
> used for anything. Can an array be assembled by referring to an
> mdadm UUID of a partition to add a partition? Would i
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:41 PM, William Hopkins wrote:
> On 06/26/11 at 11:29pm, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:25 PM, William Hopkins
>> wrote:
>> > On 06/26/11 at 09:54pm, Eric d'Halibut wrote:
>> >> On 6/26/11, Gregory Seidman wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >> I am going to try
On 27/06/11 05:36, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:47:29AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> /etc/network/interfaces is:
> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
>
> # The loopback net
On 06/26/11 at 11:29pm, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:25 PM, William Hopkins
> wrote:
> > On 06/26/11 at 09:54pm, Eric d'Halibut wrote:
> >> On 6/26/11, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> >>
> >> >> I am going to try x11vnc. Thank you all!
> >>
> >> > Not a bad choice, but not nece
On Jun 26, 2011, at 8:29 PM, William Hopkins wrote:
> On 06/26/11 at 05:18pm, Alexander Lardner wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I run a vintage BBS on my Debian box that uses telnet for connections.
>> By default, the software is written to accept connections on port
>> 1234, as opposed to 23 as is default
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:25 PM, William Hopkins wrote:
> On 06/26/11 at 09:54pm, Eric d'Halibut wrote:
>> On 6/26/11, Gregory Seidman wrote:
>>
>> >> I am going to try x11vnc. Thank you all!
>>
>> > Not a bad choice, but not necessarily the best either. It depends on your
>> > purpose.
>>
>> My
On 06/26/11 at 05:18pm, Alexander Lardner wrote:
> Hello,
> I run a vintage BBS on my Debian box that uses telnet for connections.
> By default, the software is written to accept connections on port
> 1234, as opposed to 23 as is default for telnet. I use a little
> utility called redir that takes
On 06/26/11 at 09:54pm, Eric d'Halibut wrote:
> On 6/26/11, Gregory Seidman wrote:
>
> >> I am going to try x11vnc. Thank you all!
>
> > Not a bad choice, but not necessarily the best either. It depends on your
> > purpose.
>
> My purpose, at this early stage, is simplicity itself: I have a
> "
On 06/26/11 at 11:17pm, Eric d'Halibut wrote:
> I"m getting these pesky messages when I run certain commands (e.g.
> apt-get) as root:
>
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = (unset),
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> LA
I"m getting these pesky messages when I run certain commands (e.g.
apt-get) as root:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US.utf8"
are supported and installed on you
Excerpts from Joe's message of 2011-06-26 21:46:47 +0200:
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:44:49 +0200
> Philipp Überbacher wrote:
>
> >
> > I tried manual mounting from busybox:
> > mount /dev/sda1 /root
> > fails with Invalid Argument
> >
> > mount -t jfs /dev/sda1 /root
> > fails with No suc
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 03:48:44PM -0400, William Hopkins wrote:
> I don't use hibernate (I use suspend, though) and I can't think of any reason
> why running wpasupplicant would prevent it. If you suspect wifi is in any way
> involved, simply disable wifi totally (ifdown, kill the wpasupplicant s
On 6/26/11, Gregory Seidman wrote:
>> I am going to try x11vnc. Thank you all!
> Not a bad choice, but not necessarily the best either. It depends on your
> purpose.
My purpose, at this early stage, is simplicity itself: I have a
"virtual private server" up and running -- root access and all th
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Greg Madden wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:38:14 pm Greg Madden wrote:
>>> On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:04:40 pm Rick Thomas wrote:
>>> > I've tried everything I can think of, but every time I cre
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Greg Madden wrote:
>
>
> On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:38:14 pm Greg Madden wrote:
>> On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:04:40 pm Rick Thomas wrote:
>> > I've tried everything I can think of, but every time I create a new
>> > document in LibreOffice Writer it wants to print on
Excerpts from Rick Thomas's message of 2011-06-27 02:04:40 +0200:
>
> I've tried everything I can think of, but every time I create a new
> document in LibreOffice Writer it wants to print on A4 paper. I'm in
> the US and everything else uses US-Letter paper. As I understand it,
> the acce
On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:38:14 pm Greg Madden wrote:
> On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:04:40 pm Rick Thomas wrote:
> > I've tried everything I can think of, but every time I create a new
> > document in LibreOffice Writer it wants to print on A4 paper. I'm in
> > the US and everything else uses US-Le
On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:04:40 pm Rick Thomas wrote:
> I've tried everything I can think of, but every time I create a new
> document in LibreOffice Writer it wants to print on A4 paper. I'm in
> the US and everything else uses US-Letter paper. As I understand it,
> the accepted way to set thi
I've tried everything I can think of, but every time I create a new
document in LibreOffice Writer it wants to print on A4 paper. I'm in
the US and everything else uses US-Letter paper. As I understand it,
the accepted way to set this is with "dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1". But
this has n
Hello,
I run a vintage BBS on my Debian box that uses telnet for connections.
By default, the software is written to accept connections on port
1234, as opposed to 23 as is default for telnet. I use a little
utility called redir that takes inbound connections on port 23 and
reroutes them locally to
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 01:44:12PM -0400, Eric d'Halibut wrote:
> On 6/26/11, Gregory Seidman wrote:
>
> > The other alternative is XDMCP, which is designed for this sort of thing.
>
> I don't think so. It -- XDMCP -- afaik requires a running X, and X
> requires a video device. I learn that even
On 06/26/2011 11:48 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
I'm having trouble with Iceweasel's inability to correctly render sites
that use java. This includes my bank and broker which prevents me
from making Squeeze my primary distro. Running "locate jre" turns up
a bunch of files including gcj-4.4-jre rel
Also relevant what appears on Spanish debian forum:
# gedit
(gedit:6056): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session
manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication
protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
**
GLib-GIO:ERROR:/build
Perhaps relevant to the problems in this thread:
deb32:/home/francesco# hp-plugin
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.11.5)
Plugin Download and Install Utility ver. 2.1
Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:29 AM, William Hopkins wrote:
>
> It seems to me that you'd be well served by simply using the UUID (by-uuid,
> not
> by-id) in all things, including mounting and managing. Then you would never
> need to figure out which disk sda was, you could just figure out which dis
I have dist upgraded from squeeze to testing (wheezy) 32 bit, getting
the linux image and headers 2.6.39-2-686-pae, gnome 2.30.2.
Attached HP Scanjet 6200C (scsi), Nikon Coolscan V (usb), and HP
deskjet D4260 do not work any more. The latter is said "ready" but
does not print. The queue had to be
On 2011-06-26, Robert Holtzman wrote:
(...)
> I'm having trouble with Iceweasel's inability to correctly render sites=20
> that use java. This includes my bank and broker which prevents me
>=66rom making Squeeze my primary distro. Running "locate jre" turns up
> a bunch of files including gcj-4.4-
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Andrew McGlashan
> wrote:
>
>> Anyway the long and short of it is, I can use mdadm without regard to
>> what devices are found, such as /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc and the like as I
>> rely
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
wrote:
>
> is there an option to mdadm to make it display UUIDs instead of or
> as well as the disk name?
"mdadm --examine /dev/sdXY" gives you the device and the array UUIDs.
"mdadm --examine --scan" gives you the array UUID(s).
"md
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>
> But there are not many variables that can be set at "/etc/default/grub"
> so why not listing all of them and briefly comment them in the same file?
+1
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On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>
> The less files for a bootloader, the better. Not a scientific statement,
> of course, just a wild-guess.
One of the grub developers' sales-pitches for grub2 is that it's
modular and you can use insmod (a grub insmod not the standard one) to
loa
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> El 25/06/11 19:01, Tom H escribió:
>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>>> I also find GRUB legacy more suitable to my needs. I don't remember any
>>> problem with it, I mean, nothing that could not be solved by manually
>>> ed
Aidan Gauland writes:
> I just upgraded my video card (from a 9400 GT to a GT 430), and when I
> booted my system, X failed to start. When seeing that the Nvidia
> drivers in sid are the same version as those direct from Nvidia's
> website, I tried upgrading the nvidia driver packages on my syste
On 06/26/11 at 03:36pm, Carl Fink wrote:
> I added your wpa_supplicant.conf. Still can't hibernate. I don't have WiFi
> here to try to connect to. (I'm at work, where I have to connect this
> netbook using T-Mobile via bluetooth tethering.)
I don't use hibernate (I use suspend, though) and I can't
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:44:49 +0200
Philipp Überbacher wrote:
>
> I tried manual mounting from busybox:
> mount /dev/sda1 /root
> fails with Invalid Argument
>
> mount -t jfs /dev/sda1 /root
> fails with No such device
>
> So this is what happens during boot as well. I found a post sugg
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:47:29AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> Thank you. I wasn't sure if the /e/n/i was required, so (as noted in the
> post) that was the next (1x1) step. I've read that NetworkManager, which
> Carl uses, ignores /e/n/i.
/etc/network/interfaces is:
# This file describes the
On 06/26/11 at 01:03pm, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:59:52AM -0400, William Hopkins wrote:
> > On 06/26/11 at 03:11am, Eric d'Halibut wrote:
> > > I'm thinking that in order to set up a remote X login to a given
> > > machine, that X must be running and configured on that mac
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On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:44:15PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 04:43:42PM -0400, Michael Checca wrote:
> >
> > If I recall correctly, the entire GCJ has been undeveloped for some
> > time now. Try installing either Sun/Oracle's Java JRE and plugin or
> > OpenJDK's JRE a
Hello List:
My boxes are Apple boxes running Debian (stable):
a MacMiniServer and a MacBookPro 15" (MacBookPro6,2).
Let say that the installation may not be so straightforward for Debian newbies,
second, for recent Apple, you may install a recent kernel and recent graphics
support.
hth,
Jero
hi everybody,
I would like to tranfer files from my PC to my Android phone (Samsung Galaxy S2)
That works perfectly from the gnome-panel:
Syatem --> Preferences --> Bluetooth Manager
This launches blueman-manager and the file is tranferred immediatly.
Now, if type from the command l
Hi,
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
well. that was nice. the scenario you describe is precisely what i
sort-of had planned, but didn't have the expertise to do so was going
to recommend just two drives and then rsync to the other two.
_however_, given that you've solved exactly what is
On 6/26/11, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> The other alternative is XDMCP, which is designed for this sort of thing.
I don't think so. It -- XDMCP -- afaik requires a running X, and X
requires a video device. I learn that even X.org's "dummy" driver is
itself a dummy!
I am going to try x11vnc. Thank
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:59:52AM -0400, William Hopkins wrote:
> On 06/26/11 at 03:11am, Eric d'Halibut wrote:
> > I'm thinking that in order to set up a remote X login to a given
> > machine, that X must be running and configured on that machine. But X
> > doesn't want to configure itself on a "
Excerpts from Philipp Überbacher's message of 2011-06-26 04:38:27 +0200:
> Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 22:40:59 +0200:
> > Philipp Überbacher writes:
> >
> > > Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 20:06:48 +0200:
> > >> Philipp Überbacher writes:
> > >>
> > >> > The system wa
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 4:26 PM, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> [2011.06.26.1634 +0200]:
>> > Search manpage for "partitions".
>>
>> that's odd. i read around each part (man mdadm^M /partitions^M),
>> paragraph back and forwards: no mention of the UUIDs of
On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 15:38 +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:31:59 +0200, Maros Zilka wrote:
>
> > I don't know what I am doing wrong but I can not find avidemux in
> > current testing repos. I've tried
> >
> > "$ aptitude search avidemux"
> > "$ apt-cache search avidemux"
> > http
On 27/06/11 01:31, Maros Zilka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know what I am doing wrong but I can not find avidemux in
> current testing repos. I've tried
>
> "$ aptitude search avidemux"
> "$ apt-cache search avidemux"
> http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
> and even Google but there wasn't any me
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:31:59 +0200, Maros Zilka wrote:
> I don't know what I am doing wrong but I can not find avidemux in
> current testing repos. I've tried
>
> "$ aptitude search avidemux"
> "$ apt-cache search avidemux"
> http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and even Google but there wasn't
Hi,
I don't know what I am doing wrong but I can not find avidemux in
current testing repos. I've tried
"$ aptitude search avidemux"
"$ apt-cache search avidemux"
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
and even Google but there wasn't any mention that this package is no
longer in repos.
Maybe I
On 06/27/11 at 01:02am, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > yes, mdadm names its RAID drives by UUID (as can clearly be seen in
> >/dev/mdadm/mdadm.conf) but does it *also* refer to its *COMPONENT*
> >drives (internally, and non-obviously, and undocumentedly) by UUID a
also sprach Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
[2011.06.26.1634 +0200]:
> > Search manpage for "partitions".
>
> that's odd. i read around each part (man mdadm^M /partitions^M),
> paragraph back and forwards: no mention of the UUIDs of drive
> components of an array was clearly evident.
I was not
On 27/06/11 00:55, William Hopkins wrote:
> On 06/26/11 at 09:45pm, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> On 26/06/11 19:25, Tom Furie wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:20:13PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 25/06/11 10:16, lee wrote:
>>
>>
>> What does the "--" do??
>
> POSIX standard is for -- to
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
yes, mdadm names its RAID drives by UUID (as can clearly be seen in
/dev/mdadm/mdadm.conf) but does it *also* refer to its *COMPONENT*
drives (internally, and non-obviously, and undocumentedly) by UUID and
then report to the outside world that it's using whate
On 06/26/11 at 10:53am, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
> Hi,
> I used to use configuration like "up ip route add 0.0.0.0/0 via
> a.b.c.d dev eth0" in /etc/network/interfaces to do this.
I assume this was just an example, but if you really wanted a route to 0.0.0.0
you would use the 'gateway' parame
On 06/26/11 at 03:11am, Eric d'Halibut wrote:
> I'm thinking that in order to set up a remote X login to a given
> machine, that X must be running and configured on that machine. But X
> doesn't want to configure itself on a "virtual private server" that
> has NO PHYSICAL VIDEO CARD, or so it seems
On 06/26/11 at 09:45pm, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 26/06/11 19:25, Tom Furie wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:20:13PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> >> On 25/06/11 10:16, lee wrote:
>
>
>
> > You can't have tried very hard then: 'touch -- "-rf *"'.
> >
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Tom
> >
>
>
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:11 PM, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> [2011.06.26.1241 +0200]:
>> * is there an option to mdadm to make it display UUIDs instead of or
>> as well as the disk name?
>
> mdadm -Es
oo! yaay! there is, however, no mention of the fac
On 27/06/11 00:02, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 26 Jun 2011 at 21:34:00 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>
>> I'm "assuming" you haven't been using WPA - everything I've read seems
>> to indicate you'd need a file at:-
>> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
>
> It's only necessary with roaming configura
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:26:17 +1000
Scott Ferguson wrote:
Hello Scott,
> A different approach is MusicBrainz - an online database of music
{snip}
> The Debian package is called picard (not to be confused with
> picard-tools). I can highly recommend it.
I suspect that it'll suffer in the same way
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:10:52 -0400, H.S. wrote:
> On 25/06/11 04:58 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>> Updates can to bork VM settings. You can try Steve's suggestion or even
>> be a bit more radical and test with a complete "~/.VirtualBox"
>> empty/new profile (do not delete the old one, just move it to ano
On Sun 26 Jun 2011 at 21:34:00 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> I'm "assuming" you haven't been using WPA - everything I've read seems
> to indicate you'd need a file at:-
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
It's only necessary with roaming configurations. If it is used it has to
be reference
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Andrew McGlashan
wrote:
> Anyway the long and short of it is, I can use mdadm without regard to
> what devices are found, such as /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc and the like as I
> rely purely on the UUID functionality, which as you know, mdadm handles
> perfectly
also sprach Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
[2011.06.26.1241 +0200]:
> * is there an option to mdadm to make it display UUIDs instead of or
> as well as the disk name?
mdadm -Es
> * also, how about making mention of how mdadm works, in the man page
> somewhere reaaasonably prominently?
Search m
On 25/06/11 04:58 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:19:03 -0400, H.S. wrote:
>
> (...)
>
>> First, I tried the virtualbox-ose from Debian repos until I realized it
>> does not support USB. Next, I discovered I can install Virtualbox from
>> Oracle to get USB support (after installing t
Hello.
Does anyone have any experience with using the Alesis MultiMix 8 USB 2.0
(http://www.alesis.com/multimix8usb20) with Debian machines?
I have Debian Testing on am Amd64 and am looking to buy a mixer. I was
initially considering a Mackie mixer (which provides stereo outputs) but
realized tha
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Andrew McGlashan
wrote:
> I hear what you are saying, but I had a related problem which was similar.
well... it's funny, because this is exactly what i need.
> Anyway the long and short of it is, I can use mdadm without regard to
> what devices are found, s
On Sun 26 Jun 2011 at 08:30:03 +0100, AG wrote:
> Just to confirm, if I read the backports instructions correctly, even
> though the backports line is uncommented in the sources.list, usual
> package updating will not draw down from backports unless I set the
> automatic flag on it. Have I
Hi Luke,
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
the answer is that mdadm tracks down the hardlink and displays, as
best i can tell, only that, with no immediately obvious options to get
it to display the disk UUIDs.
I hear what you are saying, but I had a related problem which was similar.
When
On 26/06/11 19:25, Tom Furie wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:20:13PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> On 25/06/11 10:16, lee wrote:
> You can't have tried very hard then: 'touch -- "-rf *"'.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
You are (also) correct.
Turns out there's a number of ways to do that.
Wha
On 26/06/11 07:26, Carl Fink wrote:
> Sorry about the delay in answering. This is my personal netbook, and my job
> has kept me too busy to spend any time fiddling with it for several days.
No worries (busy time of year here too).
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 02:41:48PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrot
moorning martin: thanks for responding. apologies for not thinking to
ask on debian-user earlier, and apologies for the long-winded style:
just got ddragged out of bed to go chase a lamb out of the garden that
was eating our flowers and vegetables. if i wasn't stumbling about
half-asleep or concer
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:11:51 -0400, Eric d'Halibut wrote:
> I'm thinking that in order to set up a remote X login to a given
> machine, that X must be running and configured on that machine.
I think you can make use of x forwarding, that is, running the X server
from machine where you are conne
On 26/06/11 09:17, William Hopkins wrote:
> On 06/25/11 at 04:33pm, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> OK, so the files are being created, and your FS can handle the characters, but
> somehow the characters aren't being translated. So it's not an issue with your
> filesystem, it's an issue with the filesys
at martin's request i'm forwarding this to debian-user so that it can
be found for archival purposes and general discussion. this is the
context: a follow-up question will be sent, without all the crap
below.
l.
[original]
allo martin,
haven't spoken to you for a while. got an interes
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:37:19 +0800, xuyuanwei wrote:
> 在 2011-06-24五的 00:02 +0800，yuanwei xu写道：
>> 2011/6/23 yuanwei xu :
>> > 2011/6/23 Camaleón :
(...)
>> >> Hum... so at init 1 there is no "acpid" service running on
>> >> background. This can be relevant for your issue when powering off
>> >>
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:55:40 -0400, Lennart Andersen wrote:
> I just installed Debian Testing on a Lenovo T420, for some strange
> reason the keyboard does not work in Gnome.
Does it work in a console terminal (tty1)?
> Has anyone seen this behavior before?
No indeed.
I just have installed t
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:20:13PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 25/06/11 10:16, lee wrote:
> > To give a silly example, a file named "-rf *" or "rm -rf *"
>
> I defy you to create a file with those name ;-p
> NOTE: I've tried. No point in it just being an untested opinion.
You can't have t
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:53:21 +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
> I used to use configuration like "up ip route add 0.0.0.0/0 via
> a.b.c.d dev eth0" in /etc/network/interfaces to do this.
Is that option not available anymore?
> But today, in debian doc
> (http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/r
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:58:42 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote:
> Camaleón writes:
>
>> You better try with nvidia own drivers to avoid messing with
>> dependencies.
>
> Yes, I think I'll go that route. Bit of a problem, though: the Nvidia
> installer warns me that
>
> "The compiler used to compile
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:46:00 +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Sat 25 Jun 2011 at 19:14:06 +, Camaleón wrote:
>> > With Linux you have complete control - so you can alter any file you
>> > wish. However, it is not usual (and maybe ill-advised) to change
>> > 00_header, 10_linux, 20_linux_xen or 30_os-
在 2011-06-24五的 00:02 +0800，yuanwei xu写道：
> 2011/6/23 yuanwei xu :
> > 2011/6/23 Camaleón :
> >> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:07:29 +0800, yuanwei xu wrote:
> >>
> >>> 2011/6/22 Camaleón :
> >>
> > Yes, it works, thanks for your reply. Hope there will be a final
> > solution soon.
>
> It
On 25/06/11 14:46, Brian wrote:
On Sat 25 Jun 2011 at 13:16:44 +0100, AG wrote:
Any thoughts?
http://backports-master.debian.org/Packages/
Brian
I've now followed this suggestion, and although doing so pulled in a
load of other KDE packages, I am pleased to note that - at l
On 25/06/11 17:15, Brian wrote:
Submit 'amarok' to the search engine. It will tell you whether there are
any backported packages for Squeeze for your architecture (i386 etc).
Decide whether you want to install a package and read the instructions
for changing sources.list (go back a page).
I'm thinking that in order to set up a remote X login to a given
machine, that X must be running and configured on that machine. But X
doesn't want to configure itself on a "virtual private server" that
has NO PHYSICAL VIDEO CARD, or so it seems to me at present.
But surely all the computing horse
On Saturday 25 June 2011 09:52:08 pm lee wrote:
> > "The compiler used to compile the kernel (gcc 4.3) does not exactly
> > match the current compiler (gcc 4.4). The Linux 2.6 kernel module
> > loader rejects kernel modules built with a version of gcc that does not
> > exactly match that of
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