Re: lost disk space

2011-07-19 Thread Martin Ågren
On 20 July 2011 07:12, Frank McCormick wrote: > Spent  a few hours watching online video tonight (the Discovery website) > and discovered afterwards that I had lost about 7 GIGS of diskspace!! > I assume it was because of all that video watching (in Google-Chrome) but > now I can't find out where

Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 19, 2011, at 6:13 PM, John Hasler wrote: Go Linux writes: How is [IPv6] going to work on DIALUP! I wrote: Just fine. What makes you think it wouldn't? Johan Kullstam writes: The fact that it doesn't work anywhere else? :-> Works fine here. Here too. What kind of problems ar

Re: ..move mail between laptops? Mail in "MH" folders, Claws style.

2011-07-19 Thread lee
Rob Owens writes: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 06:02:05PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> ..move mail between laptops? Mail in "MH" folders, Claws Mail >> default "MH" folders with one file for each message, from spare >> netbook to real laptop, howto pointers? Tried the formail -ds >>

lost disk space

2011-07-19 Thread Frank McCormick
Spent a few hours watching online video tonight (the Discovery website) and discovered afterwards that I had lost about 7 GIGS of diskspace!! I assume it was because of all that video watching (in Google-Chrome) but now I can't find out where it's gone ? I only have 14 gigs on this partition..a

HPC - Kerrighed + others

2011-07-19 Thread wjryder
Hi,I am looking at options to setup a HPC. The system will have 6 Blades to start and more added in the future.It will run Matlab, IDL and other similar programs. Which scheduling/load balancing software would be best use ?I thought that Kerrighed looked interesting as it should make the blades app

Re: firewall?

2011-07-19 Thread hadi motamedi
On 7/19/11, Regid Ichira wrote: > hadi motamedi gmail.com> writes: > >> I tried for 'iptables -S' but it returned 'unknown arg -S' . The >> windows machine firewall is turned off. On the windows machine, >> browsing like http://128.31.0.51 is successful . > > The -S option is clearly mentioned

high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-19 Thread Rogelio
The free DHCP solution, ISC, seems to be having scaling issues (i.e. handling only about 200 DHCPDISCOVER and 20 DHCPRENEW requests), and I was wondering if anyone had any open source suggestions of solutions that could scale much better? (Ideally, I could find a free version of a solution like No

Re: Tap to click not working

2011-07-19 Thread Matt Harrison
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently running debian testing on Acer laptop. Everything was > working as expected. Since a couple of days, the tap to click on the > touchpad has stopped working. Of course, I can set it Gnome preferences. > But, when I switc

Re: ..move mail between laptops? Mail in "MH" folders, Claws style.

2011-07-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 06:02:05PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > Hi, > > ..move mail between laptops? Mail in "MH" folders, Claws Mail > default "MH" folders with one file for each message, from spare > netbook to real laptop, howto pointers? Tried the formail -ds > route and must be overlooki

Re: kernel compile error in wheezy [solved!]

2011-07-19 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:29:49 -0400 (EDT), Frank Miles wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who helped - yes, it was indeed something about > my environment. In /etc/profile, I've long exported an environment > variable of the form: > > export LIBRARY_PATH="/home/myname/devel/lib:." > > I have a

Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-19 Thread John Hasler
Go Linux writes: > How is [IPv6] going to work on DIALUP! I wrote: > Just fine. What makes you think it wouldn't? Johan Kullstam writes: > The fact that it doesn't work anywhere else? :-> Works fine here. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

gnome-panel is alive and well

2011-07-19 Thread Frank McCormick
For all those having problems with gnome-panel, the latest updates seems to fix the high CPU problem. However, I haven't found a way to adjust the transparency slider... if I pick a solid color (colour for Brits and Canadians :)) the choice is limited to transparent and transparent :) Well i

Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-19 Thread Johan Kullstam
John Hasler writes: > Go Linux writes: >> How is [IPv6] going to work on DIALUP! > > Just fine. What makes you think it wouldn't? The fact that it doesn't work anywhere else? :-> > -- > John Hasler -- Johan KULLSTAM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Problem with gnome-panel on Sid

2011-07-19 Thread Philip
There is a bug reported. Check this post for a workaround: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=66922&start=0#p382943 Greeting Philip On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:05:36 +0200, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: > >> I'm using Debian sid on sever

Re: How to set the status of packages from "purge" to "install"

2011-07-19 Thread lee
Tech Geek writes: >> (Save yourself a few keystrokes: just type 'grep purge packages.txt'.) > Definitely! Thanks for pointng that out. > >>sed -i 's/purge$/install/' packages.txt >>dpkg --set-selections < packages.txt > OK, so it is just done manually. I was wondering if there are

Re: How to set the status of packages from "purge" to "install"

2011-07-19 Thread Tech Geek
> (Save yourself a few keystrokes: just type 'grep purge packages.txt'.) Definitely! Thanks for pointng that out. >sed -i 's/purge$/install/' packages.txt >dpkg --set-selections < packages.txt OK, so it is just done manually. I was wondering if there are any special tools (like dpk

Debian Lenny / Twitux 0.61 / Login

2011-07-19 Thread Frederic Robert
Hello, I can't log in to my twitter's account. My loginame and password are good. Acces Denied. -- Frederic Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/

Re: How to set the status of packages from "purge" to "install"

2011-07-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-07-19, Tech Geek wrote: > Hi, > > After upgrading, installing and removing some packages from Lenny to > Squeeze, I ended up with the following situation: > > debian6.0# dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt > debian6.0# cat packages | grep purge (Save yourself a few keystrokes: just type

Re: Can't get XVideo to work on squeeze

2011-07-19 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:28:00 +0200, Tuxoholic wrote: > Xorg does load the X-VIDEO extension, so whatever went wrong caused an > (EE) line in /var/log/Xorg.0.log - what does this line say? > Thanks for pointing me at /var/log/Xorg.0.log. There wasn't an (EE) line, so I broadened the search (non-r

Re: How I can remove my folder icons in desktop screen?

2011-07-19 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2011-07-19 16:54, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:52:17 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> On 2011-07-19, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>> Hm, I just deleted all those funny dirs in my $HOME: Music, Pictures... >>> and Desktop. When I rebooted (or so) I found all my $HOME su

How to set the status of packages from "purge" to "install"

2011-07-19 Thread Tech Geek
Hi, After upgrading, installing and removing some packages from Lenny to Squeeze, I ended up with the following situation: debian6.0# dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt debian6.0# cat packages | grep purge cpp-4.4 purge dmsetup

Re: Can't get XVideo to work on squeeze

2011-07-19 Thread Tuxoholic
Xorg does load the X-VIDEO extension, so whatever went wrong caused an (EE) line in /var/log/Xorg.0.log - what does this line say? > I'm having difficulty getting gxine et al to use Xv. > > Googling has provided some information, but not a solution. > > I'm running Squeeze 64 bit. > > walterh@

Re: Problem with libnss3-1d

2011-07-19 Thread DebianTR.WP
After emailing it, I figured it out too. But, Thanks anyway :) On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 18:39 +0200, auslands...@gmx.de wrote: > Very easy. Edit > > /etc/java-6-openjdk/security/nss.cfg > > and change > > nssLibraryDirectory = /usr/lib > > to > > nssLibraryDirectory = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-g

Re: Does Debian 6.0.2.1 for amd64 work properly ?

2011-07-19 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 18:04, Paul Johnson wrote: > It appears than any dvd > writing program that relies on 64 bit mencoder will produce bad sound. >  People have many bad things to say about the code inside mencoder and > they say it is a lost cause, nobody trying too hard to fix. That see

Re: Does Debian 6.0.2.1 for amd64 work properly ?

2011-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:15 PM, C.T.F. Jansen wrote: > Greetings, >          Is Debian 6.0.2.1, or something more recent, for the amd64 > architecture OK ? It will be used to upgrade Debian 5.0.6 on an Asus PRO50G > notebook. Thanks. I can't say whether an "upgrade" install will be fine, but a c

Can't get XVideo to work on squeeze

2011-07-19 Thread Walter Hurry
I'm having difficulty getting gxine et al to use Xv. Googling has provided some information, but not a solution. I'm running Squeeze 64 bit. walterh@saturn:~$ xvinfo X-Video Extension version 2.2 screen #0 no adaptors present walterh@saturn:~$ I have an ATI video chipset, and xdpyinfo indicate

Re: firewall?

2011-07-19 Thread Regid Ichira
hadi motamedi gmail.com> writes: > I tried for 'iptables -S' but it returned 'unknown arg -S' . The > windows machine firewall is turned off. On the windows machine, > browsing like http://128.31.0.51 is successful . The -S option is clearly mentioned in the manual page and the help text. Wh

Tap to click not working

2011-07-19 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, I am currently running debian testing on Acer laptop. Everything was working as expected. Since a couple of days, the tap to click on the touchpad has stopped working. Of course, I can set it Gnome preferences. But, when I switch to openbox, I have lost that functionality. My /etc/X11/xorg.c

Re: How I can remove my folder icons in desktop screen?

2011-07-19 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:52:17 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2011-07-19, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > > (...) > >> Hm, I just deleted all those funny dirs in my $HOME: Music, Pictures... >> and Desktop. When I rebooted (or so) I found all my $HOME subdirs >> (well, at least many) on the desktop

Re: How I can remove my folder icons in desktop screen?

2011-07-19 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2011-07-19 09:52, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2011-07-19, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > > (...) > >> Hm, I just deleted all those funny dirs in my $HOME: Music, Pictures... >> and Desktop. When I rebooted (or so) I found all my $HOME subdirs (well, >> at least many) on the desktop. >> >> How to d

Re: Problem with gnome-panel on Sid

2011-07-19 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:05:36 +0200, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: > I'm using Debian sid on several computers without any problem, but > yesterday I boot one od them, recently updated and I have a lot of > problem with gnome panels. > > I usually had two panels (top and bottom), but when I starte

Re: ..simple stupid X Q: touchpad 'n kbd works in console but not in X, fix hints?

2011-07-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:47:21 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:41:41 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message > : > >> On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:55:13 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> >> > ..simple stupid X Q: Touch pad and keyboard works in console but not >> > in X, fix hints? >> >>

Re: ..OT: HW: where is the bios battery in Fujitsu Celsius H240 laptops?

2011-07-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:30:50 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:06:30 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message > : > >> On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:13:54 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> >> > ..OT: HW: where is the bios battery in Fujitsu Celsius H240 laptops? >> >> Contact Fujitsu for t

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-19 Thread Cousin Stanley
Liam O'Toole wrote: > That strongly suggests that the problem lies within the sid guest. > > How do you start X there? Usually one would use startx or a display manager, > launch a terminal within the session, and launch programs from the > terminal at will. I'm using gnome 2.30.2 and login

Re: md driver - dropped disk still being used?

2011-07-19 Thread lee
"Sandra Escandor" writes: > So, to get more specific with my question: If the raid10 module has > disabled sdc, why is there a kernel log message after recovery that > still involves sdc - no one should be talking to sdc, correct? I've > attached a kernel log snippet. I can post more if needed.

Re: firewall?

2011-07-19 Thread hadi motamedi
On 7/19/11, Regid Ichira wrote: > hadi motamedi gmail.com> writes: > >> >> On 7/18/11, Regid Ichira yahoo.com> wrote: >> > hadi motamedi gmail.com> writes: >> > >> >> >> >> On 7/18/11, Tom Furie furie.org.uk> wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:48:14AM -0400, hadi motamedi wrote: >> >> >

Re: Multiple logins with XDM

2011-07-19 Thread didier gaumet
Le Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:02:24 +1200, Aidan Gauland a écrit : > Hi, > > I am on squeeze using XDM as my display manager and XScreenSaver. > When I click the "New Login" button from the locked screensaver > dialog, XScreenSaver complains about not being able to find > gdmflexiserver. So it seems t

Re: firewall?

2011-07-19 Thread Regid Ichira
hadi motamedi gmail.com> writes: > > On 7/18/11, Regid Ichira yahoo.com> wrote: > > hadi motamedi gmail.com> writes: > > > >> > >> On 7/18/11, Tom Furie furie.org.uk> wrote: > >> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:48:14AM -0400, hadi motamedi wrote: > >> > > >> >> I have set the same DNS on both my

Multiple logins with XDM

2011-07-19 Thread Aidan Gauland
Hi, I am on squeeze using XDM as my display manager and XScreenSaver. When I click the "New Login" button from the locked screensaver dialog, XScreenSaver complains about not being able to find gdmflexiserver. So it seems to expect GDM, but I prefer a simpler display manager such as XDM. Do I h

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-19 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:49:27 +0200 Tomas Kral wrote: Hello Tomas, > Ordinary floppy, then. > Sorry for confusing it. NP. At least now you know for sure, and can alter your config to suit. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediatel

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-07-18, Cousin Stanley wrote: > > Cousin Stanley wrote : > >>> Using a debian squeeze host for a Virtual Box 4.0.12 >>> debian sid guest, about a month ago I started having >>> invalid magic cookie problems when trying to do >>> anything X related from a terminal > > Liam O'Toole rep

Re: How I can remove my folder icons in desktop screen?

2011-07-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-07-19, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: (...) > Hm, I just deleted all those funny dirs in my $HOME: Music, Pictures... > and Desktop. When I rebooted (or so) I found all my $HOME subdirs (well, > at least many) on the desktop. > > How to disable that? > > I disabled /apps/nautilus/preferences

Re: New install -> Laptop, dual boot with Win7, config with LVM+LUKS fails if the encryption layer is on top of LVM layer

2011-07-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:39:24 +1000, yudi wrote in message : > I am trying to install Debian Squeeze 32bit on a laptop with 750Gb > Advanced Format WD drive. ..if it can run 64-bit Wintendo 7, you wanna install 64-bit Debian Squeeze. > the partition scheme I have in my mind is like this: > > s