Re: Not getting mails in inbox

2012-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/12 17:42, Chen Wei wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 08:37:00AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> gmail is still the most popular free mail service, >> I use it myself - I'm not sure what 'your' point is > sorry, I mean most popular choice in this list. Agreed - that it's probably (the

Re: Not getting mails in inbox

2012-01-30 Thread Chen Wei
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 08:37:00AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > gmail is still the most popular free mail service, > I use it myself - I'm not sure what 'your' point is sorry, I mean most popular choice in this list. > I note that many (*cough*BP,PE*cough*) will recommend you *don't* use >

Re: debian losing usb detection after guest OS sees a USB device in virtualbox

2012-01-30 Thread H.S.
On 29/01/12 09:07 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Clear the VirtualBox log, reset all warnings, then retry. Then post the > log to paste.debian.net and post a link here. Nothing much in the logs. I get the following errors though: 00:00:12.331 nspr-2 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE (0x8

Re: how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-30 Thread Cam Hutchison
lina writes: >Yes. the ultimate goal is: >for i in {0..108} >do >cat A_$i.txt B_$i.txt C_$i.txt -o ABC_$i.txt (output as ABC_$i.txt) >done >but here I wish to use only 8 processors at most, total is 16. >the administrator of the cluster asked me not to use whole, cause >someone else needs SMP

Recent Debian Preseed Error: "Logical Volume Manager not available"

2012-01-30 Thread Chris Hiestand
I've had a stable, working, preseed configuration with no changes other than downloading the latest stable debian releases (netboot images). Suddenly partman has stopped working in my preseed: > Loading additiona components …100% > Starting up the partitioner …100% > Partition disks > --

Re (4): /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt

2012-01-30 Thread peasthope
From: Brian Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:38:10 + > What was on the command line? Or in the link if you were clicking on one. This is my limited understanding. In message http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/01/msg02236.html the first "Reply-to" link has this HTML code. mailto:debian-u

Re: how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120130_223623, Jochen Spieker wrote: > lina: > > > > Yes. the ultimate goal is: > > > > for i in {0..108} > > do > > cat A_$i.txt B_$i.txt C_$i.txt -o ABC_$i.txt (output as ABC_$i.txt) > > done > > Ok, so you don't actually have only A_$i filenames, but B_$i and C_$i as > well. That alone

Re: Re (3): /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt

2012-01-30 Thread Brian
On Mon 30 Jan 2012 at 13:16:32 -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Now the termial opens with this message. > "Error in command line: invalid header field > Press any key to continue..." What was on the command line? Or in the link if you were clicking on one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

kernel failure message 1: nel pagin request at.....

2012-01-30 Thread daniel sosa lena
Hi ppl, new debian user here with squeeze stable release. I would like to understand what does this mean: Kernel failure message 1: nel paging request at 00010153 IP: [<00010153>] 0x10153 PGD 1ecd79067 PUD 0 Oops: 0010 [#2] SMP and a long list of stuff. It prompted asking t

Re: Cusp finally working BUT something missing PARTLY SOLVED

2012-01-30 Thread Wayne Topa
On 01/30/2012 11:28 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:02:16 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: On 01/22/2012 04:11 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 01/22/2012 12:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) my Print/)Options Tab is missing the print selections here on wheezy and ISTR it is missing on Stable& Sid

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/12 02:34, Andreas Glaeser wrote: > First I had some problems with gmane finding the my thread, the I tried to > reply through > gmane, but now I found that my answer was not there, although the system told > me, that > sending seems to have been done correctly. > When I think of it now t

Re: Not getting mails in inbox

2012-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/01/12 00:44, Chen Wei wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 08:40:23PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> NOTE: it is very, very rare for your posts to the list not to be >> published. >> >> You can set up a separate free webmail account and use it as the >> replyto address in emails to the list fro

Re: how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-30 Thread Jochen Spieker
lina: > > Yes. the ultimate goal is: > > for i in {0..108} > do > cat A_$i.txt B_$i.txt C_$i.txt -o ABC_$i.txt (output as ABC_$i.txt) > done Ok, so you don't actually have only A_$i filenames, but B_$i and C_$i as well. That alone makes my previous approach useless (as I predicted!). The other

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-30 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-30, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> >> By the way, what's a standard keyboard?  Is that a well-defined thing? >> Is it Ammurukin? > > Yes, he actually said "standard US keyboard". Which does not have > an AltGr key, unlike every civilized country . > Okay, I finally understood the question! h

Re (3): /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt

2012-01-30 Thread peasthope
From: Brian Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:02:17 + > Install liburi-perl Thanks! One problem solved! (mutt and perl are installed and liburi-perl isn't installed by dependency?) Now the termial opens with this message. "Error in command line: invalid header field Press any key to continue.

Re: lcdproc missing driver imonlcd in squeeze

2012-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/01/12 23:26, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:05:07 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> On 30/01/12 22:50, Ramon Hofer wrote: >>> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:03:24 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 30/01/12 20:48, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:03:09 +1100, Scott

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-30 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 09:29, Curt wrote: > On 2012-01-30, Lisi wrote: > > By the way, what's a standard keyboard?  Is that a well-defined thing? > Is it Ammurukin? Yes, he actually said "standard US keyboard". Which does not have an AltGr key, unlike every civilized country . https://en.wikip

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-30 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 18:00, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 07:39:22PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 03:40:51PM -0500, doug wrote: >> > On 01/28/2012 02:40 PM, Michael Lange wrote: >> > >Hi, >> > > >> > >Thus spoketh "Thomas H. George" >> > >unto us on

Re (6): POP3 in Debian

2012-01-30 Thread peasthope
From: =?utf-8?B?Q2FtYWxlw7Nu?= Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:48:09 +0100 > Sorry if I bothered you. Slightly irked. No scars. > ... don't know who ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_%28programming_language%29 & etc. > ... or what company makes t

Re: Re (2): /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt

2012-01-30 Thread Brian
On Mon 30 Jan 2012 at 11:30:38 -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > peter@joule:~$ /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt To:debian-user@lists.debian.org > Can't locate URI/Escape.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl > /usr/local/lib/perl > /5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 >

Re: Cusp finally working BUT something missing PARTLY SOLVED

2012-01-30 Thread Wayne Topa
On 01/30/2012 11:28 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:02:16 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: On 01/22/2012 04:11 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 01/22/2012 12:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) my Print/)Options Tab is missing the print selections here on wheezy and ISTR it is missing on Stable& Sid

Re (2): /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt

2012-01-30 Thread peasthope
From: Brian Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:22:52 + > 1. Test the script: execute /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt. peter@joule:~$ /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt To:debian-user@lists.debian.org Can't locate URI/Escape.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl /5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.

Re: Re (5): POP3 in Debian

2012-01-30 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-01-30 a las 09:52 -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca escribió: (resending to the list) > From: Camaleon > Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:41:58 + (UTC) > > A bug at the MUA, then? > > Yes. Does "http://carnot.yi.org/OberonPage.html#Mail"; need more clarity? Sorry if I bothered you. I'm not famil

Re: creating (thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages

2012-01-30 Thread godo
On 01/30/2012 12:25 AM, lee wrote: Hi, is there a Debian package with software that helps in creating (thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages? Like something that instead of displaying a web page on screen as a web browser does creates an image file that can be saved to disk (and then be res

Re: Re: Re: Squeeze 6.0.3 -> 6.0.4 broke my Xorg

2012-01-30 Thread hardpenguin
False alarm. I didn't know I need to reinstall proprietary NVIDIA drivers. Now I made it and it works. -- hardpeng...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Dead keys doesn't work in gnome 3 apps since update

2012-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:43:31 +0100, Oscar Vidakovic wrote: > Hi All, Hi. Please, no html... thanks :-) > Since I updated my Wheeze and it installed gnome 3, spanish accents dead > keys ("´", "`", etc) stoped working in gnome apps as dead keys. I mean > to say that when I press the "`" key and th

Re: creating (thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages

2012-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:25:54 +, lee wrote: > is there a Debian package with software that helps in creating > (thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages? Like something that instead > of displaying a web page on screen as a web browser does creates an > image file that can be saved to disk (a

Problem when adding a printer (was: Please assist.)

2012-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:29:12 +0300, BETA BOOKSHOP & STATIONERS BETA BOOKSHOP wrote: (next time choose a more descriptive subject and avoid using html format...) > I have a problem with my printer(Gestetner Dsm 718) installation.I have > tried severally without and success.I have gone to > Admini

Re: need information of laptops that can run debian well

2012-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:09:26 +0530, Harshad Joshi wrote: > is there any wiki or list of laptops that are supported by debian 6? Yup, but it's populated by users: http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/wiki/ http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn > i saw that many laptops are having highly proprietary dr

Re: Kernel Compiling from scratch

2012-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:40:24 +0500, Syed Hasan Atizaz wrote: > I like to know where can i get the information in detail for compiling > kernel, loading modules and installing programs from scratch. i never > did it before. I installed virtual box recently and looking to play with > it. For kernel

Re: Capslock mystery - Recent phenomena concerning keyboard

2012-01-30 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-30, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Can you try this with the keyboard plugged in directly *without* the > KVM switch. I suspect the KVM switch is the problem. Especially if > you are using a USB keyboard switch. > Remember, the keyboard weighs 10 pounds! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: possibly defective kernel

2012-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:43:03 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Preconfiguring packages ... > Selecting previously unselected package linux-image-3.2.0-1-686-pae. > (Reading database ... 63135 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace linux-image-3.2.0-1-686-pae 3.2.1-1 (using

Re: Just what does _DEBIAN_ mean by "live"

2012-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:21:48 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I downloaded a 770MB file titled > debian-live-6.0.3-i386-lxde-desktop.iso . Burned a DVD.Got some > surprises :< (...) You will get what you expect if you grab the ISO file from Debian site. Other sites can be hosting different fl

Re: creating (thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages

2012-01-30 Thread Claudius Hubig
Claudius Hubig wrote: >Hello lee, > >lee wrote: >>Hi, >> >>is there a Debian package with software that helps in creating >>(thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages? Like something that instead >>of displaying a web page on screen as a web browser does creates an >>image file that can be saved

Re: how to download net inst wheezy and install

2012-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:20:58 -0200, Fernando Gadea wrote: > I am trying to get the net inst file to install debian wheezy but cant > find it. Are various files? where is the one I need for amd64? thank you They're here: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ And more specifically: http://cdimage.d

Re: creating (thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages

2012-01-30 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello lee, lee wrote: >Hi, > >is there a Debian package with software that helps in creating >(thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages? Like something that instead >of displaying a web page on screen as a web browser does creates an >image file that can be saved to disk (and then be resized to

Re: Capslock mystery - Recent phenomena concerning keyboard

2012-01-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Harry Putnam wrote: > The reason I say I'm not sure is that once it starts, even if I switch > to windows 7 host through the KVM, its still stuck on caps. Can you try this with the keyboard plugged in directly *without* the KVM switch. I suspect the KVM switch is the problem. Especially if you a

Re: Getting java applications to look like GTK

2012-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:33:42 -0600, Christian Dysthe wrote: > On 01/23/12 at 09:04am, Steve Mayer wrote: >> On Jan 23, 2012, at 9:01 AM, Christian Dysthe wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > When I run Gnome Java applications looks like the rest of my GTK >> > based applications. However, when I'm running a

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-30 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-30, Lisi wrote: > > When I try to use tab completion and it fails it has always been because of > some typo I had made. Have you ever tried tab completion with a wildcard, which is the case in hand? I created a directory with an accented character in it and attempted to remove it wi

Re: Can't get NIC Bonding with active-backup working

2012-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:29:07 +, Shaun wrote: > Have tried to get NIC Bonding working as per wiki.debian.org/Bonding. > > Each NIC is connected to a different switch for redundancy rather than > bandwidth purposes (insulate against a switch failure). I'm using the > active-backup mode for HA

Re: how to examine the network issue

2012-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:18:50 +0800, lina wrote: > I found I can ssh to server, To what server? Local server, remote server...? > but could not open some webpage. What page? > but can open google on and off. is it weird? It is if you don't provide more data :-) > The connection was reset (.

Re: Printer Drivers

2012-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:59:14 -0800, Weaver wrote: > Greetings al. > > Interesting site. > An alternative to linuxprinters.org when you can't find what you need? > > http://www.driverlook.com/ Looks like an advertizing site... Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-30 Thread lina
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > lina: >> >> well, a question, >> >> $ seq 0 3 | xargs --verbose echo A >> echo A 0 1 2 3 >> A 0 1 2 3 >> >> How can I make the output as: >> >> A0 A1 A2 A3 > > Your problem in this case is that xargs adds whitespace before adding > argument

Re: Re(4): POP3 in Debian

2012-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:05:46 -0700, peasthope wrote: > From: Camaleon > Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:31:35 + (UTC) >> So finally, what are you going to do or what are now your plans >> regarding your original issue? :-? > > It was fixed last Thursday, January 19 shortly after Aoki rminded me to

console_codes question (was Accented Characters - How to type)

2012-01-30 Thread Thomas H. George
The man page for console_codes explains that there are two fonts available (G0 and G1) with commands ^O and ^N to switch between them. Furthermore, it is possible replace the standard font for G1 (VT100 graphics) with a user-defined character set. I have not been able to make all this work but it

Re: Cusp finally working BUT something missing PARTLY SOLVED

2012-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:02:16 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 01/22/2012 04:11 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: >> On 01/22/2012 12:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> my Print/)Options Tab is missing the print selections here on wheezy >> and ISTR it is missing on Stable & Sid here as well. I will have to >> ch

Re: My network speed is only 10MB

2012-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:38:45 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 1/22/2012 11:45 AM, hvw59601 wrote: > >> So I check NewEgg: >> >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122392 10Gb/s: >> >> Check that price! $279.99 Holy Cow! And that's the cheapest one! > > You're either a mor

Re: Re: Squeeze 6.0.3 -> 6.0.4 broke my Xorg

2012-01-30 Thread hardpenguin
Hello there. I'm pretty sure, last update (6.0.4) broke my Xorg or something. Before update I could play my games without problem (King Arthur's Gold, Baldur's Gate [Wine], League of Legends [Wine]), now they cannot initialise display. Error message from KAG: Linux 2.6.38-bpo.2-686 #1 SMP Tue Jun

Re: how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-30 Thread Jochen Spieker
lina: > > well, a question, > > $ seq 0 3 | xargs --verbose echo A > echo A 0 1 2 3 > A 0 1 2 3 > > How can I make the output as: > > A0 A1 A2 A3 Your problem in this case is that xargs adds whitespace before adding arguments. What you can do is to modify seq's output before xargs sees it: $

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-30 Thread Andreas Glaeser
First I had some problems with gmane finding the my thread, the I tried to reply through gmane, but now I found that my answer was not there, although the system told me, that sending seems to have been done correctly. When I think of it now this must be the most insecure thing ever, as only my

Re: Capslock mystery - Recent phenomena concerning keyboard

2012-01-30 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Harry Putnam, 30.01.2012: > Running Wheezy - kde plasma > > Running Debian / windows7 on a KVM switch (IOGEAR miniview 4 port DVI) > > Keyboard is from `Unicomp' and weighs about 10 lbs. Its not that old > but is in the old style with serious stand up keys and lots of clatter > when typing. > >

Re: Capslock mystery - Recent phenomena concerning keyboard

2012-01-30 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 09:21:34AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Running Wheezy - kde plasma > > Running Debian / windows7 on a KVM switch (IOGEAR miniview 4 port DVI) > > I've been using the keyboard for a couple of years. > > All equipment has been in use a good while. > > I've recently starte

Re: how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-30 Thread lina
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > lina: >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Jochen Spieker >> wrote: >>> lina: I wished at most it only run 8 jobs simultantly, no more than 8, once finished, a new job can continue, >>> >>> Xargs can be used for this. An exm

Re: how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-30 Thread lina
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 06:06:06PM +0800, lina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> ( sorry if it a bit off-topic) >> >> I have a script like >> >> #!/bin/bash >> >> for i in {0..108} >> do >> >> some job will run for mins & >> >> done >> >> Here I used & for

Re: how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-30 Thread lina
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Chen Wei wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 06:06:06PM +0800, lina wrote: >> I have a script like >> >> #!/bin/bash >> for i in {0..108} >> do >> >> some job will run for mins & >> done >> >> Here I used & for some kinda of parallel. >> but there is a problem, >> I

Re: how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-30 Thread Jochen Spieker
lina: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> lina: >>> >>> I wished at most it only run 8 jobs simultantly, no more than 8, once >>> finished, a new job can continue, >> >> Xargs can be used for this. An exmaple: >> >> $ seq 1 100 | xargs -n1 -P8 echo >> >> Seq prints the

Capslock mystery - Recent phenomena concerning keyboard

2012-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Running Wheezy - kde plasma Running Debian / windows7 on a KVM switch (IOGEAR miniview 4 port DVI) Keyboard is from `Unicomp' and weighs about 10 lbs. Its not that old but is in the old style with serious stand up keys and lots of clatter when typing. I've been running thru this switch for seve

Re: how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-30 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 06:06:06PM +0800, lina wrote: > Hi, > > ( sorry if it a bit off-topic) > > I have a script like > > #!/bin/bash > > for i in {0..108} > do > > some job will run for mins & > > done > > Here I used & for some kinda of parallel. > but there is a problem, > > I wished a

Re: how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-30 Thread Chen Wei
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 06:06:06PM +0800, lina wrote: > I have a script like > > #!/bin/bash > for i in {0..108} > do > > some job will run for mins & > done > > Here I used & for some kinda of parallel. > but there is a problem, > I wished at most it only run 8 jobs simultantly, no more than 8,

Re: Wheezy. Weekly build 23-Jan-2012. "No kernel modules were found" during install.

2012-01-30 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Leonid Korostyshevski < korostyshevski@gmail.com> wrote: > > If somebody knows, is that bug fixed in upcoming DVD 30-01-2012 weekly > build? ~3.7Gb is a way big for 3G uplink, so should it be marked for > download when *.iso will be ready for? > Leonid, If b

Re: Not getting mails in inbox

2012-01-30 Thread Chen Wei
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 08:40:23PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > NOTE: it is very, very rare for your posts to the list not to be published. > > You can set up a separate free webmail account and use it as the replyto > address in emails to the list from your gmail account, then set up > forwardi

Re: how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-30 Thread lina
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > lina: >> >> I wished at most it only run 8 jobs simultantly, no more than 8, once >> finished, a new job can continue, > > Xargs can be used for this. An exmaple: > > $ seq 1 100 | xargs -n1 -P8 echo > > Seq prints the numbers from 1 to 100

Re: Converting to btrfs

2012-01-30 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 01/30/12 at 06:52am, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 29/01/12 18:21, Christian Dysthe wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have an older laptop running Sid I like to play around with. I would > >like to check out the new btrfs file system and know you can easily convert > >from ext4 to btrfs. The disk is partition

Re: Squeeze 6.0.3 -> 6.0.4 broke my Xorg

2012-01-30 Thread Alex Hutton
On 30 January 2012 22:56, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:35:25 +1100, Alex Hutton wrote: > >> I'm running a dual monitor setup with fglrx. >> >> I have upgraded from Squeeze 6.0.3 to 6.0.4 and after reboot I only have >> a one monitor desktop. >> >> I am wondering if anyone could tell

Re: lcdproc missing driver imonlcd in squeeze

2012-01-30 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:05:07 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 30/01/12 22:50, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:03:24 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >>> On 30/01/12 20:48, Ramon Hofer wrote: On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:03:09 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 29/01/12 23:12,

Re: lcdproc missing driver imonlcd in squeeze

2012-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/01/12 22:50, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:03:24 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> On 30/01/12 20:48, Ramon Hofer wrote: >>> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:03:09 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 29/01/12 23:12, Ramon Hofer wrote: > Hi all > > I'm trying to configure

Re: Squeeze 6.0.3 -> 6.0.4 broke my Xorg

2012-01-30 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:35:25 +1100, Alex Hutton wrote: > I'm running a dual monitor setup with fglrx. > > I have upgraded from Squeeze 6.0.3 to 6.0.4 and after reboot I only have > a one monitor desktop. > > I am wondering if anyone could tell me where my old xorg.conf went to? > > And is there

Re: lcdproc missing driver imonlcd in squeeze

2012-01-30 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:03:24 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 30/01/12 20:48, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:03:09 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >>> On 29/01/12 23:12, Ramon Hofer wrote: Hi all I'm trying to configure a Soundgraph 15c2:0038 display. In Ubuntu

Re: Squeeze 6.0.3 -> 6.0.4 broke my Xorg

2012-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/01/12 21:35, Alex Hutton wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a dual monitor setup with fglrx. > > I have upgraded from Squeeze 6.0.3 to 6.0.4 and after reboot I only > have a one monitor desktop. > > I am wondering if anyone could tell me where my old xorg.conf went to? No idea - did you create

Re: creating (thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages

2012-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/01/12 10:25, lee wrote: > Hi, > > is there a Debian package with software that helps in creating > (thumbnail) images *of* (not for) web pages? NAFAIK > Like something that instead > of displaying a web page on screen as a web browser does creates an > image file that can be saved to disk

Re: lcdproc missing driver imonlcd in squeeze

2012-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/01/12 20:48, Ramon Hofer wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:03:09 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> On 29/01/12 23:12, Ramon Hofer wrote: >>> Hi all >>> >>> I'm trying to configure a Soundgraph 15c2:0038 display. In Ubuntu which >>> I had running before on that PC it was very easy to get the di

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-30 Thread Michael Lange
Thus spoketh "Thomas H. George" unto us on Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:00:54 -0500: > Incidently, none of the other proposed solutions work. There is no > xorg.conf any more or at least it is no longer needed. Sorry, I should have mentioned this, if you need an xorg.conf you can create one with defaul

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-30 Thread Lisi
On Monday 30 January 2012 02:00:54 Thomas H. George wrote: > I was trying to use > directory completion as the directory in question was extremely long and > that didn't work. When I try to use tab completion and it fails it has always been because of some typo I had made. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Squeeze 6.0.3 -> 6.0.4 broke my Xorg

2012-01-30 Thread Alexey Eromenko
hmmm... ? First time I heard that a point update could cause it... -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" -- 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/CAOJ6w=fzr+tcbc

Re:Gpm Eats the Disk

2012-01-30 Thread David Baron
On Monday 30 January 2012 11:50:45 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > * David Baron schrieb: > > Gpm starts spewing error messages syslog and daemon.log grow and grow > > quickly filling the /var filesystem's partition. I mean 10's of > > gigabytes. The system still works but

Squeeze 6.0.3 -> 6.0.4 broke my Xorg

2012-01-30 Thread Alex Hutton
Hi, I'm running a dual monitor setup with fglrx. I have upgraded from Squeeze 6.0.3 to 6.0.4 and after reboot I only have a one monitor desktop. I am wondering if anyone could tell me where my old xorg.conf went to? And is there a way to configure apt so that upgrades stop clobbering my xorg.co

Re: how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-30 Thread Jochen Spieker
lina: > > I wished at most it only run 8 jobs simultantly, no more than 8, once > finished, a new job can continue, Xargs can be used for this. An exmaple: $ seq 1 100 | xargs -n1 -P8 echo Seq prints the numbers from 1 to 100 (one per line) and xargs starts an echo for each argument with 8 invo

Re: how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-30 Thread lina
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:06 PM, lina wrote: > Hi, > > ( sorry if it a bit off-topic) > > I have a script like > > #!/bin/bash > > for i in {0..108} > do > > some job will run for mins & > > done > > Here I used & for some kinda of parallel. > but there is a problem, > > I wished at most it only r

Re: KVM virtualisation

2012-01-30 Thread Tim Rühsen
Hi James, looks like you didn't set the DISPLAY variable: > Cannot open display: In my setup I have to 'xhost +localhost' as the desktop user. As root: export DISPLAY=:0 Good luck. Tim Ruehsen Am Wednesday, 25. January 2012 schrieb James Allsopp: > Hi, > I'm having trouble building a kvm virtu

how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-30 Thread lina
Hi, ( sorry if it a bit off-topic) I have a script like #!/bin/bash for i in {0..108} do some job will run for mins & done Here I used & for some kinda of parallel. but there is a problem, I wished at most it only run 8 jobs simultantly, no more than 8, once finished, a new job can continue

Re: lcdproc missing driver imonlcd in squeeze

2012-01-30 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:03:09 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 29/01/12 23:12, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I'm trying to configure a Soundgraph 15c2:0038 display. In Ubuntu which >> I had running before on that PC it was very easy to get the display >> working: Install lcdproc and change t

Re: how to get gdm3 greeter to display menu of hosts for remote login via xdmcp

2012-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/01/12 17:01, Rick Thomas wrote: > > How do I get the gnome3 greeter to give me a menu of hosts on the local > network who are willing to accept an xdmcp login? > > On my "squeeze" machines running gdm, at the login screen there is a > drop-down called "Actions" that has one option called "R

Re: lcdproc missing driver imonlcd in squeeze

2012-01-30 Thread Ramon Hofer
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:03:09 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 29/01/12 23:12, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I'm trying to configure a Soundgraph 15c2:0038 display. In Ubuntu which >> I had running before on that PC it was very easy to get the display >> working: Install lcdproc and change t

Re: Software-upgrades not installable due to APT-misconfiguration ?

2012-01-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
[Please reply instead of writing new messages, it makes it easier to follow] On Lu, 30 ian 12, 07:14:19, Andreas Glaeser wrote: [...] You don't have lenny-backports in your sources.list and the corresponding pin is not needed anymore (not even for squeeze-backports), please remove it. > The

Re: Gnome3 login failure

2012-01-30 Thread richard
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:47:52 +0100 Sebastian Steinhuber wrote: > Am 24.01.2012 15:56, schrieb Richard: > > Hi > > > > Out of the blue, when I try to login to the shell I get after a few second > > that dreaded something has gone wrong message and to logout. > > Is Gnome3 similar in behaviour to

Re: Not getting mails in inbox

2012-01-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/01/12 16:47, Harshad Joshi wrote: > I am not getting replies to mails i am sending on this list. i have to > manually check or refer google to get answers.. > > can someone look in this matter? > > -- > Harshad Joshi > > The list server does send replies - gmail (a free service provided

Re: getting source packages with synaptic

2012-01-30 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 29/01/12 21:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 29 ian 12, 18:55:00, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Much googling on the subject suggests that it might not be possible to do that. Anyone know whether that's true, if so, why, and if not how can I do it? Probably nobody bothered to implement the feat

Re: Not getting mails in inbox

2012-01-30 Thread Chen Wei
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:17:12AM +0530, Harshad Joshi wrote: > I am not getting replies to mails i am sending on this list. i have to > manually check or refer google to get answers.. > > can someone look in this matter? it is a feature of Gmail :) http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?h

Re: Gnome3 login failure

2012-01-30 Thread Sebastian Steinhuber
Am 24.01.2012 15:56, schrieb Richard: > Hi > > Out of the blue, when I try to login to the shell I get after a few second > that dreaded something has > gone wrong message and to logout. > Is Gnome3 similar in behaviour to Gnome2 that removing the .gnome files will > cause them to be recreated >