Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

On Lu, 03 sep 12, 17:02:59, Emiliano M. Rudenick wrote: > > contrib? non-free? I think that's not right :| Why? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digit

Re: Display settings issue

On Ma, 04 sep 12, 10:47:55, Bilal mk wrote: > Hello, > > I have attached the full /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > Thanks for the reply > > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > > On Lu, 03 sep 12, 19:29:52, Bilal mk wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Sometime my monitor display does

boot image

Hi, Today I tried to install unetbootin The following packages were installed. extlinux: libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl: memtest86+: os-prober: syslinux: syslinux-common: syslinux-themes-debian: syslinux-themes-debian-wheezy: unetbootin-translations: during boot, it showed those other optio

Re: keeping track of software changes (Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base)

Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Lu, 03 sep 12, 18:57:26, lee wrote: >> Andrei POPESCU writes: >> >> > This is your responsibility as the administrator of your system. >> > There are various methods to do it, it all depends on preferences. >> >> Interesting, which methods are there? > > Since you

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Lu, 03 sep 12, 16:22:25, lee wrote: >> >> Ok, how do I find out which packages from Debian-MM are actually >> installed and what their Debian-MM-team replacements are? > > aptitude search ~S~i~OMultimedia > > Will show you which packages you have from deb-multimed

Re: Display settings issue

Hello, I have attached the full /var/log/Xorg.0.log Thanks for the reply On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 03 sep 12, 19:29:52, Bilal mk wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Sometime my monitor display does not detected. If it detected not stored > > my configuration permanen

Re: some problems in mounting usb

lina wrote: > Hi, > > there is a usb stick, > > 1] mount via command line > > # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/try > > when I tried to mount as: > >:/mnt/try# ls -lrt *.pdf > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1827158 Jun 18 06:29 PIIS0006349512003256.pdf > > it showed me as x x x > > # chmod -x PIIS0006349512003256.pdf

some problems in mounting usb

Hi, there is a usb stick, 1] mount via command line # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/try when I tried to mount as: :/mnt/try# ls -lrt *.pdf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1827158 Jun 18 06:29 PIIS0006349512003256.pdf it showed me as x x x # chmod -x PIIS0006349512003256.pdf # ls -lrt PIIS0006349512003256.pdf

Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio

On 09/03/2012 08:47 PM, T o n g wrote: Hi, Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio? Thanks Yes. Pulseaudio is merely a sound daemon, not an actual sound core complete with driver API. PA will need either ALSA or OSS to run on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio

Hi, Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio? Thanks -- 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/k23mk9$v3d$2...@ger.gmane.org

My app-defaults won't work for emacs any more

Hi, I haven't updated my emacs for quite a while and today when I update it, I notice that the new emacs is not following my app-defaults settings, which has been working for quite a long time. Does it happen to you as well? How did you fix it? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

dev pts mystery

ok, here's one i can't figure out: looking at /dev/pts when i open a gnome terminal and open several more tabs it usually looks like: crw--w 1 me tty 136, 0 Sep 3 20:05 0 crw--w 1 me tty 136, 1 Sep 3 20:04 1 crw--w 1 me tty 136, 2 Sep 3 20:04 2 crw--w 1 me t

Re: /etc/init.d/bootlogs said to be removed. Still there. Is it a bug?

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 01:43:38AM +0300, Regid Ichira wrote: > $ zgrep -A1 'bootlogs init script has been removed' > /usr/share/doc/initscripts/changelog.Debian.gz > - bootlogs init script has been removed; current logging daemons > handle this themselves, making this script

/etc/init.d/bootlogs said to be removed. Still there. Is it a bug?

$ zgrep -A1 'bootlogs init script has been removed' /usr/share/doc/initscripts/changelog.Debian.gz - bootlogs init script has been removed; current logging daemons handle this themselves, making this script redundant. $ $ ls -l /etc/init.d/bootlogs -rwxr-xr-x 1 r

Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

On 9/3/2012 5:06 PM, Gaël DONVAL wrote: Le dimanche 02 septembre 2012 à 12:28 -0500, Mark Allums a écrit : I noticed a low-grade but continuous disk activity. Check with atop or another tool like that. The two main culprits for completely unknown and continuous IO transfers are tracker-miner a

Re: sshd_config match keyword syntax

On 30/08/12 16:20, Brian wrote: > On Thu 30 Aug 2012 at 14:37:34 +0100, Roger Lynn wrote: >> I want to force everyone except members of a particular group to run sftp >> when they ssh into a server. So at the end of /etc/ssh/sshd_config I have: >> >> Match Group !sshers >> ForceCommand /usr/lib/

Re: Advice about removing cruft?

On Mon, September 3, 2012 2:04 pm, Mark Allums wrote: > In an effort to improve system stability without completely > reinstalling, how would someone pick and choose things to trim or remove > from a Desktop/Workstation? My favorite and main Linux/Debian machine > is flaky right now, and I don't

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

Yes, alsamixer finds a sound card as does amix -l and yes it's the only sound card installed. On Mon, 3 Sep 2012, lee wrote: > Jude DaShiell writes: > > > I ran both aumix -q and rexima and neither were able to find the sound > > card. > > Is alsamixer able to find devices, or do some show up

Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

Le dimanche 02 septembre 2012 à 12:28 -0500, Mark Allums a écrit : > > I noticed a low-grade but continuous disk activity. Check with atop or another tool like that. The two main culprits for completely unknown and continuous IO transfers are tracker-miner and ext4 (if your HDD/SSD is big and ha

Re: LSB init script virtual facility for name switch service resolution

On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 06:50:57PM +0100, Jamie Thompson wrote: > Not sure where it's best to start this discussion, but here seems a > good a place as any. > > In brief, I have all my account information in LDAP. Problem is, I > have to manually add slapd into most of my init scripts to make sure

Re: tracker-miner, tracker-store, etc., was Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

Le dimanche 02 septembre 2012 à 14:06 -0500, Mark Allums a écrit : > I noticed that tracker is doing a lot . How important is it? Is it > inadvisable to disable it? > It handles the "fast search" feature in gnome 3 activity pane. If you don't use gnome-shell or if you think you don't need that

Re: "Hold"ing non-installed packages

On 09/03/2012 02:36 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 03 sep 12, 13:57:17, The Wanderer wrote: Is there any way to tell apt to "hold" a particular package in a non-installed state? Several, but the easiest would be to pin it to a priority smaller than 0, see apt_preferences(5) for more info.

Advice about removing cruft?

In an effort to improve system stability without completely reinstalling, how would someone pick and choose things to trim or remove from a Desktop/Workstation? My favorite and main Linux/Debian machine is flaky right now, and I don't want to commit the time and mental effort to completely nuk

Weird postfix problem when upgrading to Squeeze

Hi guys, The weirdest thing happened today with postfix when upgrading our mail relay from Lenny to Squeeze. My main.cf has a mynetworks directive specifying which servers can relay without authenticating. It looked like this: mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 x.x.x.x

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

El Mon, 3 Sep 2012 20:37:46 +1200 Chris Bannister escribió: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 05:54:32PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > > On 29.08.2012 17:45, Lisi wrote: > > > but I don't know what happened to Lenny backports when Lenny was > > > archived. > > > > They were archived too. > > > > http

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

On Lu, 03 sep 12, 16:22:25, lee wrote: > > Ok, how do I find out which packages from Debian-MM are actually > installed and what their Debian-MM-team replacements are? aptitude search ~S~i~OMultimedia Will show you which packages you have from deb-multimedia.org. However, the Debian replace

Re: Unidentified subject! [ ]

On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 18:05 +0300, David Baron wrote: > Aren't we all sick of seeing this? > The listings with the messed up headers are next to useless. > The only way to get sane headers is to post on-line, I suppose. > > Someone in the Debian universe has to be able to fix this list! I guess t

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

On Lu, 03 sep 12, 17:45:11, Camaleón wrote: > > I think you still don't understand what Debian releases are for: you > simply can't have the four branches (stable/testing/sid/experimental) > enabled by default and wait for the updater do its job "automagically". I > have little experience with

LSB init script virtual facility for name switch service resolution

Not sure where it's best to start this discussion, but here seems a good a place as any. In brief, I have all my account information in LDAP. Problem is, I have to manually add slapd into most of my init scripts to make sure the ordering is correct and that my accounts DB is up in time for sta

Re: "Hold"ing non-installed packages

On Lu, 03 sep 12, 13:57:17, The Wanderer wrote: > Is there any way to tell apt to "hold" a particular package in a non-installed > state? Several, but the easiest would be to pin it to a priority smaller than 0, see apt_preferences(5) for more info. However for your case it might be easier to f

Re: Re (2): names for sound devices

On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:11:37 -0700, peasthope wrote: > From: Camaleon > Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 14:00:21 + (UTC) >> You mean the name enclosed in brackes, the card identifier? > > Yes, the names "SI7012", "default" and "default_1". > >> I don't know ... your final goal ... > > Aiming to have

"Hold"ing non-installed packages

Is there any way to tell apt to "hold" a particular package in a non-installed state? Having previously encountered problems due to having tried to dist-upgrade across a long gap, I perform a dist-upgrade to testing on the order of weekly. When apt-listbugs reports a bug which is important enough

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 18:20:35 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: (...) >>> What's wrong with it? Aptitude installs packages from testing by >>> default and installs packages from unstable or experimental when I >>> tell it to, which is what I want. >> >> Nothing wrong "per se" but when using s

Re: keeping track of software changes (Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base)

On Lu, 03 sep 12, 18:57:26, lee wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > > This is your responsibility as the administrator of your system. > > There are various methods to do it, it all depends on preferences. > > Interesting, which methods are there? Since you only install select packages from un

Re (2): names for sound devices

From: Camaleon Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 14:00:21 + (UTC) > You mean the name enclosed in brackes, the card identifier? Yes, the names "SI7012", "default" and "default_1". > I don't know ... your final goal ... Aiming to have sound work. =8~) [Old boring background story. Two desktop

keeping track of software changes (Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base)

Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Lu, 03 sep 12, 15:11:55, lee wrote: >> I wish there was a good way to keep track of all these changes ... The >> admin would enter why some change was performed, and the package > > This is your responsibility as the administrator of your system. There > are various m

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

Jude DaShiell writes: > I ran both aumix -q and rexima and neither were able to find the sound > card. Is alsamixer able to find devices, or do some show up when you run "aplay -l" or "aplay -L"? Is this the only sound card installed? -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: What does charset in locale setting affect?

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Dan B. wrote: > > Are you sure about sed? > > I tried probing how LANG= vs. LANG=en_US.UTF-8 affected whether > the regular expression "[a-z]" matched "X". Grep seems to be > affected as expected, but sed never matched. (That's on Squeeze.) What commands dud you

Re: Preseeding from USB

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 6:54 PM, T o n g wrote: > On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:56:03 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> >>> If normally booted, my USB key would be sdc, should I use >>> >>> preseed/file=/sdc/path/preseed.cfg >>> >>> or /mnt/sdc or /media/its_label, or...? >> >> You would need to determine wh

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

Chris Bannister writes: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 07:31:02PM +0200, lee wrote: >> packages from these when needed? And if I removed Debian multimedia, I >> would miss a lot of packages. > > You might be suprised. The Debian Multimedia team is constantly > improving Debian's multimedia support.

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:31:02 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >> Some packages currently installed may be from unstable or experimental because I needed more recent versions of them --- IIRC, the mumble ones are. I would want to keep those until testing

Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

Chris Bannister writes: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 09:29:32PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Mark Allums writes: >> >> > I am going to temporarily retreat to another window manager and >> > desktop for a while, and see if this bug gets fixed. >> >> Fvwm-crystal is awesome. > > Huh? Compare "apt-cache sho

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

On Lu, 03 sep 12, 15:11:55, lee wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > > On Du, 02 sep 12, 16:42:30, lee wrote: > >> downgrade. I'm surprised that there are so many packages from unstable > >> installed, though. Yet that will fix itself over time when the packages > >> now in unstable make it into t

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 20:45:42 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Is it possible to create a /dev/mixer entry for this kind of sound card > that will enable rexima and/or aumix to find the sound card and control > the sound card? JFYI, according to Debian's rexima package "NEWS.gz" file, that shouldn't

Re: aide error

On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 16:25:18 -0700, latinfo wrote: > Helo list > > Does somebody know how to deal with this? (...) It seems to be a known/reported issue: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661758 Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: xsesssion-errors

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 12:59:04AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > So what now? If the bug needs re-opening, unarchive it and reopen it: Probably something like this to cont...@bugs.debian.org unarchive 617940 reopen 617940 thanks It would be wo

Re: Unidentified subject! [ ]

On Monday 03 September 2012 16:05:12 David Baron wrote: > Aren't we all sick of seeing this? > The listings with the messed up headers are next to useless. > The only way to get sane headers is to post on-line, I suppose. > > Someone in the Debian universe has to be able to fix this list! I have n

Re: Unidentified subject! [ ]

On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 18:05:12 +0300, David Baron wrote: > Aren't we all sick of seeing this? Well, is a bit annoying, yes. > The listings with the messed up headers are next to useless. The only > way to get sane headers is to post on-line, I suppose. > > Someone in the Debian universe has to be

Unidentified subject! [ ]

Aren't we all sick of seeing this? The listings with the messed up headers are next to useless. The only way to get sane headers is to post on-line, I suppose. Someone in the Debian universe has to be able to fix this list! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

cyrstalHD with debian

Hi all, Its been 2 days since I have tried to compile every flavor of mplayer (mplayer, mplayer2 with stock ffmpeg and the ffmpeg download from the ffmpeg site) but none of them are compiling cleanly. It is as-though mplayer is not being maintained for crystalHD Coming back to the default deb

Re: Display settings issue

On Lu, 03 sep 12, 19:29:52, Bilal mk wrote: > Hello, > > Sometime my monitor display does not detected. If it detected not stored > my configuration permanently .It reset after reboot or logoff. > > > See my xrandr output. This will change every time Please attach your full /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:58:17 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 05:24:53PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:08:58 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> >> > On 29/08/12 17:28, Camaleón wrote: >> >> It does not matter that Lenny is out of support (formerly codenam

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

I ran both aumix -q and rexima and neither were able to find the sound card. The sound card shows up using lspci, but I don't know what to parse out of it for an ln -s command or if a /dev/mixer device if created would even work in this circumstance. On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Chris Bannister wrote:

Re: Using a proxy with iceweasel

On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:47:59 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: (...) > So, my question is how to make iceweasel use the settings from > http_proxy environment variable, so I don't need to update settings for > different network profiles by hand? Can't confirm, but maybe Firefox is looking for a DE env

Re: xsesssion-errors

On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:59:04 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 03:07:09PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: (...) >> > > This was the message that closed it. It was sent to 617940-done and >> > > so the bug was marked as closed. The other bug was forcibly merged >> > > with this on

Re: names for sound devices

On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 11:32:45 -0700, peasthope wrote: > According to http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA . peter@dalton:~$ cat > /proc/asound/cards > 0 [SI7012 ]: ICH - SiS SI7012 > SiS SI7012 with ALC655 at irq 18 > 1 [default]: USB-Audio - C-Media USB Audio Device

Display settings issue

Hello, Sometime my monitor display does not detected. If it detected not stored my configuration permanently .It reset after reboot or logoff. See my xrandr output. This will change every time $ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096 VGA1 connected 1024x768

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:31:02 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >>> Some packages currently installed may be from unstable or experimental >>> because I needed more recent versions of them --- IIRC, the mumble >>> ones are. I would want to keep those until testing catches up. >> >> Then this

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 08:45:42PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Is it possible to create a /dev/mixer entry for this kind of sound card > that will enable rexima and/or aumix to find the sound card and control > the sound card? Is the card being recognised? What are you trying to do? What have

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Du, 02 sep 12, 16:42:30, lee wrote: >> downgrade. I'm surprised that there are so many packages from unstable >> installed, though. Yet that will fix itself over time when the packages >> now in unstable make it into testing, I guess. > > This will not happen until aft

Re: can rsync correct dates?

Dr Beco writes: > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 3:10 AM, lee wrote: >>> So, how do I compose such a command rsync plus find, to achieve this? >> >> You could >> >> >> 1.) create a file with a list of such files with find and use the >> "--exclude-from=" of rsync to exclude them, or >> >> 2.) you co

Re: xsesssion-errors

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 12:43:11AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > At least there is a bug open: see chameleon's post in this thread. Correction was open, now closed and archived. :( -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving

Re: xsesssion-errors

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 12:59:04AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > What I see by looking now is: > > > > * 617940 is/was assigned to the libvdpau1 package > > * notfixed 617940 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2 removes any indication that > > version 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2 was fixed. > > * libv

Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:55:06 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > On 9/2/2012 12:39 PM, Mark Allums wrote: >> On 9/2/2012 12:23 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> I rarely enter into the fallback mode in my wheezy system, let's see >>> how CPU resources is taking nautilus... (relogin) He, this is funny: I >>>

Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 09:29:32PM +0200, lee wrote: > Mark Allums writes: > > > I am going to temporarily retreat to another window manager and > > desktop for a while, and see if this bug gets fixed. > > Fvwm-crystal is awesome. Huh? Compare "apt-cache show fvwm-crystal" with "apt-cache show

Re: xsesssion-errors

On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 03:07:09PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Camaleón wrote: > > >> But it seems the problem remains (read comment #45) so dunno why it was > > >> archived with apparently no additional clues on the current status: > > > > > > This was t

Re: xsesssion-errors

On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 01:40:50PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > I have much egregious noise in that file. It would be good if there > was a campaign to clean it up. But it is a distributed culture of > sloppy programming over years that has contributed to it. It would > take a large effort to clea

Re: xsesssion-errors

On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 01:19:49PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 01/09/12 12:45 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 09:54:32AM +0200, lee wrote: > >>Frank McCormick writes: > >> > >>>I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I > >>> > >>>(firefox:2707)

Re: what is the difference between '/usr/bin/X' and '/usr/bin/Xorg'?

Le Sam 1 septembre 2012 1:32, bobg.h...@gmail.com a écrit : > On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:30:02 PM UTC-5, jiang lei wrote: > >>     is there any difference between "/usr/bin/X" and "/usr/bin/Xorg"? >> On my >debian box, /usr/bin/X is not symlink to /usr/bin/Xorg, and i >> can start X server >with

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

On 8/30/2012 12:28 AM, Bret Busby wrote: [snip] > Last night, it was taking up to 20 minutes for the system to respond to > a mouse click, and, typing in the text in composing an email message ... > and, about 40-60% of the > characters that are typed in, simply disappear, requiring composing an ..

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 07:31:02PM +0200, lee wrote: > packages from these when needed? And if I removed Debian multimedia, I > would miss a lot of packages. You might be suprised. The Debian Multimedia team is constantly improving Debian's multimedia support. -- "If you're not careful, the new

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

On Monday 03 September 2012 10:03:12 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 06:49:31PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 August 2012 18:08:58 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > > On 29/08/12 17:28, Camaleón wrote: > > > > It does not matter that Lenny is out of support (formerly codenamed

Re: What does charset in locale setting affect?

On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 11:11:56PM -0400, Dan B. wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 07:32:48PM -0400, Dan B. wrote: > >... > > > >>Which common programs (e.g., getty, xterm/etc., sed/grep?) do something > >>different based on the charset portion of the local setting? > > > >All

Re: can rsync correct dates?

Dr Beco wrote: > For some reason, my restoration from a backup (using rsync) to > notebook got me all my files dated 13/08/12, indistinctly. > Now I need to rsync again from backup to notebook just to correct the dates. > But I don't want to lose files I changed. > I can "filter" the files I don

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 06:49:31PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Wednesday 29 August 2012 18:08:58 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > On 29/08/12 17:28, Camaleón wrote: > > > It does not matter that Lenny is out of support (formerly codenamed > > > "oldstable") because even the current stable release (Squeeze)

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 05:24:53PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:08:58 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > > On 29/08/12 17:28, Camaleón wrote: > >> It does not matter that Lenny is out of support (formerly codenamed > >> "oldstable") because even the current stable release (Sque

Re: Preseeding from USB

On Sun 02 Sep 2012 at 21:26:44 +, T o n g wrote: > If I want to do automated install on Debian (http://www.hps.com/~tpg/ > notebook/autoinstall.php) using preseeding configuration file from USB > key, how should I tell the Debian boot loader to look there? > > If normally booted, my USB key

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 05:54:32PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 29.08.2012 17:45, Lisi wrote: > > but I don't know what happened to Lenny backports when Lenny was > > archived. > > They were archived too. > > http://http.debian.net/debian-archive/debian-backports/ > > has folder "dists",

Re: Alsa-Base breaks Linux-Sound-Base

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:06:30PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:50:02 +0200 > Camaleón wrote: > > > I experienced no issues with the dist-upgrade. > > In my troubles with that I'm sure they installed alsa-base with everything > muted. I think I remember reading somewh