Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 15:07 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Is this the best place for systemd assistance? The best place to get assistance are the insane people who try to force this into every Linux distribution, with LP leading the way. > First, systemd worked. > Now it hangs on bootup That's

can't install skype 4.1 in debian testing ; lost the working 4.0

2012-11-19 Thread J. B
Hello, Is there anyone having luck with skype 4.1 in debian ? I have tried to install it and get the following dependency issue and also lost my working skype 4.0 ` dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd6

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 11/19/12, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 15:07 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> Is this the best place for systemd assistance? > > The best place to get assistance are the insane people who try to force > this into every Linux distribution, with LP leading the way. So perhaps post

Debian wheezy testing - auto printer install

2012-11-19 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, Installed latest wheezy weekly. I understand it is testing. The printer auto install / manual install does not work. Installed splix - no change. Anything else that should be done? Would like to test OS if printer does work. Thanks JohanS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: GDM3 very slow to load gnome

2012-11-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Use another display manager ;). I still try to fix some GNOME stuff myself, but I guess it's not worse the effort. The best thing to do IMO is to be on the look-out for a complete GNOME replacement. Since I'm not blind, I simply could switch to Xfce, but I e.g. still need Evolution to access my ema

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 09:03 +0200, ed mente wrote: > Have you tried booting from another device and fsck on your root and > boot partitions? No, no, I suspect the issue has something to do with read only or not read only at startup. However, search the web. I don't remember exactly this issue, but

RE: can't install skype 4.1 in debian testing ; lost the working 4.0

2012-11-19 Thread Mark Allums
> Hello, > > Is there anyone having luck with skype 4.1 in debian ? > I have tried to install it and get the following dependency issue and > also lost my working skype 4.0 > > ` > dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: > package architecture (i386) does not m

Re: can't install skype 4.1 in debian testing ; lost the working 4.0

2012-11-19 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2012/11/19 Mark Allums : >> Hello, >> >> Is there anyone having luck with skype 4.1 in debian ? >> I have tried to install it and get the following dependency issue and >> also lost my working skype 4.0 >> dpkg: error processing skype (--install): >> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured >>

dpkg: overwriting file from other package fails despite diversion

2012-11-19 Thread gator_ml
For a pretty complex system modification I need to replace binaries from several other packages by modified versions. Because I'll need to easily reproduce these modifications and would like to keep things as transparent as possible, I wrapped the necessary changes into a Debian package (I don't wa

Re: can't install skype 4.1 in debian testing ; lost the working 4.0

2012-11-19 Thread J. B
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 03:06:46 -0600 "Mark Allums" wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is there anyone having luck with skype 4.1 in debian ? > > I have tried to install it and get the following dependency issue and > > also lost my working skype 4.0 > > > > ` > > dpkg: warning: overriding

Re: can't install skype 4.1 in debian testing ; lost the working 4.0

2012-11-19 Thread J. B
> > > > last time I tried, I need to have libqt4-gui & ia32-libs-gtk > Already installed in my box -- 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/20121119145626.1

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:07:17AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 15:07 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Is this the best place for systemd assistance? > > The best place to get assistance are the insane people who try to force > this into every Linux distribution, with LP lea

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 03:07:54PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Is this the best place for systemd assistance? For systemd-in-Debian, most likely, yes. > First, systemd worked. > Now it hangs on bootup, with the following messages: What has changed? Have you upgraded systemd or other packages

Not OT: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 09:27 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:07:17AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 15:07 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > Is this the best place for systemd assistance? > > > > The best place to get assistance are the insane people wh

Re: help with keyboard, lost at GDM-login?

2012-11-19 Thread Morel Bérenger
As a workaround for your wifi, try to do "#ifdown wlan0 ; ifup wlan0". At least, it could avoids the reboot... Le Lun 19 novembre 2012 7:49, lalberts a écrit : > lastest news.. > > some troubles with iwlwifi are still remaining. my wifi was stable before > all those troubles.. it is not anymore.

Re: can't install skype 4.1 in debian testing ; lost the working 4.0

2012-11-19 Thread Benjamin Martin
On 19/11/12 09:25, J. B wrote: Do you know any fix ? not a fix as such, ... but I got around the problem by installing an older version of Skype, which I think does not require the multi arch skype-debian_4.0.0.8-1_amd64.deb This version I had knocking about in my Downloads dir, and could fi

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 11/19/12, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 03:07:54PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> Is this the best place for systemd assistance? > > For systemd-in-Debian, most likely, yes. > >> First, systemd worked. >> Now it hangs on bootup, with the following messages: > > What has changed

RE: can't install skype 4.1 in debian testing ; lost the working 4.0

2012-11-19 Thread Mark Allums
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 03:06:46 -0600 > "Mark Allums" wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Is there anyone having luck with skype 4.1 in debian ? > > > I have tried to install it and get the following dependency issue and > > > also lost my working skype 4.0 > > > > > > ` > > > dpkg:

Re: can't install skype 4.1 in debian testing ; lost the working 4.0

2012-11-19 Thread J. B
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:18:33 + Benjamin Martin wrote: > On 19/11/12 09:25, J. B wrote: > > Do you know any fix ? > > not a fix as such, ... but I got around the problem by installing an > older version of Skype, which I think does not require the multi arch >skype-debian_4.0.0.8-1_amd64.

RE: can't install skype 4.1 in debian testing ; lost the working 4.0

2012-11-19 Thread Mark Allums
> The only fix I know short of installing 32-bit Wheezy in a chroot or virtual > machine is to satisfy all of the dependencies, which will all need to be i386 > versions. Don't worry; both the i386 and amd64 versions can be installed side- > by-side. I'm sorry, please be extremely cautious about

Re: can't install skype 4.1 in debian testing ; lost the working 4.0

2012-11-19 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello J., "J. B" wrote: > dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: Don’t use dpkg --force-architecture, but rather enable multi-arch as detailed in the various how tos online. To get Skype 4.1 working via multi-arch, you will need some packages from unstable, install them. If d

Re: can't install skype 4.1 in debian testing ; lost the working 4.0

2012-11-19 Thread Francesco Mazzoli
At Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:35:37 +, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Don’t use dpkg --force-architecture, but rather enable multi-arch as > detailed in the various how tos online. To get Skype 4.1 working via > multi-arch, you will need some packages from unstable, install them. > If dpkg complains about a

Re: Not OT: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:54:57AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > why not warn people to use something that's known for issues only? It isn't known for issues only. There's a lot of heat and noise about problems with systemd, that is true, but a substantial amount of that heat and noise is posts lik

Re: OpenVPN setup woes

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:14:16AM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Tony, > > From: Tony van der Hoff > Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:01:13 + > > I'm trying, without much success so far, to set up an OpenVPN server on > > my Squeeze VPS. > > Here OpenVPN works with static key encryption. These

RE: can't install skype 4.1 in debian testing ; lost the working 4.0

2012-11-19 Thread Steven Post
On Mon, November 19, 2012 11:28, Mark Allums wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 03:06:46 -0600 >> "Mark Allums" wrote: >> >> > > Hello, >> > > >> > > Is there anyone having luck with skype 4.1 in debian ? >> > > I have tried to install it and get the following dependency issue >> and >> > > also lost

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > First, systemd worked. > Now it hangs on bootup, with the following messages: > Loading, please wait... > systemd-fsck[249]: /dev/sda5: clean, ... > plus one similar fsck msg. > > After a minute or two it asks me for root pwd or to Ctrl-

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 15:07 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> Is this the best place for systemd assistance? > > The best place to get assistance are the insane people who try to force > this into every Linux distribution, with LP leading the

Re: Graphic-Card-Resolution in GUI affects blanking virtual-consoles (tty1 etc.)

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 05:58:38PM +0100, Herbert Schwarzer wrote: > > Following issue occurs (in both flavours Squeeze as well as Wheezy): > Running amd64 KDE-Environment. > It does not matter running nouveau-graphics-driver or nvidia-graphics-driver > (the Debian way ...) > If I switch from KDE

Re: ACPI issues: backlight and more

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 07:07:48PM +0200, ed mente wrote: > Hi, [...] > [4.] > Linux version 3.6.3 (root clterm) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro ^ > 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) ) #6 SMP Sun Oct 28 16:46:38 EET 2012 ^^

Re: can't install skype 4.1 in debian testing ; lost the working 4.0

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 02:03:41PM +0530, J. B wrote: > > Hello, > > Is there anyone having luck with skype 4.1 in debian ? > I have tried to install it and get the following dependency issue and > also lost my working skype 4.0 > > ` > dpkg: warning: overriding problem because -

Re: GDM3 very slow to load gnome

2012-11-19 Thread john
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:45:07 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: =Use another display manager ;). I still try to fix some GNOME stuff =myself, but I guess it's not worse the effort. The best thing to do IMO =is to be on the look-out for a complete GNOME replacement. Since I'm not =blind, I simply could swi

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 07:44 -0500, Tom H wrote: > Nothing but innacuracy and FUD, as usual. > > As I've pointed out in another thread/post [1], you're confusing > consolekit and policykit. I'm not. Didn't you read the links? > Policykit is a standalone > application/package. Consolekit on the o

Re: GDM3 very slow to load gnome

2012-11-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 08:16 -0500, john wrote: > I run gnome3 with lightdm and openbox. It seems to work fine without > some of the bugginess of gdm3. I might add however, that this install > is running on a virtual machine (openbox) - I run it there in the hope > that it becomes useable (for me th

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Lun 19 novembre 2012 14:38, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : > On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 07:44 -0500, Tom H wrote: > >> Nothing but innacuracy and FUD, as usual. >> >> >> As I've pointed out in another thread/post [1], you're confusing >> consolekit and policykit. > > I'm not. Didn't you read the links? > > >

Wheezy beta3 Screen Locked Problem

2012-11-19 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I am running Wheezy beta 3 in a VM on my 64 bit laptop with 32 bit apps enabled. I have encountered a strange (at least to me) problem in that only some apps are locked to the upper left hand corner of the monitor when they are opened. For example, the Chrome browser can be moved as can the

FW: Wheezy beta3 Screen Locked Problem

2012-11-19 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Sorry, forget to add that I'm ruining xfce4 Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate www.FoundationForChemistry.com (614)312-7528 (c) Skype: smolnar1 From: Step

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 07:44:39AM -0500, Tom H wrote: > The problem is that it's no longer possible for recent versions of > udev to compile it without compiling systemd too. The truth is a bit more complicated. You can build just udev from the systemd sources: "make udevd" rather than the defau

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi - please trim your quotes. On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 03:05:55PM +0100, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > If I am not wrong, there IS such a warning if you do the switch. At least, > if you remove the package sysvinit (or whatever name) with aptitude, it > will ask you to write an entire sentance which ex

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 11/19/12, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> >> First, systemd worked. >> Now it hangs on bootup, with the following messages: ... >> Nov 19 14:31:12 localhost named[2353]: error (network unreachable) >> resolving 'B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET//IN': 192.33.4.1

Re: Not OT: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 11/19/12, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:54:57AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> Could you please answer this question of the OP: >> On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 19:42 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> > Can anyone here say they've achieved any sort of systemd joy, or am I >> > just aski

Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown

2012-11-19 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi. I have a configuration problem with Wheezy and XFCE and didn't find the appropriate docu: The Log-Out-Dialog (from the upper panel) offers "Log Out", "Restart" and "Shut Down" icons. But only "Log Out" is usable, the other two are disabled. How can I enable the Shutdown button? Log out an

Re: Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown

2012-11-19 Thread Go Linux
--- On Mon, 11/19/12, Hartwig Atrops wrote: > From: Hartwig Atrops > Subject: Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, November 19, 2012, 10:12 AM > Hi. > > I have a configuration problem with Wheezy and XFCE and > didn't find the > appropriate docu: >

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Michael Biebl
On 19.11.2012 16:07, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 11/19/12, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >>> >>> First, systemd worked. >>> Now it hangs on bootup, with the following messages: > ... >>> Nov 19 14:31:12 localhost named[2353]: error (network unreachable)

Netflix on Debian Linux

2012-11-19 Thread Beco
Hi Guys, Last month I signed a netflix account just to be amazed it did not work nor give support to linux. After calling the call center and get the news, I just canceled it, very frustrated. Today, a friend sent me this link: http://www.iheartubuntu.com/2012/11/netflix-on-ubuntu-is-here.html

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 11/20/12, Michael Biebl wrote: > As for getting a more verbose debug log, there is plenty of > documentation which is easily found by google. > Try > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Systemd_problems > or > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging Yes, I'll do some

Black Screen of Death

2012-11-19 Thread Neal Murphy
Last night, I got two BSODs while building my firewall (actually building its toolchain). General Protection Fault. I snapped a pic of the second one. This is on wheezy, 64-bit, updated, using the latest 3.2.0-4-amd64 kernel. I last saw similar problems some years back when I had hardware troubl

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 07:44 -0500, Tom H wrote: >> >> Nothing but innacuracy and FUD, as usual. >> >> As I've pointed out in another thread/post [1], you're confusing >> consolekit and policykit. > > I'm not. Didn't you read the links? > >> P

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:05 AM, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > Le Lun 19 novembre 2012 14:38, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : >> >> Don't worry I'm tired to explain it again and again. Everybody should >> switch to systemd, it's superb to have everything startup needs in one big >> binary beta blob, much more

how to capture & replay multicast traffic

2012-11-19 Thread Matej Kosik
Hello, I have two programs: - sender ... which generates some UDP multicast traffic - listener ... which listens to a given UDP multicast group (in this case 233.65.120.153:64968) When I compile these two programs, all seems to be working fine. All "listeners" on the local network a

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > WFT?!!?! No syslog file. > > BIG apologies, I have been deceived by the systemd - I assumed it > would log _something_ to syslog. No. Everything I was seeing (and > reporting on thus far) was init. systemd "hangs" before it logs > anythi

Re: Netflix on Debian Linux

2012-11-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:26:14 -0300 Beco wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Last month I signed a netflix account just to be amazed it did not > work nor give support to linux. > > After calling the call center and get the news, I just canceled it, > very frustrated. > > Today, a friend sent me this link: >

Re: systemd intermittent startup

2012-11-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:08:37 -0500 Tom H wrote: > So what was the point?! Systemd is superb! I've nothing to add. It's completely useless to discuss it again and again. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Netflix on Debian Linux

2012-11-19 Thread Gary Dale
On 19/11/12 12:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:26:14 -0300 Beco wrote: Hi Guys, Last month I signed a netflix account just to be amazed it did not work nor give support to linux. After calling the call center and get the news, I just canceled it, very frustrated. Today, a

Re: Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown

2012-11-19 Thread Hartwig Atrops
> > Hi. > > > > I have a configuration problem with Wheezy and XFCE and > > didn't find the > > appropriate docu: > > > > The Log-Out-Dialog (from the upper panel) offers "Log Out", > > "Restart" > > and "Shut Down" icons. But only "Log Out" is usable, the > > other two are > > disabled. > > > > Ho

Re: ACPI issues: backlight and more

2012-11-19 Thread ed mente
> Sorry, but Ubuntu is not Debian. Have you tried asking on an Ubuntu > mailing list? No, I haven't. The thing is that the issue is with the ACPI kernel modules. The kernel is vanilla and custom build one. Nothing is particularly Distribution specific and I thought I might get valuable support her

Re: Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown

2012-11-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2012 19 Nov 12:46 -0600, Hartwig Atrops wrote: > xfce4-power-mangager was missing, but installing it did not solve the problem. > > group settings: there is no group named *power* or similar. What would be the > rigth group configuration? My user is in the powerdev group. I get even the

Re: Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown

2012-11-19 Thread Go Linux
--- On Mon, 11/19/12, Nate Bargmann wrote: > From: Nate Bargmann > Subject: Re: Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, November 19, 2012, 12:51 PM > * On 2012 19 Nov 12:46 -0600, Hartwig > Atrops wrote: > > > xfce4-power-mangager was missing, but insta

Re: Black Screen of Death

2012-11-19 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Monday 19 November 2012 14:09:30 Neal Murphy wrote: > Last night, I got two BSODs while building my firewall (actually building > its toolchain). General Protection Fault. I snapped a pic of the second > one. > > This is on wheezy, 64-bit, updated, using the latest 3.2.0-4-amd64 kernel. > > I

Re: Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown

2012-11-19 Thread Hartwig Atrops
On Monday 19 November 2012 20:05:15 Go Linux wrote: > --- On Mon, 11/19/12, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > From: Nate Bargmann > > Subject: Re: Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Date: Monday, November 19, 2012, 12:51 PM > > * On 2012 19 Nov 12:46 -0600, Hartwig > >

Re: Graphic-Card-Resolution in GUI affects blanking virtual-consoles(tty1 etc.)

2012-11-19 Thread Herbert Schwarzer
Hello Chris, perhaps I do not understand your proposal ... if I switch to runlevel=1 (that's the single user mode, isn't it?) there is no X running, so I can login as root only in text-mode (console). X (or graphical user interface such as KDE) is only available at runlevel 2 up to runlevel

Re: ACPI issues: backlight and more

2012-11-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 19 November 2012 18:47:04 ed mente wrote: > No, I haven't. The thing is that the issue is with the ACPI kernel > modules. The kernel is vanilla and custom build one. Nothing is > particularly Distribution specific and I thought I might get valuable > support here. Have you tried a kernel

Re: Netflix on Debian Linux

2012-11-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Gary Dale wrote: On 19/11/12 12:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:26:14 -0300 Beco wrote: Hi Guys, Last month I signed a netflix account just to be amazed it did not work nor give support to linux. After calling the call center and get the news, I just canceled it, very frus

Re: Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown

2012-11-19 Thread Go Linux
--- On Mon, 11/19/12, Hartwig Atrops wrote: > From: Hartwig Atrops > Subject: Re: Wheezy, XFCE: system shutdown > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, November 19, 2012, 3:03 PM > On Monday 19 November 2012 20:05:15 > Go Linux wrote: > > --- On Mon, 11/19/12, Nate Bargmann > wrote:

pulseaudio breaking things again

2012-11-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
Script started on Mon 19 Nov 2012 08:06:14 PM EST jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ ./ppr.sh type shutdown to return to linux. VLC media player 2.0.4 Twoflower (revision 2.0.3-289-g6e6100a) [0x1a95d18] inhibit interface error: Failed to connect to the D-Bus session daemon: Unable to autolaun

Odd behavior in exim

2012-11-19 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi all, I noticed that I am getting some strange behavior from Exim. While checking puppet dashboard, I noticed that a few machines were being changed every run. When I drilled down into these four machines, I saw the following in puppet: ensure changed 'stopped' to 'running' /Stage[main]

Re: Graphic-Card-Resolution in GUI affects blanking virtual-consoles(tty1 etc.)

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:57:03PM +0100, Herbert Schwarzer wrote: > > Hello Chris, > > perhaps I do not understand your proposal ... if I switch to runlevel=1 > (that's the single user mode, isn't it?) there is no X running, so I can > login as root only in text-mode (console). Correct. Tha

Re: ACPI issues: backlight and more

2012-11-19 Thread ed mente
> Have you tried a kernel ml? yes, but with no luck http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.acpi.devel/56974 -- 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/87ip9021g

Re: pulseaudio breaking things again

2012-11-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 20:10 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Script started on Mon 19 Nov 2012 08:06:14 PM EST > jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ ./ppr.sh > type shutdown to return to linux. > VLC media player 2.0.4 Twoflower (revision 2.0.3-289-g6e6100a) > [0x1a95d18] inhibit interface error: