Re: wheezy install missing contrib and non-free

Thanks Andrei! I'm an "aptitude" user most of the time, so I didn't know about that feature of apt. Is there a similar option for aptitude that I've overlooked? Rick On May 10, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 06 mai 13, 19:57:54, Rick Thomas wrote: If you want to be sure

Re: grub finding but not adding other OS

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 02:51:51PM +0530, Kailash Kalyani wrote: > Hi, > > I found this documentation on the Ubuntu site, so I'm guessing it should > apply for debian too. > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Setup#Main_Directories_.26_Files >

Re: goodbye-microsoft.com Install?

On Sun, 12 May 2013, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 09:07:36PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Been reading about this install method, but can't find anything more > > current than about 4 or 5 years ago. It seems that "goodbye" > > installs Debian onto Windows' C: drive as a single

Re: Another less woe

On Sat, 11 May 2013 07:29:07 -0700 Mike Castle wrote: > I just filed a bug on this, but I'm wanting a sanity check on this: > > If I do something like: > > less /usr/share/dict/words > > then do this search: > > (a|b)(c|d) > it crashes with a double-free error. I just tried this (by typing '

Re: Protect yourself from mobile/cell phone radiation

Do you still have the phone-dome? Sent from Michael's iPhone -- 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/547a1704-a103-4fdb-8b0f-3ba816022...@me.com

Re: goodbye-microsoft.com Install?

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 09:07:36PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Been reading about this install method, but can't find anything more > current than about 4 or 5 years ago. It seems that "goodbye" installs > Debian onto Windows' C: drive as a single large file, and that is where > it is run from.

goodbye-microsoft.com Install?

Been reading about this install method, but can't find anything more current than about 4 or 5 years ago. It seems that "goodbye" installs Debian onto Windows' C: drive as a single large file, and that is where it is run from. Has anyone use it more recently? I want to install Debian on partitio

Re: debian-6.0.7-amd64 how to set resolution and refresh for free NVIDIA X drivers?

On 05/11/13 16:43, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Analog KVM auto switches, especially super cheap ones such as your IOGEAR, are notoriously finicky when it comes to driving high resolutions, displaying horrible artifacts, if they can drive the bandwidth at all. The image is acceptable. The monitor has

Bug in audio recently

Hi, I'm not sure what's at fault for my recent bug. The problem is that since a couple of weeks ago applications have stopped working for my USB headphones. I can press "test" on the phonon configurator and it plays the sound through them perfectly but even when I push them to the highest priority

SSD settings for Wheezy

Hello debian-user, On Wheezy with ext4, do I need to make some specific settings that can possibly lengthen the life of my SSD or otherwise improve performance? My SSD has TRIM support enabled but I am not sure if I need to have OS support for that also.. Any recommended settings?? I tried sear

Re: debian-6.0.7-amd64 how to set resolution and refresh for free NVIDIA X drivers?

On 5/11/2013 4:27 PM, David Christensen wrote: ... > Apparently: > > 1. The KVM is not passing EDID requests/ responses. > > 2. The nouveau driver doesn't support xorg.conf. > > I obtain essentially the same results with Debian 7.0.0 amd64. > > How do I provide monitor information to nouveau

Re: debian-6.0.7-amd64 how to set resolution and refresh for free NVIDIA X drivers?

debian-user: I have an Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard connected to a IOGEAR GCS78 KVM connected to a Nokia 445XiPlus monitor. The system has Debian 6.0.7 amd64 with the XFCE desktop and the default X driver/server/whatever (nouveau). As configured, the system comes up at 1024x768 @ 60 Hz. I am

Re: debian sid, kernel 3.8 and volume group not found.

I've also noticed problems with network. On 11 May 2013 12:45, Mauro wrote: > Yes I've did not mention that the machine where the new kernel does not > work has an amd64 processor. > > > On 11 May 2013 09:53, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >> On 10 May 2013, Mauro wrote: >> >I have two pc, same

Update gui tool ends with failure of authen

cat /etc/debian_version 7.0 ---- ---=--- - I got here from an oldish wheezy install by setting my sources.list to "testing" and running aptitude update aptitude full-upgrade The problem I'm about to describe was already there befo

Re: Install from iso (no disc burn)

Brian writes: > On Thu 09 May 2013 at 12:02:07 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> > All the Debian ISOs are isohybrids, so >> > >> >cat debian.iso > /dev/sdX >> > >> > and you are on your way to a no fuss installation. A simple one line >> > easily remembered command. Could

Re: how to avoid download during debian installation.

On 05/11/13 01:22, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: is there anything i can do to avoid wasting time and manage something locally so that instead of wasting precious bandwidth i could point it to the local resource and thing can be up to date as needed. I set up an Approx server for my SOHO LAN:

Re: Warnings when doing a chroot.

Dear Robert, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 04:30:20PM +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote: > > mind entropy wrote: > > > I am on ubuntu 13.04 > > Wrong distro and/or mailing list, but, well. > > > a sudo schroot -u root -c wheezy > explain how, assuming he's running ubuntu, a command

Re: Warnings when doing a chroot.

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 04:30:20PM +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Dear mind, > > mind entropy wrote: > > I am on ubuntu 13.04 > > Wrong distro and/or mailing list, but, well. > > > and I get warnings when I do a wheezy schroot. I do > > a sudo schroot -u root -c wheezy It has to be me being d

Re: Could not perform Immediate Configuration of linux-headers-2-6-amd64

Thanks.Carl, but I looked at the partitions with dusk usage ( du) and this does not appear to be the problem Sebastian On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 09:06:10AM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > > Hi: I'd appreciate some help. I have a 686 m

Re: download old ISO

On Sb, 11 mai 13, 01:04:27, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > how can i download old ISO of debian.and please tell me where should i > point debian squeeze repository, i need the path. You probably want something like this: deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free (replace

Re: Unmounting/Ejecting removable media

Hello, On Fri, 10 May 2013 22:47:01 -0400 Curt Howland wrote: > It seems logical to me that there would be a way to say "sync > immediately" or "do not buffer", so that when the drive was > inactive it could be yanked without danger of corruption. IMHO the core of the problem is not in the cac

Re: welcome mail (after adduser)

On Vi, 10 mai 13, 17:17:42, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks! > > What is the easy way to send a "welcome mail" after created a new user? This probably depends a lot on how users' mailboxes are setup and you haven't provided any information about that. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.or

Re: Wheezy preseed installation installing too many packages

On Sat 11 May 2013 at 16:36:13 +0100, John Dilley wrote: > On 11 May 2013, at 16:04, Brian wrote: > > > Shouldn't the line read > > > > tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard ? > > Ah yes, it should. I'm pretty sure I tried that though before I > started trying different options (I've check

Re: ssh corrupt packets with aes encryption

On Sat, 11 May 2013 09:41:49 -0600 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > So... any idea where to go next? Hi. 1) Try to unload kernel module aes_x86_64 and it's dependants, restart sshd, try once more. 2) Boot from livecd, if possible, see if openssh works there. 3) If possible, swap problem host's disk t

Re: mtpfs in wheezy

Verde Denim: > does anyone know of an alternate for getting android devices > connected via usb? There is gmtp (simple and easy) and mtp-tools (requires more studying). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

SOLVED Re: google earth ia32-libs-gtk on wheezy:

I downloaded 64 bit .deb (For Debian/Ubuntu) direct from Google: http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/agree.html Installed and works! Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

ssh corrupt packets with aes encryption

On a fresh install, I can neither ssh in to nor out of one of my machines using aes encryption -- I get the error lcct@projections:~$ ssh localhost Bad packet length 3783539029. Disconnecting: Packet corrupt If I delete the known_hosts file turn on some debugging, I get lcct@projections:~$ ssh -

Re: Warnings when doing a chroot.

Dear mind, mind entropy wrote: > I am on ubuntu 13.04 Wrong distro and/or mailing list, but, well. > and I get warnings when I do a wheezy schroot. I do > a sudo schroot -u root -c wheezy Are you running this command inside /srv/chroot on the host system? If so, I would guess that schroot tri

Re: Wheezy preseed installation installing too many packages

On 11 May 2013, at 16:04, Brian wrote: > On Sat 11 May 2013 at 15:32:00 +0100, Brian wrote: > >> On Sat 11 May 2013 at 14:47:50 +0100, John Dilley wrote: >> >>> I've got >>> >>> tasksel/first multiselect standard >>> >>> At the bottom, which by my reading of that page should just install >>> th

Re: Warnings when doing a chroot.

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 08:32:38PM +0530, mind entropy wrote: > I am on ubuntu 13.04 and I get warnings when I do a wheezy schroot. I do > a sudo schroot -u root -c wheezy > > I get the following warnings: > > W: Failed to change to directory ‘/srv/chroot’: No such file or directory > I: The di

Re: Wheezy preseed installation installing too many packages

On Sat 11 May 2013 at 15:32:00 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 11 May 2013 at 14:47:50 +0100, John Dilley wrote: > > > I've got > > > > tasksel/first multiselect standard > > > > At the bottom, which by my reading of that page should just install > > the "standard" task? > > So you have! I miss

Re: Warnings when doing a chroot.

Hi, I am on ubuntu 13.04 and I get warnings when I do a wheezy schroot. I do a sudo schroot -u root -c wheezy I get the following warnings: W: Failed to change to directory ‘/srv/chroot’: No such file or directory I: The directory does not exist inside the chroot. Use the --directory option t

Re: Nvidia fx 3500 screen flicking on CLI and Wheeze desktop

On 5/11/2013 8:41 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i think i resolve the issue but make changes in Xorg.conf file however i do > not know what i write in the conf file i just copy and paste below data to > /etc/X11/xorg.conf ... > Section "Monitor" ... > ModelName "Acer AL1914" This is what I w

Warnings when doing a chroot.

Re: Wheezy preseed installation installing too many packages

On Sat 11 May 2013 at 14:47:50 +0100, John Dilley wrote: > I've got > > tasksel/first multiselect standard > > At the bottom, which by my reading of that page should just install > the "standard" task? So you have! I missed it. Sorry. Looks like it should do the job. Time for a think and a te

Another less woe

I just filed a bug on this, but I'm wanting a sanity check on this: If I do something like: less /usr/share/dict/words then do this search: (a|b)(c|d) it crashes with a double-free error. I'm not doing anything terribly funky there, am I? mrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: Could not perform Immediate Configuration of linux-headers-2-6-amd64

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 09:06:10AM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: I'd appreciate some help. I have a 686 machine on which I had oldstbale > and I thought I would upgrade to wheezy. When I do the upgrade I get the > above message and not being able to perform the immediate > configuration

Re: Debian in the sunshine? transreflective screen?

On Thu, 09 May 2013 00:19:26 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I'm a long-time user of Debian, and also have an e-paper ebook reader. >> It occurs to me that something like a Debian laptop with an e-ink >> screen would be extremely useful, for, say, sitting on a sunny back >> porch in the summer and

Re: Wheezy preseed installation installing too many packages

I've got tasksel/first multiselect standard At the bottom, which by my reading of that page should just install the "standard" task? John On 11 May 2013 14:39, Brian wrote: > On Sat 11 May 2013 at 13:46:23 +0100, John Dilley wrote: > >> I'm installing Debian Wheezy as a paravirtualised guest

Re: mtpfs in wheezy

On Sat 11 May 2013 at 09:05:04 -0400, Verde Denim wrote: > Aside from the scant messages I've seen regarding getting rulings from > the package maintainer, is there a reason why mtpfs was available in > squeeze but not in wheezy? If this is no longer active, does anyone know > of an alternate for

Re: Nvidia fx 3500 screen flicking on CLI and Wheeze desktop

i think i resolve the issue but make changes in Xorg.conf file however i do not know what i write in the conf file i just copy and paste below data to /etc/X11/xorg.conf root@homelab:~# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings # nvidia-settings:

Re: Wheezy preseed installation installing too many packages

On Sat 11 May 2013 at 13:46:23 +0100, John Dilley wrote: > I'm installing Debian Wheezy as a paravirtualised guest onto > XenServer, with a preseed file (below) - despite only asking for > standard system utilities in tasksel, I seem to be getting a full > desktop environment installed. > > The p

Re: Nvidia fx 3500 screen flicking on CLI and Wheeze desktop

Nvidia fx3500 and my system is Dell 460 On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/11/2013 5:26 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > ok i successfully manage to install the drivers however the problem is > > resolution is not showing above 640x480 > > however navidia software h

Could not perform Immediate Configuration of linux-headers-2-6-amd64

Hi: I'd appreciate some help. I have a 686 machine on which I had oldstbale and I thought I would upgrade to wheezy. When I do the upgrade I get the above message and not being able to perform the immediate configuration of linux-headers-2-6-amd64, I did apt-get dist-upgrade -o APT::Immediate-Confi

Re: Unmounting/Ejecting removable media

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Saturday 11 May 2013, Kailash Kalyani was heard to say: > Hi Curt, Good morning. > Caching and I/O scheduling give performance benefits which is why > they're used with most media. As I said, I don't mean media where transaction times are criti

mtpfs in wheezy

Aside from the scant messages I've seen regarding getting rulings from the package maintainer, is there a reason why mtpfs was available in squeeze but not in wheezy? If this is no longer active, does anyone know of an alternate for getting android devices connected via usb? Thanks, as always, for

Wheezy preseed installation installing too many packages

I'm installing Debian Wheezy as a paravirtualised guest onto XenServer, with a preseed file (below) - despite only asking for standard system utilities in tasksel, I seem to be getting a full desktop environment installed. The preseed file was based on the one I use for Squeeze, which works fine -

Re: Nvidia fx 3500 screen flicking on CLI and Wheeze desktop

On 5/11/2013 5:26 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > ok i successfully manage to install the drivers however the problem is > resolution is not showing above 640x480 > however navidia software has detected the VGA and has showed the correct > model number. do you think this could be the problem of

Re: debian sid, kernel 3.8 and volume group not found.

Yes I've did not mention that the machine where the new kernel does not work has an amd64 processor. On 11 May 2013 09:53, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 10 May 2013, Mauro wrote: > >I have two pc, same distro, debian sid, same software, same > configuration. > >I'm using the new kernel 3

Re: Nvidia fx 3500 screen flicking on CLI and Wheeze desktop

ok i successfully manage to install the drivers however the problem is resolution is not showing above 640x480 however navidia software has detected the VGA and has showed the correct model number. do you think this could be the problem of old lcd. i am using very old lcd 14" in size this is the s

RE: wu-ftp substitute

Hope these help http://www.brennan.id.au/14-FTP_Server.html http://www.technicalhowto.com/opensource/vsftpd/index.html Sincerely, K. > Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 10:30:23 +0300 > From: andreimpope...@gmail.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: wu-ftp substitute > > On Mi, 08 mai 13,

RE: grub finding but not adding other OS

Hi, I found this documentation on the Ubuntu site, so I'm guessing it should apply for debian too. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Setup#Main_Directories_.26_Files First you need to ensure that an entry appears in the /etc/grub.d folder. This entry must be executable. chmod +x Then yo

Re: how to avoid download during debian installation.

On Sat, 11 May 2013 13:22:04 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Hello Muhammad, >can do to avoid wasting time and manage something locally so that >instead of wasting precious bandwidth i could point it to the local >resource and thing can be up to date as needed. Edit sources.list to remove ref

Nvidia fx 3500 screen flicking on CLI and Wheeze desktop

i just baught a home system for learning purpose , i am using debian wheeze and my desktop is flicking all goes black and comes back to normal . it is happening after every 3 to 5 second, kinda annoying. can not work. no matter i go to desktop or use SSH both way flicking accour however when i att

Re: about tracking testing with wheezy released

On Vi, 10 mai 13, 09:50:33, Harry Putnam wrote: > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free > deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free I think you should decide on code name or release name and stick with it. Kind regards, Andrei -- http:/

Re: Multiarch -- In Place Upgrade to 64bit

On Vi, 10 mai 13, 06:35:41, Tixy wrote: > > I would have thought you would need to be running a 64bit kernel first. Good catch! I've copied the steps from a message from the dpkg maintainer. He must have assumed you already took care of that. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQs

Re: how to avoid download during debian installation.

Easy, run in expert mode and key in your mirror selection manually when the list of ftp sites comes up. Also, choose not to download anything from security.debian.org during the install process.On Sat, 11 May 2013, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i am frequently installing Debian on our systems

Re: network problems

On Jo, 09 mai 13, 11:51:12, Alex Moonshine wrote: > > And there I was thinking about running Jessie/AMD64 on my > soon-to-be-upgraded computer (I currently use Sid/i386). > May using ia32-libs for 32-bit support in Jessie/Sid be a temporary > workaround while multiarch-binnmu problems are being so

Re: When is best to go on using Testing from Wheezy

On Mi, 08 mai 13, 11:46:03, Gary Dale wrote: > > There are people who use Sid. Obviously they would have no problems > with Jessie now. As far as I can tell Sid has more problems now than Jessie. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debia

how to avoid download during debian installation.

i am frequently installing Debian on our systems and when ever i do this whether DVD or via CD or even via inet Cd . in all cases debian download/updates from repository which is a waste of time and bandwidth almost take 40 to 60 minutes in order to fully upgrade. is there anything i can do to avoi

RE: gnome doesn't save brightness value

Sorry that was just the png file. Here's the link to the extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/231/brightness-control/ Sincerely, K. From: kailash.kaly...@hotmail.com To: alexsander...@yahoo.com.br; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: gnome doesn't save brightness value Date: Sa

RE: gnome doesn't save brightness value

Have you seen this? https://extensions.gnome.org/static/extension-data/screenshots/screenshot_231_3.png Sincerely, Kailash > Subject: gnome doesn't save brightness value > From: alexsander...@yahoo.com.br > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 22:35:12 -0300 > > Hi! > > This

Re: Install from iso (no disc burn)

On Mi, 08 mai 13, 22:28:30, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > dd if=[iso name] of=/dev/sdb obs=4M Plain cp matches the speed of dd with block size tweaks: cp [iso name] [device name] Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and de

Re: debian sid, kernel 3.8 and volume group not found.

On 10 May 2013, Mauro wrote: >I have two pc, same distro, debian sid, same software, same configuration. >I'm using the new kernel 3.8. >In one pc the boot is ok, in the other I've volume group xxx not found, >I've noticed also a message like module microcode.ko not found. >Can

Re: google earth ia32-libs-gtk on wheezy:

Le 11/05/2013 09:17, Hans-J. Ullrich a écrit : as real root, googleearth won't install, # apt-get install ./googleearth_6.0.3.2197+0.7.0-1_amd64.deb No no, don't use apt-get. If you want to install via apt-get, the package must be in /var/cache/apt/archives. Just install it with dpkg -i /path

Re: are "print server" and "ssh server" needed?

On Ma, 07 mai 13, 14:18:48, Default User wrote: > Okay, thanks guys. > > I think I will skip the ssh-server task, as a security measure (they can't > pick a lock that isn't there). > > I will also skip the print-server task for now, and just add that once I > get a new printer. You might probabl

Re: This is just a test message.

On Ma, 07 mai 13, 07:53:10, 010203040506t...@gmail.com wrote: > This is just a test message. Maybe the 3000+ subscribers (excluding all those reading the list through various alternate channels) should reply to you so that you know for sure it is working? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.de

Re: wu-ftp substitute

On Mi, 08 mai 13, 01:08:14, T o n g wrote: > On Tue, 07 May 2013 16:26:58 +1200, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > > >> I'm looking for a wu-ftp substitute, i.e., an ftp server that is > >> relatively easy to configure the anonymous upload. > > > > vsftpd > > I hope that you *did* notice that I need

RE: Unmounting/Ejecting removable media

Hi Curt, Caching and I/O scheduling give performance benefits which is why they're used with most media. As I understand it you're wondering if it is possible to disable write caching in Windows? The answer to that is yes. Here's an old support article that describes how: http://support.micro

Re: google earth ia32-libs-gtk on wheezy:

> as real root, googleearth won't install, > # apt-get install ./googleearth_6.0.3.2197+0.7.0-1_amd64.deb > No no, don't use apt-get. If you want to install via apt-get, the package must be in /var/cache/apt/archives. Just install it with dpkg -i /path_to_where_the_package_is/googleearth_bla