Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Phillips
Or, do you mean *update-initramfs -u * *Mark * On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > Darac, > > It is a "normal" ext2 file system. A single IDE drive in an old Dell > workstation (Optiplex GX260). It has been running for many years with > successive kernels. > > Before I scre

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Phillips
Darac, It is a "normal" ext2 file system. A single IDE drive in an old Dell workstation (Optiplex GX260). It has been running for many years with successive kernels. Before I screw things up any more, is this what you are recommending that I run from recovery mode? #dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Phillips
Tom, Yes, I looked in /boot/grub.cfg and the lines for the menu entries for both normal boot and recovery mode are identical except regular boot says quiet and recovery says single. Still can't get it to boot. Mark On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:54

Re: "reset" perms and ownerships

2013-10-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Mário Barbosa wrote: > sudo chown -R : / > ... and then came back to me for help. Oh my goodness! > I'm a sysadmin on the RH/CentOS camp, and my confort level with > apt-* and dpkg* is extremely low. > > Is there anything like "rpm -V" on the debian toolset? I'm trying to > avoid "punishing him"

Re: Once again about anacron cron cron.daily

2013-10-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Harry Putnam wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I'm still not getting the whole picture of what is supposed to happen > >> on a machine with both anacron and cron installed. > > > > And you might be tired of having me respond about it. :-) > > Not on your life! I have a cer

Re: Dying hard drive?

2013-10-23 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 08:45:49 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On 23 Oct 2013, at 00:52, Celejar wrote: > > > > rdiff-backup is buggy (at least, it has at least one serious reported > > bug, known for years but not even acknowledged by upstream), untouched > > for years and apparently abandoned

Re: maintained web-browser (

2013-10-23 Thread Doug
On 10/23/2013 08:27 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 24/10/13 11:09, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 19:58 -0400, Doug wrote: >>> I looked at Qupzilla's website, and tried to download the Mandriva >>> version, that being closest to pclos. But I could just move between >>> "Download" and

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:47:45 -0400 (EDT), Brian wrote: > > Didn't you have some sort of problem with X recently? Something to do > with your video adapter? What driver are you using with it at present? I did. The mach64 driver crashed during initialization and I switched to the vesa driver for

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:54:37 -0400 (EDT), Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > > I do not see this problem. What is your hardware? i386 platform. Intel Xeon processor. A single hyperthreaded core (two threads). SMP kernel. 2.40 GHz processor speed. 4G of RAM. ATI Range XL video chip. mach64 X driver.

Re: maintained web-browser (

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 11:27 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > NOTE: Qupilla is lightest when your DE is QT-based e.g. KDE/Razor etc. > If you run GNOME or other GTKx-based DE's it will pull in library/ies > you won't use for anything else. For my installs it doesn't matter, pro-audio software does u

Re: maintained web-browser (

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
JFTR The Arch build port uses this link, when building from tarball instead of git: https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla/tarball/v1.4.4 If I should build for Debian I would use the github releases link: https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla/archive/v1.4.4.tar.gz I guess both are the same, but you

Re: maintained web-browser (

2013-10-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/10/13 11:09, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 19:58 -0400, Doug wrote: >> I looked at Qupzilla's website, and tried to download the Mandriva >> version, that being closest to pclos. But I could just move between >> "Download" and "Mandriva" but nothing else happens--no download, no

Re: maintained web-browser (

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 02:09 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 19:58 -0400, Doug wrote: > > I looked at Qupzilla's website, and tried to download the Mandriva > > version, that being closest to pclos. But I could just move between > > "Download" and "Mandriva" but nothing else happe

Re: maintained web-browser (

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 19:58 -0400, Doug wrote: > I looked at Qupzilla's website, and tried to download the Mandriva > version, that being closest to pclos. But I could just move between > "Download" and "Mandriva" but nothing else happens--no download, no > nothing. Thought I'd at least try it out,

Re: maintained web-browser (

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 10:18 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Qupzilla (also Webkit) > > http://www.qupzilla.com/ PS: I forgot to mention, that Ctrl + and Ctrl - are normal fast and not in slow motion as they are for Xombrero and it provides F11. Thank you Scott, Ralf Btw. long time no see ;)

Re: maintained web-browser (

2013-10-23 Thread Doug
On 10/23/2013 07:18 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 24/10/13 02:02, Carson Chittom wrote: >> Linux-Fan writes: >> >>> I am also still looking for a "smaller" browser. Iceweasel is the most >>> memory-intensive application apart from VirtualBox, 7-Zip and games I am >>> usually running. However, I a

Re: maintained web-browser (

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 10:18 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Qupzilla (also Webkit) > http://www.qupzilla.com/ Likely better than xombrero. Assumed it should provide a history as old Firefoxes and Iceweasels provided, I likely will replace Firefox with it. What I dislike for Firefox is the nowadays

Re: maintained web-browser (

2013-10-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/10/13 02:02, Carson Chittom wrote: > Linux-Fan writes: > >> I am also still looking for a "smaller" browser. Iceweasel is the most >> memory-intensive application apart from VirtualBox, 7-Zip and games I am >> usually running. However, I also like (and need) the extensibility of >> Iceweasel

Re: audacity export wma format[1 more question]

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 00:03 +0200, François Patte wrote: > It seems that debian version of audacity is compiled without FFmepg > supports, is that true? and why? Perhaps because Debian prefers libav over ffmpeg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libav#Fork_from_FFmpeg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: audacity export wma format[1 more question]

2013-10-23 Thread François Patte
Le 23/10/2013 11:00, François Patte a écrit : > Bonjour, > > Is there a debian package to install FFmepg libraries for audacity? > > I need to export some audio files to this format. > > Thank you. > It seems that debian version of audacity is compiled without FFmepg supports, is that true? an

Re: maintained web-browser (

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 23:46 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 23:05 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > Ok I am convinced to give it a try, but, where the hell is the git > > clonable address? > > I don't know where the git is, but the sources are here: > > https://o

Re: maintained web-browser (

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 23:05 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Ok I am convinced to give it a try, but, where the hell is the git > clonable address? I don't know where the git is, but the sources are here: https://opensource.conformal.com/snapshots/xombrero/ at least this are the up

Re: maintained web-browser (

2013-10-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.10.2013 22:35, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : Le 23.10.2013 17:02, Carson Chittom a écrit : Linux-Fan writes: I am also still looking for a "smaller" browser. Iceweasel is the most memory-intensive application apart from VirtualBox, 7-Zip and games I am usually running. Howe

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Brad Alexander
I have seen my iceweasel on my workstation continually grab up more and more memory and/or CPU. I suspect it is either a or more like a combination of ad-ons that are causing a memory leak. I have reduced it to the minimum I need to feel comfortable (adblock plus, request policy, tab mix plus, etc

Re: maintained web-browser (

2013-10-23 Thread recoverym4n
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:02:27 -0500 Carson Chittom wrote: > Linux-Fan writes: > > You might take a look at Xombrero, although it's not in Debian. It's > based on Webkit and has the capability built-in to use a Javascript > whitelist. See https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero Their im

Re: maintained web-browser (

2013-10-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.10.2013 17:02, Carson Chittom a écrit : Linux-Fan writes: I am also still looking for a "smaller" browser. Iceweasel is the most memory-intensive application apart from VirtualBox, 7-Zip and games I am usually running. However, I also like (and need) the extensibility of Iceweasel: I

Re: maintained web-browser

2013-10-23 Thread Linux-Fan
On 10/23/2013 05:02 PM, Carson Chittom wrote: > Linux-Fan writes: > >> I am also still looking for a "smaller" browser. Iceweasel is the most >> memory-intensive application apart from VirtualBox, 7-Zip and games I am >> usually running. However, I also like (and need) the extensibility of >> Ice

Re: maintained web-browser (

2013-10-23 Thread Carson Chittom
Linux-Fan writes: > I am also still looking for a "smaller" browser. Iceweasel is the most > memory-intensive application apart from VirtualBox, 7-Zip and games I am > usually running. However, I also like (and need) the extensibility of > Iceweasel: I would not consider a browser useful unless y

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 21:41 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 18:10 +, Curt wrote: > > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 090 090 000Old_age Always > >- 7539 > > 193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0032 034 034 000Old_age Always > >-

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 18:10 +, Curt wrote: > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 090 090 000Old_age Always > - 7539 > 193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0032 034 034 000Old_age Always > - 500820 500820 / 7539 = 66 so around 1 time each minute, but I'

Re: Blacklisting threads - SOLVED

2013-10-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 06:20:37PM +0400, Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > Lisi, I'm afraid it was *not* a suggestion, but a very bad joke. I was entirely serious actually. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 01:03:25PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I am wondering whether the amd64 versions of Debian 6 and 7 install > and run on a UEFI/GPT system. > > >From what I understand, FreeBSD does not yet install and run on a > UEFI/GPT system, and so I assume that Debian kfreeb

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 Oct 2013 at 09:07:21 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > I have been using the iceweasel web browser for years; but in the past several > weeks using an up-to-date jessie system, iceweasel has become very sluggish. > Even the simplest operations, like scrolling the screen, have become so > s

Re: XFCE without GNOME/KDE parts (Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1)

2013-10-23 Thread recoverym4n
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 19:50:40 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I simply agree with everything you said here, but unfortunately, opera > depends on gstreamer0.10-plugins-good, which in turn... If you really don't need these libraries, there's a way. Check opera binary with ldd. If you

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-23 Thread Curt
On 2013-10-23, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 16:30 +, Curt wrote: >> parked/unparked heads once every 8 seconds for the last two years > > And I learn too. Some minutes before I read your mail, my claim would > have been, that it's impossible, that such a drive will last for two

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 16:30 +, Curt wrote: > I'm too embarassed to give you my load cycle count, but if I had as > many euros as I do cycles, I'd be living in luxury down on the Côte > d'Azur. http://www.fishofadifferentcolor.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/du-money-bin-play1.jpg http://neamar.

Re: XFCE without GNOME/KDE parts (Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1)

2013-10-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.10.2013 19:33, recovery...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi. On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:15:34 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Don't you have gstreamer installer? Only that thing as a recommended dependency to webkit-gtk: $ dpkg -l gstream* | grep ii ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base:amd64

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 16:30 +, Curt wrote: > parked/unparked heads once every 8 seconds for the last two years And I learn too. Some minutes before I read your mail, my claim would have been, that it's impossible, that such a drive will last for two years. On Linux Audio Users mailing list (LA

Re: XFCE without GNOME/KDE parts (Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1)

2013-10-23 Thread recoverym4n
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:45:07 +0200 "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: > What will you strace, if you're missing the Trash can icon? ;) For that task I'd use the source of thunar, gdb and ltrace. Nothing reasonable can be gained for tracing syscalls in this case. > Thunar doesn't need them, but other softwa

Re: XFCE without GNOME/KDE parts (Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1)

2013-10-23 Thread recoverym4n
Hi. On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:15:34 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Don't you have gstreamer installer? Only that thing as a recommended dependency to webkit-gtk: $ dpkg -l gstream* | grep ii ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base:amd64 Not that I need gstreamer. Once upon a time some kind

Re: Blacklisting threads - SOLVED

2013-10-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 Oct 2013 at 16:05:03 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > Not being a Mutt user myself, the rest if of only academic interest to > me. Using Mutt to filter mails which form a thread wasn't the point I was trying to make, although I was gratified to find that, together other programs, blacklistin

Re: 64-bit VM on 32-bit host OS on 64-bit hardware

2013-10-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > Can you run an amd64 virtual machine if the host is running >> > Debian i386 ? >> I wouldn't expect it to work if the bottom kernel is i386. >> But if the bottom kernel is amd64 (which can be used just fine nowadays >> with a 32bit userland), it can be made to work. > Except for Virtualbox, la

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-23 Thread Curt
On 2013-10-23, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Don't confuse > > 12 Power_Cycle_Count > > with > > 193 Load_Cycle_Count > Well, actually, I just discovered that my Western Digital (WD15EARS) drive suffers from the dreaded Load_Cycle_Count syndrome (parked/unparked heads once every 8 seconds for the last

Re: 64-bit VM on 32-bit host OS on 64-bit hardware

2013-10-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 16 oct 13, 22:14:19, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Can you run an amd64 virtual machine if the host is running > > Debian i386 ? > > I wouldn't expect it to work if the bottom kernel is i386. > But if the bottom kernel is amd64 (which can be used just fine nowadays > with a 32bit userland), it

Re: OpenGl version string 1.4 with intel chipset

2013-10-23 Thread berenger . morel
Hello. I am trying to learn shader (opengl) programming, and discovered that it seems my netbook's graphic drivers are not using the chipset correctly: $ glxinfo | grep -i OpenGl OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) IGD OpenGL vers

Kleopatra fails to decrypt certificate on import

2013-10-23 Thread Brad Alexander
I am running a sid KDE desktop on my machine, and recently received an Entrust certificate. I was able to decrypt the certificate in Iceweasel, however, I use kmail as my mail client. When attempting to import the certificate to kmail, I open the identity, and search for external certificates, whic

OpenGl version string 1.4 with intel chipset

2013-10-23 Thread berenger . morel
Hello. I am trying to work with opengl shaders on my netbook, -- 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/afef46e311b079cd3f08fd53a4f9c...@neutralite.org

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

2013-10-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 24 sep 13, 14:22:39, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > Does vi(m) correctly detect the filetype of emails as 'mail'? I added > the following to ~/.vimrc > > au BufRead,BufNewFile /tmp/mutt-* set filetype=mail I don't need that, I only have: autocmd FileType mail setlocal spell spelllang=ro

Re: Blacklisting threads - SOLVED

2013-10-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 23 October 2013 16:25:38 Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > > It was Jonathan's suggestion, and I don't think that it was > > intended as a joke.  It is a very good solution to the main > > problem. > > I think Brad had explained it quite well... As Brad said, I knew that perfectly well. It is

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 23 October 2013 14:07:21 Stephen Powell wrote: > I have been using the iceweasel web browser for years; but in the > past several weeks using an up-to-date jessie system, iceweasel has > become very sluggish. Even the simplest operations, like scrolling > the screen, have become so slu

Re: Blacklisting threads - SOLVED

2013-10-23 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
Lisi Reisz writes: >> Lisi, I'm afraid it was *not* a suggestion, but a very bad joke. > > It was Jonathan's suggestion, and I don't think that it was intended > as a joke. It is a very good solution to the main problem. I think Brad had explained it quite well... On Wednesday 23 October 2013

Re: Mailing list organization

2013-10-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 19 sep 13, 10:08:55, Josef Bailey wrote: > Hello all > > I'm new to mutt / Debian mailing list > > What im trying to do is in gmail.com i have many sub folders .. Every > Folder / label is whatever mailing list i have subscribed to debian > > (eg. Debian_User = debian-user@lists.debian.o

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Daniel Phillips
I agree. Over the last couple of months I have tried to use Iceweasel, but despite it's attractive add-ons, I always end up going back to Chromium for the reasons you state. I have tried renaming the profile folder and various tweaks, but could never get it to work well. The tabs are slow to switch

Re: Blacklisting threads - SOLVED

2013-10-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
Hello, Brad! On Wednesday 23 October 2013 16:06:58 Brad Rogers wrote: > >I have been barely reading one of the posters for some time anyway > >because I find him/her such hard work to read and try to > > understand. > > Ooh!  Ooh! Is there a  prize for guessing who?   :-D Sorry, no. ;-) I got ri

Re: Blacklisting threads - SOLVED

2013-10-23 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:37:56 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: Hello Lisi, >I have been barely reading one of the posters for some time anyway >because I find him/her such hard work to read and try to understand. Ooh! Ooh! Is there a prize for guessing who? :-D -- Regards _ / )

Re: Blacklisting threads - SOLVED

2013-10-23 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:29:27 +0100 Brian wrote: Hello Brian, >I think the OP probably realises that but it as well to spell it out for I think you're right, but decided to post anyway mostly for the reason you state. Not being a Mutt user myself, the rest if of only academic interest to me. -

Re: Blacklisting threads - SOLVED

2013-10-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 23 October 2013 15:20:37 Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > Lisi Reisz writes: > > On Monday 21 October 2013 20:50:44 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 03:11:03PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> > That tedious. It was/is getting broken all the time, thus > >> > getting tangled

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
Stephen Powell writes: > I have been using the iceweasel web browser for years; but in the past several > weeks using an up-to-date jessie system, iceweasel has become very sluggish. > Even the simplest operations, like scrolling the screen, have become so > sluggish > that iceweasel has become

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 13:50 +, Curt wrote: > On 2013-10-23, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > > I'd like to go back to the old `nv' driver I used to use when running > > Gentoo, or some other driver that will work with my card and just > > ditch that nouveau driver. > > > > Can anyone guide me a bit a

Re: "reset" perms and ownerships

2013-10-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.10.2013 16:24, Mário Barbosa a écrit : On 10/23/2013 02:48 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I already did something along the lines of... cd /var/cache/apt/archives ls -1 *.deb | xargs sudo dpkg -Gi But this will install everything you installed if you never cleaned that di

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 12:44 +, Curt wrote: > On 2013-10-23, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > Isn't that plausible? I'm the source, I care for facts, not for claims > > from vendors. > > >From your favorite company: > > > > Power Cycles. The power cycles indicator counts the > number of times

Re: Blacklisting threads - SOLVED

2013-10-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 23 October 2013 13:27:11 Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:41:57 +0100 > Lisi Reisz wrote: > >On Monday 21 October 2013 20:50:44 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >> Blacklist all the recent participants. > > > >Thanks all for your suggestions. I have followed this one! > > Be awar

Re: Blacklisting threads - SOLVED

2013-10-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 23 October 2013 15:20:37 Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > > On Monday 21 October 2013 20:50:44 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 03:11:03PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> > That tedious.  It was/is getting broken all the time, thus > >> > getting tangled up with everything els

Re: Blacklisting threads - SOLVED

2013-10-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 Oct 2013 at 13:27:11 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > Be aware though, that if somebody new posts to the thread, you'll see > their messages, and any quote(s) they contain so the thread re-emerges. > Also, blacklisting the people will block their posts to that, and any > other thread, not jus

Re: "reset" perms and ownerships

2013-10-23 Thread Mário Barbosa
On 10/23/2013 02:48 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I already did something along the lines of... cd /var/cache/apt/archives ls -1 *.deb | xargs sudo dpkg -Gi But this will install everything you installed if you never cleaned that dir... you may find useful this command in the futur

Re: Blacklisting threads - SOLVED

2013-10-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 10/23/2013 10:20 AM, Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > Blacklist all the recent participants. >>> >>> Thanks all for your suggestions. I have followed this one! > Lisi, I'm afraid it was *not* a suggestion, but a very bad joke. be careful what you ask for:) rm -rf * -- Paul Cartwright Registered L

Re: Blacklisting threads - SOLVED

2013-10-23 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
Lisi Reisz writes: > On Monday 21 October 2013 20:50:44 Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 03:11:03PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > That tedious. It was/is getting broken all the time, thus >> > getting tangled up with everything else. It is beginning to be a >> > real nuisance.

Re: "reset" perms and ownerships

2013-10-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.10.2013 15:29, Mário Barbosa a écrit : Hi, On 10/23/2013 01:33 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [...] Hopefully he'll remember that using super user powers have to be made with care :) He will. :) Is there anything like "rpm -V" on the debian toolset? I'm trying to avoid

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-23 Thread Curt
On 2013-10-23, Harry Putnam wrote: > > I'd like to go back to the old `nv' driver I used to use when running > Gentoo, or some other driver that will work with my card and just > ditch that nouveau driver. > > Can anyone guide me a bit as to how to do that? > I don't think you can go back to the '

Re: maintained web-browser ( was: Re: gnome depends on adblock-plus )

2013-10-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.10.2013 15:16, Linux-Fan a écrit : On 10/23/2013 02:50 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 23.10.2013 14:36, Marko Randjelovic a écrit : On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 20:45:55 +0200 Marko Randjelovic wrote: On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 17:46:16 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I thin

Re: "reset" perms and ownerships

2013-10-23 Thread Mário Barbosa
Hi, On 10/23/2013 01:33 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [...] Hopefully he'll remember that using super user powers have to be made with care :) He will. :) Is there anything like "rpm -V" on the debian toolset? I'm trying to avoid "punishing him" (further) with reinstall... It

Re: gnome depends on adblock-plus

2013-10-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > > I got very frustrated about Webkit (Midori uses Webkit). I found enormous > number > of bugs in CVE list, but most of them were related to products that use > Webkit such > as Google Chrome, I should determine if they originated from

Re: maintained web-browser ( was: Re: gnome depends on adblock-plus )

2013-10-23 Thread Linux-Fan
On 10/23/2013 02:50 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 23.10.2013 14:36, Marko Randjelovic a écrit : >> On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 20:45:55 +0200 >> Marko Randjelovic wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 17:46:16 +0200 >>> berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >>> >>> > I think that midori is stil

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:07:21 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: Hello Stephen, >I have been using the iceweasel web browser for years; but in the past >several weeks using an up-to-date jessie system, iceweasel has become >very sluggish. No problems here, Stephen. Although, sometimes, flash can

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this morning on an old server > (Debian Squeeze) and the system won't boot now. I get the error > > kernel panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown -block(0,0) > > One of the updat

sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Stephen Powell
I have been using the iceweasel web browser for years; but in the past several weeks using an up-to-date jessie system, iceweasel has become very sluggish. Even the simplest operations, like scrolling the screen, have become so sluggish that iceweasel has become almost unusable. I just tried switc

maintained web-browser ( was: Re: gnome depends on adblock-plus )

2013-10-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.10.2013 14:36, Marko Randjelovic a écrit : On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 20:45:55 +0200 Marko Randjelovic wrote: On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 17:46:16 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I think that midori is still maintained? Never heard of it, except in Debian repo, anyway I'll give it a try.

Re: Rebooting and HDD spinup / spindown cycles [WAS: Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1]

2013-10-23 Thread Curt
On 2013-10-23, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Isn't that plausible? I'm the source, I care for facts, not for claims > from vendors. >From your favorite company: Power Cycles. The power cycles indicator counts the number of times a drive is powered up and down. In a server-class deployment, in whi

Re: How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.10.2013 14:26, Harry Putnam a écrit : setup: Running Debian testing Video card (from lspci): 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV36 [GeForce FX 5700LE] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International ... I'm getting some

Re: gnome depends on adblock-plus

2013-10-23 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 20:45:55 +0200 Marko Randjelovic wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 17:46:16 +0200 > berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > I think that midori is still maintained? > > Never heard of it, except in Debian repo, anyway I'll give it a try. > > Thanks > > I got very frustrate

Re: "reset" perms and ownerships

2013-10-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.10.2013 14:13, Mário Barbosa a écrit : Hi, ( this is most likely a RTFM question, please just point me to the right FM) One inexperienced colleague just something along the likes of... "sudo chown : / ; sudo chmod /" (it's actually a little more elaborate than that, but you get th

Re: Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

2013-10-23 Thread anx_dev
Em quarta-feira, 23 de outubro de 2013 09h00min02s UTC-2, Tom H escreveu: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:09 PM, anx_dev wrote: > > > > > > Since the change for pkexec, Synaptic cannot be started with a user > > > with sudo privileges. This is _very_ cumbersome if you have to admin > > > several

Re: Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

2013-10-23 Thread anx_dev
Em terça-feira, 22 de outubro de 2013 23h00min02s UTC-2, Ralf Mardorf escreveu: > On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 20:34 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > I have also had this problem for a while - I thought it was related to > > > Mate which I run. > > > gksudo will run it here...but pkexec will not. >

Re: Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

2013-10-23 Thread anx_dev
Em terça-feira, 22 de outubro de 2013 22h30min02s UTC-2, Ralf Mardorf escreveu: > On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 16:09 -0700, anx_dev wrote: > > > Synaptic cannot be started with a user with sudo privileges. > > > > Does it work if you use gksudo? > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

How to ditch nouveau driver with nVidia card

2013-10-23 Thread Harry Putnam
setup: Running Debian testing Video card (from lspci): 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV36 [GeForce FX 5700LE] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International ... I'm getting some kind of horrible sequence of events on many (

Re: Blacklisting threads - SOLVED

2013-10-23 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:41:57 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: Hello Lisi, >On Monday 21 October 2013 20:50:44 Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> Blacklist all the recent participants. >Thanks all for your suggestions. I have followed this one! Be aware though, that if somebody new posts to the thread, you'

"reset" perms and ownerships

2013-10-23 Thread Mário Barbosa
Hi, ( this is most likely a RTFM question, please just point me to the right FM) One inexperienced colleague just something along the likes of... "sudo chown : / ; sudo chmod /" (it's actually a little more elaborate than that, but you get the picture) ... and then came back to me for help.

Re: Once again about anacron cron cron.daily

2013-10-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob Proulx writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> I'm still not getting the whole picture of what is supposed to happen >> on a machine with both anacron and cron installed. > > And you might be tired of having me respond about it. :-) Not on your life! I have a certain fondness for descriptive and

Re: Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

2013-10-23 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 8:09 AM, anx_dev wrote: > Hi all, > > Since the change for pkexec, Synaptic cannot be started with a user with sudo > privileges. This is _very_ cumbersome if you have to admin several machines > with a central NIS for users and allowing only the user sitting on the > ma

Re: Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

2013-10-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 20:34 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> >> I have also had this problem for a while - I thought it was related to >> Mate which I run. >> gksudo will run it here...but pkexec will not. > > I don't know pkexec. Does it all

Re: Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

2013-10-23 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:09 PM, anx_dev wrote: > > Since the change for pkexec, Synaptic cannot be started with a user > with sudo privileges. This is _very_ cumbersome if you have to admin > several machines with a central NIS for users and allowing only the > user sitting on the machine to hav

Re: upgrade to wheezy

2013-10-23 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 02:20:43AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 00:05 +0200, mess-mate wrote: > > Thanks to all for the help !! > > You're welcome, but next time please write in plain text. On most > mailing lists and this is one of them, HTML is frowned upon. > > It w

Re: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 unbootable: /dev/disk/by-uuid not created

2013-10-23 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Jogi Hofmüller wrote: > Am 2013-10-18 12:42, schrieb Jogi Hofmüller: >> Am 2013-10-18 10:35, schrieb Jesse Molina: >>> >>> As previously noted, this was a bug in mdadm and has already been fixed >>> in the current version. Just update your mdadm package and then >>

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-23 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > allow-auto eth0.9 > iface eth0.9 inet static > address 192.168.1.119 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > gateway 192.168.1.1 > post-up ip address add 192.168.1.199/24 dev eth0.9 >>> >>> What I use is: >>> -=-=-=-=

Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
Bret Busby wrote: >Hello. > >I am wondering whether the amd64 versions of Debian 6 and 7 install and >run on a UEFI/GPT system. > >>From what I understand, FreeBSD does not yet install and run on a >UEFI/GPT system, and so I assume that Debian kfreebsd also does not yet >install and run on a UEF

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 08:54:55PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: >I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this morning on an old server >(Debian Squeeze) and the system won't boot now. I get the error > >kernel panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown >-block(0,0)

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.10.2013 04:04, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 10/22/2013 8:47 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 22.10.2013 23:01, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 10/21/2013 5:26 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 18.10.2013 19:36, Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 10/18/2013 1:10 PM, berenger.mo

Re: XFCE without GNOME/KDE parts (Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1)

2013-10-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.10.2013 08:21, recovery...@gmail.com a écrit : Impossible for my usage, fortunately I anyway mount from a terminal. I don't know if the OP could live without G and Dconf and gtk3. I didn't install that stuff simply for the sake of an clean experiment. I'm pretty sure that thunar doesn'

logwatch question

2013-10-23 Thread François Patte
Bonjour, Today, I get this warning from logwatch: gzip: stdout: No space left on device system 'zcat '/var/log/syslog.2.gz' >> /tmp/logwatch.X_4YucXv/syslog-archive' failed: 256 at /usr/sbin/logwatch line 774. run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/00logwatch exited with return code 2 Upto now there were no

audacity export wma format

2013-10-23 Thread François Patte
Bonjour, Is there a debian package to install FFmepg libraries for audacity? I need to export some audio files to this format. Thank you. -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Laboratoire CNRS MAP5, UMR 8145 Université Paris Descartes 45, rue des Saints Pères F-75270 Paris Cede

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