Andrea Borgia wrote on 14 Sep 2019:
> On two systens with fairly different hardware (a 6yr old laptop I am
> using now on holiday and my new home desktop), with kernel 5.2.0 (and
> possibly as low as 5.0.11) the following happens: boot, login X,
> hibernate (ok), resume (also ok), unlock xfce4, st
Thanks for the prompt reply!
The Wanderer wrote:
On 2017-08-02 at 11:44, Christoph Groth wrote:
> I'm running Debian testing and would like to upgrade from
> "oldtesting" (jessie) to current testing. I noticed that 'apt
> upgrade' as well as 'apt-get
Hi,
I'm running Debian testing and would like to upgrade from
"oldtesting" (jessie) to current testing. I noticed that 'apt
upgrade' as well as 'apt-get upgrade' want to install the package
'pulsaudio' which I've been avoiding successfully so far.
I could of course uninstall pulseaudio afte
Sven Joachim writes:
> On 2012-06-15 16:24 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote:
>
>> Please consider the output of "aptitude -D full-upgrade" below. I do
>> not see any reason to install texlive-fonts-extra, and aptitude also
>> does not seem to see one. But it
Dom writes:
> What does
>
> aptitude why texlive-fonts-extra
>
> say?
See original posting.
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Javier Vasquez writes:
> Some time back the policy changed to install by default the
> "recommended" ones. So I had to include in my setting:
>
> APT::Install-Recommends "false";
>
> I'm not sure if that would help you. Also I would turn off
> "suggested" packages if you have them turned on (th
Sven Joachim writes:
> On 2012-06-15 18:15 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote:
>
>> "aptitude -D" is supposed to show for each package to be newly installed
>> the reason why it is needed. In my case, aptitude wants to install
>> texlive-fonts-extra though this pack
Wayne Topa writes:
> On 06/15/2012 10:24 AM, Christoph Groth wrote:
>> For a reason that I do not understand, currently full-upgrade wants to
>> install some rather huge packages.
> Install the debian-reference package and read section 2.3.5. System wide
> upgrade
Th
Hello,
I'm using "aptitude full-upgrade" to keep my debian testing
installations up-to-date.
For a reason that I do not understand, currently full-upgrade wants to
install some rather huge packages.
Please consider the output of "aptitude -D full-upgrade" below. I do
not see any reason to insta
Christoph Groth writes:
> "Lars Maes" writes:
>
>> Why not use an UDF filesystem, that is used on DVD discs?
>
> Indeed, this seems to work well. It is a better option than VFAT and
> NTFS. I didn't know that the filesystem of DVDs is also usable for
>
"Lars Maes" writes:
> Why not use an UDF filesystem, that is used on DVD discs?
Indeed, this seems to work well. It is a better option than VFAT and
NTFS. I didn't know that the filesystem of DVDs is also usable for
rewriteable media, but I have learned that UDF has been designed with
that in
shawn wilson writes:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 19:02, Christoph Groth wrote:
>> Blair Mason writes:
>>
>>> Permission schemes on removable media are not too powerful annyway, as
>>> anyone with root on any machine can change them... my $0.02.
>>
>&
"Robert Blair Mason Jr." writes:
> Christoph Groth wrote:
>
>> Blair Mason writes:
>>
>> > Permission schemes on removable media are not too powerful annyway,
>> > as anyone with root on any machine can change them... my $0.02.
>>
>>
Blair Mason writes:
> Permission schemes on removable media are not too powerful annyway, as
> anyone with root on any machine can change them... my $0.02.
Exactly -- I wonder whether there are any decent (modern features,
public specification, nice free implementation, etc.) filesystems which
a
Hi,
I'd like to share the data saved on an external USB drive between
different (GNU/Linux) machines, each having different users. Each user
should be able to mount the drive and read and write any files as he or
she pleases. The users aren't necessary root themselves.
Is there a way to impleme
Camaleón writes:
> On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:16:22 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote:
>
>> since several months I observe a strange problem mostly in iceweasel
>> (from current Debian testing), but also occasionally in other
>> applications: quite often one or a few characters on
Dear fellow Debian users,
since several months I observe a strange problem mostly in iceweasel
(from current Debian testing), but also occasionally in other
applications: quite often one or a few characters on a web page lack
some parts of them (for example, there is a horizontal
background-colore
Stephen Powell writes:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 06:41:24 -0500 (EST), Christoph Groth wrote:
>> For years, I've been using apt-get happily. Now I wanted to switch
>> to aptitude because it is supposed to resolve conflicts better but I
>> find myself unable to tame
Dear fellow Debian users,
For years, I've been using apt-get happily. Now I wanted to switch to
aptitude because it is supposed to resolve conflicts better but I find
myself unable to tame it. Any hints are highly appreciated.
My system is in a state which apt-get finds acceptable:
###
ludovico van writes:
>> How to list all packages which are installed but unavailable?
>
> maybe
> $ aptitude search ~i~o
Thanks a lot, that seems to do the trick.
Christoph
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Dear all,
How to list all packages which are installed but unavailable? Is it
possible to list all packages which were installed from a certain
repository?
Thanks
Christoph
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Marcum) writes:
>> every day Anacron tells me about problems it has with logrotate. I
>> couldn't find any report about a similar problem on the net. Is this
>> behavior normal (how can I get rid of it, then?) or is it maybe a bug?
>>
>
> What is in /etc/logrotate.d/pacc
Hi,
every day Anacron tells me about problems it has with logrotate. I
couldn't find any report about a similar problem on the net. Is this
behavior normal (how can I get rid of it, then?) or is it maybe a bug?
The file /var/log/pacct has the following state:
-rw--- 1 root root 0 Nov 27 1
Hello everybody,
I'm using GNU Emacs 21.4a-3 under X11, my machine is running an
up-to-date Debian testing. I'm using the "Misc 7x13" font for Emacs.
Whenever I use set-input-method to enter latin-2 characters, these
characters appear extremely small. This problem occurs with any fonts
from the
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> do you all use some combination of careful keyboard height/placement,
> a good chair, and a good keyboard? is there some other component that
> you take into account? i'm interested in whatever you do to make your
> work area more ergonomically sound.
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>I've installed the driver on my woody system and X works including
>>hardware 3d acceleration. However there is one problem: When my
>>system starts kdm (gdm, xdm), the xserver crashes with signal 11,
>>
>> (...)
>>
>>Now when I log in as root and run
>>
>>
Hello fellow Debian users,
A week ago I got a used Hercules 3d Prophet 4500 graphics board from a
friend as a replacement for my good old Matrox Millennium II.
Unfortunately, only closed-source drivers are available for the new
card. (I wouldn't buy such a card, but this is a different
situation)
Hello all,
While booting yesterday my potato system once again the the mount
count was exceeded and I realized that there are serious problems with
my /var partition: After booting in single user mode e2fsck had to
delete a lot of files (lost+found contains 42M of stuff!).
Luckily, my system work
Robert Epprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >how do I handle the situation where I am offline and want to
> >read mail or news?
>
> Search info Gnus for the words 'agent' or 'unplugged'. You don't
> need the agent for reading *mail* offline, but you do for news.
You don't need to be o
*Florin")
("mail.klaus" "^From:.*[Dd]oth")
("mail.igd" "^From:.*igd\\.fhg\\.de")
("mail.myself" "^From:.*Christoph Groth")
("mail.automatic" "From:.*Mail Delivery
System\\|From:.*MAILER-DAE
Dominique Deleris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've just discovered Emacs+Gnus, and it's TERRIFIC !
> I've dropped evolution & balsa. Emacs is so cool and powerful...
Yeah, you're absolutely right! :-)
Christoph
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The group 'dip' already exists for that purpose and all the relevant
> files are in it. The procedure outlined above adds users to it.
> You can do the same thing with 'adduser'.
A user in `dip' is allowed to call all the providers. Is there a
simple wa
"Karsten M. Self" writes:
> Still another tack might be to find a very quiet fan. I don't have
> specifics on any of this, but suspect an isolation mounting system,
> large radius, low speed, and well-engineered bearings, will help
In the current issue of the German computer magazine "c't" ther
Hi,
I'm using Gnus for reading mail & news and I like it very much.
Is there anyone successfully using gnus with gnupg out there? I just
wanted to ask if it's worth the effort trying it.
If yes, are there any pitfalls in doing so? Do I need any non-potato
packages?
regards,
Christoph
Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What package are dos2unix and unix2dos in?
sysutils
> I couldn't find them on my system,
There is a package search machine at the http://www.debian.org. Or
you just download the Contents-i386.gz (Or one of the others for
non-intel systems) file from the
Philipp Bliedung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It complains about the module: tty-ldisc-3. I have absolutely no
> clue where I can get it from, I've never heared about anything lilke
> that. What do I have to do to get my modem working?
Have a look at the file /etc/modutils/aliases (The files lo
Gudmundur Erlingsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The error messages esd spews out certainly points to that. Anyone
> have further suggestions?
If the sound modules built in the kernel don't work for you, why not
try ALSA? You'll have to get the ALSA packages from unstable (sid),
those from pot
Hello,
Now everything works as it should, my mistake was that I assumed
unstable==woody which is no longer true. After I've installed the
ALSA packages from sid, compiling the modules worked without the
slightest problems.
I'd like to thank you for your help and apologize for my ignorance.
good
Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > But potato alsa-source doesn't seem to work with kernel 2.4. Should I
> Where do you run into trouble?
First I tried alsa-source 0.4.1i-5 from potato, woody has exactly the
same package, but there is also an alsa-source-0.4 package, which for
some
Steven Dickenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This definitley lends credence to the software problem theory.
> Unfortunatley, my Linux skills are nothing compared to my general
> hardware skills, so I can't offer you too many suggestions on
> hardware tuning and troubleshooting drivers under Linu
Hi all,
I've just updated the necessary packages and compiled kernel 2.4.2.
It seems to work fine.
There is still no sound as I'll have to install alsa first. With
kernel 2.2 I've been using the alsa packages provided by Debian and
compiled my own alsa modules from the alsa-source package.
But
Hello,
I'd like to set some environment variables globally for the whole
system. Before I began using xdm /etc/profile was fine for that. But
now X is started directly by xdm which is started by init, there is no
mother login shell for all user processes.
Is there a way of telling xdm to execu
Steven Dickenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > It would be mechanically impossible to connect all the drives in
> > any other way using the chassis and cables I have.
>
> 36" IDE cables are your friend ;)
Isn't there a severe restriction of the length of IDE-cables? At
least for UDMA?
>
Steven Dickenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The IDE-Devices connected to it are: hda: Traxdata CDRW2260+,
> > ATAPI CDROM drive hdb: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6002B, ATAPI CDROM drive
> > hdc: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive hdd: SAMSUNG WU32163A
> > (2.16GB), ATA DISK drive
>
> You have a rather st
Hello all,
My box is a PC with an EPoX 8KTA2 and a Duron 700, a Matrox Millennium
II PCI and a Gravius Ultrasound PnP (ISA). It is running Debian 2.2r2
(Kernel 2.2.17).
The IDE-Devices connected to it are:
hda: Traxdata CDRW2260+, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdb: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6002B, ATAPI CDROM drive
Frank Preut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 1) i use pon/poff for my dialup connection.. the problem with this is
> > that poff somehow doesn't seem to completely close the connection or
> > something because when i try to re-connect with pon nothing happens..
> > that's also the reason why dial o
John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Can I do a selective update to get these packages only?
>
> Not easily, and not at all with potato's apt.
Why not? It workes perfectly for me:
1. Point your sources.list to woody.
2. an an apt-get update, _don't_ do an apt-get upgrade
3. Install the
Hi Marcelo,
Please note that I am not a network expert, so what I write might be
wrong.
> with the help of people in this list finally I have a
> exim+fetchmail+mutt configuration working.
Does the multiple SMTP-server configuration work?
> The problem is that after dialing to my ISP and invoki
Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 'Done this. ALt is still Alt and Windows key is still meta.
I've sent you my XF86Config. If you still get this behavior with my
configuration then I don't know what to do.
> BTW, where did you last see a keyboard without windows key?
Try http://www.
Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi there
>
> Emacs is using the windows key as "meta". I'd like to use Alt instead,
> because I'm used to it from when I was running SuSE and RedHat. Is there
> an emacs-specific command for the .emacs file to do that?
I can understand you. The next
"Marcelo Chiapparini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> modem. I want to use exim+fetchmail+mutt. So far I have some questions,
I am using almost (my mailreader is Gnus) the same configuration with
two ISPs too.
> 1) I have two ISP providers. I choose one of them when I establish
> the dial-up conne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timo Benk) writes:
> Try the following:
> right mouse key -> options -> preferences
> there you'll find a list labeled OutPut Plugin. It's possible that
> the diskwriter plugin is turned on. Change this and maybe it will
> work.
Oh, how embarrassing -- it works now, thanks! B
"Javier Sieben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a problem with dselect (or was the dependencies involved). I
> would use the libesd0-alsa that provides libesd0 and conflicts with
> libesd0. That's Ok. I deselect libesd0 and select for install the
> alsa part. And then dselect follow the depe
Hello!
My box is running potato r1 with some packages from woody. I usually
play my mp3s with mpg123 but sometimes I've been using xmms also
(originally it worked!). But since some time it doesn't function
properly (I cannot recall any possible reason why). On startup it
says "shared object not
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> use xset to set the repeat and other stuff (mouse acceleration/speed/
> monitor dpms...) (man xset)
Thanks! I guess I should have read the whole X manpage before asking.
> login out and login back in using xdm restarts X server AFAIK
This explains
Hello all,
I have a strange problem in X (potato 2.2r1): After some time in X the
keyboard auto repeat ceases to work (the keyboard behaves correctly in
the console, though) and I have to log out and log in again (I am
using xdm) to switch it on again. Restarting the X Server is not
necessary.
T
Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > which shows perfect colors but is quite slow.
> Hm, lxdoom ist _very_ slow!
AFAIK you must blame the original Doom code for this, not lxdoom. It
simply wasn't designed for higher resoultions and scales very badly.
> On my K6-2 400 the maximum resolut
Hi,
There's an old P90 at my school that we use during the breaks and it's
running potato. I have installed lxdoom (the svgalib version of doom
doesn't work for some strange reason although other svgalib programs
like "thrust" work fine) on it and it works, however there is one
problem:
As the m
Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > So apt wants to replace libesd-alsa0 with libesd0. But why?
> > Sure, xtux depends on `libesd0 (>= 0.2.14-0.2)' but `libesd-alsa
> > 0.2.17-7' which is installed provides `libesd0'. What is the
> > point in replacing `libesd-alsa 0.2.17-7' with `
Sven Burgener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do I properly print out the contents of a manpage?
> When I do ":r! man blabla" in vi, I get funny characters at some places.
>
> Using man's --ascii option didn't help.
You can use Emacs (Even if this is hard for vi users ;-) ). Just type
M-x man
"Bryan K. Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If they don't have root, are there things that I should make
> off-limits that might not be on a stock Debian 2.2 system?
I don't know how technically sophisticated your family is but I assume
that your sister is not a cracker and your father not a
Hello,
I'd like exim to send my mail via more than one smarthost as I am
using several providers and every provider has its own SMTP server
that accepts mails only when logged in by `his' provider. I have
tried to set route_list in /etc/exim.conf to
"* first.server:second.server bydns_a"
Now wh
Hi,
My Linux box is running an up-to-date potato and everything seems to
work just fine, however there is one thing I don't understand:
My little brother wants some jump'n'run game so I would like to
install xtux.
`apt-get -s install xtux' says:
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