Re: Printing bug: which package to report?

2021-10-04 Thread David Jarvie
On Sunday, 3 October 2021 18:01:32 -0700 Peter Ehlert wrote: > On 10/3/21 3:01 PM, David Jarvie wrote: > > I've found a new printing bug which I want to report, but I don't know > > which package to report against. > > > > My Samsung M2885FW printer now alway

Printing bug: which package to report?

2021-10-03 Thread David Jarvie
I've found a new printing bug which I want to report, but I don't know which package to report against. My Samsung M2885FW printer now always prints double sided even when I set the duplex print parameter to Off. This is on Debian Bullseye. It didn't happen when Bullseye was first released in A

How to make HAL sleep and hibernate signals trigger suspension/hibernation

2009-02-26 Thread David Jarvie
On my laptop, running Lenny, I'm trying to make the suspend and hibernate keys work. Currently they have no effect. 'lshal -m' shows that the two keys work - it shows the following output for the two keys: Start monitoring devicelist: - 19:47:26.01

Re: Suspend/Resume issues - Custom scripts not running? Mouse frozen?

2009-02-20 Thread David Jarvie
On Thursday 19 February 2009 20:24:12 Alex Riebs wrote: > It doesn't work and I'm not sure what else to try. I'm not even sure if the > scripts are running (how can I check?). You can check whether a script has run by adding a line similar to the following into each script: echo "This script has

Re: How to make suspend/hibernate buttons work

2009-02-19 Thread David Jarvie
On Thursday 19 February 2009 11:28:49 Aneurin Price wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:46 PM, David Jarvie wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 22:37:56 you wrote: > >> On Wednesday 18 February 2009 11:48:38 am David Jarvie wrote: > >> > No - PowerDevil

Re: How to make suspend/hibernate buttons work

2009-02-18 Thread David Jarvie
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 22:37:56 you wrote: > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 11:48:38 am David Jarvie wrote: > > No - PowerDevil is the replacement in KDE4 for KPowerSave. It looks as if > > global shortcuts to control it is something which still needs to be > > impleme

Re: How to make suspend/hibernate buttons work

2009-02-18 Thread David Jarvie
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 18:26:09 you wrote: > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 10:27:32 am David Jarvie wrote: > > Unfortunately I can't find any power management functions in the global > > shortcuts in System Settings. Are there any alternative ways of setting > &g

Re: How to make suspend/hibernate buttons work

2009-02-18 Thread David Jarvie
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 13:44:31 Aneurin Price wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:49 PM, David Jarvie wrote: > > On my Lenovo 3000 N200 laptop, the suspend and hibernate functions work > > when I invoke them from the KDE4 logout dialog. However, the Sleep and > > Hibe

How to make suspend/hibernate buttons work

2009-02-18 Thread David Jarvie
essed. How can I set up these keys to work? I'm running lenny. -- David Jarvie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Where to get superseded package versions

2009-02-08 Thread David Jarvie
re an alternative repository which is kept up to date? -- David Jarvie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

/tmp/dbprof prevents login via kdm

2006-04-13 Thread David Jarvie
s are affected. Any ideas on what is the best way of dealing with this? One option would be to delete it in the logout scripts. But what creates /tmp/dbprof, and why? I'm told on a KDE mailing list that the file is not created by KDE. -- David Jarvie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2006-03-19 Thread David Jarvie
On Sunday 19 March 2006 18:47, Joey Hess wrote: > David Jarvie wrote: > > Permissions on root directories: all have as a minimum, 755. /tmp/ > > and /var/tmp have 777. > > Have you checked the permissions of / ? Having it not world readable can > definitly cause this probl

Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2006-03-19 Thread David Jarvie
bin/bash' is attached. Perhaps somebody who understands it can comment. Any ideas for fixing this would be extremely welcome. -- David Jarvie. strace Description: Binary data

Re: DHCP address problem after etch upgrade

2006-02-26 Thread David Jarvie
On Saturday 25 February 2006 13:24, you wrote: > Hi David, > > On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 21:18 +0000, David Jarvie wrote: > > After my latest upgrade this week (I'm running etch), the DHCP address > > allocated to my machine has changed from being one allocated by my DHC

Re: File attributes being set in reiserfs partitions

2006-02-25 Thread David Jarvie
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:45, David Jarvie wrote: > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 09:29, David Jarvie wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 1:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:00:21PM +, David Jarvie wrote: > > > > I've

Re: Testing upgrade breaks printing, mutt and xserver

2006-02-23 Thread David Jarvie
upgraded from xfree86 to xorg, X refused to start. I had to copy the configuration from /etc/X11/XF86Config* to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and then it worked. -- David Jarvie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: File attributes being set in reiserfs partitions

2006-02-22 Thread David Jarvie
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 09:29, David Jarvie wrote: > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 1:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:00:21PM +0000, David Jarvie wrote: > I've got > >> off lightly - it has made some systems completely unusable. It's

Re: etch vs sarge

2006-02-22 Thread David Jarvie
you only really want to upgrade those packages, you might be better waiting before until things have settled down before you do a dist-upgrade. -- David Jarvie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian kernel & modules

2006-02-22 Thread David Jarvie
On Tue Feb 21 18:58 , jlmb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >> So how do I find where and what files are installed/changed using >> dpkg/apt-get/aptitude for some package (in this case - the kernel package)? >> >> Cheers, >> Ivan >> >> P.S.: Pointing me to the proper man/web page would be g

Re: File attributes being set in reiserfs partitions

2006-02-22 Thread David Jarvie
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 1:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:00:21PM +0000, David Jarvie wrote: >> On Tuesday 21 February 2006 11:17, David Jarvie wrote: >> >Since the latest upgrades to etch a week ago, I've found that file attributes (as

Re: File attributes being set in reiserfs partitions

2006-02-21 Thread David Jarvie
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 11:17, David Jarvie wrote: >Since the latest upgrades to etch a week ago, I've found that file attributes >(as >displayed by lsattr) have been getting set in my reiserfs partitions. >According to >the documentation, file attributes apply only

Re: Problem when upgrading to X.org

2006-02-21 Thread David Jarvie
installed. On reset, X will not start. >Furthermore startx seems to be missing. Have you tried 'dpkg --force-overwrite' to install x11-common? Or perhaps xfree86-common should be removed (I haven't checked on this, so do it at your own risk). -- David Jarvie. -- To UNSUBSCRI

File attributes being set in reiserfs partitions

2006-02-21 Thread David Jarvie
wly checked out file or directory will have an attribute set so that it can't be written to. Something is very wrong if reiserfs file systems don't use file attributes. What has changed in etch? How can this be prevented? -- David Jarvie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

DHCP address problem after etch upgrade

2006-02-20 Thread David Jarvie
any address which is not 192.168.0.x so that my network works? -- David Jarvie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: File attributes being set after upgrade

2006-02-18 Thread David Jarvie
On Saturday 18 February 2006 22:21, David Jarvie wrote: > Since my latest dist-upgrade today, many of my files are having file > attributes (as displayed by lsattr) set, and as far as I can tell, this > didn't happen before. At any rate, seemingly randomly, various of my files

File attributes being set after upgrade

2006-02-18 Thread David Jarvie
in as root and do a "chattr -i" or "chattr -a" to fix things. Previously I never encountered such a problem. What might be setting these attributes? I want to disable it, since I have no need for special security measures, being a sole user of the system. -- David Jarvie. KAl

Re: Etch dependency failures

2006-02-18 Thread David Jarvie
On Saturday 18 February 2006 16:21, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 10:23:18AM +0000, David Jarvie wrote: > > I'm running Etch. For a few weeks now, whenever I do my regular (more > > than once a week) 'aptitude dist-upgrade', I get messages about unmet

Re: Etch dependency failures

2006-02-18 Thread David Jarvie
On Saturday 18 February 2006 15:08, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On 2/18/06, David Jarvie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running Etch. For a few weeks now, whenever I do my regular (more > > than once a week) 'aptitude dist-upgrade', I get messages about unmet

Etch dependency failures

2006-02-18 Thread David Jarvie
0.23.4) but it is not installable dbus-qt-1-dev: Depends: dbus-qt-1c2 (= 0.23.4-8) but it is not installable Depends: dbus-1-dev (= 0.23.4-8) but it is not installable -- David Jarvie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Are pre-2.6.15 kernels incompatible with udev?

2006-02-14 Thread David Jarvie
On Sun Feb 12 23:10 , Paul Dwerryhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 10:02:47PM +0000, David Jarvie wrote: >> I have updated my etch installation with the latest updates, which include >> kernel 2.6.15 and udev. I find now that when I boot up

Are pre-2.6.15 kernels incompatible with udev?

2006-02-12 Thread David Jarvie
run my older kernel with etch and udev? I need to run the older kernel because there are as yet no customised patches available for 2.6.15 which will allow me to upgrade my customised kernel. -- David Jarvie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

How to make modules accessible after kernel rebuild

2004-09-29 Thread David Jarvie
of the new modules. How can I add the correct details? (Not just the mechanism for adding them, which I presume is to use update-modules, but how I can determine what the correct configuration entries should be.) -- David Jarvie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

How to restore serial modem access after installing Ethernet router

2004-07-13 Thread David Jarvie
rconf to configure my Ethernet card, setting it up to use DHCP. How can I make internet browsing work again on my serial modem? There is probably some simple bit of configuration needed somewhere, but where ...? -- David Jarvie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Users can't run wvdial due to wvdial.conf permissions

2003-11-05 Thread David Jarvie
I get the following error message running wvdial as an ordinary user (not as root): Can't read config file /etc/wvdial.conf: Permission denied The permissions for the file are "--w--T " and the owner/group is root.root. The user is a member of the dialout group. I tried giving read acc

Re: Installation doesn't recognise my extended partition

2003-11-03 Thread David Jarvie
people problems. On Sunday 02 Nov 2003 7:42 pm, David Jarvie wrote: > I am trying to install Debian (version 3.0) for the first time. I already > have another Linux system installed on logical partitions within an > extended partition (on an Athlon system), and have created a new logical &g

Installation doesn't recognise my extended partition

2003-11-02 Thread David Jarvie
n the partitions? -- David Jarvie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]