kernel panic at Jessie shutdown

I installed Debian LXDE 8.2 (Jessie) on an IBM R40 laptop (2897-54U, 1.3 Centrino processor, 256 meg memory) using the netinst CD. The LAN port is broken, so I used a USB to RJ45 adapter. Installation went fine, but when I clicked logout, then shutdown, it went into kernel panic, giving the fol

selecting old machines for firewall/router use

Greetings: I'd like to set up a network with a firewall for my home computers for security, control and convenience (file sharing), as well as to learn about networking. We have the Internet entering via a Motorola DSL modem and it currently passes data through a NetGear wireless router. I'd l

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

Bob Proulx wrote: Elmer E. Dow wrote: When typing on my laptop, occasionally my cursor will skip back (up) a few lines and I'll be entering text in the midst of text ... What's happening here? My sleeve isn't touching the touchpad nor did I bump the Trackpoint nor

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

I changed the BIOS back this morning to enable the touchpad again. So far, no problems. We'll see how long this lasts. Elmer E. Dow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

as kdm, gdm or xdm. The laptop just boots to a commandline, then I type "startx" and load IceWM. Recently I've been test driving FluxBox. I'll swap back and forth using the touchpad and see if I can figure out exactly what's happening. It's working OK now, but I&

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

Elmer E. Dow wrote: Claudius Hubig wrote: "Elmer E. Dow" wrote: How can I diagnose this? Most important: Which text editor are you using? Does it also harppen in, say, nano (a terminal program) or in a web browser when entering text in a

Re: Occasional random cursor movement while typing

Claudius Hubig wrote: "Elmer E. Dow" wrote: How can I diagnose this? Most important: Which text editor are you using? Does it also harppen in, say, nano (a terminal program) or in a web browser when entering text in a form field? Best regards, Claudius Hu

Occasional random cursor movement while typing

f it were, I would think that the key would either enter properly or not, rather than enter an improper character. Or is it a CPU going nuts? Is it (just did it again when I typed the "t" in the previous word) a problem with X or a the driver for the keyboard, mouse, etc.? This has b

Re: Icedove trash icon appears only after trash is emptied

Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:59:39 -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote: Camaleón wrote: (...) Try to recreate the Trash folder by moving or renaming (do not delete) these files and restarting Icedove: ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/profile.default/Mail/Local Folders/Trash

Re: Icedove trash icon appears only after trash is emptied

Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:20:55 -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote: Icedove's trash icon disappears when I reboot. It reappears only after doing File -> Empty Trash. This is a recent occurrence. How do I fix this? I'd like to have the icon visible so I can retrieve a disc

Icedove trash icon appears only after trash is emptied

Icedove's trash icon disappears when I reboot. It reappears only after doing File -> Empty Trash. This is a recent occurrence. How do I fix this? I'd like to have the icon visible so I can retrieve a discarded file if necessary. I'm using Lenny with FluxBox on an IBM R40

Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

Mark wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Elmer E. Dow <mailto:elmere...@att.net>> wrote: [snip] I found the answer here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=437814 fdisk /dev/hda m w Maybe you didn't see my email reply to Debian List when you firs

Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

Joe wrote: Elmer E. Dow wrote: Recall that I used the DOS console to run fdisk /mbr to get XP to boot. Would installing grub on the MBR make Linux once again see the whole drive? It should at least allow correct booting. I wish I knew for sure. The XP Disc Manager and fdisk seem to agree

Re: Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

Elmer E. Dow wrote: I have an IBM R40 laptop which had WinXP and Debian Lenny installed. Due to a problematic upgrade to XP SP2, I decided to use the built-in system restore to reinstall XP. Also, I wanted to play around with Lenny more, so I decided that I'd reinstall two ver

Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

I have an IBM R40 laptop which had WinXP and Debian Lenny installed. Due to a problematic upgrade to XP SP2, I decided to use the built-in system restore to reinstall XP. Also, I wanted to play around with Lenny more, so I decided that I'd reinstall two versions of Lenny, too. So I used dban on

Re: Safe change of uid

I executed deluser --remove-all-files --backup and it searched for files to remove and backed up three files from the user's home directory -- but it left the user's home directory in place with its contents. The group and user were deleted, so the remaining files have owners of "500" -- the

Re: Safe change of uid

Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:29:04PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote: Just finished a fresh Lenny install and added an account for my daughter -- and kuser assigned it uid 500 instead of 1001, which I must

Re: Safe change of uid

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote: Just finished a fresh Lenny install and added an account for my daughter -- and kuser assigned it uid 500 instead of 1001, which I must correct. After looking at man pages and archives, I see that kuser

Safe change of uid

the version used in Lenny? Is usermod a better option for dealing with this situation or would deleting and recreating the account -- either using kuser or userdel -- be the simplest and best method? Please cc me as I am not currently subscribing to the list. Elmer E. Dow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Help! Corrupted filesystem

oes it matter at all? Am I correct in assuming that I need to mount the partition in read-write mode in order for fsck to fix the problems? Any advice is welcome. Elmer E. Dow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Delete part of metapackage?

On Sunday 27 August 2006 08:58 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 01:23:26PM +0000, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > > Greetings: > > > > I'm loading Sarge onto a donated computer at a school for K > > through grade 2. The hard drive has only a 2.2 GB capacity

Delete part of metapackage?

Greetings: I'm loading Sarge onto a donated computer at a school for K through grade 2. The hard drive has only a 2.2 GB capacity, so once I load the KDE and Gnome metapackages I only have about 120 MB left. The kids don't need all of this software, but it seems that I can't delete or install

Re: thinkpad value for money?

Linksys pcmcia card modem. Did you look at the economy R40e models? For what you seem to be wanting, they should be fine. A friend went that route and is very satisfied. By the way, as you probably know, Lenovo bought IBM's desktop and laptop division. -- Elmer E. Dow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Message files not rotating

On Monday 07 August 2006 12:20 am, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 17:23:13 +0000, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > > On Sunday 06 August 2006 09:43 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 02:31:40PM +, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > > > > I dis

Re: Message files not rotating

On Sunday 06 August 2006 09:43 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 02:31:40PM +0000, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > > I discovered that /var/log/messages is 428.6 MB on my IBM R40 > > laptop running Sarge. I see /var/log/messages.1.gz, to > > messages.6.gz. N

Message files not rotating

en rotated in a year either. Why did rotation stop? How do I start it again? Logrotate was installed. I just got rid of it. Could it have been interfering? -- Elmer E. Dow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Message: codec_write 1: semaphore is not ready

d that was interfering with my soundcard. Worked once. Now it's happening again. I was setting up pmount, checked messages and there it was again. I'm running OSS for sound, though have been contemplating switching to alsa. Any ideas on how to fix the problem and get rid of this messa

Outdated Sarge kpdf

I'm running Sarge and discovering that often kpdf either crashes or fails to display pdf files properly. For example, attempting to view IRS forms displays the forms in 11x14 format instead of 8.5x11. I booted WinXp and used Acrobat Reader 5.0 there and it tells me that I should upgrade to at l

Re: OpenOffice 2.0 Sarge or Etch

g sarge oo1.1.3 to OO 2 or installs additionally? > > It upgrades. > Greetings: Am running Sarge, too, and would like some of the newer features of OO 2, but was wondering if it can be installed in addition to the earlier version so that I can test it before removing the earlier version. Could OO 2's newer dependencies cause an upgrading of something that will make something existing not work? Elmer E. Dow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Power down

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 12:58 pm, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:17:59 + > > "Elmer E. Dow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > >On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:02:58 + > > > > > >"Elme

Re: ktuberling

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 03:13 am, Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Elmer E. Dow wrote: > >> Greetings: > >> > >> My four-year-old ktuberling user is getting the following message > >> when trying to load the program: "Fatal error: Unable

ktuberling

Greetings: My four-year-old ktuberling user is getting the following message when trying to load the program: "Fatal error: Unable to load the picture, aborting." The program works fine for the other three users on the machine, but won't even load for her. Since this is the case -- and every

Re: Power down

Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:02:58 + "Elmer E. Dow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Vincent Smeets wrote: Hallo, I have an old (1999) computer too. dmesg showed that the kernel does find my ACPI but doesn't use it because my bios is too old. It

Re: Power down

Vincent Smeets wrote: Hallo, I have an old (1999) computer too. dmesg showed that the kernel does find my ACPI but doesn't use it because my bios is too old. It says something like "... bios too old (1999 < 2001)". I now use the kernel parameter "acpi=force" and now the kernel is using my AC

Re: Power down

Noah Dain wrote: On 1/16/06, Elmer E. Dow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: Do you have "apm=power_off" passed to your kernel? Andrei On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:06:26 +0000 "Elmer E. Dow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Johannes Wie

Re: Power down

Andrei Popescu wrote: Do you have "apm=power_off" passed to your kernel? Andrei On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:06:26 +0000 "Elmer E. Dow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Noah Dain wrote: My computer says "power down" when

Re: Power down

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Elmer E. Dow wrote: I have an old Dell 333 desktop with Sarge and 2.6 kernel. I tried the above instructions with no success. Any further ideas? Are you shure that power down is supported by your bios? On rather old hardware it might not be supported at all

Re: Power down

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Noah Dain wrote: My computer says "power down" when I shut it down. I just upgraded from kernel 2.4 to 2.6 in Debian Sarge, and of course I want it to shutdown automatically. What should I do to fix this? I had a bunch of crappy dells (is there any other kind?) th

Re: Replacing KDE shutdown dragon

On Sunday 15 January 2006 09:13 pm, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > Greetings: > > I've been trying to replace that dragon on the KDE logoff gui. I'm running > Sarge on both the family desktop machine and on my laptop and found the > critter at /usr/share/apps/ksmserver/pics/shudown

Replacing KDE shutdown dragon

Greetings: I've been trying to replace that dragon on the KDE logoff gui. I'm running Sarge on both the family desktop machine and on my laptop and found the critter at /usr/share/apps/ksmserver/pics/shudownkong.png. If I change the dragon's filename, the dragon disappears from the logoff. I tr

Re: When should I consider installing suggested packages?

On Monday 22 August 2005 03:04 am, Bob Proulx wrote: > Elmer E. Dow wrote: > > When should I consider installing suggested packages? > I install them only if I know I need them. Usually I avoid installing > suggested packages. I frequently avoid installing recommended > pa

When should I consider installing suggested packages?

k? Please cc me since I'm not currently subscribed. - Elmer E. Dow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Newbie selecting package manager

st as effective as Aptitude's cleaning methods? If so, then what's Aptitude's advantage? Or is this just a matter of preference? - Elmer E. Dow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 3d accel and agpgart

ive newbie also so I may be barking up the wrong tree but it > might be worth a shot. > > Wackojacko Jackpot! 3d acceleration works great! Glxgears is giving me good numbers and Tuxracer blasts along. Many thanks for your suggestion. - Elmer E. Dow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

3d accel and agpgart

roblems. Any ideas? Any input is appreciated, My knowledge and experience is limited. - Elmer E. Dow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Boot hang at "Starting: MTA"

office. Now it doesn't hang for a minute while searching for the network. Thanks for your suggestions. -Elmer E. Dow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Boot hang at "Starting: MTA"

0/100 + 56k modem PC card. - Elmer E. Dow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]