Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Itay, maybe it is a problem with the UUID. Just check on the new harddrive the file /etc/fstab, if there is an UUID set for the harddrive. If so, comment it out and set just an entry with /dev/sda1 (or whatever) fpor the required. Here is an example: # /dev/sda7 / ext3

Re: Compromised ext4 filesystem after mdadm manipulation error

2014-04-23 Thread L. M. J
On 23 avril 2014 12:12:17 CEST, Ron Leach wrote: >On 22/04/2014 20:50, L.M.J wrote: >> >> I would like to know if there is a last chance to recover ma data ? >> >> > >The people that will know are on the linux-raid list, here: > >http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-raid > >I haven't seen

kamail2 inbox folder problem

2014-03-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi list, I accidently deleted my inbox folder (I mean the special "inbox" aka "Posteingang") in kmail2. Now I cannot create a new one. How can I get it back without messing with my settings and other folders? Thanks for any help! Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

systemd - fancontrol and sensors changed

2014-02-22 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, after changing to systemd, I recognized, that fancontrol on my EEEPC did not work properly any more. First I noticed nothing, but after some time I noticed, the fan did not run at heavy load. The reason for it, was the changed sensors. According to the debian wiki my working configur

Re: Mail without MUA?

2014-01-07 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> However a MUA won't download emails from a MTA, but from a POP or IMAP > server. Yes, of course from the pop3 server of my provider. > > What makes you think they were "downloaded". > I think, they were downloaded, for two reasons. First, they are already there, when I start my MUA. Second,

Help with aptosid installation

2014-01-04 Thread Stephen J. Mazurek
I am currently running a hp pavilion with an intel core 13, windows 7 os. I used to run debian stable on another pc clone no trouble with it and in fact came to dislike Microsoft software. Right now it seems like I'm stuck with it, though. I have a Sidux 2010-01 and also Linux from Scratch 6.3 r2

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

2013-12-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> > No, php script *RUN* by root -> full system access > > php script run by www-data -> access to what www-data has access to. > > Owner/Group/Other permissions only affect who has access to the > file/folder, not the kind of access the file (process) itself has when > run. Two very different c

Re: trackball not working after sid upgrade

2013-12-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2013, 18:46:16 schrieb Zenaan Harkness: > OK, previously, I added to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf > the following lines which make the Logitech Trackman Marble work > beautifully (left small button gives scrolling function not > backward/forward for browser tab

/boot inside luks+lvm

2013-10-24 Thread J. Bakshi (জ. বকসী )
Hello list, I have the grub2 (1.99-27+deb7u2 ) working with luks+lvm but /boot not included in lvm... Can grub2 call /boot from luks+lvm ? If yes, can anyone please share the configuration please ? Mine is debian testing box Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Sharing Internet to Android Devices

2013-10-15 Thread J B
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:29:38 +0600 Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: > Hi, > I want to share Internet from my Debian to my Android phone. How can I > do that? > > use wifi router -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: HDD repair help please

2013-09-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Donnerstag, 26. September 2013, 18:08:54 schrieb Gábor Hársfalvi: > Hi, > > How could I repair my HDD with disk manager or similar? > > Because, it has got a lots of bad sector. > > Before I could do that with fsck in recovery mode after umount /home. But > now it can't work - it says device

Re: Can not format USB drive

2013-09-22 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Therefore I am starting to belive that stick can be broken after all :) > Nevertheless I will wait for some time expecting that somebody had > experienced something similar and can give me some other advice than to > throw away that stick. > > Martin > Bye Hi! Did you try "testdisk"? Nice tool

Akonadi / Kmail Problem

2013-09-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I am running debian/jessie. After upgrading to kmail2 I discovered, that randomly (this means wthin one or two days a week), a window pops up, whch want me to enter the password for my mailaccount. Strangely it is every time the same mailaccount. I have several ones. It is no differe

Re: itunes under debian

2013-09-03 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag, 3. September 2013, 19:23:20 schrieb Pascal Obry: > Le 03/09/2013 19:00, Mike McGinn a écrit : > > Has anyone in this group had any luck getting iTunes to work under Linux? > I believe, iTunes10 can be installed in Playonlinux, when you set a mark in the "testing" option. Sorry, but

Strange libs

2013-08-31 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, since 3 weeks I got two new directories, which is looking strange for me. These are /lib64 and /libx32. The second one was created by package "libc6-x32", but I cannot see the necessary of this libs. Can someone enlighten me, when and why this was installed? Must have been during an u

Re: Thanks

2013-08-31 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Xfce isn't GNOME 2, but it's ok. Yeah! XFCE is great. Tried it, too, on my netbook. It is fast and well usable. I also was very pleased with LXDE, which is also very lightweight and highly usable. In fact, I still could not find a decision, which one is better or faster. So I did the bst thin

Re: How to suggest a new package?

2013-08-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 26. August 2013 schrieb Slavko: > You can both, do not matter if you are author or not ;-) > > For request, try to search for RFP (Request for Package) bugreports, > https://wiki.debian.org/RFP > > For providing new package try take look at http://mentors.debian.net/ > and mentors mai

How to suggest a new package?

2013-08-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello list, is it possible to suggest a new package for the repo, if one is not the devolper of the package? I only found, how to do that as a developer. If it is possible, I will do that myself, if you could enlighten me. The package I want to suggest is called "jNetMap", it is open source,

Re: Update wants to deinstall lots of packages

2013-08-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Probably best to wait a while. I run sid, and have never used KDE as > such, but I have quite a few of those packages you're about to lose. > Probably they haven't all made it into the repository yet. > > I do recall losing ksensors, but I wasn't actively using it, so I > didn't worry. Yes, I

Update wants to deinstall lots of packages

2013-08-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Dear list and Packagage maintainers, it looks like apt wants to deinstall a lot of packages when upgrading to KDE 4.10 in jessie. The reason is in the deinstallation of kdelibs4c2a, which is in conflict with the latest kdelibs-bin. So, isn't the possibility to let both libs reside on the syste

alsa stops suddenly.

2013-08-26 Thread J B
Dear list, My box is debian testing and I do upgrade S/w very frequently. Since last few months I have not used any sound related operation, but today I found that alsa is not working anymore. I have checked with speaker-test and got the following speaker-test 1.0.27.1 Playback device is default

Re: with DHCP, forcing a DNS address at your local computer?

2013-08-25 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Chris, > Is that two different files spelled wrong (twice!)? One file > spelled wrong? > > Please check the post BEFORE sending. I know mistakes can happen but, > really? > ... Sorry for that mail. It was just a typo. The time I wrote it, I was a little bit tired and may not well concentrate

Re: with DHCP, forcing a DNS address at your local computer?

2013-08-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Randy, > Aside: I am having an intermittent problem with my network--it is possible > it is related to the Verizon nameservers. If switching to the Earthlink > nameservers doesn't solve the problem I will start another thread > explaining the problem (and what I've done so far to attempt to sol

question to live-build

2013-08-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I hope, someone is more experienced with live-build than me. The problem: I have set up a live-build for kali-linux, which I want often build for new updates. But I do not want to download the whole stuff every time, so I am using apt-cacher-ng, which is working perfectly I also wa

Re: Proliant Microserver installation

2013-08-22 Thread Adam J. Gamble
Fixed! Was same bug as in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720442#10 On 22/08/2013 09:38, Adam J. Gamble wrote: Hi All, Just require some clarification with my Debian install on HP Proliant Microserver (N40L). I'm using http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/dai

Re: Proliant Microserver installation

2013-08-22 Thread Adam J. Gamble
kernel: [3.320926] sdb: unknown partition table * Aug 22 14:38:41 kernel: [3.279479] sda: unknown partition table Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Adam On 22/08/2013 13:40, Adam J. Gamble wrote: Appologies not 'built-in' so to speak, just no additional drives. Actual

Re: Proliant Microserver installation

2013-08-22 Thread Adam J. Gamble
the debian testing version I've chosen seem a reasonable choice (compatability-wise)? Thanks, Adam On 22/08/2013 11:53, Chris Davies wrote: Adam J. Gamble wrote: Just require some clarification with my Debian install on HP Proliant Microserver (N40L). Installation going fine until I hit &

Proliant Microserver installation

2013-08-22 Thread Adam J. Gamble
Hi All, Just require some clarification with my Debian install on HP Proliant Microserver (N40L). I'm using http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz with http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/. Installation going fine until

Re: Formatted Disk

2013-08-16 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Freitag, 16. August 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 10:30 +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > > Ethan Rosenberg, PhD: > > > I have a usb drive, with data on it, that I [stupidly!!] tried to > > > name using fdisk. Of course, it erased the data. I have not used > > > the drive sin

Re: 32-bit problems with nvidia packages

2013-08-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag, 13. August 2013 schrieb Brad Alexander: > Hi Hans, > > Is it possible that you have some version creep? I had this on my multiarch > sid system. There was a bug which made all of the VTs disappear. The quick > fix was to upgrade a few of the packages (including nvidia-glx, iirc) to >

32-bit problems with nvidia packages

2013-08-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello list, I need to use some 32-bit applications on my amd64 system. These are 3d- accelerated. But it looks lioke there is a bug in the packages. When I for example start googleearth, it starts, but I cannot see the planet. This problem exists since the change to multiarch. However, when I

Re: fax over IP

2013-08-07 Thread J B
Thanks a lot :-) But I lack Asterisk/pbx Is there any online free fax server available so that we can install the client in our laptop and communicate with the server ? Suggestion is very much welcome. On Wed, 07 Aug 2013 07:36:29 -0700 Bruce Ferrell wrote: > On 08/07/2013 07:03 AM,

Re: fax over IP

2013-08-07 Thread J B
Thanks a lot :-) On Wed, 07 Aug 2013 07:36:29 -0700 Bruce Ferrell wrote: > On 08/07/2013 07:03 AM, J B wrote: > > Hello, > > > > can anyone suggest how to create a foip system on debian ? > > > > Thanks > > > > > FAX over IP is fairly co

fax over IP

2013-08-07 Thread J B
Hello, can anyone suggest how to create a foip system on debian ? Thanks -- 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/20130807193342.5e144...@shiva.selfip.org

Re: acpi problem

2013-08-03 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Reading and understanding the following may get you closer to your goal, > specifically the section on volume control: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acpid Hi Stan! Yeah, that's what I was looking for. Great! It will help me a lot. I think, I will now be able to get this thing to

acpi problem

2013-08-03 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I am looking for a solution of a little problem. My Acer 7520G has got a volume knob aside, and when I turn it, volume is getting higher or lower (it is just a digitally stepping wheel). But in my syslog I find thus messages: Aug 3 08:58:38 localhost logger: acpid: action VOLUP is

Re: Twitter client for debian ?

2013-08-01 Thread J B
cli twitter client written or perl ) > > also there plenty of twitter clients for twitter > found them from > % > $ apt-cache search twitter > %--- > > and try them to install them and try > > On 08/01/2013 07:36

Twitter client for debian ?

2013-08-01 Thread J B
Hello list, I have tried pidgintwitter and pidgin-microblogging and both are failure at authentication. Same experience with turpial 1.9.6. Is there aany success from any linux user ? I'm using debian testing. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: Continuous brute force attempt from own server !!!

2013-07-26 Thread J B
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:52:15 +0200 benjamin kent wrote: > J B, how have you figured out that the port-scan targets > the ssh daemon specifically? > > as from log ``` accepted public key from from port 50574 ssh2 ```

Continuous brute force attempt from own server !!!

2013-07-25 Thread J B
Dear list, I'm suffering with a very serious issue and seek guidance. I have a debian server functional at my place which is attached with a leased line connection. Iand I use this box as a gateway. This debian box administer a remote opensuse linux server through this debian box and I use pubk

live-build questions

2013-07-17 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi all, don't know, if I may ask these questions here, but I allow me to do so. 1. How can build a new iso, when I already did a live build? (in case, when there are new package versions available) lb clean and lb clean --binary did not help. The second build started again, hen I did a lb clean

Re: *Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Huh, and I forgot to mention "back-in-time". Based on rsync, nice tool, and there is a debian package available. Hans -- 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.or

Re: *Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> This seems not to be a solution for most of us. > > Regards, > Ralf Yeah, it was just an idea. :) However, for backup purposes, my solutions are the following: Solution 1: If you have another server available, use rsync and make two copies. First one, just copy all files to a folder on the

Re: *Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-13 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Samstag, 13. Juli 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > I forgot to mention that we experience floppy disks as very reliable, > but useless for data of modern computers, because of the low amount of > data that can be stored. Don't know, if these are already mentionened. There are Datadisks called "wor

Re: wheezy keyboard shortcuts w/ lxde

2013-07-12 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Robert, just a clue. As far as I know, lxde iks using the environment of the shell. So just install and configure the packages consolöe-data, console-setup and maybe kbd to your needs. Also make sure, your packages for the required language are installed. These are moytly packages *-l10n-*, I

Repository pinning?

2013-06-29 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello folks, I want to add a repository to debian, exactly the kali repository, because it has packets, which are not in debian repo. But I do not want automatically debian packets from the kali repo. Can I use pinning for a special entry in sources.list so it does only install those packages,

Re: TRIM support with XFS

2013-06-29 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> So my question is: Does TRIM work with XFS in Wheezy and what should I do > to use it? > > John Hi John, as far as I know, the partitions will be correct created by debian. Trimmings is not a problem of the filesystem, but of partitioning. So, you can either partitition with debian (whhezy

Re: computer rendered un-usable

2013-06-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 24. Juni 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > Hi Hans :) > > On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 17:32 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Did I mention, I am a professionel? :) > This was just a little joke. :) > There's no need to mention this, because this is what my guess

Re: Separate partitions for filesystems (was Re: computer rendered un-usable)

2013-06-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 24. Juni 2013 schrieb David Guntner: > Hans-J. Ullrich grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Oh, and please do not misunderstand. Of course, I know, that an extra > > partition is not really needed for /home. It is just a nice-to-have. I > > just wanted to point on thin

Re: computer rendered un-usable

2013-06-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 24. Juni 2013 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:52:34 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich > wrote: > > Hi Hans :) > Hi Ralf, > In my home there are exactly those configs you mentioned, but no data, > such as large audio productions, just a few pics etc., howeve

Re: computer rendered un-usable

2013-06-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Yes, for the swap I agree, regarding to /home there aren't real advantages > on a home PC, when disk space was expensive it had a disadvantage, since > the user had to take care how to allocate the disk space. > > Mounting / as r only isn't really needed, if you install a new Linux and > you wa

debian.de failure?

2013-06-16 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi, is there a DNS problem known for the domain debian.de? Konqueror is telling me unknown domain:www.debian.de Yesterday everything worked fine, and strangewise I can still get channel.debian.de without any problem. If everything is ok, please let me also know. Best regards Hans -- T

Re: Dependency issue to install skype

2013-06-14 Thread J B
Hello Andrei, On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:42:59 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 14 iun 13, 12:45:22, J B wrote: > > > > Here are some more info > > > > #apt-cache policy libqtwebkit4 > ... > > #apt-cache policy libqtwebkit4:i386 > ... > >

Re: Dependency issue to install skype

2013-06-14 Thread J B
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:07:23 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 14 iun 13, 12:05:33, J B wrote: > > > > Yes, I did it. This is a debian-testing OS > > Ok, this might explain why things aren't going so smooth. It's usually a > good idea to upgrade to testi

Re: Dependency issue to install skype

2013-06-13 Thread J B
Hello Andrei, On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:27:14 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 13 iun 13, 20:56:44, J B wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > This is a debian multiarch box. IF I try to install skype 4.2 I get the > > following error > > Please show what your defa

Dependency issue to install skype

2013-06-13 Thread J B
Hello list, This is a debian multiarch box. IF I try to install skype 4.2 I get the following error ` #dpkg -i skype-debian_4.2.0.11-1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 216028 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace skype 4.0.0.8-1 (using skype-debian_4.2.0.11-1_

Re: Root can startx, main user can't - new Wheezy install

2013-06-12 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Thanks for your thoughts, > > Nick Hi Nick! You might want to check the settings of .Xauthority in users ~/home. I had the issue, that its rights were changed from user:user to root:root after I started LXDE. When changed back to KDE, it won't start again. I manually deleted the file and l

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag, 11. Juni 2013 schrieb Brian: > On Wed 12 Jun 2013 at 01:46:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 07:27:35PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes > > > fresh-out-of-the-box Wheezy. > > > > > > I'd like

Re: Remove user data of uninstalled packages

2013-06-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 9. Juni 2013 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Sun, 9 Jun 2013 16:38:53 +0200 > "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: > > Hello Hans-J., > > >just a question. Is there any way to remove user configuration files of > >uninstalled packages except to delete ~./whatever

Remove user data of uninstalled packages

2013-06-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi there, just a question. Is there any way to remove user configuration files of uninstalled packages except to delete ~./whatever manually? apt-get --purge ~c (and aptitude purge) does that for configuration files in /etc, but do you know a similar way for files below /home ? If this is not

Re: LINUX on floppy

2013-06-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Samstag, 8. Juni 2013 schrieb alex.pad...@laposte.net: > Hi, > > I have a bugg with fsck and I can't repare the file system of my hard disk. > Do you know an LINUX on floppy with a boot to repare my file system. > Thanks > Regards > > Alex Hi Alex, try Trinux (google at it) or you can use to

makehuman

2013-06-07 Thread j...@wexfordpress.com
Anyone have success with this program? What version did you use? John Culleton -- 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/792248a5-dc53-406d-af34-2af891e06...@w

java and other plugins in konqueror

2013-05-31 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello all, I got into a slight problem, which I meanwhile could solve. The problem was, that konqueror didn't want to start the java-applet, when it was needed, although - java was existent - icedetea-plugin was installed - java path was correct - update-alternative --config java was correctly

Re: 32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

2013-05-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 26. Mai 2013 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Du, 26 mai 13, 17:31:50, Dick Thomas wrote: > > sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 > > sudo sed -i 's/deb\ /deb\ [arch=amd64,i386]\ /g' /etc/apt/sources.list > > This is not necessary. > > Kind regards, > Andrei Hi Andrei, no this does not wo

Re: 32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

2013-05-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 26. Mai 2013 schrieb Dick Thomas: > On 26/05/13 07:21, Alex Moonshine wrote: > >> On Sun, 26 May 2013 08:01:33 +0200 > >> "Hans-J. Ullrich" mailto:hans.ullr...@loop.de>> > > > > wrote: > >> > This will not work. The pro

Re: 32bit apps under amd64 and nvidia

2013-05-25 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 26. Mai 2013 schrieb Alan Ianson: > I just installed wheezy on an amd64 machine and am trying to run a > 32bit program but it doesn't run. I'm using the stock amd64 kernel and > the debian packaged nvidia drivers. I used to install an ia32 (or > somesuch) nvidia package to run 32 bit pr

wheeezy-backports - strange policy?

2013-05-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I made my minds about wheezy-backports now for a long time, and allow me, to open this discussion. Pleae correct me, if I am wrong: IMO wheezy-backports is the successor to debian-volatile and is intended for use of debian/stable users (aka wheezy at the moment). As far as I read, p

Re: Wheezy-backports

2013-05-21 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Wayne, > > topa@dj:~$ fping http://ftp.debian.org/debian > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian address not found > > For some reason, which I haven't figured out, is why they are not found? > DNS problem or ipv6 or ??? > Doesn't wor here, too. But try "ping ftp.debian.org" as root. Should work

Re: Libreoffice4 in wheezy? Several questions

2013-05-20 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Lisi! > > It does. The lower pinning is to prevent backports from upgrading your > whole installation. If you install from Stable and do not change your > sources.list, upgrades will only be taken from Stable. To repeat what I > said earlier, packages from backports _and_ _only_ packages fro

Re: Libreoffice4 in wheezy? Several questions

2013-05-20 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Dear Andrei > Dear Hans-J, could you please clarify your terminology? What do you mean > by 'automatically update' in above paragraph? Which one of the following > do you mean: > > 1. I have version 1 and expected version 2~bpo from backports > to be installed What

Re: Libreoffice4 in wheezy? Several questions

2013-05-20 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 19. Mai 2013 schrieb Lisi Reisz: > On Sunday 19 May 2013 17:05:40 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Your backported packages, _and_ _only_ your backported > > packages will be updated from wheezy-backports. > > Sorry, upgraded. > > Lisi Hi Lisi, no they did not. I thought, libreoffice would au

Re: Libreoffice4 in wheezy? Several questions

2013-05-19 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Andrei, > > But I guess, there is an easier way, to update my ONLY my installed > > packages out of wheezy. In the wiki I read, you can use apt-get -t > > wheezy-backports install $package, which worked well. > > Not sure what you mean here, could you please rephrase/elaborate? > No, not qui

Libreoffice4 in wheezy? Several questions

2013-05-19 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello all, I wanted to install LO4 in wheezy. I wondered, why it is in wheezy-backports but not in testing. Maybe the packages in wheezy-backports are too young for testing? However, I managed it by using aptitude and made sure, all dependencies are correct. But I guess, there is an easier w

libreoffice wheezy

2013-05-18 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hello! Can someone explain why the version in wheezy-backports is higher than in wheezy (aka stable) ? IMO wheezy-backports should be older than stable, shouldn't it? Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

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

2013-05-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> 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

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

2013-05-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Seems ok for me. > $ /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin > /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: error while loading shared > libraries: libgoogleearth_free.so: cannot open shared object file: No > such file or directory Try to build teh package as real root, not with sudo and install the package

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

2013-05-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> $ /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin > gives: > /usr/lib/googleearth/googleearth-bin: error while loading shared > libraries: libgoogleearth_free.so: cannot open shared object file: No > such file or directory > > # /usr/local/bin/googleearth > gives: > Couldn't run Google Earth (googleearth-

Re: W-Lan won't work

2013-05-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Freitag, 10. Mai 2013 schrieb Mariusz Wojcik: > After an upgrade from wheezy to Sid W-Lan module won’t work. rfkill says me > that W-Lan is hard blocked but I haven’t blocked it hard. I use Asus X75A > with W-Lan with W-Lan modul Qualcomm Atheros AR9485. > > Greets, > > Mariusz Wojcik Maybe co

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

2013-05-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Donnerstag, 9. Mai 2013 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Thu, 9 May 2013 21:12:07 +0200 > "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: > > Hello Hans-J., > > >Googleeartg will not run without 32-bit accelerator drivers. If you use > > Good point; I'd forgotten that. >

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

2013-05-09 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
uple of times, I removed it from my machine about 8 months ago. > > I installed googleearth-package, run make-googleearth-package, > installed the compiled googleearth_6.0.3.2197+0.7.0-1_amd64.deb. > Pretty standard. Googleeartg will not run without 32-bit accelerator drivers. If you use Nvidia-

Re: How to get multiarch support

2013-05-09 Thread J B
On Wed, 08 May 2013 12:44:00 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2013-05-08 12:14 +0200, J B wrote: > > > When trying to install the skype 4.1 I get > > > > #dpkg -i skype-debian_4.1.0.20-1_i386.deb > > > > (Reading database ... 227156 files and directories cu

Re: How to get multiarch support

2013-05-08 Thread J B
On Wed, 08 May 2013 11:04:39 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2013-05-08 10:55 +0200, J B wrote: > > > I like to have multiarch support in my debian wheezy to install > > latest skype (4.1). > > > > What are the steps to do so ? > > Two of them: > >

How to get multiarch support

2013-05-08 Thread J B
Hello list, I like to have multiarch support in my debian wheezy to install latest skype (4.1). What are the steps to do so ? Do I need to modify sources.list ? Please suggest. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: failed to install xserver-xorg-core

2013-05-06 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 6. Mai 2013 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Mon, 6 May 2013 14:47:57 -0400 > Kejia柯嘉 wrote: > > Hello Kejia柯嘉, > > >I purged the nvidia driver and re-installed it (by nvidia-installer). > >But the nouveau module is still loaded even if I did everything > >indicated here: > >http://www.pimp-

Re: failed to install xserver-xorg-core

2013-05-06 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 6. Mai 2013 schrieb Kejia柯嘉: > Hi, > > I tried to upgrade squeez to wheezy, but lost gui. I guess it is > necessary to re-install xserver-xorg-core, but failed to do that: > `` > apt-get install xserver-xorg-core > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state

Re: Don't do that!

2013-04-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag, 23. April 2013 schrieb Brad Alexander: > That is interesting. I have a similar setup on my workstation: > > /dev/sda2 ext4964532 59380856156 7% /boot > > With the rest of the filesystems in an encrypted LVM container. I built > (rebuilt) this machine

Don't do that!

2013-04-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Today I learnt this: Do NOT use ext4 for the /boot partition, where your kernel resides. I did this on my EEEPC to speed up boot, and today I got at boot the error message: initrd.img corrupt. My EEEPC has got an ssd inside and /usr, /home and /var are encrypted partitions. It took me hours a

Re: .wav to text?

2013-04-22 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Thank you for the pointer, but I just need to update my local repo as > I usually do. I actually was just intrigued as to why I could not find > this package on packages.d.o (and neither in my local repo), that's > all. It is evidently just hitting the repos. Very cool to see libre > debian-pack

Re: .wav to text?

2013-04-21 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> Thus, my question of where are these packages :) Just add the unstable repo to your sources.list, then do an "apt-get update" and after this you can install pocketsphinx. Either do "apt-get install pocketsphinx", or you can install any package by doing "apt-get install somepackagename/unstab

Re: .wav to text?

2013-04-21 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
I suppose, they are more in unstable. :) Hans -- 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/201304211754.45383.hans.ullr...@loop.de

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-19 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Whatever I see in all your comments is this: Most of the people show a big uptime. 100 days, 400 days, 500 days, even more than a 1000 days! So many people do this. It proves, how stable a good system can be and it also shows the great work of the developers. If I compare it to other commerci

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-17 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
It is interesting. Whenever I someone is telling of big uptime, the arguiment is: Your server can not be secure! You have an old kernel! You MUST install/update the newest kernel and of course reboot. But this is not correct. For which reason a new kernel is necessary? 1. If there are extrem

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-16 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Mittwoch, 17. April 2013 schrieb Tixy: > On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 22:59 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Linux greer 3.2.6 #1 SMP Mon Feb 20 17:05:10 CST 2012 i686 GNU/Linux > > > > 22:35:31 up 412 days, 10:05, 1 user, load average: 1.18, 0.97, 0.44 > > So you are over a year behind in installi

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-16 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Mittwoch, 17. April 2013 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > Linux greer 3.2.6 #1 SMP Mon Feb 20 17:05:10 CST 2012 i686 GNU/Linux > 22:35:31 up 412 days, 10:05, 1 user, load average: 1.18, 0.97, 0.44 Great, but beat this! More than 500 days. At about 650 days uptime I rebooted accidentlly. See the m

Re: syslinux, live-build - looking for files

2013-03-24 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 24. März 2013 schrieb David Sastre Medina: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 06:45:51PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 24. März 2013 schrieben Sie: > > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 07:31:21PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > > > I am looking for

syslinux, live-build - looking for files

2013-03-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, I am looking for the following files for wheezy: ldlinux.c32 libcom32.c32 libutil.c32 They should be in package live-build: apt-file search ldlinux.c32 live-build: /usr/share/live/build/bootloaders/extlinux/ldlinux.c32 live-build: /usr/share/live/build/bootloaders/isolinux/ldlinux.c3

KDE4 - wrong root password?

2013-03-14 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, since some time I discovered a strange behaviour. Whenever I want to kill a process, or need root privileges (i.e. with kdesu) and I need to enter my root password, this is not accepted. But - when I use the password of the user I am working with in this cases, it will work. This i

Re: Poll GNOME 3 + Shell usage

2013-02-11 Thread Loic J. Duros
On 02/11/2013 10:11 AM, Gernot Super wrote: > Dear fellow debian-users, > > since there are no concrete numbers how many people actually use GNOME > 3 with Gnome-Shell (in debian) i set up a poll to get an impression. > Thanks for taking the time! > > http://poll.pollcode.com/v4czi8 > > Just voted

Update hanged, now stuck in loop

2013-02-07 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, during the last upgrade, it stuck during the update of the package "virtuoso- opensource-6.1". Now I am sticking in a loop. I cannot deinstall the package, as it wants configure itself and then hangs up, nor I can reinstall it, as I am running into the same loop again. I also tried

Re: how to install touchegg in debian ?

2013-01-22 Thread J B
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:12:35 + Darac Marjal wrote: > > Does apt-get give you a resolver prompt? That is, you type "apt-get > install -f" and it says "I would like to remove touchegg. Is this OK?" > (well, words to that effect). Try saying "N" at that point and see if > apt-get will present

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