Part 1 ---- updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-27 Thread John Lindsay
I am going to post this in several messages to keep things relatively concise. Here is my sources.list. Top 16 lines were generated by http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/ I left the first 3 as a basic sources.list. The next 13 were also generated by the above but I marked them as ignore. The last 16

Part 2 - updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-27 Thread John Lindsay
The following is what I get when I type apt-get update and obviously it failed to update. My original sources.list (see part 1 - updating squeeze to wheezy) (bottom 16 lines) had squeeze and I was getting similar results. Later today I am going to try and shorten sources list and simplify it

Re: Part 2 - updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-27 Thread John Lindsay
Thank you Clive for your reply. Here are my settings now after doing the change to my sources.list: uname -a shows: Linux debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.60-1+deb7u3 i686 GNU/Linux lsb_release -a shows No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID:Debian Description:Debian

updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-26 Thread John Lindsay
Greeting I have been trying to update my Debian 6 (squeeze) to Debian 7 (wheezy). I have been reading the following URLs and trying to make sense of them with respect to upgrading. http://www.garron.me/en/linux/upgrade-debian-squeeze-wheezy-6.0-7.0.html

Multiboot issue

2014-05-19 Thread John Lindsay
I posted the following on the Multisystem site but have received no replies as yet so I'll try here since I have learned a lot about Debian and Linux by following this list and even asking for help on some things. Anyway, I installed Multisystem following the instructions on this web site

reprinting a completed print job

2014-02-08 Thread John Lindsay
I am running a HP Laserjet P1606dn on Debian 6. I want to reprint a 'completed job'. I can see the completed job in the print queue but I do not see any way to reprint it? Any ideas? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

updating debian 6 to debian 7

2013-12-04 Thread John Lindsay
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Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-14 Thread John Lindsay
for the information. Now all I have to do is get clamtk (4.37) updated to the latest at 4.45. John On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 09:58 -0400, John Lindsay wrote: Somehow my iceweasel has been infected with the UKASH scam. I have tried my kapersky rescue disc and it told me my system has been cleaned

ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread John Lindsay
Somehow my iceweasel has been infected with the UKASH scam. I have tried my kapersky rescue disc and it told me my system has been cleaned (this disc was made late 2011/early 2012 and it did an update prior to scanning). If I run iceweasel after a reboot the ukash blocker shows up. How can I

kernel version

2013-08-11 Thread John Lindsay
I have two files, linux_2.6.x_VCP_Driver_Source.zip and linux_2.6.x_VCP_Driver_Source.zip. Each 'unzips' to the following files. These are Silicon Labs USB drivers. linux_2.6.x_VCP_Driver_Source.zip linux_2.6.x_VCP_Driver_Source.zip cp210x.c

ice weasel

2013-08-11 Thread John Lindsay
A site has grabbed hold of ICEWEASEL and when I try to leave or close iceweasel a pop-up appears asking This page is asking you to confirm that you want to leave - data you have entered may not be saved. I select leave and it just keeps poping back. I cannot close iceweasel. I rebooted and

Re: kernel version

2013-08-11 Thread John Lindsay
Thanks for the info -- Running kernel 2.6.x.xx so I know which USB driver I need to install On 11/08/13 01:02 PM, Kruppt wrote: On 2013-08-11, John Lindsayjcl...@sentex.net wrote: snip What I want to know is how do I determine the kernel version of my debian 6 system so I can

lost toolbar

2013-04-07 Thread John Lindsay
Somehow I seem to have deleted my top toolbar. How do I make a new on/retrieve a standard toolbar or retrieve my old one? I was trying to delete a 'greyed out' icon and deleted the whole bar instead? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: lost toolbar

2013-04-07 Thread John Lindsay
On 07/04/13 11:16 AM, John Lindsay wrote: Somehow I seem to have deleted my top toolbar. How do I make a new on/retrieve a standard toolbar or retrieve my old one? I was trying to delete a 'greyed out' icon and deleted the whole bar instead? John Yes, more information should have been

permissions/sudo/sudoers

2013-04-01 Thread John Lindsay
If I try 'sudo' in a terminal window, it asks for my password. If I try 'root's' password I get 'user not in sudoers file'. If I try my user password I get 'user not in sudoers file. this incident will be reported.' I'm trying to run 'sudo apt-get install mono-complete monodevelop' in a

Re: permissions/sudo/sudoers

2013-04-01 Thread John Lindsay
On 01/04/13 07:18 PM, John Lindsay wrote: If I try 'sudo' in a terminal window, it asks for my password. If I try 'root's' password I get 'user not in sudoers file'. If I try my user password I get 'user not in sudoers file. this incident will be reported.' I'm trying to run 'sudo apt-get

opening an Iceweasel link from Icedove

2013-02-09 Thread John Lindsay
This may have been answered previously but I couldn't find any info on it -- when I click on a link in Icedove, it will open Iceweasel to that link (provided of course it is a valid link). However when I try to go home (which is facebook) iceweasel seems to hang. Clicking a bookmark does

removing printers

2012-08-16 Thread John Lindsay
I have a HP P1102w printer. I turned off the printer and computer while away for several days. When I powered up the units, it wouldn't print. Somehow I have managed to get the following printers on the print manager original Hewlett-Packard_HP_Laserjet_Professional_P1102w one I

possible screw-up installing HP printer

2012-04-18 Thread John Lindsay
I just installed an HP Laserjet P1102w. I have the Hp status icon showing in the upper RH side of my toolbar. The printer icon shows up whenever I print something BUT I have the following folders and files residing in my Downloads folder and I want to know if I can just delete them or did I

Reciva website

2012-01-14 Thread John Lindsay
Does anyone use Reciva to access some internet radio stations? If so, how does one get WMA and MP3 formats to play. AAC format allows a selection and allows movie player to open and receive the selected station (only one I've run across using AAC is an Australian site). I'm running Debian 6.

adobe flash 10.1 and greater

2011-12-28 Thread John Lindsay
How do I get Iceweasel (under Lenny) to recognize or use Adobe Flashplayer 10.1 or better. I can't get any CNN or BBC videos to play as they keep telling me I need 10.1. I've done some searching and tried the various methods mentioned in various sites. I have DLed the tar from Adobe. I've

Re: adobe flash 10.1 and greater

2011-12-28 Thread John Lindsay
To Camaleon and Bob Many thanks for your input. Placing libflashplayer.co into my /.mozilla/plugins folder worked 100%. That was the information I was missing. Have a Happy and prosperous New Years John On 28/12/11 02:14 PM, John Lindsay wrote: How do I get Iceweasel (under Lenny

minor gripes with squeeze

2011-12-24 Thread John Lindsay
I have squeeze working reasonably well with some minor gripes (or differences between Lenny and Squeeze). First: Under Lenny, when I plugged my USB sticks into my computer I could read/write/delete files and folders with no problem. I could (and needed to) unmount the drive to delete the icon

Re: upgrading lenny to squeeze question

2011-12-18 Thread John Lindsay
which I managed to fix back to working condition. Thanks for the replies. John On 17/12/11 06:42 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 17 Dec 2011 at 18:07:47 -0500, John Lindsay wrote: I have been following the following info on http://www.howtoforge.com/upgrade-debian-lenny-to-squeeze-in-a-few

Can't empty trash

2011-12-18 Thread John Lindsay
Since my upgrade to Squeeze, I have discovered ALL previous deleted files and folders plus recently deleted (since upgrade) show up in trash and I can't delete them. I get a 'file operations' window with a bar graph that says preparing but when checked -- everything is still there. There is

Re: Can't empty trash

2011-12-18 Thread John Lindsay
available. On 18/12/11 04:21 PM, John Lindsay wrote: Since my upgrade to Squeeze, I have discovered ALL previous deleted files and folders plus recently deleted (since upgrade) show up in trash and I can't delete them. I get a 'file operations' window with a bar graph that says preparing

Re: Can't empty trash

2011-12-18 Thread John Lindsay
of free space available. On 18/12/11 04:21 PM, John Lindsay wrote: Since my upgrade to Squeeze, I have discovered ALL previous deleted files and folders plus recently deleted (since upgrade) show up in trash and I can't delete them. I get a 'file operations' window with a bar graph that says

Re: Can't empty trash

2011-12-18 Thread John Lindsay
Thank you Bob and Don for the info. I will certainly look into this sometime this next week and let you know how I make out. John On 18/12/11 06:42 PM, Don Juan wrote: On 12/18/2011 02:44 PM, John Lindsay wrote: Well, I guess it really helps to do some digging -- found this find -name

upgrading lenny to squeeze question

2011-12-17 Thread John Lindsay
I have been following the following info on http://www.howtoforge.com/upgrade-debian-lenny-to-squeeze-in-a-few-simple-steps My last root teminal command was apt-get dist-upgrade It seems to be working ok up to this screen --- Package configuration ┌──┤ Configuring

hidden folder

2011-05-07 Thread John Lindsay
When I try to backup my home directory I get an error message regarding a folder called '.mozilla'. Looking at it as root there does not appear to be anything inside -- can I get rid of it or is it an essential part of iceweasel/mozilla? It doesn't stop my backup from completing -- it's just a

grub

2011-01-04 Thread John Lindsay
Recently I had to do a reboot. I get the following 'grub' screen titleDebian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 root(hd0,0) kernel/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet initrd/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686 titleDebian GNU/Linux, kernel

update manager wants admin password

2010-12-05 Thread John Lindsay
All of a sudden I am getting the following message when I click on the update manager icon --- | enter password for keyring 'default' to unlock | the application 'gksu' (/usr/bin/gksu) wants access to the keyring 'default' but it is locked I can do two actions -- enter the admin password and

previous message re:gksu

2010-12-05 Thread John Lindsay
As a further update I clicked -System-Administration-Update manager from the toolbar and got the list of updates available. The 9 available updates consist primarily of 'LIBHAMLIB' utilities and 'man-db -- on-line manual pager. I have to assume that it is a legitimate request for my admin

Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-19 Thread John Lindsay
Lisi wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2010 22:50:05 John Lindsay wrote: Here is my 'fstab' # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hda1

Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-19 Thread John Lindsay
Lisi wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2010 22:50:05 John Lindsay wrote: Here is my 'fstab' # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hda1

Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-19 Thread John Lindsay
John Lindsay wrote: Lisi wrote: I don't know whther it is at all relevant, but your fstab appears to be trying to mount two different drives on the same mount point (/). Lisi Actually it is the 'mtab' that shows the two '/dev/sda1' entries. I'll try editing it and see what damage

Re: Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-19 Thread John Lindsay
Lisi wrote: On Sunday 19 September 2010 11:29:44 John Lindsay wrote: Lisi wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2010 22:50:05 John Lindsay wrote: Here is my 'fstab' # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass

Iomega 2TB USB drive

2010-09-18 Thread John Lindsay
Hi All I am still trying to get this USB drive to show up as an icon on the desktop and to show up under the toolbar 'Places' like my 8GB USB memory stick and my /new-disk hdb (115GB internal drive). I am using Debian Lenny with Gnome as a desktop. Here is my 'mount' display /dev/sda1 on

Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

2010-09-11 Thread John Lindsay
John Lindsay wrote: I just picked up an Iomega 2TB external USB drive. It is formatted NTSF. When plugged into my Win7 pc it is seen however it does not show up on screen under Debian (lenny). Is this drive supported? How can I get it seen by debian? John Well, success of sorts. I

Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

2010-09-10 Thread John Lindsay
Lisi wrote: On Friday 10 September 2010 03:45:35 John Lindsay wrote: Still trying to find out what is available to enable the drive in Debian. Have you tried turning the icon on? Lisi Hi Lisa How do you turn it on? If I plug in a memory stick it automatically recognizes

Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

2010-09-09 Thread John Lindsay
Just to update things--- Fired up second computer which is my test machine. Installed Ubuntu 10.04 and IOMEGA drive seen as a laptop icon immediately after turning it on. Was able to load/unload/move files with no problems. I then deleted partition, re formatted using fat. Unmounted drive and

Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

2010-09-07 Thread John Lindsay
With regards to the problem I am having getting this IOMEGA drive to be seen by my primary computer running Debian Lenny -- I deleted the partitions, recreated the partitions as ext3, then ext4 and finally ntsf . I then checked mstab after 'mount ./dev./sdb1 /mnt' after each change and it

Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

2010-09-06 Thread John Lindsay
I accidentally sent my reply to Celejar direct instead of to the list so I am reposting it to the group. If my 'dmseg' is too long -- sorry about that -- elejar wrote: On Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:22:04 -0400 John Lindsay jcl...@sentex.net wrote: I just picked up an Iomega 2TB external USB

Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

2010-09-06 Thread John Lindsay
I did it again; sending a reply to the sender rather than the group -- hopefully I will be more careful in future -- Bob Proulx wrote: John Lindsay wrote: I just picked up an Iomega 2TB external USB drive. It is formatted NTSF. When plugged into my Win7 pc it is seen however it does

Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

2010-09-06 Thread John Lindsay
Hi Celejar I tried 'mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt' as /sda1 returned drive does not exist. Using 'tail -F /var/log/syslog' when I try the mount command using /sdb1 returns - Sep 6 15:40:38 tux-net kernel: [119018.389495] sdb: sdb1 Sep 6 15:40:38 tux-net kernel: [119018.422500] sd 4:0:0:0:

Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive

2010-09-06 Thread John Lindsay
Hi Celelar Just going through 'applications-Debian-applications-system-administration' and started up 'gnome partition editor'. It showed me that its file system is ntsf; its mountpoint is /mnt; its label is IOMEGA HDD; total size is 1.82TB and I have used 61.37 GB. It is mounted -- but not

iomega 2TB external USB drive

2010-09-04 Thread John Lindsay
I just picked up an Iomega 2TB external USB drive. It is formatted NTSF. When plugged into my Win7 pc it is seen however it does not show up on screen under Debian (lenny). Is this drive supported? How can I get it seen by debian? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

phantom icon

2010-08-04 Thread John Lindsay
I plugged my wife's sony ereader into my debian (lenny) machine USB socket primarily to charge it up properly. I was very surprised when it came up with the 'do you want to run the program' and actually mounted the volume. I was able to look at the files but didn't do anything else. I did

Re: cloning/saving system

2010-07-19 Thread John Lindsay
John Lindsay wrote: I am currently using debian lenny as my primary computer. It's a Dell Dimension 8300, P4, 3.4G with 1G Ram. 60G HD. I also have a Dell Optiplex GX620 which currently has win7 on a 300G HD with 1.5g ram. I will be removing files from the win7 and storing them on DVDs

cloning/saving system

2010-07-18 Thread John Lindsay
I am currently using debian lenny as my primary computer. It's a Dell Dimension 8300, P4, 3.4G with 1G Ram. 60G HD. I also have a Dell Optiplex GX620 which currently has win7 on a 300G HD with 1.5g ram. I will be removing files from the win7 and storing them on DVDs and installing Debian on it.

getting Live365 and Reciva tp play

2010-07-13 Thread John Lindsay
How do I get Live365 and Reciva to play when I select a station to listen to? Live365 opens up another window that has 'undefined' and overlapping text all over the place. Reciva opens a window and out of 10 different streams only one played. The rest opened up another window that says its

displays

2009-11-02 Thread John Lindsay
Greetings all Is anyone running any of the following displays 1)Dell S199WFPV 19 wide 2)LG L226WTY 22' wide 3)LG L19WTY-BF 19 wide 4)Acer X223WBO 22' wide I am currently running a Benq T904. Nothing wrong with it but for less the 1/2 what I originally paid for the Benq I can get one of the

possible printer replacements

2009-04-20 Thread John Lindsay
I have a HP 990C working just fine under debian (lenny) however I have seen at a local liquidation store the following laser printers available at a very good price and it may be time to upgrade. They are the Brother hl-2170, Brother hl-2140 and the Samsung scx-4300. Has anyone gotten these

Re: Update Manager

2009-02-24 Thread John Lindsay
of my error. I certainly will not repeat my error. John Lindsay jcl...@sentex.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Update Manager

2009-02-23 Thread John Lindsay
Is there a problem with the update manager or the sites from which it get updates? I haven't seen an update since Friday Feb 13. It tells me my system is up-to-date but up until last Friday I would get updates 5-6 times a week. Also, whenever the update manager starts up, mplayer shows up in

totem player

2009-02-07 Thread John Lindsay
I have spent the day updating my one computer (running m$crap) whilst listening to my favourite station on my Debian computer (which has been up and running since Dec1 without a reboot which is more than I can say about the other OS!!!)). At 6hrs I had to restart my browser and access the web

IBM thinkpad A22 serial ports and debian

2009-02-06 Thread John Lindsay
I have installed Debian on my Thinkpad A22. Seems to be working fine except for the wireless. I also have Wine installed as I want to run an executable program that downloads a file to an FTA receiver via the serial port. Do I need to 'turn on' the serial port under Linux or would it already

create folders in data drive

2008-10-14 Thread John Lindsay
I have a debian (I believe it is lenny) system running and somehow managed to install a second drive (called /new-disk) where owner and group are root. As user I can open the drive up and add and delete files but can't create folders (create folders is greyed out when '/new-disk' icon is

icedove

2008-10-07 Thread John Lindsay
I have just switched over to Debian. I like it a lot better than openSuse and my wife likes it as well. In icedove, if i click on a url it opens up the default web browser. I would much prefer it to open up the Iceweasel browser which is my preferred browser. Where in icedove can I change it

Re: icedove

2008-10-07 Thread John Lindsay
Star Liu wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:02 AM, John Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just switched over to Debian. I like it a lot better than openSuse and my wife likes it as well. In icedove, if i click on a url it opens up the default web browser. I would much prefer it to open up