Re: syslog messages flooding the console

2014-09-26 Thread John Magolske
* Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk [140924 07:37]: On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 05:55:22PM -0700, John Magolske wrote: After a recent `aptitude dist-upgrade` I'm getting syslog messages flooding the console, pages pages of Asset Found stuff like: Message from syslogd@mymachine at Sep 23

syslog messages flooding the console

2014-09-23 Thread John Magolske
to time. Any suggestions as to how this might be fixed? This is on Debian Sid, and I do have systemd-shim installed. Regards, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: insserv: warning: script ... missing LSB tags and overrides

2014-04-17 Thread John Magolske
* Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz [140406 10:06]: On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 11:44:28PM -0700, John Magolske wrote: After a recent `aptitude dist-upgrade` I'm getting a long string of insserv: warning: script 'K02grml-home' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script

insserv: warning: script ... missing LSB tags and overrides

2014-04-06 Thread John Magolske
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Re: insserv: warning: script ... missing LSB tags and overrides

2014-04-06 Thread John Magolske
I forgot to mention in my last email that this is on Debian Sid. And while I don't want to paste the entire 1000+ lines of output, below I've included the tail end for some additional context. * John Magolske listm...@b79.net [140405 23:46]: After a recent `aptitude dist-upgrade` I'm getting

Version of mount shows up as 2.16.2 ...should it be 2.20.1 ?

2014-03-17 Thread John Magolske
/status... completed. util-linux:i386 2.20.1-5.6 install ok installed No stable version util-linux:i386 2.20.1-5.6 sid cdn.debian.net util-linux:i386/sid 2.20.1-5.6 uptodate ...so I'm wondering what that 2.16.2 is referring to. Thoughts? Regards, John -- John Magolske http://B79

Re: Version of mount shows up as 2.16.2 ...should it be 2.20.1 ?

2014-03-17 Thread John Magolske
* Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk [140317 11:22]: Does the output of 'which mount' look sensible to you? About what I'd expect: % which mount /bin/mount % /bin/mount -V mount from util-linux-ng 2.16.2 (with libblkid and selinux support) -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact

Re: Version of mount shows up as 2.16.2 ...should it be 2.20.1 ?

2014-03-17 Thread John Magolske
* Don Armstrong d...@debian.org [140317 14:01]: On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, John Magolske wrote: % which mount /bin/mount % /bin/mount -V mount from util-linux-ng 2.16.2 (with libblkid and selinux support) Does anything match /bin/mount*; ? Yes: % ls -l /bin/mount

Re: Version of mount shows up as 2.16.2 ...should it be 2.20.1 ?

2014-03-17 Thread John Magolske
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initscripts breaks ifupdown

2014-03-16 Thread John Magolske
wondering what's going on with this. Searching around I haven't come across much, but maybe I haven't been looking in the right places. John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: initscripts breaks ifupdown

2014-03-16 Thread John Magolske
* Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com [140316 13:12]: On Du, 16 mar 14, 10:16:26, John Magolske wrote: For several weeks now when I do `aptitude dist-upgrade` there is: The following packages have unmet dependencies: initscripts : Breaks: ifupdown ( 0.7.46) but 0.7.44

cups bug #741528 makes system unbootable

2014-03-16 Thread John Magolske
, or how concerned I should be about this bug. John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140316212815.gc31

Re: cups bug #741528 makes system unbootable

2014-03-16 Thread John Magolske
* Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org [140316 19:37]: Am 2014-03-16 22:28, schrieb John Magolske: #741528 - cups makes system unbootable with systemd due to ordering cycle Am I reading this correctly to assume that if I allow cups to be upgraded my system will not boot? Reading the bug

Re: Can't install any packages, APT_HOOK_INFO_FD is not correctly defined

2013-11-28 Thread John Magolske
* Dom to...@rpdom.net [131127 16:53]: On 27/11/13 08:29, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 27/11/13 19:14, John Magolske wrote: * Scott Fergusonscott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com [131126 23:43]: On 27/11/13 17:46, John Magolske wrote: I'm finding I can't install any packages with `aptitude dist

Re: Can't install any packages, APT_HOOK_INFO_FD is not correctly defined

2013-11-27 Thread John Magolske
* Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com [131126 23:43]: On 27/11/13 17:46, John Magolske wrote: I'm finding I can't install any packages with `aptitude dist-upgrade` `aptitude install ...` etc, keep getting this: % sudo aptitude dist-upgrade [...] E

Can't install any packages, APT_HOOK_INFO_FD is not correctly defined

2013-11-26 Thread John Magolske
: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 A package failed to install. Trying to recover: This is on Debian Sid. Any suggestions about how to get around this would be much appreciated. Regards, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

dpkg error, `aptitude safe-upgrade` leaves zsh unconfigured

2013-06-09 Thread John Magolske
zsh-common is not installed. dpkg: error processing zsh (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: zsh-doc zsh Thanks for any help, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: dpkg error, `aptitude safe-upgrade` leaves zsh unconfigured

2013-06-09 Thread John Magolske
* Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de [130609 06:12]: On 2013-06-09 10:10 +0200, John Magolske wrote: After an `aptitude safe-upgrade` I'm getting the following, which leaves zsh unconfigured. Any suggestions about how to untangle this? [...] % sudo aptitude install zsh [...] Unpacking zsh

Re: Where to set swappiness? [SOLVED]

2012-07-27 Thread John Magolske
Thanks you everyone for the helpful replies! * John Magolske listm...@b79.net [120723 23:22]: This command will set swappiness (to 0 in this case): # sysctl vm.swappiness=0 To have that setting persist across reboots, it is suggested to add a line like so to /etc/sysfs.conf

Re: Display glitches after upgrading to newer version of Screen

2012-07-27 Thread John Magolske
* Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de [120726 16:06]: On 2012-07-26 21:41 +0200, John Magolske wrote: * Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de [120726 12:15]: On 2012-07-26 19:04 +0200, John Magolske wrote: After upgrading from Screen version 4.00.03jw4 to 4.01.00devel I've noticed some odd

Display glitches after upgrading to newer version of Screen

2012-07-26 Thread John Magolske
check here. Has anyone else seen such behaviour? Any thoughts as to why this might be happening? This is in a framebuffer console on up-to-date Debian Sid. Thanks for any help, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Display glitches after upgrading to newer version of Screen

2012-07-26 Thread John Magolske
* Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de [120726 12:15]: On 2012-07-26 19:04 +0200, John Magolske wrote: After upgrading from Screen version 4.00.03jw4 to 4.01.00devel I've noticed some odd behaviour -- there's this bit of text superimposed in the upper left corner of each window: ;screen

Where to set swappiness? (an entry in /etc/sysfs.conf doesn't do it)

2012-07-24 Thread John Magolske
accordingly: % cat /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh 87 % cat /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh 96 But swappiness doesn't get set with an entry to /etc/sysfs.conf ... any thoughts as to why not? Thanks for any help, John -- John Magolske http://B79

Re: drive already mounted or busy ... dmsetup routine

2012-07-18 Thread John Magolske
unmounting the thumbdrive on that mount point. But with that other hard drive, I have to first do the aforementioned dmsetup remove ... routine, then it will mount unmount no problem. Until the next suspend/resume cycle, then it's dmsetup remove ... all over again. John -- John Magolske http

Re: drive already mounted or busy ... dmsetup routine

2012-07-17 Thread John Magolske
Thanks for the reply. * Camaleón noela...@gmail.com [120711 16:09]: On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:09:59 -0700, John Magolske wrote: I've been having issues with a particular hard drive, where after a suspend-resume cycle with s2ram, it won't mount: # mount /dev/sdb1 /media mount

drive already mounted or busy ... dmsetup routine

2012-07-11 Thread John Magolske
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Re: cannot upgrade or remove multipath-tools [SOLVED]

2012-07-05 Thread John Magolske
package successfully. Thanks again! John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- 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/20120706101817.ga10...@s70206

3.2.0-3-686-pae kernel doesn't boot, kernel panic

2012-07-05 Thread John Magolske
-686-pae/sid uptodate 3.2+45 This is up-to-date Sid on an X200s ThinkPad. John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- 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

cannot upgrade or remove multipath-tools

2012-07-04 Thread John Magolske
pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Starting multipath daemon: multipathd. Errors were encountered while processing: multipath-tools Thanks for any help sorting this out, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: cannot upgrade or remove multipath-tools

2012-07-04 Thread John Magolske
* Camaleón noela...@gmail.com [120704 10:51]: On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:31:40 -0700, John Magolske wrote: In doing `aptitude ugrade`, multipath-tools is to be upgraded, but I keep getting the following message: % sudo aptitude install multipath-tools [...] Preparing to replace multipath

Re: Apertium error... seeking English - Español translation tool

2012-06-22 Thread John Magolske
* Camaleón noela...@gmail.com [120621 11:23]: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:45:07 -0700, John Magolske wrote: I'd like to use the Apertium translation tool [1], which can translate English - Español (and other languages too, but that's the pair I'm most interested in atm) ... [...] Debian

Apertium error... seeking English - Español translation tool

2012-06-20 Thread John Magolske
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Re: Random display freezes [was: Less responsive input...blind-typing]

2012-06-13 Thread John Magolske
* John Magolske listm...@b79.net [120601 19:09]: * John Magolske listm...@b79.net [120525 17:13]: For a while now I've been experiencing a strange behavior where there are frequent and regular freezes when typing or issuing commands in the shell. All of a sudden I'll find myself blind

Re: Random display freezes [was: Less responsive input...blind-typing]

2012-06-13 Thread John Magolske
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org [120613 14:22]: On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, John Magolske wrote: BATT_HD_POWERMGMT=1 Yikes, that kills HDDs! [...] Your HDD will be MUCH happier with a value of 254, unless you're into kicking the crap out of your box (when a value of 1 is much

Re: Random display freezes [was: Less responsive input...blind-typing]

2012-06-03 Thread John Magolske
out the HD for a fast SSD would solve the problem while running on battery? Seems like there should be another way... Regards, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Random display freezes [was: Less responsive input...blind-typing]

2012-06-02 Thread John Magolske
tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=601900k) fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime) debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) * John Magolske listm...@b79.net [120525 17

Re: Random display freezes [was: Less responsive input...blind-typing]

2012-06-01 Thread John Magolske
* John Magolske listm...@b79.net [120525 17:13]: For a while now I've been experiencing a strange behavior where there are frequent and regular freezes when typing or issuing commands in the shell. All of a sudden I'll find myself blind-typing for 3 seconds or so before a backlog of characters

Less responsive input, 3-second freezes blind-typing

2012-05-25 Thread John Magolske
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Re: WiFi issues after upgrade on Sid, wlan0 ; No such device

2012-05-15 Thread John Magolske
...@gmail.com [120512 22:23]: On Thu, 10 May 2012 19:02:30 -0700, John Magolske wrote: I'm running Sid on my ThinkPad X200s, and after an `aptitude upgrade` the WiFi is experiencing intermittent problems. Pretty sure it's not the hardware, as I've never experienced these issues before

WiFi issues after upgrade on Sid, wlan0 ; No such device

2012-05-10 Thread John Magolske
to 5.14.2-10, which in turn wants to remove 440 packages. Any suggestions regarding how to get WiFi working again would be much appreciated. John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Laser Printer printing intermittantly, CUPS bug?

2012-04-16 Thread John Magolske
* John Magolske listm...@b79.net [120413 15:06]: [...] I think I figured out the printing issue. This is a legal size PDF, and so I added the -o media=legal to the command like so: lp -d Brother_HL-1450_series -n 1 -P 2 -o media=legal some-file.pdf And now it seems to be printing fine

Re: Laser Printer printing intermittantly, CUPS bug?

2012-04-13 Thread John Magolske
* John Magolske listm...@b79.net [120412 22:03]: Reading the following leads me to believe avahi-daemon needs to be running for cups to work: ...didn't realize that I had to start dbus and avahi-daemon manually. I added both to my /etc/rc.d and ran them manually with: rc.d

Laser Printer printing intermittantly, CUPS bug?

2012-04-12 Thread John Magolske
thoughts as to why printing is not working here? Thanks, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- 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/20120412071103.ga13

Re: Laser Printer printing intermittantly, CUPS bug?

2012-04-12 Thread John Magolske
* Johann Spies jsp...@sun.ac.za [120412 07:22]: On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 09:11:03AM +0200, John Magolske wrote: W [11/Apr/2012:23:36:00 -0700] Avahi client failed: -26 Any thoughts as to why printing is not working here? I don't know much about avahi, but if you read the package

Re: Ethernet connection weirdly not working mornings

2011-08-17 Thread John Magolske
Appologies for taking so long to follow up on this thread, life got busy. * Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk [110630 07:11]: On Wed 29 Jun 2011 at 21:09:18 -0700, John Magolske wrote: And now the ethernet-challenged machine is not connecting in the evening either [...] Can we discount the time

Re: Ethernet connection weirdly not working mornings

2011-06-29 Thread John Magolske
connection works ATM. * Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk [110629 10:29]: On Tue 28 Jun 2011 at 22:03:30 -0700, John Magolske wrote: allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp This should bring up the interface and configure it when the machine is booted. iface wlan0 inet dhcp pre-up

Re: Ethernet connection weirdly not working mornings

2011-06-29 Thread John Magolske
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5271422932 148959344 108676100 58% / udev 1497148 0 1497148 0% /dev Regards, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Ethernet connection weirdly not working mornings

2011-06-28 Thread John Magolske
/wpa_supplicant network={ ssid=mynet psk= } Thanks for any help sorting this out, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

FiiO E7 USB headphone Amplifier -- no sound

2011-06-27 Thread John Magolske
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Cursor hanging in ncurses apps

2011-06-17 Thread John Magolske
on screen, I don't want there to ever be more than a 100ms delay from finger-action to eyeball-perception. Any suggestions on how to go about accomplishing this? This is Debian Sid (32 bit) on an x200s ThinkPad, running in a framebuffer console. Thanks, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact

Re: CPU usage mysteriously spiking after kernel upgrade

2011-05-04 Thread John Magolske
109796 0 usbcore 134692 6 usb_storage,usb_libusual,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd thermal13892 0 fan 4424 0 squashfs 21204 0 Regards, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Cannot output to external monitor

2011-05-03 Thread John Magolske
Hi, * Camaleón noela...@gmail.com [110502 10:14]: On Sun, 01 May 2011 10:35:17 -0700, John Magolske wrote: I'm having trouble getting anything to output from my X40 ThinkPad to an external VGA monitor. Under X, `xrandr -q` outputs the following regardless of whether or not the external

CPU usage mysteriously spiking after kernel upgrade

2011-05-03 Thread John Magolske
shows nothing under the %CPU column...I don't see anything pass much beyond 1%. Any thoughts as to what could be causing this and/or suggested techniques for determining the culprit would be much appreciated. Regards, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Cannot output to external monitor

2011-05-01 Thread John Magolske
remaining blank. In any case, having to re-boot the machine with the external monitor plugged in doesn't seem like a reasonable solution. Thanks for any help, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Trying to use the Droid fonts in xterm

2011-02-04 Thread John Magolske
, trying fixed Any tips on how to get the Droid fonts working with xterm? Regards, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Creating an encrypted directory using ecryptfs - cannot umount

2011-01-27 Thread John Magolske
error: /sbin/umount.ecryptfs: undefined symbol: ecryptfs_remove_auth_tok_from_keyring What else should I be doing? TIA for any help, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

seeking mbox of debian-user from 7-10-2010 to 7-19-2010

2010-07-27 Thread John Magolske
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Re: seeking mbox of debian-user from 7-10-2010 to 7-19-2010

2010-07-27 Thread John Magolske
:-? ¹ http://gmane.org/export.php Thanks for pointing this out! I ended up wget'ing Stan's offering, but this is a good option to know about. John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-27 Thread John Magolske
rather under ServerLayout as you show. The relevant section of my xorg.conf looks like this: Section ServerFlags Option DontZapoff EndSection Not sure, but maybe that'll make a difference... John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-27 Thread John Magolske
. Thanks! It doesn't work, though: l...@yun:~$ chvt 1 chvt: VT_ACTIVATE: Operation not permitted I find the chvt command must be run as root to get it to switch to another VT, otherwise I get the same message. John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How to play 3gp audio files?

2010-04-18 Thread John Magolske
the 3gp audio files play fine. They do seem to take up a bit more CPU than mp3 or flac, but maybe that's just inherent to how they are compressed. John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: How to play 3gp audio files?

2010-04-17 Thread John Magolske
codec 'libamr_nb' in libavcodec... still searching around the www to see what I can find. John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

How to play 3gp audio files?

2010-04-16 Thread John Magolske
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Can't Zap X (Option DontZap off)

2010-03-06 Thread John Magolske
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Re: Can't Zap X (Option DontZap off)

2010-03-06 Thread John Magolske
* John Magolske listm...@b79.net [100306 14:07]: I'd like to be able to use Ctrl-Alt-BS to kill X, but can't get it to work. I searched around and tried a bunch of things: [ ... bunch of things ... ] Finally found something that works, this line in ~/.xmodmap : keycode 22 = BackSpace

Re: Can't Zap X (Option DontZap off)

2010-03-06 Thread John Magolske
in understanding xmodmap: Some hints about xmodmap(1) and the X11 keyboard model http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/X11/xmodmap.html Regards, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

critical bugs of libc6 - a problem for sid?

2010-03-05 Thread John Magolske
unusable So I canceled the install. If libc6 gets upgraded to this version, will that critical bug bork my system? I'm currently running sid. Regards, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Search engine for documentation indexing?

2010-02-11 Thread John Magolske
-user@lists.debian.org/msg554703.html John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Cannot start X -- launches frozen crashes all VT's

2009-10-29 Thread John Magolske
Still can't get this to work...very perplexing. X launches in a frozen state, crashing any VT that may be open. Any suggestions regarding what to look for? (More info appended below) * John Magolske listm...@b79.net [091024 16:26]: When I issue `startx`, X starts up in an immediately locked up

Re: [OT] Non-computer, quality text mailing lists ala Debian?

2009-10-28 Thread John Magolske
with your friends, customers, co-workers, research partners, and more. - http://www.freelists.org/ Looks interesting...somewhat computer-centric, but not entirely. I am curious to know how the Ecartis mailing manager they use compares to GNU Mailman. ~ John -- John Magolske http

Cannot start X

2009-10-24 Thread John Magolske
exactly when the trouble began, as I mostly use the console haven't tried to start X in months. Perhaps this is related to X problems others have described in recent posts? I'm running Debian unstable. TIA for any suggestions, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Post to this list delayed over 15 hours

2009-08-31 Thread John Magolske
* John Magolske listm...@b79.net [090830 11:25]: My last post to this list took over 15 hours to get through, looks like the issue has to do with greylisting Thanks Cameron for the explanation of greylisting, thanks Andrei for the Mypostsareconsideredspamandrejected link on wiki.debian.org, I

Re: Is there an indexing tool in linux that can help quickly search the contents of all my files?

2009-08-30 Thread John Magolske
://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/usermanual/index.html [2] #!/bin/sh # (c)2009 John Magolske, GPLv3 # last edit: 2009/05/02 Sat 22:46 PDT usage= Facilitates command-line use of the recoll full text search system. USAGE `basename $0` [-s] pattern ... OPTIONS -s enables stem expansion SEE ALSOrecoll(1

Re: Post to this list delayed over 15 hours

2009-08-30 Thread John Magolske
* John Magolske listm...@b79.net [090830 11:25]: My last post to this list took over 15 hours to get through, looks like the issue has to do with greylisting. I seem to recall having this problem a while back where after a few posts the response time improved...will see how long it takes

Post to this list delayed over 15 hours

2009-08-30 Thread John Magolske
-0l for debian-user@lists.debian.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:02:55 -0700 -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: question about Dash

2009-08-07 Thread John Magolske
(worked fine before `dpkg-reconfigure dash`). Any suggestions regarding how to set things back? I'm running sid. Regards, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: question about Dash

2009-08-07 Thread John Magolske
those scripts. John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Back up routines

2009-07-28 Thread John Magolske
/archfs/ John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-07-28 Thread John Magolske
has been my primary setup for the past few years. Just wish I could toggle over to a VT running a graphical web-browser... but the X Windowing System does not play nicely with the framebuffer console. [ http://osdir.com/ml/debian-user-debian/2009-06/msg00965.html ] John -- John Magolske http

Can X coexist with the Framebuffer console? (kbdrate woes)

2009-06-13 Thread John Magolske
at a slower setting so long as X is running. I find it is not possible to have X running in one VT and still be able to use a framebuffer console in another VT. Is there some way to avoid how X resets kbdrate? TIA for any suggestions, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Desktop Search Engines

2009-04-28 Thread John Magolske
see it in Sid I think that was meant to be recoll. John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

startx resets kbdrate of the Linux console

2009-01-31 Thread John Magolske
resets kbdrate? Thanks, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: startx resets kbdrate of the Linux console

2009-01-31 Thread John Magolske
anyone else experienced this behavior? -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-07 Thread John Magolske
many anecdotal stories of people using Sharpies to label disks and having no problems... There are also special pens available for marking disks, for example: http://www.amazon.com/Archival-Gold-Safe-Solvent-Free/dp/B0007U7GSM John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-14 Thread John Magolske
commands in BC_ENV_ARGS. Hadn't thought of that approach, looks like a nice solution. Here's a wrapper script I wrote that allows on-the-fly adjustment of scale and line wrapping: http://b79.net/code/bca John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-12 Thread John Magolske
* lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] [081112 08:55]: Isn't it possible to convert/use the console font for X11? PSF Tools has a utility called psf2bdf. From the manpage: psf2bdf - convert part or all of a PSF Font file to an X11 BDF. http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Unix/PSF/ Regards, John -- John

Re: Desktop search engines

2008-10-20 Thread John Magolske
I've heard about: swish++ http://swishplusplus.sourceforge.net/ tracker (...but I guess this is a GNOME thing) http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/ Namazu http://www.namazu.org/ Strigi http://strigi.sourceforge.net/ Has anyone had experience with any of these? Thanks, John -- John