Where has my Windows partition gone?

Thanks to everyone for all of the suggestions. The issue is now solved. I resolved it as follows: # aptitude install os-prober (It was not installed) # os-prober # update-grub "First, was windows menu there before? " It was, and I don't know when or how it was deleted. I assume th

Where has my Windows partition gone?

>> Try: update-grub > as root! Thank you. Unfortunately, this did not do the trick: # update-grub Generating grub.cfg ... Found background image: moreblue-orbit-grub.png Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686 Found linux image: /boot/vmlinu

Where has my Windows partition gone?

Hello, I have a dual boot laptop running squeeze. I update regularly. I rarely use the Windows partition – I have not used it for several months. However, it now appears to be gone, according to grub. At least, when I boot up, and get the blue screen with the list of options, the Windows one is

curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

> Then my vote goes to "sit and wait" :-) I sat and waited and nothing happened. Today, I did more Googleing and found a sledgehammer solution. Go to runlevel 3 and login. Then issue the command $ rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd Reboot. Your gnome-panel settings will be reset to the de

curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

What would ye think of doing aptitude purge gnome followed by aptitude install gnome Is that likely to break lots of other things? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

Re: curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

Thanks Camaleón, > - First try: run "killall gnome-panel". > > - Second thing to check: create a new panel and see if behaves correctly > when you minimize the applications. > > - Thrird try: create a new user and login with it. > I did all of this. Same behaviour, even with the new user. John

curious gnome desktop behaviour after upgrade

Hello, I am using squeeze on a dell laptop, and am using Gnome, as came with the standard installation. Yesterday, after a big “safe-upgrade” my desktop started to behave curiously. When I open a console on the GUI and minimize it, it appears to go to the bottom right corner, and then disappears

downloaded .jnlp won't open

Is it possible to make this change permanent, or do I need to echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only every time I restart? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

downloaded .jnlp won't open

> cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only > if output is 1 then: > echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only > -- Thanks Goran. That fixed it. Anybody know what was the problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

downloaded .jnlp won't open

> Does some of this errors sad something like "there is no network"? Yes, they always say "Unable to load resource:" -- 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/

downloaded .jnlp won't open

> How about these sample files? Can you run them? > > http://pscode.org/jws/api.html > These would not run either. they gave the same type of error. The following are the details. com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource: http://www.pscode.org/jws/basicserv.jnlp

downloaded .jnlp won't open

Camaleón, > Run "update-alternatives --display java" > # update-alternatives --display java java - auto mode link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java /usr/bin/gij-4.3 - priority 43 /usr/bin/gij-4.4 - priority 1044 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java - priority 1

downloaded .jnlp won't open

I am using squeeze. To join a webcast, I download a .jnlp file. ( I am using Iceweasel) When it is finished downloading, a pop-up box offers me to open it with "Sun Java 6 Web Start (default)". I accept, and then I get a number of errors, with the heading "Application error - unable to lau

aptitude upgrade problems

>> >> The following is my sources.list: >> $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list >> # >> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386 NETINST >> Binary-1 20090214-16:03]/ lenny main >> >> #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386 NETINST >> Binary-1 20090214-16:03]/ lenny main

aptitude upgrade problems

Hello, I am using Lenny. When I try to upgrade, this is what happens: # aptitude safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done

tcpdump?

> #tcpdump port 4957 > I want to obtain the payload data to see what is realy being exchanged > between my Debian server and the outside network element . Can you please > let me know how I can modify my command ? Try tcpdump host and port 4957 This will grab all packets to and from the serv

Re: iceweasel broken after update

> You may try to rename .mozilla folder in your home folder and restart > iceweasel > Thierry Thanks Thierry, $ mv .mozilla/ .iceweasel seems to have done the trick. However, I have lost all of my bookmarks, add-ons etc. I will be able to reinstate them, in time. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

iceweasel broken after update

Hello, I am using squeeze on kernel 2.6.30-2-686 on a dell precision laptop After running aptitude safe-upgrade yesterday, and accepting all of the suggestions, iceweasel appears broken today. When I start it I get a screen with the message “Well, this is embarrassing. Iceweasel is having tro

Inquiry:How to enable Telnet & SSH on my Debian 3.1 server?

On many systems you have to use inetd to start telnetd. On one system, a slax system , I think, I had to add an entry to the configuration file /etc/inetd.conf, and then restart inetd, even after installing telnetd. I don't have the exact entry, but google would tell you John -- To UNSUBSCRIB

vmware after kernel upgrade on lenny

Hello I am using lenny. I tried to use vmware workstation, and I got an error to the effect that it could not find kernel headers. So a little Googling told me that I had to do aptitude install linux-headers-$(uname -r) and /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl But the above file did not exist. So, I ran

overhead projector unclear under lenny

Hello, I moved my laptop to lenny last May. Before that, it had been using etch. It is a DELL Precision M65. It has a 15.4" WUXGA (1920 x 1200) LCD Screen. On moving, I noticed that it had very few screen resolutions, so I editedxorg.conf to add a few. Everything worked fine, until I connecte

static ip address is being reset constantly

> Verify that no dhcp process is running in the background. If there is none > remove the network manager. > Thanks Frank. Indeed there was DHCP processes running: # ps aux | grep dhc root 3650 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?Z08:31 0:00 [dhclient] root 4044 0.0 0.0 2204 6

static ip address is being reset constantly

Hello, A question for networking gurus: My ip address keeps on being set to null at my workplace. I use my laptop at home and work. At home, I use DHCP to get an ip address from my ISP. No problems. At work, when I use #dhclient eth0 it looks for DHCP leases but finds none. So, I have a little s

how to start paros?

at 10:59 PM, John O Laoi wrote: > Hi > I am using squeezef. > I installed paros proxy  with   aptitude install paros. > After some googleing, I found that to start Paros, I needed to use > > sh /usr/share/paros/startserver.sh > > > This told me that it could not find

can't get printer to work after dist upgrade

following: Add printer Device: HP Laserjet 1005 USB #1 (HP Laserjet M1005) On the next screen, I added a PPD file, from the location foo2zjs/PPD/HP-LaserJet_M1005_MFP.ppd This worked! John On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:28 PM, John O Laoi wrote: > Hello, > > Yesterday, I did a dist upgrade f

how to start paros?

Hi I am using squeezef. I installed paros proxy with aptitude install paros. After some googleing, I found that to start Paros, I needed to use sh /usr/share/paros/startserver.sh This told me that it could not find the file paros.jar, so I edited to the file to point to its location, ie I ch

can't get printer to work after dist upgrade

Hello, Yesterday, I did a dist upgrade from lenny to squeeze. I edited sources.list, changes lenny to squeeze everywhere, and then did aptitude update aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude aptitude full-upgrade I also installed a lot of upgrades to packages, as suggested by synaptic. Everything see

recursive grep and openoffice

Thanks for all of your replies. I didn't know that tools such as tracker would search with openoffice document. With respect to the command line, I have fixed on find . -name *.odt -exec sh -c 'unzip -c "{}" content.xml | grep "string-being sought" > /dev/null' \; -print but it returns immedia

recursive grep and openoffice

Hello, I sometimes need to find a file, and I only know of some text contained therein. So I launch a search as follows: $ grep -r "text i am looking for" /home/john OR $ find /home/john -type f -exec grep -i * **"text i am looking for" * '{}' \; -print where /home/john is my home direct

automounting in xfce

Thanks to everyone. Problem solved. Yes, I misunderstood "fdisk -l". I assumed that it would list the CD partition also. I never even tried to mount the CD, as I thought that when it was not being seen by fdisk, it was not there, and there was nothing to mount. Also I've learned how to instal

Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

I found the following link very useful when I was getting the UK dictionary to work: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:openofficeukdict John

automounting in xfce

I've tried some of these solutions. However, when I insert a CD say, and run # fdisk -l it does not even see the CD volume, so there is no device to mount. What could be causing that? John

automounting in xfce

Thanks for the help. I am having problems installing the package thunar-volman. This is a package management problem, at which I am no expert! The package is not available on etch, but is on the list of packages for sid: http://packages.debian.org/sid/thunar-volman However, when I issue

automounting in xfce

Hi, I want to set up automounting on my etch system, which is using XFCE4. Basically, I want my CDs and flash devices to automount when I insert them. I have done some googeling, and it seems that I need to use Thunar's volume manager, and do the following in Thunar: Edit | Preferences, Click

vmware questions

Hi, I am running debian etch on a dell laptop which is dual boot with XP. I rarely, if ever, use XP. However, I now need to use an application, as part of a course I am doing, which only runs on Windows. So, I've decided to put vmware on etch and run XP from that. (I know about WINE, but

Re: networking: fixed ip address and dhcp

> > I used to have a file which contained > > > > ifconfig eth1 XXX.YYY.ZZZ.WWW netmask 255.255.255.0 > > route add default gw XXX.YYY.ZZZ.1 > > cat "seach " >> /etc/resolv.conf > > cat "nameserver AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD" >> resolv.conf > > I think you meant 'echo' instead of 'cat', and 'search' ins

networking: fixed ip address and dhcp

I have a dell laptop on which I have just performed a basic install of etch using netinstall, on which I installed xfce. (I did have gnome, but I needed to repartition, so i decided to try xfce.) The problem is now with my networking At home, I use dhcp - no problem. When I bring the laptop to wo

Re: rsync question

> Also, I get confused sometimes on the effects of a trailing slash on > source and target arguments. Check for a ~/Documents/Documents/ > directory or something. > You are all correct. There is a ~/Documents/Documents/. I must be using it incorrectly - I'll be more careful in future. John --

rsync question

Hello, I have the same structure on 2 machines. I want to keep them in sync. I change a file (ZZZ.ods) on the one with IP address AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD and then rsync from the other as follows ~$ rsync -avh AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD:/home/john/Documents/ ./Documents/ Password: receiving file list ... done Do

ssh port not opening

"Looks like there's your problem. You don't have openssh-server installed." "aptitude install openssh-server > > This should solve your problems." Thanks everyone. That did it. I suppose that I should have done #aptitude install ssh openssh-server in the first place. John

ssh port not opening

"Do you get any error message when you try to start /etc/init.d/ssh? Is there anything in /var/log/daemon.log? Does the sshd-blocking file /etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run exist on your system?" No errors when I do /etc/init.d ssh start # /etc/init.d/ssh stop # /etc/init.d/ssh start # cat /var/log/da

ssh port not opening

On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ssh-agent is *not* the program that allows ssh connections. That is > sshd. It should be started with /etc/ini.d/ssh start as root. Is there > no output when you do that? Anything in the logs? > > > > > > > However, I cannot ssh int

ssh port not opening

Hello, I am running etch on a dell laptop. I recently installed ssh: aptitude install ssh and started it: /etc/init.d/ssh start yet when I look for open ports with nmap localhost, port 22 is not open. When I run # ps -e | grep ssh I get 3450 ?00:00:00 ssh-agent # ps aux | grep ssh john

sound recording on dell laptop

On 10/18/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you try to turn up "Capture Mux" and/or to switch "Input Source" > from "Mic" to "Line"? Running "alsamixer" will give you direct access to > these controls. (Use the cursors keys to move and change volume, TAB to > switch between play

sound recording on dell laptop

On 10/17/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please send the full > output of amixer so that we can see the settings of the capture > channels. Here it is Florian: # amixer Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Righ

sound recording on dell laptop

On 10/17/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Please post the output of: > > lspci | egrep -i 'audio|s(ou)?nd|media' > > lsmod | grep snd > > amixer | egrep '^[^ ]|Capture' > > OK, I don't know what amixer does (man will tell me), but here goes: # lspci | egrep -i 'audio|s(ou)?nd|m

sound recording on dell laptop

I am using etch on a Dell Precision M65 laptop, which has an internal microphone. How do I get the sound recording function to work? I have run alsaconf. When I try to record, I use the graphical sound recorder with "record from input" set to "capture" and "record as" set to WAV. I have turned u

Openoffice file takes a long time to open

On 9/26/07, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Don't know, John, I'm just a simple user. If it were me, I'd copy the > contents of the doc onto the clipboard, paste it into a text-only > editor, re-copy the now text-only data into a new OOo doc. (This is > crude, but assures nothing su

Openoffice file takes a long time to open

On 9/26/07, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also check your disk i/o for swapping. How do I do that? > > Also, check whether any other unusual objects are embedded or called > somehow. Perhaps some object is not loading, re-trying, and finally > timing out. Just a guess... That i

Openoffice file takes a long time to open

On 9/26/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Maybe it's *highly* compressed and most of the time is spent in > zlib. I've seen examples of corner cases that take forever to open. It is a file that is frequently used. I don't know how to check if it is in zlib. > I copied the file to

Openoffice file takes a long time to open

Hello, I am running Etch on a Dell Precision laptop. I have one openoffice file, say XYZ.odt, which takes a long time to open (maybe 25 minutes). While it is opening, Openoffice is stalled. It is not big. ls-l reports its size as 18,000. I have many much bigger files which open immediately. I co

Re: can't access localhost

> > > > Have you tried doing 'ifconfig lo up'? If that works try adding a line > like the following to your /etc/network/interfaces: > > auto lo > > I did just as you suggested above, and it fixed everything. CUPS is working again, and ifconfig reports lo as well as eth1. Thanks everyone for your h

can't access localhost

> > When you run /sbin/ifconfig is the interface lo up? Are there any > messages in /var/log/syslog that might be relevant? No, when I run ifconfig, it only gives details for eth1. There is nothing much in /var/log/syslog ping -c 2 localhost > ping -c 2 127.0.0.1 # ping -c 2 localhost PING lo

can't access localhost

I am new to Debian. I installed Etch on a Dell precision laptop. I use DHCP. I have lots of questions, but I will start with this one: I created an iptables script that I downloaded, and set it up using # update-rc.d firewall.script defaults However, after doing this, I noticed that CUPS wo