Re: Dovecot *requires* MySQL?

2014-01-02 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
n and libmysqlclient16 is about 5KB of disk space. Regards, Jordan Metzmeier -- 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/cad758rho3w4inkhmzsfwvloskkvhjvdrvaeub-9z_vmqrc7...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Slow system and switching tabs on google chome

2012-05-16 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> The slow problem occurs with more than one tab, but disabling >> flashplayer-nonfree >> everything is ok, chrome and graphics effects back to normal speed. >> It seems like a libcairo issue, I will try downgradin

Re: Slow system and switching tabs on google chome

2012-05-16 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
cement=0 This needs to be ran each time X starts. I haven't tried to find a permanent fix yet. Regards, -- Jordan Metzmeier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

Re: OT: Compatibility Issues With Windows Files

2011-10-04 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
and directories, regardless of the command in front of it. In bash, you can enable globbing of hidden files with "shopt -s dotglob". dotglob If set, bash includes filenames beginning with a `.' in the results of pathname expansion. Regards, -- Jordan Metzmeier

Re: aptitude called chromium-browser "obsolete"

2010-10-30 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
es, but I can't find it for amd64. > There have already been numerous other discussions on why it is not... Regards -- Jordan Metzmeier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: arp and /etc/ethers

2010-10-24 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
arated by whitespace. Additionally the pub, temp and netmask flags can be used. Regards, - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMxPh9AAoJEKj/C3qNthmTYzQQALskrI3j8nBOOxPyK3f657Cr YmyK9DzaU0IqUBDs+9F1kFVI73hykakrCeyC

Re: unable to run gsynaptics on lenny

2010-10-22 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
the line for shmconfig and directly run >> /usr/bin/gysnaptics-init, it shows the error of gysnaptics couldn't >> initialize. > At this point, I am not really sure. Sounds like a bug. What is the *exact* error? if its graphical, can you attach a screenshot? Regard

Re: dpkg issue

2010-10-21 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
it is more appropriate to ask on ubuntu-us...@lists.ubuntu.com . Regards, - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMwRCGAAoJEKj/C3qNthmTxssP/21XmFxQMzAkLIWzG6yZBlMo oRTTthMLpGbpBFMybGWScZ8ZpwWkYNKNGEcR357TIcRPTJgA5fV2SL8p

Re: wine apps from command line

2010-10-17 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 10/17/2010 09:55 PM, T o n g wrote: > > but not this: > > winword path/to/myfile.doc & > What error do you get? -- Jordan Metzmeier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: wine apps from command line

2010-10-17 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
; > Now that I'm installing Ms Office under wine now, and I miss the ability > to run wine apps as simple commands. > > Anyone has scratched that itch yet? How about something like: winword() { wine ~/.wine/drive_c/rest/of/path/word.exe "$@"; } in your .bashrc file?

Re: Action behind gnome menu

2010-10-17 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 10/17/2010 09:15 PM, T o n g wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to find out the action taken when a gnome menu is selected. How > can I do that? Can you be more specific about what you mean by selecting the gnome menu? Do you mean what the entries in the menu actually launch? Rega

Re: Chromium Browser Paralysis

2010-10-16 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
need to make sure you've gotten the latest > and greatest. I don't think advising against using Debian software is in the best interest of Debian or its users. Regards, - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQ

Re: Chromium Browser Paralysis

2010-10-16 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
s only on certain sites. Anyone had this problem? In chromium you can hit shift+esc to bring up a built-in task manager that may indicate a plugin that is consuming the resources. Regards, -- Jordan Metzmeier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/14/2010 12:32 AM, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 14 October 2010 11:52, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> Please do as .32 is what will ship in the next stable. > > Bug filed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600155 >

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/13/2010 09:57 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 14 October 2010 09:34, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> I would first check to see if the problem still occurs in .35 from the >> experimental repos. I believe it is much easier for th

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
> > Cheers, > Jason I would first check to see if the problem still occurs in .35 from the experimental repos. I believe it is much easier for them to provide a fix when it can be backported from a newer upstream. Regards, - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
port for ipv6 can actually be done via a kernel parameter, so recompiling to remove ipv6 support should not be needed. Use the kernel parameter "ipv6.disable=1". Good luck! [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/av...@lists.freedesktop.org/msg01550.html Regards, -- Jordan Metzmeier -- To

Re: unable to run gsynaptics on lenny

2010-10-11 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
error was reported as a bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586025 The maintainer indicated that the required steps are described in /usr/share/doc/gsynaptics/README.Debian. If you find that your answer is not there, I would provide feedback to the bug report. Regards, Jordan

Re: 'sudo gedit' stopped working

2010-09-30 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
s another > menu item, which runs 'sudo aptitude' in a terminal, works. How can I > run gedit as root? > > Patrick > > Try using "gksudo" for graphical sudo. Regards, - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuP

Re: Logitech G110 keyboard

2010-09-30 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
else has this board & has > been able to get it to work in Linux. > John > > If you are looking for something to get the macro keys to work, I would try g15macro. I would guess most of the g15 utilities should work fine on it. Regards, - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

Re: unable to run gsynaptics on lenny

2010-09-29 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
file; backup in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.20100928233119 > > how should i overcome the above error. > You should not need to run dpkg-reconfigure, and it will overwrite the changes you just made as it says. Simply don't run it. Regards, - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE---

Re: Sources for Debian 4.0 Etch

2010-09-17 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
n updating apt. I realize I no > longer get security updates but that's fine too. > > Thanks, > > Ed > > The old etch packages can be found here: http://snapshot.debian.org/ Regards, - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9

Re: Package Name Confusion

2010-09-09 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
bian? > > Any help would be appreciated, > > Prakhar Gaur > > Taking a guess at what that fedora package contains, I would say you are looking for linux-headers-$(uname -r) - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v

Re: install lenny from iso

2010-09-02 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
n directories. Perhaps that is the result of a broken "sudo su" or similar? Regards, - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMgBt5AAoJEKj/C3qNthmTh2cP/iZNjR1arYsZxrbF5u7VORpG /nIy52+Qp/53nSN5QoUH8SCxeVj6ldHRGUc

Re: Wesnoth 1.8 not finding campaigns

2010-09-01 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
"wesnoth-1.8-trow". I don't see why your machine would not want to install that package, provided you have either of those two meta packages. Regards, - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMfn+cAAoJEKj/C3qNt

Re: Wesnoth 1.8 not finding campaigns

2010-09-01 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
TIA > > AG > > Had you upgraded from a previous version? Are you sure that 1.8 is what you are really launching, and not the older 1.4 or 1.6 (they will somewhat coexist)? What version of Debian are you running? Regards, - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-30 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David, Your reply seems to have removed all newline characters making it unreadable. Regards, - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMe//FAAoJEKj/C3qNthmTvKsP/RPblJk6DAdkpNE8do6HGMrI

Re: How do I go from Lenny to unstable?

2010-08-30 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
This refers to "dpkg" the bot on the #debian IRC channels. You can ask him about squeeze or squeeze udev using the new web interface, ircbots.debian.net. Regards, - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMe8DDAAoJEKj/C3q

Re: howto automatically install documentation

2010-08-25 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
re is no easy to way to handle automatic installation of the -doc packages. Regards, - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMdRhSAAoJEKj/C3qNthmT6asQAL9fxmQUDf7nefu7RHgd7Fnd TH151ce9lcuYXsyss5gtZNwOW9mAqSG1rojj3TvC/8aN/m

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-20 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
buntu maybe?), shipping mono with default gnome, was because of tomboy-notes. - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMbqf6AAoJEKj/C3qNthmTwnwQAIutlWIOHpAkJuCdsHS0BheB V8LlzHgv/vdIqt/VQ

Re: Broken/Obsolete packages - I think we can do better.

2010-08-18 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
e a release-critical bug, > which should prevent the package from entering stable, and should warn > anyone against installing it. > > Celejar - From what I understand, a grave RC bug filed against stable will also allow a fix to be backported and released in the next stable poin

Re: control apt-get selection for packages having multiple virtual package alternatives

2010-08-16 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
;t have any newlines. If I understand correctly, you are looking for "aptitude unmarkauto foo" Regards, - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMabE9AAoJEKj/C3qNthmTFQYQAIJWykt08mXurKbM1aACz6XA s

Re: Squid 3.0 on Debian 5

2010-08-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
ratch and want to use the .deb file instead. >> >> >> Im not sure is correct, when i has the error only the new build help me. >> >> > > new build of squid3? i tried to update through apt-get but it said > that it's already the newest > > There i

Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/13/2010 02:42 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> Java has a separate alternatives command. It is >> "update-java-alternatives". >> > # update-java-alternatives -l > java-6-sun 63 /usr/li

Re: Why is /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/sun-java6-6-12/jdk1.6.0_12 not recognized in update-alternatives?

2010-08-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Java has a separate alternatives command. It is "update-java-alternatives". - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMZYY3AAoJEKj/C3qNthmTxM0P/1v9E1i/sU0S8W

Re: Installing Debian from USB stick

2010-08-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
understand, it works with testing but not stable. I have also used it with other distributions without issue. - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMZXmlAAoJEKj/C3qNthmTwscQAMkFu7CXJVgGOgCu0QEIHsNC V90foHpY09RfPGbsgFNA1RhU

Re: Installing Debian from USB stick

2010-08-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
issue has the floods of users on IRC. "failed to find cdrom devices". For this reason, we push the usb installation method documented in the install guide. I replied with a link to the install guide chapter to this thread once already (this is a dupe). - -- Jordan Metzmeier

Re: Installing from USB stick

2010-08-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/13/2010 10:48 AM, James Stuckey wrote: > Could someone please provide me with directions for installing Debian from a > usb stick? > http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/ch04s03 - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP

Re: How to boot machine with newly installed kernel using presseed.cfg

2010-08-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
le in Lenny backports. You just can not go the other way around (Lenny kernel on a squeeze machine). The .32 kernel is also available in the kmuto Lenny installer. - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMZViQAAoJEKj/C3qNthmTvBEQAI4

Re: A question about rsync's behaviour

2010-08-12 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
n way that rsync fails to preserve the modification time when copying to vfat. An easy way to check this would be to compare the modification times of the two copies. Regards, - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMZDsaAAoJEK

Re: A question about rsync's behaviour

2010-08-12 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
ong the lines of the usb stick being formatted in a non-UNIX filesystem, such as vfat. I know this is often the case when preserving permissions, which you are not... So perhaps the time preservation? - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Lin

Re: Should I submit a new bug ?

2010-08-11 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
ot included. If you don't find a reason, it should be safe to file a bug. If you do find a reason, you could file a minor bug against the documentation. In this case I can see that it is Contents-i386.gz (apt-file), but the package is actually missing the file. Does this break functionali

Re: I was told to "MSN" somebody

2010-08-10 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/10/2010 04:13 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > I was told to "MSN" somebody. So which MSN replacement program do you > folks recommend of > $ apt-cache search MSN | wc -l > 53 > given that I don't use KDE etc. but just nodm. > > I had to rea

Re: When is best time to upgrade lenny to squeeze

2010-08-04 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
ualization software now that can be used for this kind of testing. Virtualbox for example can run entirely off software, without the need for virtualization support in the CPU (although much slower). - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIc

Re: When is best time to upgrade lenny to squeeze

2010-08-03 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
est if this is done in a testing environment, outside of the actual production machine. - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIbBAEBCAAGBQJMWLwBAAoJEKj/C3qNthmTKm4P92JsoLKcgCaR/nT3oFI6bdtF goKc/HZHB9S2O/FgJxQHBbmQaecNjw2Jr22lm1DYkmTbCRfe7PR2

Re: find+grep [was: Re: Amaya W3C Web browser and sid]

2010-07-29 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
specify the user to run the shell as but will not affect which shell is actually run. - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMUazIAAoJEKj/C3qNthmTW7EQANHKUy7UW/YWxax3W5Z6C9nF T+0JP2a79FlwaQABCP3+0CLWlk4QGB+Oa9UqnttQP6SjE

Re: Segfault in smbpasswd

2010-07-29 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
report (with some missing information). Are you trying to ask why it segfaults? What version of samba-common or samba-common-bin (backports only)? What about libc6? Have you been mixing releases? - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCA

Re: find+grep [was: Re: Amaya W3C Web browser and sid]

2010-07-29 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
I just cannot get over feeling uneasy when seeing things like: find | grep cat | grep ls -l | grep for i in $(ls -l foo/) sudo su I realize that all of it can be used to accomplish a task. So why do I hate to see it so much? - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- V

Re: Amaya W3C Web browser and sid

2010-07-28 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
way, or > you can download the source to amaya and compile it against your > libraptor install (which is what I recommend personally). > > Perhaps you wanted find's -name option? find / -name 'libraptor*' - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versi

Re: Monitoring tools to use on an account

2010-07-27 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
I would recommend locking the network down over a monitoring solution. Not only will it can it be more effective, but it does not require the invasion of privacy. You can use a web proxy, such as squid, to whitelist allowed sites. A quick google search turned up this that looks interesting: h

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-16 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
specialized tools could have been consider the "right tool". If you spend more time looking for the "right tool" than you would have done so manually, then I would be inclined to agree. - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQ

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-16 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
g... but why when I can just dget the .dsc? - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMQFdFAAoJEKj/C3qNthmTn5AQAMmaKvluxNTegvwDvy3KB9Zc JSTVmhEIHclLe5PGpcUAWeapxndblGqTUuOYNvdbSzbBc8pOJrMCmfmNEqDs8A0M oMYTcxJnTpbM/Wfn9IuehGMFIXfCc73h932Z

Re: When is best time to upgrade lenny to squeeze

2010-07-14 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
t; The question is rather vague... After squeeze becomes the stable release and lenny becomes old stable. At this time, there will be squeeze release notes detailing the upgrade process. - --- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJ

Re: thinking of installing amd64 Debian: what is its current state?

2010-07-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/13/2010 01:19 AM, H.S. wrote: > What packages would cause me trouble in 64 bit Debian? I do not use > acroread and flash player can work with ndiswrapper. Other than these > two, are there any other packages that won't run on this arch > instal

Re: xsane insisting on installing CUPS

2010-07-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/13/2010 01:19 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I want to install xsane but it insists on replacing lprng with cups. I > don't want this. Can anyone suggest a way of getting xsane without cups? > > > Anthony > It looks like cups is just a recom

Re: Versions of Debian

2010-07-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/13/2010 10:16 AM, John Culleton wrote: > I see references to various versions of Debian, including Lenny > etc. For a 32 bit system, what is the latest stable and the > latest unstable version? Lenny 5.0.5 is the latest stable release [1]

Re: Debian Network install disk doesn't find NIC

2010-07-09 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/09/2010 07:42 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: > Hello everone; > I just got my new i5 based DP55kg system up and running. I inserted a > newly minted installation disk and selected the gui installation. > Everything worked fine till the program declar

Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'

2010-07-02 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
> Thanks. > I am not sure of a way around it. The software is known as a "captive portal". That should atleast help you search. Regards, Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMLds+AAoJEKj/C3qNthmTzZoP/0qfJeDQ

Re: Local apt repository and specific version

2010-07-01 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/01/2010 03:51 PM, Didster wrote: > Hi there, > > We use a local apt repository as a means to distribute our own > software. The software is not and will not ever be part of the > official Debian archives. Our software consists of 4 packages,

Re: Maple 14 and Squeeze (amd64)

2010-06-30 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/30/2010 09:25 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I am installing the last Maple version (Maple 14) on my Squeeze box > (amd64): > the command-in-line works fine, but I have trouble with the Java interface. > A small console pops up wit

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-06-29 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/29/2010 04:48 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I'm not sure to understand fully your answer. I know that `guided > partitioning' is what's adviced for a new user, because it's easy to > configurate, but I'm here speaking about users who're not begin

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-06-29 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/29/2010 04:02 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to reinstall Debian on an older PC where I had installed RH > some months ago. I had numerous problems because of RH (I don't like RH > at all, actually). > > I often install Debian o

Re: Stable volatile versions

2010-06-25 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/25/2010 12:00 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 24 June 2010 08:59:38 Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> Last night I was attempting to install spamassassin on my Lenny box. I >> had some difficulty doing so because it

Re: Compiling kernel took a lot of disk space.

2010-06-25 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/25/2010 09:10 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > Magicloud Magiclouds? That can't be your real name! > Can't you give us your real name? At least a first name? > > That is not the correct command syntax. I suggest that you read > >http://www.

Re: Stable volatile versions

2010-06-25 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/24/2010 12:51 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: > Both packages were updated in the last Lenny update[1], at which time > they 'leap-frogged' the versions in volatile. Nothing to worry about. > > [1] http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100130 > Got it,

Re: how to start xfce in etch

2010-06-24 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
ported. You want "exec startxfce4" in your ~/.xinitrc. On Lenny (possibly also etch) you can make this global with update-alternatives --config x-session-manager. -- Jordan Metzmeier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/24/2010 02:17 PM, Amar Cosic wrote: > And proper way to do this is apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 ? > tnx. Yes, and then reboot. However, I recommend using aptitude for all functionality that aptitude allows for. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/24/2010 09:44 AM, Amar Cosic wrote: > > Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right way > to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with 'squeeze' in sources.list && > apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade ? Or there i

Stable volatile versions

2010-06-24 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Last night I was attempting to install spamassassin on my Lenny box. I had some difficulty doing so because it turned out that the volatile version had a lesser version number. The only ways I found to get the volatile version to install was to pin

Re: How to replace a bugged version of a package?

2010-06-22 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/22/2010 11:08 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Here: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=431388 > > it is reported a bug in Lenny's gopchop package. On my system I have the > bugged version already installed. How can I replace

Re: make not compiling

2010-06-18 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/18/2010 11:20 AM, prakhar gaur wrote: > > > Dear All, > > This is my first week with Debian 504. I am using it as a host system to > build LFS(Linux From Scratch). > I ran a script which checks whether all prerequisites are there on the hos

Re: usage of ifconfig

2010-06-16 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/16/2010 08:51 AM, J.Hwan.Kim wrote: > Hi, everyone > > When I change IP address and netmask via "ifconfig", > the netmask is set incorrectly. > > For example, when I command in shell > "ifconfig netmask 255.255.255.0 70.7.44.102", > the IP ad

Re: turn off all logging

2010-06-15 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/15/2010 04:04 PM, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: > /etc/init.d/rsyslog stop > chmod -x /etc/init.d/rsyslog > > is that enough? or the system logs somewhere else? > > >> Can anyone post a link, to a good howto, how to: >> >> - turn off logging to consol

Re: debian architecture history question

2010-06-11 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/11/2010 12:42 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm in the process of working a bug on my desktop PC. The CPU is a > Semperon (32bit AMD). I recall that I once used i686. But now I think > I am using i386. When I make a bug report, reportbug include

Re: ls -alR with wd?

2010-06-10 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/10/2010 04:58 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > I find `find' very inefficient when trying to find some files. I prefer > using `ls -alR | grep stuff' The problem is that the related output does > not give me the directory where `stuff' is f

Re: Web browsers, Adobe Flash & Debian

2010-06-10 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/10/2010 09:01 AM, Erwan David wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 01:46:11PM CEST, John Hasler > said: >> Alexander Batischev writes: >>> Iceweasel (Debian clone of Firefox)... >> >> Iceweasel is not merely a clone of Firefox. It _is_ Firefox.

Re: Lenny / Pidgin / Msn

2010-06-10 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/10/2010 08:41 AM, Frederic Robert wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 08:34:29AM -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: >> If you are running stable, you need to install the pidgin from >> lenny-backports in order to get MSN support.

Re: Lenny / Pidgin / Msn

2010-06-10 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/10/2010 07:08 AM, Frederic Robert wrote: > Hello, > > Msn's protocol is not supported by pidgin? Why? > If you are running stable, you need to install the pidgin from lenny-backports in order to get MSN support. Instructions on setting up an

Re: debian-multimedia.org gone?

2010-06-09 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 If someone needs a work-around, a friend on IRC found that this German mirror is still up: http://debian-multimedia.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http:

Re: debian-multimedia.org gone?

2010-06-09 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/09/2010 04:10 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:33:02 +0200 > Johannes Rohr wrote: > > Hello Johannes, > >> does anyone know, what has happened to debian-multimedia.org? The web >> page is gone and the repository is empty. Has

Re: What files are required to run Openfire XMPP server on Lenny?

2010-06-09 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/09/2010 11:41 AM, surreal wrote: > Can someone send me a list of required files needed to run Openfire xmpp > server? > > I want to use open source openjdk on lenny. > Why not use one of the existing XMPP servers that are packaged for debian

Re: Debian on a Dell r310?

2010-06-07 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
there myself – I just need a signpost. > > > > Justin C. Sherrill - American Rock Salt > > p: 585-991-6825 f: 585-991-6926 c: 585-298-6826 > > There are installers with backported kernels at http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/. He also has a hardware compatibility list. -- Jordan Me

Re: Working around missing VRDP in VirtualBox debian package

2010-06-07 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 06/07/2010 11:42 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hi there, I'd like to know how are people working around the missing VRDP feature in debian VirtualBox package ? If one cannot use rdesktop, what are people using ? Thanks ! I use ssh to access the guests. This is not necessarily a limitatio

Re: dependency based boot + update-rc.d

2010-06-02 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 06/02/2010 12:28 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Before dependency based boot I added my own boot scripts with update-rc.d, like: update-rc.d faketty start 29 2 3 4 5 . and the update-rc.d man page still refers to sequence numbers (NN=29): "NN is the two-digit sequence number that determi

Re: Screen width on Knoppix install.

2010-06-02 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 06/02/2010 10:04 AM, John Culleton wrote: Thanks for your reply. I used Knoppix because it was very easy to install and came with a lot of useful software already, such as Open Office. The install program is called 0wn which stands for zero work needed. My earlier experiences with e.g. Kubun

Re: Force reinstall of /etc files without purge/install cycle?

2010-05-30 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 05/30/2010 07:57 PM, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I can't find an option within aptitude to force a reinstall of /etc files. I know that aptitude will not overwrite them by default, but isn't there a way to force a package's conf files back to a pristine state? The purge/install cycle isn't always a

Re: Force reinstall of /etc files without purge/install cycle?

2010-05-30 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 05/30/2010 07:57 PM, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I can't find an option within aptitude to force a reinstall of /etc files. I know that aptitude will not overwrite them by default, but isn't there a way to force a package's conf files back to a pristine state? The purge/install cycle isn't always a

Re: Ports like system for debian.

2010-05-26 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
n use apt-build to recompile all packages on a system using different optimization flags: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/apt-build . -- Jordan Metzmeier

Re: Motherboards

2010-05-25 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 05/25/2010 01:03 PM, Jean-François wrote: Hello, I might be wrong, but I guess the exact name for your motherboard is DFI Lanparty DK p45-t2rs PLUS (as opposed to the Elite or Turbo models), which has 8 SATAII ports, and I also guess you have used the two yellow ports? If so, plug your dri

Re: Motherboards

2010-05-25 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 05/25/2010 11:55 AM, David Baron wrote: Anyone with experience and Debian-related information on motherboards by DFI and by Winsonic? Apparently of the few which support modern CPU and memory and still sport as ISA slot or two. I run Debian Lenny on a DFI Lanparty DK p45-t2rs. I really l

Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-21 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you don't actually set preferences to install recommends. This is now the Debian default. You have to explicitly turn them off if you don't want them. To avoid this, you should place these lines in /etc/apt/apt.conf: APT::Install-Recommends "0"

Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-21 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 05/21/2010 11:32 AM, jeremy jozwik wrote: on Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Steve Fishpaste wrote: Why is the Chromium-browser in Sid so old? Chromium has been on the 6.x branch for a couple of weeks now and Debian is still using the 5.x branch. question, on lenny is there a diffe

Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-21 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
y. There is a Ubutnu PPA that does weekly builds of chromium. I have not tried it personally but am told that those .debs work fine on sid. You might give that a try if you really would like to stay on the bleeding-edge. -- Jordan Metzmeier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-21 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
) without telling me and c) without being told to do so. From what I understand, all 3 of these are primary goals of the network- manager package. Sometimes referred to as "network-mangler". -- Jordan Metzmeier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-20 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
"aptitude why network-manager-kde" to find out why a package was automatically installed. You also seem to be wanting to complain, instead of asking for support or looking for discussion. IMO complaints should go to bugs.debian.org, not necessarily here. -- Jordan Metzmeier

Re: Server certificate has expired

2010-05-18 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 05/18/2010 03:32 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Ter, 18 Mai 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: Well, this is effectively Icedove 2.0.0.22 (20090706). How did you manage to, under Th. 3? I don't remember exactly, but I believe somewhere the was an option

Re: Launch some command and leave the console, the command still being executed

2010-05-17 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On 05/17/2010 11:45 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I would like to be able to launch some command in the console, and to be able to close the terminal, the command being still evaluated, i.e. if I launch gedit (I'm under GNOME), and that I close the console, gedit closes too. (This is also the ca

Re: Lenny to Squeeze upgrade problems

2010-05-12 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
This issue is because the new udev requires a > .31 kernel with sysrq_deprecated=n (I am going off memory here so don't quote me). This means you need to first upgrade to the squeeze kernel, reboot, then upgrade udev and proceed with the "updgrade". -- Jordan Metzmeier

Re: libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-11 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
eleases. I have no advice for fixing the current issue... Only avoiding it in the future. -- Jordan Metzmeier

Re: What to choose for Core i5 64 bits?

2010-05-11 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
I am curious, did you all receive duplicates of my last reply? -- Jordan Metzmeier

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