Re: Virtual Box

tps://virt-manager.org/ Thanks Etienne I have looked at kvm/qmeu a few times but balked at the process. This suggestion has made it viable. Thank you. -- Keith Bainbridge ke1th3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468

Re: chromebook

On 11/7/19 10:44 pm, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Enough reasons to change mail provider. Good afternoon All I agree, but every time I look around, I find only other mega corporate operators that offer realistic data storage limits. I'd be interested in some suggestions, please. Keith

Re: kde kmail to much email Unable to fetch item from backend

I have no suggestions for your Kmail problem, you might try Thunderbird and see if that does the job or else email the KDE team. Keith On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 10:56 AM Thomas wrote: > Hello, > I have an Gmail Mail account and lots of email. > Iam not able to open this folder succesful

Re: sporadic successfull mount of nfs with Stretch

On 28/5/19 8:05 pm, Stefan K wrote: I solved this issue by installing the latest backport kernel Stefan Well done -- Keith Bainbridge ke1th3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468

Re: sporadic successfull mount of nfs with Stretch

what would happen if you used the IP address instead of the srv-storage? -- Keith Bainbridge ke1th3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

What is the rsync command line, could there be a —bwlimit option in it?

Re: Cannot re-install synaptic on Buster.

On 15/4/19 5:32 pm, Keith Bainbridge wrote: Good afternoon All I'm more intrigued that synaptic reportedly removed itself. How is this possible, or did some other package force its removal? Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 On 15/4/19 3:24 pm, Kieran Smyth wrote

Re: Trying to install Audiveris

! E: Sub-process Popen returned an error code (2) E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /mnt/data/keith/Downloads/linuxDebs /audiveris_5.1.0-0librazik1_amd64.deb E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. I'm running Buster -- Keith

Re: A call to drop gnome as the default desktop

On 17/4/19 5:26 pm, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Keith Bainbridge writes: I see the point that people who like gnome should be allowed to use it - so withdraw the drop gnome from debian. I believe the change to the subject line will keep the discussion together. I'll re-send if it opens a new topic

Re: A call to drop gnome

own as well - often opens the Menu -- Keith Bainbridge ke1th3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468

Re: A call to drop gnome

On 17/4/19 9:37 am, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 16:54:02 +1000 Keith Bainbridge wrote: I've never been a fan of gnome, and I can only say that in the beginning it was simply because I didn't yet know about themes etc. I settled for KDE, in the 1990's. I now know

Re: A call to drop gnome as the default desktop

nstall.iso I accept that gnome is popular, and figured that by seeking to drop it, I am trying to remove their freedom to use it. -- Keith Bainbridge ke1th3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468

Re: A call to drop gnome

red desktop is Mate - when I am protesting the desktop that is/was related to Mate so closely. As somebody said - things change. -- Keith Bainbridge ke1th3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468

Re: A call to drop gnome

On 16/4/19 9:01 pm, Reco wrote: And for those there should be at least a good document about doing it. Agreed. +1 - as long as somebody with a good dollop of Asperger syndrome can interpret it. -- Keith Bainbridge ke1th3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468

Re: A call to drop gnome

at the side. I tried java about 15 years ago, and failed miserably. Perhaps a bad choice, but what the Uni course I was trying to get into required. I can write a script and alias's in .bashrc, the odd macro in Calc. I keep telling my friends it's never too late to learn, but at 71, I figure I

A call to drop gnome

- in the name of looking for a better way. Never know - there maybe something that changes my computing life totally. By the bye, it's 16:52, and Autumn in my back yard. There are leaves all over our footpaths. -- Keith Bainbridge ke1th3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468

Re: Cannot re-install synaptic on Buster.

On 15/4/19 8:59 pm, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 20:12:34 +1000 Keith Bainbridge wrote: Hello Keith, So if I don't install Wayland, I should not loose synaptic - for those odd times I need it to help me find something? That /would/ have been the case, yes. Not so now

Re: Problem loading Debian 9.8.0

Patrick I've never found that setting. Interesting. Keith Bainbridge ke1th3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 On 15/4/19 9:51 pm, Patrick Gallagher wrote: Hi Keith, Liam, I got it working. It was a simple setting in Virtual box I had to enable to load other os's. Thanks for your help

Re: Problem loading Debian 9.8.0

h have now disappeared. I'm not very patient when trying to fix something as new as a fresh install. If it fails, I try again - watching everything I do and I end up happy. Keep trying Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468

Re: Cannot re-install synaptic on Buster.

On 15/4/19 6:12 pm, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 17:32:47 +1000 Keith Bainbridge wrote: Hello Keith, I'm more intrigued that synaptic reportedly removed itself. How is this possible, or did some other package force its removal? Removal occurred because of otherwise unresolvable

Re: Cannot re-install synaptic on Buster.

Good afternoon All I'm more intrigued that synaptic reportedly removed itself. How is this possible, or did some other package force its removal? Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 On 15/4/19 3:24 pm, Kieran Smyth wrote: For reasons unknown to me, synaptic

Re: Stretch to buster

Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 On 10/2/19 10:43 am, Richard Hector wrote: On 10/02/19 12:01 PM, deloptes wrote: Normally, I wouldn't bother since I usually only upgrade every other release after LTS ceases on my primary install.  But this time, Buster includes

Re: Need help making new boot vol

I wonder if you need to review the partition UUIDs in /etc/fstab? Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 On 16/1/19 9:56 am, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have copied my boot, root and home partitions to a larger device but I think I need to run grub to actually make

Re: Nothing older than Jessie at historical packages debian org

On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 6:42 AM Keith Christian wrote: > Are older distributions available else G.. Nice, Gmail, trying to accept the autocomplete for "else" --> "elsewhere?" and it sent the message.

Nothing older than Jessie at historical packages debian org

Are any of the historical packages available for older distrbutions? Get this error message not only for etch but more recent versions as well, the oldest that works is Jessie. --Not Found ---The requested URL /cgi-bin/dispatcher.fcgi/etch/src:bash was not found on this server. ---Apache Server

Re: Don’t hesitate to start a conversation with me Angela

where u from ? On Tuesday, 4 July 2017, 20:59, Angela Saysass wrote: I do not bite. Well, only if you ask, I could… http://bitly.com/2tdYa4C

Re: Before I install Debian

Have I missed something here? .pdf files are portable, right? How can I as a creator specify that you as the reader MUST use a specific program to read them? Keith Bainbridge 0447667468 keithrbaugro...@gmail.com Sent from my APad On 11 Feb 2017 07:40, "John Culleto

Re: kde install accessibility experience

Suggest you contact Klaus Knopper of knoppix, who had similar issues with a better half if I remember. Keith Bainbridge 0447667468 keithrbaugro...@gmail.com Sent from my APad On 10 Jan 2017 18:06, "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> wrote: > Earlier I wrote the kde

Re: cannot register @forum

Oliver, sweethome On the face of it, you have registered. I doubt I'd have seen your notes if you weren't. Keith Bainbridge 0447667468 keithrbaugro...@gmail.com Sent from my APad On 9 Jan 2017 06:30, "sweethome" <mpal2...@rediffmail.com> wrote: > cannot regis

Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?]

Thanks folk. You've explained what has been happening to me on my multi-boot system, and given a solution in 1 session. Keith Bainbridge 0447667468 keithrbaugro...@gmail.com Sent from my APad On 7 Jan 2017 08:48, "David Wright" <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri 0

Re: Monitor switched off after resume from hibernation

power you are saving with hibernate. Keith Bainbridge 0447667468 keithrbaugro...@gmail.com Sent from my APad On 6 Jan 2017 16:55, "solitone" <solit...@mail.com> wrote: > On Friday, January 6, 2017 11:11:45 AM CET Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > Ummm, why turn the monitor o

Re: Monitor switched off after resume from hibernation

Please see below Keith Bainbridge 0447667468 keithrbaugro...@gmail.com Sent from my APad On 6 Jan 2017 12:58, "David Wright" <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: On Fri 06 Jan 2017 at 11:11:45 (+1100), Keith Bainbridge wrote: > Ummm, why turn the monitor off first? Per

Re: Monitor switched off after resume from hibernation

Ummm, why turn the monitor off first? I use suspend rather than hibernate, on a macbook 4,1 and just close the lid. I get a password screen as soon as I open up. Keith Bainbridge 0447667468 keithrbaugro...@gmail.com Sent from my APad On 6 Jan 2017 08:04, "solitone" <solit...@ma

Re: What boot manager do use for an OSX/Debian Dual Boot?

There used be a facility rEFIt that did a reasonable job, but I found it only made a slow boot process even slower. If you want to multiple boot, put grub on the blessed partition on your next install. I needed the space osx was using some years ago, so no longer dual boot, hence my haziness. Keith

Re: [ A little off topic] Best e-mail client for Android

day to day stuff I'm still looking for an app that includes only highlighted text from the original in the reply, though. I figure redirect won't pass Google's 'ethics'process, as they state publicly that they believe the process is a security risk. I disagree. Keith Bainbridge 0447 667 468 keith

Re: Sudo

ord to do the >> same thing > >No it doesn't. Only users who have been granted sudo privileges can >use >sudo and only for the commands permitted them. In reality, how many PC s have more than 1 user. If I had users other than myself, I'd think hard about a ding them to sudoers

Re: boot problem

a menu. Original Message From: lina <lina.lastn...@gmail.com> Sent: Mon Mar 07 01:01:31 AEDT 2016 To: Keith Bainbridge <keithrbaugro...@gmail.com> Cc: Debian Lists <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: boot problem df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Us

Re: boot problem

lt;debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: boot problem Hi, After install the debian, it goes to debian OS system directly, without showing me the option of start Mac OS or debian OS. Any suggestions, thanks, Keith Bainbridge 0447 667 468 keithrbaugro...@gmail.com Sent from my APad

aptitude purge vlc removes approximately 116 other KDE packages

of KDE that was removed? Keith

Re: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

might as well move /home while you are using the live CD. -- Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468

Re: Jessie 8.3 - still no update notifications

es, and in the morning I > > have email telling me what needs to be updated and why, and instructions > > on just what to do to install the updates. > > I prefer running 'apt-get' manually then using any of scripts running by > cron. You only need to use one or the other, no need

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing

to match. Are they not necessary? Thanks -- Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468

Move an application window to a different desktop (Jessie, KDE 4.14.2)

if desired? How to remove them? 4. How to show the identifying info for the current desktop? Is it "desktop #1" or something else? Thanks. Keith

Re: Broadcom 4311 network adapter doesn't work under Jessie (was debian-user-digest Digest V2015 #1143)

Good morning Edward I had similar problems. My work around was to wire conect the laptops into the modem for the install, then dkpg -ì the firmware. Good luck On 24 September 2015 9:08:11 am AEST, Stephen Powell wrote: >On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:23:39 -0400 (EDT), Edward

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

The bar/s can be moved: top, bottom, centre vertical or side vertical. Right click on empty space, panel preferences, and choose which panel you want, where. Default seems to be 2. -- Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com Sent from my Apad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Corrupted USB drive

On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 17:44:05 +1100 Keith BAINBRIDGE keithrbaugro...@gmail.com wrote: Um, I have 2 USB disks, 2g 4g, I believe I formatted NTFS, attached to a Mint 12.04 (equivalent) system working fine. /etc/mtab says fuseblk as file system. Perhaps Mint team does something special

Re: Corrupted USB drive

Um, I have 2 USB disks, 2g 4g, I believe I formatted NTFS, attached to a Mint 12.04 (equivalent) system working fine. /etc/mtab says fuseblk as file system. Perhaps Mint team does something special? -- Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com Sent from my Apad On 26 February 2015

Re: The systemd MacGuffin

odd function that has been lost? cheers -- Keith Burnett http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/ -- 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/CAA6tw_GD2nUG0ipfC7v1jeMzUe

Re: Why focus on systemd?

. Jessie is a good place to be. cheers -- Keith Burnett http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/osd.html http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/ -- 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

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

...@rail.eu.org Hello All http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/ Not directly applicable but food for thought. Where are the volunteers coming from in Jessie+3 or Jessie+10 ? 'Onboarding' processes could be clearer. cheers -- Keith Burnett http

Re: Joey Hess is out?

of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CACX6j8OJppp0Fn2S5KQ7b65_rp-MgUQ36V3TjYLg=e=k0om...@mail.gmail.com -- Keith Burnett http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

:-) Cheers -- Keith Burnett http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/ -- 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/caa6tw_f0falp-t5rhv0e0v2ikaud-kgm0lsnofau1p0sew3...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Joey Hess is out?

Cheers -- Keith Burnett http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/ -- 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/CAA6tw_HJDiss39LTnVVBCFoe6R1etp2m=zvoafuw8osxsr9...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Check whether an update for a particular package is available without upgrading

And using aptitude search '?upgradable' (sans the middle 'e') it works great. Thank you. Keith On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Du, 26 oct 14, 14:54:45, Keith Christian wrote: Hi Andrei, Thanks for the extra commands. Unfortunately

Re: Check whether an update for a particular package is available without upgrading

/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status If you have any insight into why aptitude search '?upgradeable' fails on Wheezy, i'd be interested, it looks like a very handy command to get a complete listing vs. for only one package. === Keith On Sun, Oct 26, 2014

Check whether an update for a particular package is available without upgrading

On a Wheezy system, I have used aptitude exclusively for updates/upgrades, etc. Looking for a command line option to use with aptitude to check whether updates are available for a single arbitrary package, e.g. debian-reference-en for example. Have searched the WWW and man pages without finding

Re: Check whether an update for a particular package is available without upgrading

Thanks, Brian, that's it! Works for aptitude too! On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 3:28 PM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 14:59:28 -0600 Keith Christian keith1christ...@gmail.com wrote: On a Wheezy system, I have used aptitude exclusively for updates/upgrades, etc. Looking

Re: Openbox systemd-free

-- Keith Burnett http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/ -- 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/CAA6tw_FcFVEUHP8tEHV1egJTXQiPB4VA32Pz6rQ8=ndbpa8...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

from companies, issue invoices and pay developers and publish accounts. Just a thought -- Keith Burnett http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 04:45:50PM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Keith Lawson ke...@nowhere.ca wrote: Hello, I'm running jessie on my laptop and after doing a dist-upgrade yesterday I'm getting SSH host key errors for a bunch of servers I've been connecting

Problem with SSH host keys

in openssh-client in jessie that would cause certain server keys that were previously working to be invalid? Keith -- 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

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:34:02AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:20:26 -0400 Keith Lawson ke...@nowhere.ca wrote: Is anyone aware of any changes in openssh-client in jessie that would cause certain server keys that were previously working to be invalid? Hi Keith

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 01:26:36PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Keith Lawson wrote: I'm running jessie on my laptop and after doing a dist-upgrade yesterday I'm getting SSH host key errors for a bunch of servers I've been connecting to for years: The authenticity

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 04:45:50PM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Keith Lawson ke...@nowhere.ca wrote: Hello, I'm running jessie on my laptop and after doing a dist-upgrade yesterday I'm getting SSH host key errors for a bunch of servers I've been connecting

Re: Problem with SSH host keys

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 03:59:56PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Keith Lawson wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 01:26:36PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: Do you all of the ip addresses and hostnames listed for those keys in known_hosts? These are all servers I've been

Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

. The KDE taskbar sometimes becomes unresponsive as well. Any ideas? Totally off the wall, but maybe add noapic to the boot line in grub. Keith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: System crash, or lockup

On 20 August 2012 15:39, Marc Shapiro marcns...@gmail.com wrote: I have posted about this before, and one suggestion was that I have a power supply problem. This seems possible, even probably, for some of my problems, but not, I think, for all of them. Also, I have noticed additional types

Re: man in the middle attack ?

On 21 August 2012 07:54, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Self-agrandisement is almost a duty in some cultures. In others it is very much frowned on. [...] Lisi Wow! - I wonder how many (international) people are going to understand that. :-) -- Sent from FOSS (Free Open Source

Re: having a problem removing a package

On 19 August 2012 12:16, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:10:46PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 19 aug 12, 13:28:38, Chris Bannister wrote: Ok, first I'd do an apt-get clean Why would you delete the downloaded packages cache because a

Re: strange behavior after reboot, iceweasel locking everything up

On 12 August 2012 17:45, Tony Baldwin t...@tonybaldwin.org wrote: Yesterday I had to reboot my machine. Cleaning house, I had dislodged the plug for a power strip that powered the computer, monitor, and printer. Now, I am seeing very odd behavior. Iceweasel hangs forever on some of the

Re: replacing GDM with a script

On 8 August 2012 23:05, Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: On 08/08/12 05:17 PM, Keith McKenzie wrote: I just came across my old script for starting different WMs from the C/L. Aah..I remember that know...ran Slack years ago. Good, thanks for digging that up. Siard

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

On 9 August 2012 15:24, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:31:05 +0100, Keith McKenzie wrote: On 8 August 2012 17:23, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: I ask because I've read this from two different sources¹ now (the other magazine is written in Spanish), so

Re: BD-RE mount problem

On 9 August 2012 17:43, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: Already tried that. dd complains: dd: opening `/dev/sr0': Read-only file system It sounds like it is mounted; try unmounting it, then try dd again. -- Sent from FOSS (Free Open Source Software) Debian GNU/Linux -- To

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

On 9 August 2012 All popcon numbers are much more than a little suspect. I quite agree, I was just trying to suggest that the decision, most likely, was not made by one person, even though there may not have been open discussion about it. There has been a CD version which has XFCE+LXDE for a

Re: BD-RE mount problem

On 9 August 2012 18:28, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: On 09/08/12 01:19 PM, Keith McKenzie wrote: On 9 August 2012 17:43, Gary Dalegaryd...@rogers.com wrote: Already tried that. dd complains: dd: opening `/dev/sr0': Read-only file system It sounds like it is mounted; try

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

On 8 August 2012 17:23, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Subject says it all. I ask because I've read this from two different sources¹ now (the other magazine is written in Spanish), so is this true? I could only find this mailing list thread² as the official reference but from

Re: Setting up to do repetitive installs on ONE machine (cf BabelBox)

On 6 August 2012 14:46, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: I have two objectives: 1. Define, by experimentation, optimal installation parameters to meet my idiosyncratic concept of a minimal install. 2. Determine if there are bugs in Debian Installer, the instructions for

Re: compile gctwiwax on squeeze

On 4 August 2012 17:03, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 03:27:40PM +, Camaleón wrote: As per the INSTALL file, have you built libeap.so as instructed? Why is this a Debian problem? Nobody has said so. He is asking for support when compiling a

Re: Power Management not functioning

On 2 August 2012 23:57, Mark Panen mark.pa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am using Squeeze amd 6.05 and yesterday after a reboot my Mecer 32 1360x768 Monitor/TV no longer goes to sleep after 10 minutes, being working fine for months. Only the screen saver works now. I am using Gnome. The only

Re: replacing GDM with a script

On 2 August 2012 17:22, Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious to know if it's possible to replace GDM with a BASH script. The issue is complicated because I run 3 window managers with Sid and a similar situation with

Re: Screen locking in squeeze.

On 3 August 2012 05:05, Sharon Kimble skimbl...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 August 2012 19:12, Sharon Kimble skimbl...@gmail.com wrote: I seem to have lost the ability to lock my screen. I cant do it from the keyboard with CTRL+ALT+l [lower case L] and neither from the system menu. Can anyone

Re: Installing 3.2 kernel

On 30 July 2012 19:43, Gary listgj-...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-07-30 18:27 +0200, Gary wrote: [...] That didn't go well :( I installed the packages, and then the one that that process complained was missing/out of date (our old friend the realtek package). Restarted.

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Joel Rees wrote: From research that I had previously done, the simplest option (for me, being a fairly simple kind of person) appeared to be PC-BSD (http://www.pcbsd.org/). PC-BSD 8.x had only a KDE GUI (from memory), and I am, a GNOME GUI user (from memory, one of the

Re: Instability in Wheezy system

On 27 July 2012 14:35, Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:22:23PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: I can say that Chrome and Chromium themselves very unstable on all my systems. Not true on any of my boxen. Running Chromium from Debian SID. Nor here with

Re: SD slot read card failed.

@ lina I just don't want to waste the slot, if it can be used. I'm thinking your slot only supports SD not SDHC cards. I have an early netbook that will only read 1gb or 2gb SD cards, a more recent netbook that reads SDHC 8gb cards perfectly. However, if I use a converter, I can read write

Re: Mount iPod Touch

On 23 July 2012 23:51, ricccardo ric.rom...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm still working to mount the iPod Touch. I read the backporting libimobiledevice 1.1.1 to Squeeze, in the debian Wiki page but when i try to build libgpod the terminal says: ric@ricmbp:~/Desktop/ComplilaLib/libgpod-0.7.93$

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

Bret Busby wrote: I have a Samsung MFP printer thing; a CLX-3185FW, and I had been able to use it with a Debian 5 system that I had been using. Then, the Debian 5 system went awry (a separate system from the firewall system), and became apparently unusable. So, I installed Debian 6 on

Re: What does this mean?

-- Forwarded message -- From: Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net Date: 23 July 2012 05:21 Subject: Re: What does this mean? Using the disk I downloaded yesterday and got burnt today, there is a fancy KDE gui, but no help screens about such trivia as getting it working on

Re: wifi vanished today

On 23 July 2012 08:23, Lorenzo Sutton lorenzofsut...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/07/12 00:20, Hendrik Boom wrote: It was working this morning. I have an ASUS HE1000 EEE netbook. It runs testing. Early this morning at home the wifi worked fine. [...] I right-clicked on the icon with two

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

. Maybe this is what you want (?) http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-5.0/main/installer-i386/20090123lenny10/images/cdrom/ HTH -- That is, I think, one of the places that I looked. But, with what is there, being Index of

Re: is there a problem with flashplugin-nonfree on squeeze amd64?

On 21 July 2012 13:03, Mika Suomalainen mika.henrik.mai...@hotmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 NOTICE! I am on mobile broadband with very limited time, so I cannot read emails very much. The best time to contact me is probably weekends when I have better

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

On 17 July 2012 21:30, John Magolske listm...@b79.net wrote: 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

Re: Debian on a 32G USB flashdrive

On 16 July 2012 11:56, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Mon 16 Jul 2012 at 09:35:20 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] As for the slight slowdown with a lot of read/writes, this might simply be the nature of the medium compared with a hard disk. It certainly is; I tried running from a

Re: Re(2): Backup system for use when Debian fails.

Not quite OT :- For a Debian Live recovery (or install) distro try SalineOS (XFCE desktop) http://www.salineos.com/ -- Sent from FOSS (Free Open Source Software) Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses

On 12 July 2012 18:29, Nick Lidakis nlida...@verizon.net wrote: Does anyone use sc, the text based spreadsheet program? Over the years I've become more fond of the console and ncurses applications. I've recently found myself using sc as my first spreadsheet application for our new small

Re: Netbook acer ao-722 bz-893

On 11 July 2012 21:13, Dr Beco r...@beco.cc wrote: Dear Linuxers, (about debian on Netbook Acer AO-722, BZ-893) Some days ago I've got an Asus Eee-PC 1215B and I had a lot of trouble to make wireless and cable to work. To the point I got near a deadline of 7 days before returning it to the

Re: help with xserver-xorg-video-ast

On 10 July 2012 19:45, Shane Johnson s...@rasmussenequipment.com wrote: Keith, That was my plan but I can't find where the autoconf file is trying to locate the macros at? I located /usr/share/aclocal/xorg-macros.m4 but I can't find where the link is supposed to be. Any ideas? Re

Re: CD image doesn't exist for download?

On 11 July 2012 16:36, Kirsten Milligan kirs...@suddenlink.net wrote: After several attempts over several years, I haven't yet had complete success installing Linux. I'm hungry to learn, but am very poor at computerspeak, so please be gentle. I'm trying again. I know, some steps would be

Re: CD image doesn't exist for download?

On 11 July 2012 19:56, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: Stop making it complicated. She just needs to download the netinst cd then burn the .iso image. There is no need to get a full image file, whether CD or DVD, to install Linux. With no knowledge of Linux, using a net install CD _is_

Re: How to install Debian and what media to use - Was: Re: CD image doesn't exist for download?

On 11 July 2012 20:12, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: OP of the original thread, please ignore this thread, I suspect the mailing list needs to discuss what really is the easiest way for people without knowhow, to install a Linux. Why do you all recommend those complicated

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