Re: Debootstrap

2011-02-17 Thread Peter Smith
On the adress ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fakechroot/ i found a newer package that i tried to install on the Squeeze system and now everything is working as expected. Now i am wondering if the package was built on a Squeeze system or if the packages in these directories get security

Debootstrap

2011-02-16 Thread Peter Smith
Hello I have some trouble getting debootstrap, fakeroot and fakechroot working together. Any suggestions on what i am doing wrong? $ export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin $ fakeroot -s fakechroot.save fakechroot debootstrap --variant=fakechroot squeeze

Re: Debootstrap

2011-02-16 Thread Peter Smith
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: Seems to be #561991š which is fixed in wheezy/sid, but not in squeeze. Sven š http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561991 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: 64bit vs 32bit on a 64bit System

2011-02-09 Thread Peter Koellner
) -- peter koellner pe...@asgalon.net -- 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/alpine.DEB.2.02.1102091650230.2937@kropotkin

Re: Squeeze how to use networked printer?

2011-02-09 Thread Peter Koellner
some discussion, but no solution (yet): http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5t=60065 Any suggestions? TIA, David -- peter koellner pe...@asgalon.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Wheezy Codename with lsb_release

2011-02-09 Thread Peter Beck
Hi guys, I am running testing on my laptop (sources.list has testing everywhere). Since Squeeze is stable, shouldn't be the codename shown with lsb_release labelled with Wheezy ? On my system it still shows Squeeze. I'm just wondering if this is normal or just on my system ? Cheers Peter

Re: Wheezy Codename with lsb_release

2011-02-09 Thread Peter Beck
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 00:15 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: As soon as base-files 6.1 migrates to testing, /etc/debian_version will say wheezy/sid Hi Sven, thanks for clarification... Cheers Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Peter Beck
On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 12:50 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: I would go for a ThinkPad. They might be a bit more expensive, but in my experience it's worth it. absolutely. I was (and still am) using a T42p and now I have a X301 which is just great. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Gnome-panel uses 100% CPU after upgrade

2011-02-08 Thread Peter Bonucci
I just upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. The installation when fine except that I had to load the ethernet firmware manually. I am using Gnome for the desktop. When I log into the computer, the top menu panel flickers constantly and does not display Applications / Places / System. This

Re: Skype

2011-02-07 Thread Peter Koellner
there was one additional 32 bit package which I did find after searching for the missing library name and skype, but I am not sure if it was for the static version. The dependencies now are like this: peter@kropotkin:/opt$ cd skype_static-2.1.0.81/ peter@kropotkin:/opt/skype_static-2.1.0.81$ ldd

Re: Kalenderoplossing?

2011-01-29 Thread Peter Teunissen
protocol (caldav). De packages zitten in de debian repo en er is een howto op wiki.debian.org: http://wiki.debian.org/HowTo/CalendarServer Succes. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-dutch-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Import many EPS files

2011-01-25 Thread Peter Bonucci
I have about 300 EPS vector graphics files that I would like to import into Scribus. I thought I could use a script for this, but I can't find an import EPS function. I would prefer to not to use Get Image, because it rastorizes the graphics. Is there another way to do this? -- To

Re: Import many EPS files

2011-01-25 Thread Peter Bonucci
Sorry about the off-topic post. I sent it to the wrong list. On Tuesday 25 January 2011 12:50:18 pm Peter Bonucci wrote: I have about 300 EPS vector graphics files that I would like to import into Scribus. I thought I could use a script for this, but I can't find an import EPS function

Re (5): OpenVPN server mode usage.

2011-01-12 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
detail: /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf exists although resolvconf is purged. [The in-reply-to parameter of SMTP isn't available as long as mail can only be sent via the Web mail interface.] Thanks Bob Mike, ... Peter E. -- http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/ http://carnot.yi.org

Re (6): OpenVPN server mode usage.

2011-01-12 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
From: PETER EASTHOPE peasth...@shaw.ca Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:23:50 -0800 Incidentally, telnet and daytime haven't worked in dalton since last Spring. Thanks to a comment discovered via current emails from Simon McVittie about bug reports, I replaced inetutils-inetd and inetutils

Re (5): OpenVPN server mode usage.

2011-01-12 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
work. (And hoping that I find a solution more efficiently than the telnet solution was found.) Off line until tomorrow at earliest. Thanks,... Peter E. -- http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/ http://carnot.yi.org/ = http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re (3): OpenVPN server mode usage.

2011-01-11 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
have not encountered any problems in what is now a mixed Lenny/Squeeze OpenVPN network. OK. Seems that somehow I've managed to disable port 1194 or tcpdump. Thanks,... Peter E. In ssh viewer 0 on dalton. r...@dalton:~# shorewall stop Stopping Shorewall Running /sbin/iptables

Re (4): OpenVPN server mode usage.

2011-01-11 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
From: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:55:10 -0700 x: echo foo | nc -u y 1149 You should see that show up in your tcpdump traces. You've tried this on your system? Or least can detect the datagram leaving the orginating system? From: Mike Bird

Re: Re (3): Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

2011-01-09 Thread Peter Koellner
On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Peter Koellner pe...@asgalon.net Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 20:28:04 +0100 (CET) Well, 5 1/4 disks were out of fashion around 1988, if I remember correctly, and I think the disk in question was from the 90s, so I guessed it probably was a 3 1

Re: Re(2): Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

2011-01-08 Thread Peter Koellner
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, John Hasler wrote: Peter Koellner writes: Also: You can set the physical write protect switch in the diskette corner to prevent accidental writes. You know, the hole in the corner should not be covered, in case you don't recall... No, no. You put a piece of tape over

Ändringar i Xmodmap-stödet mellan lenny och squeeze?

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Krefting
skärmbild, och trycker jag AltGr får jag upp en meny. Jag försökte hitta information om en ändring, men min google-fu verkar inte vara tillräckligt stark. Kan någon peka mig i rätt riktning? -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-swedish-requ

Re: Ändringar i Xmodmap-stödet mellan lenny och squeeze?

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Krefting
. Det är första gången jag råkar på det, så jag blev lite förvånad. Jag hittar inte någon dokumentation om det, heller, men jag har säkert inte letat på rätt ställe än. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-swedish-requ...@lists.debian.org

Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

2011-01-06 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
damage hfs+ and conversely? Thanks for any tips, ... Peter E. -- http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/ http://carnot.yi.org/ = http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re(2): Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

2011-01-06 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
will be able to put the in-reply-to line in a reply.] Thanks for the several good ideas, ... Peter E. -- http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/ http://carnot.yi.org/ = http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Re(2): Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Koellner
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: !!WARNING WARNING!! I made a mistake in the above. That should have been: dd if=/dev/fd0 of=fd.image.raw bs=8k Right oh. I probably won't have the diskettes until next week and will mount -o ro and will be careful about

OpenVPN server mode usage?

2011-01-05 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
in the configuration file on Dalton. No such thing as mode client. Is a client connection profile necessary on Joule when there is only one server? Any comments or criticisms or suggestions before I blunder further? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/ http://carnot.yi.org

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade - printer not working

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Beck
Peter -- Wer die Freiheit aufgibt um Sicherheit zu gewinnen, der wird am Ende beides verlieren. -- 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/1293817185.13765.157

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade - printer not working

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Beck
On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 18:36 +0100, Filipe Freire wrote: Thanks Peter, it worked. Hi Filipe, great to hear that. btw: don't reply to me directly, reply to the list ;) A happy new year for you too! Regards Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: lenny to squeeze - key arrows not all working

2010-12-31 Thread Peter Beck
the arrowkeys ? Cheers Peter -- 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/1293822271.13765.165.ca...@peanut.datentraeger.li

Re: Netgear WG111 USB wifi adapter works with squeeze / gnome

2010-12-30 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
had no way to know this prior to purchase (and believe me, I tried to find out). Fortunately a user posted a review to Amazon saying that it worked for him on his linux desktop. -PT On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Peter Tenenbaum peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com wrote: I recently had to add wifi

Re: Problems with Pacemaker + Corosync after reboot

2010-12-29 Thread Peter Beck
\_ /usr/sbin/corosync root 1544 0.0 1.2 168144 3240 ?S15:52 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/corosync Hi Daniel, Stefan Voelkel just made a Bugreport against this issue: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608269 Regards Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Netgear WG111 USB wifi adapter works with squeeze / gnome

2010-12-29 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I recently had to add wifi to my squeeze / gnome desktop. Based on some reviews I bought a Netgear WG111 USB wifi adapter, and I found that when I plugged it into a USB port on my desktop it worked instantly -- no configuration or package installation necessary. Is there a repository where these

Re: o/t ipod

2010-12-26 Thread Peter Beck
, afaik it did not work flawlessy on Lenny, but i think it could work out of the box with Squeeze. There is a plugin on Squeeze's Rhythmbox - Portable Players iPod. If it does not work - maybe these links are useful: http://wiki.debian.org/iPod http://wiki.debian.org/iPhone Regards Peter

Re: Problems with Pacemaker + Corosync after reboot

2010-12-25 Thread Peter Beck
is not ready at this time ? Best Regards Peter -- 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/1293314479.2491.10.ca...@peanut.datentraeger.li

Re: Problems with Pacemaker + Corosync after reboot

2010-12-22 Thread Peter Beck
Pacemaker with Heartbeat. Is this true ? Regards Peter [1] http://www.oreilly.de/catalog/pdf_linuxhacluster2ger/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Wireless internet for squeeze desktop

2010-12-16 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Hi, everyone -- In the near future I need to change the network setup for my desktop squeeze workstation so that it uses a wireless internet connection (it's using the ethernet spigot right now). Can anyone suggest a wireless card or wireless USB adaptor which has good compatibility / support in

Re: debian testing amd64: X windows trouble after todays updates. (input events problem?)

2010-12-10 Thread Peter Koellner
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Peter Koellner wrote: I switched between xdm and gdm, and the problem with unresponsive window manager and locked in focused window seems to go away with that, though I am not totally sure. Today I am having the same effect after starting the gnome session via xdm, so

Re: debian testing amd64: X windows trouble after todays updates. (input events problem?)

2010-12-10 Thread Peter Koellner
Well, I found the dpkg log with all the packages updated in that batch. one of them or a combination has to be responsible. I guess it might be desktop-base 6.0.2 -- peter koellner pe...@asgalon.net2010-12-09 16:33:55 upgrade php-net-smtp 1.4.2-1 1.4.2-3 2010-12-09 16:33:57 upgrade php-soap

Re: debian testing amd64: X windows trouble after todays updates. (input events problem?)

2010-12-10 Thread Peter Koellner
2010, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Peter Koellner wrote: Well, I found the dpkg log with all the packages updated in that batch. one of them or a combination has to be responsible. I guess it might be desktop-base 6.0.2 Indeed, but what are you going to do? I do a backup before a dist-upgrade, so

debian testing amd64: X windows trouble after todays updates. (gdm problem?)

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Koellner
next to report the problem? Replies to me in CC. please. -- peter koellner pe...@asgalon.net -- 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/alpine.osx

Re: debian testing amd64: X windows trouble after todays updates. (gdm problem?)

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Koellner
with the 16:9 geometry there, but I have no idea where to start searching. -- peter koellner pe...@asgalon.net -- 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/alpine.deb

Re: help getting grub to see Windows 7 on second drive

2010-12-08 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
-prober is present and has execute permissions. This is what searches for Windows during the grub update. Peter HB -- 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

Re: help getting grub to see Windows 7 on second drive

2010-12-08 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 08/12/2010 15:58, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 08 December 2010 15:47:19 Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: sudo update-grub should do the trick. With grub2 the configuration file (grub.cfg) should not be edited by hand; it's updated every time update-grub is run. Lenny uses grub 1. I think

Re: Question about Seamonkey, Iceape, and Debian

2010-12-08 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
FWIW, I'm running Squeeze, and I just installed iceape 2.0.10, which I believe is the most recent version of SeaMonkey. I'm running on an AMD64 platform, if that matters. -PT PS: I think this is the first time I'm answering a Debian question, rather than asking it...

Re: Extremely large level 1 backups with dump

2010-12-06 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
have these problems on my work computer, where I use rsync, but there I only back up my home directory. Here I'm trying to do the entire filesystem (actually both the root and boot filesystems). So it's a much larger world. -PT On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Peter Tenenbaum peter.g.tenenb

Problems with fast user switcher applet

2010-12-06 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I'm running Gnome and Squeeze on my home computer, and I have frequent problems with the fast user switcher applet. Does anyone else have these problems? 1. The applet will suddenly stop switching from one particular user to another (though it switches fine for all other combinations: so

Re: Extremely large level 1 backups with dump

2010-12-05 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Well, after having some difficulty getting rsync to do exactly what I want, I've become convinced to try rsnapshot. I'll let you know how it goes. -PT On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Peter Tenenbaum peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com wrote: Jochen, Paul -- In thinking this over, I think

Re: Towards a working initrd.img file

2010-12-04 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Thanks for all the helpful ideas, all! As it turns out, the solution to my problem was straightforward: I needed to do a dpkg-reconfigure mdadm, and specify that all multi-drive arrays need to be started in order to access root. Once that was completed, update-initramfs produced an initrd.img

Re: Extremely large level 1 backups with dump

2010-12-04 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Jochen, Paul -- In thinking this over, I think that the best approach is to simply have a daily rsync --archive from my main hard drive to the backup drive. While I understand that more sophisticated backup systems are often useful in a large system, the system in question is a home computer

grub2 hangs / freezes when external USB hard drive is connected

2010-12-04 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Hi everyone -- My squeeze home machine cannot boot when an external hard drive is connected via USB. When the drive is disconnected, booting occurs normally; but when it is connected, I get a Welcome to Grub! message and then nothing further happens. I've tried going into the boot menu in BIOS

Re: Extremely large level 1 backups with dump

2010-12-02 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Paul -- thanks for the suggestions. I guess that, since I am not using a tape drive for backup, there's no good reason to use dump rather than rsync, and the latter will leave me with a navigable file tree on the backup drive. This is what I use at work to back up /home/ptenenbaum (at the

Towards a working initrd.img file

2010-12-02 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Hi again -- I've been having a problem since migrating my file system to RAID-1, which is that when I run update-initramfs, it produces an initrd.img file which doesn't work correctly; when I replace it with the initrd.img file which was constructed by the OS installer, I can boot correctly in my

Re (2): Seeking advice and documentation on non-standard software RAID1 setup

2010-12-01 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
be found on the Web and on eBay. If the fan has bushings, they can be reconditioned. Take them out. Poach them in non-detergent oil for at least 12 hours to release the wear particles. Reassemble. Certainly worth the effort. Regards, ... Peter E. -- http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope

Extremely large level 1 backups with dump

2010-12-01 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I've been using dump to perform backups of my home Debian workstation (I run squeeze, btw). I do a weekly level 0 dump and daily level 1 dumps. For some reason the level 1 backups are almost as large as the level 0 (the level 0 is 57.9 GB and the level 1 is 51.6 GB), even though we clearly don't

Re: mobilt bredband

2010-11-30 Thread Peter Krefting
mattias: någon som fått sådant att funka i debian squezee? Jag har ett Huawei E220, och det fungerar alldeles utmärkt med Vodafone Mobile Connect Card driver - https://forge.betavine.net/projects/vodafonemobilec/ -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: update-initramfs produces unusable initrd.img

2010-11-27 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Hi again -- Does anyone have any post-thanksgiving suggestions for how to handle this issue? Thanks in advance, -PT On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Peter Tenenbaum peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com wrote: In my recent experiments with moving my home Debian desktop to RAID-1 arrays, I discovered

update-initramfs produces unusable initrd.img

2010-11-23 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
In my recent experiments with moving my home Debian desktop to RAID-1 arrays, I discovered that update-initramfs is producing intrd.img-* files which are unusable. What I mean by that is this: When I do update-initramfs -u (or -c), it produces a new initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64. When I attempt to

Configuring RAID-1 boot partition

2010-11-22 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I'm running squeeze on my desktop and recently decided to configure it for RAID-1 as part of my recovery from a hard drive failure. I found an article online about how to do this: http://linuxconfig.org/Linux_Software_Raid_1_Setup . I followed the article's recipe as best I could, but could not

Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I recently had to recover from a hard drive failure in my Debian squeeze desktop computer. After the usual thrashing around I have managed to (I think) recover all my files and configuration information from backup, get grub installed, and get all the grub configurations set properly so that

Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
...adding: is it possible that some permission was not set correctly when I restored backups (the backups were made via dump command). On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Peter Tenenbaum peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com wrote: I recently had to recover from a hard drive failure in my Debian squeeze

Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Never mind. JFGI. Had to chmod 777 on /tmp. I now appear to have a normal session on my computer, woo hoo! -PT On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Peter Tenenbaum peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com wrote: I recently had to recover from a hard drive failure in my Debian squeeze desktop computer

Re: Recovery from hard drive failure

2010-11-14 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I do grub-install /dev/sda1 . Clearly, I have not done some crucial preparatory step for installing grub from the live rescue CD to the new hard drive's partition. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, -PT On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Peter Tenenbaum peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: Recovery from hard drive failure

2010-11-12 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
on my next system... -PT On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Peter Tenenbaum peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com wrote: Klistvud -- excellent, thanks, that is definitely the way to go! I can see that the rescue CD from live.debian.net (actually from cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_live_beta1/amd64/iso

Recovery from hard drive failure

2010-11-11 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Hi everyone -- a few days ago the hard drive in my home Debian system started making unhappy noises and refuses to boot. I discussed the situation with knowledgeable people and they diagnosed that indeed the hard drive had failed and needs replacement. I have a recent backup of the hard drive

Re: Recovery from hard drive failure

2010-11-11 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
for the huge stack of questions, any and all help, encouragement, etc, is welcome! Thanks in advance, -PT On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Peter Tenenbaum peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone -- a few days ago the hard drive in my home Debian system started making unhappy noises

Re: [ltp] Re: how to make the console not blank out and change resolution?

2010-10-24 Thread Peter G. (nephros)
nomodeset It didn't work. I think it is drivername.modeset=0 (e.g. radeon.modeset=0). I use both: vmlinuz foo radeon.modeset=0 modeset=0 which does work. HTH, Peter -- I do not think the way you think I think. -- Kai, last of the Brunnen G -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

UVC cameras

2010-10-12 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
with the camera connected. Can anyone explain this observation or cite pertinent documentation? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/ http://carnot.yi.org/ = http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Issue with fast-user-switcher-applet

2010-10-08 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Peter Tenenbaum peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, everyone -- I'm having an issue with the fast-user-switcher-applet (2.24.0) on squeeze. The problem is this: every so often, it stops switching! I left-click on it on the panel, pull down to the user I want

Issue with fast-user-switcher-applet

2010-09-28 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Hi, everyone -- I'm having an issue with the fast-user-switcher-applet (2.24.0) on squeeze. The problem is this: every so often, it stops switching! I left-click on it on the panel, pull down to the user I want to switch to, and -- nothing happens. It seems to be a problem with the applet

Debian system modifications tmpfs

2010-09-24 Thread Peter Smith
I want to mount following folders as tmpfs in my Debian Lenny 5.0.6 installation: /var/cache/apt/archives /var/tmp /tmp I have added the following lines to fstab: tmpfs /var/cache/apt/archives tmpfs noatime,nodev,noexec,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0 tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs

Re: Debian system modifications tmpfs

2010-09-24 Thread Peter Smith
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi wrote: Peter Smith peter.smith3882...@gmail.com writes: tmpfs /tmp tmpfs noatime,nodev,noexec,nosuid,mode=1777 0 0 noexec /tmp will surely break applications, no? So far no applications have been malfunction

Hjäl p att installera pycdio

2010-09-21 Thread Peter Carlsson
-0.16/egg-dist-tmp-BW07Ys error: No such file or directory Kör Debian stable och Python 2.5.2 /Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-swedish-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-27 Thread Peter Teunissen
'vgmknodes' and I'm ready to manipulate my LV's. HTH Peter [1] http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page -- 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/c0a47423-cb51-4158-bfed

Re: gdm crashes unexpectedly every now and then

2010-08-25 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Aaron -- I'll be glad to, if you will help me. Right now I don't reply because I don't get individual messages from the listserv, I get the digest. Thus I'm sending a new message with the Re: subject line subject every time. Also, I am using gmail (don't know if that matters). Is there some

Re: gdm crashes unexpectedly every now and then

2010-08-22 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Camaleon -- As far as I can recall, the crashes always occur some seconds after I wake the monitor from sleep, and usually I am downloading a web page in ice weasel (not too surprising, since I usually wake the monitor and check traffic reports first thing in the morning). I've never had a

Re: gdm crashes unexpectedly every now and then

2010-08-22 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Camaleon -- I've set it so that the screen saver and screen sleep are disabled. However, I note that since this problem occurs rather infrequently, it will take more than a day to see whether this helps! Anyway, I can leave it like this for as long as needed to convince myself that this is (or

Re: gdm crashes unexpectedly every now and then

2010-08-21 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Camaleon -- That certainly looks like my problem! Now for my next ignorant question: where do I go to find the kernel command line, so I can see whether it includes a vga= clause? I am using squeeze with all normal default options, if that helps any. -PT

Re: gdm crashes unexpectedly every now and then

2010-08-21 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Camaleon -- I've looked at several of the Xorg.#.log and Xorg.#.log.old files, and no error is reported there. All that I can see, in fact, appears to be startup information, not real log information (no datestamps are present, for example). Am I looking in the wrong place? Bob -- I followed

Re: gdm crashes unexpectedly every now and then

2010-08-21 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Camaleon -- OK, I've posted a concatenation of the last 3 Xorg log files to http://pastebin.com/eXhSQyEL . I'm pretty sure that the last one of the 3 (Xorg.20.log) was the one which was in use at the time of the problem, the next-most-recent (Xorg.0.log.old) was the one which started at that

gdm crashes unexpectedly every now and then

2010-08-20 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Hi, everyone -- I've had 2 instances recently in which gdm unexpectedly crashed and restarted. This morning, the log reported the following: Aug 20 06:33:21 tibouchina kernel: [481166.096049] [drm:i915_gem_do_execbuffer] *ERROR* Failed to pin buffer 35 of 43, total 159727616 bytes: -28 Aug 20

Re: Smart error

2010-07-16 Thread Peter Teunissen
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Re: Any experience with Brother MFC-420 CN printer?

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
, this is how Linux newbies learn, I suppose, and I'm having fun in the process. -PT On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Peter Tenenbaum quar...@gmail.com wrote: Additional information: looking in the error log, I see that I did in fact get this error the last time I tried to print: E [14/Jun

Any experience with Brother MFC-420 CN printer?

2010-06-14 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I've been migrating my computer resources over from a 6 year old WXP computer to a brand-new Debian Linux one. Most recently I tried to migrate our old printer, a Brother MFC-420 CN printer / scanner / fax with USB connection. Brother has CUPS and LPD drivers for it, and they have 2 sets of

Re: Any experience with Brother MFC-420 CN printer?

2010-06-14 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
error (in cupsd.conf?), but for the life of me I don't know how to fix it. -PT On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Peter Tenenbaum quar...@gmail.com wrote: I've been migrating my computer resources over from a 6 year old WXP computer to a brand-new Debian Linux one. Most recently I tried

Re: Configuring java plugin for iceweasel on amd64

2010-06-12 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
around it. Thanks for all the help, everyone! -PT On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Peter Tenenbaum quar...@gmail.com wrote: I've been trying to get Java to work correctly on iceweasel (I'm using squeeze and amd64). I managed to get the sun-java6-plugin downloaded and installed. Currently

Re: ftp.us.debian.org really slow/nonresponsive

2010-06-12 Thread Peter Schumann
Am 11.06.2010 12:02, schrieb Merciadri Luca: Mark wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be mailto:luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: [snip] $ ping ftp.us.debian.org http://ftp.us.debian.org PING ftp.us.debian.org

Re: aptitude can't find a package? (was Re: Configuring java plugin for iceweasel on amd64)

2010-06-12 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Hi, Ron -- Unfortunately I can't currently reproduce the problem: since I installed the package using synaptic, aptitude reports that the package is installed! I think for now we should regard this issue as closed. If it comes up again (likely, given my absurdly low level of linux competence),

Configuring java plugin for iceweasel on amd64

2010-06-11 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I've been trying to get Java to work correctly on iceweasel (I'm using squeeze and amd64). I managed to get the sun-java6-plugin downloaded and installed. Currently, I see /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/libjavaplugin.so, which is a link to /etc/alternatives/iceweasel-javaplugin.so . my

Re: Trouble upgrading to evince 2.30.1-3

2010-06-10 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I did try aptitude update; no luck, I'm still at 2.30.1-2. -PT On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Peter Tenenbaum quar...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to upgrade evince to 2.30.1-3, which has a fix for a segfault bug in the version I have now (2.30.1-2). Unfortunately, when I use aptitude

Re: Trouble upgrading to evince 2.30.1-3

2010-06-10 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Jimmy -- that did the trick, thanks! -PT On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Peter Tenenbaum quar...@gmail.com wrote: I did try aptitude update; no luck, I'm still at 2.30.1-2. -PT On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Peter Tenenbaum quar...@gmail.comwrote: I'm trying to upgrade evince

Re: Problem playing DVD in Squeeze

2010-06-09 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Ron -- I installed mplayer, and it works! Thanks! Interestingly, once I'd installed mplayer, totem mysteriously started working for playing DVDs as well, so now I have a choice. -PT 2010/6/8 Peter Tenenbaum quar...@gmail.com I've been trying to get my new Squeeze installation to play store

Trouble upgrading to evince 2.30.1-3

2010-06-09 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I'm trying to upgrade evince to 2.30.1-3, which has a fix for a segfault bug in the version I have now (2.30.1-2). Unfortunately, when I use aptitude, it stubbornly insists that 2.30.1-2 is the latest version and can't find the 2.30.1-3 version. I have the following line in

Re: Resuming from hibernation issue with sid-kernel

2010-06-08 Thread Peter Beck
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 11:17 +0200, Johan Grönqvist wrote: To thaw, I have to select kernel 2.6.32-4 in grub, and then all works well. If I select 2.6.32-5 in grub, I get the usual blank screen for a few seconds while the saved state is read form disk, but then the display stays blank after

Problem playing DVD in Squeeze

2010-06-08 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I've been trying to get my new Squeeze installation to play store-bought DVDs using the Totem movie player and the AMD64 version of libdvdcss2. I can see the first 12 seconds of the DVD (before the main menu comes up), but then the player exits. Here is the output stream from running totem at

Re: A few minor issues in Squeeze with Gnome

2010-06-06 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Thanks, everyone -- I've successfully resolved both these questions! -PT On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Peter Tenenbaum quar...@gmail.com wrote: I just migrated my new workstation from Lenny to Squeeze (the workstation is all relatively new hardware, so Lenny was just a bit too old to have

A few minor issues in Squeeze with Gnome

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I just migrated my new workstation from Lenny to Squeeze (the workstation is all relatively new hardware, so Lenny was just a bit too old to have correct drivers for everything). Most things are working fine, but I have a couple of minor questions. 1. In Nautilus, I can't figure out how to make

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-03 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Wolodja -- thanks, that worked! My NIC now works, and I am in fact writing this e-mail from my Debian workstation! -PT On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Peter Tenenbaum quar...@gmail.com wrote: Wolodja -- in looking at the instructions on the backports.org website, I surmise

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-02 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
. I'll try that tonight (right now it's 7:15 AM local time and I'm off to work). Thanks for the suggestions, -PT On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Peter Tenenbaum quar...@gmail.com wrote: I just finished building a new computer around the Intel DH55TC motherboard. I would like to configure

Re: Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-02 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
utterly unappealing? I'm inclined to give it a shot, knowing that I can always fall back on option (2) if I totally botch (1). -PT On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Peter Tenenbaum quar...@gmail.com wrote: Wolodja -- the output from the lspci command is 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel

Configuring ethernet tap on a new Debian install

2010-06-01 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I just finished building a new computer around the Intel DH55TC motherboard. I would like to configure the computer to use DHCP via its built-in ethernet tap, but the ethernet was not detected or configured on installation. There is no eth0 entry in /etc/network/interfaces, no eth0 entry

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