Sid on PowerPC has broken xserver-xorg-core

2010-01-17 Thread Rick Thomas
...) If this is the same problem as the i386 one, you'd think that the solution that worked there would also have worked on PowerPC as well, and it would have been fixed fairly quickly. Thanks! Rick dillserver:~# aptitude -Pv full-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building

sound problem

2010-01-15 Thread Rick Pasotto
-686? What logfile can I look at that might give a clue? -- Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Butler Leacock Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

what happened to my desktop?

2010-01-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
on? -- Civilization is just a temporary failure of entropy. -- Christine Nelson Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian repos via ipv6

2010-01-06 Thread Rick Thomas
to contact to get it fixed. Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian repos via ipv6

2010-01-06 Thread Rick Thomas
to go thru the timeout before it tries IPv4. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Server Freezes

2010-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
/log/syslog, no trace of any issues. How can I determine what caused it to freeze? Thanks in advance Have you checked the logs on the host machine? It could be a hardware problem on the host... Just a thought. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Handle each file at a time in loop?

2010-01-04 Thread Rick Pasotto
) Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: install -- netboot vs netinst vs businesscard Debian installer CDs

2010-01-01 Thread Rick Thomas
as soon as the installer tries to start up. Go figure! Happy aught-ten to all! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: install -- Debian install CD: netboot vs netinst vs businesscard

2010-01-01 Thread Rick Thomas
, anyone? On Jan 1, 2010, at 1:51 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Here's a datapoint... Today I did the same for the PowerPC version of the netboot/mini.iso (13 MB) and used it to install squeeze on my testing PowerMac G4. Worked a treat. And what's really cool is that the businesscard and netinst CD's

Re: install -- netboot vs netinst vs businesscard Debian installer CDs

2010-01-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 1, 2010, at 8:44 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On 2010-01-01 at 13:51:59 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Here's a datapoint... Today I did the same for the PowerPC version of the netboot/mini.iso (13 MB) and used it to install squeeze on my testing PowerMac G4. Worked a treat. And what's

Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination

2009-12-24 Thread Rick Thomas
/. Take a look at man rsync It should do exactly what you want. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sid broken packages

2009-12-23 Thread Rick Thomas
know what magic is required to fix this? If it matters, this is a PowerPC G4 Macintosh system. Happy Solstice! Rick dillserver:~# aptitude -Pv full-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information... Done

dependency-based booting

2009-12-20 Thread Rick Pasotto
do I correctly update these init scripts? -- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. -- W. H. Auden Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian Etch Install

2009-12-20 Thread Rick Thomas
of the installation process -- all the security and stability updates that have happened since the distribution was created. Use it in good health! Happy Solstice! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

2009-12-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 17, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote: It may not be grave for the installer (indeed, you've already established at great length that it's not an installer problem at all) but that doesn't make it any the less grave for whatever

Re: Debian AMD64 Sid - packages have unmet dependencies

2009-12-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 19, 2009, at 6:59 AM, Johan Grönqvist wrote: Rick Thomas skrev: The following packages have unmet dependencies: xserver-xorg-video-apm: Depends: xserver-xorg-core (= 2:1.6.99.900) but 2:1.6.5-1 is installed. and a bunch of other xserver-xorg-video-* packages have the same problem

Debian PowerPC Squeeze - packages have unmet dependencies

2009-12-18 Thread Rick Thomas
) but it is not installable Any help resolving these will be appreciated. If I should file a bug report, which package should I file it against -- there are so many that seem to be involved? Happy Solstice! Rick greybox:~# aptitude -Pv full-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building

Debian AMD64 Sid - packages have unmet dependencies

2009-12-18 Thread Rick Thomas
xserver-xorg-video-* packages have the same problem. Any help resolving these will be appreciated. If I should file a bug report, which package should I file it against -- there are so many that seem to be involved? Happy Solstice! Rick sid:~# aptitude -Pv full-upgrade Reading package

Re: motherboard battery low?

2009-12-18 Thread Rick Thomas
the motherboard battery -- so write them down before you start. Happy Solstice! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

2009-12-17 Thread Rick Thomas
. And they won't get fixed if nobody brings them up in public. I'm just bringing them up so they can get fixed. I'm sorry if cross-posting it to debian-boot has offended you, Franz. Please accept my apology. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

2009-12-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 17, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rick Thomas wrote: I have listed several problems that exist in Sid and Squeeze, some of which prevent successful installation (even though there is nothing wrong with the installer). The problems in Sid

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

2009-12-17 Thread Rick Thomas
-- will be appreciated, of course. Season's greetings... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Re (2): new udev

2009-12-16 Thread Rick Pasotto
requires a particular version of the kernel then *that* should be pointed out. At minimum there should be something in apt-listmessages. -- I'm so optimistic I'd go after Moby Dick in a row boat and take the tartar sauce with me. -- Zig Zigler Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp

Problems with Debian PowerPC

2009-12-16 Thread Rick Thomas
dependency conflicts. Can anything be done about to fix this? What can I (as a user, non- developer, but willing tester) do to help? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: NTP setting

2009-12-15 Thread Rick Thomas
Configure them both to use their local clock as reference. On the server fudge the local clock to stratum 10. On the client fudge the local clock to stratum 13. Have each reference the other as a peer rather than server. If this is unclear, let me know and I'll try to be more explicit. Rick

new udev

2009-12-14 Thread Rick Pasotto
Madison Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Unable to install Sid on powerpc due to missing linux-image-2.6.31 package

2009-12-14 Thread Rick Thomas
problem but I doubt that anyone has thought about the ramification of it causing the installer to fail. I'd file a bug report but I don't know what package to reference... It's not an installer problem, it seems to me. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Anybody tried installing squeeze on a PowerPC Mac recently?

2009-12-13 Thread Rick Thomas
. And with Businesscard and Netinst CDs. Anybody else seen anything like it? Anybody know what's going on? Thanks! Rick PS: The full details are in the installation report at Bug#560684. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

rsync, beagle, lsetxattr

2009-12-11 Thread Rick Pasotto
I used to have beagle installed but have now purged it. When I run rsync there are many error messages of the following type: rsync: rsync_xal_set: lsetxattr(home/rick/12-05-01.txt,user.Beagle.AttrTime) failed: Operation not supported (95) rsync: rsync_xal_set: lsetxattr(home/rick/12-05-01.txt

Re: Will Debian accept a SATA to IDE hdd adapter?

2009-12-03 Thread Rick Thomas
) and the PCI-based SATA adapter (storage hdd) in your link? Would it get confused? Interested to hear your results when the parts arrive. Mark For what it's worth, I have a number of old Macintosh (PowerPC) machines with similar configurations. Works at treat! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

mutt help (mailcap)

2009-11-19 Thread Rick Pasotto
to buy your votes with your own money. -- Dave Barry Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: sound problems (SOLVED)

2009-11-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 12:24:18PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 07:20:11PM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Rick Pasotto wrote: I'm mostly up-to-date with testing and I remember that some sound modules were recently updated. For the most part sound is still working

auto vs user installed

2009-11-09 Thread Rick Pasotto
the coercive power of the state... -- Friedrich Hayek Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: sound problems

2009-11-09 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 07:20:11PM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Rick Pasotto wrote: I'm mostly up-to-date with testing and I remember that some sound modules were recently updated. For the most part sound is still working fine but for some formats it's not. With m4a files and some wmv

Re: auto vs user installed

2009-11-09 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 11:13:45AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 09 November 2009 10:37:29 Rick Pasotto wrote: and some with '{u}' meaning user installed. No. '{u}' indicates that the package is unused. This means that the package is both automatically installed

Re: rred segfault during aptitude update?

2009-11-04 Thread Rick Pasotto
. -- Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. -- Thomas Jefferson Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

sound problems

2009-11-04 Thread Rick Pasotto
experienced this? What module could be the culprit? -- Nothing is worth more than this day. -- Johann Goethe Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Does everything depend on everything?

2009-10-30 Thread Rick Pasotto
is like an over long drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews. -- John Updike Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

installing mdadm breaks udev (and *lots* of other stuff!) in squeeze

2009-10-24 Thread Rick Thomas
Whooo boy! When I decided to raid my home directories, I never expected this! Anybody have any suggestions for getting udev and mdadm to coexist? Rick squeeze:~# aptitude -Pv install mdadm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state

aptitude safe-upgrade in sid has several broken packages

2009-10-08 Thread Rick Thomas
. Or at least let us know what the problem is and maybe a workaround? Thanks! Rick = Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions

Re: aptitude safe-upgrade in sid has several broken packages

2009-10-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 8, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Tomek Kruszona wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: The following packages are BROKEN: epiphany-browser epiphany-extensions-more libgnokii4 python-qt4 Hello! Regarding epiphany: It seems has something in common with epiphany gecko to webkit transition. Try installing

Re: USB Install will temporarily freeze

2009-09-28 Thread Rick Thomas
it effectively. I don't know what (or even if) the time-frame will be for getting TRIM into USB sticks. Rick Reference: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631 Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

device names?

2009-09-13 Thread Rick Pasotto
? -- Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

what happened to courier?

2009-09-13 Thread Rick Pasotto
the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property. -- Potter Stewart, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Lynch v. Household Finance Corp., 1972 Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Is there any way to turn off IPv6 in the stock Debian 2.6.30 kernel without recompiling?

2009-09-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 10, 2009, at 7:30 AM, Javier Barroso wrote: Hi, On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Rick Thomas rbthoma...@pobox.com wrote: The 2.6.30 kernel seems to have ipv6 turned on and compiled-in -- i.e. not a module. Does this make it impossible to turn off IPv6? Or am I missing

Re: Is there any way to turn off IPv6 in the stock Debian 2.6.30 kernel without recompiling?

2009-09-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 9, 2009, at 5:52 AM, Mark wrote: suggesting disabling the ipv6 module in /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf Rick Thomas wrote: Sadly, it was a good idea but it didn't work. Apparently, having the module compiled in prevents any of the modprobe stuff from having any effect on it. However

Re: Is there any way to turn off IPv6 in the stock Debian 2.6.30 kernel without recompiling?

2009-09-09 Thread Rick Thomas
Is this new with 2.6.30 (Squeeze) kernels? Or is it a feature of having ipv6 compiled in? Very curious! Rick On Sep 8, 2009, at 10:02 PM, Mark wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: The 2.6.30 kernel seems to have ipv6 turned on and compiled-in -- i.e. not a module. Does this make

Is there any way to turn off IPv6 in the stock Debian 2.6.30 kernel without recompiling?

2009-09-08 Thread Rick Thomas
a week now). As a result aptitude spends a long timeout trying the ipv6 address for security.debian.org before it finally falls back to the ipv4 address. So, is there a way to tell it that ipv6 is simply not available, regardless of what the router advertisements say? Thanks! Rick

Re: Is there any way to turn off IPv6 in the stock Debian 2.6.30 kernel without recompiling?

2009-09-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 9, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 15:03, Rick Thomasrbthoma...@pobox.com wrote: The 2.6.30 kernel seems to have ipv6 turned on and compiled-in -- i.e. not a module. Does this make it impossible to turn off IPv6? Or am I missing something

Re: apache on debian

2009-09-06 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 03:54:52PM -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote: On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 11:57:10 -0400, Rick Pasotto in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Where is the best place for me to ask questions about running apache on my debian system? For the most part everything is working fine

apache on debian

2009-09-02 Thread Rick Pasotto
that he will be benefitted. -- Herbert Spencer, 1850 Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

canary mismatch on efree()

2009-08-19 Thread Rick Pasotto
reported and if so where? Do I need to worry about it? -- I saw that the State was half-witted ... and I lost all my remaining respect for it ... -- Henry David Thoreau Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

inserting audio disk runs gxine video

2009-08-18 Thread Rick Pasotto
of principle, stand like a rock. In matters of taste, swim with the current. --- Thomas Jefferson Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: sound volume went waaaay low

2009-08-18 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 07:49:26AM +0800, paragasu wrote: I also have the same problem. Still looking for solutions.. On 8/17/09, Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net wrote: Had to reboot today (powerfailure) and now the sound volume is so low it can barely be heard. I keep current with testing so

sound volume went waaaay low

2009-08-16 Thread Rick Pasotto
are set to max. Any particular program likely to have caused the change? -- We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money. -- David Crockett Rick Pasottor

(nautilus:3241): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Error while sending message: Did not receive a reply.

2009-08-01 Thread Rick Thomas
. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. = Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: (nautilus:3241): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Error while sending message: Did not receive a reply.

2009-08-01 Thread Rick Thomas
in. The other one, I don't get the popup, but it shows up in the .xsession-errors file instead. Both of my machines are PowerPC Macs. How about you? And yes, everything seems to be working fine. Very curious! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

can I use ext4 now?

2009-07-29 Thread Rick Pasotto
Carnegie Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: can I use ext4 now?

2009-07-29 Thread Rick Pasotto
Angeles to San Francisco live there? -- Herb Caen Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: U3 and other firmware USB thumbdrives

2009-07-29 Thread Rick Thomas
The only usb key I have encountered with U3 on it was a sandisk. Every other kind I have is just a plain simple USB key. So I would say most are simply USB keys. If they have U3 or similar they tend to advertise it as if it was an amazing and useful feature. Useful links for getting

Re: X11 without HAL: DontZap in /etc/X11/xorg.conf doesn't work anymore

2009-07-15 Thread Rick Thomas
it once and have it survive past closing my X session? Past logging out? Past a reboot? There was some talk earlier of a Debian-Specific patch that would restore this functionality as the default option. What has happened to that? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: PowerBook 12

2009-07-15 Thread Rick Thomas
(debian-powe...@lists.debian.org) has some friendly folks who are pretty knowledgeable. You can sign up for the list, and search the archives, at http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/ Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Debian on non-linux kernels...

2009-06-26 Thread Rick Thomas
What requirements does Debian put on a non-Linux kernel? Where would I look for documentation on that? There's some interest in making Minix 3 run with the non-kernel parts of Debian. Thanks for any help! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

aptitude wants to remove 'locate'

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Pasotto
to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed. -- OG Mandino Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Paternalistic D-Bus Restrictions (was Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently)

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
Bug reported as Bug#533089 Sadly, if your diagnosis is correct, it may not be fixable... Oh well, I guess that's what sudo -i in a normal terminal is for... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: aptitude wants to remove 'locate'

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 07:48:41PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-06-14 19:13 +0200, Rick Pasotto wrote: 'dlocate' now shows in the update list for 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' and when I try 'aptitude install dlocate' I'm told that 'locate' will be removed. This is because locate

Re: Paternalistic D-Bus Restrictions (was Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently)

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 14, 2009, at 8:24 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Rick Thomasrbthoma...@pobox.com wrote: Bug reported as Bug#533089 Sadly, if your diagnosis is correct, it may not be fixable... Oh well, I guess that's what sudo -i in a normal terminal is for... 'sudo

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
are then changed to belong to that user. It may be that you can get to it by running dpkg-reconfigure something Anybody on this list have any suggestions for appropriate values of something? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 14, 2009, at 9:38 PM, Steve Reilly wrote: It may be that you can get to it by running dpkg-reconfigure something Anybody on this list have any suggestions for appropriate values of something? Rick i believe what your looking for in something is cupsys. but thats not going

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 14, 2009, at 9:38 PM, Steve Reilly wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: On Jun 14, 2009, at 7:53 PM, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:30 +0100, thveillon.debian thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On 13 Jun 2009, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hi, I've just installed cups

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 15, 2009, at 1:20 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,14.Jun.09, 22:33:07, Rick Thomas wrote: It may ask for a userid and password at low priority. See -- priority=value option in the dpkg-reconfigure(8) man page. The same one that says: dpkg-reconfigure normally shows low

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
? Anyway, thanks for the information. I am equally flabergasted at the apparent obscurity of this key combo. Thanks for the help! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian and the future: IPv6

2009-05-24 Thread Rick Thomas
that, IPv6 will be the only new address range available to high-growth places like China and India. These places will be forced to switch. They may drag the rest of the world along in their wakes. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

mysql and openoffice

2009-05-20 Thread Rick Pasotto
/dpkg/status -- Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars - Les Brown Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: eog on squeeze on powerpc has un-resolveable dependency on libgnome-desktop-2-7

2009-05-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 12, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 05:31:40PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: greybox:~# aptitude -Pv safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing

The saga's not over yet... [Re: eog on squeeze on powerpc has un-resolveable dependency on libgnome-desktop-2-7]

2009-05-12 Thread Rick Thomas
newly installed, 229 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 163kB of archives. After unpacking 483MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n Abort. greybox:~# = Pretty impressive, huh? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

eog on squeeze on powerpc has un-resolveable dependency on libgnome-desktop-2-7

2009-05-09 Thread Rick Thomas
-volatile squeeze/volatile main == Any clues? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Desktop Search Engines

2009-04-27 Thread Rick
What would be a good choice, for a desktop search engine, since have TB of Music and Video, and GB of .pdf files, would like to index all, including metadata... Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Cron - any advanced options?

2009-04-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Here's a little program that I picked up I don't remember where. It's what I use when I have this sort of problem. It atomically creates a lock file and tests for a previous lock file of the same name -- properly handling processes that quit without removing the lock, etc... Rick

linux-image-powerpc has the same broken dependency...

2009-04-25 Thread Rick Thomas
that should depend on it get automatically updated? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [Partially solved] Re: Locale errors

2009-04-13 Thread Rick Thomas
/SPI_CA_2006-cacert.pem: No such file or directory grep: /etc/ssl/certs/SPI2007-ca.pem: No such file or directory grep: /etc/resolvconf/run: No such file or directory /root/.bashrc:LANG=C /root/.bash_history:LANG=C /root/.bash_history:LANG=C /root/.bash_history:LANG=C greybox:~# logout Hope this helps! Rick

Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

2009-04-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 11, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:47:08PM +0100, James Youngman (j...@gnu.org) wrote: (2) It would be useful to have a historic backup capability too (e.g. the way the filesystem looked yesterday, last week, last month and a year ago), at least

Re: [Partially solved] Re: Locale errors

2009-04-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 13, 2009, at 6:39 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2009-04-13 15:14:36 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: rbtho...@greybox:~$ locale LANG=C LANGUAGE=C LC_CTYPE=C LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=C LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=C LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=C

Re: Best way to install a new session manager

2009-04-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 11, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,11.Apr.09, 14:14:12, Rick Thomas wrote: After installing from the default CD (e.g. businesscard) I'd like to make other session managers than Gnome available. (e.g. xfce or kde). What's the best way to do that so as to get all

Re: [Partially solved] Re: Locale errors

2009-04-12 Thread Rick Thomas
. Rick On Apr 12, 2009, at 11:24 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 20:14, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: snip So you seem to be correct; for some reason, in the sudo shell, the LC* variables are getting extra quotes. Any idea why? [There's nothing that looks interesting

Best way to install a new session manager

2009-04-11 Thread Rick Thomas
? Is this in the manuals or wiki somewhere? If not, would it be a good idea to do that? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

are these hacks?

2009-04-09 Thread Rick Pasotto
the page a minute or so later produces the correct results. It seems that the sogosearch may be dns related but what could be causing the second? -- Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. -- Mary Wollstonecraft, 1794 Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp

Re: are these hacks?

2009-04-09 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 05:29:26PM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: On 9 Apr 2009, at 17:20, Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net wrote: Occasionally on some websites I visit daily I'll get one of two incorrect results: 1) The home page for www.sogosearch.com 2) A page with nothing but the words

Re: are these hacks?

2009-04-09 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 06:07:59PM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: On 9 Apr 2009, at 17:40, Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 05:29:26PM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: On 9 Apr 2009, at 17:20, Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net wrote: Occasionally on some websites I visit daily

Re: Upgrade to Sid from Squeeze not happy...

2009-04-07 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 6, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 05:48:25PM -0400, Rick Thomas rbthoma...@pobox.com was heard to say: First of all, why does full-upgrade say and 3 not upgraded when there seem to be only two un-upgradable packages? I wonder if you have holds set

Upgrade to Sid from Squeeze not happy...

2009-04-05 Thread Rick Thomas
? Thanks! Rick PS: Can somebody suggest an appropriate package to which I can submit a bug report on this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

more aptitude confusion

2009-04-02 Thread Rick Pasotto
display. The 'Effects' menu is back to a long list rather than the shorter list with submenus. I'm puzzled. More importantly, how do I get a functioning audacity? -- Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. -- Dale Carnegie Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp

Re: USB stick two devices into one

2009-04-02 Thread Rick Thomas
it (and, as a side-effect, wipe it clean -- So *backup* your data before you try it!) Unfortunately, it requires Windows or MacOS-X, no Linux version that I can find. But it works. I've used it several times. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

aptitude puzzle

2009-03-30 Thread Rick Pasotto
? -- I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back. --Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net

pdf - jpg

2009-03-27 Thread Rick Pasotto
What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? -- The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed--and hence clamorous to be led to safety--by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. --- H. L. Mencken Rick Pasottor

Re: pdf - jpg

2009-03-27 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:59:33AM -0400, Steve Reilly wrote: Rick Pasotto wrote: What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? if im not mistaken imagemagick can convert files of many different types. take a look at that Duh! I use 'convert' all the time but it didn't

Re: about ntp

2009-03-26 Thread Rick Thomas
, the debian pool servers in the unmodified /etc/ntp.conf file will do just fine. Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: testing microphone - how?

2009-03-24 Thread Rick Pasotto
-- Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. -- Arthur Schnitzler Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: testing microphone - how?

2009-03-24 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:38:55AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:50:22PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:44:24PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 05:51:37PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 24 March 2009 17:21

different version on mirror

2009-03-21 Thread Rick Pasotto
/status Why would a package version be in 'testing' on the mirror yet still in 'unstable' on the main site? -- There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it. -- Dale Carnegie Rick Pasottor...@niof.nethttp://www.niof.net

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