Re: [OT] Mice

2011-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/09/2011 06:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:21:23 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/08/2011 06:32 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] I use alcohol to clean the ball and internal rollers. But I'm afraid laser based mice get also dirty (bottom surface has also to be cleaned for fast

Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-09 Thread Mark Panen
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 09 June 2011 14:21:12 Mark Panen wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 09 June 2011 12:52:41 Mark Panen wrote: And at the risk of seeming even more repetitious:

OT: namd and vmd under debian

2011-06-09 Thread I Rattan
Any one using namd and vmd (molecular dynamics software from uiuc) under debian or its derivatives? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: is sabertooth X58 compatible?

2011-06-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Pol Hallen wrote: Hi folks :-) I'd like buy this mb http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1366/SABERTOOTH_X58/ is this mb compatible with debian 6? NewEgg sells that for $200: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131665 They had these Linux comments: Linux

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (from debian-user list)

2011-06-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/06/11 23:30, � wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:31:14 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 09/06/11 21:41, � wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:26:38 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 09/06/11 21:07, � wrote: snipped (...) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?snipped ^^^ I don't see this

Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Just for test purpose, add Wheezy or Sid. Pardon if you already have tested this? spinymouse@debian:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list # SQUEEZE deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free deb

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-09 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:16:17 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 13:30 +, Camaleón wrote: From: Ralf Mardorf snipped snipped Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 snipped Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This one looks

iSCSI + LUKS over insecure network

2011-06-09 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
A tough one (for me)! I use iSCSI (with CHAP authentication) to get a remote device over an insecure network, then I unlock the LUKS volume and finally I mount the ext4 FS. How (in)secure is that? Data I miss: 1. CHAP encrypts the iSCSI authentication password, but the actual iSCSI data go over

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (from debian-user list)

2011-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
This is the only line in the header in a non human readable style and it's for the source only: From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Camale=F3n?= Evolution translated it to human readable style: From: Camaleón And yes, I send directly to the list, I don't have my own server, if this was meant. Ralf at home

Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-09 Thread Mark Panen
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Just for test purpose, add Wheezy or Sid. Pardon if you already have tested this? spinymouse@debian:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list # SQUEEZE deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free deb

Re: iSCSI + LUKS over insecure network

2011-06-09 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
This might be a good time to get your hands dirty :) A combination of dd / wireshark / tcpdump should revile the answers you need! 2011/6/9 Γιώργος Πάλλας gp...@ccf.auth.gr A tough one (for me)! I use iSCSI (with CHAP authentication) to get a remote device over an insecure network, then I

Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 16:50 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Just for test purpose, add Wheezy or Sid. Pardon if you already have tested this? spinymouse@debian:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list # SQUEEZE deb

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-09 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:21:58 -0700, briand wrote: On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:29:10 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: I verified again. gnome-terminal definitely uses the option and x-terminal-emulator definitely does not. This is all kind of silly. Hum... Jon is right. If

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-09 Thread Camaleón - Ralf Mardorf
And now? -- 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/1307631618.3190.161.camel@debian

Plug in with FIREFOX

2011-06-09 Thread alex . padoly
Hi, I going to install Debian 6.0 this week-end and I will know wich package I must to install to have flash and java plugin with Firefox. Thank you. Regards. Alex PADOLY

Re: Plug in with FIREFOX

2011-06-09 Thread Michael Checca
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:11:23 -0400, alex.pad...@laposte.net wrote: Hi, I going to install Debian 6.0 this week-end and I will know wich package I must to install to have flash and java plugin with Firefox. Thank you. Regards. Alex PADOLY sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Re: iSCSI + LUKS over insecure network

2011-06-09 Thread shawn wilson
is this a linux iscsi lun? if not and you've paid good money for a san, you've probably paid good money for their support. if not, call their sales and tell them that you'd like to look into the type of data encryption you can get for your iscsi lun, they'll get an engineer on it, and then you buy

Re: Plug in with FIREFOX

2011-06-09 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:11:23 +, alex.padoly wrote: I going to install Debian 6.0 this week-end and I will know wich package I must to install to have flash and java plugin with Firefox. I would download flash directly from Adobe site: http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer (a 64-bits

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/06/11 00:16, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 13:30 +, Camale�n wrote: From: Ralf Mardorf snipped snipped Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 snipped Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This one looks right. :) For

Re: is sabertooth X58 compatible?

2011-06-09 Thread Pol Hallen
Cons: The Marvell SATA-3 6Gbps is NOT yet supported on Linux. It does NOT work. However you can set the BIOS to AHCI mode and still use the port in Linux which will run in compatability mode at 133. Best use the 3Gbps ports for now. thanks :-) Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-09 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 09 June 2011 15:29:22 Mark Panen wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 09 June 2011 14:21:12 Mark Panen wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 09 June 2011 12:52:41 Mark Panen wrote:

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-09 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 09 June 2011 16:38:25 Scott Ferguson wrote: but it's consist with the From string on the list, and it only affects him. I think that him should be her. I'm sure trhat she will correct me if I am wrong! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-09 Thread Camaleón
El 09/06/11 17:38, Scott Ferguson escribió: On 10/06/11 00:16, Ralf Mardorf wrote: (...) � ^ That's how Camaleón's name appears as the usually appears as sender In this case there's four of them (black diamond with white question mark when viewed as plain text UTF8 (my default viewing

Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-09 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 09 June 2011 16:55:43 Lisi wrote: On Thursday 09 June 2011 15:29:22 Mark Panen wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 09 June 2011 14:21:12 Mark Panen wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/06/11 00:38, � wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:16:17 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 13:30 +, Camaleón wrote: From: Ralf Mardorf snipped snipped Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 snipped Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding:

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-09 Thread Bret Busby
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Scott Ferguson wrote: Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 01:38:25 +1000 From: Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility) Resent-Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011

Re: is sabertooth X58 compatible?

2011-06-09 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:39:33 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: Cons: The Marvell SATA-3 6Gbps is NOT yet supported on Linux. It does NOT work. However you can set the BIOS to AHCI mode and still use the port in Linux which will run in compatability mode at 133. Best use the 3Gbps ports for now.

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/06/11 01:00, � - Ralf Mardorf wrote: And now? From BlackDiamond - Ralf Mardord in Icedove. From Camaleón - Ralf Mardorf on the list in Iceweasel:- http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/06/msg00684.html Headers from Icedove:- From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Camale=F3n?= - Ralf Mardorf email

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-09 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:58:02 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:21:58 -0700, briand wrote: There's still a bug, as the man page brings up the man page/options for gnome-terminal which uses --geometry=. I think there is no bug... let' see: sm01@stt008:~$ grep help

Re: [OOT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/06/11 01:59, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 09 June 2011 16:38:25 Scott Ferguson wrote: but it's consist with the From string on the list, and it only affects him. I think that him should be her. I'm sure trhat she will correct me if I am wrong! Lisi Gee. Thanks. Lisi. Have I got

Re: gnome sensors applet: which is which ?

2011-06-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Jun 2011 at 16:34:37 +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: These 2 libsensors/temp1 produce different values (about 20 degrees Celsius appart form each other; p.ex: 74 and 95). Can anyone tell me which is which ? CPU ? Motherboard ? sensors-detect (the lm-sensors package) should tell

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Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-09 Thread Dom
On 09/06/11 17:32, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:58:02 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:21:58 -0700, briand wrote: There's still a bug, as the man page brings up the man page/options for gnome-terminal which uses --geometry=. I think there is no bug... let' see:

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-09 Thread Brian
On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 19:02:43 +, Camaleón wrote: I can't tell for sure, but many users are experincing the same problem, and not only from Debian but also from Ubuntu and Mint, so... casualty? :-) I'm always more comfortable with specifics. Hum... I don't rebember nothing about dhcp

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/06/11 02:01, Camaleón wrote: El 09/06/11 17:38, Scott Ferguson escribió: On 10/06/11 00:16, Ralf Mardorf wrote: (...) � ^ That's how Camaleón's name appears as the usually appears as sender In this case there's four of them (black diamond with white question mark when viewed

File URI security; was Re (2): File URIs

2011-06-09 Thread peasthope
Scott, You are have responsibility to users or clients. I am a user trying to make a simple Web page. We have different views of reasonable caution. From: Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:07:44 +1000 the classic was/is a login to Linux based

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/09/2011 12:16 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: [snip] Pass - I'm thinking about changing email clients, just as soon as I can figure out how to keep all my email, and, what's causing the encoding problem. It's definite not Icedove per se, since Camaleón's name has always rendered correctly

Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args

2011-06-09 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:46:54 +0100, Dom wrote: On 09/06/11 17:32, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:58:02 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:21:58 -0700, briand wrote: There's still a bug, as the man page brings up the man page/options for gnome-terminal which uses

Re: Plug in with FIREFOX

2011-06-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/06/11 01:15, Michael Checca wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:11:23 -0400, alex.pad...@laposte.net wrote: Hi, I going to install Debian 6.0 this week-end and I will know wich package I must to install to have flash and java plugin with Firefox. Thank you. Regards. Alex PADOLY

Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread AG
Hi all Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my Gnome DE to find that all of my settings for the desktop have been borked and the desktop is close to unfunctional. These are some of the issues: 1. Windows manager is unknown and no configuration tool is registered

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-09 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:48:00 +0100, Brian wrote: On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 19:02:43 +, Camaleón wrote: I can't tell for sure, but many users are experincing the same problem, and not only from Debian but also from Ubuntu and Mint, so... casualty? :-) I'm always more comfortable with

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/09/2011 12:38 PM, AG wrote: Hi all Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my Gnome DE to find that all of my settings for the desktop have been borked and the desktop is close to unfunctional. These are some of the issues: 1. Windows manager is unknown and no

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-09 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 03:16:12 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 10/06/11 02:01, Camaleón wrote: Eureka! We have found the culprit! It seems to be my Pan newsreader... oh, well, another bug for it :-) I would start thinking about Gmail's webmail. Pass - I'm

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-09 Thread lee
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net writes: Hi :) when using a PS/2 mouse with stable or testing the mouse wheel very seldom does work, usually it doesn't. For Ubuntu Maverick and Natty it's the same. It might help to specify which protocol the mouse uses in your xorg.conf. IIRC,

Re: is this hard disk failure?

2011-06-09 Thread lee
surreal firewal...@gmail.com writes: From today morning i am getting strange kind of system messages on starting the computer.. I typed dmesg and found these messages [  304.694936] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR } [  304.694939] ata4.00: error: { ICRC ABRT } [  304.694954] ata4: soft

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:38 +0100, AG wrote: Hi all Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my Gnome DE to find that all of my settings for the desktop have been borked and the desktop is close to unfunctional. These are some of the issues: 1. Windows manager

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:38 +0100, AG wrote: Hi all Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my Gnome DE to find that all of my settings for the desktop have been borked and the desktop is close to unfunctional. These are some of the issues: 1. Windows manager

Re: Midnight commander parse errors

2011-06-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-06-08 19:51 +0200, Brian wrote: On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 11:58:42 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when trying to look inside deb files ? This has been going on , in my case for two months now. Is there a

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread AG
On 09/06/11 19:00, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/09/2011 12:38 PM, AG wrote: Hi all Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my Gnome DE to find that all of my settings for the desktop have been borked and the desktop is close to unfunctional. These are some of the

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread AG
On 09/06/11 19:19, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:38 +0100, AG wrote: Hi all Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my Gnome DE to find that all of my settings for the desktop have been borked and the desktop is close to unfunctional. These are some

Re: gnome sensors applet: which is which ?

2011-06-09 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:34:37 +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: I'm using gnome sensors applet to keep an eye on computer temperature. The applet configuration lets me choose: - libsensors \temp1 \temp1 I also have udisk (for hard disk temperature). These 2

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Jun 2011 at 17:55:50 +, Camaleón wrote: Hum... what happens when you attach a USB device to the computer? Kernel detects it and DE mounts it based on user's settings. And what happens when you dettach the key? Kernel (or udev, or both) remove/umount the device. You are

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:23:52 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: PS, not an issue, but it might has to do with those issues: spinymouse@debian:~$ gedit spinymouse@debian:~$ su Password: root@debian:/home/spinymouse# gedit (gedit:7637): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/09/2011 01:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: [snip] (gedit:7637): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to rename '/root/.recently-used.xbel': No such file or directory GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common Why in ${DEITY}'s name are you logged in as root?? -- Neither the

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/09/2011 01:26 PM, AG wrote: [snip] This is a complete nonsense - why are config files being over-written by a safe-update ? Sorry - don't mean to rant, but this is a complete waste of time when I have work to do! It doesn't. But your existing session might have scribbled over

Re: Plug in with FIREFOX

2011-06-09 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 11:15:18AM -0400, Michael Checca wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:11:23 -0400, alex.pad...@laposte.net wrote: Hi, I going to install Debian 6.0 this week-end and I will know wich package I must to install to have flash and java plugin with Firefox. Thank you.

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 19:26 +0100, AG wrote: On 09/06/11 19:19, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:38 +0100, AG wrote: Hi all Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my Gnome DE to find that all of my settings for the desktop have been borked and

Re: Plug in with FIREFOX

2011-06-09 Thread Michael Checca
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:06:46 -0400, Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 11:15:18AM -0400, Michael Checca wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:11:23 -0400, alex.pad...@laposte.net wrote: Hi, I going to install Debian 6.0 this week-end and I will know wich package I must to

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-09 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:35:48 +0100, Brian wrote: On Thu 09 Jun 2011 at 17:55:50 +, Camaleón wrote: Hum... what happens when you attach a USB device to the computer? Kernel detects it and DE mounts it based on user's settings. And what happens when you dettach the key? Kernel (or udev,

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:51 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:23:52 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: PS, not an issue, but it might has to do with those issues: spinymouse@debian:~$ gedit spinymouse@debian:~$ su Password: root@debian:/home/spinymouse# gedit (gedit:7637):

Re: gnome sensors applet: which is which ?

2011-06-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Jun 2011 at 17:28:23 +0100, Brian wrote: sensors-detect (the lm-sensors package) should tell you. On my machine the higher figure would be the CPU. Another way is to deduce which is which from what the bios reports. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Plug in with FIREFOX

2011-06-09 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 03:44:20AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: ..snip Guessing that you're new - you'll probably go for a default install which will give you sudo and a Gnome desktop. And I'm guessing you're an Ubuntu user. Debian doesn't install sudo as

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 13:58 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/09/2011 01:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: [snip] (gedit:7637): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to rename '/root/.recently-used.xbel': No such file or directory GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common Why in

Re: Plug in with FIREFOX

2011-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 12:06 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 11:15:18AM -0400, Michael Checca wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:11:23 -0400, alex.pad...@laposte.net wrote: Hi, I going to install Debian 6.0 this week-end and I will know wich package I must to

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-09 Thread Dom
On 09/06/11 19:35, Brian wrote: On Thu 09 Jun 2011 at 17:55:50 +, Camaleón wrote: Hum... what happens when you attach a USB device to the computer? Kernel detects it and DE mounts it based on user's settings. And what happens when you dettach the key? Kernel (or udev, or both)

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread AG
On 09/06/11 20:03, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/09/2011 01:26 PM, AG wrote: [snip] This is a complete nonsense - why are config files being over-written by a safe-update ? Sorry - don't mean to rant, but this is a complete waste of time when I have work to do! It doesn't. But your existing

Iceape's inability to render sites

2011-06-09 Thread Robert Holtzman
I'm having trouble with Iceape's inability to render sites that use java correctly. This includes my bank and broker which prevents me from making Squeeze my primary distro. Running locate jre turns up a bunch of files including gcj-4.4-jre related ones, so I assume have java runtime

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread AG
On 09/06/11 20:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 19:26 +0100, AG wrote: On 09/06/11 19:19, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:38 +0100, AG wrote: Hi all Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my Gnome DE to find that all of

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 20:54 +0100, AG wrote: On 09/06/11 20:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 19:26 +0100, AG wrote: On 09/06/11 19:19, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:38 +0100, AG wrote: Hi all Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7

Re: Iceape's inability to render sites

2011-06-09 Thread Michael Checca
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:11:48 -0400, Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: I'm having trouble with Iceape's inability to render sites that use java correctly. This includes my bank and broker which prevents me from making Squeeze my primary distro. Running locate jre turns up a bunch of files

Proper Use of adduser.conf

2011-06-09 Thread Martin McCormick
We have set up a backup server and the samba share accounts we have on the system need to be in a file system that is very large so I modified /etc/adduser.conf to put them in as follows: # The DHOME variable specifies the directory containing users' home # directories. DHOME=/srv/backups

Re: Iceape's inability to render sites

2011-06-09 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 04:43:42PM -0400, Michael Checca wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:11:48 -0400, Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: I'm having trouble with Iceape's inability to render sites that use java correctly. This includes my bank and broker which prevents me from making Squeeze

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/09/2011 02:52 PM, AG wrote: On 09/06/11 20:03, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/09/2011 01:26 PM, AG wrote: [snip] This is a complete nonsense - why are config files being over-written by a safe-update ? Sorry - don't mean to rant, but this is a complete waste of time when I have work to do!

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-09 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 09 June 2011 19:10:40 Camaleón wrote: that Lisi bloke I hope that that is a joke Not that I find it funny, but I would hate to think that you were serious. :-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Jun 2011 at 19:11:48 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:35:48 +0100, Brian wrote: You are talking about *devices* here. AFAIK, network devices (NICs) are also managed by udev. Maybe - but the cable is not a device. With a static address stanza in /e/n/i the interface

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 Jun 2011 at 21:07:07 +0100, Dom wrote: On 09/06/11 19:35, Brian wrote: The question remains - Why would plugging or unplugging the ethernet cable be expected to bring the interface up or down? This sounds like a job for ifplugd It is, because manipulating a cable does not and

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-09 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Mitchell Laks ml...@post.harvard.edu wrote: On 11:39 Tue 07 Jun     , Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:10:48 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: The following is a problem I have on all laptops, I dont know how to configure to connect when the ethernet cable is

Re: is this hard disk failure?

2011-06-09 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: For me a hard disc never gets broken without click-click-click noise before it failed, but it's very common that cables and connections fail. By the time a disk gets to the

Re: is this hard disk failure?

2011-06-09 Thread Aenn Seidhe Priest
Looks like controller failure or a broken pin/wire in the cable (more likely). On 09.06.2011 at 20:14 lee wrote: surreal firewal...@gmail.com writes: From today morning i am getting strange kind of system messages on starting the computer.. I typed dmesg and found these messages [ 

Re: Bug#611380: openssh-client: sftp's put -r fails with Unable to canonicalise path

2011-06-09 Thread Steven Sciame
  From: Selim T. Erdogan se...@alumni.cs.utexas.edu To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 8:54 PM Subject: Re: Re: Bug#611380: openssh-client: sftp's put -r fails with Unable to canonicalise path Clive Standbridge, 19.05.2011 tarihinde

Re: Bug#611380: openssh-client: sftp's put -r fails with Unable to canonicalise path

2011-06-09 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Steven Sciame sasci...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Selim T. Erdogan se...@alumni.cs.utexas.edu To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 8:54 PM Subject: Re: Re: Bug#611380: openssh-client: sftp's put -r fails with

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-09 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 19:02:43 +, Camaleón wrote: Hum... I don't rebember nothing about dhcp or static addressing but something about plugging/unplugging the ethernet cable and after that no interface coming up. Why

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

2011-06-09 Thread Mitchell Laks
I hope that you all realize I am not replying to this correspondent, but rather following up the thread. I am __not__ using dhcp. This is not a dhcp problem. I use static IP addresses on all of my ethernet cabled networks. I have approximately 100 different debian machines in multiple

Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-09 Thread Mark Panen
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 09 June 2011 16:55:43 Lisi wrote: On Thursday 09 June 2011 15:29:22 Mark Panen wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 09 June 2011 14:21:12 Mark Panen wrote: On Thu,

fopen when using apt-get

2011-06-09 Thread Rob Hurle
I regularly use: apt-get update apt-get upgrade to keep my squeeze system up to date. Updates install quite satisfactorily, but invariably I get the following message as the manual pages are being updated: Unpacking replacement [whatever the package is] ... Processing triggers for man-db ...

Re: Git and gpg agent issues

2011-06-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
Apparently it is a gnome-keyring issue. I was unable to to ssh out of this box as well so I purged gnome-keyring and restored ssh connections and enabled Git signing. So I have to type my password a bit more, at least it works. - Nate -- The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of

X host will not connect

2011-06-09 Thread Mark Panen
Hi When i ssh into my Debian 6 machine and run synaptic as root, i get: synaptic X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. (synaptic:12730): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:10.0 i have also tried ssh -X mark@192.168.1.103 then su - to root this used to work on

Re: No Display Manager + shutdown/reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 13:46, Perry Thompson ryperven...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hi all. I am using Debian Wheezy with Xfce4. After some testing with different DMs, I decided to start X from a tty using startx. I was told in the Debian IRC channel that it works fine by just removing all DMs. I enjoy

[Debian 6] Unable to install Debian 6.0.1 - no supporting mirrors found

2011-06-09 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. I have been trying to install Debian 6.0.1 amd64 version, with a firmware netinst iso (from http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ ), and, at the package manager setup stage, every mirror that I have tried within Australia, and a couple in

how to get to runlevel 3

2011-06-09 Thread Mark Panen
Hi Been googling for this with no success. I have tried init 3 and teinit 3 and the runlevel command shows i am at runlevel 3 but X is still on and i cannot install a Nvidia driver. Cheers Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

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