Re: Removing swfdec-mozilla removes gnome?

2008-10-15 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/10/15 Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 06:45:20AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> You should then mark the packages you want to keep as "manually >> installed" to tell apt/aptitude that you want them. E.g. use >> "aptitude unmarkauto " to mark individual packages or >>

Re: Removing swfdec-mozilla removes gnome?

2008-10-15 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/10/15 Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 06:45:20AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> You should then mark the packages you want to keep as "manually >> installed" to tell apt/aptitude that you want them. E.g. use >> "aptitude unmarkauto " to mark individual packages or >>

update: Can't config cups printer, problem gone

2008-10-15 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:14:35 +, T o n g wrote: > I can't config my cups printer in my newly installed lenny system. Somehow, the command /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb now returns my printer info. I turn off and on the printer before running the command, both when posting the OP, and now. T

Re: Can't config cups printer, no backends found

2008-10-15 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, T o n g engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: >--} On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:49:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >--} >--} >> I can't config my cups printer in my newly installed lenny system. I >--} >> found that the reason might be that no cups backends can be found, >--} >>

Re: Removing swfdec-mozilla removes gnome?

2008-10-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 06:45:20AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > You should then mark the packages you want to keep as "manually > installed" to tell apt/aptitude that you want them. E.g. use > "aptitude unmarkauto " to mark individual packages or > "aptitude unmarkauto '~sgnome'" to mark all Gnom

Re: emacs 21 add-on packages

2008-10-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-16 05:21 +0200, Jude DaShiell wrote: > The packages like gnus and calc in emacs 21 once emacs 22 is installed > are superfluous packages because both calc and gnus are included as > commands that can be run inside emacs 22. For calc, that's true and the calc package has been removed fr

Re: Removing swfdec-mozilla removes gnome?

2008-10-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-16 01:32 +0200, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:17:42PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> But maybe you are more interested in the question why gnome depends on >> swfdec-mozilla in the first place. I don't know that; probably because >> the Debian Gnome maintainers conside

Re: Can't config cups printer, no backends found

2008-10-15 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:07:54 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > I'm stumped, too. > > $ dpkg -S /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb > dpkg: /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb not found. > > $ apt-file search /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb $ > > $ dir /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb > -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 17220 2008-10-11 05:59 /

Re: How to use aptitude to distinguish packages?

2008-10-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:08:32 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:54:56 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > > I've been reading the man pages for aptitude but I can't seem to figure > > out how to use it to distinguish between packages of different branc

Re: On the fly spell checking in firefox

2008-10-15 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:58:49 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> >> My firefox (iceweasel) use to have the on the fly spell checking >> >> capability in text editing entries. But my lose it in my newly >> >> installed lenny. >> >> >> >> How can I get it back? >> > >> > Did you check if it is activat

Re: Can't config cups printer, no backends found

2008-10-15 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:58:19 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: >> > I can't config my cups printer in my newly installed lenny system. I >> > found that the reason might be that no cups backends can be found, >> > because previously, >> > >> > /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb >> > >> > can returns my printer in

emacs 21 add-on packages

2008-10-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
The packages like gnus and calc in emacs 21 once emacs 22 is installed are superfluous packages because both calc and gnus are included as commands that can be run inside emacs 22. There may be other emacs add-ons in this class, I don't know for sure. It's possible timidity-el and edb may be i

Re: No changelogs for all 50+ package updates

2008-10-15 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Slim Joe wrote: > For the past four or five days I cannot see or download > the changelogs for any of the packages which the > Gnome Update Manager is supposed to install. A check > with synaptic confirms the problem. When I choose > \Package\Download_Changelog I get an error like: > > Failed to f

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

2008-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/15/08 19:16, Sam Leon wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote: I have added a large drive to my desktop for back up purposes. I am using rsnapshot to backup just a couple of times a week. Since the drive will be rarely accessed I added: /dev/sdb { spindown_time =

Re: OT: welcome back

2008-10-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 01:34:53AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: On 10/13/2008 09:04 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > No vacation. Moving. nice to be back. Hope you were able to move up to broadband Doug. Welcome back. Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Removing swfdec-mozilla removes gnome?

2008-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/15/08 20:09, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:17:42PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: But maybe you are more interested in the question why gnome depends on swfdec-mozilla in the first place. I don't know th

No changelogs for all 50+ package updates

2008-10-15 Thread Slim Joe
For the past four or five days I cannot see or download the changelogs for any of the packages which the Gnome Update Manager is supposed to install. A check with synaptic confirms the problem. When I choose \Package\Download_Changelog I get an error like: Failed to fetch the changelog for [*] URI

Re: Removing swfdec-mozilla removes gnome?

2008-10-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:17:42PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> But maybe you are more interested in the question why gnome depends on >> swfdec-mozilla in the first place. I don't know that; probably because >> the Debian

Re: Login depends on X?

2008-10-15 Thread Mark Allums
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:29:08PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: John Hasler wrote: Carl writes: about it. But until then, I can't downgrade from Sid back to Lenny on that machine. It's hopeless. So that machine will not be put into production.) Its not hopeless. U

shutdown failure

2008-10-15 Thread marcs_nospam_ausl
I'm running up to date etch on a dell I386 box with both ide and sata drives. shutdown stopped working, in the sense that the shutdown command produced the log entry Oct 13 20:01:02 aptiva shutdown[26745]: shutting down for system reboot and wrote /fsckcheck but did nothing else that I can see.

Re: Login depends on X?

2008-10-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:29:08PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > >Carl writes: > about it. But until then, I can't downgrade from Sid back to Lenny on > that machine. It's hopeless. So that machine will not be put into > production.) Its not hopeless. Use the aptitude cur

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

2008-10-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:16:33PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote: > Hmm, sounded like a good idea but with the drive unmounted and spun > down, it still spins up right before a shut down or a reboot. :( Over the years I've tried to sort this ou

Re: Removing swfdec-mozilla removes gnome?

2008-10-15 Thread John Hasler
Carl writes: > My point is that it's idiotic that removing swfdec (to install, say, > gnash) removes all the GNOME packages, not just the metapackage. If that happens it's a bug. I don't see why it should, though: nothing depends on gnome. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Login depends on X?

2008-10-15 Thread Mark Allums
John Hasler wrote: Carl writes: Does it make sense to anyone that removing x11* also removes login? The login package does not depend on X. It depends only on libc6, libpam0g, libpam-runtime, and libpam-modules. None of those depend on X. Aptitude and Synaptic (and sometimes apt) behave q

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

2008-10-15 Thread Sam Leon
Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote: I have added a large drive to my desktop for back up purposes. I am using rsnapshot to backup just a couple of times a week. Since the drive will be rarely accessed I added: /dev/sdb { spindown_time = 180 } To hdparm.conf to spin down t

Re: [OT] Unrecognized mount option "uid=1000" error w/TrueCrypt 6.0a on Ubuntu 8.04.1 server x64

2008-10-15 Thread Sam Kuper
Hi Bob, I'm grateful for your reply. Since I posted to Debian-users, I've had a reply to my second post on the TrueCrypt forum. That reply suggests that the error message is generated by a TrueCrypt assumption that the volume being mounted is formatted as FAT or NTFS, which mine isn't. Hopefully t

Re: Removing swfdec-mozilla removes gnome?

2008-10-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:17:42PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > But maybe you are more interested in the question why gnome depends on > swfdec-mozilla in the first place. I don't know that; probably because > the Debian Gnome maintainers consider a flash plugin necessary for good > desktop exper

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-15 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/10/14 Sam Kuper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Please note: aside from being a Django, VPSVille & (former) WebFaction, I > have no affiliation, with any of the companies on this list. > Whoops. I made a typo. That should have been, "aside from being a Django, VPSVille & (former) WebFaction user ..."

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-15 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 05:04:27PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:00:20PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Is anybody using pulseaudio in Debian? I am interested to know what is > >> its status in Debian Sid and Lenny. If somebody has been succes

Re: ALSA not working properly

2008-10-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 16:41, Samuel Bächler wrote: > Dear All > > I have an etch installed on a lenovo T60. Most of the times simply clicking > on a mp3-file in konqueror [1] will start playing that specific file. > But, sometimes > it does not. > There are three sound-bottoms on my keyboard

Re: ALSA not working properly

2008-10-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 16:41:19 +0200, Samuel Bächler wrote: > Dear All > > I have an etch installed on a lenovo T60. Most of the times simply clicking > on a mp3-file in konqueror [1] will start playing that specific file. > But, sometimes > it does not. > There are three sound-bottoms on my ke

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-15 Thread H.S.
Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:00:20PM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Is anybody using pulseaudio in Debian? I am interested to know what is >> its status in Debian Sid and Lenny. If somebody has been successful in >> installing and running it, could you share your experie

Re: debian packages for loop-aes maintained by ???

2008-10-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 22:26:24 +0200, markus reichelt wrote: > * Richard A Nelson wrote: > > > Is this what you want: > > Not really, I'm only looking for a link (to replace the old hinterhof > URL in some guide) The homepage of the Debian Loop-AES Team is here: http://alioth.debian.org/proje

Re: Removing swfdec-mozilla removes gnome?

2008-10-15 Thread John Hasler
The function of the gnome metapackage is to depend on a long list of other packages so that when you install it they all get pulled in. This means that if you remove one those packages it get removed as well, but at that point it has already done its job. In and of itself it does nothing and cont

bash keyboard combination problems

2008-10-15 Thread Andreas Ronnquist
I have screwed up my keyboard settings in bash - As it is now I cannot use Ctrl+right or Ctrl+left as shortcuts to move to next/previous word, even though Ctrl+B and Ctrl+F works just fine. How do I restore this? Find my current /etc/inputrc attached. I am using urxvt as my X-terminal and there I

Re: Login depends on X?

2008-10-15 Thread John Hasler
Carl writes: > Does it make sense to anyone that removing x11* also removes login? The login package does not depend on X. It depends only on libc6, libpam0g, libpam-runtime, and libpam-modules. None of those depend on X. Exactly what did you do and exactly what happened? -- John Hasler --

Re: debian packages for loop-aes maintained by ???

2008-10-15 Thread markus reichelt
* Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this what you want: Not really, I'm only looking for a link (to replace the old hinterhof URL in some guide) I'm happily using Slackware btw :) -- left blank, right bald pgpEslwTmtC1p.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to use aptitude to distinguish packages?

2008-10-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:54:56 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > I've been reading the man pages for aptitude but I can't seem to figure > out how to use it to distinguish between packages of different branches. > > Basically here are the scenario: > > 1. List all packages installed that a

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-15 Thread John Fry
Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 5. Cheap, ideally in the $10-15/mo range. Gandi in France (http://www.gandi.net) offers Debian Xen hosting starting at $14/mo. I tried them for a while but the server was S-L-O-W. Slicehost is more expensive but they rock. Cheers, John Fry http:/

Re: Removing swfdec-mozilla removes gnome?

2008-10-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-15 21:51 +0200, Carl Fink wrote: > OK, can anyone possibly explain to me why removing swfdec-mozilla results in > removing gnome? That's a challenge. An easy one, the gnome metapackage depends on swfdec-mozilla, so that is the logical outcome. But maybe you are more interested in the

Re: debian packages for loop-aes maintained by ???

2008-10-15 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, markus reichelt wrote: http://hinterhof.net/debian/ doesn't list loop-aes packages (among other stuff) anymore, for quite some time now. Is there a new maintainer? Where are the packages? Is this what you want: apt-cache show loop-aes-source -- Rick Nelson no... I musn

debian packages for loop-aes maintained by ???

2008-10-15 Thread markus reichelt
Hi, what happened to Max? http://hinterhof.net/debian/ doesn't list loop-aes packages (among other stuff) anymore, for quite some time now. Is there a new maintainer? Where are the packages? -- left blank, right bald pgpsHu3fmHvYS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Removing swfdec-mozilla removes gnome?

2008-10-15 Thread Carl Fink
OK, can anyone possibly explain to me why removing swfdec-mozilla results in removing gnome? That's a challenge. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Changelog broken on Lenny?

2008-10-15 Thread Stackpole, Chris
Hello, I noticed that I had some updates on my Lenny box so double clicked the package manager icon in the gnome task bar. As I browsed through the packages I noticed that there were no change logs showing up. So I visited the site: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main Sure enough,

How to use aptitude to distinguish packages?

2008-10-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I've been reading the man pages for aptitude but I can't seem to figure out how to use it to distinguish between packages of different branches. Basically here are the scenario: 1. List all packages installed that are from experimental. 2. List all packages installed that are "non-free" or fr

Login depends on X?

2008-10-15 Thread Carl Fink
Does it make sense to anyone that removing x11* also removes login? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: On the fly spell checking in firefox

2008-10-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 21:54:46 +, T o n g wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:02:54 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> Earlier T o n g wrote: > >> My firefox (iceweasel) use to have the on the fly spell checking > >> capability in text editing entries. But my lose it in my newly > >> installed lenny

Re: [OT] Unrecognized mount option "uid=1000" error w/TrueCrypt 6.0a on Ubuntu 8.04.1 server x64

2008-10-15 Thread Bob McGowan
As noted on the Ubuntu forums page you reference, the TrueCrypt page requires an account and login to view the details. Given that you haven't provided that info here, I'm taking a blind shot (shot in the dark, whatever;) with this. Does the 'uid=1000' follow the '-o' option? And, if it does, bu

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-15 Thread Paul Johnson
Preston Boyington wrote: > H.S. wrote: > >> Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> >>> Right up until it doesn't. And when it doesn't, it's a severe pain to fix. >>> >> I noticed that in FC9, the sound was working quite smoothly even when >> the processor was quite busy (up

Re: MYSQL PATCHES FOR ETCH

2008-10-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:38:44 +0200, Mariusz Sielicki wrote: > 2008/10/15 Krishna Chandra Prajapati: > > Hi Raquel, > > > > Is it required to restart the system after performing the below steps. > > No, system restart is not required. After upgrade only upgraded > deamons are restarting, if it

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 08:07:55 -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: [...] > so how do i setup my system to play multiple streams with ALSA? i'm > sure it is being done by someone, but i couldn't find a simple guide to > do so before i started this Pulseaudio adventure. http://alsa.opensrc.org/inde

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 23:37:21 -0400, H.S. wrote: [...] > I noticed that in FC9, the sound was working quite smoothly even when > the processor was quite busy (updating and installing stuff using yum). > This was a surprise to me. With as busy processor in Debian, I usually > get some sort an i

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2008-10-12 17:44:08, schrieb Hal Vaughan: > > If I read every man page in detail on every > > program or conf file I use, I'd still be reading. I'd have never > > gotten anywhere. You know that as well as I. Have you read the > > full deta

Re: Can't config cups printer, no backends found

2008-10-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 17:07, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/15/08 00:22, T o n g wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I can't config my cups printer in my newly installed lenny system. I > > found that the reason might be that no cups backends can be found, > > because previously, > > > > /usr/lib/cups/backe

Re: About apt-file

2008-10-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 22:47:15 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Stephen Liu: > > > > > > What I'm looking for is the package providing the command > > 'mysqladmin' > > > if neither having MySQL installed nor knowing which package > > provides > > > mysqladmin. I need to inst

Re: About apt-file

2008-10-15 Thread Chris Burkhardt
lStephen Liu wrote: > Hi Johannes, > > > Thanks for your advice. I got it done. > > > Now; > > $ apt-file list mysqladmin > $ apt-file show mysqladmin > Both without printout That is expected: there is no package named 'mysqladmin' (list/show lists the contents of a package). > > > $ apt-

Re: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Rob McBroom
On 2008-Oct-15, at 6:05 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: I created a samba share on one of my debian boxes with a ext3 file system and unfortunately I can't write files with certain file names from Mac OSX. This disrupts the back-up process which takes about an hour every time to fail when I want to

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-15 Thread Eric Gerlach
Hal Vaughan wrote: Both of your comments involve disagreements over differences of opinion -- but I can see where you're coming from and I think the point about rewording the warnings in menu.lst would go a long way toward addressing the issue that led me to file the bug report. If filing the

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/15/08 02:48, Tristan Terpelle wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:12:40 -0400, "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I am tying to see which mail server to install so that I can send emails via scripts using Gmail (preferable) or Yahoo smtp servers. I haven't setup email servers yet. Which

Re: Can't config cups printer, no backends found

2008-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/15/08 00:22, T o n g wrote: Hi, I can't config my cups printer in my newly installed lenny system. I found that the reason might be that no cups backends can be found, because previously, /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb can returns my printer info, now it is empty. How should I fix it?

Re: About apt-file

2008-10-15 Thread Stephen Liu
--- Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Liu: > > > > What I'm looking for is the package providing the command > 'mysqladmin' > > if neither having MySQL installed nor knowing which package > provides > > mysqladmin. I need to install that package. > > What about a simple 'apt-c

Re: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Paul Johnson
Adam Hardy wrote: > After finding out all I could about Mac file systems and names, my > conclusion is that macs are pretty special, especially their file > systems. Funny thing is, the colon is a restricted character in Mac filesystems, too... the colon at least until OS X (and possibly still in t

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-15 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-10-12 17:44:08, schrieb Hal Vaughan: > If I read every man page in detail on every > program or conf file I use, I'd still be reading. I'd have never > gotten anywhere. You know that as well as I. Have you read the full > details in each man page you use? Have you ever had to just fo

Re: About apt-file

2008-10-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Stephen Liu: > > What I'm looking for is the package providing the command 'mysqladmin' > if neither having MySQL installed nor knowing which package provides > mysqladmin. I need to install that package. What about a simple 'apt-cache search mysql admin'? It reveals there is a package named mys

openjdk-6-jre-headless install bug ?

2008-10-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everybody, I just noticed a strange thing in aptitude logs while updating openjdk-6-* in Lenny amd64 : "Paramétrage de openjdk-6-jre-lib (6b11-9) ... Paramétrage de openjdk-6-jre-headless (6b11-9) ... update-binfmts: warning: current package is openjdk-6, but binary format already installed

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 15 October 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Denvid Wright escreveu: > > On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>WARNING: YOU HAVE A LOCKED AND LOADED ASSAULT RIFLE POINTED AT > >>YOUR FEET AND YOUR FINGER IS ON THE TRIGGER. > > > > Interesting analogy, but it

Re: Can't config cups printer, no backends found

2008-10-15 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:49:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> I can't config my cups printer in my newly installed lenny system. I >> found that the reason might be that no cups backends can be found, >> because previously, >> >> /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb >> >> can returns my printer info, now it i

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-15 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:00:20PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > Is anybody using pulseaudio in Debian? I am interested to know what is > its status in Debian Sid and Lenny. If somebody has been successful in > installing and running it, could you share your experience. I tried it some time ago

Re: About apt-file

2008-10-15 Thread Stephen Liu
--- David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:15 AM, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I have wajig installed but don't know how to use it making search. > > 'man wajig' is very simple not much info provided. > > I get: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ wajig whichpkg m

Re: About apt-file

2008-10-15 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:15 AM, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have wajig installed but don't know how to use it making search. > 'man wajig' is very simple not much info provided. I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ wajig whichpkg mysqladmin JIG Warning: fping was not found. Consider instal

ALSA not working properly

2008-10-15 Thread Samuel Bächler
Dear All I have an etch installed on a lenovo T60. Most of the times simply clicking on a mp3-file in konqueror [1] will start playing that specific file. But, sometimes it does not. There are three sound-bottoms on my keyboard: mute, volume-up and volume-down. In my opinion the sound problem

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-15 Thread Preston Boyington
H.S. wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >>> >> Right up until it doesn't. And when it doesn't, it's a severe pain to fix. > > I noticed that in FC9, the sound was working quite smoothly even when > the processor was quite busy (updating and installing stuff using yum). > This was a surprise to me

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-15 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Denvid Wright escreveu: > On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> WARNING: YOU HAVE A LOCKED AND LOADED ASSAULT RIFLE POINTED AT >> YOUR FEET AND YOUR FINGER IS ON THE TRIGGER. >> > Interesting analogy, but it doesn't work, for several reasons. First, > it's qui

RE: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Tammo Schuelke
After reading the comments here: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031114045400715 I think the behaviour has been changed in Mac OS X, but the userspace tools seem to handle it inconsistently. Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#Reserved_characters_and_words. > -Origi

Re: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread John Hasler
Adam writes: > Is there a basis for the file name restrictions on ext3, i.e. can I say, > well ext3 is based on a standard, so I'm going to restrict the file names > on macs, otherwise they won't be backed up? You can use any printable character other than '/'. ':; is entirely legal and often use

Re: About apt-file

2008-10-15 Thread Stephen Liu
--- Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-10-15 12:24, Stephen Liu wrote: > > $ apt-file find mysqladmin > > $ apt-file search mysqladmin > > $ apt-file list mysqladmin > > $ apt-file show mysqladmin > > > > All without output > > You have to run 'apt-file update' in order to

Re: About apt-file

2008-10-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-10-15 12:24, Stephen Liu wrote: > $ apt-file find mysqladmin > $ apt-file search mysqladmin > $ apt-file list mysqladmin > $ apt-file show mysqladmin > > All without output You have to run 'apt-file update' in order to populate apt-file's data base. Read 'man apt-file'. Johannes signa

Re: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Aneurin Price
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Hardy: >> >> For instance, there is one file name like this: >> >> 2AE2EAEE-57AC-46D8-B619-C2167D4C6786:ABPerson.abcdp >> >> which has a colon in it that I guess is the problem. > > I am not sure either, but I'd bet o

Re: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Adam Hardy
Tammo Schuelke on 15/10/08 11:15, wrote: -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:05 PM To: List Debian User Subject: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions Hi, I created a samba share on one of my debian boxes with a ext3

Re: how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

2008-10-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:22:00AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: hello all, I use Iceweasel with icewm (no DTE). I've temporarily switched from my 21" monitor to a very small one and the fonts on e.g. the toolbars in iceweasel are too big. For

Re: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Adam Hardy: > > For instance, there is one file name like this: > > 2AE2EAEE-57AC-46D8-B619-C2167D4C6786:ABPerson.abcdp > > which has a colon in it that I guess is the problem. I am not sure either, but I'd bet on that, too. I guess this is not even a problem with neither MacOS X or ext3 -- it

Re: About apt-file

2008-10-15 Thread Stephen Liu
--- Chris Burkhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Liu wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > > > Etch > > > > > > Reading man apt-file I can't resolve what flag to be up to find a > > package which provides a named tool/command. > > > > e.g. mysqladmin coming form mysql-server > > apt-file sea

RE: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Tammo Schuelke
Have you tried creating a file with a colon in its name by hand? I just tested it, both ext3 and samba don't have a problem with it (only Windows clients don't like it). With which error message does it fail? Tammo > -Original Message- > From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent:

RE: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Tammo Schuelke
PS: the file with a colon in its name comes from a Mac? From what I just read, the Mac OS FS (HFS+) doesn't support colons in filenames. http://www.xvsxp.com/files/forbidden.php Tammo > -Original Message- > From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1

Re: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Adam Hardy wrote: Hi, I created a samba share on one of my debian boxes with a ext3 file system and unfortunately I can't write files with certain file names from Mac OSX. This disrupts the back-up process which takes about an hour every time to fail when I want to try it out again. For i

RE: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Tammo Schuelke
Have you tried creating a file with a colon in its name by hand? I just tested it, both ext3 and samba don't have a problem with it (only Windows clients don't like it). With which error message does it fail? Tammo > -Original Message- > From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent:

Re: About apt-file

2008-10-15 Thread Stephen Liu
--- David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Or any other packages will be more suitable for this job? > > I prefer wajig over apt-file - > > $ wajig whichfile > > gives you packages that contain the specified file H

ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Adam Hardy
Hi, I created a samba share on one of my debian boxes with a ext3 file system and unfortunately I can't write files with certain file names from Mac OSX. This disrupts the back-up process which takes about an hour every time to fail when I want to try it out again. For instance, there is on

Re: MYSQL PATCHES FOR ETCH

2008-10-15 Thread Mariusz Sielicki
2008/10/15 Krishna Chandra Prajapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Raquel, > > Is it required to restart the system after performing the below steps. No, system restart is not required. After upgrade only upgraded deamons are restarting, if it nessesary of course. Mariusz > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at

Lots and Lots of EAGAIN in read() calls in many processes - Why?

2008-10-15 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
I am observing a strange behaviour in my home computer for quite a while, and wonder if any of you could help me out with the diagnostics. It started with a diagnostic attempt of a bad behavior of skype. Every time I strace() the process, I get tousands and tousands of messages like this: soc

Re: Quote from Stephen Roberts

2008-10-15 Thread Ben Finney
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 09:22:28AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > No, that quote was not made by Sir Stephen Henry Roberts. (If you > > know differently, could you please provide a reference?) > > Uhm, why do you post in public? To correct in public what

Re: Quote from Stephen Roberts (was: Filing bug reports in Debian)

2008-10-15 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 09:22:28AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > No, that quote was not made by Sir Stephen Henry Roberts. (If you know > differently, could you please provide a reference?) Uhm, why do you post in public? It seems to be entirely off-topic. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

hda-sda problem after debian5beta2-netinstall-CD

2008-10-15 Thread info
Hi! After install with debian5beta2-netinstall-CD, the first boot could not start from /dev/hda4. After editing the grub lines, boot from /dev/sda4 succeeded. But every boot the message remained: "could not stat resume device file '/dev/hda2'" and I have to ignore it with enter. It seems, the neti

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-15 Thread Tristan Terpelle
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:12:40 -0400, "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am tying to see which mail server to install so that I can send emails > via scripts using Gmail (preferable) or Yahoo smtp servers. > > I haven't setup email servers yet. Which one I go for (on Debian and > Ubu

Re: Kerberos with LDAP backend / Replace active directory

2008-10-15 Thread Clifford W. Hansen
On Tuesday 14 October 2008 21:51:31 Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Clifford W. Hansen wrote: > > I take it I will need to get a Krb5 schema file for ldap? > > Yes, and iirc, one comes with Heimdal package (likely in /usr/share/doc) > if you can't find one, let me know Found one tha

Re: MYSQL PATCHES FOR ETCH

2008-10-15 Thread Krishna Chandra Prajapati
Hi Raquel, Is it required to restart the system after performing the below steps. On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:32:10 +0530 > "Krishna Chandra Prajapati" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am using mysql-server-5.0.32 on

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-15 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-10-15 05:37 +0200, Rich Healey wrote: > >> Paul Johnson wrote: >>> Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:21:51PM -0400, Dougla

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-15 05:37 +0200, Rich Healey wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:21:51PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: wine started its life as a windows 3.11 emulator (or