Rescanning for USB devices?

If I unmount a device, and I want KDE/GNOME to rescan the bus for devices to mount with pmount *without* having to pull the device and re-insert it, what is the best way to do that? I find this is something I have to do rather often, and a command-line option for remounting unmounted media would be

Re: Aptitude versus Update-manager

On Mon,13.Apr.09, 23:53:21, Marcelo Laia wrote: > Hi, > > I decided upgrade my Latitude D630 to unstable from testing. > > First, I have googled and having found that the good way was to set > the Pin-Priority in /etc/apt/preferences, and set /etc/apt/apt.conf to > unstable, and change sources.li

OT Why publicity is good for Debian -was Re: [OT] Why politics are not important to Debian? [Re: DPL voice meeting live -was Re: Berkeleytip]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:11:47 +0300, "Andrei Popescu" said: > Ok, I know this is a troll, but I just want to get a few facts straight. It was not a troll, it was a rant. But, no problem. :) > > On Sun,12.Apr.09, 16:18:43, john_re wrote: > > > Tragically, in TYPICAL! Debian fashion, there was N

Re: lenny upgrade: font size

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:03:14 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > Anyway, I took the advice given on the file, and reconfigured it via > "dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg", which did change it. Just to clarify, when I said "change it", I'm referring to the file (x

Re: lenny upgrade: font size

On Mon,13.Apr.09, 02:07:16, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I just successfully upgraded Etch to Lenny. However, the font > size is now very small. I use Fluxbox, and the font size is small on > the desktop of Fluxbox (the bottom window panel), and within the > applications as well. Does anyone k

[OT] Why politics are not important to Debian? [Re: DPL voice meeting live -was Re: Berkeleytip]

Ok, I know this is a troll, but I just want to get a few facts straight. On Sun,12.Apr.09, 16:18:43, john_re wrote: > Tragically, in TYPICAL! Debian fashion, there was NO! mention of the > single MOST IMPORTANT ongoing Debian event/activity (the election) on > the main page, & not the news page,

Re: mutt tip - get rid of TOFU

On 13 Apr 2009, Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:18:12AM EDT, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > Install t-prot. Accept "system wide" defaults. > > > Read through /etc/Muttrc.d/t-prot.rc > > Sure wonder what prompted you to post this w/o anyone asking, but I > absolutely agree. > > :

Re: apt-p2p

On Sun,12.Apr.09, 22:22:41, Erik Xavior wrote: > Is apt-p2p safe? I just read it on > slashdot, > does anybody use it? "Safe" in what way? I'm guessing the downloaded packages are still authenticated by apt, therefor it's probably not possib

Re: Updated Squeeze, X won't start

On Sun,12.Apr.09, 12:24:06, Carl Fink wrote: [...] > (EE) Failed to load module "via" (module does not exist, 0) > (EE) No drivers available. [...] > So is this a temporary problem that the X developers will quickly fix? > Something I can fix easily? Gremlins? Do you have your xserver-xorg-

Re: usermod change username problem

On Sun,12.Apr.09, 10:57:00, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > > So basically I don't want to use olduser as my username again and want > to change 'everything' associated with olduser to become newuser. such > the home directory, spoolfile, cron, etc... and I dont want the olduser > appear again. AFAIK fi

Re: Packages cannot be authenticated

On Mon,13.Apr.09, 01:17:59, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: > What is the significance of this message, when installing from a > downloaded (with Jigdo) Lenny DVD? Did you add the DVD to sources.list with apt-cdrom (or how did you install the package)? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply,

Re: Ton of Lenny updates

On Sun,12.Apr.09, 16:09:31, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 12 April 2009 15:17:40 Russell Gadd wrote: > > There are 59 updates waiting for me to install. I never had this many when > > I ran Etch for a couple of years, is something odd happening? > > As a result of your email I have just updated (

Re: apt-listbugs workaround

On Mon,13.Apr.09, 17:04:47, David Baron wrote: > > Those of you who do not see this error, you lucked out--closer/better > connections to various servers involved. You would not notice such a > wordaround. Maybe you should file a bug. If the error is triggered by bad connections increasing som

Re: Best way to install a new session manager

On Sun,12.Apr.09, 19:28:33, Rick Thomas wrote: > I kinda figured it involved tasksel. The question is, what particular > options to tasksel (and surrounding environment[*]) do I need to use to > get it to install the xfce (or kde, or any other non-gnome) session > manager with the exact same

Re: Aptitude issue

Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:50:48 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:07:50 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: I'm having an issue with Aptitude that I'm not sure how to correct. I was having an issue with OpenOffice so I decided the easiest way to

Re: what does "kept back" mean when do "apt-get upgrade"?

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Jeffrey Cao wrote: > On 2009-04-14, 明覺 wrote: >> 2009/4/14 David Fox : >>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM, 明覺 wrote: I often see that some packages are "kept back" when I do "apt-get upgrade", what does it mean? what actions are done to those kept bac

Re: what does "kept back" mean when do "apt-get upgrade"?

2009/4/14 David Fox : > 2009/4/13 明覺 : > >> if i do the dist-upgrade or full-upgrade to force upgrade these >> packages, then i may break the dependency of some other packages, >> which depend on the old versions, right? thanks. > > It is possible to have some packages that depend on an old version

Aptitude versus Update-manager

Hi, I decided upgrade my Latitude D630 to unstable from testing. First, I have googled and having found that the good way was to set the Pin-Priority in /etc/apt/preferences, and set /etc/apt/apt.conf to unstable, and change sources.list, like this: :~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: r

Re: what does "kept back" mean when do "apt-get upgrade"?

On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 09:07 +0800, 明覺 wrote: > if i do the dist-upgrade or full-upgrade to force upgrade these > packages, then i may break the dependency of some other packages, > which depend on the old versions, right? thanks. My understanding is that it won't break dependencies, only install

Re: Login problem at debian lenny

On 2009-04-13, Mahmudur Rahman Jami wrote: > --000e0cd331dcd3fd6c04676d5094 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hi, > > I am using Debian lenny. I am unable to login to my system since today > morning. It shows the following message when I put user

Re: what does "kept back" mean when do "apt-get upgrade"?

On 2009-04-14, 明覺 wrote: > 2009/4/14 David Fox : >> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM, 明覺 wrote: >>> I often see that some packages are "kept back" when I do "apt-get >>> upgrade", what does it mean? what actions are done to those kept back >>> packages? thanks >> >> They're put on temporary hold.

Re: Is there any Utility to Convert .docx Files to ASCII?

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 17:58, Martin McCormick wrote: > Our campus uses the latest Microsoft Office suite which produces > XL spreadsheets and Word documents with a different format. All > the file names end in x such as important-document.xlx or > someotherdoc.docx. catdoc which reads older Word

Update-alternatives questions

I understand the purpose of update-alternatives, but read further where I display my ignorance. The only way I can use it is: update-alternatives --all This results in cycling thru a long list of questions about various selections which I have no interest in changing, hoping that I will spot, fro

Re: what does "kept back" mean when do "apt-get upgrade"?

2009/4/14 David Fox : > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM, 明覺 wrote: >> I often see that some packages are "kept back" when I do "apt-get >> upgrade", what does it mean? what actions are done to those kept back >> packages? thanks > > They're put on temporary hold. "Kept back" means that there exist

Re: Problems when audio capturing with headset

Hi, Florian. On Sunday, 12 April 2009 19:32:27 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > I'm trying to test the operation of my headset in Debian GNU/Linux > > Squeeze to be able to use it with a softphone. Although the sound > > works with the rest of the applications with the headphone, in order > > to

Is there any Utility to Convert .docx Files to ASCII?

Our campus uses the latest Microsoft Office suite which produces XL spreadsheets and Word documents with a different format. All the file names end in x such as important-document.xlx or someotherdoc.docx. catdoc which reads older Word documents spews out a bunch of binary junk and XML code so it i

Re: No X after upgrade from lenny to testing with radeon x700

On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 17:11 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > I don't know why you don't have card0. X never creates devices in dev, > but udev should definitely have created it. What happens if you modprobe > radeon_drv.so? > > I'll go sit at the back of the class. Yep, loading the radeon module d

Re: No X after upgrade from lenny to testing with radeon x700

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 16:37, Mark McCorkell wrote: > Did a clean install of lenny i386 onto a laptop with a Radeon X700 > (RV4xx chipset). Normally I'd use fglrx but I decided to give the xorg > radeon driver a try to see if it had improved to a usable state yet. > > Unfortunately, xrandr still

Re: No X after upgrade from lenny to testing with radeon x700

On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 00:37 +0100, Mark McCorkell wrote: > Switching to fglrx causes this device > to appear, but the fglrx package in testing has a version difference > between the driver and the kernel module meaning it's not an ideal > solution. > Oops, ignore this bit. I hadn't noticed the co

No X after upgrade from lenny to testing with radeon x700

Did a clean install of lenny i386 onto a laptop with a Radeon X700 (RV4xx chipset). Normally I'd use fglrx but I decided to give the xorg radeon driver a try to see if it had improved to a usable state yet. Unfortunately, xrandr still can't handle 2 monitors with this chipset. It reports that two

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 11:30pm +1000 from Thorny: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:44:42 +1000, Graham Williams posted: > > > Received Thu 09 Apr 2009 9:12pm +1000 from Thorny: > >> On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams posted: > >> > >> > Have just upgraded a fairly vanilla etch install

Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 6:31am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: Thanks for the suggestions Florian. More details below. > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > > Have just upgraded > > To what? Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid? >From etch to lenny, as per Subject. > >

Re: [Partially solved] Re: Locale errors

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_M

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades Partially Fixed

On Apr 13, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le Monday 13 April 2009 03:43:01 Kelly Clowers, vous avez écrit : On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:42, Paul Scott wrote: (snip) I have basic PS2 keyboard and mouse. Is that what evdev is for? I think in the past evdev was usb only (or at

Re: mutt tip - get rid of TOFU

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:18:12AM EDT, Chris Bannister wrote: > Install t-prot. Accept "system wide" defaults. > Read through /etc/Muttrc.d/t-prot.rc Sure wonder what prompted you to post this w/o anyone asking, but I absolutely agree. :-) I don't know if this great garbage collection utili

Re: what does "kept back" mean when do "apt-get upgrade"?

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:13 PM, 明覺 wrote: > I often see that some packages are "kept back" when I do "apt-get > upgrade", what does it mean? what actions are done to those kept back > packages? thanks The package is not upgraded. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

what does "kept back" mean when do "apt-get upgrade"?

I often see that some packages are "kept back" when I do "apt-get upgrade", what does it mean? what actions are done to those kept back packages? thanks -- My platform is Debian-sid gnome mozilla blender eclipse monodevelop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: [Partially solved] Re: Locale errors

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" > LC_IDENTIFIC

Re: Missing dependencies of soundtracker

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 22:22:24 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Sunday 12 April 2009 20:51, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 18:07:03 +0200, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: > > > Florian Kulzer pisze: > > >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:00:14 +0200, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: > > >>> Hi, > >

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

Dne ponedeljek 13 april 2009 ob 22:46:16 je mc3393 napisal(a): > Klistvud wrote: > > Starting the new 5.00 Lenny DVD and selecting (any type of) install, some > > 5 to 10 minutes into the installation process, my laptop overheats and > > shuts down. It's a HP Compaq 6715b with an AMD Turion 64 and

Re: Lenny updates broke Broadcom 4328 wireless

Dne ponedeljek 13 april 2009 ob 22:54:21 je mc3393 napisal(a): > Klistvud wrote: > > Dne ponedeljek 13 april 2009 ob 10:10:42 je Klistvud napisal(a): > >> On a fresh Lenny install I finally made my wireless work (it's a BCM4328 > >> chip on a HP Compaq 6715b laptop) according to > >> http://forums.

Re: Adding Firmware to Custom Kernel

Hi, On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Walton, Bryan K wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I've got a new Dell Poweredge server that needs two pieces of firmware > for it to work successfully.  The first is the firmware for the Qlogic > Fiber Channel card.  The second is firmware for a Broadcom ethernet > p

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

Sam Kuper wrote: 2009/4/11 Mark Allums mailto:m...@allums.com>> As has been mentioned in another thread, RAID 1 pairs with LVM is pretty safe and flexible. The disadvantage is when adding more capacity, you have to add drives in pairs. With RAID 5, you don't have to add in pairs:

UK Open Source Petition

Dear all, Magnus Therning on the Cambridge LUG pointed out this petition, which UK citizens in favour of open-source software might wish to consider signing: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/open-source-tic/ Sam signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Adding Firmware to Custom Kernel

Hi everybody, I've got a new Dell Poweredge server that needs two pieces of firmware for it to work successfully. The first is the firmware for the Qlogic Fiber Channel card. The second is firmware for a Broadcom ethernet port. This box is running Debian Lenny. When I did the install of the op

Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

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: Lenny updates broke Broadcom 4328 wireless

Klistvud wrote: Dne ponedeljek 13 april 2009 ob 10:10:42 je Klistvud napisal(a): On a fresh Lenny install I finally made my wireless work (it's a BCM4328 chip on a HP Compaq 6715b laptop) according to http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=30648&postdays=0&postorder=asc&sta rt=0&sid=2782df8

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

Klistvud wrote: Starting the new 5.00 Lenny DVD and selecting (any type of) install, some 5 to 10 minutes into the installation process, my laptop overheats and shuts down. It's a HP Compaq 6715b with an AMD Turion 64 and an ATI Radeon 1200. Needless to say, I have the BIOS option "Fan always O

Re: lenny upgrade: font size

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:11:21 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > | In case of problem, the DisplaySize option be used in the Monitor > | section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to force another DPI. If you Thanks for the answer. I checked out this file, and it was the

BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

Using debian 5 stable, when playing some videos I'm getting the error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) and the video player crashes. This happens regardless of what application I use to play the video: totem, vlc, mplayer, etc. It's a video driver problem. Googling the e

Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

James Youngman 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 for filesystems like /home. > I am currently using Disk Dirvish which does an excelle

Re: Can't change brightness on HP Compaq 6715b laptop

On 13 Apr 2009, at 21:16, Klistvud wrote: Dne ponedeljek 13 april 2009 ob 21:17:12 je Klistvud napisal(a): Hiya, since I installed my fresh Lenny system several days ago, this thing has been bugging me: although the brightness buttons "work", ie the brightness slider/icon appears onscre

Re: checking boot partition with fsck

Vwaju wrote: > On Apr 13, 1:10 pm, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI > wrote: > >> You should say _why_ you cannot boot. Does GRUB or LILO load? What >> messages are shown? >> >> And please do not start threads unnecessarily. Just reply to the >> appropriate messages with the new information. >> > > Th

Re: Can't change brightness on HP Compaq 6715b laptop

Dne ponedeljek 13 april 2009 ob 21:17:12 je Klistvud napisal(a): > Hiya, > > since I installed my fresh Lenny system several days ago, this thing has > been bugging me: although the brightness buttons "work", ie the brightness > slider/icon appears onscreen, it has no effect - the brightness of the

Re: xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers (in sid)

Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 22:45, niclas w wrote: 'xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers' error message when starting amarik. No sound when using amarok(or any other player). But I hear the startup and shutdown jingle... Any ideas whats wrong or how to

Can't change brightness on HP Compaq 6715b laptop

Hiya, since I installed my fresh Lenny system several days ago, this thing has been bugging me: although the brightness buttons "work", ie the brightness slider/icon appears onscreen, it has no effect - the brightness of the LCD screen remains the same regardless of where I slide the brightness

Re: [Partially solved] Re: Locale errors

On Apr 13, 2009, at 3:40 AM, Bob Cox wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 20:24:27 -0700, Kelly Clowers (kelly.clow...@gmail.com ) wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 20:14, Celejar wrote: So you seem to be correct; for some reason, in the sudo shell, the LC* variables are getting extra quotes.

Re: xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers (in sid)

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:56, niclas wahlgren wrote: > Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 22:45, niclas w wrote: > > > 'xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers' > error message when starting amarik. > No sound when using amarok(or any other player). > But I hear the startup

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

2009/4/11 Mark Allums > > As has been mentioned in another thread, RAID 1 pairs with LVM is pretty > safe and flexible. The disadvantage is when adding more capacity, you have > to add drives in pairs. With RAID 5, you don't have to add in pairs: just add a drive when you want to. If one drive

Re: Lenny updates broke Broadcom 4328 wireless

Dne ponedeljek 13 april 2009 ob 10:10:42 je Klistvud napisal(a): > On a fresh Lenny install I finally made my wireless work (it's a BCM4328 > chip on a HP Compaq 6715b laptop) according to > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=30648&postdays=0&postorder=asc&sta >rt=0&sid=2782df86cc404fde6d75

Re: meta-question for debian users

Vwaju writes: > I can't find a webmaster contact for the linux.debian.user forum... I am reading your posting on the debian-user@lists.debian.org mailing-list for which the administrative contact is listmas...@lists.debian.org. However, you appear to be acessing this mailing list via Google Groups

Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

James Youngman 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 for filesystems like /home. I am currently using Disk Dirvish which does an excellent job of keeping multiple

Re: very broken X after recent upgrades

Le Monday 13 April 2009 03:43:01 Kelly Clowers, vous avez écrit : > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:42, Paul Scott wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:28, Paul Scott > >> wrote: > > > > >>> There are no input.x11 devices in the hal database! I

Re: checking boot partition with fsck

On Apr 13, 1:10 pm, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Vwaju wrote: > > Thanks to Lisi and Sven for advising me on the use of fsck to check > > the boot partition.  (I believe the –f option to fsck is *not* > > documented on the man page!) > > > After boot failure, I booted debian-live-500-i386-rescue.

Re: related to mail servers, mta and mda

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 08:53:11PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > This is a beginner's (no experience with setting up mail servers) query > about MTA's and MUA's. I am trying to see if I can setup an mta or a > related application on my Debian machine which is being run as a router > for my home lan such tha

Re: SD-NECU2-5E1I - Re: Linux (Debian) support of USB card

I thought I'd send this along for the archive, FYI. So far I haven't found _any_ that say that they _are_ compatible with Linux, either they know that they aren't (such as Syba) or they believe that support is in the chipset but that they haven't tested them. I guess I'll go with startech since a

Strange timeout and DPMS behaviour in Lenny

My monitor timout and DPMS have been acting really wacky since I upgraded to Lenny. In X the screen blanking behaviour will often turn off my monitor instead of just blank it, and then the DPMS will turn it back on. I have checked what xset says, and it says that the monitor is on during blanking

meta-question for debian users

I can't find a webmaster contact for the linux.debian.user forum, but maybe someone can advise me about this puzzling problem. The linux.debian.user community is indispensable, and I couldn't do with out . However, I have occasionally had a technical problem that follows this pattern: On Friday

Re: checking boot partition with fsck

Vwaju wrote: > Thanks to Lisi and Sven for advising me on the use of fsck to check > the boot partition. (I believe the –f option to fsck is *not* > documented on the man page!) > > After boot failure, I booted debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso, and ran > fsck on the boot partition: > > u...@debian:

checking boot partition with fsck

Thanks to Lisi and Sven for advising me on the use of fsck to check the boot partition. (I believe the –f option to fsck is *not* documented on the man page!) After boot failure, I booted debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso, and ran fsck on the boot partition: u...@debian:~$ sudo -i debian:~# fsck –

Re: usermod change username problem

Hi! Il giorno dom, 12/04/2009 alle 10.57 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang ha scritto: > Dear Debian community: > I have got a specific problem using usermod to change my previous > username olduser to newuser. > > This is what I use: > sudo usermod -l newuser -md /home/newuser olduser[:w > > newuser is t

PMP Exam Preparation Course (35 Contact Hours) on April 20th to 24th, 2009 at Kuala Lumpur

Dear Professionals, I am pleased to inform you that our next PMP Certification Exam Preparation Course is scheduled to be held at Kuala Lumpur on April 20th to 24th, 2009. The details are: Course Title: Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) Training for PMP Certification (35 Pr

Re: boot failure diagnostics

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 08:36:29AM -0700, Vwaju wrote: > Out of the blue, Debian failed to boot. Did it complain about some file system inconsistency? fsck can help only in these cases. Some details of the failure would help here. > Using debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso I mounted the root parti

boot failure diagnostics

Out of the blue, Debian failed to boot. Using debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso I mounted the root partition / dev/hda1. I would like to examine the partition to find the reason for the failure. I'm guessing I should use fsck. Is this right? However, I don't know what options to give it or *what

Re: apt-listbugs workaround

>Upgrading has become very tortuous, tedious and nigh-impossible because of all >those "empty strings for SOAP" errors. This had been fixed, keeps coming back. >I have found that if packages are installed one-at-a-time, apt-listbugs will >report. Of course, many packages get grouped by their d

Re: new KDE (4.2) in Unstable, how's your experience?

Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Been using KDE4.2 from experimental for a while and you're right it doesn't seem as fast as KDE3. Turning off composite made things a lot faster. Dolphin and okular are awesome. Kate now has vim mode so that's also interesting... For those using later Nvidia cards, KDE

mutt tip - get rid of TOFU

Hi, Install t-prot. Accept "system wide" defaults. Read through /etc/Muttrc.d/t-prot.rc Enjoy. -- Chris. == I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yo

Re: new KDE (4.2) in Unstable, how's your experience?

Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:46:30 -0400 > "H.S." wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Has anybody been playing around with the new KDE we got a few days ago >> in Sid? >> >> The graphics are nice, but looks like the GUI is not as fast or >> responsive as the older one. This is on a

Re: X and tty7

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 14:35:28 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > I don't use gdm, but this behavior seems broken to me. Why can't it > just use the first available VT by default, like the X server does by > itself? > There's a race if you start both X and getty at the same time, and both decide tha

Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

but lame isn't available in etch main I give up. Thanks anyway! On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Bob Cox wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 08:18:51 +1000, Adrian Levi (adrian.l...@gmail.com) > wrote: > >> 2009/4/13 Long Wind : >> > Thank Bob, but your command does not work. >> > >> > Below is o

Re: Updated Squeeze, X won't start

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 19:54:11 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > So is this a temporary problem that the X developers will quickly fix? > > No, you need to fix it yourself. Actually it gets fixed up by the upgrade to xserver-xorg from sid, we just didn't expect the xserver-xorg-video-via removal

Re: postgresql & sid

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 07:08:03PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 00:58:05 +0430, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > > When i use debian:/home/mohsen# /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 start > > debian:/home/mohsen# > > > > I didn't see any output. > Did you check the documentation in

Re: xorg not working after synaptic upgrade (Lenny stable)

> I hope that this will work for you, because it worked for me this a.m. when > I updated. The stock kernel image has been updated (2.6.26-2-686 for me). > The recipe below worked for me. Good luck: > > 1. download the latest nVidia driver from the nVidia site > 2. back up your xorg.conf file for

Re: xorg not working after synaptic upgrade (Lenny stable)

Thomas Anderson did write: I did the usual synaptic update and upgrade and after I rebooted the X server refuses to start. I'm on Debian stable Lenny. I temporarily changed the "nvidia" string in xorg.conf to "nv" and it works in a low resolution now to write this mail. I've included the synaptic

Re: new KDE (4.2) in Unstable, how's your experience?

* Amit Uttamchandani [2009 Apr 13 00:56 -0500]: > On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:46:30 -0400 > "H.S." wrote: > > Any other experiences worth sharing? > > > > Been using KDE4.2 from experimental for a while and you're right it > doesn't seem as fast as KDE3. Turning off composite made things a lot > fa

Re: [Partially solved] Re: Locale errors

On 2009-04-12 23:14:52 -0400, Celejar wrote: > And here we have the problem! I noticed that when I log in as root > directly, either to a getty or via 'su', then I don't see the problem. > It only appears in root shells obtained with 'sudo -i'. 'locale' in > the latter case gives: > > ~# locale

Re: [Solved] xorg not working after synaptic upgrade (Lenny stable)

Oh, never mind dear list. I found the problem :). Replacing the proprietary driver using synaptic did the trick: Commit Log for Mon Apr 13 13:18:19 2009 Removed the following packages: nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-1-amd64 Installed the following packages: nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-2-amd64 (173.14.09+

Re: [Partially solved] Re: Locale errors

I don't know if this is directly related, but I've just reported the following bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=523882 sudo -i doesn't unset some environment variables -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog:

xorg not working after synaptic upgrade (Lenny stable)

I did the usual synaptic update and upgrade and after I rebooted the X server refuses to start. I'm on Debian stable Lenny. I temporarily changed the "nvidia" string in xorg.conf to "nv" and it works in a low resolution now to write this mail. I've included the synaptic log of what got upgraded bel

Re: Display problem after apt-get dist-upgrade

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 22:48:01 -0700, Kuang Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I apt-get and apt-get dist-upgraded everyday and I think > several xorg-related and intel graphics card got upgraded a > few days ago. Then the display of my computer got messed > up. The windows repait themselves

Login problem at debian lenny

Hi, I am using Debian lenny. I am unable to login to my system since today morning. It shows the following message when I put user account, Usage login [-p] [name] -p [-h host] [-f name] -p -r host This system is running qmail/webmail services and very important to me. Please help me.

Re: [Partially solved] Re: Locale errors

On 2009-04-13 01:07:44 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > I ran into this too. Same problem -- extra set of quotes in the > environment variables after doing "sudo -i" . I don't have this problem. Note that my files /etc/environment and /etc/default/locale are empty, and /root/.bashrc and /root/.pro

Starting Conky at logon in Gnome

Hi list Can someone pls advise which file to edit so that when I log into Gnome, Conky starts automatically. Thanks CL

Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

2009/4/13 Bob Cox : > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 08:18:51 +1000, Adrian Levi (adrian.l...@gmail.com) > wrote: > Indeed.  Note the '--enable-libmp3lame' below: Seems as if the OP's ffmpeg was not compiled with that option set. OP's reply to you below. 2009/4/13 Long Wind : > Thank Bob, but your com

Re: Aptitude issue

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:50:48 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: > > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:07:50 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: >>> I'm having an issue with Aptitude that I'm not sure how to correct. I >>> was having an issue with OpenOffice so I decided the easiest way to >>> reso

Re: related to mail servers, mta and mda

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:20:13PM -0400, James Richardson wrote: > I use Exim on my f/w on my router. It accepts email from all the nodes > on my home network and now forwards it to my mail server on my vps. > Previously, it forwarded mail through my isp. If I remember correctly > when sending ma

Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 08:18:51 +1000, Adrian Levi (adrian.l...@gmail.com) wrote: > 2009/4/13 Long Wind : > > Thank Bob, but your command does not work. > > > > Below is output of your command: > > > Output #0, mp2, to 'real128.mp3': > >  Stream #0.0: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128000 kb/s

Re: apt-p2p

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:22:41PM +0200, Erik Xavior wrote: > Is apt-p2p safe? I just read it on > slashdot, > does anybody use it? Last time I tried it it was a resource hog and generally slow. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.or

Lenny updates broke Broadcom 4328 wireless

On a fresh Lenny install I finally made my wireless work (it's a BCM4328 chip on a HP Compaq 6715b laptop) according to http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=30648&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=2782df86cc404fde6d75b631594c3053 As soon as internet connection was available (I have no wire

last debian testing upgrade

Errors during debian upgrades are highly uncommon... Today that I upgraded my testing box, I noticed the following: Preparing to replace openoffice.org-writer2latex 0.5.0.2-2 (using .../openoffice.org-writer2latex_0.5.0.2-4_all.deb) ... /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg.bin: error while load

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