Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-05-11 Thread Harry Rickards
On 12 May 2009, at 07:42, JoeHill wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: Just an update on this. I have asked on #gnucash if the patch for this bug can be backported to 2.2.6 upstream and they say this is a Debian problem as it is fixed in Gnucash. They will not do anything to help. Here's the sh

Problem while booting Debian with LVDS connector instead of VGA

2009-05-11 Thread User Debian
Hello, I have a problem that I meet each time I boot Linux on an embedded computer. Configuration: Embedded PC : ECM-LX800 Screen: LVDS (and not VGA) Linux: Debian ETCH version 2.6.18-6-686 The problem comes after GRUB gives the instruction on which partition to boot, BUT before that Linux k

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-05-11 Thread JoeHill
Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Just an update on this. I have asked on #gnucash if the patch for this > bug can be backported to 2.2.6 upstream and they say this is a Debian > problem as it is fixed in Gnucash. They will not do anything to help. > > Here's the short conversation from #gnucash. >

Automatically repair configuration files

2009-05-11 Thread Angelin Lalev
One of my xen domains just crashed and left the ext3 filesystem of one of my DomU debian installations in a horrible state. Subsequent fsck deleted a bunch of files. Now I want to fix a package or two by reinstalling the configurations. aptitude purge package && aptitude install package howewe

Re: How to start an user program automatically after logging on.

2009-05-11 Thread Allan Wind
On 2009-05-12T14:16:43, J.Hwan.Kim wrote: > I'd like to know how to start a program automatically after booting. > For example, I wish to let "Mail Notification" program start > automatically after logging on. > Could you tell me the method? Are you using KDE/GDM, or XFCE? Automatically starting

Udev and device name unstable

2009-05-11 Thread T o n g
Hi, My DVD device is used to be /dev/dvd or /dev/dvdrw. But today after I rebooted my box, there are no /dev/dvd or /dev/dvdrw devices any more. They are changed to /dev/dvd1 and /dev/dvdrw1 instead. This make it very inconvenient for me, since all my scripts (and fstab) are using hard-coded /de

How to start an user program automatically after logging on.

2009-05-11 Thread J.Hwan.Kim
Hi, everyone I'd like to know how to start a program automatically after booting. For example, I wish to let "Mail Notification" program start automatically after logging on. Could you tell me the method? Thanks in advance. Regards, J.H.Kim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-05-11 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:06:00PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: I'm experiencing a bug in Gnucash that appeared a couple of days ago on my system that makes Gnucash completely unusable for me. I

Re: Safe change of uid

2009-05-11 Thread Elmer E. Dow
Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:29:04PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote: Just finished a fresh Lenny install and added an account for my daughter -- and kuser assigned it uid 500 instead of 1001, which I must corr

Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

2009-05-11 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Saturday 02 May 2009 19:02:42 Christofer C. Bell wrote: > There's nothing special about how Ubuntu does it. In fact, when you > install Etch you can have the Ubuntu behavior at installation time (when it > prompts for a root password, select Cancel, then in the installer menu, > select the opt

Bug#528316: Why does iconv choose Private Use Area? (big5->katakana)

2009-05-11 Thread jidanni
Package: libc6 Version: 2.9-12 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/iconv X-debbugs-cc: ha...@m17n.org, debian-user@lists.debian.org Kenichi Handa writes: > In article <87y6t7axqg@jidanni.org>, jida...@jidanni.org writes: > >> OK. Should I report a bug against iconv, that -f big5 should be at least

Re: Japanese write

2009-05-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 09 May 2009 02:41:04 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:37:04 -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:40:06PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: I'm new to Debian (not to the *nix community) and have been

Re: updated Testing and Ekiga segfaults

2009-05-11 Thread H.S.
Michael Pobega wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:32:25AM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I did an upgdate of my Debian Testing machine earlier today and now when >> I start Ekiga, it segfaults. >> >> The debugging info from Ekiga is: >> [... $> ekiga -d4 ...] >> >> This is on Ekiga version 2.0

Re: Japanese write

2009-05-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 09 May 2009 02:41:04 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ > ch08.en.html#_an_example_for_japanese This page seems suddenly to have become inaccessible. But I found another at http://phpxref.org/docs/debian/ ch09.en.html#anexampleforjapanese --

Re: Installing xfce 4.6 on Lenny

2009-05-11 Thread Christoph Pilka
Some weeks ago I installed XFCE 4.6 on many Lenny boxes and documented the installation in a howto I have published in my wiki: http://debian.asconix.com/xfce-debian-lenny-howto Following step-by-step results in a clean and properly working XFCE 4.6 installation. Greets, Chris Magnus Pedersen

Re: a bit ot: Security system and web cams

2009-05-11 Thread green
Depo Catcher wrote at 2009-05-11 13:02 -0600: > Does Debian have any packages or software to control web cams (motion > detect, recording, viewing, etc). I can suggest the zoneminder package, but I have very little experience with it. It is only available in sid at this point. signature.asc

Re: vmware 1.0.8 (or .9) with 2.6.29

2009-05-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 05:46:49PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 08:13:16AM +0200, Mirco Piccin wrote: > > HI > > > > >> I'm seriously thinking to switch to virtualbox ose... > > > > > > me too but my image will not boot in VB, I have taken a copy of the boot > > > disks to se

Re: pam, ldap: pam_groupdn ignored / not compatible with local users

2009-05-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:35:14PM +0100, Michael Marti wrote: > Dear list members > > I am not sure if this is an Debian or ldap / pam issue. Please forgive > me if this is not the appropriate list to post. > > I am trying to restrict access to our hosts by setting pam_groupdn and > pam_member

Re: Safe change of uid

2009-05-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:29:04PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > > Just finished a fresh Lenny install and added an account for my daughter > > -- and kuser assigned it uid 500 instead of 1001, which I must correct. > > After lo

Re: Safe change of uid

2009-05-11 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:27:14PM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > Kuser is the KDE gui that's supposed to take the place of the command > line user management. It follows the Red Hat convention of users uid > starting at 500 instead of the Debian rule that starts them at 1000. If the program i

Re: Safe change of uid

2009-05-11 Thread Elmer E. Dow
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote: Just finished a fresh Lenny install and added an account for my daughter -- and kuser assigned it uid 500 instead of 1001, which I must correct. After looking at man pages and archives, I see that kuser i

pam, ldap: pam_groupdn ignored / not compatible with local users

2009-05-11 Thread Michael Marti
Dear list members I am not sure if this is an Debian or ldap / pam issue. Please forgive me if this is not the appropriate list to post. I am trying to restrict access to our hosts by setting pam_groupdn and pam_member_attribute in /etc/pam_ldap.conf. Checking the logs of ldap show that p

Re: Safe change of uid

2009-05-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > Just finished a fresh Lenny install and added an account for my daughter > -- and kuser assigned it uid 500 instead of 1001, which I must correct. > After looking at man pages and archives, I see that kuser in the past > has done

Re: filter utility to send cron e-mail only if unexpected output

2009-05-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:07:18PM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In <4a01ac7b.4010...@fgm.com>, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > >> Does Debian have any utility to address the following situation? > > > > Not that I know of. > > > >> I have some scripts that I run both

Re: Unable to start postgresql on Debian

2009-05-11 Thread Joseph Rawson
On Saturday 25 April 2009 03:26:31 Foss User wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Foss User wrote: > > I installed postgresql using the following commands: > > > > aptitude update > > aptitude install postgresql > > > > I tried to start it: > > > > /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 start > > > > But

Re: updated Testing and Ekiga segfaults

2009-05-11 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:32:25AM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > I did an upgdate of my Debian Testing machine earlier today and now when > I start Ekiga, it segfaults. > > The debugging info from Ekiga is: > [... $> ekiga -d4 ...] > > This is on Ekiga version 2.0.12-1+nmu1+b1. Anybody have an

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-11 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:04:47AM +0100, Andrew G wrote: > > 4) Finally, icons from removable media are not being placed on my desktop > like they used to. This may well have something to do with UDEV, but beyond > that I haven't a clue on what's up nor - even more critically - what I can > do a

KDE update wants to remove konqueror and other packages

2009-05-11 Thread Edward C. Jones
I use the amd64 port of Debian. A while ago a big KDE update was put into unstable. I have not done the upgrade because synaptic wants to remove the following packages: kaudiocreator kcontrol kde-core kdeaddons kdebase kdebase-bin-kde3 konq-plugins konqueror libgvfscommon0 quanta superkaramba x

Re: a bit ot: Security system and web cams

2009-05-11 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 14:02:13 -0500, Depo Catcher (depocatc...@gmail.com) wrote: > > I've been thinking of setting up a security/monitoring system for my > home. > > Does Debian have any packages or software to control web cams (motion > detect, recording, viewing, etc). > > I need at lea

Re: response from the host command for a private address listed in /etc/hosts

2009-05-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Peter Crawford wrote: >What response should come from `host myserver` executed >on myworkstation? By consulting /etc/hosts, From man 1 host: host is a simple utility for performing DNS lookups. So, it always uses DNS, not paying attention to your settings in nsswitch.conf. In particular,

response from the host command for a private address listed in /etc/hosts

2009-05-11 Thread Peter Crawford
Suppose that a LAN has machines myworkstation and myserver with private addresses and that myworkstation:/etc/hosts contains this line. 172.24.1.1myserver.site.invalidmyserver What response should come from `host myserver` executed on myworkstation? By consulting /etc/hosts, it should

a bit ot: Security system and web cams

2009-05-11 Thread Depo Catcher
I've been thinking of setting up a security/monitoring system for my home. Does Debian have any packages or software to control web cams (motion detect, recording, viewing, etc). I need at least 6 cameras. I can get some really nice ones that work under Windows for $90 each; but software (

Re: Startup applications in Xfce in Squeeze

2009-05-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,11.May.09, 10:47:18, Peter Crawford wrote: > > Since release of an overhauled Xfce to Squeeze about a week ago, > Skype no longer starts automatically. The gadget for invoking > applications at startup appears to have been removed. Is there > a new method to specify startup application

Re: Thinkpad X61s/x301 hotkeys

2009-05-11 Thread Alex Romosan
Bruno Voigt writes: > Alex Romosan wrote: >>> I have the same problem with a Thinkpad X301, >>> the Suspend2Ram/Suspend2Disk buttons ceased to work with some update in >>> the last two weeks. >>> >> >> on my thinkpad t61p i managed to get the suspend to ram button to work >> by editing /etc/

Sid+KDE4+scrollkeeper

2009-05-11 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Careful, Scrollkeeper is now obsolete and needed for Synaptic. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian GNU/Linux Sid KDE4 64-Bit Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Startup applications in Xfce in Squeeze

2009-05-11 Thread Peter Crawford
Since release of an overhauled Xfce to Squeeze about a week ago, Skype no longer starts automatically. The gadget for invoking applications at startup appears to have been removed. Is there a new method to specify startup applications? Thanks, p. crawford _

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-11 Thread JoeHill
Andrew G wrote: > Hi list > > Of late, Gnome has been behaving in unpredictable ways. I am using > testing/Squeeze and sometime over the last few weeks, a number of changes > have taken place that I am unable to reverse, and I would really appreciate > a bit of help from this list if that is no

Re: X server mishap

2009-05-11 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Ben Badgley wrote: ... > One disadvantage of rural life is lacking options for high speed > connections. We make do on dial up but it can be frustrating at times. > ... If that frustration relates to waiting for Debian packages to download after you've selected to install them: Consider maintain

Re: filter utility to send cron e-mail only if unexpected output

2009-05-11 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <4a01ac7b.4010...@fgm.com>, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Does Debian have any utility to address the following situation? > > Not that I know of. > >> I have some scripts that I run both manually and as cron jobs. The >> scripts generate stdout/stderr output repor

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-11 Thread Andrew G
Thanks to those folk who responded. Much appreciated I was beginning to get paranoid ... :-) Conky is one issue and a rather minor one at that and rates as an annoyance. It may just be that Gnome and Conky don't play nicely together, because trying it out on Fluxbox, Xfce4 and even KDE all is fi

Re: filter utility to send cron e-mail only if unexpected output

2009-05-11 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:27:55AM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Does Debian have any utility to address the following situation? >> >> I have some scripts that I run both manually and as cron jobs. The scripts >> generate stdout/stderr output reporting what they're do

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-05-11 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 11:42:34AM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: ... >> Have you tried mapping the Control key back to where it was when Emacs >> was designed (and where it belongs--just to the left of the A key (on >> QWERTY keyboards))? > > Used that for a long time .. the loc

Re: Kernel panic, hit reset button then all's OK

2009-05-11 Thread green
jida...@jidanni.org wrote at 2009-05-09 12:57 -0600: > On my older machine, upon the first boot of each day I get Just the first boot of each day?! Or with any cold boot (powered up from off)? It may be that your simplest *workaround* is to hit the reset button sometime at/before the grub men

Re: wmi-client on Squeeze/Sid

2009-05-11 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi and thanks, > I found the intrepid version, still probably not as new of a version as what > squeeze is but it should be better then the hardy one since hardy would be > about the same as etch. > >  http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/wmi-client > > The only other way is to get the source and i

RE: wmi-client on Squeeze/Sid

2009-05-11 Thread George
I found the intrepid version, still probably not as new of a version as what squeeze is but it should be better then the hardy one since hardy would be about the same as etch. http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/wmi-client The only other way is to get the source and install that way. I don't th

updated Testing and Ekiga segfaults

2009-05-11 Thread H.S.
Hello, I did an upgdate of my Debian Testing machine earlier today and now when I start Ekiga, it segfaults. The debugging info from Ekiga is: $> ekiga -d4 2009/05/11 10:29:30.042 0:00.842ekiga ekiga Version 2.0.12 by on Unix Linux (2.6.26-2-686-i686) at 2009/5/11 10:29

Where to report lenny installer bug?

2009-05-11 Thread BranchingFactor
I have a server with a built-in LSI SAS 1068 controller and 2 SAS drives that has been running amd64 etch for two years without any problems.  I recently upgraded the system from etch to lenny (stable) and after the upgrade the system would boot but could not find the disk drives.  I checked und

Re: wmi-client on Squeeze/Sid

2009-05-11 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi > I just wanted to add that you might want to check to see if they have it in > the jaunty repos as well. Jaunty is closer in release then hardy to > debian/squeeze Thanks! what's more, i can install wmi-client (hardy version), but i'm not able to make it works. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-11 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 11. 05. 2009 11:04:47 je Andrew G napisal(a): > 1) When I right-click on an image file in my home directory in order > to > access the properties of that image to add notes to it, the whole set > of > desktop icons, including my home directory and Conky all disappear > for > a few > seconds

Safe change of uid

2009-05-11 Thread Elmer E. Dow
Just finished a fresh Lenny install and added an account for my daughter -- and kuser assigned it uid 500 instead of 1001, which I must correct. After looking at man pages and archives, I see that kuser in the past has done well creating accounts but not modifying them. Is that still true with

RE: wmi-client on Squeeze/Sid

2009-05-11 Thread George
I just wanted to add that you might want to check to see if they have it in the jaunty repos as well. Jaunty is closer in release then hardy to debian/squeeze -Original Message- From: Mirco Piccin [mailto:pic...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 9:49 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.o

Re: wmi-client on Squeeze/Sid

2009-05-11 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/5/11 Mirco Piccin > Hi, > > >> i'm trying to install wmi-client packages on my Squeeze/Sid, but i'm > >> not able to find in the standard repositories (main, contrib & > >> non-free). > > > http://packages.debian.org/sid/wmi-client > > this seems only for m68k platform (mine is i386). > Rega

Re: wmi-client on Squeeze/Sid

2009-05-11 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi >> > http://packages.debian.org/sid/wmi-client >> >> this seems only for m68k platform (mine is i386). >> Regards >> M > > and the source isn't provided too. Too bad. George in a pm , tell me that the package is available in the ubuntu repos: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/python/wmi-client

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-11 Thread Glyn Astill
--- On Mon, 11/5/09, Bob Cox wrote: > From: Bob Cox > Subject: Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, 11 May, 2009, 2:17 PM > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:04:47 +0100, Andrew G > (computing.acco...@googlemail.com) wrote: > > > Hi lis

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-11 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:04:47 +0100, Andrew G (computing.acco...@googlemail.com) wrote: > Hi list [Snip tale of woe] > I've asked this list for help before on a couple of these issues and the > response has been - with the exception of one kind soul who did respond - > crap. I don't know i

Re: Why does iconv choose Private Use Area? (big5->katakana)

2009-05-11 Thread Kenichi Handa
In article <87y6t7axqg@jidanni.org>, jida...@jidanni.org writes: > OK. Should I report a bug against iconv, that -f big5 should be at least > mapping to the same place as -f big5-hkscs or instead it should raise an > error about invalid input? > I don't know why that second katakana area in n

XSD validation

2009-05-11 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, What are people using for XSD validation on debian ? A quick search on google reveal xmlcopyeditor which has never been integrated in debian. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435888 Thanks for suggestion, -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
I need to convert an HTML document to PDF from the CLI. Currently, I am using a Firefox extension to do this: http://torisugari.googlepages.com/commandlineprint2 However, this has many drawbacks and I would like to remove the dependency on Firefox. These are other solutions that I have looked into

Re: wmi-client on Squeeze/Sid

2009-05-11 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi, >> i'm trying to install wmi-client packages on my Squeeze/Sid, but i'm >> not able to find in the standard repositories (main, contrib & >> non-free). > http://packages.debian.org/sid/wmi-client this seems only for m68k platform (mine is i386). Regards M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: wmi-client on Squeeze/Sid

2009-05-11 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/5/11 Mirco Piccin > Hi all, > i'm trying to install wmi-client packages on my Squeeze/Sid, but i'm > not able to find in the standard repositories (main, contrib & > non-free). > Any tips? > Thanks! > http://packages.debian.org/sid/wmi-client > > Regards > M > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

wmi-client on Squeeze/Sid

2009-05-11 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi all, i'm trying to install wmi-client packages on my Squeeze/Sid, but i'm not able to find in the standard repositories (main, contrib & non-free). Any tips? Thanks! Regards M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Problem trying to reproduce audio in KDE

2009-05-11 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all! Using Twinkle 1.4.2, when trying to establish a connection against the Asterisk server I obtain the following error message: "Critical: Cannot open ALSA driver for PCM playback: Device or resource busy". Audio config for Twinkle is: Ring tone: ALSA: plughw:0,0: ICEnsemble ICE1724 (ICE1

Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-11 Thread Andrew G
Hi list Of late, Gnome has been behaving in unpredictable ways. I am using testing/Squeeze and sometime over the last few weeks, a number of changes have taken place that I am unable to reverse, and I would really appreciate a bit of help from this list if that is not too much trouble. In no ord

Re: Cannot view xls file

2009-05-11 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: Screnshot: http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/2231/oo3xls.png This clearly is not an excel binary file, but some html-export form. You can probably open this file in your browser. Apparently MS Excel has a trick for importing these files, which oofice doesn't have. Try e