2009/5/21 Ronnie McMaster
> I just loaded Debian on my PC and everything seems fine other than not
> being able to set the resolution other than 800X600. I am used to having it
> at 1240X940 (or something close to that) but I only get the options for
> 800x600 and 640X480. I have a Lenovo System
green wrote at 2009-05-20 23:23 -0600:
> Long Wind wrote at 2009-05-20 04:08 -0600:
> > I have try gimp for sarge
> > It seems to have problem with capturing window
> > I have tried scrot for etch
> > It does not capture title bar when capturing window
>
> Have you tried using the --border option
Long Wind wrote at 2009-05-20 04:08 -0600:
> I have try gimp for sarge
> It seems to have problem with capturing window
> I have tried scrot for etch
> It does not capture title bar when capturing window
Have you tried using the --border option (see scrot(1))? ...Assuming it is
available in the
I just loaded Debian on my PC and everything seems fine other than not being
able to set the resolution other than 800X600. I am used to having it at
1240X940 (or something close to that) but I only get the options for 800x600
and 640X480. I have a Lenovo System with NVIDIA cards. My other smaller
I use pm-hibernate from pm-utils for my laptop to go into hibernation,
after resuming from it, I noticed fonts in iceweasel and other gtk
applications get cluttered (as shown in the screenshot below)
http://imgur.com/arbib.png
I am not sure if this happens to apps other than gtk, fonts return to
Recently I started getting errors from rsync on a machine I don't tend
to have to log on to very often. I checked the bad directory and get
this:
[...@scarecrow:threshNet]$ ls -l reportX
total 0
?- ? ? ? ?? reportX/2009-r...@?
At this point this is the only file in t
* Michael Casey [2009-05-19 13:58:13 +0200]:
> What happened to
>
> http://www.spampoison.com/
>
It's there.
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On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 19:50 +0200, David Fox wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:04 AM, wrote:
>
> > If your turntable doesn't have a "line out" (mine didn't) you can
> > purchase an in-line preamp for a modest sum (mine was purchased from
> > DAK)
>
> I'll think you'll find that you need to use
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 23:20 +0200, gianni wrote:
> HI lists
> how can I resize the LVM default partition layout of debian?
> the root is to small around 400mb... I looked around the web but it look
> like I need to do that from a rescue cd, which one should I use?
> any good link for a easy how to
Jeff Chimene wrote:
On 12/23/-28158 12:59 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Wed,20.May.09, 12:34:01, Jeff Chimene wrote:
Hi,
While futzing w/ KDE 4, I deleted the desktop containment. How do I
restore the desktop containment? Google is not very revealing on this
topic.
What's do you mean
On 21.05.2009 01:31, Bhasker C V wrote:
Is there a method to prevent accidental powerdown of a linux box ?
or atleast alert ?
leda:~# reboot
W: molly-guard: SSH session detected!
Please type in hostname of the machine to reboot: fnutt
Good thing I asked; I won't reboot leda ...
W: aborting rebo
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 07:31:47PM EDT, Bhasker C V wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a method to prevent accidental powerdown of a linux box ?
> or atleast alert ?
You could always issue a:
# shutdown 1
which leaves you one minute to cancel your shutdown request.
??
CJ
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Hi all,
Is there a method to prevent accidental powerdown of a linux box ?
or atleast alert ?
This usually happens when there are too many machines being
managed and I accidentally run 'sudo reboot' on some other
system rather than the one intented.
I can rename and shell wrap the b
On Wednesday 20 May 2009 17:17:35 Maicon Faria wrote:
> Package: OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5
>
> When I run a program, as user, that uses more then the memory
> avaliable the OOM(OUT-OF-MEMORY) kill this job.
> After that, ssh crashes and must be restarted by the root.
>
> Anyone has experienced somethi
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 05:43:24AM EDT, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 06:11:05PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote:
> > Sure.. I use vim rather than vi but the "command-mode" default key
> > mapping, for instance, is pretty awful.
>
> CTRL-[ is easier.
I believe you would want to use th
On 12/23/-28158 12:59 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Wed,20.May.09, 12:34:01, Jeff Chimene wrote:
Hi,
While futzing w/ KDE 4, I deleted the desktop containment. How do I
restore the desktop containment? Google is not very revealing on this
topic.
What's do you mean by 'containment'?
Hi,
[No top posting please, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOFU#Top-posting ]
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 21:57 +0800, Jerry wrote:
> "Frank Lin PIAT" said
> >
> > On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 00:11 +0800, Jerry wrote:
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> I have installed the Wu-ftpd in Etch. It works properly after
> >>
On Wed,20.May.09, 22:45:23, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> Bruno Boettcher wrote:
>
> > kbd is still on nodeadkeys...
>
> It appears that the keyboard system in X has changed. There is now
> something new and mysterious called evdev. To see if you have a
> system with evdev, type
>
> setxkbmap -pri
Package: OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5
When I run a program, as user, that uses more then the memory
avaliable the OOM(OUT-OF-MEMORY) kill this job.
After that, ssh crashes and must be restarted by the root.
Anyone has experienced something like that ?
This happens in computers in a cluster where the no
Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> kbd is still on nodeadkeys...
It appears that the keyboard system in X has changed. There is now
something new and mysterious called evdev. To see if you have a
system with evdev, type
setxkbmap -print
and see if evdev is mentioned.
If it is, it seems that at the momen
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 23:07:16 +0100, AG wrote:
> Hi List
>
> In KDE3.5.5, running on Etch whenever I load a USB data stick, it
> triggers OpenOffice.org's splash screen and then reports that
> media:/sda1 does not exist.
>
> The same USB stick loads fine and is accessible in Gnome, so it wou
Ken Teague writes:
> In Debian, absolutely nothing since it's a symbolic link to bash...
"man bash" and read the "INVOCATION" section.
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I seem to keep having a problem with chrony dropping back to 127.127.1.1..
I saw in chrony.conf
# Note that if Chrony tries to go "online" and dns lookup of the servers
# fails they will be discarded. Thus under some circumstances it is
# better t
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Wed,20.May.09, 21:09:02, Muzer wrote:
Damn, I did it again, sending it to one person rather than everyone! I
really need to get used to this mailing list lark.
There's a reply-to-list extension for Thunderbird.
Regards,
Andrei
Thanks, I'll look that up
Hi Medina,
Do the Chinese characters display regularly on screen? If so, that is
problem of printing font.
Anyway, you may try the following steps to solve your problem:
1) Reinstall a suitable Chinese font. Now, wenquanyi is a good option.
2) Configure your desktop environment's font setting.
3)
Sthu Deus wrote:
Good day.
I have noticed that for some users in /etc/passwd the shell environment
is set as bash and for some as sh. This has led me to the following
questions:
. Why is it so, meaning what is the meaning of it?
. Do I give more insecure environment to a user setting for him sh
On Wed,20.May.09, 21:09:02, Muzer wrote:
> Damn, I did it again, sending it to one person rather than everyone! I
> really need to get used to this mailing list lark.
There's a reply-to-list extension for Thunderbird.
Regards,
Andrei
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Sthu Deus wrote:
Good day.
I have noticed that for some users in /etc/passwd the shell environment
is set as bash and for some as sh. This has led me to the following
questions:
. Why is it so, meaning what is the meaning of it?
. Do I give more insecure environment to a user setting for him s
On Wed,20.May.09, 12:34:01, Jeff Chimene wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While futzing w/ KDE 4, I deleted the desktop containment. How do I
> restore the desktop containment? Google is not very revealing on this
> topic.
What's do you mean by 'containment'?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment_(disambig
On Thu,21.May.09, 01:53:08, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Good day.
>
> I have noticed that for some users in /etc/passwd the shell environment
> is set as bash and for some as sh. This has led me to the following
> questions:
>
> . Why is it so, meaning what is the meaning of it?
bash is better suited for
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:32:28PM -0400, Daryl Styrk wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:51:30AM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
> Currently cable with comcast.
Ah, so the MTU should be a non issue.
> > And after having to reboot constantly for weeks, I purchashed
> > a PC Engines Wrap board, loa
Hi all,
My box is on debian/testing, and I have compiled kernel by the debian
way. Because it's testing and kernel-patches are often provided, I
wonder whether I have to compile the kernel again after retrieving a
kernel patch or even a new kernel via aptitude full-upgrade operation.
Thanks for y
Long Wind wrote:
> I have try gimp for sarge
> It seems to have problem with capturing window
> I have tried scrot for etch
> It does not capture title bar when capturing window
> Thanks!
>
>
import from the imagemagick package works quite well. For example,
to capture a window including the ti
Hi,
While futzing w/ KDE 4, I deleted the desktop containment. How do I
restore the desktop containment? Google is not very revealing on this topic.
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Thank Bret Busby and David!
I have tried ksnapshot
It satisfies me.
On 5/20/09, Bret Busby wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2009, Long Wind wrote:
>
>
> >
> > I have try gimp for sarge
> > It seems to have problem with capturing window
> > I have tried scrot for etch
> > It does not capture title bar when
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On Tue,19.May.09, 20:09:18, David Baron wrote:
> The new console-setup from Sid providing uniform console properties to Xorg
> and elsewhere places init scripts:
>
> ~$ locate console | grep rcS
> /etc/rcS.d/S48console-screen.sh
> /etc/rcS.d/S49console-setup
>
> These get run fairly late on the
Good day.
I have noticed that for some users in /etc/passwd the shell environment
is set as bash and for some as sh. This has led me to the following
questions:
. Why is it so, meaning what is the meaning of it?
. Do I give more insecure environment to a user setting for him sh
instead of bash?
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:12:16 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
> Lately on two machines I can't connect external usb disks.
>
> mounting with pmount-hal works fine but from within xfce at least, the disk
> shows up, but when I try to mount it from the menu (places plugin and thunar)
> I
> get the fo
> I'm just doing an aptitude search (~dhtml ~dpdf !doc), trying to see if
> there's something not considered before in this thread.
>
> I've never used OpenOffice, but I see unoconv. Its supposed to be able
> to convert from any file OO can import to any file it can export. Can
> OO import html a
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:04 AM, wrote:
> If your turntable doesn't have a "line out" (mine didn't) you can
> purchase an in-line preamp for a modest sum (mine was purchased from
> DAK)
I'll think you'll find that you need to use a preamp for any turntable
to sound card connection, because phon
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On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:51:30AM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
>
> You didn't mention what kind of internet service you have. Cable, DSL?
> I ask because I remember having issues with a Netgear router when I
> got my first DSL line in 2001. The default
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 08:03:13AM -0400, Daryl Styrk wrote:
>
> I'm having some issues with a new router. For normal browsing it seems
> to perform fine. However when I start to download large files speeds drop
> off from around over 1400KB/s down to 120KB/s. I haven't put a stopwatch
> to it
In <4a140dad.6020...@yahoo.com>, Marc Shapiro wrote:
>Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> In <4a125119.8030...@yahoo.com>, Marc Shapiro wrote:
>>> I then chrooted into /mnt/debinst, again, and did:
>>> cd \dev
>>> MAKEDEV generic
>> Instead of this, since you have a running Linux system, I wou
On Wed, 20 May 2009, Long Wind wrote:
I have try gimp for sarge
It seems to have problem with capturing window
I have tried scrot for etch
It does not capture title bar when capturing window
Thanks!
In Etch (assuming that is 4.0), go to Applications menu, select
Accessories, select Take S
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On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 06:47:54PM +0100, Giancarlo Pegoraro wrote:
> > My question is: can I fool apt in order to avoid burning dvd-rw each
> > week?
> I know "jigdo". Jigdo take from a normal mirror all package and build
> a .iso format. In "second r
Hi,
Il giorno mer, 20/05/2009 alle 08.55 +0200, Raffaele Morelli ha scritto:
-cut
>
> Ok, but is your external hd ntfs formatted in order to store files
> greater than 4GB?
For this I'm not sure. My external hd is a vfat and ext3 fo
On Tue,19.May.09, 07:51:54, Harry Rickards wrote:
> On 19 May 2009, at 04:45, "Santhosh Loganathan"
> wrote:
> snipped
>
>
>
> Try reading the Decleration of Indpendence of Cyberspace, in particular
> the 10th paragraph. That should give you a pretty good idea of where we
> are. ;)
>
>
Thank
Tomek Kruszona wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have a problem with CompizConfig Manager. It starts ok, then I can
> enable or disable plugins, but when I click on plugin button to
> configure options of this plugin nothing happens.
>
> Last lines of
> $strace fusion-icon
>
> Traceback (most recent call
I seldom have need for openoffice but I'm thinking I'll be wanting to do
some mailmerging. So I fire up openoffice and select New-Database and
try to establish a jbdc connection to an existing mysql database. When I
click on 'Test class' I get a requester 'The JDBC driver could not be
loaded.'
Is
On 2009-May-18, at 7:19 PM, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
After installing arno-iptables-firewall (not on this site):
/etc/arno-iptables-firewall$ grep -r IPTABLES *
firewall.conf:IPTABLES="/sbin/iptables"
/etc/arno-iptables-firewall$
Where are the rules?
Are you trying to see the rules or set som
Hi,
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 01:32:01PM -0300, Tiago Saboga wrote:
> Freddy Freeloader writes:
> > Thorny wrote:
> >> On Sun, 17 May 2009 12:31:05 -0700, Freddy Freeloader posted:
> >>> In my mind there is no good reason for this fix to go into Sid
> >>> and then sit there until the dependencies
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 02:55:11PM +0200, Malte Forkel wrote:
> Tzafrir Cohen und Osamu Aoki schrieben:
> > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:29:40AM +0200, Malte Forkel wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I would like to search a local mirror and a local repository with
> >> apt-file. How can I generate the Con
>
>
>
> Original Message
>From: richg...@one.net
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: digitalizing audio records from vinyl supports
>Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 20:12:02 -0500
>
>>On Tue, 19 May 2009 17:20:15 +0200, Bernard wrote:
>>
>>> Hi to Everyone !
>>>
>>> What software would
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In <4a125119.8030...@yahoo.com>, Marc Shapiro wrote:
I then chrooted into /mnt/debinst, again, and did:
cd \dev
MAKEDEV generic
Instead of this, since you have a running Linux system, I would suggest
doing (from outside the chroot):
mount -o rbin
Dear Frank,
Thank you for your reply. Referring to the link provide:
ftp://ftp.comp.hkbu.edu.hk
If you browse this link by your browser, you can read the following:
05/07/2008 12:00AM 9 class
05/20/2009 09:12PM ¥Ø¿ý pub
My problem is that my ftp cannot display these informatio
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:37:51PM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote:
>
> I have a Debian Etch installation that's beoming increasingly
> unstable. It periodically freezes up, with nothing in the logs until
> it is rebooted. I suspect a hardware problem, and would like to
> identify it or rule it out b
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 07:17:48AM +1000, gianni wrote:
> how can I resize the LVM default partition layout of debian?
> the root is to small around 400mb... I looked around the web but it look
> like I need to do that from a rescue cd, which one should I use?
> any good link for a easy how to :)
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:02:54AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> AIUI, screen is quite scriptable and should be capable of sending output to
> the process(es) attached to it. This would allow you to write "screen
> scripts" that used the shell for what it is good at and used screen for
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 01:15:25PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2009/5/19 Dotan Cohen :
> >> I don't know if can handle UTF-8, but I see nobody mention htmldoc, which
> >> is
> >> in debian etch, I suppose must be in lenny, so another option to try.
> >>
> >
> > I did not know about htmldoc, that i
Tzafrir Cohen und Osamu Aoki schrieben:
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:29:40AM +0200, Malte Forkel wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to search a local mirror and a local repository with
>> apt-file. How can I generate the Contents-.gz files needed?
> If you happent to use reprepro to create the re
Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2009 13:33:33 +0200
> Tomek Kruszona wrote:
>> ii compiz-fusion-plugins-extra 0.8.2-3
>> ii compiz-fusion-plugins-main 0.8.2-3
>> ii compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported0.8.2-1
>> ii fusion-icon 0.1.0-2
>> ii
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 23:37 -0400, Scott Gifford wrote:
>
> Can anybody recommend a good hardware diagnostic or "burn-in" program?
> I have used memtest86 and will try that, but ideally I'd like to
> stress test more of the system than just the memory. Something that
> can run on Debian Etch whil
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 05:43:24AM EDT, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 06:11:05PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote:
> > Sure.. I use vim rather than vi but the "command-mode" default key
> > mapping, for instance, is pretty awful.
>
> CTRL-[ is easier.
I could have sworn I had typed "co
On Wed, 20 May 2009 13:33:33 +0200
Tomek Kruszona wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have a problem with CompizConfig Manager. It starts ok, then I can
> enable or disable plugins, but when I click on plugin button to
> configure options of this plugin nothing happens.
>
> Last lines of
> $strace fusion-ico
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I'm having some issues with a new router. For normal browsing it seems
to perform fine. However when I start to download large files speeds drop
off from around over 1400KB/s down to 120KB/s. I haven't put a stopwatch
to it but it seems to be aroun
Hello!
I have a problem with CompizConfig Manager. It starts ok, then I can
enable or disable plugins, but when I click on plugin button to
configure options of this plugin nothing happens.
Last lines of
$strace fusion-icon
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/
Hi Steve,
Steve Kemp wrote:
There are two issues that might be occuring:
1. You don't have getty listening on the serial console of the
guest. Update /etc/inittab to enable it.
2. You do have getty running but you're using the wrong thing.
Try using "hvc0" instead of "ttyS0"
On Tue May 19, 2009 at 23:39:29 +, Tim Dobson wrote:
> I'm having an issue that when I run "xm console " everything
> displays fine up until right before where the login prompt should
> appear, where nothing does appear.
>
> I suspect it relates to
> http://wiki.debian.org/Xen#Nologinpromptwh
- "Jan Willem Stumpel" a écrit :
> > i use, whilst living in France, a german keyboard...
>
> You take the trouble to mention this: any special reason? For
> instance, do you want to type mostly French on a German keyboard?
exactly! and if you ask why: the french layout is completely out of
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Long Wind wrote:
> I have try gimp for sarge
> It seems to have problem with capturing window
> I have tried scrot for etch
> It does not capture title bar when capturing window
> Thanks!
I usually use ksnapshot, from my KDE desktop, but it should work under
any
I have try gimp for sarge
It seems to have problem with capturing window
I have tried scrot for etch
It does not capture title bar when capturing window
Thanks!
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Hi you all,
yesterday I posted about problems with initrams and custom kernels... I
thought I made something wrong during kernel 2.6.29 config but today I guess
that something went wrong with kernel-package setup on my system.discovered
I currently unable to install any other kernel, not only a c
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri,15.May.09, 22:04:24, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
I started seeing this message during boot time, after some upgrade.
These are the messages:
Fri May 15 21:27:02 2009: Configuring network interfaces...WARNING: All
config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/irda, it will
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 06:11:05PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote:
> Sure.. I use vim rather than vi but the "command-mode" default key
> mapping, for instance, is pretty awful.
CTRL-[ is easier.
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Upgrades are breaking parts of openoffice.org on this machine under
squeeze.
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also sprach Aniruddha [2009.05.20.0852 +0200]:
> Looking forward to the release of your book :) What about rebuilding
> packages with apt-get source / dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b? Is
> this also possible (instead of building a Debian package from
> scratch)?
If you do that on a stable system,
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:54:52PM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
Thanks for the reply. But rxvt-unicode doesn't even render the
Devanagari characters.
Three other shots in the dark:
mlterm
xterm
xiterm
Thanks for replying, Tzafrir. But xterm do
Lately on two machines I can't connect external usb disks.
mounting with pmount-hal works fine but from within xfce at least, the disk
shows up, but when I try to mount it from the menu (places plugin and thunar) I
get the following error:
Failed to mount "1G Removable Volume".
org.freedesktop.ha
So you may set the time of your box to the current time, and try again !
For a quick set up you can play with date (see `man date'),
for a more permanent set up, you can install the packages ntp, ntpdate
Jerome
John Youkhana wrote:
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This is how it was when I got th
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 19:30 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:41:47 +0200, Raven wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 22:43 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 08:46:33 +0200, Raven wrote:
> > > > Hi all. I recently upgraded my desktop box to a more powerf
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