scanner access not easy

I have an HP ScanJet 6200C usb scanner, which used to work. It stopped working, for some reason. I also have a Samsung printer, which uses the Samsung Unified Linux driver. Both these devices had been coexisting peacefully. However, I did read, via an internet search, that sometimes the printin

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Hi all, after an update, my subversion client (svn) doesnt connect to any SVN servers (either my own or others on the internet). This is strange because other network connections are working without probolems. The error message is: svn: OPTIONS von »https://xx.xx.xx.xx/svn/bla«: Konnte kein

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Dear gurus, I use emacs for most programming and scripting tasks (what else?), but have to come to like kile for writing LaTeX. I have never seemed to manage locales very well, and now after an update on testing, kile displays German characters (Umlauts and Esszed i.e. äöüß) as gibberish e.g.

today's upgrade error: dpkg: error processing ed

today's upgrade has the following error: --- Setting up ed (1.3-2) ... install-info(/usr/share/info/ed.info.gz): no file /usr/share/info/dir, retrieving backup file /var/backups/infodir.bak. update-alternatives: error: alte

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

lee writes: > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 08:25:37AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > I'd gladly do that, but how would I watch the videos then? Check out the mtube greasemonkey script for Firefox. It allows you to play youtube videos in mplayer via mplayerplug-in. http://raaf.atspace.org/mtube/ -

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Dear. Friends. How can I make SMCROUTE works on IPIP tunnel? I made a IPIP tunnel interface named 's01' tom:~# smcroute -a eth0 172.27.0.5 224.10.10.10 s01 demon error : Warn: Invalid output interface But There are 's01' interface in my linux box, and it is available. ~# ifconfig s01 -> it disp

Re: ed 1.33 install errors

On Monday 01 June 2009 08:53:19 pm Jude DaShiell wrote: > Script started on Mon Jun 1 20:50:14 2009 > localhost:~# aptitude install ed > ... > update-alternatives: error: alternative path /bin/ed doesn't exist. > dpkg: error processing ed (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation

Re: ed 1.33 install errors

In , Jude DaShiell wrote: >Script done on Mon Jun 1 20:50:39 2009 Was there a question in there somewhere? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/

ed 1.33 install errors

Script started on Mon Jun 1 20:50:14 2009 localhost:~# aptitude install ed Reading package lists... 0%Reading package lists... 100%Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... 0%Building dependency tree... 0%Building dependency tree... 50%Building dependency tree... 50%Building dep

Re: Problems with Exim av_scanner using a separate ClamAV server

On Thu, 28 May 2009 21:35:15 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: ... > I also attempted contact with the exim-users list, but I've heard rumors they > don't like the Debianizations made to their software. No, the definitely don't. The proper place to post questions on Debian exim is here:

Re: replacing hard disk

Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Are there any tips on moving the whole system from the old disk to >> the new one? Or do I just have to re-install ubuntu, re-install >> any updates and extra programs which are installed, find and copy >> modified config files, mails, bookmarks, etc? > > If you can connec

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze (Addendum)

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 15:33:12 -0700, wauhugo At yahoo DOT com wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 19:08:31 +0100, AG wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> >>> When trying this again as root (sudo), these are the results: >>> >>> sudo netstat -plant | grep -E ':(8118|9050)' >>> tcp

Re: replacing hard disk

> Are there any tips on moving the whole system from the old disk to > the new one? Or do I just have to re-install ubuntu, re-install > any updates and extra programs which are installed, find and copy > modified config files, mails, bookmarks, etc? If you can connect both disks at the same time,

Re: ctrl+S in rtorrent in konsole suspends output instead of starting torrents

Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,31.May.09, 03:24:06, H.S. wrote: >> Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Sat,30.May.09, 13:19:32, H.S. wrote: >>> I also usually do an update and upgrade daily on this workstation. I always know (from aptitude) if some processes need to be restarted. So I >>> Huh,

Re: Cannot login to computer after upgrade to Lenny

On 2009-06-01 17:04 +0200, MoS wrote: > # su > bash: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared > object file: No such file or directory > > # cp > cp: missing file operand > Try `cp --help' for more information. So cp works, but su does not. I suspect this is because

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze (Addendum)

wauh...@yahoo.com wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 19:08:31 +0100, AG wrote: [...] When trying this again as root (sudo), these are the results: sudo netstat -plant | grep -E ':(8118|9050)' tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:9050 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN19186/t

Re: Cannot login to computer after upgrade to Lenny

On 2009-06-01 15:18 +0200, MoS wrote: > > # ls -la /lib/libdl* > 12K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.5K Jan 4 19:11 /lib/libdl-2.7.so > 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 May 31 13:09 /lib/libdl.so.2 -> libdl-2.7.so > > # ls -la /lib/i686/cmov/libdl* > 12K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9.5K Jan 4 19:12 /lib/i68

Re: Setting the internal clock

On 2009-06-01 09:40:44 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 11:16:01AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2009-06-01 11:08:37 +0200, K. Jantzen wrote: > > > Where can I set the internal clock? > > > > With the "date" or "ntpdate" (better) command. > > Those set the system (soft

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze (Addendum)

Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 19:08:31 +0100, AG wrote: [...] When trying this again as root (sudo), these are the results: sudo netstat -plant | grep -E ':(8118|9050)' tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:9050 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 19186/tor tcp6 0 0 ::

Re: Booting into Lenny from Etch (was: Problems installing Lenny's Grub boot loader to a partition)

Rodolfo Medina writes: > On my PC I have many different partitions. With Etch, I've never had > problems installing the Grub boot loader to a partition at my pleasure and > not to the master boot record. > > Today I installed Lenny for the first time, from a DVD set bought from an > official Deb

Error messages running autogen

I want to install libdvdread from source. After unpacking the tarball, I cd into the source dir and ran autogen but got the following: $ tar xjvf libdvdread-4.1.3.tar.bz2 $ cd libdvdread-4.1.3 $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze (Addendum)

Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 19:08:31 +0100, AG wrote: AG wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:59:29 +0100, AG wrote: Hello I am attempting to get Tor and Privoxy working with Iceweasel, but it keeps throwing up errors.

Re: replacing hard disk

I think this tool *dd*, resolve your problem. http://www.linuxweblog.com/dd-image http://www.mckeay.net/2004/10/18/using-dd-to-clone-a-hd/ -- Claudio Bazán. Registered User LINUX #439481 On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > My wife's computer which runs ubuntu "heron

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze (Addendum)

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 19:08:31 +0100, AG wrote: > AG wrote: >> Florian Kulzer wrote: >>> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:59:29 +0100, AG wrote: >>> Hello I am attempting to get Tor and Privoxy working with Iceweasel, but it keeps throwing up errors. >>> >>> [...] >>> >>>

Re: ctrl+S in rtorrent in konsole suspends output instead of starting torrents

On Sun,31.May.09, 03:24:06, H.S. wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sat,30.May.09, 13:19:32, H.S. wrote: > > > >> I also usually do an update and upgrade daily on this workstation. I > >> always know (from aptitude) if some processes need to be restarted. So I > > > > Huh, is there some featu

Re: replacing hard disk

Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: My wife's computer which runs ubuntu "heron" made a funny sound today. I now think it must have come from the hard disk, which is quite old; the motherboard and cpu are fairly new, however. And just now the computer became unusable because it could no longer save any fil

Re: Bayes Error Messages

> I am getting a lot of these today: > > ... spamd[7741]: bayes: cannot open bayes databases > /root/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: Interrupted system call > > There is no such file(s). > > What is happening here? > > Try restarting Spamassassin, which should create the necessary bayes lo

Re: replacing hard disk

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 07:39:08PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > So tomorrow it's off to the computer shop to get a new hard disk. > > Are there any tips on moving the whole system from the old disk to > the new one? Or do I just have to re-install ubuntu, re-install > any updates and extra

Re: Realtek Device ffff (rev 10) is not recognized with 8139too

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 03:43:21PM +, Marcelo Luiz de Laia wrote: > Here are the outputs of some commands. What does dmesg show? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze (Addendum)

AG wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:59:29 +0100, AG wrote: Hello I am attempting to get Tor and Privoxy working with Iceweasel, but it keeps throwing up errors. [...] Under the preferences option of the Iceweasel Tor Button, running the test, this is the

Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze

Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:59:29 +0100, AG wrote: Hello I am attempting to get Tor and Privoxy working with Iceweasel, but it keeps throwing up errors. [...] Under the preferences option of the Iceweasel Tor Button, running the test, this is the output:

replacing hard disk

My wife's computer which runs ubuntu "heron" made a funny sound today. I now think it must have come from the hard disk, which is quite old; the motherboard and cpu are fairly new, however. And just now the computer became unusable because it could no longer save any files. /var/log/syslog told abo

Howto make ipip tunnel?

Hello All... I'm trying to make a 'IPIP Tunnel' between 2 linux-boxes What should I study to make IPIP-Tunnel? This is my plan. [Side A] - Client eth0 : 192.168.154.1 (A-side local) eth1 : 121.131.132.32 (to Side B / real IP for ex.) ipip1 : 10.10.1.1 (tunnel IP - for eth0s of side-A and si

Problems installing Lenny's Grub boot loader to a partition

On my PC I have many different partitions. With Etch, I've never had problems installing the Grub boot loader to a partition at my pleasure and not to the master boot record. Today I installed Lenny for the first time, from a DVD set bought from an official Debian vendor, and: if I install the Gr

not allowed to config. local sound server in pulseaudio anylonger

Hello, On a Debian Testing machine, I have noticed that I am no longer allowed to configure local sound server in pulseaudio device chooser (got by padevchooser). The option in the various taps in the chooser's interface are all grayed out. I have seen the same problem in another Testing machine.

Realtek Device ffff (rev 10) is not recognized with 8139too

Hello, I had two network cards in my micro. The eth0 card was stopped (ruined) and I, for one time, worked without it (only with eth1). All is working perfectly. Now a days I moved my DIAL UP to ADSL and I will need to share my net. I am at home. I bought a new PCI card and plug it. But it is no

Best way to stream shows from www.myeasytv.com

I am currently using debian lenny with backports. I want to use my linux box to play TV shows from myeasytv.com & others. It plays them in most cases but does a very poor job. I have talked to the Verizon FIOS folks and it seems that in a very short time they will begin offering a massive amount of

Re: aptitude or apt-get: how to use the jolly character?

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In <878wkcdobs@gmail.com>, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Suppose that I want to remove all the packages beginning with `texlive', that are a lot in my system. If I do: `aptitude purge texlive*', the system complains that no package has that name. Right, the s

Re: aptitude or apt-get: how to use the jolly character?

In <878wkcdobs@gmail.com>, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >Suppose that I want to remove all the packages beginning with `texlive', > that are a lot in my system. > >If I do: `aptitude purge texlive*', the system complains that no package > has that name. Right, the shell performs "globbing", matching

Re: Cannot login to computer after upgrade to Lenny

A guy from the debian-user-french mailing list suggested me to check the integrity of the file "/lib/libdl-2.7.so" (I removed package "libc6-i686", so /lib/i686 directory was removed), and the validity of the link "/lib/libdl.so.2", and I got this strange log : # su bash: error while loading

Re: [solved] Re: ctrl+S in rtorrent in konsole suspends output instead of starting torrents

In , H.S. wrote: >H.S. wrote: >> I have just noticed that I cannot start or resume torrents in konsole >> with the usual CTRL+S rtorrent key combo in konsole as I was able to in >> the past (till several weeks ago perhaps). It instead suspends output >> (and CTRL+q needs to be pressed to cancel tha

Re: What happened to network devices?

In <20090601003859.gq1...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: >On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:12:09PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In the rare case that I needed to specify an interface name, I used the >> raw kernel name (e.g. eth0) and not a pathname. Usually, I've only done >> this

Re: where is the sound device in debian?

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Yi Zhao wrote: > yes, it is!! > > thanks very much! > > --- On Fri, 5/29/09, Nigel Henry wrote: > > From: Nigel Henry > Subject: Re: where is the sound device in debian? > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Friday, May 29, 2009, 5:06 PM > > On Friday 29 May

Re: screen grab of scrolling window?

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Op Sun, 31 May 2009 11:47 -0700 Eric De Mund wrote: >> I have an on-screen image that, unfortunately, is not all on the >> screen; it's too big to fit on screen and there are scrollbars for me >> to scroll to view this and that portion of th

Re: aptitude or apt-get: how to use the jolly character?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 03:24:23PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Suppose that I want to remove all the packages beginning with `texlive', that > are a lot in my system. > > If I do: `aptitude purge texlive*', the system complains that no package has

aptitude or apt-get: how to use the jolly character?

Suppose that I want to remove all the packages beginning with `texlive', that are a lot in my system. If I do: `aptitude purge texlive*', the system complains that no package has that name. How to do then? Thanks for any help Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re: Cannot login to computer after upgrade to Lenny

Le Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 09:53:37AM +0200, Sven Joachim écrivait : > On 2009-05-31 23:33 +0200, MoS wrote: > > > Le Sun, May 31, 2009 at 04:40:02PM +0200, Sven Joachim écrivait : > > > > Well I must say I'm not very comfortable with that kind of low-level > > stuff... > > You are right, package l

Re: screen grab of scrolling window?

Op Sun, 31 May 2009 11:47 -0700 Eric De Mund wrote: > I have an on-screen image that, unfortunately, is not all on the > screen; it's too big to fit on screen and there are scrollbars for me > to scroll to view this and that portion of the image. > > Question: Is there a program that can perform a

Re: Mount/Automount of USB-sticks

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:51 AM, K. Jantzen wrote: > I am running Debian Lenny 5.0 amd64  since a couple of days. > USB-sticks are recognized (according to the log) but they are not mounted > automatically nor are the mountable. > What do I have to do? > Thanks for any pointers. . . . "nor are the

can't shutdown pc when using iptables rule

When I add any iptables rule, e.g.: iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables -P FORWARD DROP iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT The rule works, ok, but when I want to shut down the pc,

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

On 2009-06-01 02:36 +0200, lee wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 08:25:37AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> How about "dpkg --purge flashplugin-nonfree"? If you do not trust >> Adobe, stop using their closed-source software. > > I'd gladly do that, but how would I watch the videos then? If you

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

Douglas A. Tutty on 30/05/09 14:19, wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:18:56PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel writes: Csanyi Pal wrote: So: can one install on it say a Debian GNU/Linux Lenny? Mind that it is a "headless" device. Everything has to be done through ssh (or local tel

Re: Mount/Automount of USB-sticks

It depends. I use xfce4, I installed thunar-volman and then added my user name to group plugdev. Everything goes well. Ronggui On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 4:51 PM, K. Jantzen wrote: > I am running Debian Lenny 5.0 amd64  since a couple of days. > USB-sticks are recognized (according to the log) but t

Re: Setting the internal clock

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 11:16:01AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2009-06-01 11:08:37 +0200, K. Jantzen wrote: > > Where can I set the internal clock? > > With the "date" or "ntpdate" (better) command. Those set the system (software) clock and not the hardware clock on the board, though. --

Re: Setting the internal clock

On 2009-06-01 11:08:37 +0200, K. Jantzen wrote: > Where can I set the internal clock? With the "date" or "ntpdate" (better) command. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic /

Re: Setting the internal clock

2009/6/1 K. Jantzen : > Where can I set the internal clock? hwclock --systohc If the hardware clock is drifting it might be better to install openntpd It will gradually pull your system clock into calibration and keep it there. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a

Setting the internal clock

Where can I set the internal clock? -- K. Jantzen Debian Lenny 5.0 amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Mount/Automount of USB-sticks

I am running Debian Lenny 5.0 amd64 since a couple of days. USB-sticks are recognized (according to the log) but they are not mounted automatically nor are the mountable. What do I have to do? Thanks for any pointers. -- K. Jantzen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Cannot login to computer after upgrade to Lenny

On 2009-05-31 23:33 +0200, MoS wrote: > Le Sun, May 31, 2009 at 04:40:02PM +0200, Sven Joachim écrivait : > > Well I must say I'm not very comfortable with that kind of low-level stuff... > You are right, package libc6-i686 is installed : > > # dpkg -l |grep libc6 > ii libc6

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

lee wrote: [big snip] >> Use Firefox >> "better privacy" extension, it can wipe the .macromedia content >> automatically. > > Does that work with iceweasel? Even if it does, I keep the browser > running until the flashplayer crashes. > "better privacy" can wipe out the .macromedia folder content