Re: Backup config files in home directory

2009-06-20 Thread Suno Ano
Tzafrir> If you want to follow that route, you can use rsync as well. Tzafrir> Or even go a bit further and use hard-links (-H) to make Tzafrir> yourself a "wayback machine". Unison basically is a bidirectional rsync (the rsync algorithm is used), so why make things more complicated than neces

Re: bootstrap sid 32 bit on lenny 64 bit

2009-06-20 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:14:26 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > i bootstrapped into 32 bit sid chroot but when i ran # uname -r > > it tells me that the kernel is 64 bit 2.6.26-2-amd64 That's normal. Ref: http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue586 I.e., "hostname get the name of the running system throu

Re: xkb keyboard switching strangness

2009-06-20 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:32:56 -0400 Celejar wrote: ... > fine in the console, but for some reason behaves strangely in X. I > have to hit alt+shift *twice* to switch to il, and once to switch > back. I tried changing the toggle to lwin, with the same results. Bug filed: http://bugs.debian.org

Re: Unable to install and .DEB files after installing Gdebi

2009-06-20 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/6/21 Jonathan D. Armendariz > Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > any success with "dpkg -i package.deb" command? >> > > Gave that a go and now it's working. Well, another one for the books for > me. > > Thank you! > no problem, read debian docs if you're keen on learning and don't forget the refc

Network fails on Lenny

2009-06-20 Thread Alejandro Barocio A.
When I installed Lenny with the official DVD Binary 1 the network connection stoped working. Previously, I had Etch 4.0_r5 And everything worked fine. My greater concern is that I still can recive my email via POP and use messaging with XMPP, also I can connect to my computer via SMB, HTTP (and, I

Re: Unable to install and .DEB files after installing Gdebi

2009-06-20 Thread Jonathan D. Armendariz
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: any success with "dpkg -i package.deb" command? Gave that a go and now it's working. Well, another one for the books for me. Thank you! -- It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short ter

Re: Unable to install and .DEB files after installing Gdebi

2009-06-20 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/6/21 Jonathan D. Armendariz > Good afternoon, > > Just installed Debian Squeeze with Xfce 4.6.1 and for the most part > everything's working quite well. However, there is one remaining problem. It > seems that with this version I had to install Gdebi to be able to install > any .DEB based fi

Re: Problems when Update/upgrade testing with apt/aptitude

2009-06-20 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/6/21 Rudy Vasquez > > Greetings! > I'm a nube trying to get Debian loaded on old system. I have a disk from a > Linux book which loads core program. My problem is establishing an on line > connection so I can download packets. I follow instruction for network > mirror, do software selectio

Unable to install and .DEB files after installing Gdebi

2009-06-20 Thread Jonathan D. Armendariz
Good afternoon, Just installed Debian Squeeze with Xfce 4.6.1 and for the most part everything's working quite well. However, there is one remaining problem. It seems that with this version I had to install Gdebi to be able to install any .DEB based files. Once this was done I then proceeded

bootstrap sid 32 bit on lenny 64 bit

2009-06-20 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
i bootstrapped into 32 bit sid chroot but when i ran # uname -r it tells me that the kernel is 64 bit 2.6.26-2-amd64 below are the steps i did # debootstrap --arch i386 sid /home/umarzuki/chroot/sid32/ http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian # chroot sid32 is it normal and i just have to assume it is wh

Re: Problems when Update/upgrade testing with apt/aptitude

2009-06-20 Thread Rudy Vasquez
Greetings! I'm a nube trying to get Debian loaded on old system. I have a disk from a Linux book which loads core program. My problem is establishing an on line connection so I can download packets. I follow instruction for network mirror, do software selection, but stalls on loading at 5%. Thank

Re: Testing update wants to replace network-manager - will it be seamless?

2009-06-20 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 19:17 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Daryl Styrk wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 06:05:40PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > > Hello: > > > > > > I can't afford to lose network access just at the moment, so should I > > > wait to do t

Re: Problems when Update/upgrade testing with apt/aptitude

2009-06-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:03:20 -0700, troppero wrote: > > Hello! > > A few days ago, I made an Update/Upgrade with Synaptic. All goes good > until when debconf doing configuring menu (or actualize the menu > triggers) it stays for ever. I Ctrl-C'ed to finish. > > Now, I will run apt or aptit

Re: Testing update wants to replace network-manager - will it be seamless?

2009-06-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Daryl Styrk wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 06:05:40PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > Hello: > > > > I can't afford to lose network access just at the moment, so should I > > wait to do today's update on my testing system (amd64)?  I've > > previously had tro

fstab Entry Permissions for Remote Samba Shares?

2009-06-20 Thread Scarletdown
On one of my project systems here, I have set up a minimal Debian install that guests can use if they need to do so. Now, on my network, I have an NAS drive with a set of shared directories for various purposes (Multimedia, Documents, share and so on). How can I set up my /etc/fstab so that the o

Re: Testing update wants to replace network-manager - will it be seamless?

2009-06-20 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 06:05:40PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hello: > > I can't afford to lose network access just at the moment, so should I > wait to do today's update on my testing system (amd64)? I've > previously had troubles with network-manager but it's been working OK > lately. Wil

Testing update wants to replace network-manager - will it be seamless?

2009-06-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: I can't afford to lose network access just at the moment, so should I wait to do today's update on my testing system (amd64)? I've previously had troubles with network-manager but it's been working OK lately. Will the update, so far as anyone knows, preserve settings, etc.? Thanks for an

Re: Backup config files in home directory

2009-06-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 09:58:43PM +0200, Suno Ano wrote: > > ronggui> Hi all, I have other files and directories in the home > ronggui> directory, and I just want to backup all the config files, > ronggui> most of them are hidden files and directories. Now I use tar > ronggui> and manually ex

Re: dhcp-forwarder

2009-06-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:31:30PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 15.06.09 17:50, Alex Samad wrote: > > this package used to be in the repo. all that seems to be left is > > dhcp3-relay - which doesn't seem to work :( > > > > any one know why dchp-fwd was remove - did a quick google but

Re: house planning software

2009-06-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 17.06.09 00:12, mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote: > I was wondering if there is any software that allows building a 3d model > of the house/appartment to help with the planning Tried the sims? ;-) -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive

Re: mailining list deactivate

2009-06-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:07:25PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 02:36:39PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > Though there's no reason that the list couldn't tag on another text part > > > > with the unsubscribe footer (though the bigger issue is why doesn't

Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently

2009-06-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Matus UHLAR - > fantomas wrote: > > On 13.06.09 09:32, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > >> Running 'sudo gnome-terminal' (which is the equivalent) reports > >> 'Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting.'  How do I fix this?  Is > >> it some idiotic "security feature"?

Re: dhcp-forwarder

2009-06-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 15.06.09 17:50, Alex Samad wrote: > this package used to be in the repo. all that seems to be left is > dhcp3-relay - which doesn't seem to work :( > > any one know why dchp-fwd was remove - did a quick google but just found > lots of bug reports maybe that is exactly the reason. Shouldn't it

Re: Backup config files in home directory

2009-06-20 Thread Suno Ano
ronggui> Hi all, I have other files and directories in the home ronggui> directory, and I just want to backup all the config files, ronggui> most of them are hidden files and directories. Now I use tar ronggui> and manually exclude my other files and directories with ronggui> --exclude argume

Re: CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE ??

2009-06-20 Thread Dave Witbrodt
What is CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE ? How can I use it to update my Debian GNU/Linux system kernel to 2.6.30 ? You cannot "use it" to update your kernel. It is merely one kernel configuration option among many. The CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE option is for providing a text file (during the kernel

Problems when Update/upgrade testing with apt/aptitude

2009-06-20 Thread troppero
Hello! A few days ago, I made an Update/Upgrade with Synaptic. All goes good until when debconf doing configuring menu (or actualize the menu triggers) it stays for ever. I Ctrl-C'ed to finish. Now, I will run apt or aptitude and it shows an error: E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually

Re: Application/octet stream - Thanks

2009-06-20 Thread Thomas H. George
It is a photo and gimp opened it with no trouble - Thanks for suggesting this. I was fixated on seeing it as an iceape problem. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Backup config files in home directory

2009-06-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 01:01:52AM +0800, ronggui wong wrote: > Hi all, > > I have other files and directories in the home directory, and I just > want to backup all the config files, most of them are hidden files and > directories. Now I use tar and manually exclude my other files and > directori

Re: CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE ??

2009-06-20 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:07:18PM +0530, Lenny M wrote: > What is CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE ? > How can I use it to update my Debian GNU/Linux system kernel to 2.6.30 ? Your questions are more appropriate for debian-user mailing list, redirecting the discussion there (debian-kernel BCC'd). Best r

Re: Application/octet stream

2009-06-20 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Thomas H. George ha scritto: A friend sent me an email with an attachment I can't view - probably some Windoze format. Iceape says it is a type application/octet stream. I thought I had installed all the available plugins. What must I find to view the picture? Tom $ aptitude show file $ f

Re: Backup config files in home directory

2009-06-20 Thread me
hi, i prefer to use dar, it can do incremental backups as well. greetings, vitaminx 2009/6/20 ronggui wong > Hi all, > > I have other files and directories in the home directory, and I just > want to backup all the config files, most of them are hidden files and > directories. Now I use tar a

Backup config files in home directory

2009-06-20 Thread ronggui wong
Hi all, I have other files and directories in the home directory, and I just want to backup all the config files, most of them are hidden files and directories. Now I use tar and manually exclude my other files and directories with --exclude argument. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks. Ro

Re: wireless interface name changes across reboots

2009-06-20 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: This shouldn't be necessary for such a trivial issue. Sure. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Where is file manage preference set

2009-06-20 Thread Rustam
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 16:35 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 12:26 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > >> I have a gnome desktop, but haven't always (meaning there are probably > >> dot directories with configuration hanging around in my home directory). > >>

Re: Where is file manage preference set

2009-06-20 Thread Alan Chandler
Alan Chandler wrote: I have a gnome desktop, but haven't always (meaning there are probably dot directories with configuration hanging around in my home directory). I just installed Digikam, and presume it must have brought in Dolphin as a dependency, because now when I select "Places/Home Fol

Re: PDF form data won't print

2009-06-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 14:12:38 -0400, Alex Gould wrote: > Hello, I am looking for advice with a frustrating little problem: > > I am able to fill in PDF forms from the US IRS with either okular or evince > (I > am using the "testing" distribution). However, alphanumerical form data is > "invi

Re: lp/lpr can't print from cups client

2009-06-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 06:19:25 -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I have cupsd configured on a remote host to publish its printers, and > the web interface on http://localhost:631 on the local server sees the > remote printers and a defined default printer. However: > > $ lpq > lpq: erro

OT:Need to locate Debianistas that are TIVO hackers

2009-06-20 Thread John W Foster
Any of you who are TIVO hackers & Debianistas; please contact me via e-mail off the lists. If you reply on the list I will not see it as freakin GMail scrubs the replies with my name in the header. That's a whole other issue. I am starting a personal project to design a process for using Debian to

Re: Where is file manage preference set

2009-06-20 Thread Alan Chandler
Frank Lin PIAT wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 12:26 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I have a gnome desktop, but haven't always (meaning there are probably dot directories with configuration hanging around in my home directory). I just installed Digikam, and presume it must have brought in Dolphin as

Re: Application/octet stream

2009-06-20 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 09:22 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: A friend sent me an email with an attachment I can't view - probably some Windoze format. Iceape says it is a type application/octet stream. Could you tell us the file extension? /tony -- http://www.baldwinsoftware.com free/open

Re: OT Can't Register Joomla forum

2009-06-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 20 June 2009 15:44:35 Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 18:06 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Help please. I'm trying to install Joomla and having problems. Tried to > > register to be able to post, get help but the registration page thinks > > my email address li...@tom

Re: OT Can't Register Joomla forum

2009-06-20 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 18:06 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > Help please. I'm trying to install Joomla and having problems. Tried to > register to be able to post, get help but the registration page thinks > my email address li...@tomgeorge.info is not a valid email address. I guess Joomla either

Re: Lenny does not recognise blank CD; Etch does.

2009-06-20 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 20:21 +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: > I have a machine with a dvd writer (/dev/hdc) and a cd writer > (/dev/hdd). > under Lenny, the CD writer will not recognise a blank CD. Nothing. The > DVD writer will recognise one. > Any ideas? Humm... you might want to check how HAL dete

Re: Where is file manage preference set

2009-06-20 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 12:26 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have a gnome desktop, but haven't always (meaning there are probably > dot directories with configuration hanging around in my home directory). > > I just installed Digikam, and presume it must have brought in Dolphin as > a dependency,

Re: Application/octet stream

2009-06-20 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 09:22 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > A friend sent me an email with an attachment I can't view - probably > some Windoze format. Iceape says it is a type application/octet stream. application/octet-stream is a generic mime type which means "The content is something I

Application/octet stream

2009-06-20 Thread Thomas H. George
A friend sent me an email with an attachment I can't view - probably some Windoze format. Iceape says it is a type application/octet stream. I thought I had installed all the available plugins. What must I find to view the picture? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: libc6 update wine and ia32-libs will uninstall

2009-06-20 Thread Dererk
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533503 -- BOFH excuse #361: Communist revolutionaries taking over the server room and demanding all the computers in the building or they shoot the sysadmin. Poor misguided fools. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Version mismatch between kqemu module and qemu

2009-06-20 Thread me
Hi, no, that file is automatically created, if not, a reboot should do it. greetings, vitaminx 2009/6/19 Sthu Deus > Thank You for Your time and answer, me: > > > which distribution are you running? testing? > > True. It was testing. > > Now I did reinstall them both: > > . kqemu I have insta

Re: Icons disappear from toolbar in KDE applications (k3b, amarok, soundkonverter, …) running on Xfce

2009-06-20 Thread Rustam
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 07:40 -0300, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: > Hi again Ismail, > > > > > >> I have recently switched from KDE to Xfce after an unpleasant > > > > >> encounter > > > > >> with KDE4 […] > > > > > > > > >> I'm intrigued though by a quirk: some icons disappear from toolbars

Re: MAKEDEV, udev and /dev/hwrng

2009-06-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 17:57:44 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > when I want to create the /dev/hwrng with MAKEDEV, I get the message: > > .udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev. Aborting MAKEDEV invocation. > > So I suppose that I have to play wiht udev instead: > how can we

Re: xserver fails to start

2009-06-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 18:45:29 +0900, tomoya TAKAGI wrote: > At Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:38:47 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > What happens if you just put "xterm" into that file (also try ~/.xinitrc > > instead)? > > $ echo xterm > ~/.xsession > $ startx > > Then I got strange result: > th

Where is file manage preference set

2009-06-20 Thread Alan Chandler
I have a gnome desktop, but haven't always (meaning there are probably dot directories with configuration hanging around in my home directory). I just installed Digikam, and presume it must have brought in Dolphin as a dependency, because now when I select "Places/Home Folder" from my panel, D

Re: Icons disappear from toolbar in KDE applications (k3b, amarok, soundkonverter, …) running on Xfce

2009-06-20 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
Hi again Ismail, > > > >> I have recently switched from KDE to Xfce after an unpleasant encounter > > > >> with KDE4 […] > > > > > > >> I'm intrigued though by a quirk: some icons disappear from toolbars in > > > >> KDE applications. I'm a die hard user of: amarok, k3b, k9copy, > > > >> soundkonv

Re: Scribus versions-CROSSPOSTED

2009-06-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 03:28:51 +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > On Saturday 20 June 2009 01:01:04 John Culleton wrote: > > One more time: > > The only stable version of Scribus today is 1.3.3.13. > > 1.3.5 is unstable and always will be. > > 1.3.4 is both unstable and abandoned. > > The next stab

Re: Join Debian Global Meeting Sunday June 21 using VOIP - BerkeleyTIP

2009-06-20 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/20/09 08:23, john_re wrote: > Join the friendly Debian Global [& ALL FREE SW HW & CULTURE] > community Meeting: > this Sunday, June 21, using VOIP, > 10A - 6P Pacific USA time [GMT - 8? 7? hours] = > 1P - 9P Eastern USA = > 6P - 2A??? GMT - D

Lenny does not recognise blank CD; Etch does.

2009-06-20 Thread Bruce Ward
I have a machine with a dvd writer (/dev/hdc) and a cd writer (/dev/hdd). I have an Etch installation on an ATA HDD, and all works well. I also have, on the same machine, a fresh Lenny installation which is on a SATA disk. In both cases I use a standard (I believe) GNOME setup. Unfortunately

Re: Icons disappear from toolbar in KDE applications (k3b, amarok, soundkonverter, …) running on Xfce

2009-06-20 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
Hi Ismail ! > > >> I have recently switched from KDE to Xfce after an unpleasant encounter > > >> with KDE4 […] > > > > >> I'm intrigued though by a quirk: some icons disappear from toolbars in > > >> KDE applications. I'm a die hard user of: amarok, k3b, k9copy, > > >> soundkonverter, kflickr an

Re: Version mismatch between kqemu module and qemu

2009-06-20 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, me: > which distribution are you running? testing? True. It was testing. Now I did reinstall them both: . kqemu I have installed the latest from stable repo on Internet . qemu - from my stable 5.01 dvd. Still I have the same message. - When I do manually:

Re: vnstat in KByte

2009-06-20 Thread Shams Fantar
Tony Asnicar wrote: > I can't find the parameter to get vnstat to display traffic _only_ in > MBytes :S > > > # vnstat -i eth0 > Database updated: Thu Jun 18 17:05:01 2009 > > eth0 > >received: 26.25 GB (56.0%) > transmitted: 20.64 GB (44.0%) > to

Join Debian Global Meeting Sunday June 21 using VOIP - BerkeleyTIP

2009-06-20 Thread john_re
Join the friendly Debian Global [& ALL FREE SW HW & CULTURE] community Meeting: this Sunday, June 21, using VOIP, 10A - 6P Pacific USA time [GMT - 8? 7? hours] = 1P - 9P Eastern USA = 6P - 2A??? GMT - Daylight savings correction? +7 hours? at the BerkeleyTIP Global Free SW HW & Culture meeting

Re: Icons disappear from toolbar in KDE applications (k3b, amarok, soundkonverter, …) running on Xfce

2009-06-20 Thread Rustam
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 21:13 -0300, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: > Hey Tony ! > > >> I have recently switched from KDE to Xfce after an unpleasant encounter > >> with KDE4 […] > > >> I'm intrigued though by a quirk: some icons disappear from toolbars in > >> KDE applications. I'm a die hard u