Re: color management?

2009-08-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jeremy jozwik wrote: > thanks for those links as well. ive done color work on this same > laptop within windows and never had to setup color management. in fact > i disabled them in gimp and photoshop and had no issues with color > when viewing from di

Permormance of encrypted filesystem

2009-08-11 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-08-06 19:21 (-0500), Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I encrypt everything except /boot -- even swap. I do that on my laptop as well. Do you (or anybody) have numbers or educated guesses on how much it slows down the disk operation or how it will affect CPU load? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

xfce menus

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am playing with the freedesktop menu'ing system now used in xfce. I have built my own alex.menu and added some .desktop file, I have a panel menu plugin but it seems to be static, when I update my .desktop files or my menu file it isn't reflected in the menu and I am not sure how to signal i

Re: how to start a delayed shutdown over ssh and disconnect immediately?

2009-08-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:05:18PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > debian-user: > > Is there a way to start a delayed shutdown over SSH and disconnect > immediately (e.g. non-blocking)? > > > I've tried: > > ssh u...@host sudo shutdown -h +1 & try sudo shutdown -h +1 \& the & is being g

how to start a delayed shutdown over ssh and disconnect immediately?

2009-08-11 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: Is there a way to start a delayed shutdown over SSH and disconnect immediately (e.g. non-blocking)? I've tried: ssh u...@host sudo shutdown -h +1 & but shutdown blocks until it finishes. I've also tried: ssh u...@host sudo shutdown -h +1 &; exit But sudo chokes on the

Re: SOLVED Re: Sid: Grub2 faling to boot: Unknown device UUID

2009-08-11 Thread Johan Kullstam
Curt Howland writes: > Just to continue to with the saga, today I decided to just screw it > and reintall, to try to install Grub2 first since upgrading from Grub > to Grub2 just would not boot. Yeah, I just ran afoul of the grub-pc "no floppy" bug. After a fight with the rescue disk, I manag

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-11 Thread JoeHill
Charlie Kroeger wrote: > > So how does one use the latest version of this web browser on Stable ? > > > You could put these sources in your /etc/apt/sources.list and do an #apt-get > update > > deb http://ftp.tiscali.nl/debian/ sid main contrib non-free > > If you have a GUI type package ma

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-11 22:04, S. Fishpaste wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:24:44 -0500, Ron Johnson in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On 2009-08-11 16:44, S. Fishpaste wrote: [ ...] I have checked backports for stable and there doesn't appear to be a 3.5 version, so I got Mozilla's version. Only probl

Re: 60 console-kit-daemons

2009-08-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-11 21:20, John Hasler wrote: Ron Johnson writes: Real Men boot into the console, and use startx to (begrudgingly) enter X where they then fire up dozens of xterm windows... Real Men have been using X since it was cool. Only when big, nice monitors were really expensive, and having

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-11 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
S. Fishpaste wrote: >> If I were you, I would temporarily enable testing, unstable and >> experimental repos, grab iceweasel and dependencies from experimental >> and then disabling the repos. > > Hm sounds like a plan. Do you know offhand which Debian distro has 3.5.x ? Use the rmadison command

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-11 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:24:44 -0500, Ron Johnson in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > On 2009-08-11 16:44, S. Fishpaste wrote: [ ...] >> I have checked backports for stable and there doesn't appear to be a 3.5 >> version, so I got Mozilla's version. Only problem it depends on XUL* which >> wasn't

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-11 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:17:14 -0300, Cassiano Leal in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> That doesn't sound right.  The Mozilla binary should come with the proper >> XUL. > > I agree. AFAIK, the Mozilla binary is completely self-contained, thus

Re: fetchmail socket error

2009-08-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-10 15:36, Paul Cartwright wrote: I have been getting this error, and I'm not sure what it means or what is wrong. I have fetchmail setup to pull the email from my domain accounts to local users. I set this up in a fetchmailrc file. this morning I noticed there was no new email, but

Re: 60 console-kit-daemons

2009-08-11 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > Real Men boot into the console, and use startx to (begrudgingly) enter > X where they then fire up dozens of xterm windows... Real Men have been using X since it was cool. > ...wishing they could purge nautilus and other so called GUI file > managers ... Why would they inst

Re: Debian Lenny install failing on Dell Latitude CPi A366ST during hardware detect phase

2009-08-11 Thread Kyle Barbour
> and copied it over. The Wikipedia article on the installer > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/win32-loader_(Debian)) mentions that > there's a way to have it get it's data from the CD-ROM drive, but so > far I haven't figured it out. It looks like the regular Lenny .iso images allow for this, but t

Re: Debian Lenny install failing on Dell Latitude CPi A366ST during hardware detect phase

2009-08-11 Thread Kyle Barbour
>> >> I'm trying to install Debian Lenny on an old Dell Latitude CPi >> >> A366ST, currently running Win98. KNOPPIX boots on it fine, as does >> >> Win98. >> > >> > ..use that to visit http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ >> > and install over internet or your own lan mirror. >> >> Maybe I wasn't clear -

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-10 18:49, line...@ruiner.halo.nu wrote: [snip] The root filesystem is encrypted to make it more difficult for a local attacker to replace system binaries with backdoored versions. I don't think this is a valid reason for encrypting root. -- Scooty Puff, Sr The Doom-Bringer -- To

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-11 Thread Charlie Kroeger
> So how does one use the latest version of this web browser on Stable ? You could put these sources in your /etc/apt/sources.list and do an #apt-get update deb http://ftp.tiscali.nl/debian/ sid main contrib non-free If you have a GUI type package manager like smartpm it will show a list of all

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-11 Thread Cassiano Leal
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-11 16:44, S. Fishpaste wrote: >> >> Hello; First of all I'm not that familiar with a Linux GUI as I usually >> run >> GNU/Linux headless via CLI. >> >> I've got Lenny running Xserver-Xorg and I've noticed that the default >> Iceweasel

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-11 Thread Andrew Reid
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 17:41:48 line...@ruiner.halo.nu wrote: > Ok I guess the system is just hosed. If no one has any more suggestions in > the next couple days I will reinstall. > > > I will never trust Debian upgrades again, at least not when encrypted > filesystems are in use. Well, all

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-11 16:44, S. Fishpaste wrote: Hello; First of all I'm not that familiar with a Linux GUI as I usually run GNU/Linux headless via CLI. I've got Lenny running Xserver-Xorg and I've noticed that the default Iceweasel aka Firefox is an older version and I prefer to run the latest. I have

Re: Unable to install mencoder debian package from debian-multimedia.org.

2009-08-11 Thread Andrew Reid
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 17:58:48 Thomas Anderson wrote: > I have the following entry in my sources.list file: > > deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main > > But I cannot install any package from that repository. Try a mirror, there's a list of them at: http://debian-multimedia.org/deb

Re: Unable to install mencoder debian package from debian-multimedia.org.

2009-08-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-11 16:58, Thomas Anderson wrote: I have the following entry in my sources.list file: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main But I cannot install any package from that repository. I get this error message: # apt-get install mencoder Reading package lists... Done Building dep

Re: 60 console-kit-daemons

2009-08-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-11 16:05, Charles wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:25:05 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-11 13:07, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Since upgrading to the latest Xorg htop shows 60 console-kit-daemons. ///snip///

Re: color management?

2009-08-11 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 09:23:57PM -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > heya list. ive been working with linux on adjusting my photos for the > last 3 weeks or so. since ive started ive noticed that the way the > photos look on my linux laptop are CONSIDERABLY different then the > color that is shown on a

Re: color management?

2009-08-11 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Mirko Parthey wrote: > Laptop screens are optimized for energy efficiency instead of image > quality; their color reproduction may not be as good as an external > monitor and depends strongly on the viewing angle. > Regards, > Mirko thanks for those links as well.

Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-11 Thread S. Fishpaste
Hello; First of all I'm not that familiar with a Linux GUI as I usually run GNU/Linux headless via CLI. I've got Lenny running Xserver-Xorg and I've noticed that the default Iceweasel aka Firefox is an older version and I prefer to run the latest. I have checked backports for stable and there doe

Unable to install mencoder debian package from debian-multimedia.org.

2009-08-11 Thread Thomas Anderson
I have the following entry in my sources.list file: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main But I cannot install any package from that repository. I get this error message: # apt-get install mencoder Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done

Re: 60 console-kit-daemons

2009-08-11 Thread Charles
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:25:05 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-11 13:07, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Since upgrading to the latest Xorg htop shows 60 > console-kit-daemons. > >

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-11 Thread lineman
Ok I guess the system is just hosed. If no one has any more suggestions in the next couple days I will reinstall. I will never trust Debian upgrades again, at least not when encrypted filesystems are in use. On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 06:49:51PM -0500, line...@ruiner.halo.nu wrote: > > hmm

Re: fetchmail socket error

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue August 11 2009, Teemu Likonen wrote: > I have two IMAP accounts but I don't like to store the mail on the > remote server so I use fetchmail to fetch all mail on remote servers to > my spool file in /var/mail directory. Then my mail client (Gnus) is > configured to get mail just from the loc

Re: fetchmail socket error

2009-08-11 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-08-11 16:35 (-0400), Paul Cartwright wrote: > If I tell fetchmail to use IMAP, I guess I'm not sure how to setup > kmail for my 7 accounts that will be coming in via fetchmail. Does > that make more better sense? I have two IMAP accounts but I don't like to store the mail on the remote ser

Re: 60 console-kit-daemons

2009-08-11 Thread Charles
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:25:05 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-11 13:07, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Since upgrading to the latest Xorg htop shows 60 > console-kit-daemons. > ///sni

Re: Configuring System-wide HTTP Proxy

2009-08-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-11 22:10 +0200, David Baron wrote: > I want all browsers to go through a proxy localhost:3128 or such. > > How might I set this up system-wise (as root) ? Most browsers in Debian obey the http_proxy environment variable, you can set that globally in /etc/environment, a file that is rea

Re: fetchmail socket error

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue August 11 2009, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > can I setup fetchmail for IMAP? > > yes. > > proto imap > > man fetchmailrc well, I saw IMAP as a fetchmail possibility.. but I guess my guess is more how do I DO IT. with IMAP I thought the server was more like the repository, and your mai

Configuring System-wide HTTP Proxy

2009-08-11 Thread David Baron
I want all browsers to go through a proxy localhost:3128 or such. How might I set this up system-wise (as root) ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: C++ and threading howto for linux dev

2009-08-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <2009082355.2e38a...@vivalunalitshi.luna.local>, Micha Feigin >> wrote: >>>c is a subset of c++ so you can use the c api inside c++. >> >> Not entirely true. >> >> There is a common subset of C and C++ and it includes the majority

Re: version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

2009-08-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-11 19:15 +0200, Rob Gom wrote: > [cut] > I compared libnsl versions, not libc. I see, I had misunderstood you. Yes, nm lists __libc_clntudp_bufcreate as undefined in libnsl. > I _guess_ that some lib is linked against libnsl, but not libc6 (is > that possible?). Theoretically it may

Re: No X panel.

2009-08-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:34:35 +0700, Sthu wrote in message <4a814bf7.05a0660a.6a94.9...@mx.google.com>: > Good day. > > I have updated my KDE 3.5 from unstable. ..which would make it KDE-4.3.0 > Now I have no its main-menu > button, nor its panel nor mouse right click on the screen makes a

Re: 60 console-kit-daemons

2009-08-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-11 13:07, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Since upgrading to the latest Xorg htop shows 60 console-kit-daemons. Do I need all 60? What do they do? Actually there are 64 threads all the time. This describes the phenome

RAID questions (again)

2009-08-11 Thread ghe
I've partitioned a server disk fairly heavily, and I want to RAID1 it. I see on the 'Net that there's such a thing as "partitionable RAID arrays". But I also read that this isn't such a good idea. Seems pretty good to me: build an array of unpartitioned drives, and slice it up. Is there rea

Re: 60 console-kit-daemons

2009-08-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Biebl wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Since upgrading to the latest Xorg htop shows 60 console-kit-daemons. Do I need all 60? What do they do? Actually there are 64 threads all the time. This describes the phenomenon: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?i

Re: C++ and threading howto for linux dev

2009-08-11 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <2009082355.2e38a...@vivalunalitshi.luna.local>, Micha Feigin > wrote: >>c is a subset of c++ so you can use the c api inside c++. > > Not entirely true. ISO 9899:1999 (C Programming Language) has a number of > types that are not in ISO 14882:2003 (C++ Prog

Re: C++ and threading howto for linux dev

2009-08-11 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Micha Feigin wrote: > On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:09:40 -0500 > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > > One way to do it by the way if you want them encapsulated inside a class > is to use static member functions (they are actually just standard > function with a limited scope). Then you don't need to d

Re: version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

2009-08-11 Thread Rob Gom
[cut] I compared libnsl versions, not libc. I _guess_ that some lib is linked against libnsl, but not libc6 (is that possible?). Then on older versions, it would work fine. On new, it would try to load libnsl and fail because on new referred symbol present in libc6. What else may that be? I restar

Re: color management?

2009-08-11 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:13:22 -0700, jeremy jozwik in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:20 AM, S. > Fishpaste wrote: >> Is GIMP colour managed ? I don't think it is as that's usually reserved for >> 'ink on >> paper' design applications. > > yes gimp is and has an entire s

Re: [Solved] xserver-xorg won't start

2009-08-11 Thread S. Fishpaste
OK in case anyone is interested and for the archives; I have found a solution. Apparently the Trident video chip driver tries to use VESA's DDC, but the hardware doesn't seem to support this, which causes Xorg to freeze (doesn't display any error message either). The solution is from

Re: 60 console-kit-daemons

2009-08-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Since upgrading to the latest Xorg htop shows 60 console-kit-daemons. >> >> Do I need all 60? What do they do? >> > > Actually there are 64 threads all the time. This describes the phenomenon: > http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=

Re: New list debian-user-dutch started

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > If you have an idea how to give this more publicity, I am interested to > know how. Mention it on debian lists whenever a user uses Dutch on the wrong list. Mention it on the Debian microblogging site: http://twitter.debian.net/ Mentio

Re: C++ and threading howto for linux dev

2009-08-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <2009082355.2e38a...@vivalunalitshi.luna.local>, Micha Feigin wrote: >c is a subset of c++ so you can use the c api inside c++. Not entirely true. ISO 9899:1999 (C Programming Language) has a number of types that are not in ISO 14882:2003 (C++ Programming Language), at least. Also, the

Re: Package Version Numbers

2009-08-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <5in185hijnaa5tsr4sjp5586u3ucbrv...@4ax.com>, Jeff Grossman wrote: >"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: >>In <47pt7511s56vq779jtfp2ap0059a8m4...@4ax.com>, Jeff Grossman wrote: >>>mail:~# apt-cache policy php5 >>>php5: >>> Installed: 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny3+custom1 >>> Candidate: 5.2.9.dfsg.1-4 >>>

Re: fetchmail socket error

2009-08-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 05:48:51AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Tue August 11 2009, Thomas Hochstein wrote: > > fetchmail cannot connect to the server it should poll (your "mail > > domain host"). As you can reach that host via webmail (HTTP, Port 80) > > and IMAP, it does not seem to be a ne

Re: color management?

2009-08-11 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:20 AM, S. Fishpaste wrote: > Is GIMP colour managed ? I don't think it is as that's usually reserved for > 'ink on > paper' design applications. yes gimp is and has an entire section dedicated to it in preferences. ill look into that site you recommend. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: New list debian-user-dutch started

2009-08-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hello, There is a new mailinglist: debian-user-dutch You can subscribe here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-dutch/ If you have an idea how to give this more publicity, I am interested to know how. Does not appear yet as gmane.linux.debian.user.dutch Hugo --

Re: version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

2009-08-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-11 16:21 +0200, Rob Gom wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Rob Gom wrote: >> I workarounded that by copying old libnsl-2.7.so to /lib (and second >> version to /lib/i686/cmov/) and modified symbolic links libnsl.so.1. >> And smb access started working again ... >> Shall I report

Re: 60 console-kit-daemons

2009-08-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Since upgrading to the latest Xorg htop shows 60 console-kit-daemons. Do I need all 60? What do they do? Actually there are 64 threads all the time. This describes the phenomenon: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57491 Nobody noticed this? You will! From

Re: version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

2009-08-11 Thread Rob Gom
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Rob Gom wrote: > I workarounded that by copying old libnsl-2.7.so to /lib (and second > version to /lib/i686/cmov/) and modified symbolic links libnsl.so.1. > And smb access started working again ... > Shall I report a bug against libc6? > > Regards, > Robert > I d

Re: Configuring polkit-gnome-authorization without a root password

2009-08-11 Thread Michael Biebl
louish wrote: > On 8/9/09, Michael wrote: > > (Sorry for the delayed reply.) > >> LH wrote: >>> What changes do I need to make to my Debian setup that would allow me >>> to configure Authorizations without an explicit root password. I know >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=5364

New list debian-user-dutch started

2009-08-11 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Hello, There is a new mailinglist: debian-user-dutch You can subscribe here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-dutch/ If you have an idea how to give this more publicity, I am interested to know how. With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- http://www.vandervlis.nl/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: xserver-xorg won't start

2009-08-11 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:16:34 +0200, Thierry Chatelet in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > On Sunday 09 August 2009 20:25:31 S. Fishpaste wrote: >> On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 19:33:13 +0200, Thierry Chatelet in > gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: >> > On Sunday 09 August 2009 18:11:23 S. Fishpaste wrote: >> >

Re: color management?

2009-08-11 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:12:57 -0700, jeremy jozwik in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:04 AM, S. > Fishpaste wrote: >> Well then might want to try using sRGB profile. > > nope, dont work any better. i have both gimp and rawstudio set to > srgb, re-uploaded and there is sti

Re: synaptic configuration differences between two Sid boxes

2009-08-11 Thread Joe
Damon Chesser wrote: This has me scratching my head. Two boxes, both set to Sid, the apt sources of one was copied from the other. When I search for sun jre, on one I see sun-java6-bin 6-15-1 (installed and latest version) on the other I see sun-java6-bin 6-14-1 as installed AND latest version.

Re: version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

2009-08-11 Thread Rob Gom
I workarounded that by copying old libnsl-2.7.so to /lib (and second version to /lib/i686/cmov/) and modified symbolic links libnsl.so.1. And smb access started working again ... Shall I report a bug against libc6? Regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Choosing Laptops/Notebooks

2009-08-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
Why don't you write to the laptop manufactures and express your concerns? At the very, very least you will have shown them that there is a market for Debian-powered laptops. They take those types of comments seriously. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUB

Re: Debian Lenny install failing on Dell Latitude CPi A366ST during hardware detect phase

2009-08-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:13:32 -0700, Kyle wrote in message : > >> I'm trying to install Debian Lenny on an old Dell Latitude CPi > >> A366ST, currently running Win98. KNOPPIX boots on it fine, as does > >> Win98. > > > > ..use that to visit http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ > > and install over intern

Re: libdvdcss availability?

2009-08-11 Thread Krzysztof Lubański
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:30:16 +0200, Olivier Cailloux wrote: > I would like to install the libdvdcss package, which appears on > http://www.debian-unofficial.org/packages.html. > [...] > Then I get a missing key error: > -- > #LANG=C aptitude update > W: GPG error: http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org

No X panel.

2009-08-11 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I have updated my KDE 3.5 from unstable. Now I have no its main-menu button, nor its panel nor mouse right click on the screen makes any response. Here are the kde* packages I have for now: dpkg -l | grep kde kde-icons-crystal kdebase-bin kdebase-data kdebase-runtime kdebase-runtime-da

Re: libdvdcss availability?

2009-08-11 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-08-11 12:05 (+0200), Olivier Cailloux wrote: > - How can I install libdvdcss on my system? (Preferably through > aptitude, although if not possible advices on how to do it differently > would be appreciated.) Use debian-multimedia repository: http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ -- To UNSU

Iceweasel: Failure to add security exception

2009-08-11 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, When connecting to my home-server (using a self-signed certificate) I unsurprisingly get the famous "sec_error_unknown_issuer" error. I now navigate to "Edit->Preference->Advanced->Encryption->View Certificates- >Servers->Add Exception",type in my URL and hit "Get certificate" ... which

libdvdcss availability?

2009-08-11 Thread Olivier Cailloux
Dear list, Please excuse me if this question would be more appropriately asked in an other list, and indicate me the right one... I would like to install the libdvdcss package, which appears on http://www.debian-unofficial.org/packages.html. There is a note on debian unofficial homepage abo

Re: xserver-xorg won't start

2009-08-11 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Sunday 09 August 2009 20:25:31 S. Fishpaste wrote: > On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 19:33:13 +0200, Thierry Chatelet in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > > On Sunday 09 August 2009 18:11:23 S. Fishpaste wrote: > >> On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 16:33:27 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme in > > > > gmane.linux.debian.user wrot

Re: version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

2009-08-11 Thread Rob Gom
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: [cut] > > That does not seem to happen for me: > > , > | % objdump -T /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 | grep __libc_clntudp_bufcreate > | 0010ad30 g    DF .text  0399  GLIBC_PRIVATE __libc_clntudp_bufcreate > ` > >> What can I do with that?

Re: apt-ia32 is driving me nuts

2009-08-11 Thread Petteri
Damon Chesser kirjoitti ma 10. elokuuta 2009 17.39.04: > I know this is the Users-list, but perhaps you can shed some light on > this for me. This ia32-lib silliness to make systems work with both > x64 and x32 systems and the way it interacts with synaptic/aptitude > produces totally wacky outcom

Re: Is it safe to install xz-utils?

2009-08-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-08-11 09:05:05 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Probably. The worst case scenario is that it doesn't work and you are > no longer be able to unpack lzma-compressed debs. But that should not > really happen if the maintainers have tested their package. [...] Thanks for the information. I did

Re: fetchmail socket error

2009-08-11 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue August 11 2009, Thomas Hochstein wrote: > fetchmail cannot connect to the server it should poll (your "mail > domain host"). As you can reach that host via webmail (HTTP, Port 80) > and IMAP, it does not seem to be a network problem. Maybe the POP3 > daemon on that host is not running / runn

Re: version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

2009-08-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-11 09:42 +0200, Rob Gom wrote: > I have updated my PC from i686 to Intel Quad. Therefore I switched to > 64 bit kernel. In the meantime I upgraded my libc from 2.7-something > to 2.9-23. > After that smb:// protocol no longer works in KDE3 (yes, I have > decided to stay with that versio

Re: Choosing Laptops/Notebooks

2009-08-11 Thread Aioanei Rares
T o n g wrote: Hi, I am considering buying a Laptop/Notebook for the first time. To me, what unique in choosing a Laptop/Notebook than a desktop are, CPU temperature and power consumption, battery life, hibernation support, weight, etc. Coincidentally, there was a heat debate on CPU power co

Re: rhythmbox won't stop coming up

2009-08-11 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:30:06AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > sessions options under preferences about start up apps, but didn't see > > it listed there. > > So how do I stop it from automatically launching rhythmbox? > > Try stopping all instances of rhythmbox (check with ps or top to make

Re: how to silence speaker during reboot/halt

2009-08-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,11.Aug.09, 10:53:20, Johann Spies wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:47:53AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:14:26AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > install pcspkr /bin/true > > > > > > > Can you explain this please? I don't find 'pcspkr' anywhere. > > A

Re: how to silence speaker during reboot/halt

2009-08-11 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:47:53AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:14:26AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > install pcspkr /bin/true > > > > Can you explain this please? I don't find 'pcspkr' anywhere. Apologies. I was searching for a package named pcspkr and forgot t

Re: how to silence speaker during reboot/halt

2009-08-11 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:14:26AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,09.Aug.09, 14:13:44, Long Wind wrote: > > > 3) /etc/modprobe.d/00local.conf > > This used to cause trouble in the past. Try this instead > > install pcspkr /bin/true > Can you explain this please? I don't find 'pcspkr' a

Re: synaptic configuration differences between two Sid boxes

2009-08-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,10.Aug.09, 19:49:50, Damon Chesser wrote: > This has me scratching my head. Two boxes, both set to Sid, the apt > sources of one was copied from the other. When I search for sun jre, on > one I see sun-java6-bin 6-15-1 (installed and latest version) on the > other I see sun-java6-bin 6-14-

Re: rhythmbox won't stop coming up

2009-08-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,10.Aug.09, 19:29:48, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > On this system of mine, which I recently reinstalled, for various > reasons, this problem still persists. Everything was whiped except > /home, and if I log in as a different user the problem does not > occur. When gdm starts and logs in a

Re: C++ and threading howto for linux dev

2009-08-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:55:00 +0200 Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > ga wrote: > > > > > Check out these ones: > > > http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/glibmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/thread_2thread_8cc-example.html#_a11 > > > http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/glibmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/thread_2dispatcher_8cc-example.

Re: C++ and threading howto for linux dev

2009-08-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:09:40 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > In , Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >I'm willing to build an app that starts 3 threads, especially (soap > > client, server from libcsoap and terminal), so I couldn't manage to do > > the job in C++, because they it lacks native thread

Re: C++ and threading howto for linux dev

2009-08-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:09:05 +0200 Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Hi, perhaps it's OT but still the debian list is the best one (my subjective > opinion), so I dear to ask here. > > I'm willing to build an app that starts 3 threads, especially (soap client, > server from libcsoap and terminal), so I co

Re: xserver-xorg won't start

2009-08-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,09.Aug.09, 12:11:23, S. Fishpaste wrote: > > Thomas, I have since used a generic xorg.conf that I found on a website > listing some configs for laptops. So I'm making a little progress; Now what > I'm getting are specific error messages. :-) How about posting that xorg.conf here? Regards,

Re: Suspicious Hidden Files

2009-08-11 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:31:07AM +0300, David Baron wrote: > RKhunter cistes the following: directories /etc/.java and /dev/.udev > > The .java is emtpy. > The .udev has db names rules.d uevent_seqnum watch > > Do these belong there or are they a problem? > Delete them? Apparently it is a

Re: how to silence speaker during reboot/halt

2009-08-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,09.Aug.09, 14:13:44, Long Wind wrote: > 3) /etc/modprobe.d/00local.conf This used to cause trouble in the past. Try this instead install pcspkr /bin/true Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description

version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

2009-08-11 Thread Rob Gom
Hello, I have updated my PC from i686 to Intel Quad. Therefore I switched to 64 bit kernel. In the meantime I upgraded my libc from 2.7-something to 2.9-23. After that smb:// protocol no longer works in KDE3 (yes, I have decided to stay with that version - it's fine for my purposes). Log message is

Re: Is it safe to install xz-utils?

2009-08-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-11 03:35 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > When I want to install xz-utils (from experimental) on a Debian/unstable > machine, apt-get wants to remove lzma because xz-utils conflicts with it. That's the reason why it was uploaded to experimental, I suppose. > I get the following warning