Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny

2009-08-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Girish Kulkarni wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny? > > Totem and VLC fail too. The disk is probably okay because it played > on someone's Windows desktop. What is going wrong? Can I trust > regionset? I check

Re: Pidgin problems on stable (amd64)

2009-08-19 Thread Andreas Ronnquist
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:59:02 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-08-20 03:15 +0200, Andreas Ronnquist wrote: > > > Trying to update pidgin after the last security-bulletin [1] i run into > > problems: > > > > libpurple0 requires libdbus-glib-1-2 (>=0.78), on amd64 [2] but > > > > only 0.76-1 is

Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny

2009-08-19 Thread Kousik Maiti
You can try regionset. Web page:-http://linvdr.org/projects/regionset/ On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny? > > I run Lenny on a Dell Insprion 640m laptop that uses a Sony Optiarc > AD-5540A DVD player. The

Re: Pidgin problems on stable (amd64)

2009-08-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-20 03:15 +0200, Andreas Ronnquist wrote: > Trying to update pidgin after the last security-bulletin [1] i run into > problems: > > libpurple0 requires libdbus-glib-1-2 (>=0.78), on amd64 [2] but > > only 0.76-1 is availible on amd64. [3] > > any solution? File a bug report against that

encrypted DVDs on Lenny

2009-08-19 Thread Girish Kulkarni
Hi, Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny? I run Lenny on a Dell Insprion 640m laptop that uses a Sony Optiarc AD-5540A DVD player. The player had its DVD region code set to 3 so I couldn't play India-only DVDs (region code 5) on it. Regionset smoothly changed the drive's reg

Re: Lenny Iceweasel Flash Player Plugin

2009-08-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,19.Aug.09, 16:37:51, Roman Gelfand wrote: > I am running it on 64 bit machine. When trying to play flash pugin, > the spiral moves for a while then freezes. > > Any help is appreciated. I would suggest installing flashplugin-nonfree from backports. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explai

Re: "Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

2009-08-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,20.Aug.09, 06:18:03, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 8/19/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Maybe you are seeing bug #526009. Try closing all 'su' or similar > > sessions before trying to shutdown. > > > Thanks. From the potential solutions mentioned, at least this trick works. > Liviu Would be in

Re: CVS & Co

2009-08-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,19.Aug.09, 11:09:22, Alex Huth wrote: > Hi! > > I want to use CVS for systemadministration. I have never used one so far, so > my knowledge is very poor about that topic. > > Actually our programmers and another administrator is using eclipse. > Unfortunately i don't know which package i h

Re: "Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

2009-08-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 8/19/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Maybe you are seeing bug #526009. Try closing all 'su' or similar > sessions before trying to shutdown. > Thanks. From the potential solutions mentioned, at least this trick works. Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-19 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: Fetchmail and Gmail both seem strange to me. Getting them to actually work together must be a dark art :) True! :-) -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

tun(4)

2009-08-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, is which package is the manpage for tun ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Inquiry: run fsck in single user mode

2009-08-19 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear Niu With many thanks for your reply , I tried to force fsck after reboot as the followings : #cd / #touch /forcefsck #reboot Can you please do me favor and let me know if this is the same as your proposed procedure (since I am not familiar with your tune2fs and its usage) ? Regards H.Motamedi

Re: trouble with smbclient

2009-08-19 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed August 19 2009 18:46:52 Steve Kleene wrote: > I'm trying to use smbclient to connect from the console of an Etch host to > a Windows server at work. As root, I can mount my directory on the server > by entering this: > > mount -t cifs //site.uc.edu/kleene /mnt -o username=place/steve > >

Re: how to migrate request-tracker database from sqlite3 to mysql

2009-08-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090819224241.gc22...@finrod>, Martin Kraus wrote: >On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:17:03PM +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: >> On Wednesday 19 August 2009 02:37:37 Martin Kraus wrote: >> > hi. I'm trying to migrate request-tracker3.6 database from sqlite to >> > mysql on lenny. Is there a way to ex

Re: Inquiry: run fsck in single user mode

2009-08-19 Thread Niu Kun
hadi motamedi 写道: Dear Ron Thanks for your reply . Please be informed that this is the "/usr" partition . Regards H.Motamedi On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Ron Johnson > wrote: On 2009-08-17 01:35, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All I have a

Re: Inquiry: run fsck in single user mode

2009-08-19 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear Ron Thanks for your reply . Please be informed that this is the "/usr" partition . Regards H.Motamedi On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-17 01:35, hadi motamedi wrote: > >> Dear All >> I have an Linux server that gets problemy from sudden power cut . I need >

SOT: Lenny or other distro with text games on CD

2009-08-19 Thread Deboo ^
I would like to know if Lenny's ISOs have the text games (bsd and other ones) on them? Does Lenny install properly on P-II machines (32 MB) or am I better off using Sarge / Etch? I need this machines to use it for coding but need to have text games. Please advise other distros too which have the

Re: Cannot Login

2009-08-19 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:18:22 -0700 Raquel wrote: > I have an odd problem that's developed, and have spent all afternoon > trying to figure out what's going on. My web server (running Debian > Lenny) is running and serving pages. However, I cannot login to the > server via SSH or at the console, w

Re: Cannot Login

2009-08-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-19 20:39, Raquel wrote: [snip] At this point I'd love to be able to login as anything. I boot into single mode using the GRUB menu and I'm still being asked for a login. The boot dialog I get is: Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshdCould not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_k

trouble with smbclient

2009-08-19 Thread Steve Kleene
I'm trying to use smbclient to connect from the console of an Etch host to a Windows server at work. As root, I can mount my directory on the server by entering this: mount -t cifs //site.uc.edu/kleene /mnt -o username=place/steve and my password. However, any of these smbclient lines fails:

Re: Cannot Login

2009-08-19 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:14:02 -0300 Ariel Laganá wrote: > Hi Raquel, > > Are you trying to log in as root or as a regular user? Can you > provide further detail about the error... > > In case you're having trouble attempting to login as root, you can > run linux in single mode which will start a

Re: Cannot Login

2009-08-19 Thread Ariel Laganá
Hi Raquel, Are you trying to log in as root or as a regular user? Can you provide further detail about the error... In case you're having trouble attempting to login as root, you can run linux in single mode which will start as root, without asking any password. Restart the server, when the GRUB

Pidgin problems on stable (amd64)

2009-08-19 Thread Andreas Ronnquist
Hi! Trying to update pidgin after the last security-bulletin [1] i run into problems: libpurple0 requires libdbus-glib-1-2 (>=0.78), on amd64 [2] but only 0.76-1 is availible on amd64. [3] any solution? 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2009/msg00187.html 2. http://packages.d

Re: Cannot Login

2009-08-19 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:51:43 -0700 "Kevin Ross" wrote: > > From: Kevin Ross [mailto:ke...@familyross.net] > > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:45 PM > > > > > > Boot from a Live or Rescue CD, mount your / partition, edit the > /etc/shadow > > file, and delete the password for root. Reboot wi

RE: Cannot Login

2009-08-19 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Kevin Ross [mailto:ke...@familyross.net] > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:45 PM > > > From: Raquel [mailto:raq...@thericehouse.net] > > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:18 PM > > > > I have an odd problem that's developed, and have spent all afternoon > > trying to figure out what's

RE: Cannot Login

2009-08-19 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Raquel [mailto:raq...@thericehouse.net] > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:18 PM > > I have an odd problem that's developed, and have spent all afternoon > trying to figure out what's going on. My web server (running Lenny) is > running and serving pages. However, I cannot login to the s

Cannot Login

2009-08-19 Thread Raquel
I have an odd problem that's developed, and have spent all afternoon trying to figure out what's going on. My web server (running Lenny) is running and serving pages. However, I cannot login to the server via SSH or at the console, which means that I cannot apply updates, change configuration, or e

RE: Debian Linux USB help

2009-08-19 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: go...@dobosevic.com [mailto:go...@dobosevic.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 4:40 PM > > > > FWIW, unetbootin did not work for me when I tried a few months ago > with > > Lenny Stable; the boot files for unetbootin had version issues with > the > > Lenny Stable release iso's I downlo

Re: Debian Linux USB help

2009-08-19 Thread Tim Tebbit
Ramy Mana wrote: On your site it said that if we were using a usb disk that we should download the small images. My USB disk can hold 2gb, so if I download the cd/dvd images on my 2gb usb drive will it work? Thank You IT'S TIME TO PLAY THE GAME WITH THE KING OF KINGS! AND IF YOU'RE NOT DO

Re: Debian Linux USB help

2009-08-19 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
FWIW, unetbootin did not work for me when I tried a few months ago with Lenny Stable; the boot files for unetbootin had version issues with the Lenny Stable release iso's I downloaded.� The Debian Installation Manual instructions, however, worked perfectly (I had posted an email thread not

Re: Debian Linux USB help

2009-08-19 Thread Mark
> Hi, > you can use UNetbootin http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ and he will do > everything for you. Just choose Debian-stable version and he will download > and put on your USB. > > -- > Bye, > Goran Dobosevic > Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com > English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ FWIW, unetbootin d

Re: Lenny Iceweasel Flash Player Plugin

2009-08-19 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Roman Gelfand wrote: I am running it on 64 bit machine. When trying to play flash pugin, the spiral moves for a while then freezes. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance Do you have new or old flash plugin? I have had this effect with an old flash. Tray to play some http://www.youtube.

Re: Debian Linux USB help

2009-08-19 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Ramy Mana wrote: On your site it said that if we were using a usb disk that we should download the small images. My USB disk can hold 2gb, so if I download the cd/dvd images on my 2gb usb drive will it work? Thank You IT'S TIME TO PLAY THE GAME WITH THE KING OF KINGS! AND IF YOU'RE NOT DOWN

Re: how to migrate request-tracker database from sqlite3 to mysql

2009-08-19 Thread Martin Kraus
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:17:03PM +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > On Wednesday 19 August 2009 02:37:37 Martin Kraus wrote: > > hi. I'm trying to migrate request-tracker3.6 database from sqlite to mysql > > on lenny. Is there a way to export data from sqlite so they can be > > imported into mysql

Re: Debian Linux USB help

2009-08-19 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Ramy Mana wrote: On your site it said that if we were using a usb disk that we should download the small images. My USB disk can hold 2gb, so if I download the cd/dvd images on my 2gb usb drive will it work? Thank You IT'S TIME TO PLAY THE GAME WITH THE KING OF KINGS! AND IF YOU'RE NOT DOWN

RE: TV Tuner

2009-08-19 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Thomas H. George [mailto:li...@tomgeorge.info] > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:47 PM > > I recently emeraged from the dark ages and purchased a 23" LCD monitor. > Now I am wondering about purchasing a TV tuner and connecting the cable > box (Comcast) to the pc rather than replacing m

canary mismatch on efree()

2009-08-19 Thread Rick Pasotto
I installed the last batch of php5 testing updates on 8/17. Ever since I've been getting this error: suhosin[7782]: ALERT - canary mismatch on efree() - heap overflow detected The php5-suhosin package doesn't have any bug reports so the problem is evidently in some other package. Has this been r

Re: remapping keys using hal (is it possible to replace xmodmap with hal?)

2009-08-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:08:28 +0300 Micha Feigin wrote: > I'm looking to remap the forward/back keys, preferably using hal to > pageup/pagedown so that I can use them for presentation (I have a > bluetooth mouse that generates these instead of pageup/pagedown) > > lshal -m shows that these keys a

Re: [SOLVED] Wireless Adapter Card compatibility

2009-08-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Wayne Topa [2009 Aug 19 13:48 -0500]: > Glad you got a good buy. I'm sure you'll be happy with the Atheros > chip. I sure am. Ditto, Wayne. I think now the Atheros chipsets should be among the preferred wireless adapters these days. I bought a Linksys WPC-55AG almost five years ago and it

Re: what happened to the -ls option of konsole?

2009-08-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Hugo Vanwoerkom [2009 Aug 19 12:40 -0500]: > Hi, > > Before upgrading to the current konsole I used to be able to get a login > session with the -ls option. > > But that option is gone. > > What do you have to do to get a login session with konsole? It was probably deemed an unwanted feature

Re: OT: TV Tuner

2009-08-19 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: > I recently emeraged from the dark ages and purchased a 23" LCD monitor. > Now I am wondering about purchasing a TV tuner and connecting the cable > box (Comcast) to the pc rather than replacing my 15 year old analog tv > set.  Nothing large

OT: TV Tuner

2009-08-19 Thread Thomas H. George
I recently emeraged from the dark ages and purchased a 23" LCD monitor. Now I am wondering about purchasing a TV tuner and connecting the cable box (Comcast) to the pc rather than replacing my 15 year old analog tv set. Nothing larger than a 27" LCD TV will fit in the solid cherry tv cabinet, hard

RE: CVS & Co

2009-08-19 Thread David Christensen
Alex Huth wrote: > I want to use CVS for systemadministration. I have never used one so > far, so my knowledge is very poor about that topic. I use CVS for system administration by maintaining a sparse directory tree of the system files I change and checking that tree into CVS: http://www.n

Lenny Iceweasel Flash Player Plugin

2009-08-19 Thread Roman Gelfand
I am running it on 64 bit machine. When trying to play flash pugin, the spiral moves for a while then freezes. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Re: installing debian on rhel5

2009-08-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:04:21AM -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: > > From: Vasanthra Devi S [mailto:vasanthrad...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:46 AM > > > > can you help me to install Debian 5.0(Lenny) on RHEL 5 (kernel is 2.3) > > on x86 machine. > > > > Install Debian first, o

Re: how to migrate request-tracker database from sqlite3 to mysql

2009-08-19 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 02:37:37 Martin Kraus wrote: > hi. I'm trying to migrate request-tracker3.6 database from sqlite to mysql > on lenny. Is there a way to export data from sqlite so they can be > imported into mysql for request-tracker3.6? > > rt-dump-database doesn't export sqlite databa

remapping keys using hal

2009-08-19 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm looking to remap the forward/back keys, preferably using hal to pageup/pagedown so that I can use them for presentation (I have a bluetooth mouse that generates these instead of pageup/pagedown) lshal -m shows that these keys are mapped to: 23:05:56.986: platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port_logicalde

Re: "Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

2009-08-19 Thread Allan Wind
On 2009-08-19T13:48:16, Liviu Andronic wrote: > More shutdown blues. Whenever I hit the Restart/Shut Down buttons in > Xfce log-off-er, I get the following error, and the system falls back > to gdm. > "Unable to perform shutdown http://www.xfce.org/documentation/4.2/manuals/xfce4-session lead me t

Re: [WORKAROUND]what sets the time at boot?

2009-08-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-19 20:37 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2009-08-19 19:08 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> >>> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: So my question is: who at boot time is responsible for realizing that the hwclock is kept in local time and UTC time? >>> And th

Debian Linux USB help

2009-08-19 Thread Ramy Mana
On your site it said that if we were using a usb disk that we should download the small images. My USB disk can hold 2gb, so if I download the cd/dvd images on my 2gb usb drive will it work? Thank You IT'S TIME TO PLAY THE GAME WITH THE KING OF KINGS! AND IF YOU'RE NOT DOWN WITH THAT I'VE

Re: [SOLVED] Wireless Adapter Card compatibility

2009-08-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Mark wrote: Wayne wrote: Do a google search for madwifi. All the info about cards that work with the Atheros drivers is there. Look for the Compatibility page. Thanks Wayne, unfortunately the madwifi Compatibility page is broken when I go there (http://www.madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility). N

Re: [WORKAROUND]what sets the time at boot?

2009-08-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-08-19 19:08 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: So my question is: who at boot time is responsible for realizing that the hwclock is kept in local time and UTC time? And the answer is: /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh and /etc/init.d/hwclockfirst.sh do that

Re: gnome-volume-manager problem

2009-08-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello, On 8/19/09, AG wrote: > Cheers Liviu - have you got that set up on your rig and do you use Gnome as > your DE? If so, how do you get it to be initialised (assuming it is a > daemon) at login? > It should suffice installing thunar-volman and enable it via $ Thunar, Edit > Preferences > Ad

Re: [SOLVED] Wireless Adapter Card compatibility

2009-08-19 Thread Mark
Wayne wrote: >> Do a google search for madwifi. All the info about cards that work with the Atheros drivers is there. Look for the Compatibility page. Thanks Wayne, unfortunately the madwifi Compatibility page is broken when I go there (http://www.madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility). No problem, I

RE: installing debian on rhel5

2009-08-19 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Vasanthra Devi S [mailto:vasanthrad...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:46 AM > > can you help me to install Debian 5.0(Lenny) on RHEL 5 (kernel is 2.3) > on x86 machine. > > > i have tried it but i could not boot debian but i can boot Rhel > > first i have insttled debia

Re: [SOLVED] Wireless Adapter Card compatibility

2009-08-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Mark wrote: Awesome info, thanks everyone for helping find a good solution. I have yet to purchase but have very good direction on some candidates to buy now. Klistvud: Thanks for the tips - I prefer to put my money towards a Linux-friendly company any chance I get. I'd prefer a new card if po

Re: Installing Lenny

2009-08-19 Thread Mark
> I have vista 64 and fedora 10 installed The bootloader is GRUB. I am > looking to install Lenny in place of fedora. What would be the right > way to approach it? Not sure if this applies to Vista too (I assume it would), but I just set up a friend's computer to dual-boot XP/Debian in place of

RE: how to install NIC

2009-08-19 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Johann Spies [mailto:jsp...@sun.ac.za] > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:57 AM > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 02:39:30PM +0530, tanushyam bhattacharjee > wrote: > > I have installed the latest debian(lenny) in my lenovo desktop > (Family:Think > > Centre M58p Type:7483 Model:ABQ).During in

what happened to the -ls option of konsole?

2009-08-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Before upgrading to the current konsole I used to be able to get a login session with the -ls option. But that option is gone. What do you have to do to get a login session with konsole? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Installing Lenny

2009-08-19 Thread Dirk Neumann
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:19:50 -0400 Roman Gelfand wrote: > I have vista 64 and fedora 10 installed The bootloader is GRUB. I am > looking to install Lenny in place of fedora. What would be the right > way to approach it? Backup all the files you need, download a suitable CD-image, burn it to C

Re: Installing Lenny

2009-08-19 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Roman Gelfand wrote: > I have vista 64 and fedora 10 installed  The bootloader is GRUB.  I am > looking to install Lenny in place of fedora.  What would be the right > way to approach it? Back-up current stuff, d'load the .iso, burn it to cd and boot off of that d

Re: "Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

2009-08-19 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello, > The /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf that I have is an exact replica of > the one that you attached. Unfortunately it is not enough to > shutdown/reboot Xfce. I am looking for one similar to the one attached > in this e-mail [1], but that is known to solve the issue. >

Installing Lenny

2009-08-19 Thread Roman Gelfand
I have vista 64 and fedora 10 installed The bootloader is GRUB. I am looking to install Lenny in place of fedora. What would be the right way to approach it? Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: [WORKAROUND]what sets the time at boot?

2009-08-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-19 19:08 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> >> So my question is: who at boot time is responsible for realizing >> that the hwclock is kept in local time and UTC time? >> > > And the answer is: /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh and > /etc/init.d/hwclockfirst.sh do that from

Re: "Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

2009-08-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,19.Aug.09, 13:48:16, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all, > More shutdown blues. Whenever I hit the Restart/Shut Down buttons in > Xfce log-off-er, I get the following error, and the system falls back > to gdm. > "Unable to perform shutdown > > org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.shutdown-mul

Re: Installed packages

2009-08-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,19.Aug.09, 10:41:27, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090819090118.gb7...@borusse.tmr.net>, Alex Huth wrote: > >I want generate a list of all installed packages, without the dependencies > > of manual installed packages and the the packages from the base system. > > > >What i have found

Re: [WORKAROUND]what sets the time at boot?

2009-08-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Just did a giant Sid dist-upgrade. It caused trouble with the clock. The hwclock is kept at local time. And 'hwclock --debug --directisa' says just that. But now when the system boots it thinks that the time is UTC time and so for the local time it subtracts 5 hou

Re: skype, amd64, libc6-i386 and ia32-libs

2009-08-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:30:06 +0100 Chris Davies wrote: > Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > >>> After returning from vacation I updated my testing, amd64 system. > > > By the way, does anybody know why they had to break things first? I did > > not expect that from debian! > > I rather think that the nam

Re: [SOLVED] Wireless Adapter Card compatibility

2009-08-19 Thread Mark
Awesome info, thanks everyone for helping find a good solution. I have yet to purchase but have very good direction on some candidates to buy now. Klistvud: Thanks for the tips - I prefer to put my money towards a Linux-friendly company any chance I get. I'd prefer a new card if possible but not

Re: "Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

2009-08-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 04:43:56PM +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello, > The /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf that I have is an exact replica of > the one that you attached. Unfortunately it is not enough to > shutdown/reboot Xfce. I am looking for one similar to the one attached > in this e-mail [1

Re: CVS & Co

2009-08-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090819090922.gc7...@borusse.tmr.net>, Alex Huth wrote: >I want to use CVS for systemadministration. I have never used one so far, > so my knowledge is very poor about that topic. Unless you have existing CVS clients, you should use a different VCS. Even if you have existing CVS clients, so

Re: Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver)

2009-08-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <68b1e2610908190512y3dc7d46eob79b6398686b7...@mail.gmail.com>, Liviu Andronic wrote: >On 8/17/09, Wolodja Wentland wrote: >> I can't really help you with your problem, but a "hard" shutdown is >> almost never necessary. You can send various low-level commands to your >> kernel using the "Sy

Re: Installed packages

2009-08-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090819090118.gb7...@borusse.tmr.net>, Alex Huth wrote: >I want generate a list of all installed packages, without the dependencies > of manual installed packages and the the packages from the base system. > >What i have found so far by our friend google: > >aptitude search "?installed(?not(?a

Re: gnome-volume-manager problem

2009-08-19 Thread AG
Liviu Andronic wrote: On 8/18/09, AG wrote: Has anyone else noticed that /usr/lib/gnome-volume-manager/gnome-volume-manager is not working after the recent apt-get update to testing? You could try thunar-volman. Liviu Cheers Liviu - have you got that set up on your rig and do you

Re: gnome-volume-manager problem

2009-08-19 Thread AG
Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 23:57 +0100, AG wrote: Has anyone else noticed that /usr/lib/gnome-volume-manager/gnome-volume-manager is not working after the recent apt-get update to testing? Automounting is disabled in recent versions of g-v-m and is provided by naut

Re: how to migrate request-tracker database from sqlite3 to mysql

2009-08-19 Thread Martin Kraus
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:18:49AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > So, request-tracker uses a different table layout (schema) depending on what > database server it is connecting to? If so, you'll probably have to roll a > one-off to translate from one to the other. If not, please clarif

Re: "Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

2009-08-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello, The /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf that I have is an exact replica of the one that you attached. Unfortunately it is not enough to shutdown/reboot Xfce. I am looking for one similar to the one attached in this e-mail [1], but that is known to solve the issue. Liviu [1] http://www.mail-archiv

Re: how to migrate request-tracker database from sqlite3 to mysql

2009-08-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090819003737.gd2...@finrod>, Martin Kraus wrote: >hi. I'm trying to migrate request-tracker3.6 database from sqlite to mysql > on lenny. Is there a way to export data from sqlite so they can be > imported into mysql for request-tracker3.6? > >rt-dump-database doesn't export sqlite database a

Re: "Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

2009-08-19 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all, More shutdown blues. Whenever I hit the Restart/Shut Down buttons in Xfce log-off-er, I get the following error, and the system falls back to gdm. "Unable to perform shutdown org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.shutdown-multiple-sessions auth_admin <-- (action, r

Re: installing debian on rhel5

2009-08-19 Thread Dirk Neumann
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:16:10 +0530 Vasanthra Devi S wrote: > > first i have insttled debian 5.0(Lenny) . > it has three partitions (/,/boot and swap) > all the three are primary partition. > > after that i have installled rhel5(2.3 kernel). Why? If you could skip this last step, you should hav

Re: installing debian on rhel5

2009-08-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-19 07:46, Vasanthra Devi S wrote: can you help me to install Debian 5.0(Lenny) on RHEL 5 (kernel is 2.3) on x86 machine. The 2.3 series is 10 years old... i have tried it but i could not boot debian but i can boot Rhel Unless you want to use a chroot, it is impossible to do what

Re: how to migrate request-tracker database from sqlite3 to mysql

2009-08-19 Thread Cousin Stanley
> > hi. I'm trying to migrate request-tracker3.6 database from sqlite > to mysql on lenny. Is there a way to export data from sqlite > so they can be imported into mysql for request-tracker3.6? > martin One way might be to export from sqlite as .csv files and then import int

"Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

2009-08-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all, More shutdown blues. Whenever I hit the Restart/Shut Down buttons in Xfce log-off-er, I get the following error, and the system falls back to gdm. "Unable to perform shutdown org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.shutdown-multiple-sessions auth_admin <-- (action, result)" I get the exact

installing debian on rhel5

2009-08-19 Thread Vasanthra Devi S
can you help me to install Debian 5.0(Lenny) on RHEL 5 (kernel is 2.3) on x86 machine. i have tried it but i could not boot debian but i can boot Rhel first i have insttled debian 5.0(Lenny) . it has three partitions (/,/boot and swap) all the three are primary partition. after that i have inst

Re: how to install NIC

2009-08-19 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 02:39:30PM +0530, tanushyam bhattacharjee wrote: > I have installed the latest debian(lenny) in my lenovo desktop (Family:Think > Centre M58p Type:7483 Model:ABQ).During installation it has showed no network > card detected pls choose one from the list.Presently I have insta

Re: usb hsdpa modem only detected after using it on windows

2009-08-19 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/8/19 Raja R Harinath : [snipped] >> I had created /etc/udev/rules.d/usb_modeswitch.rules > > Hmm, does that means you didn't install the 'usb-modeswitch' package? ctrl:~# aptitude search usb-modeswitch i usb-modeswitch - Generic USB device switch tool > >> with >> SUBSYSTE

Re: CVS & Co

2009-08-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:09:22AM +0200, Alex Huth wrote: > Hi! > > I want to use CVS for systemadministration. You need to provide CVS services (a CVS server) or you actually want to use CVS? If the latter: any reason you don't use Subversion (svn, package: subversion) or some distributed ver

Re: Magic SysRq reboot (was Re: switching to proprietary ati radeon driver)

2009-08-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 8/17/09, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > I can't really help you with your problem, but a "hard" shutdown is > almost never necessary. You can send various low-level commands to your > kernel using the "SysRq" Key [1], which will allow you to reboot a > computer without corrupting the filesystem.

Re: Inquiry: run fsck in single user mode

2009-08-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-17 01:35, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All I have an Linux server that gets problemy from sudden power cut . I need to run fsck in single user mode so I issued "#init 1" on the server . At the server prompt , to serialize the fsck on the intended file system , I first tried to unmount the

Fw: How to install NIC Lenovo

2009-08-19 Thread tanushyam bhattacharjee
--- On Wed, 19/8/09, tanushyam bhattacharjee wrote: From: tanushyam bhattacharjee Subject: How to install NIC Lenovo To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, 19 August, 2009, 2:41 PM I have installed the latest debian(lenny) in my lenovo desktop (Family:Think Centre M58p Type:7483 Mo

Re: Inquiry: run fsck in single user mode

2009-08-19 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear Chris Thank you very much for your reply . Ok , so then , how you would be able to get rid of that "Device Busy" though ? Your reply is appreciated Regards H.Motamedi On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Chris Bannister < mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 07:35:46

Re: ftp access for debian security updates

2009-08-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-19 12:41 +0200, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Is there any ftp mirror for debian security updates? When I looked at > http://www.debian.org/security/ it just lists an http mirror. However, on > this machine http is not allowed, but ftp is enabled. That is why I am > looking for an ftp

Re: Wireless Adapter Card compatibility

2009-08-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
I've had excellent success with Atheros based adapters. They now use the ath5k module included with recent kernels. I dont't have any of the newer hardware that requires the ath9k driver, however. - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessi

ftp access for debian security updates

2009-08-19 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Is there any ftp mirror for debian security updates? When I looked at http://www.debian.org/security/ it just lists an http mirror. However, on this machine http is not allowed, but ftp is enabled. That is why I am looking for an ftp repository. Any ideas/comments/suggestions? thanks raju -- Kam

Re: Wireless Adapter Card compatibility

2009-08-19 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 18. 08. 2009 19:03:35 je Mark napisal(a): > After numerous Google searches I'm unable to arrive at a definitive > answer/website so please send me a link if I've missed something > (here's the > best I've found so far: http://www.linux-drivers.org/, > http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/). My question

Re: gnome-volume-manager problem

2009-08-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 8/18/09, AG wrote: > Has anyone else noticed that > /usr/lib/gnome-volume-manager/gnome-volume-manager is not > working after the recent apt-get update to testing? > You could try thunar-volman. Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Inquiry: run fsck in single user mode

2009-08-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 07:35:46AM +0100, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > I have an Linux server that gets problemy from sudden power cut . I need to > run fsck in single user mode so I issued "#init 1" on the server . At the > server prompt , to serialize the fsck on the intended file system , I

Installed packages

2009-08-19 Thread Alex Huth
Hi! I want generate a list of all installed packages, without the dependencies of manual installed packages and the the packages from the base system. What i have found so far by our friend google: aptitude search "?installed(?not(?automatic))" But this does not what i mean, because it also sho

How to install NIC Lenovo

2009-08-19 Thread tanushyam bhattacharjee
I have installed the latest debian(lenny) in my lenovo desktop (Family:Think Centre M58p Type:7483 Model:ABQ).During installation it has showed no network card detected pls choose one from the list.Presently I have installed the OS without NIC.Can anyone suggest me how can I install the NIC now. No

how to install NIC

2009-08-19 Thread tanushyam bhattacharjee
I have installed the latest debian(lenny) in my lenovo desktop (Family:Think Centre M58p Type:7483 Model:ABQ).During installation it has showed no network card detected pls choose one from the list.Presently I have installed the OS without NIC.Can anyone suggest me how can I install the NIC now.

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