Mythfilldatabase problem in MythTV 0.22 from debian-multimedia

2009-12-06 Thread Tom Furie
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this question, so any pointers to the right place would be welcomed. Since switching from the stable to the unstable branch of the debian-multimedia repository a few days ago in order to get MythTV 0.22, whenever I run mythfilldatabase, the followi

Re: Will Debian accept a SATA to IDE hdd adapter?

2009-12-06 Thread Mark
>On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Glenn English wrote: >.On Dec 6, 2009, at 2:44 AM, Mark wrote: >> Hmmm guess I'm stuck unless I'm missing something obvious. >Very obvious, I think :-) > >http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812104652 So true. Today I found a PCI SATA adapter pl

Re: [SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-06 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:25:08 -0600 John Hasler wrote: > Sjoerd Hiemstra writes: > > It looks like aptitude is not able, at the moment, to recover a > > package from that 'half-configured' state. > > Dpkg usually can. > -- > John Hasler > Unfo

Re: [SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-06 Thread John Hasler
Sjoerd Hiemstra writes: > It looks like aptitude is not able, at the moment, to recover a > package from that 'half-configured' state. Dpkg usually can. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: usb keyboard support?

2009-12-06 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 23:40:36 + Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > How smooth should Debian testing react to a USB keyboard? Should I > expect it to work out of the box? Are there recommended models? (I > managed to find only out-dated compatibility lists.) > > Please let me know your thoughts

Re: [OT] Customizing keyboard shortcuts in Iceweasel

2009-12-06 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 01:39:28 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,05.Dec.09, 19:16:53, Celejar wrote: > > > What I want to do is to bind keystroke combinations to bookmarks, so > > that I can open sites easily with such combos. Is there a way to do > > this? > > Not really a solution, but mayb

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:08:11PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:56:06AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun,06.Dec.09, 15:39:59, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > > there are clearly some differences. the lenny machine is making a > > > ? request (

Re: [OT] Customizing keyboard shortcuts in Iceweasel

2009-12-06 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 01:37:44 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,06.Dec.09, 15:07:34, Celejar wrote: > > > > /me sets up a bookmark with > > url=http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=%s and > > keyword=db > > > > Hey! It works! Thanks! > > Great stuff, but I did it like this >

Algo para leer? Ataques!

2009-12-06 Thread francisco
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Re: usb keyboard support?

2009-12-06 Thread Glenn English
On Dec 6, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > special (multimedia) > keys or other stuff which need proprietary drivers under Windows might > not work. Andrei makes a good point. When I said "perfectly" I meant perfectly for email and editing daemon configs... -- Glenn English g...@sl

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:56:06AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,06.Dec.09, 15:39:59, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > there are clearly some differences. the lenny machine is making a > > ? request (whatever that means) while the squeeze machine is > > making both a A? and ?

Re: usb keyboard support?

2009-12-06 Thread Glenn English
On Dec 6, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,06.Dec.09, 23:40:36, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> Dear all >> How smooth should Debian testing react to a USB keyboard? Should I >> expect it to work out of the box? Are there recommended models? (I >> managed to find only out-dated compatibi

Re: usb keyboard support?

2009-12-06 Thread Glenn English
On Dec 6, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > How smooth should Debian testing react to a USB keyboard? Should I > expect it to work out of the box? Are there recommended models? Can't speak for the current testing, but I've been running lenny since it was testing. It never even occurred

Re: [SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-06 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Frank McCormick: > Sjoerd Hiemstra: > > Frank McCormick: > > > [...] state...strangely enough it's in a file called "status" :) > > > I hesitate to reveal this but what I did was open the file, > > > removed the adobe-flashplayer info..and resaved. Problem > > > gone...aptitude is now happy and wil

Re: usb keyboard support?

2009-12-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,06.Dec.09, 23:40:36, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > How smooth should Debian testing react to a USB keyboard? Should I > expect it to work out of the box? Are there recommended models? (I > managed to find only out-dated compatibility lists.) The basic function(s) should Just Work (tm),

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,06.Dec.09, 15:39:59, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > there are clearly some differences. the lenny machine is making a > ? request (whatever that means) while the squeeze machine is > making both a A? and ? requests. And the responses are different. > This behavior is consistent

Re: [OT] Customizing keyboard shortcuts in Iceweasel

2009-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:37:44AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,06.Dec.09, 15:07:34, Celejar wrote: > > > > /me sets up a bookmark with > > url=http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=%s and > > keyword=db > > > > Hey! It works! Thanks! > > Great stuff, but I did it like

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 07:37:23PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: > I tried the same test with wget'ing Google, these are the results: > > $ wget google.com [...] > > These results seem just as consistent as those from Andrew. > > 3 connections = 15 sec > 2 connections = 10 sec > 1 connection = 5 se

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 02:15:55PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:58:12 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > ... > > > meanwhile, some tests using > > > > time wget http://www.google.com > > ... > > > > real 0m0.279s > > > user 0m0.000s > > > sys 0m

Re: problem with locale (characters codeset etc...)

2009-12-06 Thread Bernard
Jasper wrote: Hi, my guess is that your problem is in " libncursesw5 ". For compiling you need libncursesw5-dev on the system. HTH, --Jasper. Thanks a lot for your reply. Indeed, the lack of 'libncursesw5' was the problem. I installed it, then recompiled Lifelines-3.0.62, and everything s

usb keyboard support?

2009-12-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all How smooth should Debian testing react to a USB keyboard? Should I expect it to work out of the box? Are there recommended models? (I managed to find only out-dated compatibility lists.) Please let me know your thoughts. Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srt

Re: [OT] Customizing keyboard shortcuts in Iceweasel

2009-12-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,05.Dec.09, 19:16:53, Celejar wrote: > What I want to do is to bind keystroke combinations to bookmarks, so > that I can open sites easily with such combos. Is there a way to do > this? Not really a solution, but maybe an alternative. If you are somewhat familiar with vim keystrokes you

Re: [OT] Customizing keyboard shortcuts in Iceweasel

2009-12-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,06.Dec.09, 15:07:34, Celejar wrote: > > /me sets up a bookmark with > url=http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=%s and > keyword=db > > Hey! It works! Thanks! Great stuff, but I did it like this url=http://bugs.debian.org/%s because it will work with packages AND bug nu

Re: Running fsck automatically on boot

2009-12-06 Thread Tom H
>> Anyway, the reason of me looking for a way to run it automatically is that >> other distributions (like ArchLinux) can do it, so I suppose that it's not >> impossible :P > They do what, exactly? Automatically run fsck on a running system? > Run it at boot if errors are found? Perhaps ask in the

Re: Running fsck automatically on boot

2009-12-06 Thread David Claughton
Sergio Padrino wrote: > About my system's time... it's always fine :-\ But it's weird because, for > example, if I boot my PC on 7 Dec 2009 at 16:31:55, the error I get is that > the superblock has this date: 7 Dec 2009 17:31:27 > I don't suppose this machine dual-boots Windows does it? I had a

Re: [SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-06 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:58:36 +0100 Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Frank McCormick: > > Andrew Sackville-West: > > > Frank McCormick: > > > > I am at wits endabout to wipe the partition > > > > > state...strangely enough it's in a file called "status"

Re: Running fsck automatically on boot

2009-12-06 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 06. 12. 2009 23:02:46 je Sergio Padrino napisal(a): > > It's just an example, but the thing is that the superblock always > contains a > time that is 1 hour after the current time. It may be something > related to > update some packages? I'd suggest checking your clock applet in your Gnome

Re: Running fsck automatically on boot

2009-12-06 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:02:46 -0800 (PST) Sergio Padrino wrote: ... > About my system's time... it's always fine :-\ But it's weird because, for > example, if I boot my PC on 7 Dec 2009 at 16:31:55, the error I get is that > the superblock has this date: 7 Dec 2009 17:31:27 > > It's just an examp

Re: Running fsck automatically on boot

2009-12-06 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6-12-2009 22:48, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 13:46:13 -0800 (PST) > Sergio Padrino wrote: > > ... > >> celejar wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 12:37:08 -0800 (PST) >>> Sergio Padrino wrote: >>> >>> I don't know very much about this sor

Re: Running fsck automatically on boot

2009-12-06 Thread Sergio Padrino
celejar wrote: > > Do you keep an eye on your system's time? You might try doing periodic > checks to see if it's right. I'm sorry, I didn't mention it specifically, but I tried those periodic checks and didn't work :S About my system's time... it's always fine :-\ But it's weird because, for

Re: Running fsck automatically on boot

2009-12-06 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 13:46:13 -0800 (PST) Sergio Padrino wrote: ... > celejar wrote: > > > > On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 12:37:08 -0800 (PST) > > Sergio Padrino wrote: > > > > I don't know very much about this sort of thing, but I imagine that it > > would be difficult to arrange, since fsck needs to be

Re: Running fsck automatically on boot

2009-12-06 Thread Sergio Padrino
Nick Douma wrote: > > You can use the sixth field in /etc/fstab. Give the partition a non-zero > value, and it will be (periodically) checked during boot. See `man > fstab` for more information. > I knew that field, but it increases the number of "unnecessary" checks and it doesn't avoid to m

Re: Running fsck automatically on boot

2009-12-06 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6-12-2009 21:37, Sergio Padrino wrote: > > Hi! > > I have Debian Unstable and sometimes there are some (typical) errors in my > partitions: > > /dev/sda7: Superblock last mount time is in the future > /dev/sda7: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck

Re: Running fsck automatically on boot

2009-12-06 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 12:37:08 -0800 (PST) Sergio Padrino wrote: > > Hi! > > I have Debian Unstable and sometimes there are some (typical) errors in my > partitions: > > /dev/sda7: Superblock last mount time is in the future > /dev/sda7: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY > > and I was

Re: [SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-06 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Frank McCormick: > Andrew Sackville-West: > > Frank McCormick: > > > I am at wits endabout to wipe the partition > > > > I don't think you're there yet... that's a pretty drastic measure. > > Well I reconsidered:) I googled until I found what I was looking for > exactly where apt keeps the

Running fsck automatically on boot

2009-12-06 Thread Sergio Padrino
Hi! I have Debian Unstable and sometimes there are some (typical) errors in my partitions: /dev/sda7: Superblock last mount time is in the future /dev/sda7: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY and I was wondering if there is a way to let fsck to run automatically in these cases. I have

Re: [OT] Customizing keyboard shortcuts in Iceweasel

2009-12-06 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 11:24:10 -0800 Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 16:16, Celejar wrote: > > Mozilla claims that it can't be done: > > > > "Configuring keyboard shortcuts > > > > Firefox does not provide any method of customizing keyboard shortcuts." > > > > Is this for real (and up

Re: [OT] Customizing keyboard shortcuts in Iceweasel

2009-12-06 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 16:16, Celejar wrote: > Mozilla claims that it can't be done: > > "Configuring keyboard shortcuts > > Firefox does not provide any method of customizing keyboard shortcuts." > > Is this for real (and up-to-date)?!  A serious, sophisticated GUI > application that doesn't allo

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-06 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:58:12 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: ... > meanwhile, some tests using > > time wget http://www.google.com ... > > real 0m0.279s > > user 0m0.000s > > sys0m0.004s > > very consistently. > > on the problem machine, this is typical: ... > >

Re: Will Debian accept a SATA to IDE hdd adapter?

2009-12-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark put forth on 12/6/2009 3:44 AM: > Hmmm guess I'm stuck unless I'm missing something obvious. You are. Hundreds of choices for SATA power adapters: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=SATA+power&x=0&y=0 -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: How to hibernate from the command line without typing password

2009-12-06 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:57:21 + chombee wrote: ... > Gnome desktop. You can send a signal via dbus asking for the computer to > be hibernated with the following command: > > dbus-send --session --dest=org.freedesktop.PowerManagement > --type=method_call /org/freedesktop/PowerManagement o

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-06 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tried the same test with wget'ing Google, these are the results: $ wget google.com - --2009-12-06 19:05:45-- http://google.com/ Resolving google.com... 74.125.67.100, 74.125.45.100, 74.125.53.100 Connecting to google.com|74.125.67.100|:80... conne

[SOLVED]Re: Problems with adobe-flashplugin

2009-12-06 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:44:47 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:59:03AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am having problems fixing the adobe-flashplugin package > > > > > and > > > [...

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 09:01:51AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 20:38:53 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 07:44:42PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > ... > > > > II) Try a DNS cacher (dnsmasq) > > > > this is a bandaid solution, imo, and may not h

How to hibernate from the command line without typing password

2009-12-06 Thread chombee
I asked this question on this list a while back and although I did get a helpful response that would have led to a solution, it would not have led to the better solution that I recently discovered so I thought I'd post this in case it might be helpful to anyone else searching the list. I found the

Re: something happened to debian security repo?

2009-12-06 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/12/6 Celejar > On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 18:32:19 +0800 > Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > > i could not resolve http://security.debian.org/ (ping and aptitude > update). > > Something happened to the repo or it is just my dns? > > Working here. > > it's definitely my ISP. I redialled the connection a

Re: problem with locale (characters codeset etc...)

2009-12-06 Thread Jasper
Hi, my guess is that your problem is in " libncursesw5 ". For compiling you need libncursesw5-dev on the system. HTH, --Jasper. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: something happened to debian security repo?

2009-12-06 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 18:32:19 +0800 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > i could not resolve http://security.debian.org/ (ping and aptitude update). > Something happened to the repo or it is just my dns? Working here. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-06 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 20:38:53 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 07:44:42PM -0500, Celejar wrote: ... > > II) Try a DNS cacher (dnsmasq) > > this is a bandaid solution, imo, and may not help anyway... We don't try solutions that "may not help"? Anyway, dnsmasq is prob

Re: Migrating to Grub2 deletes kernel automagic updates and other settings

2009-12-06 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 03. 12. 2009 20:15:40 je Chris Jones napisal(a): > What always bothers me with boot loaders is that they need a system > to > configure & manage them. Now, in a multi-boot system, the next > question > is which one? Actually, from this point of view, Grub2 is a step in the right direction

Re: Will Debian accept a SATA to IDE hdd adapter?

2009-12-06 Thread Glenn English
On Dec 6, 2009, at 2:44 AM, Mark wrote: > Hmmm guess I'm stuck unless I'm missing something obvious. Very obvious, I think :-) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812104652 -- Glenn English g...@slsware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

quota help

2009-12-06 Thread Tudod Ki
Is there a command to set quota on a partition, or I must write "usrquota" and "grpquota" to the proper line/row of fstab [to mount options]? Please Help. Debian Lenny

Re: something happened to debian security repo?

2009-12-06 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/12/6 Tudod Ki > ping security.debian.org > PING security.debian.org (149.20.20.6) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from schein.debian.org (149.20.20.6): icmp_seq=1 ttl=41 time=249 > ms > ^C64 bytes from schein.debian.org (149.20.20.6): icmp_seq=2 ttl=41 > time=258 ms > > --- security.debian.

Re: Unable to install libncurses5-dev

2009-12-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-12-06 11:16 +0100, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:18:23PM +0530, ravindra vejandla wrote: >> 2>now I am trying to download libncurses5-dev > > It's now libncurses6-dev . Nonsense, there is no libncurses6 in Debian. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: something happened to debian security repo?

2009-12-06 Thread Tudod Ki
ping security.debian.orgPING security.debian.org (149.20.20.6) 56(84) bytes of data.64 bytes from schein.debian.org (149.20.20.6): icmp_seq=1 ttl=41 time=249 ms^C64 bytes from schein.debian.org (149.20.20.6): icmp_seq=2 ttl=41 time=258 ms --- security.debian.org ping statistics ---2 packets trans

something happened to debian security repo?

2009-12-06 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
i could not resolve http://security.debian.org/ (ping and aptitude update). Something happened to the repo or it is just my dns? -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my

Re: Unable to install libncurses5-dev

2009-12-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:18:23PM +0530, ravindra vejandla wrote: > Hi Veterans, > > I am trying to upgrade my debian kernel > 1> First I downloaded gcc aptitude install build-essential > 2>now I am trying to download libncurses5-dev It's now libncurses6-dev . But you could have tried libncurs

Re: Will Debian accept a SATA to IDE hdd adapter?

2009-12-06 Thread Mark
>On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >Agreed, in case you have a choice, go for the SATA controller. >OTOH, I use one of those frankenstein adapters in a small box (wl700ge >home router) where the SATA controller is not an option, and it works >just great for that. Well, the Fran

Unable to install libncurses5-dev

2009-12-06 Thread ravindra vejandla
Hi Veterans, I am trying to upgrade my debian kernel 1> First I downloaded gcc 2>now I am trying to download libncurses5-dev death:/usr/src/linux-2.6.31.6# apt-get install libncurses5-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Couldn't find pac