Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am running an up to date Squeeze system using LXDE. I use wicd as my network manager. Since doing a full upgrade on Monday I have been unable to connect to my home wireless network. I can connect to various unsecured networks at work, at local restaurants and coffee shops. I just can't con

LXDE does not log out.

2010-05-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am running LXDE on Squeeze and am keeping it up to date. I recently noticed that I can not log out of a session. Trying to do so results in no response at all. I can shut down, or reboot without any problems, but logout does nothing. I don't know if this started after the full-upgrade that

LXDE session aborting immediately.

2010-05-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
Well, not really, but that is what the message says. Actually, it says that the session lasted less than ten seconds, but who's counting. This started happening last Monday night after doing a full-upgrade on my laptop, running Squeeze. In reality: If I click on OK (the only button available)

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-05-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:46:13AM -0400, Tom H was > heard to say: >> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Mike Viau wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H was >> >> heard to say: >> >> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM

Re: Mounting DVD. What am I doing wrong?

2010-05-01 Thread Zoran Kolic
> >Your perms are missing the "x" flag for the owner so no access is > >allowed. I recall a similar situation in another mailing list... > > I don't want to *execute* the files, I want to *read* them. You already got the answer. Directories have to have "x" flag to let user in. I assume your dvd

Re: NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 22:49, Andrea Giuliano wrote: > Here is /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf (that's a lot of lines!) > > Best regards. > > # > #  ALSA library configuration file > # > > # pre-load the configuration files > > @hooks [ >        { >                func load >                files [ >  

Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon

2010-05-01 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 2 May 2010 04:33:46 +0100 Steve Kemp wrote: > On Sat May 01, 2010 at 22:24:13 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > I couldn't discern, BTW, whether it supports TLS / SSL to an > > upstream MTA? I did find this thread: > > > > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qpsmtpd/2005/07/msg3404.html > > >

Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon

2010-05-01 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat May 01, 2010 at 22:24:13 -0400, Celejar wrote: > I couldn't discern, BTW, whether it supports TLS / SSL to an > upstream MTA? I did find this thread: > > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qpsmtpd/2005/07/msg3404.html > > but I have no idea what the current status of this is. It seems

Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon

2010-05-01 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:28:22 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Celejar put forth on 4/30/2010 3:20 PM: > > > It is still small, though - under 70 lines of actual Perl code, > > although it does, of course, require the basic Perl installation and > > about a half-dozen other modules. > > > > If anyon

Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon

2010-05-01 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:10:11 +0100 Steve Kemp wrote: > On Fri Apr 30, 2010 at 16:20:40 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > Hm, I had thought that at least some of the small, relaying MTAs > > > accepted connections on port 25. On closer perusal, it looks like they > > > don't. > > .. > > > I was su

Re: Can't play 24bit/96kHz flac files

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 22:03, James Stuckey wrote: > >> * Native capability of sound card can be found from >> cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params >> >> * Decoding is done by the player itself, most probably the decoder >> output format in your case would be 96khz, 24 bit little endian.  I

Re: DVD Paranoia?

2010-05-01 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/1/2010 7:24 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 03:52:30PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: If you are interested in DVDs under Debian, note that a useful thing to know about is the videolan project http://www.videolan.org/ They provide libdvdcss and libdvdplay, useful libraries to inst

Re: DVD Paranoia?

2010-05-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 03:52:30PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > On 5/1/2010 12:45 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/01/2010 04:50 AM, markus reichelt wrote: >>> * Ron Johnson wrote: >>> The issue is that I'm trying to read some 2-3 year old "movie" DVD-Rs and they're all at some point failin

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-05-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 10:23:12PM +0200, James Stuckey was heard to say: > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > That's the problem -- you have no (active) "deb" lines for unstable, > > so apt doesn't know which packages are from it. > > The aptitude search ~Aunstable ap

Re: Mounting DVD. What am I doing wrong?

2010-05-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/01/2010 05:17 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 01 May 2010 15:38:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/01/2010 02:57 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: [snip] (...) So you can "read" the directory without the "x" bit, but it doesn't do you a fat load of good. Interesting. What magic do I chant to mak

Re: Mounting DVD. What am I doing wrong?

2010-05-01 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 01 May 2010 15:38:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/01/2010 02:57 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: [snip] (...) >> So you can "read" the directory without the "x" bit, but it doesn't do >> you a fat load of good. >> >> > Interesting. What magic do I chant to make executable those files in > ud

Re: DVD Paranoia?

2010-05-01 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/1/2010 4:07 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: If you are interested in DVDs under Debian, note that a useful thing to know about is the videolan project http://www.videolan.org/ They provide libdvdcss and libdvdplay, useful libraries to install, which are not included in Debian. (non-DFSG) I've al

Re: DVD Paranoia?

2010-05-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/01/2010 03:52 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 5/1/2010 12:45 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/01/2010 04:50 AM, markus reichelt wrote: * Ron Johnson wrote: The issue is that I'm trying to read some 2-3 year old "movie" DVD-Rs and they're all at some point failing. Try another drive (best would

Re: DVD Paranoia?

2010-05-01 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/1/2010 12:45 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/01/2010 04:50 AM, markus reichelt wrote: * Ron Johnson wrote: The issue is that I'm trying to read some 2-3 year old "movie" DVD-Rs and they're all at some point failing. Try another drive (best would be a dvd burner). Apart from that, you coul

Re: Mounting DVD. What am I doing wrong?

2010-05-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/01/2010 02:57 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: [snip] Actually, the "x" permission on a directory means "search" (i.e. find a file in) the directory. If you already know the name (or have guessed it) of a file in the directory and you have "--x" (no-read, no-write, yes-search) on the directory and '

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-05-01 Thread James Stuckey
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 10:09:32PM +0200, James Stuckey < > jhstuc...@gmail.com> was heard to say: > > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Daniel Burrows > wrote: > > > Did you mean to drop debian-user? > > > > > > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 06:

Always do a full backup first [Re: Broken dependencies]

2010-05-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 17:20:56 +0200, Alois Mahdal wrote: Hello, because a stupid mistake, I have interrupted apt-get during early stage of dist-upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze. Now I cannot get apt-get working and I don't know how to fix it. I know it's cold comfort, but this is the reas

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-05-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 10:09:32PM +0200, James Stuckey was heard to say: > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Did you mean to drop debian-user? > > > > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 06:29:55PM +0200, James Stuckey < > > jhstuc...@gmail.com> was heard to say: > > > I have the n

Re: Mounting DVD. What am I doing wrong?

2010-05-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 1, 2010, at 3:25 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 01 May 2010 14:08:21 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/01/2010 02:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: Your perms are missing the "x" flag for the owner so no access is allowed. I recall a similar situation in another mailing list... I don't want to *

Re: Broken dependencies

2010-05-01 Thread John W Foster
-Original Message- From: Alois Mahdal To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Broken dependencies Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 17:20:56 +0200 Hello, because a stupid mistake, I have interrupted apt-get during early stage of dist-upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze. Now I cannot get apt-get work

Re: Aptitude Error

2010-05-01 Thread James Stuckey
All of these searches return nothing: stuc...@debian:~/tmp$ apt-show-versions | grep unstable stuc...@debian:~/tmp$ aptitude search ~Aunstable stuc...@debian:~/tmp$ aptitude search ~Aunstable~i stuc...@debian:~/tmp$ aptitude search '?narrow(?archive(unstable), ?installed)' I know something must b

aptitude in lenny: cmdline queueing of packages

2010-05-01 Thread Brian Ryans
In Aptitude, I can execute queued package modification orders (install, remove, etc) by use of 'aptitude install', with no arguments. How does one queue packages using only the command line? I'm looking to duplicate the following sequence done in the curses UI: sudo aptitude /* browse package lis

Re: Mounting DVD. What am I doing wrong?

2010-05-01 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 01 May 2010 14:08:21 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/01/2010 02:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> Your perms are missing the "x" flag for the owner so no access is >> allowed. I recall a similar situation in another mailing list... >> >> > I don't want to *execute* the files, I want to *read* t

Re: Mounting DVD. What am I doing wrong?

2010-05-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/01/2010 02:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 01 May 2010 13:22:28 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: See here when I mount a DVD: r...@haggis:~# mount -v /media/cdrom0 mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only

Re: Mounting DVD. What am I doing wrong?

2010-05-01 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 01 May 2010 13:22:28 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > See here when I mount a DVD: > > r...@haggis:~# mount -v /media/cdrom0 mount: block device /dev/sr0 > is write-protected, >mounting read-only >/dev/sr0 on /media/cdrom0 type

Mounting DVD. What am I doing wrong?

2010-05-01 Thread Ron Johnson
(This is vaguely similar to the recent "USB key accepts data only as root" thread.) See here when I mount a DVD: r...@haggis:~# mount -v /media/cdrom0 mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only /dev/sr0 on /m

Re: DVD Paranoia?

2010-05-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/01/2010 04:50 AM, markus reichelt wrote: * Ron Johnson wrote: The issue is that I'm trying to read some 2-3 year old "movie" DVD-Rs and they're all at some point failing. Try another drive (best would be a dvd burner). Apart from that, you could try ddrescue and just plain copy the wh

Re: Broken dependencies

2010-05-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 17:20:56 +0200, Alois Mahdal wrote: > Hello, > > because a stupid mistake, I have interrupted apt-get during early > stage of dist-upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze. > > Now I cannot get apt-get working and I don't know how to fix it. > > Could anyone of you please help me? I

Re: NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-01 Thread Andrea Giuliano
Here is /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf (that's a lot of lines!) Best regards. # # ALSA library configuration file # # pre-load the configuration files @hooks [ { func load files [ "/etc/asound.conf" "~/.asoundrc

Re: Can't play 24bit/96kHz flac files

2010-05-01 Thread James Stuckey
> * Native capability of sound card can be found from > cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params > > * Decoding is done by the player itself, most probably the decoder > output format in your case would be 96khz, 24 bit little endian. If > the native rate of your card is only 44100Hz/48000Hz, i

Re: NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-01 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 01 May 2010 17:25:35 +0200, Andrea Giuliano wrote: > Here aplay -l: > > card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: HDA Generic [HDA Generic] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > > Here is amixer info, too: > > Card default 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xf9ef8000 irq 22' > Mixer

Re: NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 20:55, Andrea Giuliano wrote: > Here aplay -l: > > card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: HDA Generic [HDA Generic] >  Subdevices: 1/1 >  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > > Here is amixer info, too: > > Card default 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xf9ef8000 irq 22' >  Mixer name    : '

Re: Cyrus 2.2 imapd in AMD64

2010-05-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Carlos Bergero wrote: > ./tls_sessions.db: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 8, native byte-order) > ./deliver.db: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 8, native byte-order) > and there a a couple of cyrus DB files which readme upgrade ask to > migrate with a cyrus tool which is not working a

Broken dependencies

2010-05-01 Thread Alois Mahdal
Hello, because a stupid mistake, I have interrupted apt-get during early stage of dist-upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze. Now I cannot get apt-get working and I don't know how to fix it. Could anyone of you please help me? I'll be also happy with advice on how to get proper debug info for you,

Re: NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-01 Thread Andrea Giuliano
Here aplay -l: card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: HDA Generic [HDA Generic] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Here is amixer info, too: Card default 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xf9ef8000 irq 22' Mixer name: 'VIA ID 397' Components: 'HDA:11060397' Controls : 4 S

Re: glXCreateContext failed in Squeeze

2010-05-01 Thread Jason Filippou
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Andrea Neroni wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I recently switched back to the GNOME desktop environment from KDE and > I'm interested in running Compiz Fusion, > > which I remember playing with when I was using the Ubuntu distribution. > First thing I did was follow > the

Re: NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 19:38, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 01 May 2010 15:52:46 +0200, Andrea Giuliano wrote: > >> Alsamixer doesn'i show muted input. Not does gnome-volume-settings. I >> also checked out gnome-sound-properties, and it gives no errors at all, >> as if it thinks everything is working

Re: glXCreateContext failed in Squeeze

2010-05-01 Thread Andrea Neroni
> Hello, > > I recently switched back to the GNOME desktop environment from KDE and I'm > interested in running Compiz Fusion, > which I remember playing with when I was using the Ubuntu distribution. First > thing I did was follow > the instructions > outlined here: > > http://wiki.debian.org

Re: NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-01 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 01 May 2010 15:52:46 +0200, Andrea Giuliano wrote: > Alsamixer doesn'i show muted input. Not does gnome-volume-settings. I > also checked out gnome-sound-properties, and it gives no errors at all, > as if it thinks everything is working fine. > > Here is the output from amixer: Only "mas

Re: NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-01 Thread Andrea Giuliano
Alsamixer doesn'i show muted input. Not does gnome-volume-settings. I also checked out gnome-sound-properties, and it gives no errors at all, as if it thinks everything is working fine. Here is the output from amixer: Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume Playback channels: F

glXCreateContext failed in Squeeze

2010-05-01 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello, I recently switched back to the GNOME desktop environment from KDE and I'm interested in running Compiz Fusion, which I remember playing with when I was using the Ubuntu distribution. First thing I did was follow the instructions outlined here: http://wiki.debian.org/Compiz And everything

Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

2010-05-01 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> In any case, you may notice that I have quietly dropped the sig. Fuck >> it, I'll miss a message here or there, but it's better than pissing >> everybody off. I had no idea that would be the case. > > > > You can't please all the people all the time. > If you modify your actions every time some

Re: NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-01 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 01 May 2010 13:13:54 +0200, Andrea Giuliano wrote: (...) > Could it be that all external jacks are disconnected at all due to some > mistakes during the assembly of the whole box? Clearly front connector > must be connected manually, but I really don't think that the rear ones > must be e

Re: NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 16:43, Andrea Giuliano wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Lenny on a brand new AMD64, and just one thing is not > working at all: the sound card. > > I mean, it seems to be perfectly detected, I get no errors at all from > any sound application, but I can't get sound from any jack

Re: NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-01 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 01:13:54PM +0200, Andrea Giuliano wrote: > I can't get sound from any jack I connect my > speakers (or headphones) to. > > Here are lspci for the card: > > 00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio > (rev a2) > Subsystem: ASRock Incorpora

Re: Can't play 24bit/96kHz flac files

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 16:12, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 01 May 2010 12:13:29 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: > >> If I try to play them in MOC I get: (0) Can't set audio parameters: >> Invalid argument >> >> With mplayer I see: > > (...) > >> Running file on the file gives: >> flac: FLAC audio bitstre

NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-01 Thread Andrea Giuliano
Hi, I'm running Lenny on a brand new AMD64, and just one thing is not working at all: the sound card. I mean, it seems to be perfectly detected, I get no errors at all from any sound application, but I can't get sound from any jack I connect my speakers (or headphones) to. Here are lspci for the

[Solved] xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-05-01 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 23:27:41 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > [...] > >> Hal is certainly no longer working, see #567389. Yet, udev now also >> stopped working... > > OK, I think I understand a little bit better how this is supposed to be > working now. Try to add your touchpad options to

Re: Can't play 24bit/96kHz flac files

2010-05-01 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 01 May 2010 12:13:29 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: > If I try to play them in MOC I get: (0) Can't set audio parameters: > Invalid argument > > With mplayer I see: (...) > Running file on the file gives: > flac: FLAC audio bitstream data, 24 bit, 6 channels, 96 kHz, 5472 > samples >

Re: Can't play 24bit/96kHz flac files

2010-05-01 Thread James Stuckey
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 15:43, James Stuckey wrote: > > If I try to play them in MOC I get: (0) Can't set audio parameters: > Invalid > > argument > > > > With mplayer I see: > > > > MPlayer SVN-r30656 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team > > Can't op

Re: Can't play 24bit/96kHz flac files

2010-05-01 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 15:43, James Stuckey wrote: > If I try to play them in MOC I get: (0) Can't set audio parameters: Invalid > argument > > With mplayer I see: > > MPlayer SVN-r30656 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team > Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory > Can't init

Can't play 24bit/96kHz flac files

2010-05-01 Thread James Stuckey
If I try to play them in MOC I get: (0) Can't set audio parameters: Invalid argument With mplayer I see: MPlayer SVN-r30656 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory Can't init input joystick mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No su

Re: DVD Paranoia?

2010-05-01 Thread markus reichelt
* Ron Johnson wrote: > The issue is that I'm trying to read some 2-3 year old "movie" > DVD-Rs and they're all at some point failing. Try another drive (best would be a dvd burner). Apart from that, you could try ddrescue and just plain copy the whole disc to an iso imagefile. Also, check out v

Re: DVD Paranoia?

2010-05-01 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 09:20:27PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Is there such a DVD app analogous to cdparanoia? Or is it not possible due to the differing data, WAV vs. MPEG? The issue is that I'm trying to read some 2-3 year old "movie" DVD-Rs and they're all at some point failing. You coul

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-05-01 Thread Tim Clewlow
> On 4/30/2010 6:39 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 04/26/2010 09:29 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I'm getting ready to build a RAID 6 with 4 x 2TB drives to start, >> >> Since two of the drives (yes, I know the parity is striped across >> all >> the drives, but "two drives" is still t