On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 06:13, James Stuckey wrote:
> >
> > You shouldn't do it like this. If you do, you very well may end up with
> an
> > unstable system.
>
> What? Why would it be unstable?
>
> > Upgrade to testing by the instructions I
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 06:13, James Stuckey wrote:
>
> You shouldn't do it like this. If you do, you very well may end up with an
> unstable system.
What? Why would it be unstable?
> Upgrade to testing by the instructions I gave you, and then
> backport this package to testing from experimental
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:46:33 +, T o n g wrote:
>>> The reason being, on my laptop, the
>>>
>>> - Fn-F4 key suspend
>>> - lid close
>>>
>>> doesn't work under fluxbox but gnome, . . .
> : : :
> Currently, under my fluxbox, most
> other things work, ie volume up and down, mute the speaker, turn
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:46:33 -0500, Arthur Machlas wrote:
> with fluxbox you don't need any "keys" program beyond what flux already
> provides and xev. . .
Thanks a lot for the detailed instruction.
Yes, it's nice and interesting to know what's happening behind pressing
f4 to sleep.
> so I'l
I have a Dell desktop I picked up from recycle shop at Univ Iowa a few
years ago. It had a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive. I tried downloading Lenny and
burning to a DVD+RW disc, and that didn't work. I traveled to my
daughter's house, and downloaded the netinst-i386.iso to her Dell
desktop (also a stu
On 08/30/2010 03:48 PM, François TOURDE wrote:
> One reply line...
>
> 20 noise lines...
>
> What a signal/noise ratio 1/20 :(
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> Your reply seems to have removed all newline characters making it
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Le 14851ième jour après Epoch,
Christopher Judd écrivait:
> On Monday 30 August 2010 11:50:56 T o n g wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to tell fstab to loop mount a swap file during boot up?
>>
>> Thanks
> Why not just install dphys-swapfile?
One reply line...
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On 29/08/2010 12:28, Sven Hoexter wrote:
Hm, seems that it entered mainline post 2.6.32 (early December 2009 ...) so
unfortunately it's not in the bpo Kernel and currently won't be part of
Squeeze.
I don't know how much work it is to backport the driver to 2.6.32 but
you might want to try to open
Thanks everyone who replied.
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:26:46 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
>> The reason being, on my laptop, the
>>
>> - Fn-F4 key suspend
>> - lid close
>>
>> doesn't work under fluxbox but gnome, and I don't have the time and
>> energy to tweak udev to enable them for fluxbox ...
>
>> > The reason being, on my laptop, the
>> >
>> > - Fn-F4 key suspend
>> > - lid close
>> >
lid close is dealt with by the acpi-support package AFAIRemeber, gonna
have to look into it myself tonight since I just switched to openbox.
xfce's powermanagement is a mess.
with fluxbox you don't need a
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> On 8/30/10, T o n g wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > The reason being, on my laptop, the
> >
> > - Fn-F4 key suspend
> > - lid close
> >
> > doesn't work under fluxbox but gnome, and I don't have the time and
> > energy to tweak udev to enable them
On 8/30/10, T o n g wrote:
> ...
>
> The reason being, on my laptop, the
>
> - Fn-F4 key suspend
> - lid close
>
> doesn't work under fluxbox but gnome, and I don't have the time and
> energy to tweak udev to enable them for fluxbox ...
In reality those "features" you mentioned are not responsabi
On 08/30/2010 10:58 PM, T o n g wrote:
Hi,
IMHO, for a stable, light-weighted, lighting-fast WM, fluxbox is the
best. However when it comes to actively-developed to incorporate modern
features, maybe it is time for me to look else where.
The reason being, on my laptop, the
- Fn-F4 key suspend
Camaleón writes:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:14:36 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote:
>
>> I have Debian GNU/Linux Lenny system as a server machine. I run on it
>> Apache2 webserver, Moodle, etc..
>>
>> I notice that that it did reboot sometimes automatically. Why could this
>> happen? How can I inspect the
Miles Fidelman writes:
> Csanyi Pal wrote:
>> I have Debian GNU/Linux Lenny system as a server machine.
>> I run on it Apache2 webserver, Moodle, etc..
>>
>> I notice that that it did reboot sometimes automatically.
>> Why could this happen? How can I inspect the cause of this event?
> You have
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Arthur Machlas
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Joel Roth wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:57:01AM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
On 8/30/2010 1:05 AM, Joel Roth wrote:
>I just did an apt-g
Hi,
I have a strange trouble with my logitech dinovo keyboard. When my system has
started up, the layout in X is English instead of my selected Swedish layout.
I have done the following observation:
* If I go to an console (ctrl+alt+f1), the layout is Swedish. Back to X and
the layout is Engl
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:16 PM, wrote:
>> David Baron wrote:
>
> The lines:
> # ROOT
> /dev/sdb2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> are this way in the actual file!
And I thought that root and boot were commented out! :(
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> > defaults 1 2 /dev/DB-> LVM/LV_HOME /home >
> >> ext3 > defaults 1 2 #/dev/DB-> LVM2/LV_AUX
> /mnt/aux > >> ext3 > defaults 1 2> >> >I'm really confused.
> As I've said before, I don't know > anything about LVMs,> >so that
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:14:36 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> I have Debian GNU/Linux Lenny system as a server machine. I run on it
> Apache2 webserver, Moodle, etc..
>
> I notice that that it did reboot sometimes automatically. Why could this
> happen? How can I inspect the cause of this event?
Besid
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Arthur Machlas
wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Joel Roth wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:57:01AM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
>>> On 8/30/2010 1:05 AM, Joel Roth wrote:
>>> >I just did an apt-get upgrade. Hundreds of packages
>>> >were held back.
>
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Your reply seems to have removed all newline characters making it
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On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> David Baron wrote:
>
>> $ cat /mnt/hdb2/etc/fstab
>> # ROOT/dev/sdb2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
>> # BOOT/dev/sdb1 /boot ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 2
>> /dev/sda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat auto,user,exec,umask=000,uid=david,gid=dav
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Joel Roth wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:57:01AM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
>> On 8/30/2010 1:05 AM, Joel Roth wrote:
>> >I just did an apt-get upgrade. Hundreds of packages
>> >were held back.
>
> [snip]
>
>> apt-get dist-upgrade
Aptitude equivilant is ..
> David Baron wrote:> > > > Diagnostics failed in attemts to reach you, trying
> emial with .com> > > > Your e-mail arrived as one continuous long line.
> There > were no line> breaks whatsoever. I don't know what tool you used,
> but > please try> to fine a more user-friendly tool next time.
Csanyi Pal wrote:
I have Debian GNU/Linux Lenny system as a server machine.
I run on it Apache2 webserver, Moodle, etc..
I notice that that it did reboot sometimes automatically.
Why could this happen? How can I inspect the cause of this event?
Understanding Linux crashes is a royal pain in
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:57:01AM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On 8/30/2010 1:05 AM, Joel Roth wrote:
> >I just did an apt-get upgrade. Hundreds of packages
> >were held back.
[snip]
> apt-get dist-upgrade
Thanks missed that. As usual, RTFM (man apt-get). Funny that,
as I'm hardly a newbie
Hi,
I have Debian GNU/Linux Lenny system as a server machine.
I run on it Apache2 webserver, Moodle, etc..
I notice that that it did reboot sometimes automatically.
Why could this happen? How can I inspect the cause of this event?
Any advices will be appreciated!
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On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:05:08 +0200, Patrik Wallander wrote:
> I want to report what I think is a bug, or unwanted behavior. When one
> user is logged in with a Gnome seesion and insert a removable media, the
> media is automaticly mounted. If the user then logg out without unmount
> or remove the
On Monday 30 August 2010 11:50:56 T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to tell fstab to loop mount a swap file during boot up?
>
> Thanks
Why not just install dphys-swapfile?
-Chris
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In <1440488473.467512.1283175986162.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com>,
Stephen Powell wrote:
>David Baron wrote:
>> $ cat /mnt/hdb2/etc/fstab
>> # /etc/fstab: filesystem table.#
>> # filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
>> # ROOT/dev/sdb2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
>>
In , T o n g wrote:
>Is it possible to tell fstab to loop mount a swap file during boot up?
Yes.
Or, at least, last time I checked you could still do this. I've forgotten the
exact system though. Probably something like:
/path/name noneswaploop,sw 0 0
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On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:59, Bob Proulx wrote:
...
> I have no idea what is happening in that subsystem. I never use it.
>
> Good luck!
Thanks, Bob.
Regards,
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Tom Browder wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > What are the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list file?
>
> $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
> deb
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:12:01 +0200, tv.debian wrote:
>> Any good reading on how to get skype working on Debian amd64?
>>
> Hi, I have Skype working on two amd64 Squeeze systems, just installed
> ia32-libs and then Skype from Ubuntu "Partner" repository :
>
> http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/po
> Assume that this particular partition exists only to run inkscape
> 0.48. Does this change your advice?
> --
No. I might do a "apt-get install -t experimental inkscape" if the solution
it recommended was sane. Though, the backport shouldn't take much more than
ten minutes and it's the better re
On Monday 30 August 2010 09:13:28 James Stuckey wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Kelly Clowers
wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:59, John Culleton
> >
> >
> > wrote:
> > > I want to upgrade to latest Inkscape 0.48.0 To that end I did a
> > > net install of Debian and ended up with Le
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:19:32 +0530, vishnuvardhan wrote:
(...)
> I want to download debian-user mailing list from February 1,2009 to July
> 10,2010 on a windows machine. I have full set of installion DVD's and I
> can install packages on my debian machine.
Check out this thread:
seeking mbox of
On Mon August 30 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
> >> From dpkg:
> >> 14:38 Ask me about
> >
> > how do you ask dpkg about squeeze? ( man dpkg didn't shed alot of
> > light...)
>
> This refers to "dpkg" the bot on the #debian IRC channels. You can ask
> him about squeeze or squeeze udev using the n
I don't have an active internet connection in my room. I cannot
install and use VM in internet cafe. However, I can download as much as
I want.
I have subscribed to mailing list and I am learning a lot. In fact, I
did not reuested for help to mailing list, saving a little time who are
helpin
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On 08/30/2010 10:28 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>
> I don't quite understand that first line..:
>> From dpkg:
>> 14:38 Ask me about
>
> how do you ask dpkg about squeeze? ( man dpkg didn't shed alot of light...)
This refers to "dpkg" the bot on t
On Mon August 30 2010, James Stuckey wrote:
> From dpkg:
> 14:38 Ask me about , as you will need to upgrade to
> the squeeze kernel and reboot first. Remove any APT source specific to
> stable (such as volatile) or bpo, then s/lenny/squeeze/ on your
> sources.list and then aptitude update && apti
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:07:09 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
> I can not set up bastille 2.1.1-19 on Debian 5 running mixture of stable
> and testing:
>
> # bastille -c
> ERROR: 'DB5.0' is not a supported operating system.
(...)
Seems to be a bug:
bastille -c says not a supported operating system
h
David Baron wrote:
>
> Diagnostics failed in attemts to reach you, trying emial with .com
>
Your e-mail arrived as one continuous long line. There were no line
breaks whatsoever. I don't know what tool you used, but please try
to fine a more user-friendly tool next time. I had to manually
ref
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:59, John Culleton
> wrote:
> > I want to upgrade to latest Inkscape 0.48.0 To that end I did a net
> > install of Debian and ended up with Lenny and Inkscape 0.46. Two
> > questions:
> > 1. What release of Debian i
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:59, John Culleton wrote:
> I want to upgrade to latest Inkscape 0.48.0 To that end I did a net
> install of Debian and ended up with Lenny and Inkscape 0.46. Two
> questions:
> 1. What release of Debian is likely to get Inkscape 0.48 first?
Unstable has 0.47, experiment
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I want to upgrade to latest Inkscape 0.48.0 To that end I did a net
install of Debian and ended up with Lenny and Inkscape 0.46. Two
questions:
1. What release of Debian is likely to get Inkscape 0.48 first?
2. How do I upgrade to that release?
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On 8/30/2010 6:18 AM, Sthu Deus wrote:
Thank You for Your time and answer, Wolodja:
/pub -- this is not part of the FHS and you might want to search for a
better place. What kind of data do you have here?
Sorry for long absence here. Where would You put something common for
all the users, say
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 03:44, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Tom Browder wrote:
...
>> When I try to use the "Add/Remove Applications" it chugs for a while,
>
> you are using a GUI wrapper around apt. Because it is a wrapper there
> may be errors that you are not seeing. Let me recommend that you run
> ap
Le 30/08/2010 à 13:22, James Stuckey a écrit :
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Lisi wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 29 August 2010 17:38:03 James Stuckey wrote:
> > > I'm not subscribed to this list. Please reply directly to me.
> >
> > Read the archives? Temporarily subscribe? You have asked sever
Sthu Deus:
> Wolodja:
>
>> /pub -- this is not part of the FHS and you might want to search for a
>> better place. What kind of data do you have here?
>
> Sorry for long absence here. Where would You put something common for
> all the users, say movies, music, etc?
I put such files under /srv/fi
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Lisi wrote:
> On Sunday 29 August 2010 17:38:03 James Stuckey wrote:
> > I'm not subscribed to this list. Please reply directly to me.
>
> Read the archives? Temporarily subscribe? You have asked several
> questions
> recently, and you are missing some good re
Thank You for Your time and answer, Wolodja:
> /pub -- this is not part of the FHS and you might want to search for a
> better place. What kind of data do you have here?
Sorry for long absence here. Where would You put something common for
all the users, say movies, music, etc?
I'm not speaking
Good day.
I can not set up bastille 2.1.1-19 on Debian 5 running mixture of
stable and testing:
# bastille -c
ERROR: 'DB5.0' is not a supported operating system.
Valid operating system versions are as follows:
'DB2.2' 'DB3.0' 'DB3.1' 'DB4.0' 'RH6.0'
...
ERROR: Invalid argum
> lu...@linuxconfig.org :
>Another step by step guide for OpenVPN:
>
>http://www.linuxconfig.org/VPN_-_Virtual_Private_Network_and_OpenVPN
I find it a bit more complicated than the VPN howto ont the openVPN
website.
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Bernard writes:
> Hi to Everyone !
>
> I only have very basic knowledge on this subject, but I need to
> convert satellite image files (from Google Maps for instance) to the
> ECW format, so that I can use them with a special program that I have
> just installed into my GPS navigator.
>
> I have i
On Sunday 29 August 2010 17:38:03 James Stuckey wrote:
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Read the archives? Temporarily subscribe? You have asked several questions
recently, and you are missing some good replies.
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On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Joao Ferreira
wrote:
> I'dd recommend trying Network-Manager.
>
> It's simple, GUI based, works fine on most situations...
>
> I use it to connect to Wir
On Sun August 29 2010, Rob Owens wrote:
> > Did you encounter any compatibility or dependencies issues?
>
> I don't recall any.
>
> I think it's also fairly straightforward to install ffmpeg from testing.
> Kdenlive uses ffmpeg for encoding/decoding, if I remember correctly, so
> having a recent ve
I'dd recommend trying Network-Manager.
It's simple, GUI based, works fine on most situations...
I use it to connect to Wired, Wireless, PPTP VPNs and 3G Broadband.
Cheers
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On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 00:43 +, T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I use Linux as the client to connect to the remot
On 29.8.2010 19:38, James Stuckey wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have several email accounts that I'd like to back up. I access them
> through imap or webmail. I thought I could just copy over a directory on
> my box through scp but it turns out that the webmail is hosted on
> another box that I can't ssh
On 29 Aug 2010, ceduard0 wrote:
> 2010/8/29 T o n g :
> > Hi,
> >
> > How can I use Linux as the client to connect to the remote host through
> > VPN?
> What VPN server are you try connect?
>
> If your VPN server is OpenVPN, you can use this guide
> http://geraner.vox.com/library/post/how-to-creat
Le 30/08/2010 02:24, T o n g a écrit :
Hi,
Any good reading on how to get skype working on Debian amd64?
The natural of my collaborative work requires me to have skype installed.
Please help.
Thanks.
Hi, I have Skype working on two amd64 Squeeze systems, just installed
ia32-libs and then
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