Re: Finding packages installed from experimental

2011-01-31 Thread Tom H
2011/2/1 Jörg-Volker Peetz : > > The command > >  aptitude search '~S~i~Aexperimental' > > on my system does not list the packages from experimental which are > upgradable. > The command > >  apt-show-versions | grep experimental > > lists also the upgradable packages. aptitude search '?narrow(?a

Re: Finding packages installed from experimental

2011-01-31 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
The command aptitude search '~S~i~Aexperimental' on my system does not list the packages from experimental which are upgradable. The command apt-show-versions | grep experimental lists also the upgradable packages. -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Backlight off or dimmed in Squeeze after upgrade

2011-01-31 Thread Remco Rijnders
Hi, Yesterday I upgraded my Samsung netbook running Squeeze. I got all updates released for installed packages since last thursday. After this upgrade, my desktop in X looks very dark as if the backlight is not on or strongly dimmed. I do not recall making any changes to my setup that would h

Re: Help with Sun Java in Debian Sid

2011-01-31 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nick Lidakis: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 01:49:10AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Java includes tons of alternatives, not only "java". I guess you still >> have other alternatives pointing to openjdk. Use >> 'update-java-alternatives' to fix them all at once and try again. > > This is what I get:

Happy Birthday from Tech Support Guy Forums

2011-01-31 Thread Tech Support Guy Forums
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Re: Help with Sun Java in Debian Sid

2011-01-31 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 01:49:10AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Java includes tons of alternatives, not only "java". I guess you still > have other alternatives pointing to openjdk. Use > 'update-java-alternatives' to fix them all at once and try again. This is what I get: phobos:/home/nick# upd

Re: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-01-31 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 31 January 2011 10:51:04 dav...@alcor.concordia.ca wrote: > I posted in a panic and left out a lot of details. I'm using Squeeze, and > set up the system about a month ago, so there have been some upgrades. I > wonder if maybe the kernel or Grub was upgraded and I neglected to install >

Re: OT: Make Windows act like Debian and copy text just by markingit

2011-01-31 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 17:05 Mon 31 Jan, ow...@netptc.net (ow...@netptc.net) wrote: > > > > > > > > Original Message > >From: noela...@gmail.com > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: OT: Make Windows act like Debian and copy text just by > >markingit > >Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:31:45 + (UTC

Re: APC ES-550 almost works perfectly

2011-01-31 Thread Curt Howland
On Monday 31 January 2011, ow...@netptc.net was heard to say: > >Curt > > Here is the config file. HTL > Larry Larry, I'm sorry but I don't see any difference in the settings between yours and mine. I guess I'll have to take it to the apcupsd forums. Thanks for your help. Here's mine, so you

Re: OT: Make Windows act like Debian and copy text just by marking it

2011-01-31 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 18:34, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 06:31, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:01:37 +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote: >> >>> Can anyone recommend a program that allows me to make Windows to act >>> like as Debian and copy text just by marking it? >> >

Re: OT: Make Windows act like Debian and copy text just by marking it

2011-01-31 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 06:31, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:01:37 +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote: > >> Can anyone recommend a program that allows me to make Windows to act >> like as Debian and copy text just by marking it? > > How does Debian copy text with just marking it? :-? By way

Re: OT: Make Windows act like Debian and copy text just by marking it

2011-01-31 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 03:01, Daniel Andersson wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone recommend a program that allows me to make Windows to act like as > Debian and copy text just by marking it? > > It would lessen the annoyance of switching to Windows :) I feel your pain. The two ways I have found are

Re: Help with Squeeze on Acer Aspire D250

2011-01-31 Thread Analía Lorenzatto
Hi Everybody! David, after downloading the right boot.img.gz from Debian repository, you should uncompress it and put this image on the usb device: # zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdb Where /dev/sdb is the usb stick. Check this running previously: #dmesg Good luck!

Re: No sudo, no root, on a fully encrypted LVM filesystem

2011-01-31 Thread Brad Alexander
A little late to this party, congrats on fixing the problem, David. I wanted to point out that, as I recall, System Rescue CD and Knoppix would both mount encrypted LVM partitions. I believe this to be true, though it has been quite a while since I have had to do this. --b On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at

Re: OT: Make Windows act like Debian and copy text just by markingit

2011-01-31 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: noela...@gmail.com >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: OT: Make Windows act like Debian and copy text just by >markingit >Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:31:45 + (UTC) > >>On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:01:37 +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote: >> >>> Can anyon

Re: [OT] Gmail's not-that-fancy features (was: USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found)

2011-01-31 Thread Krzysztof Bieniasz
> Ah, I thought you were having problems to check if your message reached > the list becasue Gmail gracefully "hides" the copy sent by the mailing > list server. > > Then, why are you having problems to check your e-mails? :-? I don't think I follow you. I'm posting with a standalone newsreader.

Re: APC ES-550 almost works perfectly

2011-01-31 Thread owens
>Curt Here is the config file. HTL Larry > > > Original Message >From: howl...@priss.com >To: ow...@netptc.net >Subject: Re: APC ES-550 almost works perfectly >Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 08:21:52 -0500 > >>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >>On Friday 28 January 2011, ow...@n

Re: USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found

2011-01-31 Thread Krzysztof Bieniasz
> You mean the message about a connected device when there is none > attached to any of the USB ports? Yep, that seems to be common: > > sm01@stt008:~$ dmesg | grep -i new | tail -5 [ 10.588574] usb usb7: > New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001 [ 10.615825] usb > usb7: New USB de

Re: nameserver issues involving *.debian.org

2011-01-31 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Mike Viau wrote: >> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:50:17 -0500 wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> >>> $ sudo apt-get install bind9 >>> >>> Then ensure that 'nameserver 127.0.0.1' exists in /etc/resolv.conf and >>> you should be set. By "e

Re: nameserver issues involving *.debian.org

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:50:20 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:06:41PM +, Camale??n wrote: >> To discard something weird on your side (firewall, filter...), you can >> query "debian.org" from your computer but using a different dns server: > > Hi, > > I did disable my fi

Re: [OT] Gmail's not-that-fancy features

2011-01-31 Thread Krzysztof Bieniasz
> Gmane, I guess. If you want to read this list per news, it's by far the > best choice. > > Sven Unfortunately most of the groups I'm interested in aren't carried by Gmane. In fact l.d.u is the only one there. I know I can use multiple servers for posting to different groups but that's quite

Re: [OT] Gmail's not-that-fancy features (was: USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found)

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:06:57 +, Krzysztof Bieniasz wrote: >> I completely dropped Gmail for mailing lists and use "nntp" for sending >> and reading in all of them. My use of Gmail is only for personal/direct >> posts, but not more for mailing lists (as much as I can avoid it) :-/ > > My email

Re: USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:27:12 +, Krzysztof Bieniasz wrote: >> Yes, and it's curious that automatically fallbacks from "super-high- >> speed" to "high-speed" unless you have connected a USB 2.0 device. >> Maybe founds something that don't like. > > In fact they are usb 2.0 devices. Ah, then a

Re: Finding packages installed from experimental

2011-01-31 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In , Tom H > wrote: >>On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> >>> How can I find out which packages on my system come from a certain >>> suite, say experimental in this case?  The naïve approach >>> $ aptitude searc

Re: USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found

2011-01-31 Thread Krzysztof Bieniasz
> Yes, and it's curious that automatically fallbacks from "super-high- > speed" to "high-speed" unless you have connected a USB 2.0 device. Maybe > founds something that don't like. In fact they are usb 2.0 devices. But I'm not examining speed here. They should work anyway. Nonetheless the messag

Re: [OT] Gmail's not-that-fancy features

2011-01-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-31 21:06 +0100, Krzysztof Bieniasz wrote: >> I completely dropped Gmail for mailing lists and use "nntp" for sending >> and reading in all of them. My use of Gmail is only for personal/direct >> posts, but not more for mailing lists (as much as I can avoid it) :-/ > > My email address h

Re: [OT] Gmail's not-that-fancy features (was: USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found)

2011-01-31 Thread Krzysztof Bieniasz
> I completely dropped Gmail for mailing lists and use "nntp" for sending > and reading in all of them. My use of Gmail is only for personal/direct > posts, but not more for mailing lists (as much as I can avoid it) :-/ My email address has nothing to do with it. I think you mean google groups. I

Re: nameserver issues involving *.debian.org

2011-01-31 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 01:11:49AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Joel Roth wrote: > > Some nslookup oddities have been bothering me. Does it look > > to you like my ISP is blocking certain DNS queries? > > Something seems broken. Probably broken rather than blocking. > > > [maseru]$ nslookup debia

Re: help

2011-01-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 31 ian 11, 17:00:38, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 02:40:01PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > If you do an expert install you are offered the choice to disable > > root logins and use sudo instead. Yes, this is on Debian, squeeze > > installer. > > Oh! ok. Then again

Re: USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:52:44 +, Krzysztof Bieniasz wrote: >> What kind of device do you have attached to the USB 3.0 port? What >> happens if you attach another device? > > Just normal stuff: flash drives, external disks. But after installing > firmware-linux they get detected, only the messa

Re: nameserver issues involving *.debian.org

2011-01-31 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:06:41PM +, Camale??n wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:26:37 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > Some nslookup oddities have been bothering me. Does it look to you like > > my ISP is blocking certain DNS queries? > > (...) > > To discard something weird on your side (fire

[OT] Gmail's not-that-fancy features (was: USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found)

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:13:57 +, Krzysztof Bieniasz wrote: > Sorry for the multiple posts. I'm having some problems with the posting > server and I never know when the message is actually sent. Perhaps I > should change it to something different but I don't know what. I completely dropped Gmai

Re: USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found

2011-01-31 Thread Krzysztof Bieniasz
Sorry for the multiple posts. I'm having some problems with the posting server and I never know when the message is actually sent. Perhaps I should change it to something different but I don't know what. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found

2011-01-31 Thread Krzysztof Bieniasz
> What kind of device do you have attached to the USB 3.0 port? What > happens if you attach another device? Just normal stuff: flash drives, external disks. But after installing firmware-linux they get detected, only the messages remain. > Hum, I would try the opposite: enforce the use of "ehci

Re: USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found

2011-01-31 Thread Krzysztof Bieniasz
> Have you installed 'firmware-linux'? There is 3 packages. -- > Jimmy Johnson Thanks for you're advice, I did that now and the port seams to work fine. That is I can connect a flash drive and it gets mounted. But the annoying message is still there during boot. When I run "dmesg" I get a coupl

RE: nameserver issues involving *.debian.org

2011-01-31 Thread Mike Viau
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:50:17 -0500 wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > $ sudo apt-get install bind9 > > > > Then ensure that 'nameserver 127.0.0.1' exists in /etc/resolv.conf and > > you should be set. By "ensure" I mean that you should use either > > 're

Re: USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found

2011-01-31 Thread Krzysztof Bieniasz
> Have you installed 'firmware-linux'? There is 3 packages. -- > Jimmy Johnson Thanks for you're advice, I did that now and it somewhat helped. That is the port works fine -- when I connect something it gets detected and mounted. But the annoying message is still there during boot. When I run

Re: USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:49:20 +, Krzysztof Bieniasz wrote: > I'm having an issue with my usb 3.0 port. I've recently bought an Asus > N73JF laptop which has one such port. I'm running a fully updated > Squeeze with the 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel image from the Debian repo. > During boot I see lots o

Re: debconf answerfile

2011-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4d46939a.6080...@coffeehabit.net>, Lists wrote: >pretty much what the subject says. I would like to feed answers to >debconf so that I can script installing packages on a new machine. > >I am unable to use preseed (which would solve this) because it's a >virtual server and I don't have access

Re: Finding packages installed from experimental

2011-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Tom H wrote: >On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> How can I find out which packages on my system come from a certain >> suite, say experimental in this case? The naïve approach >> >> $ aptitude search "~i ~Aexperimental" >> >> does not work. > >aptitude search "?narrow

Re: How to find (and remove) all installed recommended packages

2011-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110131083558.GH22395@think.homelan>, Andrei Popescu wrote: >On Du, 30 ian 11, 17:56:15, S D wrote: >> Is there a way to find all recommended packages that were >> automatically installed? It appears aptitude now installs recommended >> packages by default. > >Try setting: > >APT::Install-

Re: OT: Make Windows act like Debian and copy text just by marking it

2011-01-31 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 31.1.2011 13:01, Daniel Andersson wrote: > Hi all, > > Can anyone recommend a program that allows me to make Windows to act > like as Debian and copy text just by marking it? > > It would lessen the annoyance of switching to Windows :) > > I use PuTTY to access Linux in Windows. It just wor

No sudo, no root, on a fully encrypted LVM filesystem

2011-01-31 Thread David Starner
Thank you both for your advice. The Debian install/rescue disks don't seem to support the LVM, and Ubuntu said it would in the graphical environment, but errored out. But when I was messing with all this, I realized the rescue option in GRUB was a single user, and use it to successfully boot into L

Re: squeeze and trinity

2011-01-31 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 18:04 +0100, deloptes wrote: > So far I've migrated to squeeze and trinity and I'm in production, means I > use this at work. > Everything works much better than in kde 3.5.9 (lenny). > > Few programs needed to be compiled manually as they were missing in trinity. > > Evolut

Re: access point using 3945

2011-01-31 Thread deloptes
Celejar wrote: >> point. > > According to this page, it indeed unfortunately cannot: > > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers > > Celejar The question is if the hardware can regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: [OT] Re: Evolution 2.30 (squeeze) with exchange

2011-01-31 Thread deloptes
Erwan David wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:17:31AM CET, Tixy said: >> On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 22:29 +0100, Erwan David wrote: >> > I'll try the latest davmail, now I use icedove in Imap (activated on >> > exchange) >> >> I've used davmail for several weeks and it seems to work well, but as it

squeeze and trinity

2011-01-31 Thread deloptes
So far I've migrated to squeeze and trinity and I'm in production, means I use this at work. Everything works much better than in kde 3.5.9 (lenny). Few programs needed to be compiled manually as they were missing in trinity. Evolution with exchange is also working much better, but it still crash

Re: Problem with dns-search option with dhclient

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:32:37 +, Mike wrote: > I have a Debian Lenny box running ISC-DHCPd. This is providing the DNS > search option via option dns-search "sub.exmaple.com example.com". This > is recieved quite happilly by the dhcpcd on my Gentoo box, arriving as > "search sub.exmaple.com ex

Re: cut/paste

2011-01-31 Thread Frank McCormick
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:06:28 +0100 Daniel Andersson wrote: > On 01/31/2011 02:55 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > When I mark something, say in Chrome or Firefox, then switch to a > > terminal window I used to be able to paste the marked text with a > > middle mouse click. Now as often as not i

Re: cut/paste

2011-01-31 Thread Frank McCormick
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:57:06 +0100 godo wrote: > On 01/31/2011 02:55 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > When I mark something, say in Chrome or Firefox, then switch to a > > terminal window I used to be able to paste the marked text with a > > middle mouse click. Now as often as not it doesn't se

Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-01-31 Thread davidg
My system went down because of a power failure, and now it won't start. I use RAID 1, and I don't know if that's related to the problem. The screen shows the following. Loading, please wait... Gave up waiting for rood device. Common problems: - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) - Check rootdelay-

Re: OT: Make Windows act like Debian and copy text just by marking it

2011-01-31 Thread Lisi
On Monday 31 January 2011 15:59:54 Camaleón wrote: > Oh, I knew about that, but it requires and extra "click" (wheel mouse > button, "crtl+c/p" or "right mouse button -> copy/paste"), I mean, is not > the one step action I was -wrongly- having in mind O:-)   You have to tell it what and where!! ;-

Re: Reach ext3 partitions when gnu-fdisk gives error about those

2011-01-31 Thread Csanyi Pal
Camaleón writes: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:38:23 +, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >> >>> Then try with another tools like fdisk or sfdisk, to discard a problem >>> with cfdisk. You can even try to run "cfdisk" from any LiveCD of your >>> choice (systemrescuecd is a good one) and che

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help

2011-01-31 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, T o n g wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:01:09 -0500, Celejar wrote: > >> I've given up on s2ram, the kernel method (echo mem > /sys/power/state) > >> works fine for me, at least with Kernel Mode Setting. > > > > I just tried that method. At first, it seemed to work wonderfull

Re: Can't reboot after power failure (RAID problem?)

2011-01-31 Thread davidg
I posted in a panic and left out a lot of details. I'm using Squeeze, and set up the system about a month ago, so there have been some upgrades. I wonder if maybe the kernel or Grub was upgraded and I neglected to install Grub again, but I would expect it to automatically be reinstalled on at lea

Re: Reach ext3 partitions when gnu-fdisk gives error about those

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:38:23 +, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> Then try with another tools like fdisk or sfdisk, to discard a problem >> with cfdisk. You can even try to run "cfdisk" from any LiveCD of your >> choice (systemrescuecd is a good one) and check if it works from there.

Re: OT: Make Windows act like Debian and copy text just by marking it

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:21:39 +, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 31 January 2011 14:31:45 Camaleón wrote: >> How does Debian copy text with just marking it? > > Select by dragging mouse over area you wish to copy. Move mouse to > where you want to paste the copy. Click with the central mouse button.

Problem with dns-search option with dhclient

2011-01-31 Thread Mike
Folks, I have a Debian Lenny box running ISC-DHCPd. This is providing the DNS search option via option dns-search "sub.exmaple.com example.com". This is recieved quite happilly by the dhcpcd on my Gentoo box, arriving as "search sub.exmaple.com example.com" in /etc/resolv.conf. When it's reciev

Re: Reach ext3 partitions when gnu-fdisk gives error about those

2011-01-31 Thread Csanyi Pal
Camaleón writes: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:46:14 +, Csanyi Pal wrote: >>> What is your goal for running cfdisk, what do you want to do? >> >> Nothing special, just to see partitions on sdb with cfdisk. > > Then try with another tools like fdisk or sfdisk, to discard a problem > with cfdisk.

Re: USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found

2011-01-31 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Krzysztof Bieniasz wrote: Hi all! I'm having an issue with my usb 3.0 port. I've recently bought an Asus N73JF laptop which has one such port. I'm running a fully updated Squeeze with the 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel image from the Debian repo. During boot I see lots of: "hub 1-1:1.0: unable to enumera

Re: OT: Make Windows act like Debian and copy text just by marking it

2011-01-31 Thread Lisi
On Monday 31 January 2011 14:31:45 Camaleón wrote: > How does Debian copy text with just marking it? Select by dragging mouse over area you wish to copy. Move mouse to where you want to paste the copy. Click with the central mouse button. Can be emulated on a 2 button mouse, but my co-ordinat

Admin password (cn=admin,dc=config) for OpenLDAP in Debian Squeeze

2011-01-31 Thread Razvan Deaconescu
Hi! I've browsed the configuration page for slapd[1] and it mentions that, for starting from version 2.3, "The LDAP configuration engine allows all of slapd's configuration options to be changed on the fly, generally without requiring a server restart for the changes to take effect." I'm using sl

Re: cut/paste

2011-01-31 Thread Daniel Andersson
On 01/31/2011 02:55 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: When I mark something, say in Chrome or Firefox, then switch to a terminal window I used to be able to paste the marked text with a middle mouse click. Now as often as not it doesn't seem to work. Is this because of different terminals or something

Re: Finding packages installed from experimental

2011-01-31 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-01-31 08:42 +0100, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> >>> How can I find out which packages on my system come from a certain >>> suite, say experimental in this case?  The naďve approach >>> >>> $

Re: cut/paste

2011-01-31 Thread godo
On 01/31/2011 02:55 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: When I mark something, say in Chrome or Firefox, then switch to a terminal window I used to be able to paste the marked text with a middle mouse click. Now as often as not it doesn't seem to work. Is this because of different terminals or something

cut/paste

2011-01-31 Thread Frank McCormick
When I mark something, say in Chrome or Firefox, then switch to a terminal window I used to be able to paste the marked text with a middle mouse click. Now as often as not it doesn't seem to work. Is this because of different terminals or something more fundamental. I'm running Sid but spend more

Re: OT: Make Windows act like Debian and copy text just by marking it

2011-01-31 Thread godo
How does Debian copy text with just marking it? :-? Just select some text and it will be in your Klipper, at least works in KDE. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ Registered Linux User #503414 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: nameserver issues involving *.debian.org

2011-01-31 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > >  $ sudo apt-get install bind9 > > Then ensure that 'nameserver 127.0.0.1' exists in /etc/resolv.conf and > you should be set.  By "ensure" I mean that you should use either > 'resolvconf' to maintain that file or perhaps use a 'dns-nameservers

Re: OT: Make Windows act like Debian and copy text just by marking it

2011-01-31 Thread Daniel Andersson
On 01/31/2011 02:27 PM, godo wrote: On 01/31/2011 12:01 PM, Daniel Andersson wrote: Hi all, Can anyone recommend a program that allows me to make Windows to act like as Debian and copy text just by marking it? It would lessen the annoyance of switching to Windows :) Thanks /Daniel Hi, ma

Re: OT: Make Windows act like Debian and copy text just by marking it

2011-01-31 Thread Daniel Andersson
On 01/31/2011 03:31 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:01:37 +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote: Can anyone recommend a program that allows me to make Windows to act like as Debian and copy text just by marking it? How does Debian copy text with just marking it? :-? Hm I do have Parcelli

Re: OT: Make Windows act like Debian and copy text just by marking it

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:01:37 +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote: > Can anyone recommend a program that allows me to make Windows to act > like as Debian and copy text just by marking it? How does Debian copy text with just marking it? :-? > It would lessen the annoyance of switching to Windows :) On

Re: Reach ext3 partitions when cfdisk gives error about those

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:46:14 +, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:51:46 +, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> >>> I think that that I can run cfdisk on /dev/sda, but can't run cfdisk >>> on /dev/sdb where those ext3 filesystems are, so mybe this is not an >>> UUID issue b

Re: Reach ext3 partitions when cfdisk gives error about those

2011-01-31 Thread Csanyi Pal
Camaleón writes: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:51:46 +, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> I think that that I can run cfdisk on /dev/sda, but can't run cfdisk on >> /dev/sdb where those ext3 filesystems are, so mybe this is not an UUID >> issue but a partition problem. > > Then start from the beginning with

Re: OT: Make Windows act like Debian and copy text just by marking it

2011-01-31 Thread godo
On 01/31/2011 12:01 PM, Daniel Andersson wrote: Hi all, Can anyone recommend a program that allows me to make Windows to act like as Debian and copy text just by marking it? It would lessen the annoyance of switching to Windows :) Thanks /Daniel Hi, maybe you can find it here: http://www.

Re: Reach ext3 partitions when cfdisk gives error about those

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:51:46 +, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:08:31 +, Csanyi Pal wrote: >> >>> Debian Squeeze uses UUID's to mount it's partitions, but Debian SID >>> didn't so I think that cause that that I can't reach partitions of >>> Debian Squeeze

Re: Reach ext3 partitions when cfdisk gives error about those

2011-01-31 Thread Csanyi Pal
Camaleón writes: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:08:31 +, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> Debian Squeeze uses UUID's to mount it's partitions, but Debian SID >> didn't so I think that cause that that I can't reach partitions of >> Debian Squeeze from Debian SID. > > Quite strange. I think that that I can ru

Re: Reach ext3 partitions with UUID labels

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:08:31 +, Csanyi Pal wrote: (...) > Debian Squeeze uses UUID's to mount it's partitions, but Debian SID > didn't so I think that cause that that I can't reach partitions of > Debian Squeeze from Debian SID. Quite strange. > How can I convert the way system reach parti

Re: help

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:00:38 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 02:40:01PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Lu, 31 ian 11, 01:01:11, Chris Bannister wrote: >> > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 02:59:08PM -0500, Robert Blair Mason Jr. >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > True... I think sudo i

Re: panning using xrandr

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 02:30:34 +, T o n g wrote: > How to do panning using xrandr? Wouldn't > > xrandr --panning x > > be the same as > > xrandr -s x No, at least so it says "man xrandr" page (panning is a "per output" option) :-) > But it won't work -- I need to put --output before --

Re: which is at fault? iceweasel or drupal?

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:00:14 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Occasionally while browsing with iceweasel, the machine slows to a crawl > and the processor usage (as displayed by system monitor) stays at 100 > percent. Almost always, this happens when browsing a web site which > uses drupal as it

Re: nameserver issues involving *.debian.org

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:26:37 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Some nslookup oddities have been bothering me. Does it look to you like > my ISP is blocking certain DNS queries? (...) To discard something weird on your side (firewall, filter...), you can query "debian.org" from your computer but using

Re: Help with Sun Java in Debian Sid

2011-01-31 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:16:55 -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: (...) > As a simple test, when I try to visit this site, http://www.time.gov/, > which uses Java to show real time, the browser freezes for about 15 > seconds, the page loads but no Java clock is shown. The best way to test java browsing r

OT: Make Windows act like Debian and copy text just by marking it

2011-01-31 Thread Daniel Andersson
Hi all, Can anyone recommend a program that allows me to make Windows to act like as Debian and copy text just by marking it? It would lessen the annoyance of switching to Windows :) Thanks /Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

debconf answerfile

2011-01-31 Thread Lists
Hi guys, pretty much what the subject says. I would like to feed answers to debconf so that I can script installing packages on a new machine. I am unable to use preseed (which would solve this) because it's a virtual server and I don't have access to the kernel. What I want is to provide

Re: installing rtl8187B on debian lenny with kernel 2.6.26 - need help on installing backport kernel to recognise chipset

2011-01-31 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Rico, On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 02:04:55PM +1100, Rico D wrote: > i'm trying to follow this article: http://wiki.debian.org/rtl818x > > But i'm very new to linux and i'm having trouble in installing the > back port kernel. [...] > and I tried running this command - > > aptitude -t lenny-backports

Re: iptables/routing network problem

2011-01-31 Thread Joe
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:30:40 -0800 (PST) geertsky wrote: > On Jan 30, 10:20 pm, geertsky wrote: > > On Jan 30, 4:50 pm, Mihira Fernando wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 01/30/2011 08:48 PM, geertsky wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm having a wierd problem I cannot solve... > > > > I have a pptp

Re: VM speed benchmark

2011-01-31 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 30. 01. 2011 21:15:49 je T o n g napisal(a): Hi, Talking about VM, some prefer virtulbox, some VMWare. Don't know how many of you prefer kvm. I'm wondering if you could do the speed benchmark of your preferred VM, and compare the result to that of your host. The reason that I'm asking

Re: How to find (and remove) all installed recommended packages

2011-01-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 30 ian 11, 17:56:15, S D wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to find all recommended packages that were > automatically installed? It appears aptitude now installs recommended > packages by default. Try setting: APT::Install-Recommends false; If you're lucky aptitude or/and 'apt-get au

Re: hide url in apache2

2011-01-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Jesus arteche wrote: > I have a web application running in apache2, www.example.com. When I put > this on the navigator it goes to www.example.com/users/login. I want the > client just see www.example.com in the url of the navigator. And the same > for the others webs in the application. There is s

Re: nameserver issues involving *.debian.org

2011-01-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Joel Roth wrote: > Some nslookup oddities have been bothering me. Does it look > to you like my ISP is blocking certain DNS queries? Something seems broken. Probably broken rather than blocking. > [maseru]$ nslookup debian.org I know nslookup is the venerable old tool. But it produces a lot o

Re: Finding packages installed from experimental

2011-01-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-31 08:42 +0100, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> How can I find out which packages on my system come from a certain >> suite, say experimental in this case?  The naïve approach >> >> $ aptitude search "~i ~Aexperimental" >> >> does not work, bec

Re: Help with Squeeze on Acer Aspire D250

2011-01-31 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:15 PM, david wildgoose wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Brian wrote: >> On Sun 30 Jan 2011 at 10:08:45 -0700, david wildgoose wrote: >>> >>> However I have a new problem with the installer. >>> >>> When it comes to installing the GRUB boot loader, it fails with